One of the most interesting questions I get a lot is what have you learned by both being a patient for ten years and now seeing Patients of your own and in this video I want to share some interesting insights that Chinese medicine and acupuncture have taught me Especially if you are a person that is a patient and you have a chronic illness And you're not getting solutions or answers from all the people that have seen you Hey guys, I'm Alex Hein current doctoral student in classical or traditional Chinese medicine and author of the book master of the day So the very first lesson for me is that you usually are the best healer in your healing process So it's really common like for me with digestive problems I would go to all these doctors or started in the Western system worth the new dietician the GI specialist the general practitioner And all of them would you know, they would make assumptions like the GI doctor did a little bit of abdominal palpation And he was like you feel a little bit stressed, right? Like life's pretty tough. I was like nope Not at all. I have a really easy life and he's like yeah a little bit stressed I know what you mean and like the dude didn't listen at all And he was just kind of trying to put words in my mouth and so he wanted to give me a diagnosis of IBS Even though I don't have IBS and I hadn't before more of that diagnosis of exclusion And so he was trying to make a link between stress and like my bowel habits changing But they didn't change under stress. In fact, they were worse on vacation And so I think you have to understand your own self and the way you do that is just by tracking what you know to be true And it may be exactly what the physician says or it may be different and it may be unique to you So if you you know, you put together I have a document on my computer called IBS quote the definitive document and every single thing I've tested on my body is in that document to try to figure out a Solution so that may be a good start as well The second thing that I learned quite a lot that Chinese medicine specifically has helped me learn is to look at Symptom pictures rather than symptoms look at patterns and relationships not individual symptoms So for example the trick or the problem when you think about conventional medicine is that you go to one doctor for one piece Of your body you go to the GI doctor instead of the whole body doctor You go to the toe doctor when you have gout you it's very zoomed in and very myopic look at medicine Which is kind of surprising because the human body is a system and Chinese medicine has known this for a long time Which I think is a very strong advantage where it looks at okay. Maybe you have digestive problems What else do you have? Do you have problems with your period? Do you have problems conceiving? Do you have thinning and dry hair? Do you have dry skin? Do you have fatigue? We look at the whole picture and all of those symptoms can fall into one picture Rather than going on this wild goose hunt where you're trying to figure out why do I have dry hair all of a sudden? Why am I so tired? Why am I anemic? Why can't I sleep? Why do I feel cranky? All of these could put you on a lifeline a lifelong search for that cure for that problem But it's better to look at the whole picture Holistically like in Chinese medicine for example that picture is called blood deficiency a lot of the time in your own life For example like for me with digestion it could be like oh, I think it's gluten. Oh, I think it's this one thing or it's dairy Rather than looking at very isolated for example macronutrients like protein fats and carbs for me to look at the big-kick picture like start with the foundation am I eating whole Natural unrefined food and then if you're not getting results there then go into something more specific The third thing I learned was to focus on the big levers in your life and not the little things So big things are for example overall rest and stress a person's diet from a look of truly big picture Like someone going from the standard American diet eating McDonald's three times a day to eating like brown rice With vegetables and a healthy kind of protein. That's a big zero to one shift And I think the trick again is we get so caught up in that one symptom and that one thing not working That we forget look at the big picture am I happy do I eat well? Do I rest well does my life of purpose and meaning look at the big stones in the picture and look at your whole life Don't just look at diet. I find that American culture is very myopic and thinks that health when they think health They just think diet. That's it. It's super uncommon in other parts of the world where like in Europe for example The way of life is what's emphasized So really long vacation times maternity leave for a very long time just Taking pleasure having long meals drinking the wine like it's just a very different look at the whole big picture and when you look at the blue zones and These regions of the world where people live to be over a hundred and statistically significant just very high percentages These people over half of the criteria predicting that longevity have nothing to do with diet So ask yourself am I focusing on the entire picture? The fourth thing for me was to kind of reevaluate your beliefs about your illness your condition and about healing So for example for me one thing I noticed was that people with a chronic illness tend to become overly sensitive over a period of time and a good example of this is in zombie acts where Chronic and zombie acts at some point in Zomnia may be situational Irregular work hours stress going through divorce something like that But if it progresses to like the multiple month multiple year or decades Then it becomes a deeper psycho emotional issue and so much of what?  What is that? What is that weird sensation? Every little thing becomes a big thing and this kind of neurotic type trait I have experienced too with that just a problems and it it Revolves around this belief that the body is fragile, but your body is not fragile. It is the most Sophisticated machine that has made it through evolution thus far. It is strong and it's capable of healing itself But if you have the belief that it's not then that's gonna keep anchoring itself over and over so doing a lot of Cognitive restructuring around the perception of your illness is huge It's one of the most important things, especially with pain and the last thing here is to understand your own constitution And what affects it? This is something that Chinese medicine has helped me a lot with so for example thinking about me with digestive problems since childhood I like to think of it as a Constitutional prespositions towards digestive problems and they can go away But they can just as easily come back if I imbalance my body again And that may be the way that my body uniquely shows stress So number one it teaches you where the chinks are in your armor, but maybe hey Maybe you have to live life differently from your friends and family For that health condition to go away and to stay away. Maybe it is stress Maybe it is certain kinds of foods. Maybe it's a certain lifestyle Maybe it's migraines or issues with your menses It's very important to understand how your body breaks down when there's breakdown so you can prevent that in the future So I hope that helps. These are some of my biggest lessons being a patient for 10 years now seeing patients of my own Before you go, I want you to leave a comment there below. Let me know for you What is it multi-year chronic illness you've dealt with and what seemed to work so far? All right guys Thanks for watching this video before you go you can grab my free guide how to add 10 years to your life with classical Chinese medicine at alexhine.com forward slash free and you can grab that also in the link there below and check out these latest two videos right here


ould never understand why the Americans never did anything with it because you saw so many other stuff coming out and now it's like as if UTV or somebody has bought his back catalogue and they're making them all you know you had Stay Close The Strangers there's a few of them that have come out like that and it's curious you know maybe you're right maybe the Americans just can't handle the amount of it's like it's it's fine there's a lot of people in them do you know when you watch it like you watch it and there's nothing bad do you know what I mean it's not there's nothing bad and the acting's good and it's well put together it's just this is it that is it this it's the other I think some people love it for me I've never really gotten that I think you like that kind of stuff murder mystery stuff yeah yeah yeah but where there's lots of different acts oh yeah yeah of course yeah so they don't just do a twist they just fire seven or eight things at you it could be one of them or it might be none of them do you know what I mean but anyway as I say it's a well structured story it does fundamentally make sense which is really I have a beginning a middle and an end and I'm a satisfies now but it was a like it was like a six out of 10 for me listeners I know more and more of you already many if you'd watched it last week more and more if you watched it this week it is the talk of the water cooler so to speak 08 660 25000 and if Fanula commits for follows through with a commitment to watch it this week look forward to what she has to say next week but the probably the only program to pip that in terms of conversation and certainly in terms of driving agendas far beyond the small screen Mr. Bates Mr. Bates versus the post office you're in it have you watched it Oh is it on the list to be honest I end up watching the whole lot of it in one go everyone seems to be saying because it was very hard to walk away from it and this is a story that I didn't really know anything about it wasn't something you know sometimes these things come up and you have a vague recollection of reading something about them you know and it's a true story you kind of a small bit of knowledge but actually I'd know knowledge of this whatsoever I don't recall ever seeing it anywhere and to be honest that is too I should kind of slap myself on the wrist for that because even though it didn't happen in this country it could happen in this country could happen anywhere and it could happen in any industry and I would imagine that this could end up being something that we hear about in different industries where it's come up for anybody that hasn't seen anything on it basically the story of it is is back in the early noughties a number of postmasters in and subpostmasters so this is like people in small little villages that had like the little cafe and the post office is basically that little squared off corner in the corner of your either local shop the local cafe little things like that and just little villages all over the place so it's not talking about now like a big that you know the GPO type situations or anything like that it's more the small little village post office but a number of them found themselves in a situation was when they were totting up at the end of the day that they found that the book that the till wasn't for lay words that the till wasn't working out and it turned out that in their contract they had stated that they would put the money in so that they were responsible for any monies that were out now you'd say to yourself that's alright if it's a euro here or a pound there and a pound there but this ended up that it ended up being thousands and thousands and thousands of euros there was people who had to remortage their houses there was people that had to you know borrow from family and friends and the whole time through it what happened was that if you went and argued that you didn't understand what was going on the post office were reluctant to send anybody out and they just kept saying well the computer says you owe this money the computer says these were people as I said that were living in their communities that weren't necessarily tech savvy it was the early 2000s there was a lot of them would have been older people there was a lot of them that you know didn't really have any kind of technical expertise in this area this was all new to them you know they had other people that were dealing with that for them in their own businesses and that and also these were very high standing members of the community so when they went to fight these things eventually if they didn't pay the money they were fired from their positions and a lot of them were prosecuted and we spoke to a lady just on the Donegal-Derry border there during the week 6,000 euro just apparently went missing and she just escaped prosecution but she was very intimidated running into a room with four guys and says you know you've done really bad here blah blah blah blah destroyed the business in the end and she had to leave the business but the worst is and because I questioned and asked the question disadvantaged haven't watched the program like did no one say you know this is happening to so many people that individually all of these it was being siloed people were being told no it's only you you're the problem which is this is exactly what happened corporate was disgusting now obviously it's a drama and I'm assuming that there was some license taken she says it really really was spot on actually not contradicting yeah no I have to say I'm only saying it just in the in the sense of you know when people are trying to do a drama obviously they're trying to now a lot there has been a lot of commentary to say how correct it was in that but it's absolutely frightening if that's true I mean there was a gentleman that worked for the union for post office for the sub post office people he went in to Fujitsu which was the name of the company that actually ran the computer system and apparently he was according to the drama he was shown brought into a room with a load of tech guys who were working in the background of it and they showed him that you could actually manipulate and change figures and when he left there after they'd been told that there was no way for anybody to log on to your individual computer there was no back entrance in which is unusual to say the least if anybody works in computers would know usually the manufacturers have access but they were told there's no way anybody else could so therefore any errors that were happening had to be the individuals person but he saw this and when he got home the post office auditors were there and it turned out that his wife had made a mistake and she ended up almost going to jail that she had been there during the day which gave a very big sense and the kind of feeling from the television program was that was that they had been set up this is the way that it sort of looked but it seemed to have been unbelievable there was just a denial within the post office that there could be any issue there's a massive cover up then the person that was leading the post office received an honors from the queen which really kind of got up she handed that back this week it's just been unbelievable since we've seen and what do you think over a million people signed a petition after the and then she handed it back rather than being ripped from her so is it say something too though that it takes a drama or be it very well made to trigger this the experience in other words she's lost her honor the government have now committed and laid out a figure for quashing sentences and and compensation you know it's scary isn't it because I did see a little bit of it but for me it was just the post office scandal and it didn't grab my attention do you know what I mean yeah I know and it was there but I couldn't have explained it to you in a few sentences I know absolutely and it is quite complex and it is very and it's interesting because it's and obviously I suppose well it happened in another country per se you know what I mean it's not on plus that it that the issue is in but I think what's what's interesting about it and I was listening to other stuff afterwards where a lot of journalists were talking about I mean a lot of journalists and the first main story that came out about it was in 2009 and at that point it had been going on for a few years and there had been people that were contacting the post office there was people that were contacting government contacting their local MPs but it took until 2009 before it actually was brought to a head it went on then until 2019 when they finally had the case which was the main case in which they were received some compensation from the post office but were 500 sub post office postmasters came together so that was over 10 years that that took in order for it to do it and now it's still going on now that's crazy so what would you give the show out of 10? I have to say it was it was an unbelievable thing to be if as a program even in itself even if it wasn't true story and you didn't realize that these were really didn't have the culture in fact yeah I definitely really enjoyed it's very well done very well made I would definitely be giving it a 9 or a 10 I would definitely hopefully watch the whole lot together I'll have it watched by the weekend it's over it's a very interesting story and as I said the idea that this government body could just keep saying are any big organization could just keep saying to people no no it's only you that has that issue and that they could just go no the the computer the computer said and somebody one of the journalist was saying on it I think it was Ian Hyslop and he was like go it's like as if they just took an attitude the computer says no and that was it but who was coughing themselves and and the the damage caused to other people I call it says Mr Bates best program I've watched in a long time another says a friend recommended that I watched succession however it is boring the pants off me should I persevere or just spin it I think it's a kind of a show that it's for your isn't for you maybe if it's not grabbing them by the you know what's been it maybe but how far in are you it depends how deep they're in if you're in more than three episodes and you're not enjoying it don't waste your time well that's what happened to me and everyone says to me oh you'd love it and I literally got about four episodes in and I was like this is you bend it okay I never went back to it all right okay I know when everyone says you should totally watch it you'd love it and I'm like oh can I I know I know exactly what you're saying all right we're gonna hear Michael Michael's reviews and more from Fnoulla next but let's oh by the way the secret sound went this morning for those of you who missed it a lady whose name escapes me at the moment and in fact it escaped me at the time I never knew her name well she rang in and it is if I'm correct if you go into a calf the little jam the little jams that you get or marmalades the little white things the twisty pop no you pull the you pull the you know you can't grab the corner and then you go did you that well that's what I do anyway yeah so it was ripping the lid off one of those and she's won almost 3000 euro did you know about that I did not I wipe the smile off your face I know I'm fairness although I'm delighted it's got I don't know I admire people that come up with those ideas well I think that one was Katie some of the people that come up with it but oh no not the people that come up with the actual secret sound for them to put out that's just torturous it's awful I mean but who would even think that that's what it might be well I was sure I was sure I knew what it was but do you know what the funny thing is is and Leo put the video up later when you as she was saying what it was and as I was listening to it then the sound dropped for me it was like oh yeah that's exactly what it was there was one where it was him switching off his radiator and every bloody radiator sounds different someone got that as well I'm surprised this didn't happen sooner but the clues were it can go under your hat and in your pocket that's what the clues like you know how is that helpful I'm probably going to have to field a lot of the abuse on this because I'm probably one of the more active on social media but anyway good fun that lady has almost three grand going into the bank account but you pardon Stella was it okay excellent well maybe she'll have a point to Stella to celebrate okay we'll be back with more after a break in about three minutes 50 an engaging drive and class lead inefficiency hello this is Liz O'Donnell chairperson of the road safety authority I want to share some serious road safety figures with you last month there were 10,000 and 39 drivers detected for speeding and 709 drivers arrested for driving under 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if this is a type oh yeah x is close to a anthony's big gay ball or is it the santony yeah it's anthony ex anthony yeah exactly because i looked it up i was watching him on video because i was like how do you pronounce this gentleman's name ex anthony's big gay ball is tomorrow night in the theater and as you was chatting about coming to the end of the week and unwinding and putting the walls of the world aside this is definitely fitting the fitting the fitting the description it's tomorrow night it's on green on at 7 30 it's a two hour show a cabaret it says here comedy drag performances from local and international talents and it's all put together by this award-winning performer and writer called ex anthony who has taken to the stage with this show at electric picnic latitude all together now and something called k-fest so i was looking this up online because i obviously do not know this person and it looks amazing it looks like it's fun it looks like it's larger than life it's a run seal job i think it's gonna look exactly what it says in the tent it's gonna be a big gay ball yeah exactly a big exactly big gay ball so it's worth giving it a push i think and telling people that if you want to just completely unwind and see something that is very different and looks to be a ton of fun it says somewhere in the in the oh yeah i took it in actually yeah a lot of glam and a lot of tomfoolery so it'll be a bit of crack it's tomorrow night so i think it's worth putting on the radar for both of you have echo down so we'll start with you if that's okay michael so tell us about echo it's on disney echo is uh and here we send greg to sleep for five minutes can't wait for this to end it's a new marvel superhero series yes i think we do have a shortage of them so the addition of another one is actually very yeah it's number 12 is it's 10 sorry the 10th is the 10th of the marvel tv series i did get the sarcasm in that but it is the 10th series that means there's almost as many episodes now of marvel shows as there are episodes of east enders in a single week which is very exciting so echo uh is a sequel or a continuation or a spinoff from marvel's hawkeye series from a couple years ago and what marvel are doing with this 10th tv series is focusing for five one hour episodes on a villain which they don't do very often they're focused on Loki but most of their shows have been about heroes or at least anti-heroes but maya maya maya lopez the central character in this series is uh very definitely a villain she is a killer a cold-blooded killer who works for the kingpin and as i said this is like a sequel continuation or spinoff to the hawkeye series but it also is a continuation of uh the daredevil tv series because uh minor spoiler it's not really a spoiler but both the daredevil and the kingpin are appearing in this series so i'm two episodes into the five the five episodes i can't wait to see this on air again they dropped greg usually marvel drop one episode a week they drop episode one then they drop episode two then they drop episode three but this time they dropped all five episodes oh uh what a drop so it's violent isn't it i was i was gonna play the trailer out to our watchers our viewers but yeah it's yeah it's mature audiences it's the most uh it's the first time marvel have put a mature audiences sign on any of their shows so um yeah there's a big fight scene in the first episode that is very much like the big fight scenes that were in the daredevil tv show and it has daredevil in as well the big fight scene and it is pretty spectacular it's what i what i like about a good fight scene it's rewatchable you immediately want to rewatch it and i did rewatch it because i never ever ever rewatched rewatched the fights i watch rewatch fight scenes all the time yeah really good really good ones really really good no never i've i've never even heard someone say and it's one of those you can rewatch oh yeah immensely rewatchable it's brand new i love to see how it's put together and i love to get caught up in the storytelling i get you i'm not judging you no no no i've never heard how particularly here yeah i'm judging him yeah yeah if an eul is definitely judging me it's her hobby and she judges everything so that's great for concerning the thing about this show is right this is what's really cool about this show and i i love this it's the main actress that alaquacox is the name of the actress no relation to charlie cox she is uh native who's charlie cox daredevil oh oh my god oh my god i keep forgetting who i'm in the room is that the character name it's a character name it's the character he's the guy in kin oh is he yeah oh my lord you watched kin kin's good called the cox i know her she was on this fit to science and then she did a sitcom called friends i think okay so anyway alaquacox is a native american actress cox was born deaf she was born and raised in an indian reservation she's also an amputee and she's non-verbal and it's very is this in real life in real life in real life okay so it's extremely unusual to have a main character in an action show who who fits all those criteria and this show is a they went to um chuckata nation and the show the makers worked very closely with that particular native american community to use the history the actual history of and to bring it into the show which there's a lot of flashbacks in the first couple episodes that i've seen like there's one of them set it around the year 1200 and it's spectacular it looks amazing but the main character the very fact that she uses sign language to communicate the very fact and the very fact is she's also despite being an amputee it hasn't held her back she's a she's a fantastic stunt performer and she does a lot of her own fighting not all of it but nobody does but she does a lot of her own stunt work and she has never acted before she did a high school play so the program was effectively built around it literally made for her yeah essentially she is fantastic that's the bottom line i have to say i remember watching her in Hawkeye and i thought this is a real standout character i loved her in Hawkeye i rewatched Hawkeye again over Christmas because it's a christmas show and i was this time i knew she was getting the spin off she's fantastic and i'm absolutely loving the show when i'm giving her a good solid nine i know it's a great action show okay um i just love it really i don't know if you started it yet i finished it i'm a normal person of course i started i finished it but our fair before we started i've really haven't had a chance to watch on itv that's only two things i watch the two things you've actually completely inhaled them i know you also watched dr. who but you're not putting on the list you watched loads you watched after well that was over Christmas i was so proud that i got for Lula to watch dr. who it was better than i thought i have to say you liked us yes you liked us i did like it yeah you liked us i was vindicated i was vindicated i'm not sure i would go back you told me i need to go back and watch it from the start it didn't say you'd need to i said you'd enjoy it now that you're into it echo is one no i did enjoy i did enjoy the dr. who and i will i will watch the new series and see whether i'm here to see how much she enjoyed dr. who um but echo is one that it's the as he says it's the new marvel one look at it i watched the whole lot too because it actually each episode is shorter and shorter yeah so very short it starts off the first one is 54 minutes i don't guess that i don't get it either and the last one is 40 minutes yeah the second one was 39 37 even i watched it the other the rest of them are all just over half an hour so it's very fast easy watching yeah it's a long movie for marvel it's very violent for for marvel and for what they've usually done and there's a small bit of me that kind of is like marvel seems to be picking these things now because it suits them to be seen to be doing diverse things as well you know it fits in with with them champion diversity the actress is unbelievable in this i mean you just went and once you look it up and read it because i was watching it and you're kind of like going is she deaf or is she in amputee you know is she doing both and to find out that she's actually both deaf and amputee is unbelievable to think the the level of acting in it as michael says the amount of just even general stunts that she's doing in it is phenomenal yeah phenomenal and the emotion she brings to the scenes like i mean she's carrying a lot of hurt and a lot of anger yeah it she does it all but she just you have to do it with your face she means it with her eyes she's so good she really is absolutely excellent it does and i and i say that try and try to say that it does make the program slightly more difficult to watch because although probably makes it better in the sense that you really have to concentrate on watching it this is not a program that you can kind of be fiddling away on your phone yeah because you're going to miss things because in this when there's no a dip and in the silences a lot is happening yeah because it's set in to be honest it's largely set in the deaf world there's a lot of it where they completely either muffled or kind of take away the sound entirely so you're kind of getting the the action from her perspective it is because in fairness that's what we've done right when they do that in fight scenes it looks you know when they took the sound away for the in the big first fight oh yeah they do and and even never seen that before and you have like the people she's fighting arguing amongst themselves but you don't know what they're saying and she can't relate what they're saying because things are happening so quickly and that kind of thing in it so it's it's very interesting in that sense and it's it's very done differently and you definitely have to kind of focus when you're watching it because that's the thing I had to kind of rewind back again and go what I've missed something there now because you were momentarily distracted by something else but I the other side of it then is though I don't really get it I'm not really sure where Marvel is going and they really need to start landing the plane for me it's like they're doing all these bits and pieces now we're told eventually it's all going to come together in some way in whatever as I don't know the next movie or whatever but this is all part of this stage four in Marvel you know since they finish the Avengers and everybody sounds like and we do joke in the past it just sounds like an awful lot of hard work to keep up to date with everything and remember everything and it's heading in that direction with it now and they're bringing in a lot of stuff which is it's for me as somebody that it wasn't a comic book person and kind of got into Marvel through Marvel movies they're bringing in a lot of stuff now that's more to my mind obviously big comic book people have been feeling different it's kind of on the periphery I'd never heard of this echo I'm assuming that there must be some sort of a comic book or at least a good thread it's a good thread it's like Miss Marvel she's been around like she's been around for that but both Miss Marvel and Echo you know what I mean and even Loki are fair you know they're to my mind they're kind of periphery characters that now they've brought into the four you know what I mean in big ways and you're just kind of I need them to either give me some sort of direction or land the plane I know what you're saying I'm in the middle of loss now at the moment I feel like eventually this is not going to play out you know it needs you need more faith I need to see where it's going I do yeah I mean I still feel it's like a studio I don't think it's actually I know there is connections but it's like you don't expect everything that's on Apple's platform to be you know this is just a standalone five-hour TV service the only thing is is though a Wii but in a lot of things in life when you're explaining you're losing to some extent if you know what to mean yeah so the fact that you have to explain that or it's open for debate yeah it's over things that it's you know that feeling is one thing I would go back to a different point there about the representation of it and stuff and because a lot of the actors in this aren't of native American extraction I have to say as well one thing I loved about this was how strong everybody in the support cast was one of my favorite shows of recent years was Stumptown which was the Kobe Smaller's private eye show I was I wish that had continued love a good private eye show and I love Kobe Smaller's there was a lot of native American performers in that and I remember saying even in here at the time that I honestly didn't think it was great to see representation but I didn't think the performers were all that strong sometimes because they had gone to a smaller community to get people on board that is not the issue here I thought the supporting cast were fantastic like the character biscuits I think he's hilarious I love the little side kick guy who kept making all the worst mistakes like when he's in the smashed up truck driving by his grandmother who owns the truck so the point is I thought the casting and this was excellent and I wasn't worried about them just taking boxes yeah so in other words there is a there is a diversity equality and inclusion movement which is grand if that's applied but not to the detriment of the quality of talent yes yeah yeah and I in the past as much as I want to see inclusion I'm quite happy because it's interesting I mean if you see somebody you've never seen before in a TV series that should be a good thing but if the performer they've chosen can act that's about it back with more after these watch the show live now on youtube 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That is genius Better get a ticket so The national lottery It could be you Play responsibly Play for fun Highland radio weather updates brought to you by Grant Building a new home Choose grants A triple plus rated air owner air to water heat pump and you flex under floor heating Visit grant.ie Okay, so there'll be some limited brightest sunny spells Today, highest temperatures of 3 to 5 degrees Carmen dried tonight with frost setting in lowest temperatures of minus 2 to plus 2 degrees with some clear spells Now, earlier on Michael mentioned a show that's in Hungary and on this weekend Exanthony's Big Gay Ball And we're going to talk a little bit more about that now with Ifa Bella Who's in studio with us Ifa, good morning to you Hello, hello, good morning to you Thank you so much for your very show biz Hello, hello Very show biz I appreciate it I'm here to bring the the schnaz, the pizazz Hey, well don't use it all up because that's what we want from you at the weekend Talk to us about this show How you got involved in them Yeah, so tomorrow's show It's a big old cabaret It's this quite a fabulous celebration of some amazing queer artists And it's part of First Fortnite which is a brilliant mental health initiative festival to kind of make those first that first Fortnite of January a little bit more I think bearable for a lot of people But which is great I actually was reluctant to book myself for it because it is a difficult first Fortnite So I was like, will I do? I will So I came up yesterday and I'm very excited for tomorrow I'll be doing some comedy and bring in a little bit of what I do to the stage which is a very good Daniel O'Donnell impression So I would really highly recommend you come along That sounds interesting indeed Do you get the full garb or is it just vocally or what? Oh it's I don't want to give too much away I'll just tell you that once upon a time in Dunlop Daniel O'Donnell opened a charity shop where he put a load of his suits on sale And that's all I'll say That's all I'll say That sounds authentic You are originally from Dunlop of course now living in Dublin So it's a return home for you to perform at home Yes, yeah, yeah It's my triumphant return Have you performed up here much previously? So I had a show up here a couple of years ago pre-pandemics that was about 25 years ago as it feels I supported Jim Gaffigan the American comedian in Angrenon and that was amazing because I grew up in that theatre my mum was a stage manager there so it's quite lovely to kind of come back and do my own thing on the stage So how do you define your are you a stand-up comedian? Are you an entertainer? I know they're all in and of the same but if I were billing you how would I describe your act? An entity I would describe myself now as a cabaret Okay, all right So when a man and a woman love each other very much So I would describe what I do now as a cabaret artist So I would have started in stand-up comedy and sort of fumbled my way through that to kind of find where I wanted to be which is there's something about cabaret that's just slightly more feral than stand-up comedy and it's a lot more sort of live and alive and electric and it's magnetic Yeah, and that's not to do any stand-up comedians any disservice don't get me wrong Of course It gives you just more scope doesn't it? Yeah, I don't want the stand-up comedians coming after me now but that's it I'm insulating you You are So the show tomorrow it's it's going to be like what it says in the tin I imagine it's going to be a big gay ball but in how is it like a a variety show or how would you try and frame it? Yeah, I think I would describe cabaret at its core is variety so you're going to get a little bit of this and a little bit of that tomorrow you'll get drag acts you'll get burlesque acts you'll get a bit of whatever it is that I do which is some ethereal nondescript comedy you'll get some music and I mean there's been conversations had about hula hoops and flames and glow stick you know you'll get a little bit of everything I think that there's there's no way you'd go to a cabaret show and leave without seeing something that you connected with I think fun sounds to be like a real important word in this that people will have a lot of fun completely and I think sometimes that's something that's missing from experiences is just going and letting your guard down and having like a genuinely absolutely fun time and that's not just for the audience that's for those taking part in it as well a hundred performers yeah that's the part that I'm most excited about is getting to meet the other performers and you know we'll all be coming from different places and bringing different energies and having the crack backstage too and supporting each other through it and have you any other projects in the pipeline you were the brain behind Cabaret egg yes yeah that's me so I run a cabaret myself up in Dublin called Egg and it's based in Bello Bar in Portobello which is brilliant because after the show you get to go upstairs and do karaoke with all the old men who drink there including myself probably I've seen you there a few times on the mic I was on about downstairs what are you on about oh sorry I'm not the old man doing the karaoke oh no no no but yeah we have a lovely thing going down there it's hard to get karaoke now it is and you know it's hard to get karaoke too whereby oh I don't want to be careful I'm not insulting anyone I'm not talking about Donagall right but the host of the karaoke is really a singer that can't get a gingers to sing it right yeah so they do about five songs you get up for one they do tens what I'm just I'm not going to say anything no I'm not saying and I haven't seen it here I haven't seen it here but I've seen it elsewhere you can't be just karaoke where everyone's singing is karaoke right and they can't sing if you can sing don't do karaoke start a band right yeah there's nothing worse than karaoke for me someone gets enough to do karaoke and they do a good job Jesus I don't want to go oh you sound really like Celine Dion get off the stage I'm going to go and murder that's life by Frank Sinatra anyway be that as it may that's upstairs in somewhere in Dublin so I've got nothing to do with the show tomorrow I know I know but you can come and see what I do in Dublin in the in the bellow bar imported bellow and I'm developing a one person project about the the life and times of Mr. Daniel O'Donnell himself so that'll be something to keep an eye out for but tomorrow in Angrena have you had any review from Daniel O'Donnell yet because he has been known to see acts and give them the thumbs up the thumbs down the middle that's actually what I'm here to do today is to reach out Daniel if you're listening please get in touch I mean it would be amazing for the poster I know it would be you know I think you have to work crap questionable says Daniel O'Donnell what I'm sure I'm sure you're doing what I'm sure it'll be absolutely fantastic and no doubt about that so tomorrow night there's still some tickets available there's still tickets going yeah and yeah it'll be it'll be truly a really fabulous thing to kick start your year with it sounds like actually it's going to be a whole pile of fun ex-anthony's big gay ball tomorrow evening in Angrena on theater saturday january 13th which is tomorrow evening indeed and it's as part of first fortnight 2024 what's that so that's a festival that happens over the first two weeks of january across the country not on green on specifically so not just in Angrena but on green on it looks like I've been doing a good few events around it and you see just all sorts of performances cabaret comedy music happening and the idea is to I think to get people out of their houses in those first two weeks because these are the two weeks where it's very very easy to just get a case of the january you know so I think that it's there to support people through that time and to kind of give people something to get up and go out too and yeah get up and get out of their seats as well are you going anthony anthony can I tell you anthony key here key here yeah he's going to be there he's going to be there I can confirm that he's like a lady going to be there I think we have other plans we'll still be probably tied up myself with vanilla with our own vanilla to start with I know it's terrible boring I know it's terrible that's good but it does sound great and I like you mentioned the Jim Mcgaffigan show I've seen Eve a few times on stage I'm a big fan thank you but I remember that night in particular because I love Jim Mcgaffigan as well I mean it's Eve and Jim Mcgaffigan as well but that was a great night that was a brilliant night that was a brilliant night yeah it was brilliant worthwhile to just have like a really amazing American comedian come on stage and butcher your name AOFE here's AOFE coming for you you just sorted out the first five lengths of his material yeah he nearly had it's a movie of his linoleum which I nearly was reviewing today and I just didn't get to it during the week so it was nearly a Jim Mcgaffigan revival here but he's such a funny guy is it tough opening opening for a big actor? you know I found that gig especially tough because that was my my homecoming show I hadn't done a show here yet and it was a big one to start with but I looked out in the audience and I was thinking okay there's stuff I'm going to say here and I'm making eye contact with my granny but here we go you know that was okay I would think it was put a couple of hairs on my chest and I think coming back now to do something that's a little bit maybe more authentic to what I actually really love to do is a really exciting it's a tough one getting up on on on stage and you know it not from what you imagine it but listening to comedians it's really really tough and this is from comedians that tour they've got access to smaller clubs where they can work through their material and refine it and see what works and what doesn't work and I'm not saying you didn't have that opportunity but to come back open for a big act up on the stage the lights go on everyone's looking at you and you have to deliver I mean that's pressure that's yeah do you know what I mean do you know when you put it like that I know you're successfully talking Ifa out of ever doing this again but we've now moved into we've now moved successfully into Cabaret we've never gone back we've never gone back to the stand-up buzz all right Ifa listen best of luck tomorrow night thank you very much the best of luck tomorrow night and I'm sure it's gonna be it's gonna be great fun and there are some tickets available if you want a great night out is it over 16s over 18s um do you know that's a brilliant question I would say come along and find out take a risk That's Ifa's recommendation have to be slightly more response than I'm gonna do I know while I'm doing all school you know earmuffs earmuffs at certain times possibly just exactly I'll just be on the side of the stage indicating now cover your ears yeah exactly we'll have we'll look after people I know that listen come here it's gonna be fun all right Ifa Bella thank you so very much indeed great speech you know it's great to have you back up performing here in your native uh Donnie Gaul sling that one over ear for Nula oh yeah no I'm just checking to see whether or not there's a and uh and if there is an age thing on it oh it's recommended age is 18 plus okay right there you go so sorry to disappoint you I'm a teenager also well fake ID fake ID I was gonna say 16 year olds can be pretty resourceful are you exactly if they if they need to be okay um right we don't have any time to really get into I wish we'd have adjusted these mics slightly differently so we can still hear from everyone but anyway be that as it may I don't think we're gonna get into anything else more specifically so what is your plans for the weekend uh Michael Levy this is content uh yeah this is creating content we're creating content here well myself and for Nula because uh we're gonna go to the cinema a couple of times and catch up on a couple of movies so we'll have an all-cinema special I think next Friday we're going to see uh Aquaman which was are you gonna do it next Friday it's the highest more I have a feeling don't don't leave it mysteriously I might take next Friday it's the highest don't leave it it's the it's the um the most successful of all the DCU the okay we'll keep that is it all bombed though what else and I'm watching the new adjacent Stratum movie where we're both here obviously we're gonna see that tomorrow the beekeeper and I didn't pick it but I would have picked it anyway the cinema picked it for me but I was like yeah because I want to see it anyway I would have gone to see it anyway because I like I feel like they're good intellectual stimulation they look at his face I'm sorry I don't know you mean Jason Satan yeah doesn't not make you think no and there's rewatchable fight scenes those scenes we were chatting before you came in and for uh rewatchable fight scenes have you ever rewatched a fight scene he's what rewatched fight scenes have you ever from the Marvel films he's very sad crossed your mind to rewatch a fight scene in a film um I'd say potentially I've had some sort of error on the computer and I've done it by accident I've put it back and I'm like oh you know I can't figure it out I'm sure there are people out there who rewatched the bus fight scene from Mr Nobody on YouTube from time to time nope I uh A for good luck thanks so much we'll see you again soon Finola it's great to have you back thank you so very much indeed we'll look forward to chat to you again before next Friday sorry Michael as always it's an absolute pleasure thank you thank you Caroline who resorts to produce the show and Shannon working away in the program as well John Bresen's around in the North West have a great weekend


Hello David Diga Hernandez here. Welcome to Spirit Church. Today you're going to be blessed. I'm talking about finances.  The message today is from frustration to fruitfulness and I'm going to be talking about the three biblical keys to moving from the frustration of lack into the fruitfulness of God's provision. God's will for you is prosperity. God's will for you is blessing. And we're going to look at the three keys to getting there. The first, Stephen Moctezuma, is going to lead us in some worship. Every new right spirit within me. Oh we can see it creating me again. Creating me a clean heart. New right spirit within me. Oh create, creating me a clean heart. New right spirit within me. And cast me not in thy presence, oh Lord. Take not the Holy Spirit from me. Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation. Every new right spirit within me. And cast me not, and cast me not away from thy presence, oh Lord. Take not the Holy Spirit from me. Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation. Take not the Holy Spirit from me. Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation. Every new right spirit within me. Every new right spirit within me. I think it's important that you recognize the importance of finance. You know the Scripture talks a lot about money and I'm going to talk to you about money today. And I used to apologize for having these types of conversations because I didn't want to be labeled as a certain type of evangelist or you know name it, claim it, blab it, grab it, prosperity type preacher and really I'm not one of those types of preachers but we do have to acknowledge that the Scripture addresses money. The Scripture addresses finance. The Scripture addresses blessing and it addresses lack and it addresses prosperity and it addresses poverty. Really poverty cannot be God's will. Poverty causes starvation. Poverty causes disease. Poverty causes death. Poverty causes depression. Poverty causes discouragement. How can that be God's will? How can poverty be God's will when everything we see in heaven is reflective of who God is? In heaven there is abundance. In fact there is so much abundance in heaven that you walk on gold. There is so much abundance in heaven that everything that was created is for our pleasure and if that's how it is in heaven there's feasting and there's abundance and there's joy and there's peace and there's provision and Jesus said pray that his will be done on earth as it is in heaven. That's everything that there is in heaven. Everything as it is up there so it should be down here. Poverty cannot be the will of God. Poverty is not a godly trait. Poverty is not something that God will give you as a reward necessarily. Now Paul the apostle did say I've learned how to live a base and I've learned how to live in abundance. I've learned how to obey and to abound. In other words he's lived in poverty and he's lived in abundance but poverty itself in and of itself is not necessarily godly and we need to move away from that type of thinking and instead of putting out a message a whole defense on why prosperity is God's will. I mean I've written articles on this on my blog and I've written several papers on it but that's a different message for a different time. I want to talk to those who already know in their heart after reading the word that prosperity is God's will and I'm not saying that everybody is going to be super rich and have a gigantic house that you can see on television where they come and feature your home. I'm not saying that everyone's going to have this tremendous wealth that you see in the one percent type of the United States but I do believe that God wants to give to each of us enough to provide for our needs and more so that we can be a blessing to others. That to me is prosperity to have my needs met, to have provision met and more abundantly above all we can ask a thing overflow. It's in the nature of God. In Proverbs chapter 10 verse 22 the scripture says this and it's such a powerful verse this is what the Bible says. It says the blessing of the Lord makes a person rich and he adds no sorrow with it. You see in the world when you obtain riches and prosperity in an ungodly way really riches obtained in an ungodly manner can never be considered prosperity because prosperity is a wholeness. Prosperity has to do with every aspect of your life so if I obtain riches in an ungodly way in a deceitful way in an ill mannered way then it cannot be prosperity because it's not from God because it's not godly because it wasn't rooted in the character and the nature of Christ so anything that is received outside of the character and nature of Christ can never truly be counted as prosperity but you have to realize that it is God's will to prosper you. It is God's will to bless you. You need to be convinced of that. God wants to bless you. This is the reality. This is the truth.  So how do you move from the frustration of poverty and lack the frustration of being unable to do things to the fruitfulness of prosperity because really when you have an overflow you can fund the church. When you have an overflow you can fund ministries and orphanage projects and missionaries. I mean everybody wants to be in that place and God wants you to be there. You want to be at the place where your needs are met, where your family is taking care of, where you can bless your family, you can bless others and you can bless the kingdom. That's not a bad thing to want. In fact Matthew chapter 6 verse 21 says that where your treasure is, there where your heart be also. Money is a good gauge for your heart. Now listen, listen, this is important. Money is a good gauge for your heart. Why? Because it's so necessary. You say well preachers all you ever talk about is money and some people might be offended that I'm talking about money on this video. I don't imagine that this video on average because of comparing it to the average spirit church videos. I don't imagine this video is going to be even over an hour. We say I would be wrong for talking about this for 30, 40 minutes, maybe an hour. Yet you work for money almost eight hours a day. Money itself is not wrong. Let me tell you why people don't like people talking about money. People don't like people talking about money because it touches at the very heart of the issue. It's easy to say praise God I'm a Christian. Praise God I'm with you. Praise God I believe. But when you demonstrate it with your finances then you're really in. Then there's really sacrifice. Then you're really giving of your time. You're giving of your resources. You're giving of the effort that it took to acquire the finances that you have. When you sow into the ministry when you sow into the gospel you're not just giving paper. You're giving your hard work. You're giving your effort. You're giving your skill. You're giving your time. You're giving what will cause you to have provision. You're giving what could be used to buy food to buy shelves to buy clothes to buy things that your family needs to buy things that your business needs to buy things that things that your ministry needs. And so this is why Jesus talked about it because it touches right on the heart of the issue. People don't like when we talk about sin but I talk about sin. People don't like when we talk about money but I talk about money because you need to hear it. And really the ones who get offended that you talk about money are the non-givers anyway. The people who say oh you shouldn't talk about that they're the ones who aren't going to give. They're the ones who are in the back saying well let me just kind of give as I you know just kind of awful whim and there's no discipline that they're giving there's no sacrifice and they're giving and at the same time there's no blessing on their life because they're not giving to the gospel. They're broke and they criticize the preachers for talking about money. I mean think about the prophet Elijah who asked the widow for all that she had left. I mean my goodness how audacious of the prophet to do so. Yet it was the instruction of God because God touches at the very issue. God touches us in the place where it requires our faith where it requires sacrifice where it requires us to step out into the unknown with uncertainty fully trusting in his word that's where he needs your need. So I'm going to talk about money and I'm not going to apologize for talking about money. This is something that the body of Christ needs to hear. I mean think about this the world is funding their agenda. I mean you think about all the false religions.  You think about the evil cultural agendas. They all have people backing and funding. Where is the church? When are we going to show up and start supporting what we believe in. When you support a ministry. When you support the gospel. When you support the kingdom.  So you want to move from frustration to fruitfulness. You want to move from lack or maybe you're in a good place and you want breakthrough. You want to go to a different level. I'm going to show you how to do it. Faith is the bridge between frustration and fruitfulness. I'm going to say that again. I want you to let it settle in your heart. Faith is the bridge between frustration and fruitfulness. So you shouldn't be ashamed to ask God for things. You may say well there are so many other more important needs out there in the world. Well God's not broke. God doesn't have lack. God doesn't have to take from someone else to give to you. In fact when God gives to you you're able to provide for the needs of others out there. When you're in a position of provision. When you're in a position of prosperity. You could do more for the kingdom than you can in poverty. And that's the truth. So I'm going to share my experience. It's my story.  You look at this ministry. It's fruitful. We're doing worldwide television international events. We have global discipleship programs such as this spirit church that you see. We have people on staff. I'm a full-time evangelist. That's because of our partners, our donors, our supporters that know that everything, every penny that comes into this ministry goes to the spreading of the gospel. Goes to touch lives all around the world and they know that their gift is leverage. But it didn't start that way. I want to tell you a story here. I began in ministry when I was around I must have been around 10, 11 years old is when I first really began to serve in the church. I still remember to this day I was standing in the Sunday school room in my church. I was it was eating one of those. What are those breads called those like that Mexican bread? I mean I'm Hispanic. I should know. You don't know either. You don't know. You don't know. So I was eating this bread and I remember me and my friends were there and I saw Pastor Eddie Vargas. Many of you have heard me talk about him for he's a spiritual father to me. He helped to mentor me from the time I was a kid to a preteen to a teen to a young adult. Even to this day he's helped me and some of you have read about him in different writings of mine. But Eddie Vargas was very key and he was one of my dad's key guys in the church. He was one of the Bible study leaders in the church at the time. He was also the head of the worship. And this was back in the day when you remember this this back in the day when we had what was the predict it was overhead projectors to where you put the slide in not the digital computers that you see. I mean we're talking this was back then. It's amazing how far technology has come.  And I knew from the moment that I saw that look on his face I thought this guy wants something. He's looking for someone to do a favor for him. Well it wasn't just me who caught this note on Pastor Eddie's face but the two friends of mine beside me also caught this note on Pastor Eddie's face. They realized he was looking for some help. So he turns and he says I need a favor. My friend on the left went over to my left. My friend on my right went over to my right and they were both gone and left me standing there and I was eating the bread. I couldn't say no because I was chewing and I felt like I was it was like honed in on me. I was like a deer in headlights just captured in the moment. I had no escape from it. Pastor Eddie looked at me says I need you to run the overhead projector. Now you have to understand that me I'm the type of person that needs details. I want to know so I'm I'm already thinking okay well how do I do this do I flip this song in just seconds after they begin to sing that verse or do I flip it in seconds before they begin singing the verse if I bring it in before am I going to cause them to sing the song before it's too early to sing the song if I bring it in too late I'm going to cause the whole where should we throw it off I'm already spinning these things in my mind I have all these questions I want it done perfectly just right I need all these details doesn't matter it's minutes to spare he says here's the list here's the songs flip them as we go and I said oh no I'm going to mess this up I did okay I was fine but that day that's the day I became a tv evangelist you see everything that I have right now in the ministry God gives favor God gives blessing God gives responsibility as you're good with what you have if you're a good steward over what you have right now God will bless you with more number one the first key is stewardship and I remember finding that place of stewardship in fact you remember the parable of the talents the scripture says that a man went away on a long journey and he gives a certain amount to each individual and the first two individuals that received their amount had doubled their amount after he had been away on a long journey he says well done now good and faithful servant he says I'm going to give you more and he gave to each of those first two more but the third servant who had one bag of silver however the amount was interpreted he only had one of what they had several of and he says lord I was afraid I hid it in the ground and the master says couldn't you have done something couldn't you have put it in the bank to collect interest you should have done something with what I had given you he says you're a wicked and lazy servant then he takes from that servant and he gives to the ones with more than he says the ones who have will be given more and the ones who have little that will be taken from them too and given to the ones with more talk about opposite of what politics say today I mean today we say take from the rich spread it out among the poor but that's not the biblical way that's not how God does it the reason people have much is because they're good stewards of what God has given them and so this was my first ministry my first ministry was it was flipping songs on an overhead projector and I remember I got so good at that I took pride in what I did I remember I had the timing down just right I had all the songs lined up if they if the worship team were to spontaneously go into another song I knew in my filing cabinet exactly where that song was I have it up within seconds I gave my all to that and then we graduated a newer technology we got the laptops and the projectors and now I was pushing a button but I made sure that I pushed that button on time every time in fact I went through all of the slides and I corrected all the grammar all the spelling I made sure that it was just a few sentences per slide and not a whole chapter so you're looking for the words while you're singing the song it helped to create that worship environment where we could focus on the Lord more and I said I'm gonna do my best with what I've got and I gave my all to being the projector guy that's all I did and I did that for like three years before I preached my first sermon now I was a steward and again I'm just sharing you my I'm not bragging I'm sharing my story with you I'm hoping it'll inspire you I was a steward of what God had given me I gave my all I went to the worship practices to make sure I had my timing right on the songs and I gave God my all I said Lord as I do this I'm doing it unto you and it was from there that God brought me to a different place so number one good stewardship you have to get practical okay so you're talking about blessings you're talking about the supernatural there are many people praying Lord take me out of debt Lord help bless my finances yet your spending is way off you're asking God to bless you and you're not managing your finances well you have more than you think you do you're actually more blessed than you think you are but you're not managing the resources right you're you're and again I know this is not everyone some of you do manage well but I'm making the point to those of you who you know this is convicting you I'm talking to you you're asking God for blessing yet you mismanage yet you buy things on credit that you don't need to buy on credit I mean that's just a little tip right there I don't want to get too practical in the finances but we're going to keep this as spiritual as possible so when you're a good steward of what you have you're cooperating with God's supernatural desire to bless you when you're a good steward of what you have you're cooperating with God's supernatural desire to bless you so some of us are saying Lord bless me and he blesses you but because of your bad spending habits because you're not a good steward of what you have you take all the blessings that God has given you and you've consumed it upon your lust in fact the scripture says you have not because you ask not and you have not because when you do ask you ask a miss because you ask to receive it and just consume it upon your lust he says so you you don't have because you're not asking and if you're asking you're asking in a way that's more beneficial to you and you're just going to take what God gives you and spend it on everything that you want to do you're drilling a hole in the boat it's like you got a drill gun and you're drilling all these holes saying Lord keep my boat afloat and you're drilling holes in it you're causing it to sink while asking him to save it we talk we talk about taking care of what you have you say Lord I want a new car do you take care of the one you have you say Lord I want a new house do you take care of the house you have you so Lord I want nice things do you take care of the things that you have now Lord I need a job promotion how well do you do the job you have now do you show up on time do you take too long of a lunch break do you log more hours than you actually use how are you treating what you have right now are you a good steward of what God has given you we can't expect more if we cannot obey with the little that we have here's what stewardship is stewardship is taking care of what you have stewardship is doing what you're supposed to do with what you have stewardship is treating what you have like it's what you want I'm going to say that again steward is stewardship is treating what you have like it's what you want when you can give and what you have now it's a sign to God that you're ready for more if you're holding back you're saying Lord bless my finance again we say Lord bless me and I'll so God says so and I'll bless you if you can't so out of the little that you have now you're not going to do it when you have more when you so out of what you have right now it's a sign to God that you're ready for more so number one it's good stewardship can God trust you with abundance I want you to really ask yourself don't say yes right away just to be spiritual ask yourself right now can God trust me with abundance take a moment think about it can't he the answer to that question you'll know that by whether or not you give out of need can God trust you with abundance well the question is do you give now do you support the gospel now are you a good steward do you manage it well do you manage the money right you see we get tired we get bored we get used to our surroundings I could have got bored as as the projector guy for three years but for three years I did not lose the passion because I did it as under the Lord because it was the ministry that he gave to me and I valued that so much and I said Lord even if it's just the projector you gave this to me I get to do this for you you serve first and then God raises you God exalts the humble he lowers the proud he resists the proud and he gives grace he enables the humble so number one is stewardship number two is generosity fear grips love releases Luke chapter six verse 38 says give and it shall be given pressed down running over shaking together shall men pour in your bosom so much so that you won't be able to contain it but the scripture says given it shall be given not it shall be given so you can give the initiation is on us I mean you think of scriptures like James chapter four verse seven says draw near to God he'll draw near to you it's on you the ball is in your court God has left the initiation on us now he's given his son he's let his son down the cross he he sacrificed violently his son now it's on us to respond to everything that he's done if we want to receive everything that he has promised so I'm all for the practical but the practical isn't supernatural so you could be so tight with your money you could be so well financed I mean I know people who they just hang on to money like it's their life and here's the truth if you hang on to money tighter than you hang on to your faith in God it's an idol that's why Jesus said you can't serve both God and money you're either going to serve one and hate the other or vice versa you cannot serve both God and mammon the spirit that tells you to grip your finances I'm talking to someone right now you grip your finances and you don't let it go even if it's in your hand to do it you hang on to it I remember a story that a friend of mine had told me his son was turning I think seven or eight you know just he was a young kid and he took his son to downtown Disney and at downtown Disney there's this big store it's a toy store it's a Lego store and Legos as you know is this is a toy that's building blocks and they're just these tiny little pieces that make up these amazing really they're like pieces of art and so this boy goes into the the Lego store with his dad and his dad takes them there and there's this section where kids can play with Legos before they go and buy their set now you know if you've ever bought Legos before maybe I I'm gonna buy some for my nephews and you know they're quite expensive or they can get expensive so there was a particular set that he had wanted I forgot what the theme was but there was a particular theme a particular set he's he's telling his dad dad asked to set I want I want to grab that set and I want to go home with that he said okay we're gonna get that set for you and the son is playing on the table and he's got all these little Legos and he's playing and so finally he sees on the shelf the dad does he sees on the shelf the set that his son wanted the problem is there was only one left and he says look son it's the set that you want he says go get it so his son gets really excited he sees it he runs toward the shelf he looks at the set he turns around and runs back toward his dad because what are you doing son go go grab the Lego set go it's right there just grab it I'll get it for you and son runs up to the set comes right back and he's really sad and discouraged that's his son what are you doing you got to go grab it and finally this time he did it a couple more times and he's a son why are you not grabbing it and his son looks up at his dad and he holds at his hands he opens his hands and he's got Legos little Legos in his hand he didn't want to grab the set because he didn't want to let go what was in his hand what was on the shelf was much more than what was in his hand but he couldn't get it because he was afraid of losing with what he had and that's some of you you're such a you're a good steward you have that in place some of us were reversed I mean there's two different types of personalities there's a cerebral and there's the creative the creative types are the more you know they're the ones who they're going to give generously but they're also very impulsive buyers so it's hard for them to be a good steward on the flip side they're those who really rigid really good with their money but they lack the generosity because they're more they're relying more on their ability to manage their money than they are the generosity of God and they can't quite compute how is me giving going to give back how is me giving going to be good stewardship of my finances and so there's either side and maybe that's you maybe you are a good steward maybe you have things in order but you grip your money so tightly that you're not generous and you can't give to the gospel neither extreme is healthy we need both good stewardship and supernatural generosity if we're going to move forward so I remember there was a time in my life where God had called me to do more television ministry and this was on this is before we were on international television we were just on a local cable station you remember those days you actually helped film for us when we first launched encounter TV and the cameras we had then were nowhere near in fact I think all three of the cameras and all the old equipment was equal to the price of one camera that we have here now I mean that was it was an older set I think the camera I think total of my equipment was like $14,000 of everything that I had but TV equipment to a TV preacher is like a church building to a pastor it was important it was the basis of our resource and ministry it's how we got out promos it's how we got out our teaching it's how we got to teach people how we got to reach the world even though it was only on internet cable to a local cable television I think it was like 60,000 homes at the time and I remember the Lord spoke to me so clearly because I said Lord we're ready to go to the next level we have an opportunity to do international television we just need better equipment once we get the better equipment we can start broadcasting to millions of homes as opposed to just 60,000 and I'll never forget what the Lord told me he says okay son here's what I want you to do he spoke it so clearly and and and to this day I'm so glad that I listened to him but he spoke very clearly he said son I want you to give away all your camera equipment at the time I said I can't be the Lord that's gotta be the other guy that's that can't be and I was fighting it and I was resisting because I was holding on tightly it was everything that it wasn't practical to give away because had I given away the equipment there was no guarantee we were getting new ones and it had taken me three years to do the fund raising to get that $14,000 worth of equipment three years to raise $14,000 that's that was the start that we had so it tells you things were pretty rough and I said Lord I can't let this go but the Lord you know when his hand rests on you and he speaks his hand away heavy on you and eventually I said okay this is the Lord and I'm gonna do what he told me to and I started giving away all the equipment but I held on to a couple cameras nothing happened and I felt like Saul who had done everything the Lord had told him to but he held on to a few for his own benefit and I said Lord can I just hang on to this just in case the Lord told me so everything you have and I gave away the last camera and I remember I had no camera equipment and I said okay Lord you got to do your thing now I trust you within a month almost a hundred thousand dollars came in to help us buy our new equipment and build a brand new TV studio and that was the last set before this one that we had built that we were on for a couple years and now we're in this even newer set a new phase on even more homes but you see I had to let go of what I had to make room for more and what God wanted to give me that's generosity so generosity releases the flow of God's provision in your life take note of that generosity releases the flow of God's provision in your life prosperity is a river not a reservoir we treat God's prosperity like it's a reservoir where we save and we collect but that's not how it works it's got to be a constant flow it's not about hanging on prosperity isn't gripping it's taking from the Lord and passing on taking from the Lord and passing on you receive that's where you're blessed you give that's where you're a good steward that's where generosity takes place so without generosity the stewardship of your finances requires no faith without faith how can your financial management be pleasing to God it takes faith without faith it's impossible to please God the way you handle your finances cannot be pleasing to God unless it requires faith and if it doesn't hurt it doesn't require faith I know people who tip God I've seen offerings where people throw like two cents in the offering God bless them if that's what their heart was but my goodness the offering envelope cost more than two cents so they end up costing the ministry money by throwing in two pennies and some people I'm not talking about the people who that's all they have I'm talking about the people who that's all they have in their pocket when they have thousands of the bank they'll just kind of tip God here I'm doing God a favor it's because they don't think big they think small they think oh this is they think it's just like every other ministry that oh just a little street down that ministry down the corner they may think of your ministry that way and those are the small minded people who never step into the provision of God but the people who can see big the people who can capture a vision they become generous because they realize they're attaching themselves to something that's bigger than themselves they're attaching them to something themselves to something that's global that's worldwide that's of the divine that's going to change the course of history they know that and they dig deep and they dig with faith and they sew if it doesn't hurt it doesn't work it does not take faith to tip God see for me at this point in my life I could sew a hundred dollars maybe two hundred maybe a thousand and it won't really require that much faith from me but if God told me I want you to sew five thousand ten thousand into a ministry I'd say oh goodness now see that's going to require some faith to release that that's going to hurt God will test you on the level you are and until you pass that test he's not going to take you to the next level you've been stuck in the same place either because of stewardship and that's where the frustration comes frustration comes because you don't know what to do frustration comes because you feel like your back is up against the wall like you've tried everything but good stewardship and generosity are the bridges in faith from frustration to fruitfulness and you may say lord but I mean I know I have friends who they can sew ten thousand like it's nothing I mean they sew it like I would sew a hundred dollars and they're very wealthy men and they tell me you know what when God tells me to sew even bigger like when they sew the thirty the fifty thousand they say that's when it hurts them and I have I had a friend who was telling me he said God told him to sew ten thousand he said lord why don't you get someone else to do it and God told him fine I'll bless someone else like I blessed you he says no lord I'll do it you see we want the blessing but we don't want the responsibility that comes attached to that blessing are you holding up your responsibility for the blessing that God has given you right now are you saying lord what I have I'm being responsible and obedient if you're not obedient with what you have right now through generosity you're not going to be able to receive what God has for you and it takes faith it takes generosity to go there so if it doesn't hurt it doesn't take faith if it doesn't take faith it doesn't please God so you want God to touch your finances but you won't let your finances touch him be the blessing see we're always praying God send that check in the mail you go to the mailbox hoping that someone you hear these stories right oh I was you hear people say stuff like oh I was believing God for this amount of money and a check randomly came in the mail mysteriously wasn't expecting it and you go where do these checks come from how do they get it who are the people sending these and then you pray Lord send me a check yet when was the last time you randomly just sent a check to bless someone you need to be the blessing that you're praying someone will be to you and that will release the flow of God's generosity in your life it will release them it'll unstop the blockage send that check in the mail that random check you're always hoping to find to someone else so generosity is key number one stewardship take care of what you have and obey with what you have number two be generous don't hold so tightly trust God do we believe the Bible or not see if I were to tell you if I were to sit in a room and have if I held a hundred dollar bill in your in my hand and say hey if you give me 10 dollars I'll give you this hundred dollars likely if you know me you'd say okay and you do it yet God says something very similarly says bless me bless my church bless my people see if I won't pour out a blessing I'm going to cause it to come back to you overflowing and we go about that we trust man more than we trust God we trust money more than we trust God that's the heart of the issue that's why people get so offended when you talk about this because that's the reality they're defensive because they're convicted and they know on their heart they're clinging to tightly to their finances and they love their money too much so I'm here as the man of God the evangelist to say hey let me shake you out of that complacency let me get in your face with the word I love you enough to tell you the truth and this is the truth if you're holding too tightly to your finances that's what's that's what's stopping the blessing of God in your life number one it's either bad stewardship or you're not being generous and then there's the third key faithfulness the scripture says that the master went away for a long time you went on a long journey that means the three men who received of him had a long time to double the efforts that they had been given so let's say there's a train you ever I mean trains are powerful pieces of machinery that go very fast for their size but it takes a while for that train to gain that momentum it takes a while for the train to get going what were to happen if the train when it started to go were to stop and then start to go then stop that's the problem we keep having to start over because we keep quitting faithfulness okay I'll put it to you this way people will so sporadically for weeks months and years they'll give once in a while so here and there they're hit and miss hit and miss hit miss they're giving but they're hit and miss hit and miss hit and miss for years and they call that faithfulness that's not faithfulness faithfulness is consistently being a good steward and consistently being generous over a long period of time if it's missing good stewardship if it's missing generosity if one of those two is sporadic over that period of time it cannot be faithfulness it's just doing those things sporadically unfaithfully over a long period of time if you're hit and miss with your giving you're an unfaithful giver if you're hit and miss with your stewardship you're an unfaithful steward if you're faithful and consistent with those two over a long period of time you're faithful faithfulness doesn't happen in weeks months or years I've had people who've come alongside this ministry over the years and they quit within years because they don't understand the principles of favor they can't they don't they're not faithful long enough to acquire the faithfulness on their life they're not faithful enough to acquire the favor of God on their life and and they miss out on the blessing I've seen people in churches do that I've seen people they start sewing for a few months and go I see it doesn't work and then they stop and I tell them well it took you years years to dig yourself into the hole you're in you expect God to do it in weeks he can do it but he wants to test you first he's not going to bless you with abundance unless he can trust you so don't start and stop be persistent so where's your heart is it faithfully in the work of God I'm going to close with this there are three levels of giving first of all there's the gift of giving which is a Romans chapter 12 verse 8 I'm not talking about that there's giving out of duty which is a great demonstration of stewardship there's giving out of a need which is a great demonstration of generosity but if you give out of duty eventually it becomes tiring if you give out of need eventually it becomes taxing the third and greatest level of giving is giving out of love because when you give out of love you're a good steward and you're a great greatly generous person when you give out of love you're both a good steward and you're generous and you can do it faithfully because it's love that fuels you and love goes above and beyond think about this my sins are forgiven my heart is filled with peace and joy I want others to experience the same in your hands Jesus I place my trust I place my finances we say God I want to give you my life and that's not consistent if you don't give them your finances here's my challenge to you start tithing to your local church start giving to the work and the ministry even if you don't see the return right away be faithful even if it's going to cost you be generous even if it's hard to be disciplined be a good steward here's the altar column normally I pray at the end but here's your challenge now I pray that God would bless you I pray that God will release his abundance on you but the key that unlocks that favor that causes the floodgates of blessings to open up your life is faith faith causes you to step from the natural into the supernatural power of God you can step out today by sewing into this ministry you can step out today by saying God I'm going to give of myself I'm going to give of what I can I'm going to sew and then I'm going to start sewing consistently spirit church I'm talking to you partners I thank you for your your faithful giving I'm talking to spirit church members who get to start giving and I'm talking to people who who receive from this ministry you can do something help me take the gospel around the world help me continue to do what God wants us to do we want to expand this to even more we have a ministry facility that we're investing in toward the future we're going to move into this thing and we're going to do more than ever before we're going to be able to do larger events than ever before we're going to be able to influence more people than ever before you're going to be on the ground floor of this ministry I believe this ministry can become one of the most influential in the entire world and you can help us get there all to the glory of Jesus and it's already on track for that you can see the favor of God on this ministry come under it receive from that favor for yourself connect yourself with it receive from the favor of God I walk in the provision of God I walk in the blessing of God when I ask for finances I can't I mean I can tell you honestly my personal needs are met above and beyond I don't need to take much from the ministry because I have resources outside of the ministry God blessed me with a business mind and I use that the people on our staff are taken care of by our ministry partners and they work 24 seven to get the gospel out there the events that we do the television broadcast we do this that we do all supported by donors and partners I challenge you step out now and faith I'm believing God for a thousand new partners within the year to come alongside this ministry so I'll give 30 dollars a month I'm also believing that there are a couple people watching God spoke to your heart it's in the thousands and I'm not going to say it because I don't want to manipulate but God spoke to you and you know in your heart what it is go and do it today well that's it for this edition of spirit church I want you to write to me now write to me email me let me know you're watching let me pray with you when you when you join spirit church there's a link if you're watching this on our website if you're watching this in the app you won't see the link you got to go to spiritchurchonline.com but if you're on the website watching this right now you'll see a link that says join spirit church you join that you're going to get a month a weekly email from me personally I send it out personally and I respond to all of those personally send me your prayer requests join the spirit family join with us in touching the world with the gospel that is it for this edition of spirit 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