What is going on everybody? It's Stas here. Welcome back to another video. So in this video, we're going to be doing an overall market update looking at the Dow Jones, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq. We're going to be talking about one trade that I made today on the 5th of February in 2019, as well as taking a look at some other stocks ETFs that did well today and that I see potential for for the rest of this week and heading off into the middle of February. So for all you guys out there that do enjoy the channel, that find value in the videos, feel free to smash that like button down below. It really does help the channel grow and I appreciate you guys to the fullest for doing so and supporting the channel. It means a lot to me. So we saw the market just close about five, six, seven minutes before I'm recording this video and we ended up closing the day yet again another green day today guys. The S&P 500, the 500 largest U.S. traded companies was up around 0.5% today, up around nearly $13. The Dow Jones was up around 175 points at the close, up around 0.68% and the Nasdaq yet again had another solid day, you know, due to the tech stocks doing very well today again. This one's up around 1.1% right now and again this is the future. It's up around 76 points right now. So very, very solid day, you know, in terms of the Nasdaq and the overall market. So let's take a look at some time frames on these different indices so we can get a better understanding of where the markets could be potentially moving over the next couple of days. So if you guys have been watching my channel for a while now, we've been talking about the pattern on the SPX, the S&P 500. The fact that it broke above the 180 SMA, which has been a resistance over the past couple of months, that's a very good sign that it's reversing to the upside and there's honestly no signs of it reversing to the downside as of now, right? We've been talking about how, you know, we do expect a pullback coming, right? The RSI is seeming like it's very overbought. It's been about a month and some change now, you know, about a month and 10 days of straight green right now in the SPX. And I feel like, you know, every single day, guys, I know myself and the entire community, I feel like we've been waiting for a pullback in the market, but we are honestly just not getting it. But again, guys, I'm still sticking by my word that we are going to get a solid pullback, probably something and, you know, in the lines of what happened right here, you know, we saw it fall, you know, back in the beginning of November, from around 28-12 to around 26-30, which ended up being around a 5-6% pullback. And honestly, guys, I don't think this is too far-fetched, because for all you that have been paying attention to the markets, you know, we've posted the best January since 1987. And the month of January alone, right, we had a 13-14% gain in the S&P 500 alone, which again, is the best January in the stock market since 1987, January 1987. And of course, we've been roaring in the month of February as well. If we're just taking a look at this month alone, guys, we're up a solid, you know, 1-2%, you know, 2-3% from the beginning of this month. And the green seems like it's not ending, right? It seems like it's not ending. So let's take a look, you know, at some other longer term charts here, so we can get a better understanding of the larger term picture here. So a couple of videos back, you know, actually more than a couple of videos, probably like a couple of weeks ago, we were talking about this 180SMA being the support for the SPX here on the three-year one-week chart. And obviously, guys, you know, we saw it bounce there very nicely. It held above it back in 2016, where it hit the low of around 1810. And we ran all the way back up to 2940, obviously. We all know this. This is, you know, the peak that we saw, you know, roughly at around the beginning of October. We sold off all the way to 2400. We bounced on there, which is a good sign of the continuation of the uptrend on this longer term chart. And now we're trending right under the 50SMA on this three-year one-week chart, which has been a resistance over the past couple of weeks, guys. So keep an eye on this resistance level, you know, for the SPX. It got rejected through December, rather October, all the way through December under this 50SMA. So this could potentially be another rejection spot for the SPX. So keep an eye. Are we going to get rejected to the downside here? Or are we going to break to the upside and continue the uptrend? So another one I want to show you guys is this one-year one-day chart, where we're trending under the 180 Simple Moving Average. Keep an eye on this. This could potentially be a resistance. If not, guys, if we break above it, again, that's the continuation of the uptrend. And that's not too good of a sign. You know, if you're short on the market, if you're bearish on the market in the short term, if you are bearish, you would love to see the rejection here and possibly a break below around this previous resistance, which is now a support, which would be around, let's say, 2675. So if you're bearish, guys, you know, you want the markets to go down, what you want to see is a rejection here at the resistance at around 2750, roughly where we are right now, and ultimately a break below this old resistance, which is now a new support at around 2670. So in terms of the SPX, guys, and again, the entire market, you know, we're out of that downtrend on the 180 chart, we are at very critical resistances on the longer term charts on the three-year and the one-year chart. And if we're taking a look at the 20-day one hour very quickly, just like yesterday, guys, we're still maintaining that uptrend pattern, higher highs, higher lows. We just pushed up to another higher high right now at around 2738. So we could potentially pull back tomorrow, you know, heading into the open and either continue this uptrend by pulling back and bouncing up for another higher high. Or, you know, if we do end up pulling back here, let's say we have a red date tomorrow, keep an eye on possibly us getting down to around, let's say, this support level at around 2720 in terms of the SPX. So keep an eye on that level, guys, but all in all, you know, we're uptrending higher highs, higher lows here on the 20-day one hour chart with honestly no sign of a reversal. So let's take a look at the Dow Jones very quickly, very similar pattern, guys, higher highs, higher lows here on the 20-day one hour chart. We are still uptrending, no signs of a reversal. We pushed to another higher high today, reaching around $25,427. Again, we had a 175-point green day today in the Dow Jones. And on the 184-hour chart, like we've been talking about, very similar to the SPX, guys, we broke out of that 180-SMA resistance. We're trending up. And honestly, it's not looking like we're pulling back besides the fact that this RSI is overbought on pretty much all of the indices. This is something that we've been talking about. And honestly, it does concern me a bit, guys, which is why I do think in the next couple of days, maybe a week or two, we are going to experience a pullback, like I said earlier on in the video. But just judging off these technicals right now, I'm not really seeing a pullback coming really until we see a strong rejection to the downside, at least a 2% red day, 1-2% red day. 3% honestly would be great too is what I would like to see for the start of a pullback. But until we see that, it's still up in the air in my personal opinion. So if we're looking at some longer-term charts here, unlike the SPX here on the one-year one-day chart, the Dow Jones actually broke the 50-SMA of resistance. This was a couple of weeks back, actually about a month back now. This was back in January. And we actually just recently broke the 180-SMA resistance here on the one-year one-day chart, which is a pretty good sign. But remember what I talk about, guys, in terms of these SMA crossovers? Whenever the 50-SMA crosses below the 180-SMA, that signals potential downside potential bearish moves in a stock ETF or an index. So the fact that we do see this cross to the downside, this could signal a pullback coming soon in terms of the Dow Jones. And to use it to the opposite extent, if you want to see an uptrend, a bullish potential sign, what you would want to see is a break of the 50-SMA above the 180-SMA. So for example, guys, if this was pushing up, if this 50-SMA was pushing above the 180-SMA right now, this would indicate, in my eyes, more uptrend potential to come. But the fact that we're showing this pattern right here, guys, this could indicate a pullback in terms of the Dow Jones in the next coming days here. And then on the three-year one week, very similar to the SPX guys, we held the 180-SMA on the three-year chart. But the difference here is that we're trending above the 50-SMA with no resistance in sight in terms of simple moving averages here on the longer term chart. And we do see the EMA here slowly looking like it's going to break above the 50-SMA, which is another bullish sign. That's another bullish sign because, remember, these EMAs that we use on this channel, me specifically, they're smaller time-framed EMAs and they're quicker acting than the 50-SMA. And of course, the 50-SMA is quicker reacting than the 180-SMA. If you guys don't understand, if you guys want to learn more about these indicators, rather, search my channel, think or swim indicators. And there's like a 20-minute video going into depth with tips and tricks about these EMA simple moving averages and go check out that video if you want to learn more about that. But that's pretty much the gist of what's going on in terms of the Dow Jones. The NASDAQ here, guys, again, very strong day due to the tech stocks being up. We can see on the three-year one-week chart, very similar pattern, to the SBX, to the Dow. We held that 180-SMA here on the one-year one-day. We ended up breaking that 50-SMA back in January. And now we're actually under that 180-SMA as a resistance here on the one-year one-day. And like I talked about in yesterday's video, guys, it's looking like we finally broke out of this resistance at around 6820. We held it as a new support. And now we're looking to fill this next channel, which is from around 6890 up to around 7130. And of course, the 70-point day-to-day really just confirms what I said a couple of videos back that. We are going to fill this gap, which is what is exactly happening now. So keep an eye on this, guys, in terms of the NASDAQ. The next resistance right now, it really is about 100 points above from where we are at around $7,100. So, in terms of the NASDAQ, guys, not to go too deep into it, but we are really just in the same situation as the SPX and the Dow, higher highs, higher lows. We pushed to a higher high today at around 7,000. We finally, did we crack 7,000 today? Yeah, I'm pretty sure today, yeah, obviously we cracked 7,000 because we're at 7,008. So, yeah, today we finally got back into the 7,000 range in terms of the NASDAQ. So, you know, guys, the bullish run, the bullish past couple of weeks is still intact. And it's honestly looking like it's continuing. But just keep an eye on those resistances that we talked about on the larger term timeframes. They really do matter, guys, on a technical perspective. And, of course, the RSI does seem a bit overbought on all of these indices, which is another thing to keep an eye on. So, what did I trade today, guys? Well, I traded Kron again. And if you guys are in that Discord group chat, the link is down below, 100% free. You guys saw that I traded Kron. I think a lot of other people ended up trading Kron as well. And this has been a marijuana stock that's been on absolute fire. It's been on an absolute tear. And this year alone, guys, it's doubled in price. So, let's talk about it. So, yesterday, I actually traded Kron as well. And today, it really did kind of a similar pattern, which I was able to capitalize on. So, we see the crazy run. Let me just show you guys, just in 2019 alone, if we go here to 1 slash 219, we were at $10 a share, guys. $10.30, literally about a month and three days ago at the time that I'm recording this video. And we've run up nearly 100%. You can see it right there, 140% in terms of Kron. So, if you were to dump in your account in Kron right now, you'd be feeling pretty happy. Or if you dumped it in the beginning of 2019, you'd be a pretty happy man or woman, right? That would be an absolute crazy start to the year. But I personally did not do that. I'm sure a lot of you guys have owned Kron since the beginning of 2019. Drop a comment down below. Let me know if actually you have owned Kron. But just to get into it, guys, yesterday, I traded a very similar pattern here, which means if you guys watched yesterday's video, you saw that I traded the pullback bounce on Kron in the morning. And I really just did the same exact thing today. But today was more of an aggressive pullback. I was a little bit more cautious because we did see some strong selling this morning in Kron. So, I was pretty cautious actually. I scaled in with a smaller position than I did in yesterday's video or in yesterday's trading, rather. But just to get into it, guys, you know, what I liked about Kron heading into the market open and why I was watching it very closely is because it started to gap down from the top here at around $24.50. And what happens when a stock gap downs into the market open? Well, that opens up a profit margin for that stock. So, I was actually watching it to hold that $22 level at the beginning of the market, which obviously did not end up happening. And if it were to hold that $22 level, there was around a 10% profit back up to the previous resistance. But once the market opened, guys, we saw obviously a tank down all the way to 2074 opening up another 6% margin. And then once I started to see a bottoming out point, I did not get in here at the absolute bottom because, guys, at this point, think about it. If you're looking to get in right here, that's a bit more risky, at least in my opinion, because there's always room to go further down, and there's no really confirmation that it's pushing back up. But once we did get the confirmation that it was slowly creeping back into the $21 range, this is when I was slowly starting to scale into my position, because I figured at this point, it's worth trying to scale in because the stock has been on fire. It's done this pattern a couple of times. And it's worth, in my opinion, playing sometimes these marijuana stocks that do end up running 10%, 15% in a day. Of course, risk managing and scaling in slowly, guys. This is what I ended up doing. I ended up scaling in at around $21, ended up adding a little bit more at around $21.65. And then once I started to get deeper into my green, once I started to get deeper into the profit, I put a trailing stop, I set my limit at about 22 something. I think it was around like 22, what was it? It was at about 2.5% from where I was. And my average cost was at around $21.55. So let's see, 2.5%. It ended up being at around like 22, 20, I believe, something like that. But anyway, the whole idea here, and my strategy behind this trade was slowly trying to profit on that fill of the gap back up to that pre-market resistance. Obviously, now that the day is over, we almost got back up to that pre-market resistance. We almost filled that gap. But at this point, guys, I was already out of the trade with my 2.5%, 2.2%, 2.3%, whatever it ended up being in terms of cron. So this is what I typically do when I day trade, guys. I like to see stocks that are gapping down that have a margin of profit. And I like to see them find a support at the market open and then slowly start to see if they fill the gap, guys. This is something pretty basic that I do a lot of the times, and it does end up working with proper risk management, with proper planning. You guys can most likely do this as well. But again, don't just copy my trades. Don't just copy what other people are doing. Make a plan for your own. Understand. Do your own due diligence and trade what you guys understand. That's the most important thing here. So that's what I ended up doing in terms of cron, back-to-back days, trading this marijuana stock. So let's talk about some other stocks very quickly that people ended up trading that icy potential in. So we saw Apple ended up doing very well today. Again, up $2.93, up around 1.71%. We see it's extremely overbought right now, guys, in terms of the RSI. What do you think for a potential short-term put option on Apple, guys? I've been saying this about Facebook. Facebook's in the same category, too. Honestly, I wouldn't mind playing a short-term put on Facebook, either. What do you guys think about that? These are two potential scenarios that I'm looking at. Apple for potential put, Facebook for a put. This one's already up above that $80 or 80 range, roughly at the 80 range in terms of the RSI, meaning it's extremely overbought. And honestly, guys, I do expect these to pull back sooner or later. They're extremely over-inflated, guys, especially Facebook and Apple. And the other tech stocks Amazon did pretty well today, up around 1.5%. Netflix did around 1.2 today. Google ended up doing pretty decent after the earnings report yesterday, up around 1.16% today. Microsoft's back into the 107 range, guys, up around 1.4%. Another potential put option that I'm looking to play, and I was talking about this one in the Discord, is on AT&T, guys. We can see, you know, based on this 184-hour chart, AT&T seems to have gotten rejected from the top of this channel, indicated by this red trend line. We see that here. This was a lower high from the previous, and this was a lower high from the previous, and this was a lower high from the previous, right? This is on a straight up downtrend. And the fact that we're pushing back into the $29 range now, we broke that 180 SMA. The EMA's pointing down. It's looking like we'll get a potential cross of the 50 SMA below the 180 SMA, which, again, is a bearish sign, potentially more selling to come. This is a good potential opportunity to play a put on AT&T, maybe about two, three weeks out, maybe a month out. That could be a potential play that I'm looking at right now in terms of AT&T. So some other ones that we saw today, we saw Gold do an interesting move today. We saw it held that support that we were talking about in yesterday's video, and that one being right here from the previous support at around 1315. We saw it ended up holding it. You know, this was yesterday at 7am, held it yesterday. We saw pretty much a triple bottom here, which is a good sign, a double top as well. So it was pretty much just trading in this horizontal pattern, right? The triple bottom, the double top. Now what we're waiting for is a break out of this resistance to see if it's going to continue that uptrend and potentially we'll take a position in Jnug. I'll take a position in Jnug if it does end up popping above here. But on this chart as well, guys, keep an eye on the 50 SMA potentially crossing over or under rather the 180 SMA, meaning there's could be more selling to come. But right now, guys, it seems a bit bullish. We can potentially, if we do end up breaking that resistance, this could be a solid entry point in Jnug, which is the bull ETF here that trades on Gold. And really just whenever Gold goes up, guys, Jnug goes up as well. So that is one that I'm really interested in seeing how it's going to play out. Another one that I'm watching, guys, is a crude oil future. And for all you guys that don't know, crude oil has been on a ridiculous bull run over these past couple of weeks. It hit a low at $42. We topped that around $55. And now we're pulling back, and we're holding that 50 SMA here. And for those of you guys that don't know, whenever crude oil is going up, UWT is going up. So this could be a potential good entry point in UWT. If crude oil does hold, let's say the 5370 level, if we do hold that 50 SMA on crude oil, and if we do end up pushing back up, curling back up, that could be a potential entry. Let's say right around, I would say 1385, 1390 for UWT and back up to around $15, guys, that offers around a nice 7% profit. So some other ones that I was watching today, guys, that didn't end up playing out too well. One was actually Sony. This is one that I was watching for a potential pop. We ended up not getting it. We're seeing the 50 SMA cross below the 180 SMA here. I was waiting for the pop above $47 to see if it can slowly fill the gap back up to $48, and then eventually $50. It's still a possibility that it does do this, since it really didn't break too hard of a pattern here. We're still holding that $45 level, so I'm still going to be keeping an eye on it, but it just did not perform to my liking today. So another one that I was watching was J&J, guys. This one's not looking too great as well here on the 5-day 5 minute. It looks like we're getting rejected by the 180 SMA and the 50 SMA as well. On the 180 chart here, we're getting rejected by that 180 SMA. So we could potentially pull back maybe back to 130, which could open up a better entry point here in terms of J&J. And another one I'm watching here, guys, are the natural gas futures. Are we finding a bottom here at around 260, the R-size a bit oversold right now? This could be a good potential move in you, guys, if we do end up filling this gap back up to that 50 SMA resistance right here, which could put natural gas to around 275, 276, maybe even 280, guys. So watch this one. See if it fills that gap back up to 280. That is a pretty solid opportunity if it does end up showing that push. And of course, for those of you guys that don't know, U-Gas is a bull ETF on natural gas, meaning whenever natural gas is going up, U-Gas is going up. And this does offer a solid profit margin in my personal opinion. So drop a comment down below. Let me know what you guys ended up trading today. I would love to know. Leave a like. Subscribe if you guys want to see future content from me. 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And so, you know, we set up a PPE company very quickly after I'd left SBA, okay, I'll go sell masks, right? And so, you know, you start dialing for dollars, like, okay, I'm trying to find somebody with masks. Oh, they all go to China. You, once you get into that idea of what problem are you solving, all of a sudden, if you say, hey, I'm looking for a guy who sells PPE, I'm looking for a guy who sells PPE, we're looking at masks, we're looking at, we're looking at gowns, we're looking at ventilators, right? You know, oh, I didn't know that was PPE, but I know somebody who's in the gown business, I know somebody's in this business, I know hand sanitizer and stuff. So, you know, you could get into that business really, really easily. And then the challenge would be is now you have to find a supply, right? I mean, but it was just a good exercise and entrepreneurship is all I'm saying. No, it was. And I know a lot of people that it was their first foray into the government was through PPE. In fact, a lot of people come to me now as a result of because of the PPE situation, they learned about government contracting. And then that's why I believe, you know, part of what I want to do with my platform is to educate more people about government contracting, like you said, so that we can start bringing in some of those. Again, I have a lot of friends that are entrepreneurs and successful, but all of the myths and the things they've heard about working with the government, the government doesn't pay, they're slow. And it's a turn off for them. Yeah. And I do think that they, you know, for lack of a better term, they make themselves the victim more often than not. Or they make themselves the center of attention like, how is this going to benefit me? Like you were saying, they take too long to pay too long for who? You know, well, it's 90 days. I can't live on 90 days. Okay, well, then that's your problem because that's the way it's always been. Right. But what I want to be able to do is I try to coach my team members just like, make the government your customer. If they're going to pay you slow, they're going to pay you, but then just get more business, right? Right. You know, and it's a cycle. How do you get more business? Focus on that problem that you know that, you know, that they know they have and stuff. But there are so many, you know, the industry will put everybody on the same path. But at the end of the day, here's the thing, you know, the real secret sauce is that the end of the day, you need business development. And business development for most people is an afterthought. Oh, I can just do that in my sleep. Okay. You know, my joke is that the only people that don't need business development are companies that have too many contracts.  They got problems to solve. They got hangups and they got issues just like everybody else. And they see most of the world as like, give me, give me, give me, give me, give me, give me, right? So the joke I would have is, you know, the thing that I've taught my kid as an example, when she was three years old, we started this, we go out to eat and her job was to find out, find out the waitress's name. Okay. Find out where she's from. Find out what story she liked when she was a little kid. Why? Because waiters and something like government, your government contracting officers, all they hear are people barking at them with orders. It's very impersonal. But if you reach out and ask them something personal and try to make a personal connection with them, they'll remember. They'll always remember. And do it, in my opinion, do it with sincerity. Okay. Don't do it with everybody. If you're focused on your industry, you're going to probably know five or 10 and you should know five or 10 and you should respect them enough to remember their names and remember to call when you say you're going to call and show up because they're taking their time. And they're being used to just being order takers, right? But those are the things and that's the hard work, right? That's the hard work that you're used to. That's the hard work that I'm used to. I look at it and I just find that it's fun. I find that that's part of the process. Right. I agree. It's part of the process. I think it's, for some of us small businesses out here, I think that, because again, over the past three years, I've talked to thousands of businesses. Sometimes they do the work and they want to happen quickly and it's not happening fast enough. And so they believe that that process of business development doesn't necessarily work because they're not seeing immediate returns. What do you say to them? So I think that everybody has the power and most, you know, most people have the power in their personal lives. I think that making relationships, you should treat it like you're trying to get married, not like Tinder. Okay. Tinder is like, oh, I tried and made it. I think you swipe or you swoosh or whatever. God, I don't know. You don't know, right? Exactly.  Okay. And you've got to put the personal work in there. You've got to, you've got to, you know, you've got to try, but people are open to that. And again, I think it's, it sounds short shrift, but if you are the person, if you're focusing again on that problem, you know, you're solving, then it's kind of like us, when we're talking, okay, we're focused on the same problem, educating people, making them stronger, better, faster, small businesses. Okay. And, you know, to some people that aren't interested, we probably sound like two nerds talking about the thing that nobody was interested in. But Eric, if we could just help one company. I can tell you this, I already wrote down that quote that you said, I promise you it will be tweeted and as soon as we get off the call, the only people that don't need business development are people who have too many contracts. I'm tweeting that as soon as we finish. I'm telling you, I promise you it's going to receive at least 10 likes. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. But I mean, it's, I think that, you know, the people that are good small business people, look at your own life and stuff. You want to find business development and treat your company like it's a kid that has COVID. Okay. Most people do business development as COVID.   So you run to CVS and CVS is closed. Well, I guess I'll have to suffer. That's the extent of a lot of small business development.  Everything. You're going to go to the grocery store. Everything. You know, you're going to go to another pharmacy. You're not going to quit till you get relief. You're going to wake up the neighbor. Hey, I think you know a doctor. Sorry, my kid is really suffering. Don't mean to be rude, but can you help? If they worry about that urgency, if they focus on solving that problem, the ways to do business development are just more clear. Right? I mean, entrepreneurship a lot of times is kind of, it's kind of a, you know, you have to play tricks with your own mind, right? Right? You have to fight the battle that is an entrepreneur, right?


Open your Bibles with me to Isaiah 56.  I wanna see them, roll call. I love seeing Bibles. We're seeing a revival of the Bible. And if you don't bring a Bible to church, let me encourage you, join the club, get one and bring it. And I love having a physical copy of the Bible because you can see it and you can also underline and record what God speaks to you in specific moments through messages. And it becomes an archive of God speaking to you. Isaiah chapter 56, beginning in verse number seven. It says, And even them I will bring to my holy mountain and make them joyful in my house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on my altar. For my house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations. Title of my message this morning is joyful in my house of prayer. That's what God says in Isaiah 56, that I will cause them to be joyful in my house of prayer. And one of the things that I felt impressed by the Lord this fall to do, many of you were here a couple of weeks ago on Vision Sunday, when we rolled out the new mission statement of Radiant Church, which really is the old one, but just expanded with a little bit more clarity connected to who we are in the time we're in. You may recall that the opening line of that mission statement is that Radiant is a praying and a worshiping church. And then it goes on to say that is relentlessly leading people to become fully formed disciples of Jesus Christ, living together on mission. But that first phrase, a praying and a worshiping church, I felt specifically that the Lord has been breathing on it and as I've been seeking him, what do you want me to teach this fall? He just kept coming back to I want you to teach on prayer and what it means to be a praying and a worshiping church. Because there's so many misunderstandings about what it means to be a praying church. I'll tell you this, a praying church is made up of praying people. But the problem is that especially in our 21st century North American context in which we all live in, prayer becomes either ritualistic or it becomes something that we avoid because we don't understand it. And because we have so many different options in our life because we're so rich in resources that oftentimes prayer is a thing that we relegate to a few spiritual navy seals or intercessors, some old ladies that gather together and they do the prayer work for the local church. But the rest of us it's like I've got my job, I've got my paycheck, I've got my income, I've got the strength of my arm, I've got my wisdom, I've got Google, I've got chat GPT, I've got lots of options to solve problems and to find peace and community. We can live our lives on social media and feel like we're connected that we belong but yet we really don't. And prayer becomes oftentimes the thing that it's spiritual, it's ethereal, it's deep and we really don't necessarily understand it and so we avoid it or maybe if we dabble with it, it's any ritualistic one day out of a week type of a thing. But that's not at all how God designed and his desire for prayer for us. And so it's important for us to understand that if we're going to be a praying and a worshiping church, we need to understand why prayer is so important and significant because it takes the eyes of faith to be able to understand the kingdom of God. We can't understand the kingdom of God through our kernel mind and prayer is and worship is at the center of the kingdom of God. It is the language of the kingdom and that's why we get so tripped up on it because we're just like, okay, how does prayer work? And why is prayer important and what's the significant of prayer? Why would it be that God himself said when I build my house, my family, my community, I'm going to make it a house of prayer for all nations and what in the world does it mean that we're going to be joyful in the house of prayer? I want to talk about that. I want to spend some time and next weekend we're going to focus on worship and the next weekend we're going to drill down deeper a little bit into why prayer on a personal level is really important and significant.  How many have ever heard of a man named Charles Spurgeon before, anybody ever heard of Charles Spurgeon? But 150 years ago in London, Charles Spurgeon who's now today referred to as the prince of all preachers is one of the greatest preachers in Western civilization for sure.  And the reason for that is because for a couple of decades in the UK, Charles Spurgeon was shaking the very foundations of one of the largest cities and civilizations in the world. He pastored metropolitan Tabernacle in London and long before there was ever podcasting and long before there was ever any social media, he was a preaching celebrity. They would literally have somebody that sat on the front row of Metropolitan Tabernacle who would transcribe every single word of every single sermon that Charles Spurgeon preached. He preached to crowds of 5,000 to 10,000 people without a microphone and he's a big old boy and he literally would lift weights in order to strengthen his chest muscle so that his lungs could project louder. I mean, that's a stud of a preacher. They would transcribe his sermons that would last an hour and a half. Come on, somebody. I mean, I grew up in a wrong era. And they would take his sermons and they would wire them across the Atlantic Ocean and publish them on Monday mornings in the New York Times and the Chicago Tribune so that subscriptions of millions of people would read Charles Spurgeon's sermons. That was the first podcast. And because of that, he became famous. He had a pastor's school. Pastors wanted to learn how to preach like him. Metropolitan Tabernacle was packed to the gills. People would literally stand in line during the week to get a number so that they had a seat in the Sunday service. They were lined up to get in. And one time these young preachers, he had a whole bunch of young preachers from America and the UK that came to Metropolitan Tabernacle and they wanted to meet with Spurgeon to find out the success of why so many people were getting saved, why there was such a sense of awe and wonder in the services and why London was being changed dramatically spiritually transformed, being revived in a way that hadn't occurred since John and Charles Wesley. And so one morning, all of these pastors gathered together and were waiting in the lobby and Charles Spurgeon came down and he met them in the lobby and one of the preachers spoke what all of them had been talking about. And he said, what would you guys like to see today? Charles Spurgeon said, what do you guys want to see and what do you want to know today? And one of them spoke up and he said, we want to see the secret behind all of your success. Some of us think it's the library that you study in. Some of us think it's your methodology of how you put your messages together. Some of us think maybe it's the acoustics in the sanctuary. We want to know what's the secret. Charles Spurgeon said, I'll show you the boiler room. They said, the boiler room. He said, yeah, come with me. I'll show you the boiler room.  I mean, my mom would send me down to the basement to get something and you did it quickly.  Boilers are huge, scary, messy, dirty. Nobody comes into a house, better yet a church and says, hey, here's our family, here's our five kids and we're looking for a church. Can we see the furnace room? No, they want to see the nursery. They want to see the sanctuary. Want to see the coffee shop. Want to see the bookstore. What kind of worship do you have? But Charles Spurgeon said, no, come with me. I'm gonna show you the boiler room. And so they followed him and he took them down the stairs into the basement and they're all looking at each other bewildered. Why are we going to the boiler room? And as they followed him, the Prince of Preachers, they walked by the boiler room into the room next to the furnace where there were dozens of intercessors and people from the church praying while he preached. And he said, this is the boiler room because if the fire goes out in this room, the rest of the church will grow cold. This is what I'm talking about when I'm talking about being a praying and a worshiping church. You can stand on level ground in a sanctuary. You can live in a city and a culture and a community. And it's easy to look at the fruit and it's easy to look around and be critical and to be jaded at what's going on in our society, what's going on in our city, what's going on even in the church, the body of Christ, whether it's one church or all the churches. But you can only judge the fruit if you really wanna see the health of a church, if you really wanna see the health of the church in a generation, you have to go to the boiler room. Leonard Ravenhill, the great revivalist said that you can have the church can look pretty, but if it's spiritually cold, everybody will feel it. Nobody thinks about a furnace until the fire goes out in the middle of winter and then everybody wants to deal with the furnace.  That will change our cities. That will change our families. That's gonna change our schools. How many have figured out we're not gonna legislate our way into revival? We need to vote and we need to be engaged and we need to be involved. Jesus said, occupy until I come. But if we put all of our trust in the strength of man's hand and not in the arm of God's power, then we are relying on the wrong things. God looks at our generation. What he's looking at is he's looking at a group of people. He looks at the church first. And when he looks at the church, what he wants more than anything in our, I believe in the American cultural context that we live in, he wants to awaken us to the significance and the power of prayer and what he will do if we pray and if we get a better understanding of what prayer does because listen, I'm gonna tell you, the average Christian that I talked to has really, we know we should pray. I mean, if I were to take a poll right now, in fact, let's do it, all locations. If you know that as a Christian, one of the things you should do is pray, raise your hand.  If you're a Christian in all of our locations and you struggle with prayer and understanding how it works and how to do it well, raise your hand. Look at that. That's the battle. Because there's some things that God says he will do. If it's people pray. By the way, I haven't even started my message. If my people will pray. And here's God's response. God's desire. You wanna know what God's desire for us is? God's desire more than anything is that not that we would just pray. God's not in heaven with his arms folded, gone, pfft, my church doesn't pray. God wants us to be joyful in the house of prayer. He wants us to find joy in his presence. So when we talk about what does it mean to be a praying and a worshiping church? Why is this so significant? Pastor Lee, why are you always talking about prayer? I mean, there's so many other things. Yeah, but guess what? Everything else is affected by prayer. And if you realize that prayer is the inhale and the exhale of our entire spirit. It's like, why are you always talking to a respiratory doctor? Why are you always talking about breathing? There's so many other things going on. I mean, I've got hobbies and I'm trying to raise kids and I'm trying to get to work on time and I'm trying to build my social media profile and I'm trying to save for retirement. And why are you obsessed with breathing? Because if you don't get that right, none of the other things are gonna matter. It's like, well, breathing's easy for me. I mean, I was born doing it. Nobody goes home and practices breathing, except people that are into deep breathing type of thing, but it's default setting for us. Can I just tell you today that the default setting of your spirit is communion with God. You were created to be a worshiper. You were created to pray. You were created a new in Christ Jesus to be connected to the heart of God. It's not something that you have to strive for, work for, practice at. It's not foreign to you. It's just learning how to shed the worldly shell and mentality that we've been trained before Christ in and allowing the Holy Spirit to reframe, recalibrate our heart, reorient our heart around what we were really created to do. Westminster Confession, many of us maybe grew up in a liturgical setting. And so when I talk about catechisms or creeds and things like that, this might become familiar to you, but Westminster's Confession starts off by saying this.  Think about that. This is what we were created for. The chief end of man is to glorify God. This is what we were created for, to glorify God. If you've ever wondered what your purpose in life is, it's not about a thing you do as much as those things that you do with your job, with your money, with your life, with your gifts and your talents are all for a greater eternal purpose, which is to glorify God. But then God's response is, and when you do that, when you are walking in perfect relationship with me, when you are worshiping and you're living your life holistically, worshiping me, what's gonna happen is you're gonna learn to enjoy God and there's no greater joy than we can experience than being in His presence. That's what God wants for us. You're by nature a worshiper. You're by nature a prayer. It's not even a real word, but a prayer, a personal prayer. Because what is prayer? Prayer is communication. What is worship? It's giving our mind, body, soul, and energy completely in celebration and glorification of another. It's wild to me how many people come to church and, you know, well, we're in a worship time. It's like, I struggle in worship. Why do we sing these songs? Why is there drums? Why do people raise their hands? Everybody's got questions. Trying to like, I don't understand this. Why do people jump and get all excited? And why is there somebody? Ah, I get excited. It's like this, I just don't understand. Those same people will spend $500 to go to a Taylor Swift concert.  And because now she's dating Kelsey and so now everybody's like NFL ratings just went up and all the guys are like, can we just have one place where we're not invaded with Taylor Swift world? But I get it, listen. But we'll go to the Taylor Swift concert and you'll see on Instagram, it's like, look at us, we're at the Taylor Swift concert. And we know all the words and we're doing this and it's gonna be forever. Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. Got a long list of ex-numbers to tell you. And we know all the words. Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. Acting like fools for Taylor. And then we're like, but I don't know how to worship. Actually you do.  You know how to worship. I don't really know how to pray. Yeah, have you seen your text threads? Oh my gosh, can you believe she said that? I'm really stressed out about this. My first day at work, what should I do? Oh, best friend, I'm over here. I'm praying for you. Oh, you're gonna do great. You're gonna slay a little, little, little. And we got 10,000 threads. You know what that is? Communication. That's prayer. We just don't know how to connect there. We just don't. And by the way, go to the concert and do your thing. Guys go to the football games. The guys are the worst.  My wife's always like, how come you're not worse?   Don't tell me you don't know how to worship. You know how to worship. It's just, we haven't learned how to turn the deepest place of who we are and to connect with the one who loves us in the deepest way possible. And it really comes down to we don't understand God's original design for us. Genesis chapter one, we'll put it up on here on the screen. When God created the heavens and the earth, then he created man and it says in verse 26, let us make man in our image according to our likeness and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea over the birds of the air and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. So God created man in his own image and in the image of God he created them, male and female, he created them. It says, then God blessed them and God said to them be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, subdue it, have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves on the earth. And God said, see I have given you every herb that yields seed, which is on the face of the earth and every tree whose fruit yields seed. To you it shall be food and to every beast of the earth, to every birds of the air and to everything that creeps on the earth in which there is life, I've given every green herb for food and it was so. This is God creating mankind. And what you need to recognize is if you'll go back to the very beginning, you'll find God's purpose. When God creates everything, he creates a garden called Eden. Eden was God's perfect scale model. The whole earth was not like the garden of Eden. The garden of Eden had been cultivated. The word cultivated in the Hebrew language literally means to be prepared as a prototype. So God created a prototype of how he wanted the whole earth to be, the world to be. And yes it was beautiful and yes it was lush and yes it was filled with trees but the single most important thing about the garden is that God was there. And out of his presence, who was in the garden first? Man or God, God. And while God was in his prototype, he creates mankind. And he created mankind for four things. There's four intentions of why God created man. Number one, to bear his image. He didn't create us like him. He created us in his image, which means just like him. We bear his image and he did it so that all the rest of creation would look at mankind and see the image, the likeness, the seal of God in all that he had created. He gave, number two, he gave all of mankind governing authority over everything on the earth.  I want you as my image bearer to go out from this garden and replicate my perfect order with my presence across the rest of the earth. And I'm gonna give you my authority. How much authority does God have? And he gives some of that to man. What authority did he give to him? Everything in this world that has life in it. Over the birds of the air, over every creeping thing on the ground, ladies, God's given you authority over creeps. It's given you authority over the fish and listen. It's given you authority to subdue, which means to extend and to exert God's desire in all the earth through you. And then number three, he gave the mandate.  What did God want us to do? He wants us to build families. He wants us to build families that carry the blessing and carry the life and carry the image. Malachi says that he desires to have a godly seed in the whole earth. What was God's desire? That the earth would be filled with human beings who are image bearers that have his authority and that as we multiply on the face of the earth, more of God's will and more of God's glory would fill the earth because we carry it. And then lastly, and this is the key, this is the fourth intention of God, is that we would do all these things in perfect relationship with him. When he created Adam and Eve, he created them in the garden and it says that he would come down in the cool of the day. He would make himself known to them in the cool of the day and walk and talk and converse with Adam and Eve. Perfect relationship. And all they had to do was obey him. In the center of the garden, God did put a tree, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. And he said, you can have all the other trees except that tree. And he allowed a serpent, the devil, the deceiver to have access to the garden and to tempt them. Oftentimes people read that and go, see, I don't believe in God. Why in the world would God allow the devil to have access to them? And why in the world would he put a tree there that if they eat of it, they'll die? Cause that's what he said.  I'll tell you why God did it. It's because if God's perfect intention was for us to never be able to fail or make any decisions, then that was a bad call. But God's ultimate intention, listen, catch this was for us to have an intimate loving relationship with him. And love requires choice. We could not fully love God if we had no choice to. If we couldn't say, I don't want to do it your way, then we're just robots. But the tree represented obedience, the tree represented trust and the tree represented love. Now, a few thousand years later, there would be another tree and on that tree would not be fruit that if we took it would lead to death. It would actually be a tree that has fruit on it that if we partake of it, it leads to life. That tree's called the cross. And it also reflected choice. Jesus chose it. That tree represented obedience. Jesus willingly went and that tree represents love. Where we failed at the base of one tree, God succeeded and restored relationship at the base of another. What happened when mankind fell? What happened in the garden? God said, don't eat the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.  Well, that's what happened. The enemy came to see them. And here's how the enemy came in and deceived mankind. Same way he still does. Has God really said?  Ha, God's holding out on you. He knows that if you do it, you're not gonna need him.  If you eat that fruit, you get to make your own decisions about right and wrong. And they're just like, whoa, okay. Well, that fruit looks really good. It wasn't the fruit that looked good. I don't know what kind of fruit it was. Artists portrayed it as an apple. I know it wasn't a Kiwi, cause those things are awful. But whatever it was, it wasn't the fruit that appealed to them. It was what the fruit could do. And it's still the same lie that the enemy does today. Has God really said? The devil has never stopped calling into question God's words. But more than just his words, the devil has never stopped calling into question God's intentions. Is God good? That's really what he was saying. Is God really good? Can you really trust God?  If you disobey him, you're gonna have an open door to a whole lot of access to things that's a lot of fun. You get to make your own decisions, chart your own course, make your own path. You don't need God to do that. God's narrow-minded. God's limited. He's a killjoy. He's trying to keep you back from all these wonderful things. Be your own God. Come on, everybody's doing it. And Adam and Eve did it. And the Bible says that shortly thereafter, God came into the garden again. In the cool of the day, and Adam and Eve heard his voice. And when they heard his voice, instead of running to him, they ran away. Instead of hearing his voice in faith, in purpose, acceptance, love, being their first reaction. Shame, guilt, and death rose up on the inside of them. And when they heard his voice, they wouldn't hit. They wouldn't hit. They hit it among the trees. And the Bible says that the Lord God called Adam, and he said to Adam, where are you? Adam, where are you? How many of you know that when God asks questions, he's not looking for answers? God has X-ray vision. He can see through trees. And you know what else he can see through? Fear. He can see through religion. He can see through sin. He can see through your smoke screens. He can see through your insecurities. He can see through your procrastination. He can see through all the barriers that we try to put between us and God oftentimes. Well, God, I really, I'm not, I'm not good enough. Someday I'm gonna get good enough and then I'm gonna come after you. But right now I just need, I need a little, I need a buffer. Or I need religion to kind of be the buffer between me and you, a ritual, obligation-based. Just tell me what you want me to do. And I'll do it, but let's keep a little distance here. God knows our pride. How that's a tree that keeps us between him, us. And when God asks Adam, where are you? What he's doing is he's saying, I want you to stop and think about what your decisions have done to you and where it's gotten you. Because the Bible says that as soon as Adam and Eve ate, they knew that they were naked. That word naked doesn't just mean, it's more than just, oh, we looked down and realized I didn't have any clothes on. It means they were uncovered. They were exposed. And you know why they felt exposed for the first time? Because their entire existence, we don't know how long it had been, but their entire existence, they had been clothed with innocence. They had been clothed with the glory of God. God's life on them was like a suit that gave them protection and security. And they weren't vulnerable. They were safe, but now that's gone. Now they're vulnerable. They're exposed, not just outside, but inside as well. And what they feel for the first time is guilt and shame and inadequacy and the lack of life. They feel the effects of death and separation from God for the first time. And now when they hear his voice, they don't run to him. They run away from him and they hide. And when he came down, Adam's response to the Lord is, he said, I heard your voice in the garden. Think about that phrase, I heard your voice. I heard your voice and I was afraid because I was naked and I hid myself. My kids are grown now, but when they were little, one of my favorite things, and now I have it with our grandkids, is when you come home and you open up the door for the first time at like five or six o'clock after work and your kids hear that door open and they go, daddy's home. Any parents know what I'm talking about?  And then they want to wrestle with you and they want to tell you about their day and they want to show you what they did at school and they want to talk about, this weekend, what do we got going on? I'll tell you what, there's nothing better than, I was speaking at a conference in Los Angeles Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of this week and I was sitting in my hotel room and I got a FaceTime from my daughter, Ashley and popped up, Jane was over at her house and she goes, you want to see Owen? So it was my grandson and then Celia and Jane jumps on there and goes, we just called Zach and as soon as we hung up, Owen said, call my papa. And Ashley's like, I didn't want to disturb you. I'm like, are you kidding me? I would stop everything for that moment. That's how God is. Can you imagine the heartbreak of God when he walks into the garden to see his kids? They created in his image that he's given all authority to. He's given a mandate, I want you to multiply yourselves because I want more of you to love and more of you to love me.  I don't want to just give you a list of things to do. I want to walk with you. I want to talk with you. I want to lead you. I want to guide you because I created this just for you. And to walk into that garden and instead of them coming to run to him, they hide. I believe God's heart was broken because fear and shame had stolen intimacy with God. What does this have to do with prayer? When God says in Isaiah 56 that I'm going to bring them and he's talking about people from every nation on the face of the earth. This is what the cross does. It brings people from every nation on the face of the earth. He's redeemed, the book of Revelation says, he's redeemed people from every tribe, every tongue, every people group, every ethnic group. He's brought us into Christ. And Isaiah 56 is talking about, this is what the church is going to be like. He says, I'm going to bring them in and I'm going to bring them to my holy mountain. The mountain is God's presence. It's God's dwelling place. And he said, not only that but I'm going to make them joyful in my house of prayer. This is God's intentions. This is his great desire because he said my house will be called a house of prayer for all nations, for all people. Do you know that what man lost Jesus restores? And when Jesus came in his earthly ministry, he started his ministry and he ended his ministry doing the exact same thing. Might surprise you. Some people think when they're reading Matthew, Mark and Luke, that when Jesus turns over the tables in the temple, do you guys know the story I'm talking about where Jesus turns over the tables? They think that's one time but actually John chapter two, Jesus does it at the beginning of his ministry. He starts his ministry. He's baptized. He goes in the wilderness. He's tempted. He comes out of the wilderness. He immediately goes into Jerusalem. And he starts his ministry according to the gospel of John by turning over the tables and he says in the temple, he says, you've made my father's house, a house of den and robbers, a house of merchandising. This is not at all what my father intended. What's he talking about? He's talking about in Jesus' day as God in the flesh, when he showed up at a place that we would call a church, but when he showed up at the temple, what God had desired and what he had promised David, who was a man after God's own heart, he says, I'm gonna build a house and it's gonna be a place like Eden that through my goodness, I'm gonna meet with people and they're gonna be able to know me, pray to me and worship me and connect me and they're gonna be joyful in this place. Religion had stepped in and created barriers, trees, for men and women to hide behind and for religious leaders who were just like the deceiver to step in between them and God and say, you don't know how to connect with God, you need me to do it and set up tables where they sold sacrifices.  Well, the loss is you've gotta offer a sparrow and so I just happened to be here to sell the sparrow and the sparrow is gonna cost you more than you made this last month and what happened is poor people were coming into the temple and could not afford to worship God. They could not afford to pray and the religious leaders were the only ones who had access to the presence of God and Jesus came over and removed the tables just like the father stepped into the garden and he said, no, no, no, I don't want you hiding behind trees, I don't want anything between you and me. This is how Jesus started his ministry. Three and a half years later, just before Jesus goes to the other tree, do you know what Jesus does one more time? He goes into the very same temple where they had set the tables back up and they had cleaned up Jesus's mess and he turned them over again and he said, no, this is not how it's gonna be. You're not gonna create barriers between my father and his children. It's not gonna happen. He turned the tables over and he said, have not you read that my house shall be called a house of prayer? Zeal has consumed me for God's house. Listen, if it's important to Jesus to do it at the beginning of his ministry and at the end of his ministry, how many know it's important to God? What's important that his church would be a house of prayer because prayer is more than just, oh, we pray and God moves. Prayer begins and ends with our hearts being connected to God's heart and us recognizing that our prayers move his heart and that it's impossible that it's impossible for us to know God just through religious obligation. It's kind of like this. It's like, I love praying the Lord's prayer. I grew up praying the Lord's prayer but it's not where prayer ends. Imagine married couples in this room. Imagine if the only communication you ever had with your spouse every time you got together was re-sang your vows. You walk into the house after 20 years. Hey, babe, how are you? I, Lee Cummings, take you, Jane Cummings, to be my lawfully wedded wife. To have and to hold, to love and respect from this day forward till death do us part in sickness and in health. So help me God or whatever, I swear. I pledge allegiance. I don't know, it's... And imagine, she's like, no, hey, would you just let me in on what's going on? And hey, I need your input on our kids. And it's like, I, Lee Cummings, take you, Jane, to be my lawfully wedded wife. She'll be like, I get it, but talk to me. I think sometimes God's looking as church going, would you talk to me? And would you listen to me? I want you to pray. Why does God want us to pray? Because you remember that authority he gave us in the beginning? I give you authority, dominion, subdued. Do you know one of the ways the church exercises authority today is in the place of prayer. You don't know it, but your weakest prayer moves the heart of God in dispatch's angelic ministry. When Jesus said, pray on thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. That's not just a wish, that's actually dominion. When we as a house of prayer on earth as sons and daughters of the living God who've been redeemed by the blood of Jesus, we stand before God as kings and priests. And when we come into agreement with heaven, we're stepping back into the authority that Adam and Eve had in the garden that was lost by our sins, but listen, it's been restored now through the blood of Jesus. Everything that was lost in the fall has been redeemed and restored at the cross.  That's authority, that's dominion. And then he wants us to multiply that. One of the things I think God wants us to know is that in this day, he's trying to awaken the church to be a house of prayer and to find joy in it. Psalm 16, I love Psalm 16 because verse number 11, it says, Lord, you'll show me the path of life in your presence as a fullness of joy. There's no greater joy than being with God in the place of prayer and praying and seeing God move. I'll share a testimony with you. I don't always like to do this because I never want it to be, oh wow, you. But I want to testify to the goodness of God when things happen. I was in California and I was invited to speak at a all Spanish speaking prayer conference and it was Mas Fuego. I mean, Latins know how to worship, man. It was fire. I had to preach for the translator. And they invited us because radiant is a praying church. And I believe one of the assignments God has on this house, which means all of us is to not just be a people of prayer first and foremost and not even to be a church of prayer, but is also to provoke the church of Jesus across this nation to once again awaken to the call and the mandate to be praying people and praying churches that unto revival, unto awakening, unto transformation. I think that's one of the assignments on this church is to call the church back to place of prayer. But I was there and I'm with a translator and I'm standing there with a pastor on the opening day, we had just done a panel. And as I'm sitting there, I heard the voice of the Lord whisper to me, healing. And I was like, I just got here. My session's not until the afternoon. We were closing out the session. And then the pastor's name is Nets Gomez. He goes, leave will you pray? So, I mean, you don't say no. So I said, I'll pray. So I prayed and the Lord just says, I'm healing. Okay.  And I called out several different words of knowledge. I said, God's healing this, this, this, if that's you raise your hand. And then the Lord goes, somebody on the worship team has something with their vocal cords. And I said, is there somebody here who's part of the worship community, a young lady? And you've got something on your vocal cords that's stopping you from worshiping. And the room went crazy and they ran backstage, pulled this young lady up, who is a prolific singer, has something wrong with her vocal cords and has been on vocal rest for like six to eight weeks. Hasn't been able to sing, her voice has been crackling. And so we just prayed over her. Here's where the authority comes. God speaks, exhale. We inhale that in obedience. We then pray and we prayed over her. And while I was in the airport coming home, she tagged me in a post on Instagram for the first time in weeks she was leading worship that night and she's belting out worship songs. And she's just posting about the goodness of God, God touched her vocal cords. Glory to God, not me. I can't heal anybody. It's a bad idea to have me pray for you without an anointing. Things typically get worse. But Jesus is a healer. Guys, I just wonder how many things in our life and in our family and our city and our church, God wants to shift starting with our paradigm of not hiding behind anything anymore, but seeing that God wants to use us in a place of prayer. This is why we've got to get a brand new mentality.  Would you stand with me wherever you're at this morning? Lord Jesus, we thank you that you see us and you know us and that you don't see us through the lens of shame and guilt. Lord, you see us through Jesus. And this morning, very quickly, I'm not even gonna merge into it, but please, nobody moving and nobody distracting because I really sense in this room, the Father's just like stepped into the room. And there are people that right now, you're far away from God.  But you know, you're far away from the Lord right now and you've been carrying the backpack of sin and regret and shame and rebellion. And I just want you to know God loves you and Jesus died for you. And today, He wants to save you. He wants to rescue you. Today is the day of salvation. Jesus has done it all, but you have to repent and say, God, I'm so sorry. Sorry I've run from you. I'm sorry I've been hiding behind the trees. But today I wanna surrender to you. God, if you love me like that and you want a relationship with me and you are the one who holds the keys to my destiny and my life and my joy, then today you can have my mess. Save me, forgive me today.  I wanna lead you in a prayer. I believe Jesus is here today to save and restore. All over the room, if you know you're not right with God, but today you're saying, I wanna come home. I need the Father's love. I want His grace, I want His mercy. I wanna become a Christian. Tired of living in the world today, I'm surrendering it all to Jesus. Pastor Lee, pray for me and include me in this prayer. That's you. On the count of three, I want you to get ready. When I say three, if you know you need to get right with God, I want you to raise your hand and we're gonna pray together. Today is gonna be a brand new day. One, two, three. Shoot it up all over the room. Hold it up and don't put it down. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. All over the room. If you've not raised it, come on. Not one more day in the pigs pen. I see your hand all the way in the back. I see that back corner. Yes, over here. One more time. If you've not raised your hand, I sense that there's somebody here that you're in a wrestling match in your heart.  Don't let the enemy steal this moment from you. If you've not raised your hand, right now, raise it. Thank you. You can put your hands down, everyone. I want everybody to look up at me, including those who just raised your hands. Every person who's ever called on Jesus, he saves. Jesus went to the cross for you. The Bible says this, if we believe in our heart, which you do, because you just raised your hands. And if we confess with our mouth, Jesus is Lord, we will be saved. So right now, we're all gonna say this out loud. And those of you who raised your hands, I want you to really say it. This is your first breath of prayer. God is gonna hear it.  You ready? Here we go. Everybody say this out loud. Heavenly Father, thank you for loving me, saving me because of Jesus. I believe in him, that he died on the cross for my sin, that he was raised from the dead on the third day, and that he's coming again. Jesus come into my heart, sit on the throne, be Lord of all. Awaken my spirit, write my name in the book of life. From this day forward, I'm a child of God, I'm forgiven, I'm a new creation, old things are gone, everything is new in Jesus' name, amen and amen.


Item number SCP-081 Object Class Euclid Special Containment Procedures Only those with level 4 clearance and written permission may have access to SCP-081. Full hazard gear including suit, gloves, and an oxygen tank must be worn at all times when in the containment area. Suits must be sprayed with a disinfectant shower before leaving the containment area. If containment is breached, the entire area must be exposed to ultraviolet light and then bleached. Those who are suspected of being infected must be quarantined for at least 10 days. If no symptoms manifest after the 10th day, then quarantine can be lifted. Description SCP-081 is a contagious virus that appears to be a mutated version of the R.I.P. virus, but with R.I.P. segments in its RNA instead of R.I.P. The virus is human-specific but is spread by rats who act as passive carriers. SCP-081 can also be spread through sexual intercourse and exposure to infected blood. SCP-081 infects adipocytes and leukocytes, inducing both to absorb nutrients at a vastly accelerated rate. As the nutrients are absorbed, infected B-cells produce and secrete large quantities of a modified human antibody. Adipose sites expand and proliferate, and the organism's caloric intake increases. When the concentration of adipose tissue reaches a critical point, the viral antibodies instigate systemic cell lysis, followed by an unknown process, leading to the spontaneous combustion of the infected individual. There is a one-week incubation period before initial symptoms begin to occur. The duration of the symptoms depends entirely on the body fat percentage of the infected. Infection proceeds through four distinct stages. Stage 1. During the first week there are no major symptoms, though subjects may report being slightly tired. Stage 2. In the second week of infection, subjects will begin to experience hot flashes and an increased appetite. Stage 3. Infected subjects demonstrate extreme polyphagia. They will do anything in their power to obtain food or anything edible. During this stage, metabolism slows down significantly and weight gain proceeds rapidly. There is no set time that will elapse before the fourth and final stage. In order for the virus to complete its life cycle, the victim must be composed of 55% body fat. Stage 4. Once the subject reaches 55% body fat, the urge to eat will stop, though subjects report increased instances of hot flashes. Soon afterward, the body will go through an extremely violent version of widespread cell lysis. As cells burst, the modified antibodies catalyze the ignition of fatty compounds through unknown means. The body is incinerated from the inside out via the wick effect, with the additional fat serving as a fuel source. Because stage 4 is largely asymptomatic, subjects are never aware when combustion will occur, and the exact timing is apparently random. Addendum 081-1. The first recorded incident of SCP-081 was reported in 1763 by Frenchman Jonas Dupont. In his book, De Incendis Corporis Humani Spontaneus, he wrote about a case in Paris where a man was acquitted of killing his wife, as the jury agreed that the wife died due to spontaneous human combustion. It should be noted that the woman was incredibly overweight at the time of her death. It was not until the death of Mary Reeser on July 2, 1951 that SCP-081 was brought to the Foundation's attention. Despite the Foundation's best efforts, this information was leaked to the national media, along with pictures of the incident. It is believed that most reported cases of spontaneous human combustion are caused by SCP-081. Addendum 081-2. SCP-081 is estimated to have existed since the 10th century AD, and thought to have originated in... Because of widespread poverty and malnutrition present in many European countries at the time, instances of third and fourth stage infections were rare. North America has experienced the most cases of SCP-081 in the last century, but because of cleaner conditions and active rat population control, SCP-081 cases have dropped significantly. Fewer than... People a year die from late-stage SCP-081. Addendum 081-3. Due to the United States' current obesity epidemic, it is crucial that wild SCP-081 be eradicated. The exposure that would result from a wide-scale epidemic would be disastrous to successful containment efforts. Dr. R. Addendum 081-4. During testing, it has been discovered that people who have diabetes have a natural immunity to SCP-081. This has not helped in the development of a treatment for the virus, and it remains incurable, while infections data expunged and an alternate cause of death provided. Addendum 081-5. It was discovered that SCP-081 can spread by exposure to the ashes of a deceased victim. Containment and epidemic contingency protocols are being amended, and emergency services personnel who responded to Ms. R.'s call have been detained for evaluation. Dr. R. Lesson complete. If you missed the previous orientation, go watch SCP-081. Dark Form. Like now. Or for the complete course, watch this playlist.


Hi everybody, welcome for this new Jenkins infrastructure meeting. So before we cover the main topics, I just want to remind two things for next week. We'll have Jira maintenance next Wednesday.  I mean, maybe one hour, maybe two. Yeah. In fact, it's a bit long, but yeah, it's needed. So everything is explained and that will be Thursday, right? So not not Wednesday with risk on the 303.2 release. Yeah. Exactly. Second one is, as you mentioned, security release next week, we're going to have a security release. That means that we try to not modify Jenkins instances related to the release environment. So just pay attention if you're planning to to apply any changes. Yep. Those are the two most important information. So what I propose is let's me I'm putting notes for the announcement status page maintenance. Jira, yep, that's it. So what are the main activities happening in the infrastructure project? So like a lot of other open source organization, we will participate to the active events. So it's officially starting today. So if you are interested to contribute to the Jenkins project, feel free to register for the active events. We prepared some issues that we named friend issues. Those issues are located on the Jira, the Jenkins Jira instance. We try to identify either issues that do not require strong knowledge on specific technology or do not require strong knowledge about how the Jenkins infrastructure work. So it should be pretty simple. But anyway, if it's not, feel free to ask questions and we are there to help you. And if you have some time to help us review PRs, that's also a different way to contribute to the Jenkins and to the active events this month. Next topic is about infrastructure calendar. So you may have seen that community, the Jenkins that I owe this week. So basically I created a new calendar. The purpose of that calendar is to keep track of important deadlines that affect the Jenkins project. For rest of your projects such as certificates, expiring, yeah, major events, whatever, that calendar is not supposed to be public. We don't have, I mean, we don't have critical information there, but we want to be able to put important information there. So if you want to participate and if you are, if you already contributed to the Jenkins infrastructure project, it won't be an issue. We just by default don't want it to be public. That's it. The rule is if it's something that affects everybody and everybody should be aware of an event, then I'm still considering to put that in the main Jenkins calendar, but otherwise everything else goes to the private calendar. Next topic is about confidence data. So I mean, you should be aware of the fact that we turn off the confidence instance and we don't want to bring it back on the Jenkins project. So the challenge that we are facing now is we have a lot of data that was on confidence and we don't want to lose that data. And so we are looking at how we can convert those information to let's say Jenkins on your website or others.  So those information, I uploaded them on a new Git repository, which I named Jenkins and for a slash confidence data. At this stage, the repository is private same. So if you are interested to help, I would be glad to grant you access to the repository. I don't think there are any private information there, but because the content of confidence I mean, exist since before I joined the project, I can't tell you for sure. So yeah, that's why I prefer to keep private for now. But yeah, so if you want to contribute, if you want to help migrating the information from there to a better location, feel free to manifest. The next step now that we can share the content of those exported HTML pages with other people, we can now start to think what would be the next steps. And so the next steps for us is to ensure that every link actually HTML links. So every URL are still working. And for that, we have different options. One of them would just be to deploy a simple web service like with NGINX or Apache. And we try to be sure that we can match, that we can map existing URL with what is behind the NGINX. If I can share, if I can just share, so we can see what the data looks like at the moment because that's the annoying part. Let me see if I'm connected on GitHub with this account. Yeah, perfect.  So if I let's say open the infrastructure, you can see that for every pages, we have a random checksum at the end of the name. We have a random checksum at the end of the name, and then we have the extension.html. The challenge that we have is because of those two information, we cannot directly map an existing endpoint with the HTML. And the second thing that I noticed when I exported the information is sometimes it converts a plus character to an underscore and sometimes to a dash. So it's not really easy to identify how to map those files with existing URL. So that's the next challenge that we have to face now. You have a lot of useful tooling on Nginx for that, especially there is a directive named try files, which allow to define a set of patterns that can be tried with a fallback. It's used generally with a pattern like, do you have a static file corresponding to the requested URL? If not, do you want to try a folder or another name? And then you can add a fallback like, OK, if not the case, then send it back to an upstream Tomcat, PHP, whatever. So we could use at least that part. So that means using a specific Nginx container that will act as a back end of Apache because we already have Apache vhost with a bunch of rules already made. But the goal of the Nginx container is that it could be standalone and we could try this locally. That will be only a backend service and it provides also a bunch of regex on the virtual hosting matching pattern like Apache is doing. But I don't know if Apache allows the same thing as the try files and I really like that one because it will be OK. Let's try that URL with the plus. If it doesn't exist, then let's try that URL with the minus. Otherwise, fallback to a default page that say, hey, no, we haven't found maybe there is an issue or go to the listing or whatever. So sort of Damian, they've got a concept that would say user asked for X underscore Y and we would check X underscore Y, X plus Y, X minus, you know, X minus Y. That's how that that sounds like an interesting idea. So it's important to note that the performance is of such a Web server might not be really good because try files can be quite CPU heavy. However, I mean, I don't expect a lot of workload on such a container and it's on mainly static files. So yeah, if we allocate two CPUs for such a machine, it can under enough for what we want to do. Yeah, that could make sense. That would be nice. So the way so I just want to look at the first thing to keep in mind is we could just reuse that massive V host that we have that we had on the conference machine that's really right to URLs to a different position. So that's one of the things that we need to implement. So we could just have a Docker file at the root of this confidence data repository with the engine configuration, a copy of the V host and so on. And see if you want to look to see what it looks like right now. So obviously we lost the CSS. And if we want to navigate, it just those are just directories. So, for example, Jenkins, it will list all the files and then you can just open one of them. But in this case, CSS is OK. But yeah, that's that's what we have at the moment. So if people are interested to jump in these projects, have a manifest. So let's see what are the other. First of all, thanks for taking that time, Olivier, because it will help a lot of people, developer and users. There are a bunch of links to that wiki on the current documentation already. So I think with the October, that will be a huge and cool and useful effort to track these things and update them as soon as possible. Also, I propose that for that work that we start by extracting a list of well-known wiki pages to have a list of URLs that we know that we need these pages because these pages are expected to exist. Because we have some inside the existing Jenkins.io website. Having these will also act as a kind of hills check for us. If we build whatever image with whatever Apache engine, whatever application, then these URLs should exist on the build image at every time we rebuild it. And that list of links could be a great start for any contributor, newbies or experienced. And it should help us so as a self documentation to track which pages still need to be migrated. Because we have that list of migration path for the plugins. I don't know if we have one for the other pages of the Confluence wiki. Yeah. So, yes, Mark, you want to say. No, go ahead, Olivier. You were mentioning that we can work with that with other people. The question that I have in this case is how do we validate that it doesn't contain sensitive information? Because I quickly try to get information there. So far, security contains nothing interesting because they're all linked to Jenkins.io webpage. That's a good question. I think we should ask a bit broadly. The three of us are not enough to answer that question. I think that might be brought to the, what do you think about bringing that to the advisory board? Or at least the security team, just to be sure.  So it's really hard to know if there are sensitive data. But most of these pages were public. That's why I mentioned the list of URL if I'm taking differently. Once we have a list of URL, we know that these URLs were pointing to public pages. And we can immediately map that the content associated to this can be public and shared for sure. Last I talked to Daniel, he didn't think there was anything here. He removed the security content a long time ago, like years ago. For the security part, that's what I noticed. It does not, everything is gone. Yeah, I don't look through like not exhaustively, but I couldn't see anything. And I just did a quick scan as well, looking for through the copy I've got locally. And Daniel had asserted that he hadn't stored anything sensitive there. And the last time he ever considered storing anything sensitive was years ago. And he stopped it very quickly and deleted it. So yeah, it's all made the same time. Okay, so it sounds like I can then put this public, this repostory privilege. Yeah. Any objection mark? None for me. I think for me, it would be a great help for Hacktoberfest if it were public because there are things that the Wiki exporter did not handle correctly that people will have to reconstruct from these HTML pages, even for plug-in documentation. I found that with the Ansible plug-in. The Wiki exporter did not handle the table export correctly. And so now, now someone has to reconstruct those those tables in cases where there was a table inside the documentation. Okay, sounds good. Then I guess the next step for me just to turn, but I'll do it just after And so if you're going to make it public, you don't mind then if I reference it tomorrow when we launch Hacktoberfest in the how you do things. That sounds good to me. Great. Okay, thanks. I don't have any other topic. The last one that I just went, yep, sorry. Yeah, a good one. Just finish unless you have any new ones. So my only topic was if we realize that for some reason, we need more compute on the different cloud instances that we have, we can still increase the workloads. So that's related to that's related to my topic I want to bring. So thanks to to mark a feedbacks from yesterday. It seems we have issues on some of the agents. So they're so on CIG and Kinsayo. So first of all, the Ruby agent, but only us. The infrastructure team are is using it for delivering. So it's not really doesn't have a lot of impact for the rest of the real users. However, the Maven 11 Windows ACI container are not allocated. I haven't find anything on the logs. I don't see any error message. I've tried multiple times to save the cloud agent configuration. That's the magical trick for the Azure VM, at least. And still, I don't see any line of log named Maven 11 Windows on CI Jenkins. I don't see anything mentioned about that on the cloud statistic UI. And I don't see anything in Azure in the incoming request or event. So there is something wrong with the Maven 11 Windows. So after the meetings I have, I plan to check first the XML files on the Jenkins sum of CI Jenkins IO to see if it's persisted there. I will plan a restart of CI Jenkins IO that should not have a lot of impact. Just to be sure if there is divergence between a cask, XML and in-memory persistence. But I don't think that will do anything. And third, I will want to try to manually change the configuration to do the same thing as what we do with Azure VMs. One ACI cloud for one kind of container. And see if it changes anything as well. I don't know, Tim, if you have other ideas. Did you say... Is it there not spawning or is it that when they start they fail? No, nothing happened at all. I don't see any event inside Jenkins logs that, oh, I need to spawn an agent. So Azure has no event at all. So it's not that they fail, it's just nothing happened. Did you increase the log level for those specific events? I should have to do this, but if that can be easy, I'm not really sure. So that's why I wanted to try the other ones that are quite easy to check. However, first the agent should be checked. I feel like we are eating some weird issues when we have so much different clouds that when we workload or one of the template of one of the cloud is not in good shape, then it results in weird behaviors. I've realized that the past few days, each time after a CASC reconfiguration, we had to either restart the controller or manually use the UI and click on save. So that one will be written on the runbook for if we have any issue in the upcoming days. But yeah, there is something weird. I cannot get to this. So I've had that condition repeatedly on my Jenkins instance, just as a natural thing that I had the one you just described of after I've reloaded CASC, I need to visit an agent to save it in order to get the labels to apply correctly. I've just been using as a standard workaround, but that was just me assuming. I mean, that normally means that there's a field not saved properly, that the UI is sending that's not in the CASC. Oh, OK, all right. Because at work, I changed stuff yesterday in our CASC and everything worked fine. Just reloading it. So. OK, so we'll try this one, maybe that will be the root cause. So then it means that we will have to check the CASC export once it works for sums to the current configuration generated on disk. OK, so that's the technique to assure that all fields are being provided, right? Yep, exactly. And I can do this in check online. Sorry, Tim, it's worth checking the XML as well. But yeah, the CASC export should hopefully do it too. And so something that Mark saw yesterday, there were an issue with Maven 11, so the Linux version. Based on the load statistics from the previous days, we saw there has been a peak like 600 tasks requested on the queue while we hit the limit of exactly 50 allocated executors. So I've provided some data on the IRC channel, but it seems like that since we moved back the container to force CPU instead of to CPU a few days ago, it had the impact to have only one pod per worker node on the Kubernetes cluster. I've tried and validated that. I see that it cannot schedule. My assumption is because for CPU should be terrifically two pods, but it sounds like that Kubernetes is allocating its content, one CPU for itself or for another pod on each machine. Which means you only have seven CPUs available on each worker node, so only one pod. The maximum scale was 25. So that's also no, sorry, 50, 50 machines, so that will count. My proposal is to increase the size of each worker node and with the active office to close the subject, increase for this month the maximum size of the scaling cluster. Then to validate that, I plan to run a BOM pull request build, one of these which failed last week, just to validate that it's able to quickly handle the scaling. Sounds good to me. Does it sound good? Does it make sense? And do you agree with that? Makes sense, and I totally agree with you. OK, so expect a pull request before end of day on that topic. I have one last pitch. So we are three minutes before the end of the meeting, so there is just one that I want to briefly cover. So we faced a bunch of issues this week with the accounts app, so with accounts that Jenkins.io. So I won't go back to all the issues that we faced and that we fixed this week, but also I just want to take some time to remind why we are not able to jump on beta that accounts at Jenkins.io. And the only reason for that is because we run extra validation in the account app, and so we would need to implement those validation on Keycloak based on the document, on Keycloak documentation. It shouldn't be too difficult to overwrite the class that implement the registration, but yeah, we just need someone to jump into that topic and try to compare the rules that we have on accounts at Jenkins.io and what's needed on beta.accounts at Jenkins.io. That's the only reason why we are still using accounts at Jenkins.io. So it's to avoid situations such as someone creating an account using dash admin, for instance. So yeah, we have a bunch of rules that need to be applied. And we also register some specific account that we want to be sure that nobody use that specific name as a user account. So yeah, I'm just inviting someone who want to play with Keycloak and overwrite it for configuration. It just Java skills. That's it for me in the last topic. Sounds like we can stop the meeting two minutes before the end. Thanks everybody. I have a great weekend. Goodbye. You too. Thanks for all the works people. Take care.


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