God may be trying to speak to you through dreams and visions, and I don't want you to miss it. If you've noticed as of late, it seems that spiritual activity has become more intense. There's something that has shifted in recent years and there is more spiritual activity upon the earth today than there ever has been that I truly believe. Something is happening in the heavenly realm. Something is happening in the church. And so we as the people of God must not be ignorant concerning the supernatural manifestations of the Holy Spirit's power. If you want God to speak to you in every way that he does and lift your hands right now and say open my eyes and you watching live right now or on replay write those simple words in the comments section. Open my eyes. Let that be a public declaration, a prayer of faith because we truly must have our eyes open if we are to participate in everything that God wants us to participate in. It's time that God's people begin hearing God through supernatural means. Now there are four ways the Holy Spirit speaks. I'll give this to you real briefly and then I'm going to talk and focus on dreams and visions. Number one, we start with the word. The word is the first, the primary and the most effective, most accurate way that the Holy Spirit will speak to you. If it's not in his word, the Holy Spirit will not, I should say it this way, the Holy Spirit will never speak in a way that contradicts the word of God. He will not speak in a way to you through a dream, through a vision, through another person, through a supernatural demonstration. He will not speak in a way that contradicts his word.   Is the word of God not complete? Is the Bible not enough? To that we say, we believe the word of God is sufficient. And it is precisely because the word is sufficient that we are positioned as God's people to hear him speak directly to us. So that word counts as the foundation. The word is the first way, the most accurate way, and we must become familiar with the word first. If you're looking for God to speak to you, open your Bible. If you're looking to hear from the Holy Spirit, open your Bible. If you want God to guide your life through some message, open your Bible. The more familiar you become with the written word, the more easy it becomes to hear the spoken word to your heart. So that's number one, it's his word. And his word is the primary source by which we receive instruction from him. Number two is wisdom. Wisdom is the nature of the spirit in you. Wisdom is founded upon the word. The more you know his word, the more you walk in wisdom and wisdom will guide your life. Wisdom is how we hear him for the day to day instructions. Wisdom is how we hear him for how we handle parenting and marriage and business and life. Wisdom is how we hear him concerning where we should work, where we should go to school, where we should live. Wisdom will speak, wisdom will guide, and wisdom will purposefully pull you in alignment with God's will. So number one is the word. Number two is wisdom. Wisdom is the second most accurate way by which God speaks to you. And then number three, there is the whisper. Now the whisper is what the Holy Spirit speaks directly to you. I remember one time I was pulling up to a stop sign and I stopped and I was just about to go right through that intersection when the Holy Spirit said, don't go. Stop and wait. Well, somebody without their headlights on, it was nighttime, blew right through the stop sign. They would have crashed into me. I don't know if I would have been killed, but I would have been seriously injured judging by their speed. Now you tell that to someone who doesn't believe God speaks and then ask them, where would that be in scripture? Where is that in chapter and verse? And does the Holy Spirit not speak these warnings to us? You may have heard it said, if it's in God's word, the Holy Spirit doesn't need to say it. If it's not in God's word, the Holy Spirit wouldn't say it. Well, that fails to take into account the relational aspect of the voice of the Holy Spirit. That fails to take into account the personal aspect of the voice of the Holy Spirit, those daily warnings, that guidance he gives us from day to day. Have you ever felt convicted for a sin? Raise your hand if you have. Why would he need to do that if it's in his word? Because it's personal. If anyone's ever felt convicted over a sin, it's because the Holy Spirit is speaking directly to you. Well, wasn't that already in his word? Yes, why did he need to say it because he made it personal? So that whisper that we hear to our hearts, though it's not as accurate as the word, is still necessary for daily living. But here's the problem. Many believers try to live by the whisper instead of the word, and they end up in confusion. They reverse it. They build on the whisper first. Well, I just feel this. I just think that all the while contradicting the Bible with their lives, with their beliefs, and because they're so convinced that the whisper is their only source of hearing God, they'll actually begin to mold the Scripture to what they believe rather than what they believe according to the Scripture. Finally, number four, and then we'll move on, and this is what I'm covering tonight. Number four is wonders. So number one, the word. Number two, wisdom. Number three, the whisper. Number four is wonders, and they lose accuracy as you go down the line. Wonders is like a sign, a miracle, a vision, or a dream, which is what we're talking about. I'm gonna talk to you about the purpose of dreams and visions, how you can tell your vision or dream is from God. We will look at how much emphasis we should put in our visions and dreams, and biblically speaking, when our visions and dreams most likely to manifest. I can't teach you how to have visions and dreams, nobody can, because we can't force God to speak. So if anyone ever tells you, hey, come take my hand, I can take you to heaven, I think they'd rather take you to the bank there. Okay, so that's not something, maybe they're sincere, maybe they mean well, but that's not biblical. I can't teach you how to see visions. I can't teach you how to have dreams. All I can teach you is how to position yourself in a way to where the Holy Spirit is trying to speak to you in these ways, your flesh is not blocking that. Because sin and disobedience don't keep God from speaking, they keep us from hearing. And then I'm gonna briefly talk about some of the common dreams that believers actually have quite often, and we're gonna go through and try to interpret some of the meaning here. And maybe if we have time, we're gonna open it up for questions, but not before I pray and ask the Lord to impart something in us today that would make us more susceptible, again, can't be taught, make us more susceptible and available to his voice in this way. Okay, so first we look at the biblical basis for visions and dreams. We see both mentioned here in Acts chapter two, verses 17 and 18. Acts chapter two, verses 17 and 18 say, in the last days, God says, I will pour out my spirit upon all people, your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, and your old men will dream dreams. In those days, I will pour out my spirit even on my servants, men and women alike, and they will prophesy. We can get into a lot right there, but the Bible very clearly here says, men and women alike, and they will prophesy. So there we see the scripture very clearly telling us that in these latter days, and I believe this is talking about the period of the church, the church age, which we're in, these latter days, we will see these dreams and visions. Now, the Bible also talks more specifically just about visions. If you see in 2 Corinthians chapter 12, go there now, 2 Corinthians 12. I'm gonna read verses one through four. This boasting will do no good, but I must go on. I will reluctantly tell about visions and revelations from the Lord. Now nobody's stopping Paul the apostle here and saying, well, that just sounds too weird, Paul. And nowhere in scripture does it say that God has ever stopped speaking in this manner. He writes, I was caught up to the third heaven 14 years ago. Third heaven, why does he say third? The Bible says in the beginning God created the heavens, plural and the earth. There's the earth, sky, the firmament, which is the first heaven. There's the cosmos, which is the second heaven. And then there's God's dwelling place, which is the third heaven. And that's what Paul's talking about when he writes of being caught up in to the third heaven. Only God knows, he says, yes, only God knows whether I was in my body or outside my body. But I do know that I was caught up to paradise and heard things so astounding that they cannot be expressed in words. Things no human is allowed to tell. So there we see a biblical reference to visions, a New Testament biblical reference to visions. And then we see an Old Testament reference here in Job 33, verses 14 and 15. For God speaks again and again though people do not realize it. He speaks in dreams, in visions of the night. When deep sleep falls on people as they lie in their beds. What's the difference between a dream and a vision? It's not super deep. It's very simple. The difference between a dream and a vision is whether or not you're awake. If you're asleep, it's a dream. If you're awake, it's a vision. Now visions, I think sometimes we imagine that visions are hyper realistic. That would be an intense vision to where you almost like a virtual reality experience where we're caught up, we're looking around, we see, we touch, we feel and we're really literally figured physically there, I should say. Well, that can be the case, but many times a vision actually is similar to a daydream.  But visions do sometimes come across like a vision. Visions do have that daydream like feel or effect.  You went into autopilot driving. Okay, that is similar to a vision. It's like a daydream almost. And again, the difference simply being whether you're awake or asleep. Now, I've noticed some similarity between dreams and visions in that they're both effortless. You can't force yourself to daydream. You can't force yourself to dream. There are things you can do maybe to cause dreams to be more common in your life, but there's not necessarily anything that you can do to force a dream upon yourself. It's just you kind of go into this surrendered place and I'm not talking about new ageism and emptying your mind. Remember the difference between worldly and godly meditation. Worldly meditation says empty your mind. Why? Because that leaves influence for other spirits but not emptying your mind, filling your mind. That's godly meditation. See Psalm chapter one versus one through three on that. So what is the purpose of dreams and visions? Number one, God can impart through dreams. I'm gonna show you something in the scripture that is just astounding. But first take for example, the fact that angels biblically speaking would appear in dreams. And they were actual angels communicating actual truth. And I thought that was interesting that angelic beings, it doesn't say, notice the Bible doesn't say that they dreamt about an angel. It says that the angels appeared to them in a dream, meaning angels in the supernatural realm have this ability to actually go into the dream and that is astounding. But we're gonna look at something here that is even more astounding in my opinion. Go to first Kings chapter three. We're gonna read a very large portion of scripture or relatively large portion of scripture, at least large for a setting like this. But I'm gonna read first Kings three versus five through 15. First Kings three, five through 15. And this is on my point about how God can impart the dreams. We're talking now about the purpose of dreams and visions. That night the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream and God said, what do you want? Ask and I will give it to you. Solomon replied, you showed great and faithful love to your servant, my father, David because he was honest and true and faithful to you. And you have continued to show this great and faithful love to him the day by giving him a son to sit on his throne. Now, oh Lord, my God, you have made me king instead of my father, David but I am like a little child who doesn't know his way around. And here I am in the midst of your chosen people, your own chosen people, a nation so great and numerous that cannot be counted. Give me an understanding heart so that I can govern your people well and know the difference between right and wrong for who by himself is able to govern this great people of yours. Very popular scripture, the Bible says verse 10 of first Kings three. The Lord was pleased that Solomon had asked for wisdom. So God replied, because you have asked for wisdom in governing my people with justice and have not asked for a long life or wealth or the death of your enemies, I will give you what you asked for. I will give you a wise and understanding heart such as no one else has ever had or ever will have. And I will also give you what you did not ask for riches and fame. No other king in all the world will be compared to you for the rest of your life. And if you follow me and obey my decrees and my commands as your father David did, I'll give you a long life. Then Solomon, watch this now, verse 15. Then Solomon woke up and realized it had been a dream. He returned to Jerusalem and stood before the ark of the Lord's covenant where he sacrificed burnt offerings and peace offerings. Then he invited all his officials to a great banquet. Now this is amazing because this is an encounter with God that Solomon is actually having with God. He's not dreaming about an encounter. God is visiting him within his dream. And there's proof of this in first Kings chapter five, verse 12. So the Lord gave wisdom to Solomon just as he had promised. Wait a minute. I thought that was a dream. But he actually had an encounter with God in his dream.   God visited you in your dream. God's presence is everywhere, including within that state, whatever you wanna call it if an actual place are not in your dream. And so we see that in the life of Solomon, he received impartation, actual spiritual impartation through his dream. Now I had a dream a few years ago. And in my dream I was being taken to the ministry headquarters of Catherine Coleman. And I'm not saying I spoke with Catherine Coleman. So nobody online clipped this out and say, there it is, necromancy, grave soaking. No, no, no, that's not what we're saying, all right? Okay, I'm not saying that. I'm saying I had a dream about her and I believe something spiritual took place. I think that God used her as somewhat, or at least her personality as somewhat of an analogy of what I was praying for. And so I'm standing in her headquarters, somebody takes me to this office. And I remember there was this wooden door with like glass in the door. You know, like sometimes the doors have like glass windows and it said her name Coleman on the window. And I opened the door, I go inside and Miss Coleman is standing with her back facing me and she's wearing that long white flowy dress. And I could feel the moment I stepped in that room like a strong electric pulsing on my body. And she turns around and she says, in the way that only Miss Coleman can say it, she goes, Dave, how are ya? And she put her arms around me. I felt warmth, love, this heavy weight of God's glory. And then I woke up and in my room I could sense the weight of his glory. That was an example of a spiritual experience, something happening, an impartation of sorts happening through a dream. Number two, God can reveal the future through dreams. We see an example of this, we won't read it, but an example of this in the story of Joseph going before Pharaoh, Genesis 41, 14 through 28. So number one, God can impart through dreams, I gave you the first king's reference. Number two, God can reveal the future through dreams. This is Genesis chapter 41, verses 14 through 28. Not only can God reveal the future through dreams, God can reveal people's motives. I've had dreams about people where God shows me who they really are. And then I begin to see it start to unfold in my life. But God can reveal through dreams. I remember before we started seeing many of you see online and I'm sure some of you watching have attended where you'll see the pictures we post of the places we go and hold services all around the world where it's packed to capacity. There's people outside and there's long lines around the block that can't get into the building just before that started happening in our ministry. I had a dream where I walked into this sanctuary and I saw just about 20 chairs are so laid out. And I went up to preach in front of empty chairs. And as I stood there looking at empty chairs, all of a sudden chairs all over it, like almost like plants grow out of the ground, but no time for it to take place. Like they're just popping up out of the ground. Chairs started appearing everywhere, so much so that the building itself started to expand. And chairs began to pop up and the Lord told me to prepare for what was coming and I did. And we began to see that happening in the ministry. So that's number two, God can reveal the future through dreams. Number three, God can provide relevant information and mysteries in dreams.  So here we see this warning and then this information saying it's good to go back. Daniel two 28 says, however, there was a God in heaven who reveals mysteries. And he has made known to King Nebuchadnezzar what will take place in the latter days. This was your dream and the visions in your mind while on your bed. There have been times and my wife can attest to this. I will wake up at two or three in the morning with an entire sermon outline in my head. I'll go to bed reading the scripture. And by the way, you know this, I just did this today and I told justice, I bought today an actual physical copy of the Bible. Because I realized when Aria sees me reading the Bible, it just looks like I'm on my phone. So I want my daughter to see me reading the Bible. So I just got one today, it'll be here, I think Saturday. So, you know, at night I'll read the scripture and I'll go to bed and what I just read begins to form. As I must sleep, I will have dreams where I'm sitting there writing an outline and I'll see points one through seven. And then believe it or not, the Holy Spirit actually gives me cross references. Other verses to use to help support those verses. And I wake up, you know how when you try to write a dream down before you forget it, I have to write an entire outline down before I can forget it. And that's what happens sometimes after worshiping, reading the word, I'll fall asleep and then suddenly this outline begins to form and I'll wake up and I write it down real quick and then you hear it on YouTube a week later. That's how the outlines come. Now the truth, the scripture that comes through study but the preparation and how to teach that, the Holy Spirit gives that to me sometimes as I must sleep. And so the Lord does reveal mysteries in dreams. Number four, God can warn you through dreams. Now this is different than just telling the future because as I said, this can be a revelation concerning motives. This can be a revelation concerning a place you're not supposed to be. This can be a revelation of certain things like pride and bitterness in your own heart. I've been rebuked in dreams before by the Lord. And so an example of this will be as we read, Job 33, 14 and pay attention to what it's saying here. Verse 14, for God speaks again and again. Like he's trying to get your attention. You keep having the dream again and again and again. He's trying to get your attention. For God speaks again and again, though people do not recognize it, how frustrating it must be for him. Though people do not recognize it, he speaks in dreams, in visions of the night when deep sleep falls on people as they lie in their beds. Sometimes there's nothing to do but prepare. Sometimes there's nothing much that you can change, but God is preparing you emotionally, mentally, spiritually, even physically for the things that are coming. I'll give an example of this in Genesis 15. Genesis 15, verses 12 to 14. As the sun was going down, Abram fell into a deep sleep and a terrifying darkness came down over him. Then the Lord said to Abram, you can be sure that your descendants will be strangers in a foreign land where they will be oppressed as slaves for 400 years, but I will punish the nation that enslaves them and in the end, they will come away with great wealth. Now here we see God warning Abram before he was Abraham about the coming captivity of God's people, the enslavement of God's people. And he says, this is gonna happen and they're gonna be bound for 400 years. Well, there wasn't much that he could do about that. There was no preparation, no changes to make, and the Lord even said, you can be certain. This is gonna happen. Nothing to do except prepare. Now you see other examples of this type of warning, Genesis 20, verse three, Genesis 20, verse six, Matthew 2, 12, Matthew 27, 19. These are all examples of the Lord warning us in our dreams.  You know, the Holy Spirit has a certain sense not when he enters the room, he's everywhere at all times, but when you become aware of his presence, there's this sense that comes over you. How many of you know there's also a sense that can come over you when there's a demonic entity present? Sometimes I can sense it on certain people where you can see the demonic influence on them. And so in my dream I recognized that and I knew I was sleeping, I'm lying in bed and I just recognized that demonic sense, that presence that was unwelcome for sure. I turn around and I look over in the middle of my room and I see like a black mist start to appear. Just like it would evaporate and disappear, it began to appear and thicken from just like a center point in the room and it just started to appear.  And it was just, it was just, it was floating there looking at me, smiling, like taunting me. And so I began to rebuke it and it wouldn't budge.  And if they don't, prayer and fasting will solve the problem. So in the dream, however, that's not what was taking place. And it was taunting and laughing and I said, what are you doing here? You don't have the right to be here. It said, yes, I do. And so I said, well, what do you mean? And it said, ask the one in your family who speaks to the dead and then I woke up. I call my grandmother because my grandmother knows everything going on with everyone. I said, Nani, I just had this dream. Someone in our family is practicing witchcraft, necromancy and the Lord's warning them through my dream. That spirit didn't have influence in my life. That was a representation for the influence it had in that person's life. And so my grandmother immediately knew by the spirit who we were talking about. And she's the Holy Spirit just told me who to call. Calls that individual, it turns out, this person was communicating with what they thought was one of their dead relatives and that dead relative was supposedly coming to them in dreams. And they thought it was just wonderful. They didn't realize they were interacting with the demonic entity. And so that warning rescued them from the influence of that demonic power. Now I'm sure the Lord tried to warn them. I'm sure the Lord gave them dreams and they were probably ignoring it. Now this leads me to a simple point here. It's a common misconception that all dreams from God will invoke peace. How do you know a dream from God? Oh, there's just peace. No, no, no, no, no. What does the Bible say in Genesis 1512? It says that a terrifying darkness came over Abram. Now I'm no Hebrew scholar, but if it's a terrifying darkness coming over him, I think it's safe to say that because it was terrifying, Abram was terrified. He was tormented by this reality. So I'll talk in a moment about how you know a dream is from God. But this misconception that there can never be a deep conviction or even a terror that comes over you, that's just not true. God can be speaking through a dream that brings great terror.  His presence was terrifying to people in the Old Testament. The apostle wrote, knowing the terror of the Lord we persuade men. This isn't to say he's hateful or vengeful or mean. This is just to say that there are instances where you can receive communication from the Lord that are actually terrifying, especially if he's communicating warning. Now, how can you tell if a vision or dream is from the Lord? We just went over the purposes. God can impart through dreams. God can reveal the future through dreams. God can provide relevant information and mysteries in dreams. God can warn through dreams a little bit different than just knowing the future because not every bit of information about the future is a warning. Sometimes it's a promise. Now, I'm gonna tell you how you can tell if your vision or dream is from God or not. Are you receiving this so far tonight? You're watching online. Let me know if you're receiving this, if this is helping you out, especially if this is helping to reveal some truths in the area of dreams and visions. Let me know in the comments section. Okay, so first and foremost, a dream is going to be from God if it's number one, clear and coherent because we have the Holy Spirit. Watch this, Genesis chapter 40, verse number eight. And they reply, we both had dreams last night, but no one can tell us what they mean. Watch Joseph's reply. Interpreting dreams is God's business.  See, for the unbeliever, the dreams made no sense. But for Joseph, who was filled with the Holy Spirit, the dreams made perfect sense. So dreams from God are only incoherent to people who do not have the Holy Spirit. So for the believer, you may not fully understand what's trying to be communicated all the time. You may not fully understand the implications of the dream in every instance, but the dream itself will have some consistency and coherency to it. I can't tell you how many times people have told me, strange things, brother David, I had this dream last night. I was at a theme park, then I was at the bank and then the bank had a roller coaster and then there was, I ate a chocolate bar, but it wasn't really chocolate, it tasted like a grape and I'm like, they go, can you tell me what it means? I said, I could make something up. I mean, why not? The bank is prosperity. The roller coaster represents your emotions. The chocolate bar turning to grape means that what you thought was unhealthy will actually be good for you.  And some people do that. They'll do that to God's people, just throw out interpretations and pretend they have the answers.  Why? Because you have the Holy Spirit. It's not perfect clarity. And if it's not perfectly clear, it will at least be coherent. There'll be a timeline. There'll be, you'll be able to tell the dream in a way that's cohesive and logically consistent. It's not just going to be a random flutter of things that you can't even identify. If you live right, your dreams will be clear. You're living in sin, good luck interpreting that. Why? Because sin puts us in a position where our hearts become hard and it becomes difficult to hear the voice of the Holy Spirit. Not that he's not speaking, but I'm talking now about the whispers and the wonder. Wisdom and the word, those stay with even backsliders. But the whispers and the wonders, those come to those who are spiritually keen. They have a sharper, more clear ear to the spiritual ground, if you will. Now, if after that, if it still isn't clear, if you get a dream, it's unclear, you pray, you live right, you get things corrected, and then you're saying, okay, Lord, give me the interpretation. And an interpretation doesn't arise. You can safely set that aside. Because the scripture in Job was talking about people who just aren't receiving the warnings. This is very different from a believer who says, Lord, I'm attentive, show me what you mean. And then if there's nothing that comes from that, you can dismiss it. You don't have to walk around all paranoid going, well, what it was God trying to say to me. I know some people who, they come to me with dreams they had six years ago, and they're still tormented by the fact that they don't know what it means.  He doesn't know how to get through to his children. So if there's a dream that doesn't make sense, you pray, you ask God for understanding. But if one does not come, if understanding does not come, you can safely set it aside. You will not be judged for that, why?  Number two, a dream that's of God will be biblical. Second Timothy 3, 16 and 17 says, all scripture is inspired by God and is useful to teach us what is true and to make us realize what is wrong in our lives. It corrects us when we are wrong and teaches us to do what is right. God uses it to prepare and equip his people to do every good work. Nothing God ever speaks will ever contradict his word.  Rather than admit we got something wrong. And so it has to be biblical. At least in its messaging. Now I'm gonna be very frank with you here. I've had dreams where God showed me what certain people were doing and what I saw them doing was not holy. But that doesn't mean the dream wasn't from God. I may have seen things that were ungodly in the dream but the message of the dream itself communicated truth, communicated something consistent with scripture and number three, dreams from God will always, always, always, always be faith producing. Even warnings about your sin. Even warnings about things you need to correct. It will produce the faith to repent. It will produce the faith to trust God. It will produce the faith to trust in his word even though you see what's coming. So Abram, yeah, he knew what was coming but what did God tell him? But after this what? I'm gonna rescue you and the children of Israel will come out with great wealth. So it was faith producing. Even the dreams that contain negative messages like warnings and corrections, they produce faith. Even if it's a warning, you'll be given faith to correct it. If it's your mistake, God will give you the faith to correct it. If it's someone else's mistake, it'll cause you to pray for them but either way dreams from the Lord are always faith producing. So how can you tell a dream or vision from God? Number one, it is clear and coherent. Number two, it is biblical. And number three, it is faith producing. Now I wanna look at how much emphasis we should put on our dreams and visions. Then we're gonna look at what causes dreams and visions to happen. Look at some common dreams and then we'll call it a night.  Well remember what I told you at the beginning of this message. The word, wisdom, whispers, wonder. It's the fourth category. It is the least important. That doesn't mean it's not important. Kind of like when Paul the apostle writes about when he compares speaking in tongues to prophecy. He's not saying speaking in tongues is bad. He's saying prophecy is better when it comes to the public assembly of believers. So in the same way, I'm not saying that dreams and visions are unnecessary or powerless or pointless. I'm saying that they are not as important as the word. They are not as important as wisdom. And they are not as important as the voice of the Holy Spirit speaking directly to your heart. So let's look here at Deuteronomy 13. Deuteronomy 13, I'll read verses one through four. Suppose there are prophets among you and those who dream dreams about the future and they promise you signs or miracles. And the predicted signs or miracles occur. If they then say, come let us worship other gods, gods you have not known before, do not listen to them. Let's pause there for a second because here Deuteronomy is describing actual power. Here it's saying, look, even if what they say is true, even if they're able to demonstrate that what they speak about the future comes to pass, you do not listen to them if they contradict what I've already told you. And this is why we really need discernment in this hour because there are people who will be able to give you dreams that reveal actual mysteries of the spirit. There are people who do have dreams that do reveal things about the future but if they contradict the word of God, their power is not of the Holy Spirit, that power is satanic. Gods you have not known before, do not listen to them.  Serve only the Lord your God and fear him alone, obey his commands, listen to his voice and cling to him. The authority of divine dreams only goes so far and it does not do away with the authority of the word. And number two, authority cannot be claimed from dreams and visions. People who have dreams and visions or experiences with God, this does not mean necessarily just because of their dreams and visions that they're in a position to lead you. Colossians two, 16th through 18th addresses this directly. So don't let anyone condemn you for what you eat or drink or for not celebrating certain holy days or new moon ceremonies or sabbaths. For these rules are only shadows of the reality yet to come. And Christ himself is that reality. Don't let anyone condemn you by insisting on pious self-denial or worship of angels saying they have had visions about these things. Their sinful minds have made them proud. There are people who will be able to say, I've had dreams and who will claim to have encounters with heavenly beings and even God himself. And because of this, they try to claim spiritual power and authority and place God's people under legalism.  I've seen this happen many times where someone rises and their character is out of line. Their teachings are out of line, but because they can bring people into supernatural experiences, because they can claim they had a vision or dream or they sat with God, it gives them this power and this fear with which they control God's people. But here the Bible says, saying they have had visions about these things, their sinful minds have made them what? Proud. Just from dreams alone, we cannot claim that. Jude one eight in the same way. These people watch this now who claim authority from their dreams. Live immoral lives defy authority and scoff at supernatural beings. Now, I want you to remember in Matthew chapter four when Jesus was led away to the wilderness. Recall that in Matthew three, Jesus was baptized in front of many witnesses by John the Baptist in the river. He goes down into the water and when he comes up, a voice from heaven speaks over him. Everyone could hear it. Says, this is my beloved son in whom I'm well pleased. And people saw the Holy spirit. All four gospel accounts say this and Luke's gospel goes as far as to say that the Holy spirit in bodily form descended on Jesus like a dove. And God says, this is my son. So what is the Lord speaking about? He's speaking about Christ's identity. Who was Jesus? God's son. God in the flesh. Now watch this, watch this. Matthew four. If you are the son of God, what is the challenge? His identity. Now wait a minute. If you are the son of God, turn these stones into bread. What does Jesus say? Does he say, devil, weren't you there at the river? Didn't you hear the voice from heaven? Didn't you see the dove? Jesus did not reference his experience. You can't fight the devil with your experience. You fight him with God's word. And so here we see in the scripture that you can't claim authority from your dreams or your encounters or your experiences or how God uses you supernaturally. That's never been the standard for spiritual authority. Authority comes from the word. Remember that not every dream has spiritual significance. Sometimes it's just your mind processing its own issues. But the place of dreams and visions has to be remembered. It is the least reliable way that God speaks to us, but it still is a way that God speaks to us. Well, the Bible says a more sure word of prophecy implying that there are varying degrees of certainty in prophecy. This is why I never understood that people claim that a false prophet is just simply someone who misses it sometimes. It's not biblically true, especially if you read the book of Acts where certain prophets warn Paul not to go, but Paul was told by the Holy Spirit to go. Yet the Bible calls them prophets. So these are things we can reconcile by simply saying that there are varying degrees in which God speaks. But first Samuel 28.6 says he asked the Lord what he should do, but the Lord refused to answer him either by dreams or by sacred lots or by the prophets that we see the many ways he speaks or spoke at least in the New Testament or the Old Testament. Now what causes visions to happen? I'm gonna give you these real briefly and then we're gonna go over some common dreams that people have. Nothing you can do can make God speak to you through dreams and visions, but you can ensure that you're listening if he does. Number one, when Paul had a vision, he was praying. You can see reference to this in Acts 22, 17 through 22. I've noticed that as I increase my prayer life, I become more susceptible to dreams and visions. And I'm not just talking about increasing your prayer life in terms of being aware of God's presence 24 seven. Remember we've talked about here, we've talked about the difference between scheduled prayer and spontaneous prayer. Spontaneous prayer produces longevity, but scheduled prayer produces depth.  I'm talking about that moment where you finally put aside distraction, fear about the future, guilt about the past, worry about the present, about all your responsibilities, the distractions of emotions, the distractions of questions, doubt, cynicism, all of it is laid to the side. You have perfect peace. You're flowing in the spirit. I'm talking about coming to that place where you hit this flow in the spirit to where you're no longer trying to keep yourself in the prayer room, but it takes everything in you to pull yourself out of it. When you make that transition, I say that prayer is like digging a well.   And you stay in that realm right there. You stay in that flow. Usually for me, about 30 to 40 minutes into that, I start to see heavenly visions. I start to hear, not just about myself, I can start hearing about other people. I can start seeing what God wants me to do, the next steps for ministry. It's this place you come to, but it's the depth of prayer that produces this susceptibility to visions. Number two, John was worshiping. Revelation chapter one, verses nine through 13, tell us of how John was in the spirit. He was worshiping and suddenly he sees this vision. Steve told me a story about how you saw angelic beings while worshiping one time at a youth camp. He saw. Heaven is much closer than you think, much closer. And if we can tune ourselves to the right place in the spirit, according to God's word, by the Holy Spirit, we begin to see heavenly things. So John was worshiping. And then finally, number three, Isaiah was serving. We see that in Isaiah chapter six, verses one to eight. So prayer, worship, and service produce a susceptibility to visions and dreams. One of the most, and I'll use the word strange, but not in a negative sense. I know I use that word sometimes in the negative sense, but I don't mean it in the negative sense. One of the strangest encounters I've ever had with the Holy Spirit happened to me while I was serving in the sound room. I was the song flipper, but basically I was pushing the button for the lyrics on the screens. And I was the guy at the computer. And I'm worshiping and I'm just, I was just speaking in tongues, worshiping.  But I heard the Holy Spirit very clearly say look. And I turned to my left and I, before God, I'm telling you what I saw. I saw a white flame with the face of a lion in it. And that I looked and I was like startled by what I saw and the flame, the moment I looked at it, it shot into my being. And something shifted at that moment in the ministry even, because I was serving in the sound room, something in my preaching ministry shifted. I don't know what on earth happened, but something shifted in the spirit. And it happened guys while I was serving. Service is spiritual. You do it in the right heart. So number one, Paul was praying. Number two, John was worshiping. Number three, Isaiah was serving. Now let's take a look at some common dreams believers have. I'm gonna pray that we would all surrender ourselves to whatever God has for us in this area. And I'm gonna pray, I'm gonna ask him if it be his will.  I'm gonna ask him if it be his will that God would begin to give us dreams. If it be your will, Lord, begin to give us dreams and visions in the coming weeks. Who knows, maybe even someone watching this right now tonight after they turn this video off is gonna have a dream from God. Now some of the common dreams I've seen, the first one, actually raise your hand if you've ever had this. Have you ever had the dream where you're casting demons out of someone? Raise your hand. Look how common this is. How about, and let me know in the comments too, I'm curious. We'll go to the next one in a moment. This dream of casting demons out, this what it is is a spiritual passion but the Lord has given you to see believers, to see people go free and to see believers walk in that supernatural authority. This is God showing you that the desires you have are his desires too, in this instance. And the same is true of the next one. You ever had that dream where you're praying for someone on crutches or in a wheelchair and they start walking? Raise your hand if that's you. Look around, I mean, listen to how specific I'm being and how common it actually is. It holds the same meaning but in the realm of healing. There's another one that I hear commonly about people seeing a sea of people all around them as they preach to them. This is usually a sign that God has called you to ministry. And a more negative one, I've seen the one where a darker evil figure enter your room. Now let's stop here, okay. Let's, let me, I want to be like a surgeon and dissect something here. Because remember when I said that we ought to interpret our experiences by the word? Let me show you an example of that. How many of you ever had that specific occurrence to where you're lying in bed and you wake up at about three o'clock in the morning and you can't move, you can't breathe and you see like a dark figure or some demonic entity in the corner.  Look around the room. Do you ever notice that this is the only way that demons assault believers physically that they can do it or through a demonically influenced person? It is a demonic attack. But the physical aspect of this is not demonic. Let me tell you what's happening. When you go to sleep every single night your body paralyzes itself. It's a very simple way of putting it because if you have a dream where you're running or swimming or jumping your body doesn't wanna wake itself up. So it paralyzes itself so that it holds still even while you're dreaming.  And it's at that moment that the enemy takes an opportunity. Your body is doing something it naturally does every night. That paralysis is not an actual demon on your physical body. They can't touch your body. It's the temple of the Holy Ghost. But what's happening is the demon sees it. Oh, they're having sleep paralysis. A naturally occurring phenomenon. I'm gonna take advantage of them and put a lie in their mind by showing them a demonic figure in the corner. See how sneaky the enemy is? And so people wake up from that. They're freaked out. Oh my goodness, I got a devil on me. No, no, no, no, no.  And see when you know the truth, it's like, oh, liberating.   But it was still demonic activity, but not in the way we think. I'm curious to know, and maybe some of you can tell me after, but I'll tell this for the YouTube community. I like to know in the YouTube community and Facebook as well, but what are some of the dreams you've been having? Put that on there and maybe you'll find other people have had this commonly occur. I wanna pray now. I wanna ask the Lord to teach us to tread reverently and biblically in the realm of the spirit. And I'm gonna ask him to begin to speak to us in dreams and visions. You wanna ask him that with me? You watching online, we're gonna ask the same thing. Everyone all across the room, hands lifted, eyes closed.  You watching online too. Jesus, we love you, we honor you. And I'm seeing as I said, the many comments from all over the world we're with you too, you're just as much a part of it as people here. So Father in the name of Jesus. Come on, everyone begin to pray out loud in the Holy Ghost now. Father in the name of Jesus, we ask you Lord to help us to be grounded in your word for your word is truth. We thank you Lord that you speak to us by your word. We thank you Lord that you speak to us through wisdom, crime. We thank you Lord that you speak to us directly in our hearts and minds and Lord, we thank you also and we honor the wonders by which you speak. So first Lord, you repent of any cynicism or doubt in this area of dreams and visions. And Lord, I pray you help us to approach this subject grounded in your word. We thank you Father and Lord, we pray that you would begin to visit us. Something's happening in your church. Pray out loud in the Holy Spirit right now boldly. Come on, you watching online, pray out now boldly, boldly, boldly. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. Oh, Father, open our eyes. Cause us Lord to hear you in every way that you speak. Holy Spirit, we invite you. Speak to us in the night. Speak to us through visions. Our minds are yours. Say Holy Spirit, I surrender my mind to you. I surrender my mind to you. Steve's saying Jesus, name above all. Beautiful, sing. Beautiful, say, glorious Lord. Take a moment, just begin to love him. Watching online, just pause, pause. We're always in such a hurry, just pause. Everyone under the sound of my voice. Everyone watching. Be influenced by the same spirit who rests on me. Precious Holy God, Holy Spirit speak. Take us to higher places, Lord. Jesus was in the temple. He watched the rich people dropping their gifts in the collection box. Then a poor widow came by and dropped in two small coins. I tell you the truth, Jesus said. This poor widow has given more than all the rest of them. But they have given a tiny part of their surplus. But she, poor as she is, has given everything she has. Let me talk to you for a moment about going all in with your giving. This is the duty that we as believers have to support the gospel with the resources that God has given to us. That is biblical. Now, Jesus was watching as the people were giving. If any preacher did that today, I promise you he'd be heavily criticized for it. But it's what Jesus did. He's watching them and he's weighing their gifts. And then comes along this woman who, though it was a small amount, gave everything that she had. The Lord took notice of that.  No, he praised her for her generosity and the love that she had for God's house. When we give, we have to know why we're given. We give for souls. We give so the work goes forward. Yes, God will bless you. Yes, good stewardship brings about an increase in resources. We know all of those things, but that's not the motive. The motive is we believe in the cause. The motive is we believe in the work. People are being saved, healed, delivered, empowered through God's ministry. I'm just a steward. This is not my ministry. It's his. Everyone is doing their part. And we like this widow must do our part too. You watching online. There are many who give online. Make sure you're doing your part too. We all must give as this woman gave. I'm not saying give everything you have, but she gave sacrificially. That's the principle. Some people like to reverse it too. They say, well, she gave a little, I'll give a little. No, no, no, that's not the idea. The idea is it was a lot to her. Everyone must give according to how God has blessed them financially. And so I ask you in this room to give. And I ask you online to give, give to this work as we continue to create content that's blessing people all around the world by the millions, literally by the millions. Help us continue to do live streams that's impacting literally millions. Help us also to continue to host events all around the world where people are saved and experienced the power of God. That costs resources too. Media and events, that's how we carry the gospel around the world. So I want the ushers to come forward. And as we give tonight, I want you to consider this widow and ask yourself, am I doing my part? Am I participating in the giving toward the gospel? Those of you watching online, you can go to davidhernanisministries.com slash donate. Those of you present, you can give by the envelope. And if you fill out the envelope, make sure that you write legibly and put all of the information down so that we can process everything correctly. And in the meantime, while you're getting your gifts ready here, preparing them, I'm gonna look over online and I see that sovereign gave a one-time gift. Jewels gave a one-time gift. Kingsley gave a one-time gift. Matthew became a monthly partner. Thank you, Matthew, for becoming a monthly supporter. What a blessing that is when people sign up for consistent giving in that way. Whatever your part is, whatever's a sacrifice to you, do that. And give knowing that he's gonna take care of every need. But more importantly, give to Jesus. Give to him. He's deserving. He never held back from any one of us. Let's not hold back from him. Let's give sacrificially, generously. Leslie, thank you for your one-time gift. God bless you. Umakathan, umakathan, just gave. Let me actually see where you're giving from because I believe we have people giving from all around the world. I'm looking now and I see this individual just gave from Canada. God bless you. There's many more who are sowing right now. I'm saying thank you to Luke Wong, who gave a one-time gift. Thank you so much for your support. And I'll see all these as they come in and God will see it more importantly. But I like to read the names and thank you as well. Now you in this place who are preparing to give, remember why we do it. We do it because we wanna see the work continue. We do it because he's worthy. The gospel is worth our support. And those of you watching online, I'll leave you with this. If you enjoyed this message, then make sure you check out how do I hear the voice of the Holy Spirit, three keys. In that teaching, I give you very, very practical, applicable, simple keys to hearing the voice of the Holy Spirit. It's my prayer that by the time you're done listening to that message, you'll be hearing the voice of the Holy Spirit with both confidence and clarity.


let me show y'all I've added to my doll collection you know Monica gonna be like what girl this is Monica Monica thick yeah she thick and things look at her hair Monica the Monica had a baby and um yeah it's a baby she ain't got no name yet still got a name in ceremony y'all hold on what the heck is going on at my job okay let me turn my phone off y'all turn this phone off then Monica decided to let her friend her good Judy Michael is her good Judy Michael then Michael was like well hey I got a friend that's down on her luck and she needs to come in to Zaza we know they named her name but she won't tell us her real name so this is Zaza look at her she chocolate she still likes to wear her lace fronts though so but we ain't gonna judge her cuz she bad yes she bad this is Zaza so Zaza come over here yeah I know I've been doing a little quarantine shopping I got my list of topics to talk about I'm gonna show you some more stuff I purchased through ASOS girl did y'all know I told y'all one of my videos that ASOS sells makeup and they also sell um they sell skincare and body stuff and I was here for it and they got quad pay which is the enemy so I got the ordinary vitamin C vitamin C suspension 30 says suspension 30% in silicone what does that mean does that mean that the vitamin C just floats around this is interesting let me turn this off a little bit better again the artnery I got it from and it's vitamin C I have vitamin C serum over here but this is different and it make me it'll make me feel bougie if I get this and use it um that was it as far as skincare then I got these bath crystals to use in a new bathtub yes these are just infused with sea salts acai berry extract yeah so that's gonna go over here let me get some of this I got a lot of skin stuff now y'all a lot of skin care I have so much it won't be able to fit in my little carry container and I got some bubble bath let me open this up watermelon ooh ooh I'm gonna add some tequila in that and you're a good girl y'all prayed for me I thought I turned this hoe off yeah I'm trying to stay off of Facebook and social media so many people will get to a girl we'll get to this to the discussions so many people let's get past coronavirus in general so many people are dying and so many people are being killed I feel like I feel like a ridiculous amount of people are being killed this month for some reason it's just sad so I'm trying to even be on social media seeing that stuff as soon as I log in to MSN I see it and I'm like this is sad and a lot of young people look just because you 23-24 does not make you invincible you may think so but you are not as far as makeup go this in my opinion is one of the best matte pore makeup that you can get this little tube cost me like $10 so who told me about this Jackie Jackie Jackie Jackie Jackie Jackie I had I can take care and swallow those just you guys I couldn't I really can't watch anymore I really can't it's too much going on I like the old Jackie and I get people change your brand change and you have to rebrand yourself but stay true to it keep some of you there and she has changed so much and it's just not for me anymore but she didn't introduce me to this poor professional little thing here a bigger can tube is very expensive but what I was gonna say is I started watching her when she was in was she in Kuwait or Saudi Arabia she was somewhere in the Middle East and she has that wood closet old school wood closet and she would just do regular makeup in front of her camera yeah so I missed that Jackie but I get it people change and I don't have to watch and I don't I also got cabral by benefit to if you have a bear brow you can build a brow build build buildable color girl is that it is there anything else in here how do you do this look at this can I try it on camera how do y'all do this this is like a dang on what oh so that comes out and then you how is it dip it's like a dip brow I'm not good at these what the hell did I want to get let me try to do one brow okay Vivian you can't be looking crazy let me try to do this this is small let me get into my dip into what I have I can't my hands are bigger than this so yeah look how small the brush is does it extend like oh you know what you could do do you put it do you put it in here girl look at that look at what they did put it in there I'll tell you what look at God with this stuff you only need a little bit I'm assuming okay then what I do is with light strokes also let me build up on let me see the picture my shit ain't gonna look like that but come on what do I think girl what's that okay let me yeah I'm not gonna really be doing this on here I'm just playing around that's all right you know once you do your concealer and stuff okay alright girl let's go into this discussion we got a lot to talk about not really but I know how it is today what I'm gonna be doing I'm gonna be taking down these raggedy at these raggedy twist yeah I'm trying after I'm trying not to curse I'm trying to be safe and sanctified so we can all get through this together and so that my channel can be appropriate for everyone speaking of YouTube YouTube is getting on my nerves they are doing some massive changes for us content creators and I'm gonna put this on something there we go that's better sorry y'all so YouTube is straight up tripping with all of these changes that are going on behind the scene so we are as content creators we're having to use a new studio for editing our a new future of YouTube which is basically a studio when you go in you edit your video this is where you edit the description you update your tags there's a lot of different tabs and stuff you have to go into to make sure that your video looks right on on YouTube another thing that you do at this time is to ensure that your videos are monetized right so last week when I was uploading several videos I make sure my videos are monetized including my last vlog and when you have a video this over 10 minutes long that's when you can add several ads in right you can do ad breaks and miss Jackson that was sorry miss Denza does that because I need to make sure I'm getting my money right so I go in when was it about three days ago to look at my latest video and I noticed that it has a gray globe which means it's not monetized wait a minute I'm pretty sure when I uploaded this I said to monetize the video so when I at this point I switched over to classic studio okay y'all let me get up some clips girl let me just wrap it up long story short I had to do what's called self-rate my videos before I can monetize it and it freaked me out because the different categories they had I was like what that you you could either self-rate and they had different categories like violence drugs gun language and then within category and within each category you had to rate the level of degree like are you using life language are you using heavy language are you full-on going you know quitting Tarantino or whatever how are you what are you doing in your videos self-rate yourself you know it's like um it's really light like you can find some of the words I use an old testament very light cursing so I'm like okay well let me just put on it's appropriate for everyone let me not you know so I had to go back and self-rate three of my videos before my monetization and for my last two videos they weren't even monetized and I was livid because as a youtuber you get your most views within the first two days I'm not getting paid for any of that I mean I basically lost out on all of that on those views and I was like what the hell so I reached out to a couple of other youtubers and they're saying that they don't see that on their end so y'all I thought I turned this dangle thing off y'all I don't know what's going on with my phone so yeah that is going on with YouTube and it's very very frustrating I'm gonna use a little bit of water to help unravel my hair I'm gonna spray it all over now what are y'all watching on YouTube first of all I've been joining in oh lord I need to cut that I've been joining in on the live for some of African hair gods video videos and I've been seeing some of you guys I'm jumping in on those videos girl he was watching a couple of old school the og youtubers when I mean old school like the sherry jays witness actually old school who is sugar African export and it was really nice to see some of those old videos I miss people like Leo body she doesn't post it all she's on Instagram like I told y'all before but people ran her off of here and you know I think it's kind of sad that people assume that someone has died if they're not making videos people have lives y'all this is a lot of work a lot of these people have jobs they have schools they have husbands they have other priorities this is a hobby and back then especially if you were chocolate and for type they weren't getting the type of free free products and getting hit up to do product reviews like a tearing guy and we're gonna get a minute you know what I mean like the three type and there's definitely a such thing as curl discrimination on YouTube we have seen this before it's still happening to a certain extent and so yeah that was totally different back then so this was definitely a hobby it wasn't like even nowadays where I have companies still reached out to me and say hey are you gonna do this review and I have something to look forward to come back and do you soon I'm saying like they didn't have that back then they really didn't so they I guess my my point is that they had to keep up that passion for it and after a few years it gets old hell that's why I take breaks when I do cuz and I'm not even a big youtuber I have to take my breaks because after a while I'm like yeah no so that's what I think a lot of these people are doing and yeah we may feel like they should be checking in with us and and giving us an update but they don't have to do that they don't owe anyone an explanation this is a hobby okay let me just say that I always see comments and who is it really who who really gets hit up craving you know I'm talking about I always get her name wrong craving kinky curls or craving there are a couple of people on her videos questioning whether or not she was dead or alive come on out y'all stop come on let's not do that so yeah people get busy and they move on and they you know thank God that they leave their channel up there so we can go back and look at their videos but yeah so I've been joining his live streams and I've been seeing some of y'all in there hey Sarah I saw you hey Aryan I saw you someone else I saw can't remember your name but she did say hi to me she spoke to me the other day actually when I was in there but girl so speaking of all he also brought up Kimmy tube who Kimmy tube is back border hammer is back and glad to see her although she's not as consistent I like border him up hammer because border hammer represents that fine hair hair chicks and we don't have a lot of that representation on this platform so I really do like to see her on here I love her fashion sense I love her sense of humor but girl that last line when I completely forgot about this beef in the natural hair community there was a video that tearing guy had put out about basically who was responsible for the integrity is it youtubers or subscribers and I don't necessarily if it was integrity of a brand or what and who was it that did the first response it was African export responded to that video the Kimmy tube got the African export was talking about her and she was funny so YouTube back then had you have the ability as a youtuber to do a direct response to someone right now when we do it we have to type in edit the title and all they got remember that but a long time ago seven eight years ago you could literally how do how would we do it you could upload a video and then tie it to someone else's a video girl could you imagine the shit face that what happened if we have the ability to do that now I couldn't imagine not with these petty gossipers I couldn't imagine it so that happened oh I totally forgot about that and so it was very peasy around the kitchen I'm not trying to hurt any feelings their responses but it was going back and forth for a while and then yeah so he was replaying those videos and that brought back a lot of memories when that happened do you remember when that happened those you've been on your full while I do and I was like girl I mean boy you're bringing up some memories that's for sure so yeah I've been watching that not really watching any other people because everyone's talking about you know the coronavirus and all that and so I don't like doing my hair is looking but anyway let's pin this up so yeah that's been going on my phone my camera was about to start so one thing I've been noticing is there's a lot of people cutting their hair meaning like in the past three months or so several youtubers have been doing like a almost like a danglesick and bitch up I feel like it's so I get it you know and the good thing about that is that their audience has something to look forward to you know the styles will be different because their hair is a different length so the last one I saw was Whitney natural 85s child she cut like she cut like a whole dang on bundle out of her hair she cut her hair did she say 13 inches was it 13 inches y'all cuz she was a little past waist length and now she has a bob that still hits her shoulders and I'm like okay you you got long hair still to us as long it was long before but that's still long that's long to a lot of people with the length she cut it to it's cute though it's really cute and I'm like the shape of it but the one who cut her hair and I almost had to unsubscribe because I was so hurt I mean having like I be connecting to people's hair to other people's hair even though they may not be is what is the baby's name Nia Amani but I was I started laughing because when she cut her when she cut her hair she went to her mama I thought her mama was about to roll up a magazine and hit her or something her mama's face was unbothered but like what do you want me to do yeah Nia Amani cut her hair she had waist length and she cut her hair to like here then she started playing with some colors it's cute um yeah y'all so that is it when it comes to YouTube yeah let's get into these TV shows now let me know what you know what tea tea said I should be doing a whole segment on Joe Exotic you right girl you absolutely right so let me get back into that a little bit more uh-oh you see that let me stop let me spray that let me get back into Joe Exotic a little bit more from Tiger King because mr. 45 our president up here talking about he may pardon him now y'all I'm gonna say something that may surprise some people and it may not I like Joe Exotic I could just tell you know what Rhonda you're right Rhonda is Mr. Likeful out here you were absolutely right I could tell that he's had a hard life that does not excuse anything that he has done but I could tell that he has had a hard life I can also tell that deep deep down deep down the guy has a good heart he has just allowed his love for money and his wanting to be and wanting to be loved honestly affect his decision-making you know that again that does not excuse his behavior I'm really surprised to hear the amount of years they sent us sentenced him to 22 years child rapists don't even get that much time 26 22 years child he gave the one guy $3,000 it's supposed to be $5,000 he gave the one guy $3,000 to kill this woman Carol Baskin and the guy took the money and ran off it was like bye I got my money I'm gone and um yeah I I I think I may go ahead and watch this show over again cuz I was just so intrigued by every episode like seriously I was but do y'all know what the character that I really I feel like he held he held back a lot for obvious reasons is the drug pen that the drug dealer what is his name I wrote it down Marlowe no Mario Mario down is he down in Florida or Miami Mario I believe he's Cuban Mario last name begins with T he first of all they tried the people on the show for Netflix they tried to get in and they tried a several times and they were like you don't you can't just come up in here cuz he has his own big cat sanctuary or whatever and he was like you oh Lord y'all he's going back live again oh he's going back live playing games anyway African hair god so yeah he has like a whole security and was like yeah no you just can't come up in here his own security was seeing this I was like oh they they he needs his own show and yeah they're supposed to be a reunion and curl says she's not joining it she ain't gonna be participating in y'all fullery but look I wanted to go back and um I just look at some more information on the people on the show why when I try why when I typed in oh here come Amazon Prime did I order something hold on y'all hold on y'all Amazon is delivering something and and these people be trying to be stealing packages in our name they're stealing packages everywhere but they get bold over here come on man get out the skin you're stuffing get out so yeah let me go ahead and here I can watch him here from here so what was I saying so when I went to do a search on Joe exotic why did Joe exotic husband's teeth pop up when his husband's girl this is some sister wives so it wouldn't be sister wives it would be a brother husband's type of bull charm he got one tooth right here he has a space to hold those two teeth and then you go about three mouths over here and there's another two he has a mouth mouth that's from doing math oh my god so I just thought there was hilarious that was a separate search coming up I guess people searching up his teeth so anyway um I was acting that one kid Travis he accidentally shot himself that wasn't a suicide although I honestly think that deep down that manifested he probably was considering suicide and it just came it came forth it came you know you know what I mean I really do believe that happen but I don't think that was his intentions right then and there because he did it in front of people he was playing around with the gun and it went off y'all just sad so that whole show is just full of it if you haven't if you have not watched it it's called Tiger King's plays girl you ain't got you ain't doing nothing put the kids down go ahead and watch this show so yeah this was me doing a reunion I don't know when it's coming so I forgot to tell y'all other stuff I've been watching first of all let me talk about this Washington walking dead right I'm caught up in the last few episodes episodes it really bothers me I get it's in the world zombies everywhere whatever but it kind of bothers me that Michelle is still wearing those ashy as jeans you've been out here for a good five six years you need to tell me you can't find any of the pants JC Pennings is forever open you can't find no more no more she's been wanting to get back I get stuck on stuff like that the details girl she's been wearing those same pants oh okay didn't even get over so anyway caught up in the walking dead I hear my baby last few episodes is crazy so I've been watching good girls and y'all this season three is not giving me what I want I wanted to see you know I wanted to see Beth and Rio hook up and said their sister still is chemistry and you know what I think I said this a couple of videos ago maybe this was last year they need to watch it because they have serious when people have chemistry like that on the show that's not fake you have chemistry in real life one scene a couple of episodes ago where Rio just shoulder because at this point she works at this gift card place where she prints out cards or whatever and they do customized cards so he comes in and he's like I heard that you do print jobs you do customers she's like I don't know he's talking about you know her red hair looking like you lose she's like this I don't know what you talk I don't know you talking about you know looking on redness or three things so he's like he pulls out the gun I'm the whole he may have like your mama say mama's but you better go ahead and show him but you better take your fluffy ass back there pour that glue whatever you do in 10 more minutes baby I'm almost done okay I'm doing my hair and talking to my friend yeah my friend so I'm not lying that was sexy but besides that there ain't been no other the last episode she did because she had to ask him for a favor so the last episode so girl she knew what she was doing she did that smoky eyes she did that peach lip to match her hair she put on a nice fit and dress she starts walking and he's looking at her like he was already probably lit so after a few more shots he's looking at her like man what do you want I forgot to tell y'all that did I get all these things out y'all and now I got a few more um I started watching Castle Rock that is on Hulu and I like it scary it's scary I already can see the um Stephen King references as far as the poor of course Castle Rock Stephen King uses Castle Rock as a setting for a lot of his books but Shawshank is in there I already see the twins because oftentimes twins in any type of movies like this have some type of special powers because they're twins okay so yeah I'm just on season excuse me I'm on episode 2 I'm already scared and I'm already liking that liking it though so yeah let me try to separate some of this because right now it looks hard and fluffy it looks it looks chaotic um one is dirty and old alright hold on y'all so y'all besides that another thing I've been watching my guilty pleasure and I feel sad for these people now I'm watching on YouTube because JB doesn't like me he doesn't like to see it he my child is so empathetic and he he's definitely he picks up on people's emotions and he feels so sad when I was watching this uh it's my 600 pound life that is my guilty pleasure and I'm so I'm so messed up that I purposely wait to eat to and watch that show but what I started watching recently and I'm almost done with it is family by the time and I'm watching season one with the black family and you know what this is a beautiful family they are very I was getting so teary-eyed in several moments because I can tell that they are a close family a close knit family and um they they really love each other I mean of course they have their they probably have their problems that they're not showing on you know for the cameras but overall they seem to be very close and support each other so it started off with the one family member who probably wasn't one of the bigger ones she decided to get gastric bypass surgery right then her daughter Naomi was up and she decided to get it done a young girl and I know she she does not like people to say this and I get it because whenever I go somewhere out in my surroundings oftentimes I'm the biggest person and I'm only a size 12 and I'm always the biggest person because people out here or you know they're very cautious about what they look like which is good you know so I guess my point is is that so many times you know when I've said something about my weight their response from other people that have been you look great you are so pretty y'all you are very beautiful like yeah but from the neck up that's what you you just confirmed it so Naomi is extremely pretty I mean this girl is stunning with or without makeup and there was an episode seen I mean where this dress shop worker a woman working in a dress shop was like well we don't have anything for plus size and she just made a sad comment to the young girl a young lady was like you know what when you get you're very pretty when you get this weight off oh my god basically like you're pretty true to be a fat girl and you hear it you hear it special girls with pretty face I know my sister gets it my sister's a big girl but she get those men too y'all so y'all back to the show though so yeah watch your family by the time and it's good I'm almost done they don't have a lot of episodes which honestly supposed to be normal you're not supposed to be having 15 dangling episodes in a series normal is eight and so I was surprising that they only have eight episodes and I was like wait a minute this is actually normal to have only seven or eight episodes for a series this is how it should be we've gotten used to having all this extraness and then four or five reunions afterwards you don't need all that and then spinoffs and all that so yeah y'all um so yeah y'all watching that and it was so sad when their cousin what is her name Chikada her cousin the mom died her mom died from Alzheimer's and she had not left her house and what three or five years she couldn't go to the funeral now another family reggae another family member excuse me felt was filming and was lied at the funeral but the woman the poor woman was sitting on her bed bawling and crying seeing her siblings so hurt and she saw she's the eldest you know seeing her siblings at the funeral of the mother's funeral I just could not imagine not being able to go because that that was only gonna happen once having a funeral from your for your mother and not being able to go there and say your goodbyes so that right there triggered her to start on her weight loss and I just like the support of of all of them and I actually follow Naomi on Instagram she's lost like a hundred pounds so far all right y'all that is it we've been rambling now this thing will be about 30 minutes long y'all thank you so much for watching take care bye


Hey guys, how you doing? This is your boy Rich from Rich TV Live and you too can join the club at richpakesdaily.com where you can learn how to win and trade. Hi, how's everybody doing today? I'm your host, Rich, here on behalf of Rich TV Live with our very special guest, the CEO of Tantalus Systems Holdings, Inc. Peter Landa, how you doing today, Peter? Great, Rich, how are you? I'm doing fantastic. Really excited to learn more about your company. And I have my first question for you, Peter. Can you tell us a little bit about yourself and how you got involved with Tantalus Systems Holdings, Inc. Sure, thanks for the question and thanks for having us today. It's a privilege to be on your program and have an opportunity to provide an update to investors. So I was recruited into the company, Tantalus Systems back in 2014. So I'm not the founder of the company. I was brought in by the board of directors. Prior to joining Tantalus, I was in the same industry where Tantalus operates today and was running a privately held company on behalf of some venture capital firms out of California and in the United States. And fortunately had success in scaling that business up to a point where it was acquired by a behemoth public company in the US called Danaher Corporation. Our shareholders at the time decided to go that route as opposed to what we've done here at Tantalus and going public on the TSX. My fundamental background ties to initially starting at investment banking. So don't hold that against me. From there, I was pulled out of banking by one of my then clients, which was in the software industry. And so I'm not smart enough to write zeros and ones or code, but I understand the power of software and the software model and software business. And so from spending time in software, I ended up working on a project for a technology company in what's called a smart grid space and helping utilities leverage technology to modernize their grid. And so through spending time in that industry, that's how I've landed here at Tantalus and have been part of the team here now for seven or eight years. Congratulations on all your success so far. And can you tell us what are some of the milestones Tantalus systems has set for 2022, which shareholders can look forward to? So yeah, and if I take a step back on what we accomplished in 2021, we're just celebrating effectively our one-year anniversary of being publicly traded. And so last year was very much about accessing the public markets, raising capital to strengthen our balance sheet, working on some key R&D initiatives organically with our own team to scale out our capabilities to our existing customer base. And 2022 is very much about now that we've got that foundation in place, we've got the balance sheet behind us, we've got some R&D initiatives that we continue to accelerate on. It's all about helping utilities prepare for the electrification of everything while simultaneously being asked to decarbonize everything. And so that creates from our perspective a very long trajectory for this business with a balance sheet behind it to accelerate our growth, not only through what we do today, but through targeted opportunities around M&A and strategic growth initiatives through partnerships. And so as investors track us this calendar year, we're very much focused on building out awareness relative to our current position in the market and sort of in a sort of early into the public market or at least early in our public company life, trying to ensure investors understand where the value proposition is and where our investment thesis is and create what we think is a really compelling investment opportunity relative to our share price, which is significantly undervalued relative to current consensus of the five analysts covering our stocks. Can you tell us about the management at Tantalus Systems, especially their past success in the public markets? Sure, so we're fortunate. I'll start with our chair, is a woman named Laura Formusa, who is among the most accomplished female executives in the North American power industry. Prior to joining us as chair and retiring, she was CEO of Hydro One, one of the largest utilities in Canada, if not North America. And so during her time at Hydro One, she was general counsel and then ultimately became CEO. So at the highest level of our organization and our chair is unbelievably experienced, not only in our industry, we support electric utilities, but also the ins and outs of being a publicly traded company. In addition to Laura as chair, another member of our team I'd highlight is George Resnick, our CFO. George is a career CFO of public companies up in Toronto or up in Canada, excuse me.  So his personal experiences as CFO of publicly traded companies over the last 20 years combined. Prior to that, he was at one of the large accounting firms, ran evaluation practice, very helpful for us as we think about M&A opportunities to accelerate our growth and just has a world-class, world-class background in terms of the reporting capabilities and understanding the ups and flow. Our general counsel is based here in the US with me, extended experience in terms of corporate practice and securities law, very experienced in terms of public company experience. And then other members of our management team have similarly been at large organizations publicly traded and then emerging privately held companies like Tantalus prior to us going public. So I think overall we have over 200 combined years of experience in our industry and well over 100 years of experience running, managing and supporting publicly traded companies. That's a lot of experience. Now the company recently announced the partnership with Irby Utilities, a subsidiary of Sonpar USA that provides full scope, fiber network solutions through its technology and communications business group. Can you tell us what that means for Tantalus systems? Sure, so when you think about Tantalus we're building solutions, we're then selling those to electric utilities. That is our target customer base. And to that end, we have about 210 utilities that we support today. We access those utilities through two paths, one of which is our own direct sales team, which in the aggregate between sales and business development is about 15 employees. And then we also access utilities through a sales channel. And within that sales channel, we have roughly 20 organizations that are regionally focused that have large teams, some sometimes they're smaller teams, but robust teams that are selling directly into utilities and representing Tantalus, facilitating those introductions and some circumstances reselling our capabilities. Irby is an extension of our channel partner relationships. And where that's important is we in 2021, after going public announced the launch of our next generation, what we refer to as our true sense gateway. It's a device that will get deployed by utilities once we commercialize it, that not only helps utilities gain access to granular data around consumption and power quality, but it also will enable a utility to provide broadband services where there may not be a lot of competition or may not even have access to a broadband service provider in a more rural community or smaller communities. And in the US, where the vast majority of our utility customers are located, surprisingly about 20% of the population in the United States today does not have prolific access to broadband. And so the electric utilities, particularly co-ops and municipal owned utilities are stepping into that void. Our goal is to bring a device to those utilities that extends our relationship with them and enables them to provide more services. Irby specializes in helping utilities roll out fiber networks and fiber capabilities to not only deliver power, but also deliver broadband services. And so having Irby select and join our channel, select analysts and join our channel partnerships is a great sign of confidence in what we're doing and it will help us accelerate revenue from the new product that we're bringing into the market and we expect that product to be commercially available towards the end of this year and certainly into 2023. Wow, I can't wait to see that happen and see you guys really achieve those goals and evolve. Now, if Tantalus systems were to compare itself to its competitors in the tech space that are focused on making our aging energy grids into more multi-directional grids, what would you say sets you guys apart from other companies in this sector? So I think there are so thanks, it's a great question and we could spend an hour on it. And so if my passion comes through on it, just feel free to step in and cut me off, but I really could speak on this one for a while. There are a couple of things, if I try to boil them down, not necessarily in priority order. First and foremost, you'll see the sign behind me, purpose built. We are very much focused from our chair all the way through our organization, in building solutions and making business decisions at Tantalus around helping solve some of the most complex challenges that the utility industry faces today. And so that in and of itself, that focus and that dedication, especially with respect to the market segment that we focus on, I think is a differentiator. Second, from a technology perspective, let me backtrack on that. On that first one, we hear a lot around the cultural fit of our organization alongside the utilities organizations where we develop multi-decade relationships. So that really encapsulates one as our purpose and how we mesh and how we establish what are really multi-decade relationships with the utilities we support. The second thing from a technology perspective, we were the first company to bring edge computing into this sector. And what I mean by that, I'm gonna hold up a device in my hand for a little show and tell. We were the first to build, this is like the guts of your iPhone. And we figured out how to add edge computing with back then a Linux-based operating system under the glass of a meter, inside a load control switch into distribution automation equipment. And within that device, we have multiple processors to support parallel processing of data, which allows us to very granularly help utilities have visibility and situational awareness as to what's actually happening on the grid. Where's power on? Where is it off? Basic. How are consumers changing their behavior patterns? How are things unfolding with power quality, which is a big area of focus for utilities? What does that mean for the assets that they deploy? And it's the technology itself and the access to that granular data that then leads us into a third area of differentiation, which is predictive capabilities. Because we gather today 30 billion data points on consumption and power quality across 210 utilities, we are at the forefront of bringing analytics capabilities into those utilities to help them predict and proactively avoid power outages massively inconvenient in today's society. Even worse, failed equipment that can lead to a forest fire. Devastating in terms of the news that we consistently see, not only now in the summer months, but even in the winter months out west. We can help them plan for aging infrastructure and aging employees, right? Last but not least that predictive capability and where we get very excited even with our announcement of our acquisition earlier this week, is how do we help utilities prepare for the phenomenal impact that will unfold in terms of resiliency and reliability of the grid as people adopt, purchase and start to leverage electric vehicles? And where we see a tremendous catalyst for growth, and this is not short-term, this is five, seven and 10 years trajectory, is as people purchase electric vehicles and as investors focus on the EV space, think about the cascading impact that has to utilities. All of a sudden they're being asked to deliver more power at different locations at different times of the day. And in some circumstances, if the F-150 Lightning can really discharge into a home to power lights and power appliances, and think about the cascading impact that has to the utility operationally and financially. And so based on our heritage and culture, based on our technology, the devices we're putting into the field today, based on the predictive tools we're building from software and acquiring to our acquisition we announced earlier this week, we're at the forefront of helping utilities prepare for what otherwise is a true inflection point on their reliability and resiliency. Well, thank you for your work because it seems like we're gonna really need this going into this electrification world. By 2030, it seems like 50% of the cars in the road are gonna be electric vehicles. So there's gonna be a major need for what you're talking about, like on a global scale. Here at HDB Live, our members are all over the world and they're investors and they really like to understand the fundamentals and the meat and potatoes and the bare bones of the company. So one of the questions we love to ask is the understanding of the share structure. Can you go through the capital structure of the tantalist systems for our viewers and how you plan on attracting more institutional and retail investors? Sure, thanks. And I hope I wasn't too long winded on the differentiation question. In terms of our capitalization, when we went public last year, we established a fairly straightforward cap structure. It is 100% common stock. Incremental to the shares that are outstanding, we have a stock option plan to incentivize employees and provide them with compensation in the form of stock option to align their day-to-day to our shareholders. And in terms of ownership, Ballpark, about 80 to 85% of our stock today, that number may not be exactly precise, but it's a close approximation, are held by institutional investors. Whether that's some of our existing investors, when we went public from venture capital funds or family offices to investors that we've secured in raising approximately 20 million Canadian dollars as a public company from very large pension funds, family offices, and institutional funds that focus in the small cap space. The balance of that is then retail. And so the curious thing is on the one hand, it's great that we have that much institutional ownership in the immediate term, it's impact a little bit on our liquidity because we don't have a lot of float, we don't have a lot of people in and out of the stock every single day. So as we continue to mature, and now in our second year of being publicly traded, the goal is really to expand awareness, to attract more investors into the stock. And I think we'll do that both through and see that volume increase through day-to-day trading as people become more aware of what we do and the investment thesis and opportunity behind our company, but then also as we think about some strategic initiatives and potentially need to access more capital, there might be opportunities through a prospectus-based financing. Those will be defined use of proceeds and hard to predict when and if, but those will be other opportunities that we'll create for investors to move in. Fantastic. And if there was one thing that you would want shareholders to know about tantalist systems today, what would that be? So I may be jaded on it, but from where I sit as CEO of the company, we are, we have a track record as a team of executing towards our plan. Within that, we are positioning our organization to truly be at the forefront of this onslaught of electric vehicles, solar panels and a fundamental changing of the electric grid. And as we think about the importance of electricity, great investment opportunity, that's a long-term opportunity around digitizing and modernizing the electric infrastructure and the electric grid. And so we're in the thick of it with a track record of success, a thriving and growing user community of utilities and a team that's been able to identify, continue to identify paths to scale this business. And so we think we're in a great spot. We think relative to where share prices today creates a very compelling investment thesis and investment opportunity for investors that believe in a long-term strategy and that's what we're executing towards. What is the best way for investors to get in touch with the company if they have any questions about tantalist systems holdings Inc? Yeah, thanks, Rich. So we have within our website, tantalist.com, there is an investors landing page. Within that landing page, all of our filings are available and fairly readily accessible. Incremental to that, you'll see the list of analysts that are covering us with email addresses for them to the extent you're interested in getting access to some of their research. And then to your specific question, we have a contact email link that runs into the team that's responsible for our investor relations. And by all means, we're available and willing to answer questions from investors trying to learn more about our business, particularly as we try to expand the awareness of GRID, our ticker and the stock and the investment opportunity. That's right. GRID is the ticker, GRID on the Toronto Stock Exchange. I must remind everyone that Rich TV Live is strictly for information and education purposes. Please do your due diligence, do your research before you invest in anything we talk about or discuss here on Rich TV Live. In saying that, I do believe this is a company that is undervalued, underappreciated, underexposed. Thank you for joining us today, the CEO of Tantalist Systems Holdings Inc, Peter Landa. Rich, thanks for having us. I look forward to hopefully having an opportunity to come back and visit with you and provide updates to investors. So really appreciate your inclusion of us today. I appreciate you being on our show.  And for those of you guys that are watching, if you like the video, please smash the like button, comment down below, share the video everywhere and subscribe. Remember, if you're not winning, probably not watching, we bring in the winners and we bring them to you first. Thank you for watching everybody and have a nice day. Have a great day. Thanks, Rich. All right, that was good. One.


in this particular case, we've got some really interesting filmmaking going on. It's less of a documentary for me and turns out to be more of a dramatic film. We get the reaction there of the interviewer. I think we see from him real sorrow as he looks at the father and sees the father's reaction to the daughter accusing. He turns to the wife and says, you know what she's like. And it cuts to the reaction of the wife and it's dead pants, nothing there. Nothing happens, but here's the thing. There's no panning of the camera. I have no idea if that interviewer's reaction was the reaction that was at the time. I have absolutely no idea if the wife's reaction is the reaction at the time. Zero idea what's going on because it's cut, cut, cut, cut, cut. So what do I think's going on here? Some really good dramatic filmmaking. But what do I know to be true? Nothing at this point. It's mainly about the reactions, not about the subjects.