Hey, good morning everyone. Let's begin today's class with a word of prayer. Could one of us please lead us in prayer, please? Rose, is it okay if we can lead us in prayer? Yes, Pastor. Thank you. Father in heaven, all glory and praise and honor to you. Father, we thank you for this another time and opportunity that we can talk about you. We can know more about your ways in this world. Father, instill into us your word and guide us, Father, through the words that you supply through Pastor Paul. Father, anoint your words that you speak through Pastor Paul. And Father, let your words be instilled in our hearts and let them grow to fruition, Father. So they may grow fruit, 30, 60, and some even 100 fold. Make our hearts be prepared, Father, than be fertile soils. In this season of you teaching us, help us to grow more in holiness, more in godly wisdom, and more in godly character. We ask this all in the name of your Son, Jesus Christ. Amen. Amen. Amen. Thank you, Rose. All right. So yesterday, we completed our chapter five, where we looked at all the revival stories. We looked at few reflections, we looked at how what worked for them, where they failed, and yet how God was moving through these simple people. God just looked at their hunger, God answered their prayers, and many lives were touched through these great revivals. So we come to a halt in that. I'm sure we all have learned many things, many takeaways in our spirit. So let's move on to chapter six. Now that we have learned everything like from, you know, first century church to now, we will look at the church. Right now, the restoration of the church in chapter six. So I'm on page 76. We'll start off with reading Lamentations chapter five and verse 21. Lamentations five and 21. I'll just read that. Turn us back to you, O Lord, and we will be restored. Renew our days as of old. Now, the writer of Lamentations is saying, Lord, turn us back to you so that we will be restored. So even in the Old Testament, when we look at how God brought the people out of Egypt and all the things that the Israelites did, somewhere along the way, they went off guard. And so they're praying, God, restore us back to those times when we, you know, look to you, when we worship you, when we, you know, even as they gave those offerings and sacrifices as a pleasing aroma to God, restore us back to that time. You know, especially nowadays when we look at a church, when I say church, I'm talking about the body of Christ all across the world. There are places where God is moving powerfully. There are places where in the church, sadly, needs restoration in the sense that there has been wrong teachings. You know, leaders haven't been up to the mark, meaning they have been doing the wrong things, taking the sheep's tray, using the church members, and so many things are going wrong right now. So one of the prayers that we as believers always do and always make is God restore us. One thing that we can pray is say God restore us to the church like in the first century church where they moved with signs, wonders and miracles. They put aside every, you know, personal agendas and their main agenda was to bring glory to God. So we're going to look at four points today on what we need restoration for in the church. So in your notes, it's there. The first one, restoration in understanding spiritual truth, restoration in the wine skin to contain new wine, restoration in God's people pursuing God's purpose, restoration in the church impact on the world. So we look at each point now. The first one, restoration in understanding spiritual truth. All across the world in churches, many teachings are going on, right? And sometimes what happens is there will be wrong teachings or wrong doctrines and dogmas that come into the church. Now one of the recent ones that I heard of, I will leave the person unnamed, but he was, he's a very, very famous preacher, very famous preacher. He's got his own Bible college and all of it. And I read his books.  There was this, you know, these question and answer sessions. And one of the questions was basically in the interview, he's answering questions that were posted on probably Instagram or Twitter and all of that. So one of the questions was, do you believe in rapture and this wonderful, great man, the teacher, a great teacher, wonderful teacher, great expository teaching of the word of God. He says, no, I don't believe in the rapture. Right.  So it's very important that as a body of Christ, we need restoration. Now there are hundreds of thousands or maybe millions of people around the world who are listening to him. Hundreds of people come every year and join his Bible college. Right. Now we're not putting him down, but what I'm trying to do is I'm bringing out the truth. Now what's going to happen is millions of people are watching this. They look up to this wonderful man of God and he says there is no rapture. So the spiritual truth is lost there. Right. And many of the, you know, believers around the world will believe what he said because he's a wonderful man of God, wonderful teacher. So as a church, this is just one example. There are plenty of examples. There are churches that don't believe in speaking in tongues.  So a lot of these, you know, spiritual truths that are happening in the church. Now this is where we need restoration. We need to understand truth. We need to understand the word of God in light and context to what it's being said and read. Right. The moment we look at the word and we put a wrong context to it, we will, we will immediately diverge from the truth. So as a church, we need to have restoration and understanding spiritual truth. Right. There's another wonderful man of God, a wonderful preacher, great ministry. Now I'm not going to name them, but I was listening to a sermon and I was making notes. This was probably a couple of years ago. And as I was making notes, he was talking about how David and Jonathan and how, you know, God brought Jonathan into David's life. And somewhere along the sermon as I was listening, he said, you know, actually David and Jonathan were not friends. They were enemies. And I was listening to the sermon. I thought, OK, what's happening? And he says that three out of four times when David was hiding, only Jonathan knew where he was. And so it was most probably that Jonathan went and said, you know, informed King Saul, his father, that David is hiding here. Now that is not the truth. Right. We know that David and Jonathan were good friends. They had they were in one in unity with each other. But here's the thing. These are big churches, big ministries going global. And so we need the right truths to be revealed, right to truths to be taught in the church. Right. We see that through the centuries, the church's understanding of spiritual truth has really progressed. Right. Now, 10 years before or 15 years ago, prophecies were very few people. Right. There were very few people who would prophesy or prophets with government, very few people. But now we see that in the church, not only the leaders, but even believers, just regular believers, lay people in the church are prophesying. They're speaking in tongues. They're they're flowing in the gifts of the Holy Spirit. They're flowing in word of knowledge, word of wisdom. So we see that the church is progressing. Yet we need to come to this place of understanding spiritual truth in its accuracy. Right. Now, for example, if we look at revelations, right, some of our church folks, you know, young men, some older men and women, they came up to me and said, is this a tribulation? We heard the few sermon saying this is a tribulation. So my answer to that was no, because we know that in the tribulation, this is nothing. This is luxury. During the tribulation, we will see intense persecution. So what I'm trying to get at is, even as we as leaders and preachers, pastors, as we begin to teach the word of God, we need to restore the church to the spiritual true understanding of the word of God. Right. And so we saw that even in the early church, we saw salvation by grace through faith. We looked at what a baptism for the believers. Right. And these are truths that we all should walk in, sanctification, holy living, understanding and welcoming the work and the ministry of the Holy Spirit. Now, there are times that people may not understand the work of the Holy Spirit. Right. They may not, you know, be in tune with what the Holy Spirit is doing. So we as believers have to or leaders have to be open to what the Holy Spirit is doing. The baptism of the Holy Spirit. Now, there are times when, you know, we may feel that, OK, the baptism of Holy Spirit is only for the leaders or the pastors or the evangelists and the prophets and all of it. But now we know that it's for all believers. God has put out a spirit on all flesh. Right. So we are part of that. The gifts of the Holy Spirit growing in the knowledge of his word. Victorious Christian living the roles and the functions of the five-fold ministry beginning to function more powerfully within the church as well. And then equipping the saints for the work of the ministry. So we need to see all of these things abounding in the church. Right. Let's read Ephesians chapter four was 13 and 14. Can one of us please read that Ephesians chapter four, 13 and 14. Yes, sir. Till we all come. Go ahead. Till we all come in the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, that we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine by the slate of man and cunning craftiness, whereby the lying wait to deceive. Amen. Thank you, sister. Yeah, so we see here in Ephesus in Ephesians four, Paul is writing to the church in Ephesus and he's saying, Now, once you have believed the truth that we have spoken to you, do not, you know, be tossed about with every wind and doctrine that comes your way. Right. So there will be new things coming up. There will be new doctrines, new dogmas coming up. Remember Paul is writing to the Thessalonians and he's saying, he's encouraging them. He's saying, Listen, it's not yet the raptures not yet happen. They believe that raptures happen. They were worried. So Paul is writing and he's saying, No, you know, it's not it happened. These are the things that should happen. The revealing of the of the Antichrist and them will come the time of tribulation and then in the twinkling of an eye, we will all be changed. So Paul is writing to the Thessalonians. Why? Because wrong doctrine came into the church and they believed it. They were not strong in the faith. They were not strong in the truth of the Word of God. Of course, later on, Paul writes and he encourages them and that's why he ends Ephesians with chapter six. He says, put on the armor of God so that the works of the enemy will not cause any division within the church. Our spirits will not break. Our spirit will not divert us into a tangent. And so we need to understand this restoration and understanding spiritual truth. Understanding the truth of the Word of God in its right sense and taking a text and putting it into context. Many people have asked me, especially here in the city that I am in Mangalore, they don't prefer women to preach. Even, you know, it's kind of surprising for me because now we are in, you know, 2022, the 21st century and, you know, things are so open, but yet there are people who say, No, no, women should not preach. Paul is writing, he's saying women, you see, so I had to sit with them and talk to them and tell them what is the context of it? Why is he telling that church? Why is he speaking to that church that way? And but then we see that Paul had many women as leaders and Aquila and Priscilla said for fostering the church in Rome. So we always need to take text and put context to it. We remember what Jesus said, you know, the enemy during the temptation episode, the enemy said, you know, take this stone and turn it into bread. He used the Word of God, the enemy, but Jesus took that word and took that text and put it into context. He said, yes, it is written, but it is also written that man shall not live by bread alone. Throw yourself down and, you know, the Word of God says that he will send his angels to protect you and to keep you safe. Yes, that's true, but the context, Jesus responds to him and says, but it also says, not test the Lord your God. And so it's very important as a church, we need to see restoration in all of these areas. Restoration in understanding salvation is by grace through faith and all of these things. The baptism of the Holy Spirit, the gifts of the Holy Spirit, victorious living, understanding the ministry of the Holy Spirit. And so we need to teach truth within the church. Secondly, restoration in the wine skin to contain new wine. Now, as I mentioned that God wants to continuously pour out things, new works into the church, into the body of Christ. There will be times God is doing something new in a certain place.  I'm not ready to receive this yet. Here's the thing, as a church, we must be ready with new wine skins as God is pouring out something new. Matthew chapter 9 and verse 17. Can one of us please read that? Matthew 9 and verse 17. Matthew 9 verse 17 says, nor do they put new wine into old wine skins or else the wine skins break. The wine is spilled and the wine skins are ruined, but they put new wine into new wine skins and both are preserved. Amen. Amen. Thank you, Avni. So wine skins are just containers and these containers hold what, you know, hold the wine that is being poured out. So for example, if you've got a wine skin and there's some old wine in it, right?  And let me just pour this new wine into it. We don't do that. Even if we do that, the entire wine is spoiled it, right? So the wine skin is important because it contains the wine. It keeps the wine in a safe environment. It keeps the wine fresh and what is really important is not only the wine skin, but also the wine, right? So for example, we have the wine skin and God is doing something new among us. He's pouring out his spirit among us. We should be willing to let go of certain old things and be ready for God to, you know, with a new wine skin, for God to pour out his wine. Let me give you this example. There was a time when, you know, worship, all of a sudden the worship ministry in the body of Christ began to become so strong, right? I think it was the year 2013-14 globally, right? God was doing something within the church. Everywhere there were songs, wonderful songs being written and churches would, you know, see a lot of power during the times of worship. They would see healings and deliverance and God was doing something new, right? People would, you know, it is somewhere in the early, I forget the year, but I think it's early 2010 onwards is when God was doing something new through the worship ministry. People would come in front and, you know, there would be altar calls. Many churches would experience a powerful move of God during the times of worship. Now, if we, for example, God is doing something new and we say, no, no, no, it should only be five songs, right? We should end with five songs. Now what happens? And that is, yes, that's important. You have an order and service, all of that.  So we need to let go of the old and God is pouring out something new among us, right? So wine skins represent structure, right? The form and the methods and all of it. But God is, when God is doing something, when he is pouring out his spirit in the church, we should be willing to move from one place to another. There was a time in the early 19, I think when I was growing up as a little boy, I remember going to church. Nobody lifted their hands in worship. Nobody. Nobody would do that, right? Nobody would do that. I never saw it. Maybe, you know, I grew up in the Methodist church, but I never saw that. I never saw people raising their voices. I never saw expressions of worship. And not like I knew everything, but I never saw it. But the moment I started to attend these independent churches and I began to realize, hey, God's doing something new here. People are expressing themselves in worship. People are lifting their hands. They're crying out to God. For me, it was something very new. Maybe for other churches, it's something very new. And what happens is we need to let go. We shouldn't say, okay, you know what? I don't lift my hands in worship. This is how I am. I grew up this way. I need to let go of those old wine skins. Not only for, you know, I would say, not only the church as a whole, even in our lives, if we need restoration in certain areas, we can be open to the Holy Spirit. If we are not used to lifting our hands and worshiping and we're just the same way, we can let go of it and say, God restore, remove this old wine.  Have me to be a new wine skin. The church is moving from glory to glory. So we need to see, keep developing ourselves. We need to keep growing. We need new containers. We need new wine skins, new levels of faith, new levels of strength, new levels of glory, new levels of revelations are brought into the church. And so that's what we want to see. Even as God is restoring us, we want to be the wine skin ready for new wine that God is pouring on. So we see that even in all that we studied in church history and the revivals for something new, right? God is doing something new in the revivals. The last thing we did was William J. Seymour, you know, in the Azusa Street Revival. He doesn't know what's happening.  Yet he's, you know, they were ready to take up what God is doing. They were ready with new wine skin. Was there people who were talking against it, criticizing it? Yes. But they received what God wanted to do at that moment. I believe as a church we should be ready with new wine skin. If God is pouring out new wine in the form of revelations, we have to receive it. If it's through worship, if it's through working of miracles, better be ready, right? God is able to. And so we want to see this kind of restoration in the church, right? Whether it could be a small church town in a village or it could be a city, a church in the city doing very well. What we want to see is God moving and we being new wine, sorry, new wineskins for his glory, right? Restoration of the five-fold offices, unity and fellowship in the spirit amongst leaders and believers across denominational lines. I think this is very important. Now, many years back it was like, okay, the Pentecost, they are there, the Methodist, they are there, the Baptist, they are here. And so it's always been this denomination. I think this whole thing of denominations has really hit and caused a lot of problems within the church. Now, hey, which denomination you are in? Which do you know? A lot of divisions. I think as a church, if we break these denominational barriers, we will be able to accomplish more for the kingdom of God. Remember this one time, there was a pastor that I met and he's a Methodist pastor. And he said, can you come and share? He has a small church and so he said, can you come and share? I said, yes, sure, I can come. And then I prepared on the Holy Spirit and what the Holy Spirit does, the working of the Holy Spirit. And I went there, there were about 100 young people and a few families and began to teach this. And everything went on well. We finished this teaching. And at the end of that whole event, the believers who were there said, we never heard this kind of teaching. We never knew that the Holy Spirit works this way. And so the pastor also told me that we need to stop these differences because this is the Word of God. And this whole thing of the Holy Spirit is not there, he's there. The Word of God is what you have shared is through the Word of God and so we must believe it. And there was such a sense of unity at that time. We never felt that, okay, he's Methodist or we never felt any division. We felt like we were one, one body. And so that's what we want to see. We want to see these breaking downs of walls, breaking down of barriers and denominations. Yes, there will be times when, you know, God is working something in certain denominations. That's okay, but that does not mean that we say, okay, this is not for you. This is only for us now. We need to be open to what God is doing. What we receive freely, we receive freely, just give it to others and be a blessing. So one of the other important things that we want to see in terms of restoration is the five-fold offices, right? Efficiency chapter 4, 11 and 12, Paul is writing to the church in Ephesus. He's saying, he's talking about the five-fold ministry, that is the evangelist, the pastor, the teacher, the prophet, the apostle. He's saying, these, the five-fold ministry has to function in its power. So, okay, Charles, we are on page 77, right? We're talking about in chapter 6, the second point, restoration in the wine skin to contain new wine. Right, so restoration of the five-fold offices. There was a time when these, the five-fold ministry was functioning powerfully in the early church. We see that in the book of Acts, but during the dark ages, we see that this five-fold ministry was completely dampened. There was no five-fold ministry at all, right? But now after some time, after the dark ages, we see that the five-fold ministry is getting back its place. The ministry functions are, you know, are getting accepted and established in the church. Now, these ministries need to be fully restored in the church. Now, here's the problem that we see that I personally have seen with the restoration of the five-fold ministry. You've got the evangelists, you've got the prophets, the apostles and all of it. With the restoration of all of this, one of the things that is prominent in the church is this whole thing of, you know, stardom kind of attitude. Yes, God used mighty men of God, Oral Roberts, Billy Graham, Renard Bonquet, wonderful evangelist pastors like Kenneth Hagan, Derek Prince, prophets again, Kenneth Hagan and D.G.S. Denakaran and apostles like Randy Clark, Bill Johnson. So, we see the restoration of the five-fold ministry, but one of the dangers that we see right now that we should be very careful of is the whole thing of stardom. Hey, I am the prophet, nobody should come near me. If you come near me, my anointing will leave. Or I am the apostle, or I am the great evangelist. Now, as God is bringing restoration in this five-fold ministry, it is our responsibility to be good stewards of what God is doing.  Then what happens is we miss the big picture. The focus goes on the person or the preacher rather than Jesus Christ. I've seen plenty of these things that are happening within the church. And so we need to pray, God restored the five-fold function. Yes, God is restoring it, but we need to be good stewards of that restoration.  Even through our failures, he works in and through us. We need to be good stewards. Right?   Nobody knows where they are, nobody knows how, you know, what their life is. So it's all this whole thing of stardom. We need to break that. We need to break that barrier. We need to break those kind of attitudes and humble ourselves and say, God move among us. When we see in the first century church, the prophets, the apostles, the teachers, the pastors, everyone worked in unity and they worked in humility. There's no, you know, big things. Give you this example. It's a funny example, but it's really happened. It's happened many years back. I happened to go to this place for a conference and it was like a two days conference and so it was, you know, session after session after session. And so there were many preachers come from different places and so the worship was going on one morning and another preacher had to come.  And so I was wondering what is happening. And we saw and later on I realized that it is the prophet who is entering the auditorium or the tent of meeting and they were putting garlands on him and throwing flowers on the ground. And he was walking with his jacket and his sunglasses and I was there. The worship is going on. Nobody is listening to the worship, but everyone's eye is going to what's happening at the back. This man, apparently he's a great prophet and he came and he stood there, you know, right on the first row. He stood and people are, you know, he had some bodyguards or I don't know who they were, but people are coming and asking for photos. Now this is during the worship is going on during the worship time. The worship team is singing and this is all happening. People are coming to take, can I take a photo? I thought to myself, what is happening? And then he refused after some time, he refused to go on stage because he said, only if there are 500, 600 people, I would preach, otherwise I would not preach. That day, I think there were about 200 odd people and he said, where is my photo on the banner of the, you know, the conference? My photo is not there. And so I remember the pastor was, you know, handling the whole conference said, no, we're not put any photos of anyone. We just put the name of the conference. He felt offended. He said, no, I don't want a preacher. So he just did one session and he went away. And it was, it was so bad to look at.  Many of them are broken families. Many of them are hurt. They're looking for healing. They're looking for truth. Many were not even believers. They just there for the first time. What would they think seeing all of this? I believe that we are responsible for what we do in the church. We are responsible. We need to steward. The reason they are like that is because we have given them that kind of, yes, we are to honor God's people. We need to respect them. But there's a line. There's a way that we do that. And so as we see restoration in the five-fold ministry, for it, for the five-fold ministry to be powerful, we need to walk in humility. We need to walk in humility. This one time, I forget, I think we were in North India in a place called Nasik. And then we went there. It was a conference for about, I think about 500-odd pastors, two-day conference teaching on Kingdom Builders. And so during that conference, you know, actually they expected about 300-odd people. This is in 2013, I guess. And in our pastoral team, few of us went through the pastoral.  And so, you know, it was kind of, you know, a lot of arrangements needed to be done with chairs and food and all of it. And then so everyone tried to put their hand in help. And so this one time, it was the lunchtime and people finished, there were some people who finished eating and they left the plates there. And I'll never forget this. And so I was standing in the line with the plate, you know, just going to go get food.  I said, okay, brother, and I went. And he said, no, I am not brother. I am apostle. You know, you see my name on the tag. I said, okay, apostle, I will do what you asked me to do. So I went and began washing the plates. It doesn't matter to us because, you know, one of the things we learned in APC is to do the smallest of things, no matter what. We learned to do our own things. Even in Bible college, we do our own stuff. So it doesn't matter. It didn't matter to me. Okay, began to wash the plates and all of it. Then he said, go and wash the glasses there. Not only me, but there were a few other people as well. And so we did that because, you know, there were 500 people. So we had to replenish the plates. We did all of that. And then I stood back into line and, you know, we finished the lunch break. That was the afternoon session. And the first session in the afternoon was my session.  We did about, I think it was a one hour session. We did the one hour session, took a 15, took a break. Then this pastor came up to me and he said, oh, I didn't know you're from Bangalore. I didn't know you're the, come from the postural team. You're teaching in the thing. I said, that's okay. Apostle, it's okay. Doesn't matter. The point is the things need to be done. He said, no, no, no. Then I began to realize, I told him, it's all right. Come down. We're all working together. But I realized one thing. I realized that the reason we are like this, like, you know, we have this whole thing of apostle, prophet, then the title is because sometimes we gain, we want to gain recognition from people than God. We've worried about what people think than what God thinks. Right. So the reason I'm sharing this is this is happening not only in our nation, but everywhere and it's happening. When you, you know, especially when the ministry is small, nothing, you know, you don't feel anything, but as the ministry is getting bigger and bigger and bigger, we need to guard ourselves. Say, God, you are working. You are restoring the five-fold ministry. Let it glorify you. Then we see unity and fellowship in the spirit across denominations. You know, there will be critics.  We need to, as God's people, we need to tear down denominations. The mistake we make is if we don't agree with some denominations, we tend to, you know, talk against it or, you know, publicly speak against it. This is what they're doing wrong. This is what they should do. You know, they're doing this way. Their worship is like this. So, you know, their word is like this. Remember what Jesus did. So beautiful. Jesus said, we shall know the truth and the truth will set you free. Right. You shall know the truth and the truth will set you free. Right. You shall know the truth and the truth will set you free. So instead of mocking others, instead of putting them down, just speak the truth. Right. Speak the truth. The truth will set you free. Now, God has given me wonderful opportunities. I've preached in charismatic Catholic churches. I've preached in Catholic churches. I've preached in Methodist and Baptist churches, Calvinistic churches. I didn't go. We're going to go there and bash their theology and say, this is wrong. This is wrong. Just go there, speak the truth and let the truth set them free. Right. And so we need to cause unity of fellowship within the church rather than denominations. Break down these denominations. Right. Of course, we may have different styles. Every church has different essence. But let it not be a hindrance for the work of God. Right. Then we see the release of movements that help form new wineskin churches. When we looked at how even the church history that we saw, the revival times, during these revivals, God is pouring out his new wine, new movements began to take place. Right. New churches began to be formed. The Pentecostal movement in the early 1900s emphasized the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Now, are they important? Very important. Right. Until that time, you know, baptism of the Holy Spirit. Okay. You know, Holy Spirit is there or some of them believed he's not even there. But the Pentecostal movement brought the assemblies of God, you know, they began speaking in tongues. They began, you know, emphasizing that the Holy Spirit is able to do it. Right. Then the latter rain moment that every believer can manifest the gifts of the Holy Spirit. And he got the word of faith moment, encouraging the believers, Hey, you pray, have faith in God. God is able to bring healing. God is able to bring deliverance. Right. Charismatic moment, encouraging believers to flow in the gifts of the spirit. The Jesus movement, accepting people for who they are. Remember the Jesus movement we studied that the hippies, those who are, you know, drug addicts and living in sinful lives, they've got to know Jesus. And so they expect accepting them. The Jesus movement accepted them for who they are. I mean, now we've come to a place where if we see people with tattoos, maybe earlier on was like, Oh, he's got tattoos. He's a sinner. Now we're open to that. Right.  But what we're trying to say is they may have got tattoos done before and just accepting them. Right. It's not about the tattoos.  That's at stake. So the charismatic movement was more open. The Jesus movement, the worship movement, the new styles of worship, vineyard songs, integrity music, Maranatha music, new styles of worship. Right. And then the church growth movement, how God used David, Pastor David Yungi Cho through these, you know, small groups and what he did, you know, in the prayer mountain and starting these small prayer groups, resulting in a huge impact. And the church bringing thousands of people to church. And so many of the ministries have replicated what David, Pastor David Yungi Cho did. And they did see the fruit. Right. Many places, you know, many sermons that I've heard of, Pastor David Paul Yungi Cho, where he says that, you know, he, he goes to these churches and teaches them how to have cell groups and how they can, you know, be effective in cell groups and how churches with just 50, 60 grew to 200, 300 people very quickly. So we see that people did take up these movements and work with it. Now I'm not saying that it will work everywhere. Right. But it does work. Right. Then we see now, even now, the ongoing church, right? Then we see now, even now, the ongoing marketplace ministry where ministry is done among the marketplace, the spheres of influence, the IT sector, business, trade and all these other things, government, arts and entertainment, media, ministries being done, touching lives through all these places. So we see that as God is releasing his move, as God is releasing the work of the Holy Spirit, we need to be ready with new wineskin. Let's not stick on and say, okay, no, this is how I am. This is what I learned when I was in Sunday school. And so this is what I will stick on to. No, God is teaching us something new, be open to it. Right. This two more points quickly. Restoration of in God's people pursuing God's purpose. Right. Even Ephesians 4, 11 and 12, the five-fold ministry, it was the Lord's intent that we be equipped for the ministry so that the church is built up. Right.  We're learning. What are we doing? We're stripping ourselves. Right. Even we as, you know, teachers and ministering in the church and all of it, what are we doing? We also, we can't say, okay, now I have achieved. I have become a pastor. Done it. I've achieved everything that I wanted to achieve. No, it's a learning process. We continue to pursue God. We continue to ask God for new things in our lives. So progressive revelation, progressive pursuing of God's purposes. Right. The moment we come to a place, we say, okay, I've done what God has wants me to do. And we take a back seat. We'll see that, you know, somewhere we will lose focus on what God wants us to do. Remember what Proverbs says, a man that lacks vision will fail. Right. So we need to have a purpose. We need to continue with that purpose. This whole thing of clergy and laity. Okay. These, this place is for the clergy, meaning pastors, apostles, prophets, and these are believers. So the believers have to listen to the prophets and the pastors. No, that whole thing of clergy and laity has been, you know, is, is getting wiped away. Everyone are one in unity. And we want to see that happening. And then finally, restoration in the church's impact to the world. And God is calling us to be salt and light. Right. The church should impact the world and not the world impacting the church. That's what we saw in the revivals. Right. We saw in all the revivals, the church was impacting the world. The church, people are wondering what's happening. People, why is the shops closed?  Why? Because they're all sitting in the church crying and weeping. The church should be able to impact the world. You and I are the church. You and I are to impact the world. Now we may think, Oh, how can I be? How can I am just an insignificant person? You know, maybe I don't know anybody or I'm just a homemaker or I'm just, you know, I'm just, I have I'm just serving in the church. I'm in the volunteer team in the church. Remember, it's one heart at a time. Right. It's one heart that you and I can touch. And that's one heart can touch a hundred others. So one heart at a time. It's all right. Right. No matter what, that's one or whether it's 100 or 300,000, we as a church are to impact the world. That's when we will see the restoration of the church as a whole. So these are the points. I hope we've been able to take a few takeaways from this lesson. Any questions? Past our time. Any questions? Any questions? Any thoughts anyone has? Okay. All right. Is it okay? Are you able to understand? Because I've been talking the whole session. Maybe what we can do is we can also leave it open next class next week. We will just leave it open, have some time for discussion, take thoughts from each other. And then we can, you know, start the next session with that time of discussion as well. All right. Great. Let's go back to prayer. One of us leaders, can you please close in prayer? Yes, pastor. Thank you. Most gracious and loving heavenly Father, we want to thank you and praise you Father for this time. Lord of learning father, we thank you so much Father for this message. Lord that we have heard the teaching that we have heard Lord. This brings great encouragement and great stirring of our hearts. to seek you God to hunger more Lord so that we could see that restoration happen oh God and Lord that we could see the work of the Holy Spirit oh God that we could see Father that change that we could bring about to Father in this world that is so filled with darkness Lord as you have promised Lord that the glory is going to come Lord in the last days Father Lord the word promised to us in Isaiah 60 when the darkness increase and grows darkness is going to be upon the people Lord but the promise of the Lord is the Lord will arise over you and his glory will be seen upon you this is our time Lord as a church oh God to come to the fullness of restoration Lord and to bring that impact to this world Father when the church today is so diluted Lord and the world has brought its influence inside the church we just pray for the fire of the Holy Spirit oh God and the light of your presence to shine in amidst so greatly Lord and the glory to be upon us so strong and so greatly Lord manifesting Father God so in a mighty way that the world would see as your word says in Isaiah 60 the Gentiles will come to your light and the kings to the brightness of your rising so we pray may you get all the glory and honor and praise Father and all that is going to happen in the coming days and that which you plan to accomplish in us and through us Father so we want to surrender our lives afresh and say Lord here we are we're going to do your workiness so Father we thank you we praise you we give you all the glory and honor in the name of your Son the Lord Jesus Christ we pray we pray blessings upon Pastor Paul oh Lord he's been a great blessing to us so we thank you so much Father we pray blessing upon him Father in the name of your Son the Lord Jesus we pray Father amen amen thank you so much Pula thank you everyone have a wonderful week ahead God bless you all God bless thank you thank you Pastor thank you God bless thank you God bless thank you


Hello, beautiful souls. Welcome back to Art of Awakening. My name is Onah. And today we're going to be talking about grounding.  And every time I get one of those comments, I kind of laugh to myself because I'm really not a natively grounded person. It's something that I have worked really diligently at for years. And so I thought, well, why not make a video on that? Because grounding is such an important thing for spiritually awakening people, for creative people, for star seats of any kind. So if that's you and if you've been wondering, how do I ground myself spiritually? This video is for you. So let's start with the big question. What does it actually mean to be grounded? And to me, grounding just means to be fully in your body, to be comfortable as an embodied being in this world and fully integrated into the natural world, right? And spiritually that what that does is it anchors us to earth. We can work on it at the spiritual level, at the mental level, at the emotional level and at the actual physical level. And especially that whole body mind continuum. When we work on one, we're working on it all. OK, so why do we want to ground? What are the benefits of grounding? Physically, when we're grounded, we're really connected in with nature. We're connected to the earth. And what that does is it allows your body to relax and to heal. OK, it helps your body to just feel comfortable in its own skin. And again, for healing, this is really, really great mentally for the mental body. Also, it helps the mental body relax, right? And it also helps us to focus, right? Because if we are way up here in the ethers and the air's air, right? It's there's not a whole lot to anchor in. So when we're grounded, when we ground ourselves, it gives us a kind of anchor point or a focal point. And that really helps us to master the mind. Also, it really helps to alleviate anxiety and overwhelm. So that kind of starts connecting into the emotional body. If you're working on grounding practices, it helps you to alleviate any kind of emotional swings back and forth. And also, it helps you to be able to control your emotions, right? As empaths, right? We're all mostly attuned to everybody else. But if you're well grounded, it's it's easier for you to maintain your own emotions, right? Rather than being swayed by somebody else's emotional field, we can kind of hold ground and hold stable. That's why it's that's why when we have a really grounded person, it feels so good to be around them, right? Because it's not pulling us one way or the other emotionally. And then spiritually, grounding is super essential for spiritual mastery because it again, it provides that anchoring point and so that you can be fully connected above and below, right? It gives us that ability to bridge heaven and earth, right? When we're grounded, it gives you something, quote unquote, something to stand on, right, energetically. And the further you take your spiritual practice, the more important this is going to be, right? Because one of the things it does is to help you to stand your ground against illusion or any kind of negative entities that might be trying to influence you or trying to enter your field, OK? So grounding also allows for manifesting your spiritual energies into physical reality. So if you're trying to do any kind of manifestation work or law of attraction work or anything like that, this is really going to stand you in good stead. You need to be grounded for that kind of work. And that includes financial abundance and financial manifesting. If you're not real grounded or if you're spending a lot of time in the ethers, it's really hard to do that manifesting work.  Really highly creative people, too, right? Because as creative people, as artists, as musicians, as, you know, even social leaders might be really creative or entrepreneurs can be super creative people, right? That imagination that you have that serves you so well as a creative person also can be kind of unbalancing or ungrounding.  So that that grounding is really important if you're creative. And also if you've experienced any kind of trauma, if you're recovering from trauma and this could be an acute trauma, like a one-time thing, maybe you were in a car accident or an ongoing trauma. If you've been in a very challenging relationship for a long time or really stressful job for a long time, OK, any kind of trauma recovery is going to be really, really helped out by grounding practices, right?  And it's it's it's a defensive response, right, of the mind. But grounding can really help you bring back into your body and really helps that healing process of reconnecting. My cell phone just kind of died, so I'm going to continue this here. And then finally, here's my top tip for grounding, which is one that I really wasn't really working with until just a few days ago, which is why I thought about this video. So I'm really, really excited about this potential for grounding.  OK, so one way to bring more rhythm and to to to bring rhythm into your life is through the breath. Long meditation work will use the breath, but being mindful of the breath can can really assist us in grounding, bringing the air deep into the body. Another one is one I'm personally working on right now is the sleep cycle, right, and regulating, not just getting enough sleep, but getting really regular sleep, which means going to bed at the same time every night and waking up at the same time every night. I have been completely astounded, like I've been, you know, over the past few years really working on making sure I get enough sleep. But I found that once I started making sure that that sleep was regular, it has been a world of difference in terms of my ability to focus, my ability to get things done, to follow through with things. And also what I have found is that it has really, without even thinking about it, been curbing kind of food cravings, right, just regulating that sleep pattern. It's amazing. So and so to me, that's like that's these are the kind of the basic things if you can get your sleep rhythm down, then it also helps other rhythms in your life to fall into place. Right.  Right. What are some routines that you can work into your day?  I haven't even got there yet personally, but even just the sleep has been amazing. OK.  And we've been talking this whole video about grounding, but recognize that if you are a star seed, right, you are feeling probably very natively comfortable here up in the Aethers. And it's super important to honor that and respect it and give yourself time for that as well. Right.  Right. And so the grounding helps to support that because what can happen is I think there's there there tends to be a part of our mind. And this is usually picked up from just kind of what we're taught by by, you know, out in the world, right? That dreaming is a waste of time or it keeps you ungrounded so that it's not practical and, you know, you should be doing something more practical, you should be doing this or that or the other, or you should do that first before you allow yourself to do your creative work. All these little things, right, that the ego tells us to do and is trying to help us be grounded. Right. So, but we have to also recognize that the grounding really supports the work that comes out of this this ether connection that we have, right? So if you can somehow recognize and honor that in the taking command and taking control of your rhythms, you you want to make sure that you honor and really protect the time, you know, set aside time specifically for your connection work, right? This is why having a consistent spiritual practice is so important. And I think all the the the great traditions will tell you that, you know, though they'll specify what practices, but you can come up with whatever spiritual practice works for you. But if you can do it on a daily basis and preferably the same time of day can can really really help in it. That helps to kind of take that real strong ether connection and bring it in to your life in a way that is grounded and is connected with the the cycles of time, right? And that helps to keep everything integrated so we can be healthy, happy and strong and body, mind and spirit. OK, so this is such an important topic. Every spiritual person needs to know how to ground themselves and why. And so if you agree, then there are three things that you can do that I'm going to ask you to do right now to help your fellow star seeds to stay nice and connected with their bodies and their earth. One is to like this video. It will trigger the YouTube algorithm to show up for more people. And then another is to share on your social networks or with friends. If there's anybody specifically that you think this could be helpful for. And then the third is to let us all know how do you stay grounded, right? What are your best tips for star seeds? So you can help the next person who watches this video by sharing in the comments below. Just type in your best tip for grounding. And remember, you were born to be free.


Hi, welcome to the first class of integrated pest management. Before getting into the applied aspect about how to manage a pest in an agricultural ecosystem, let us first look at the basic science about the insects, their abundance and the diversity. We all know that insects as a group are more successful organisms on the planet. It is true if you look at the tremendous success relative to the other organisms other than human beings and their extreme importance from the human point of view. How do you measure the success of insects? One of the airsticks for measuring their success is the number of extant species that means existing species on the planet. Insects probably outnumber all the species of other animals and the plants combined. It has been estimated that there are nearly 10 million species of insects and out of which we only know about 1 million species of insects. Another airsticks for measuring their success is their adaptations and it is quite phenomenal. So insects are most abundant and quite adopted to every conceivable places on the terrestrial habitat. If you look at this pie chart which gives the glimpse of about the number of extant species in relation to the other organisms. Nearly 1 lakh species of insects which have been identified will take a lion's share when compared to the description which is made in other organisms including the plants. Fishes which occupies a major habitat on the universe like water were also no match for the insect diversity and of course birds and animals are also very few. And this diagram will further strengthens and tells the abundance of the insects which speaks about their diversity when compared to all other organisms. Now what exactly the position of the insects in an animal kingdom? So let us look at its position. The animal kingdom can be broadly categorized as vertebrates and invertebrates and insects which comes under the phylum Arthropoda. So mainly belongs to an invertebrate group and it shares with the other sister groups such as arachnids, the crustaceans and myriapods. Now what are the reasons for such a tremendous success especially for the insects? Actually the Darwin's theory of evolution through natural selection which has 5 premises will very well fit into the insects as in successful groups. Let us look at one by one. The insects have got a very high natality rate indicating that their birth rate is higher than the death rate. So the many more individuals are born in each generation then actually they survive and reproduce and insects are highly variable because each individuals will have a variable characters which is not identical to their other individuals and insects also have a very high survivorship. The individuals with certain characteristics have a better chance of survival and reproduction when compared to the other characters and some of these characters of the insects are quite heritable since these characters are what is called transfer to the next generation and those characters are going to stay with that generation. And more important is they have got a time at their advantage as these insects are available or originated long ago and which has made them for a slower and steady evolutionary process. Remember the insects as attacks on have a very long inhabited this planet. Now let us look into the time of events of these things. So if you look at the earth which has actually is 4.5 billion years old and the first living cells in the form of a single cell creature like prokaryotes have originated during the P. Cambrian period around 3.1 billion year ago and the multicellular organisms have first started 600 million year ago during Cambrian period and the arthropods which are the mothers of the insects we can say were actually moved from aquatic ecosystem to the land ecosystem around 425 million years ago during Celerian period and we have in first evidence of the true insects around Devonian period which is around 400 million years ago. And at 3.45 million years ago the first great radiation of insects came which is at Carboniferous period and second great radiation of insects happened at 135 million years ago during Cretaceous period. I will explain about these two great radiations in the coming slides and we know that in comparison with the insects so around 63 million years ago that is in tertiary period. So it was dominated by mammals, birds along with insects and we the human beings hardly evolved since 2 million years ago and this diagram will again speaks about the evolution of insects in close relation to the other organisms such as myriapods and the crustaceans which are the sister groups of insects so which started around 400 million years ago. And if you look at the dinosaurs which started in the middle and then become extinct and compared to the man who has most recently evolved. I was telling you about the great radiations of the insects which took place during the course of evolution you look at like when the insects started on the earth. So in fact they were quite primitive in terms of not having the wings. So we let us look at the macro evolutionary process of the insect a little bit. So insect macro evolution if you look at that the first group of insects which were actually wingless and which are referred as a teregotens and which were originated during 400 million years ago during Devonian period and quite surprisingly some of these groups such as the silver fish then spring tails along with proturans and dipluorans are still existing. The first great radiation of insect took place by the possession of the wings and in fact we know that the insects are the first invertebrates who actually developed wings and capable of flying and thus group of insects we call them as the teregotens. And in this teregot group in fact the earlier insects like the dragonflies, damselflies and the mayflies are referred as paleopterans as they do not have the capability of folding their wings and it was a little bit disadvantageous. And the second great radiation of insect took place with a very little modification as a wing flexing mechanism that means they developed a mechanism of folding the wings and with this slight modification the insects could actually exploit smaller places and escape from the predators and having a better survivorship. So they are referred as the neopterous group and you will be surprised to know that nearly 97% of the species which are existing today will comes under the neopterous group. Now coming back to the classification of the insect in the animal kingdom I was telling you about the position of the insects and this insects which comes under the arthropoda are closely related to the arachnids, crustaceans and the myriapods. Arachnids which commonly include the scorpions, mites, then the spiders and the ticks whereas the crustaceans includes the crayfish, crabs, lobsters and the myriapodans which mainly have the centipedes and the millipedes. And all these four sister groups along with the insects will share certain common characters which are a characteristic feature of the arthropods. What are the characteristic feature of arthropods? Arthropods can be broadly divided as an arthropoda and poda. Arthropoda means the jointed and poda means the appendage or the legs and all these groups have got the jointed or segmented body and paired and segmented appendages. And these appendages are bilaterally symmetrical and they have been provided with an exo-critical which is a special cuticular structure which is made up of chitin which is periodically shed. And they have an open circulatory system unlike our higher animals which have got a closed circulatory system and the body cavity is not true. And how can we differentiate the insects as a group from the other sister groups? There are three to four basic characters by which anybody can identify an organism as an insect. Let us look at what are those characters. So insect basically have got three body divisions as a head, thorax and abdomen and these head, thorax and abdomen are easily distinguishable. Then all these insects have got three pairs of legs or six legs that is why we refer them as hexapoda. Hexa means six, poda means legs and each pair of these legs arise from each of the thoracic segment. And they also have a pair of antenna which is situated on the head which acts as a sensory structure and majority of the insects will possess the wings either one pair or two pairs of wings and with these characters it is quite possible to identify the insects. Thank you.


Whoever dominates the third wave will hold wealth for like a generation. You see that with music, first wave people. There was all these people with modern music pre 1950 Elvis. There was these black bands of great musicians doing rap in the 1940s, but we don't know them because that first wave gets forgotten easily only rarely. Like Frank Sinatra, Sinatra came out of the first wave and survived the second wave. He was still on Johnny Carson in the seventies. Second waiver was Elvis. Elvis was that second wave dude in music and third and that lasted. Michael Jackson was second wave strong, but music will be dominated in a hundred years by the third wave. I mean, first wave was Bach actually, Bach Beethoven. Most people have forgotten them. Most people can't name one Bach song. He's the greatest musician of all time of modern times by far.


Greece said on Friday it had completed a 40 km fence on its border with Turkey. Also, a new surveillance system was in place to stop possible asylum seekers from trying to reach Europe following the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan. Events in Afghanistan have fuelled fears in the European Union of a repeat of the 2015 refugee crisis. Then, nearly a million people fleeing war and poverty in the Middle East and beyond crossed to Greece from Turkey before travelling north to wealthy estates. Greece has stepped up efforts to patrol its borders by completing a 40 km fence on its boundary with Turkey and installed a new surveillance system to stop possible asylum seekers from trying to reach Europe following the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan. The Afghanistan crisis has created possibilities for migrant flows. Citizens Protection Minister Mikhailes Christochoides said after visiting the region of Evros on Friday with the Defence Minister and the head of the armed forces. He added, We support the democratic rights and freedoms of people, but we cannot allow the instrumentalisation of migrant flows that could possibly occur. The Taliban's rapid takeover has fuelled fears in Europe of a repeat of the 2015 refugee crisis when nearly a million people fleeing war and poverty crossed to Greece from Turkey before travelling north to wealthy estates. Greek Prime Minister Kirios Mitsotakis and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan discussed the issue of Afghanistan in a phone conversation on Friday with Erdogan saying Afghanistan and Iran, a key route for Afghans into Turkey, should be supported or a new migration wave was inevitable, a statement from his office said. Greece has hardened its migration policy in recent months by fencing off its migrant camps. It has in the recent past stopped people entering its waters, though it denies widely reported allegations of so-called pushbacks. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.


It's Diddy Canem back today with another spark video. Huge shout out to everybody too, and if you want to subscribe, make sure to subscribe and give me a thumbs up and do not skip those ads. It is June 4th and it's time for us to get to this bag, baby. In this video, we only did six orders to get an order. We only was out for three and a half hours and we let that money shout out, baby. So guys, what makes you stay tuned to the full video? Also, if you want to buy something merch, all you have to do is to email me at brohmshouseofgmail.com. I hope you guys enjoyed the video. Make sure you subscribe and give me a thumbs up and do not skip those ads. It's time to get to this bag. Let's go.  One more two orders, three more seven miles for 35, 62. You know what we had to do. Order number two is all order. One more two orders, 5.4 miles for 34, 55. It's a great time to be alive. Let's go. Order three and four is time for us to get to this dough. 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We gotta go up some stairs, but it ain't that much in the audience, so we're gonna be good, baby. We gotta go right over here. This is actually a restaurant under here, too. It's like a crab boil place. I don't eat the crabs and all that. I ain't be really a big seafood here. Come up alone and let me know if you like the seafood, baby. Let's go up these stairs and I'm coming right here. If I own this, I'll be living right up here. I own like that crab spot out there right here, baby. So I ain't gotta drive nowhere. I just go right downstairs to get busy. I ain't got much room up here. I might have to put some of this stuff on the stairs if they don't come out. That door's like right there. Got bird right there. They got that tombstone piece. Oh, they got the jacks piece. Jacks are decent, too. Comment below and let me know. Maybe like that jacks piece.  Step back here with the photo, y'all know that snack. Let's go. There we are, here's number two. That's what we got. 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They got that link car, especially they got the juice. They got the orange juices and capri sons and all that stuff. Look at that lanky. I'm gonna try to, I'm gonna get all this stuff at one time. We're gonna grind it anytime. Let's go. It's gonna be kind of hard carrying it, but I'm gonna do it anyway. Time for us to get this cake, baby. Hello. It's okay. Thank you. If you want me to, I can put it right there by the door if it makes it easy. Let's put it right here. Okay. And that is there. Let's take a little picture. Alrighty, you guys, have a good one. I have a little 43 items, 6.9 miles for 42, 23. That's just like Gordon, let's go. And just like that, it is the end of the video. I hope you guys enjoyed the content. We've made enough to pop our collar, baby. Look at the time. It's 10.34. We came to school and y'all already know let's go. And if you guys want to buy some of the merch, all you gotta do is send me email at robeshotstories.gmail.com. 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Many misconceptions still revolve around introversion today that form stereotypes like boner or missing throat, but personality is not as black and white as that. In fact, it's a fluid component which is what make humans complex and interesting as a whole. We want to help you understand that the intent of personality theories isn't to box us up neatly in categories, but rather they exist to show how unique we are and what our needs are. For instance, it's still commonly misunderstood and we would like to reduce the stigmas attached to it. Are you an introvert? Here are six traits of introversion you might identify with. 1. Being around people for a long period of time drains you, so you need to be alone to recharge. Both extroverts and introverts need time to recharge, but according to Jennifer B. Conwheeler, a certified speaking professional and author, extroverts need shorter amounts of it than introverts do. Colin De Young, a psychology professor, points out that introverts are often drained by socializing because the rewards that come from it don't stimulate them. De Young also states, extroverts get drained by socializing too, but they are more motivated to engage in it anyway, and it takes more socializing before they start to feel drained. In other words, introverts can go to parties and still have as much fun as extroverts do, but they may have a different approach to fun. Extroverts, for instance, may enjoy meeting new people, whereas introverts like to spend time with a few quality friends before leaving early to recharge. 2. You enjoy solitude. One study has shown that extroverts are more stimulated by people, whereas introverts pay more attention to inanimate objects. Participants in the study were asked to look at pictures of faces and flowers, and researchers took note of their brain activity. According to the results, extroverts showed a higher response to pictures of faces, whereas introverts showed a higher response to pictures of flowers. This is why introverts may enjoy solitary activities, such as reading, writing, or solitary sports because they are more fulfilling than engaging in groups or social activities. Overall, introverts enjoy being alone, not because they dislike people, but rather because they don't emphasize as much importance on the people as extroverts do. To learn more about the benefits of solitude, check out our video here. Child Development Researcher and author Kenneth H. Reuben acknowledges that solitude is an important tool to bring balance into one's life. It needs to be in healthy doses, however. 3. You are reflective and self-aware. Introverts tend to turn inwards and enjoy reflecting on their thoughts, memories, and observations. As a result, they contemplate a lot about what ifs and enjoy reading books that stimulate their curiosity on topics, such as history, psychology, and philosophy. Generally, they like analyzing and seeing how things work, but moreover, they find it meaningful to be self-aware and want to understand themselves better as a whole. This is why introverted people can be creative deep thinkers and great at problem solving. 4. The quality of your friendships are more important to you than the quantity. Introverts don't like having a large group of friends and prefer to have one or two best friends rather than many acquaintances they aren't as close to. They are careful about who they let into their social circle and prefer one-on-one interactions instead of large group settings. They find it easier to have deep, meaningful conversations with one person, whereas it can be intimidating to be vulnerable and open up when you're surrounded by many people. That's why introverts prefer long-lasting friendships with a small number of friends instead of spreading their intimacy thin with many people who don't get past small talk. 5. You have a habit of learning by observing first. Extroverts have a tendency to jump right in and learn as they go through hands-on experience. Introverts, however, prefer to observe first on the sidelines before getting involved in the same activity. They have a habit of watching a task being done repeatedly until they feel comfortable enough to mirror it. Introverts like to take their time and go at their own pace when they develop new skills and digest new information. Whereas extroverts usually enjoy performing for an audience, introverts prefer to practice in private without feeling the pressure of doing it in front of others. 6. You prefer jobs that involve freedom and independence. Introverts are typically drawn to jobs that involve independence and not as much social engagement with others. Jobs such as writing, accounting, computer programming, or graphic designing are preferred by introverts because a great degree of privacy is required. But that's not to say introverts can't excel in jobs that require a lot of communication. In fact, because introverts are great listeners and are deeply observant of others, they are usually skillful at problem solving and make exceptional leaders where their team members feel heard. But overall, introverts enjoy working in careers that involve their focus to details with how to great need for outside distractions. This is why they make some of the most innovative workers. But because of their humble demeanor, they are often the least recognized in the workplace. We hope that by shedding light on these amazing traits of introverts, the world can learn to appreciate them more. Are you an introvert? Do you identify with these traits? Please share your thoughts with us below. 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Hey, how's it going? In this video, I'm going to answer one of you guys questions asking me several things about the testing phase and let me just answer them. Okay. So the his question is what countries do you target for your testing phase? Okay. So this one is dependent on your supply chain, but generally you just want to do us first. And then afterwards, even for us campaigns, I will separate us campaigns and then the top four countries. So if you don't want to talk about in my mind tier one countries are the high GDP per capita areas. So it'll be US, UK, Australia and New Zealand. Right. If you're going to throw in Canada as well, yeah, then probably Canada. Okay. So I generally test us and then Canada, Australia, UK, New Zealand. I put it into a separate campaign. Okay. So it usually the data is very, very different. By the way. So that's the countries that I usually test for testing phase. Okay.  Yes, I give them 72 hours. So like when I launch ad right after three days, I don't even touch it. The reason why is because like you cannot make a decision. If you make a decision before that, right? It's really skewing your data. It's going to mess up your decision making and your understanding of what is actually working. Okay. So that's generally how I see it. Do you give it 72 hours or do you kill it after it spends the break even KPI without sell? Yes. I run it for 72 hours. And only after 72 hours, it doesn't hit that break even KPI. Then yes, I will kill. Okay. When do you transition profitable ad sets from the testing phase to the scaling phase? What is the indicator that the ad set is ready to scale? Okay. How I like to do it is just for example, if I was running $100 per day and then on the testing phase after three days, and then I see it gets purchased. Right. So it's like, okay, I can keep this ad set on. I can keep this campaign on. Okay. I'll let it run for probably another two to three days. And then if after two to three days, that is still getting consistent purchase, then I will move it to the scaling phase. So there's obviously initial 72 hours. And after the 72 hours, probably another 72 hours where it can show consistent performance, then I will bring it to scaling. Okay. Hopefully that makes sense. And that's because like time lag and like just making sure that at higher spend that can, what's called, the performance can be consistent as well. Okay. So after the testing phase, you still need to show purchases after a while. Otherwise, if you scale too fast, right, you don't really know whether it can get the same performance or high spend. Right. So I, that's why I always say on asset level, right, testing even try to do $100 per day first so that after the first three days, three day period, right, you probably want to increase the budget by 10 to 20% day by day. And afterwards you move to the scaling phase. Okay. Hopefully that answers your question. Okay. How often do you test new audiences in your testing campaign? Okay. I test every day. I launch every single day. So that's probably the difference between people who find, I don't know, can scale and don't. It's just because I think I test them more than you probably. Right. So I test every day. And of course, if for example, if your budget per day is like $300 per day, and that's all you can go, that's the max, right. And then obviously if, for example, the first, after 72 hours, one of the campaigns die, then you turn it off, then you just launch a new one. You need to keep launching. If you don't keep launching, right, you won't have new cold traffic and customers coming in. So that's how you expand the business. Right. So that's, that's, you just need to keep testing really. You need to keep testing every single day. And obviously if you have the budget, just test like crazy. Just test everything. Okay. That's going to make you resistant to everything else. Okay. Yep. So that's pretty much it. Hopefully that answers your question. Yep. If you have any questions, any other questions, please put them down in the comment section below. I will take them and then I will answer those questions and then create a video for you guys to help you guys as well. Okay. Yep. That's pretty much it.