Thank you very much for coming. This is the Drupal local dev survey results. I'm gonna Go a little bit faster here because I've got a fair bit to cover through so I hope you're all enjoying your Drupal South experience so far I especially hope you enjoyed the splash awards last night. I am very sadly no longer in my tuxedo I was told in no uncertain terms that it could not be worn two days in a row Which I'm very sad about So welcome today welcome today to for those of you that I haven't been lucky enough to meet yet My name is Mike Richardson. I'm the managing director and co-founder of a hosting provider called iron star and I'm also the treasurer on the Drupal South steering committee. So working to help bring you this event I really really hope that you're enjoying it I in star I've just got to do the quick plug is a managed Drupal hosting company working with our partners on mission critical sites Our focus is on providing the highest levels of support and security for sites that absolutely need to be online and protected If that sounds like your site or your sites Please have a chat because I'm pretty confident we could be doing a good job for you Now with that out of the way, this is announcing the 2023 Drupal local dev survey results and just in case You're in the wrong room. There are some other really good talks at the moment. So thank you for choosing to be here This survey was started in 2018 and run in 2019 and 2020 by Jeff Geeling and Chris Urban Who are ex aquia and sadly no longer heavily involved in the Drupal community? Chris has moved on to program management at a consultancy called confluent And Jeff is a full-time YouTuber with nearly half a million subscribers Mostly working on Raspberry Pi's So these surveys focus on asking Drupal developers all over the world about the tools hosts and processes They use to build great Drupal websites I found the data from these surveys in previous years to be really really helpful. We host Drupal websites We build tools for Drupal developers and the insights of this offered were really useful and this year I found myself wanting to get those insights again something a little bit more up-to-date And I reached out to Chris and Jeff to ask if there is an intention to do this again They said no So I asked if they would mind if I took over and started doing that from this year And they very graciously gave me the all-clear to do so So the survey was also translated into three languages this time for the first time so Drupal Drupal is a very English centric tool and I felt that it was important to try and get better quality of data by Getting this into as many other languages We could and allowing respondents who will use English in their daily life for working with Drupal because I don't think that you can Without a little bit of English skill But I felt we might get more responses and better responses if we offered translated versions and that certainly seemed to be the case So I want to take a moment to really think Our translators Marine Gandhi from platform who is also head of the Drupal is the the Drupal Kind of the exact word for it But she's president of audits effectively a Drupal community for all of France So she provided the French translation our very own Jimmy can from Einstein who provided the Japanese translation and Chris Wu Who works at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology who provided the traditional Chinese translation? So thank you to all three of our translators. There was a lot of work that went into that So in 2023 we received 829 responses from 96 different countries We had responses from places like Ethiopia, Albania, Costa Rica, Vietnam and Cuba As well as many of the countries that you'd expect to see I Was very nervous when I put the the survey up for the first time and announced that on Twitter and I Was like okay if I get if I get 50 responses, that's enough to be useful if I get a hundred responses That's statistically significant All the responses being in Australia came in overnight or nearly all of them So every morning for me waking up was really really exciting for the first couple of weeks because I think like I'd wake up And have maybe a dozen responses and I'd wake up the next day with 200 and it was just overwhelming The reach that it had and and I do definitely want to take a moment to thank Everyone not just who completed the survey, but who shared the survey and helped promote it and that includes companies like Acquia platform that sh an amazing developers of Lando and D Dev the Drupal Association themselves who published it on their Twitter and in their newsletter and Many many others So the response is pretty consistent with previous years We had 829 responses this year in 2020. I believe they had just over a thousand Sorry, they had 600 responses in 2020 and just over a thousand responses in 2019 So slightly better than 2020 but 2020 survey kicked off right around the time that COVID kicked off So read into that what you like You can see overwhelmingly the responses that we had were from the United States And then countries like France India and United Kingdom Australia rated quite highly Australia is the 10th highest contributed to Drupal by country as of I think 2021 So that's slightly over represented But that's probably because I'm Australian and I bothered everybody in Australia that I knew Can you throw your hand up if you if you completed the survey? All right, wonderful. Throw your hand up if you didn't know about the survey a Lot of you. Wow. Okay, interesting. I have to find out how to reach you next year so 42 responses from Australia and nine from New Zealand and We asked respondents including including yourself How many Drupal developers work in your current company and the intention here was to gauge How many large organizations are working with Drupal and what proportion of Drupal devs are in smaller companies or even working solo? And so out of these 829 responses nearly 150 are working on their own and keep that in mind because that Will influence some of the other data that we'll look at The majority of sorry the largest cohort is those users working in teams of 25 or more that's more than 25 Drupal developers in one organization Which is astounding to me. So that's really interesting We asked developers which tools they use to provision and manage their local development environments as you might expect Lando and D dev featured very very heavily It's also worth noting that a lot of developers use more than one tool presumably because different projects may be in different Consultancy or different teams are geared for Lando while another project in a different team might be geared for D dev I was initially surprised to see D dev win out overall My own experience is that there are a great deal more Lando users that I deal with day-to-day amongst our customer base and Actually, that was borne out by the data as well because in Australia, New Zealand Lando is the more popular tool And D dev is the more popular tool in the US and if you remember back to the number of responses We got from the US That makes a lot more sense that D dev would edge out overall if it's the more popular tool in North America Spain Germany Czech Republic Austria, I think Italy there as well. So very very popular and Ethiopia So It was also interesting to see that D dev seems to be slightly more popular within larger teams It took me a good five minutes to somehow wrap my head around how to analyze this But you'll sort of see the the blues are a little bit darker on the right-hand side for D dev And a little bit darker on the left-hand side for Lando Again, this might be a reflection that there were more responses for the US and D dev is more popular in the US and the US Has larger Drupal teams We asked people if they thought they'd be using their preferred local environment manager in 12 months time 86% said yes, and the remaining 14% answered either maybe or no In this group the group that said no We saw that the users most likely to switch their local environment manager were using Lando D dev or some kind of lamp-wamp stack On the surface that might seem like Lando users are more likely to switch than D dev users But when you look at the number of users it ends up being about seven percent of users who use Lando may switch and 12 percent of users who use D dev may switch So although D dev may be the more popular tool there might be a little bit more interest in other tools from that cohort In per capita terms, it's mostly bad news for docker for Drupal and doxel who had a total of 83 and 87 users respectively and about a third of those user bases are planning to switch or may switch in the next year So We asked some questions around docker usage about 70% of respondents are using some variation of container based local environment manager Lando D dev and so on the the the question that we asked I wanted to try and gauge as You understand docker more Do you think that docker is more important for local development or less important some of these tools like Lando and D dev make It possible for you to use them without understanding docker and without knowing how so we asked the question How comfortable are you working with docker? And that was effectively Sorry, have I skipped? Yeah, so how comfortable are you working with docker? Sorry, do you think it's important to understand how docker works to be a Drupal dev? Slight majority said yes, we do so we wanted to find out do those users who think it's important Understand it more than the users who don't and that's this graph here. So on the left-hand side you can see We've got a we've got the users who think it is important versus the users who think it's not important And on the right-hand side here, you've got their Comfort level in docker doing certain different tasks. So the most complex task the example We gave was using docker in CICD the simple task is basic tasks docker up docker stop so on or docker run So There wasn't really any difference here I was hoping for something more insightful But the takeaway seems to be if you're Comfortable with docker you think docker is important to know if you're uncomfortable with docker you think docker is important to know so I wanted that to be more dramatic than it ended up being in terms of operating system usage 56% of users are on max Linux with 29% and windows with 15% It's worth pointing out that a fairly large chunk of the Windows users Took the time to point out that they're using WSL on on Windows. So they're running Linux in Windows Who here is developing on Windows? Can you keep your hand up if you're doing it by choice? Okay, all right interesting. Are you using WSL? Yes, yes, okay everyone everyone on Windows is using WSL two of the three Windows users who are in the room There because they want to be which is really good if we look at The district the way it breaks down by more specific versions I didn't ask for specific versions of Mac OS Because I didn't think it would really matter within two months of Mac OS being released 90% of people have updated There are more Windows 10 users than Windows 11 There are vastly more Debian based Linux users than anything else. Who is developing on Linux? I Okay Three all right. So same number of Linux and Windows users here very interesting I'm sure that changes by you know the country that you're in the economic status of that country Like how easy it is to afford a Mac versus how easy to support a Linux laptop and so on So I thought that was really interesting And we also asked users what IDE or editor they use. We asked the question What is the primary IDE that you use? We've got a lot of feedback that people wanted to specify more than one Overwhelmingly this is the comment that we got more than any other comment in the survey was I use more than one IDE I want to be able to say that I use more than one idea So PHP storm is still the IDE of choice very closely followed by VS code There were three VS podium users, which is the very open-source version of VS code And it would have been nice to see a little bit more adoption for that From my own little bubble, I would have expected to see more Vim slash Neo Vim users I've seen a few people switch lately It's what I use and in my little my little bubble. I thought we'd see more but it was only 3% of respondents When we compare that to previous years 2019 in blue 2020 in red 2023 this year's survey in yellow You can see that the change in market share is really PHP storm and VS code Taking market share away from the smaller What future that means for for for those smaller editors? I don't really know But it's interesting to see that yeah VS code and PHP storm aren't really taking users away from each other They're taking users away from other platforms We asked some questions about quality assurance we asked which quality assurance controls teams were using and Keeping mostly the same answers that were found in the 2020 survey. So for example, there's nothing wing it fingers cross Fingers crossed. That's not me. That's that's that's some Jeff and Chris So I was initially surprised that only 65% of respondents are even doing peer code reviews But then I remembered that 17% of responses are solo devs So that makes a little bit more sense in that context Also worth noting is when compared to previous when compared to the 2020 data our Quality controls have improved quite significantly 40% peer code reviews in 2020 versus 65% in 2023 So that's really great to see although there is a small uptick in responses for those who are just winging it There were also some really great answers like chaos and madness and everything else because I knew there was a free-form option there So we asked respondents if they'd feel like they'd be working with Drupal one year from now with 1% saying no and 95% saying maybe I Don't know if that's a high number or not. This question hasn't been asked in previous years Is there anyone here who is thinking they might not be working with Drupal in a year? One okay, interesting. You're not working with Drupal that much at the moment though. Are you no, okay? So I kind of would have expected that added at a Drupal conference, but it is interesting I don't know if that number represents a lot I don't know how it compares to other things like how many larval developers are thinking of moving or how many WordPress developers are thinking of moving But that was interesting nonetheless I Wanted to see if there was a potential reason for this I can't quite see my slides on this little screen, which is why I keep turning away and I'm sorry if that cuts off the audio I wanted to see if there was Some tool that these developers who were thinking of leaving are using consistently. Maybe they're all larval devs now Maybe they're all WordPress devs now So on the left hand side you can see the respondents who said they're thinking of sorry whether they're likely to keep using Drupal in 12 in 12 months They are Overwhelmingly WordPress users so if you're a WordPress user statistically you're more likely to stick with Drupal on the right hand side There really wasn't a breakthrough there if you're not if you're thinking you won't be using Drupal in a year There is no system that you're more likely to be using than any other We asked respondents if they'd worked on any decoupled or headless projects this really surprised me because I expected this might be 10 or 20 percent, but 44 percent of respondents are working on headless projects I'm going to do the hands-up thing again in the room. How many of you have worked on a headless project in the past 12 months? Okay All right, so that's roughly the same perhaps a little bit smaller We asked respondents who they used to host their production websites and we got a lot a lot of answers This was a multiple choice obviously a lot of people just like they're using different ideas or the different using using different local dev Managers most of us are using more than one hosting provider except me of course. I'm only using one The variation in answers posed a challenge in how to interpret and collect certain responses. So for example There were there were many responses for all the different kinds of self-hosting everything from bare metal to Kubernetes to not self-managed Lagoon, but self-managed Kubernetes Eks ECS all this sort of stuff. So I just sort of aggregated those all into unspecified self-hosting so that they would Effectively show up on this. So globally You can see that AWS is the host that people are using more than anything else Acquire and Pantheon platform in the top four No surprises there And not surprisingly when looking at Drupal pass providers, we see those three providers And there's no clear winners in the hosting game The responses locally from the Australia NZ market are quite a bit different We see that Acquire loses out its top pass spot to amazing which is likely buoyed by GovCMS And there's strong presence in the NZ market Pantheon also drops quite a few spots down to 5% presumably because of their late entry into the local market and When compared to providers like platform and Acquire And we see a good representation for locally owned providers like Einstein, Skipper and Catalyst cloud Which is really great to see. So if you're among those users, thank you for buying local We asked This is looking back at the global numbers now I thought it would be interesting to see how the major providers change when you look at the organization size I hosted an agency leaders dinner on Tuesday night and we asked the question based on agency size Where are you hosting and are you partnering with hosting providers and overwhelmingly larger agencies partner with hosting rather than doing their own hosting And that sentiment seems to be born out here as well Larger organizations are more likely to use a professional Drupal host than trying to host it themselves Even if those larger organizations are more likely to have the scale and capability internally to be able to hire and train that team and buy that infrastructure So if you're if you're in a small company and you're doing your own hosting, there may be data points There may be some data in there that's worth having a think about I've got the exact same text for this slide. What are we looking at? How did I get that in there? Let's move on All right security controls we asked which security controls respondents were using to protect their Drupal sites What you see here is adoption of each control type out of only people who answered this question There were a hundred and forty three people or about seventeen percent of respondents who didn't answer this question Whether or not that means that they have no security controls or not. I don't think so What I think that means is that this question is towards the end of the survey Which only took about ten minutes, but I imagine a fair bit of fatigue is starting to set in at this point It's great to see that about forty four percent of respondents are using some form of advanced authentication controls for their Drupal sites Whether that's two-factor authentication or single sign-on. I would love to see that value increase next year and Next year will think to expand this to ask about more advanced controls like workstation security Since there are more attacks much more sophisticated attacks that are taking place and using things like workstations and And that as a as a as a vector But clearly we can be doing more as a community to encourage adoption of even the most basic security controls If you're interested and maybe if you're a dev and you're having a hard time selling the the time and resources needed in order to do things like Putting in a WAF or putting in two-factor authentication in your sites I did a talk a Drupal con Prague last year that was specifically aimed at non-technical decision-makers And and and sort of talking about what some of these controls are that they can turn on I think there was about nine and how relatively straightforward and cost-effective they are and the impact that they'll have on security So if you if you I was this link is way too long to say out loud, but if you're interested in seeing that Finally a quick look at web server popularity This is similar to the way that IDEs broke down with two vendors clearly having complete market share I thought it was interesting to note that there's still a couple of die-hard IIS users I'm sure that's not by choice and a couple of light speed users, so People still aren't doing PHP on Windows for whatever reason It's interesting to me to see how engine X has overtaken Apache as the main web server for Drupal sites Hopefully that's going to lead to more engine X centric content on Drupal dot org telling people who want to use Engine X how to configure it appropriately for Drupal because right now everything's pretty much Apache focused even though it doesn't have the majority market share That's it for the survey results. Thank you I think we will definitely be doing this again next year. We learn a tremendous amount in doing it this year We're going to publish the results on our website in the next two to three weeks And we'll be mailing out if you did submit the survey and you signed up with your email address to find out To have the results emailed to you when they come out. They should also be coming out in the next two to three weeks. So Are there any question? Great question. I don't know. It will obviously be next year. I'm hoping to Share the results at Drupal cons So it will probably be timed so that it runs maybe two months before Drupal con Portland or possibly Drupal con Europe, but the goal is to have it be early in the The fact that there were other local environment managers other than Lando and D Dev that still have pretty pretty good usage Like if we go back To all the way back at the beginning Yeah Lando and D Dev have the main market share But there's still a lot of people who are doing their own custom Docker installations A lot of people who are still doing their own lamp lamp stacks. So really That that surprised me the use of homebrew surprised me doc Sal and Docker for Drupal even though those users have suggested like one third of those users are probably going to disappear I would have thought it was just going to be Lando and D Dev with you know, 80% of the respondents only ever really using Because those are by comparison Significantly more mature platforms in my opinion. I know that's very contentious, but that's what I've seen No responses from Russia or Ukraine. No, I didn't remove them. No, definitely not So going back to the the global charts There there were No, Ukraine is in there Ukraine It's there Ukraine eight responses. No, that's okay. Yeah, it is it is on the map there So yeah, eight responses from Ukraine. There were no responses from Russia. I didn't do anything to remove any of that data I think it's probably worth pointing out that that's from people who know what their web server is So an Acquia customer or even an amazing customer probably doesn't know exactly what they're running for their web server Excuse me, so it's it's it's you know If in terms of usage, it's probably different But I don't think it matters because if we're if the intention is to help people use whatever their web server of choice is Those users who know what web server they're using more of them want resources for engine X I'm probably five questions too late for that, but I guess the question was it's it's interesting that engine X is more popular than than Apache So the question is is my aim with this because I'm making little comments and observations and anecdotes as I go through and So the so Murray's question is am I doing this because I want to influence the results or is it just to report back And honestly the answer is both I'm doing this because I needed this data We're building tools for Drupal developers and and it was really important to us so for example if we're building a local environment manager and Overwhelmingly people are using Apache our preference for engine X might not be appropriate So that was part of the reason for doing it the the little anecdotes are partly to just keep things interesting but also because Everyone's got a narrative. Everyone's got a story. They want to tell But also the results themselves. I think We're not the only ones building tools for Drupal. We're not the only ones working with Drupal, and I think there are Really important insights that we can take out of this I keep pitching this idea of like the larger the company is the less likely they are to do their own hosting So I think that's personally I think that's really important for small organizations that are struggling to do their own hosting and probably not of the Scale and experience to be able to do that properly and securely That's that's an important message for me personally cool All right, I really appreciate everyone coming along and Thank you, and I really hope you enjoy the rest of Drupal South


two hundred day moving average in the town so we've got to be right there to major break out over that point now as far as getting in if you're in a ready fine if you never got out fine you had some pain in December if you want a confirmation to get in that's going to take it right up to the highs well we're not there yet now if you're looking at the 200 period moving average which we're bumping up against if you're talking about resistance here's my thoughts on that don't worry about that and here's why because we are in an uptrend and when you're in an uptrend there is no resistance every resistance will be gone over when you're in an uptrend just like there's no support that's going to hold when you're in a downtrend and that's the tip of the day and that's great advice so if you're in don't worry about it even if we pull back we're gonna get over this area that you're talking about that we're bumping up against under the 200 period moving average because we're still in an uptrend and therefore that's really not resistance there really isn't any resistance you know you gotta love someone that says that's the tip of the day and great advice right I guess you great your own advice to morning my call is that we may have a rally at the tail end of 2018 so it may not be a Christmas rally a Santa Claus rally who might call it a New Year's New Year's Eve rally we literally may rally within the last one to two to three days of the year so it could happen anytime between today and December 31st the last trading day of the year and here's why I think that we're gonna we're gonna rally because the market really hasn't for me technically speaking gone into a bearish trend we're still holding the uptrend it's really about control right now it's it's a tug of war between the bulls and the bears but I'm still seeing the control on the bullish side so if you if the controls had lifted and gone over to the bearish side we'd see way more selling now I know we've seen selling but when panic selling comes in there's no turning back there would be no question that we would be lower and to me we're still holding that's a good okay with that as long as we hold a certain price support which is not really where people are seeing where that bounce was so for example in the Dow it's really for me a gap down in the pre-market and open under 23,000 and that support is not there that support is actually above that but for me it's 23,000 also you're talking about another 1500 points yeah and but I'm not saying that we go there we're talking worse case yeah but really when you what you said was great as far as we're stuck it's almost like the market feels dead now we've been talking about this are we gonna have a Christmas rally here's my take on here's my cloth for the end of the year right now because we're getting into it I believe that the market is going to have a rally in the very tail end of the year and what I how I think this is all gonna play out it literally could be like the last three-day year. So instead of a St. Nick rally, a father time rally. It's gonna be New Year's Eve rally. Yeah, it hasn't really seemed to affect the average consumer. People are out, they're feeling good, they're feeling good about their lives, they're feeling good about the holidays and they're out spending money. I guess we'll see what happens come January when people get their credit card bills but for right now people are spending money and they've been spending money ever since Black Friday, Cyber Monday and all throughout the month of November. Okay, and Melissa, I'm actually very excited about this next question just because I love a deal. I'm obsessed. I'm most likely will try to sneak away a little bit throughout the day today because I'm working long and then go get some stuff and then come back. So where can I get the deals today? Well, there's a lot of deals out there today. I think you really got to go online first to find out where the early doorbusters are but make sure if you buy something at one of these doorbusters sales look so good and then you buy something you're like, wait a minute, I really need that. Yeah, you know, you end up spending money that you don't really want to spend. But with the doorbusters, there is limited quantity for the electronics, TVs, computers. So if there is something that you want in one of those doorbusters sales that you see online, go there go early because they have limited inventory. Okay, let's talk. Well, I guess that remains to be seen. They're gonna continue to try to pump up their own economy, which gives signs that maybe they're not ready to make a deal yet. And that could prolong the market making new highs again. And if it runs into the summer of this year, until we make a deal or even the fall of this year until we get a deal done, I don't think that's going to be good for the market. I'm very bullish on the market long term. But it remains to be seen because if there is a stall, an indefinite stall in the trade talks, then it definitely is going to affect the market. But right now we're still holding the uptrend. Everyone's saying bearish, bearish, bearish or not. And let me explain why. 2017 was such a big rally and such an anomaly year that you cannot say that a 20% pullback means that it's at a downtrend because of 2017. So the fact is we are still holding the uptrend in the market. And so if people are still in, I don't think that they should panic. Everyone's freaking out probably because of the reasons that you mentioned, Trish, on your show last night, you talked about it. The Democrats are taking over the house in January. So are they going to get rid of the tax cuts that are in place for corporations? Is there going to be more regulation? And not only that, are they going to attempt to impeach Trump? And I think the market is scared about that. Now I still am bullish in the market for 2019, but you've seen a lot of selling for many, many reasons. And part of it is what you had mentioned on your show last night. I definitely think that people are either taking profits or selling out of their losers because they don't know what to anticipate with 2019. In 2019, long term, I do believe the market makes brand new all-time highs again. But we're staging a late rally here. I call it a New Year's Eve rally. I thought we'd have this, but we fell off so much in the last two weeks that we're not going to even come back neutral before where we started and open on the year, which was about 24,800 of the Dow. We were about 23,000 around today. We're not going to make it in a half day. The market's trying, but I don't say buy the dips. That's what everybody else says. Okay, so what do you say? Buy momentum by the gap when you get something called a gap. Now for those people that don't know what a gap is, I'll explain. A gap is a difference between the close and the open. The U.S. stock market closes at 4 o'clock Eastern time and opens at 9.30 in the morning. So there's post-market trading and there's pre-market trading and buying. When buying comes in in a big way after hours or in the morning, that's what you want to look for in a stock. And that's where you want to buy into that momentum or you want to sell into that momentum if something gaps down. But in the case of Facebook, it would have to be just a massive gap up for me to ever be convinced that stock's going to turn around. I definitely wouldn't buy any dip in anything right now. The market's too uncertain and going into 2019, we're looking at all this volatility that's been happening the last couple of weeks. This is like a sign of what's going to happen into 2019 too.


So you wanna extract awesome armor out of your body. Not a problem. Now there are two main ways to do this. The traditional way is to mask your area and under subtool, extract, pick extract, and you will see a projection of your extraction. If you move the camera, it will disappear and that's because this is not real yet. It's just a projection. If you want the area to be smoother, increase the segments here, and if you wanna change the thickness, increase it here. T-border means you will get a row of topology along the outside borders of your shape. If T-corner is enabled, it will use triangles to try and keep the shape as smooth as possible. When double is enabled, it means the final shape will be twice as thick. Normally it will only extrude forwards, but double will make it extrude forwards and backwards. When you are happy with your settings, hit the accept button and it will turn your projection into a real new object. This object will come with its edges already masked, so from here you can easily go into defamation, polish crisp edges, polish by groups, then polish by features, then quickly Z-remesh by groups for quick work. So that was the traditional way. The new modern way is to duplicate your object, mask what you want and create a polygroup. Hide everything but the new polygroup and under geometry and edge loop and make sure that append is on. Decide your thickness here and hit panel loops. Now it's gonna be super smooth even with low poly. And also see if we look here closely, there are five loops on the edges. If you wanna change the number of loops on the edges, just change the amount here. If we change it to three and try again, you will now see three loops instead of five. If you wanna adjust the smoothness, change the polish, the higher the smoother. And when double is enabled, it means the inside will be walled off with real polygons. If it's off, you will see there are no polygons on the inside. When inner is enabled, it just means that instead of popping out, it will dig in. Regardless, once you've got what you want, use the usual polish by groups, features and Z-remesh workflow I showed earlier. The second method generally gives you much better topology and cleaner groups, but I wanted you guys to know both just in case. Anyway, hope that helps and as always, I hope you have a fantastic day and I'll see you around.


Okay, good morning, everyone. Welcome to another session. Let's just begin this time with a word of prayer. Could one of us please lead us in prayer? Maybe Charles, can you please lead us in prayer? Yes, yes. Let's pray. Go ahead. Father God, we are really thankful and we are really appreciating the fact that you are with us and as you told your first born Israel that don't don't forget to tell your children of what I did because when you forget what I did you will forget my my my position my presence and now we are studying about history about Moves about about the things you've done in the church in your body Lord, I pray that you will create a room in our heart in our minds in our inner Intuitity to know what you've done in the church You the same God who did that in the in the early charge You are the same God who is doing it in the present church. Thank you Jesus for a lecture Thank you for everyone that is in the prayer column there yet to come in Lord Jesus your name will be glorified and that we shall also do according to you Thank you for today. I pray for connections that we shall have a steady connection That we shall not lose any part, but instead we shall learn so that we'll be able to write to Divide the word of truth when Jesus name will print believe amen. Amen. Amen. Thank you Charles leading us in prayer All right. Good morning once again so let's Continue from where we picked up yesterday yesterday. We looked at chapter seven revival in our day we looked at You know the need for revival We've been talking about revivals all through the chapters we studied a lot of revivals revivals in America and in China, Korea UK And we saw that the revivals went all around the world and we studied all of it yesterday what we did was we looked at Revival in our day. What is the need for revival? It's not like, okay, God you've done this in the past So that's good. Thank you for doing it in the past But for now, we are happy with this It's that's not the attitude that we want. What we want is we want to see the reason for studying all of this Is because we know that hey God moved in such a way It is the same Holy Spirit that moved in the early church Even in the early revivals. It is the same Holy Spirit that is working even now Right. So we looked at the need for revival We looked at a few points to ignite our passion for God for his word and his spirit. We looked at, you know We need to move from glory to glory from strength to strength To see the gathering of the harvest remember the latter rain We discussed on that how, you know, somebody's souls but the latter rain comes in and There's a greater harvesting of souls, right? So we were encouraged that, you know, if we are sharing the word with somebody and We don't see the fruit or we don't see Anything happening in their lives. Don't be discouraged, right? There will come the latter rain and the latter rain will bring a harvest of souls, right? So our responsibility is to sow the seed. There will be times when we share the word and we will have this, you know It's a great blessing to see their lives being transformed and it's an honor to see that But at times we may not see people's lives being transformed But we can be encouraged that the seed has been sown and The latter rain will bring the harvest of souls Then we also saw that we need to see the church impacting the world being salt and light and That's what happened in the revivals and and so we want to see that now and then we also saw something very important which was the hindrances to revival Right. We saw that ignorance was You know, one of the main hindrances meaning Okay, God is you know, we can come to a place where you say, okay Nowadays God can't do this, right? But it's important to understand that God can do it, right? A misunderstanding of the scriptures I think one of the most important hindrances or To revival is sin and worldliness the moment You know, we are living in sin or if we are In the church community and as a church we are living in worldliness What will happen? It immediately becomes a hindrance to a move of God Right. We looked at that scripture also James 4 4. You not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God Right. So if we are living a life of sin and worldliness and then we are also praying for revival That's very unlikely that God is gonna, you know, release it through any of that, right? Because If we're still living in sin God will you know, this does that hindrance that will come and so we have to be very clear we need to Remove sin from our hearts.  You just surrender to God and Even as a church, right? We don't let the worldly influences of the church impact Though the church but the church should you know impact the world and so this is very very very important Right Now personal life personal prayer personal holiness is very important and it's a precursor to revival Right When we see the revivalist those who prayed the missionaries, they all lived holy lives They all sacrificed they didn't they didn't live sinful lives and pray for revival. They were so Consumed by the fact that you know, God has to do something in our midst So there was nothing else that was taking precedent in their hearts and minds It was God was God's work and outpouring of God. And so when we come into that mindset We are positioning ourselves for an outpouring of God, right and a few more Hindrances that we saw was complacency And I'll do it later Or you know, I'm satisfied at where we are Now God responds to hunger, right? The more we are hungry the more God is Response to that then there's lethargy Spiritual laziness, right? We don't want to make the effort to pray or to present to pursue God Now if we want God to move in our personal lives, I'm just giving this example Right if you want God to move in our personal lives or as as leaders to you know to equip you in the ministry We you know, we study the word of God all of it, but here's the important thing we need to pray Present and pursue God so that whatever we study it it really becomes truth into our hearts, right into our spirit Many at times, you know We study the word of God, it's happened to me. We study the word of God. We know the stories. We know everything, right? But it doesn't become revelation, right? It doesn't become something that Impresses in our spirit. So that's why it's very important that you know, we don't come to a place of saying, okay I already know this so You know, let me let me do something else But we need to press in when you press in for God Another important hindrance or a significant hindrance to revival is indifference Yesterday one of them asked us question. I forget who which student asked me the question but we asked us what is the difference between indifference and Was that indifference and divisions or divisiveness So Indifference is this esteem in the church doing this All of them are tuned towards it, but maybe we may be saying, you know, I don't want to do this I want to do something else Right and that call that become that can become a hindrance to revival Then there's busyness No, we mentioned that You know the whole the enemy's Number one priority is to keep us busy Right Even in the ministry We can be so busy doing God's work or the ministry Where we forget about the important things and focus on, you know Programs events and ministry related work Here's the thing our ministry should flow out of our personal work with God So so the enemy can very easily remember the enemy is a deceiver. He he tries to You know put it in our mind saying hey, you're doing ministry work. That's okay You're busy. You you can't pray Anyway, you're doing God's work. So it's all right He's able to deceive but it's very important as believers where we tell you know where we are Keep looking at our personal lives keep pruning ourselves and saying no Even though I'm doing ministry, even though I'm reaching out to people and ministering to people. I need to fill Myself I need an infilling. I Need to spend time with the word I need to spend time in prayer and Basically ministry is an outflow of what we do in our personal lives Right and so we should avoid the busyness They you know one of the things we do in a PC is You know, we encourage our volunteers. We encourage our team members You know to take breaks take breaks with your family when I when I say break meaning take vacations I take time go out with family Spend time with family remember in the revivals that we saw a Few of the revivals where you know, they were so busy doing ministry they neglected their own health They neglected their wives. They neglected their children. Many of them lost their children right to diseases and Lost their wives now when we study all of this we may feel. Oh, yeah, they you know, they Willing to sacrifice all of this. That's true But if you look at the other side, they could have also you know taken time out and Looked after their family looked after their children and God can always continue the work of the Holy Spirit, right? So these are certain hindrances divisiveness division denominational barriers at unforgiveness Holding grudges against pastors This is a terrible thing that you know, we should just avoid it Denominies unforgiveness Imagine you got two, you know pastors of two leaders. They're not even talking to each other They can't stand each other, but what are they doing? They both are in the ministry You know preaching and teaching the Word of God, but they hate each other If you look at the book of John the whole book especially one John two and three John also the not three but mostly One and two John we see that love is The essence of the entire book just behold what manner of love the father has given us right and so When we are ministering to people we cannot live in unforgiveness and You know this whole feeling of division and having grudges and pride and you know anger on people Remember what Jesus himself said he said If you're coming with your offering and you have something against your brother go Make things right Then you come back and I will accept your offering Right, and it's so powerful, right? So we should avoid Divisions we should avoid causing these divisions, you know, whichever city your nation that we are from Do your best to cause unity and love and oneness Among the you know among in the body of Christ. So So these were nine hindrances And I'm sure there are more but just nine hindrances here. So today we'll pick up from The characteristics of a genuine revival or a genuine move of God. What are the Characteristics of them we looked at the hindrances and so now there may be many people saying, you know, this is revival or that is revival But let's study What are the characteristics? What are the main things that we see in a revival? Right, so I'm on page 84 Let's read Matthew chapter 7 16 to 20 Yes, could one of us please read that Matthew chapter 7 16 to 20 Can I read faster? Yes, go ahead Matthew chapter 7 verses 16 to 20 says you will know them by their fruits Do men gather grapes from thorn bushes or figs from thistles? Even so every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit a Good tree cannot bear bad fruit nor can a bad tree bear good fruit Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire Therefore by their fruits, you will know them. Amen. Amen. Thank you, Avni So this is such a powerful, you know, just a few sentences, but it's so powerful the way the Lord Jesus You know just brings out the whole truth here. He says you shall know them by their fruits Right, so a good tree will bear good fruit a bad tree will bear bad fruit Right a good tree cannot bear bad fruit and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit So Jesus is just so powerfully explaining that Even in ministry that he's bringing the whole concept into life, right as a whole and he's saying Therefore you shall know them by their fruit One of the things that we can look for in a revival is Something that is a genuine work of the Holy Spirit is the fruit That it has, you know, the outcome of the work of the Holy Spirit Right first point a characteristics of genuine revival Something of God cannot be manufactured Right remember we cannot manufacture and outpouring or a move of God Even though we see now Remember the example I shared with you about, you know, gold dust in churches now the reason I said that now There could be places where it's really happening. God is really doing it But there are places where it's being manufactured Right a genuine revival is not You know the result of hype Media programs good marketing Or it's not about a charismatic leader It's not about some emotional feeling a Genuine work of God is always long-lasting fruit It always has long-lasting fruit John 6 and verse 63. I'll just read that it is the spirit who gives life the flesh Prophets nothing The words that I speak to you are spirit and they are life So we cannot manufacture a Work of God we cannot say okay, just because he's doing it when I will do yes We can be encouraged with that We can pursue God But we cannot manufacture hey, they are doing this or even I want to I want the same kind of thing I want to manufacture something I want to make it up You know like in my own way It's not gonna last for long Let me give you this example Many years ago I was visiting Andhra Pradesh and which is a at the state in India and We were doing like a small meeting and pastors conference kind of meeting and During the break we get to speak to the pastors and one of these pastors young man He came up to me and he said a pastor you please pray for my prayer for my church because it's been five years And we only have about 20 people So I said yeah sure we will pray for your church But I began to ask him a lot of questions and I said when did you know when did you start your church? What did you study? Did you do your Bible college or? how did you plan the church and after talking to him I Got to know that this young man was serving very faithfully in one of the churches close by and He would come in the mornings. He said he would open the church clean the church You know this one person would do everything Right. He will put the chairs. He will make the sound system ready. And so when the church starts Everything is ready. And so he was always there in everything. He put his hand and very very faithful and after a few you know during the course of time, he was very close to the pastor as well and Something happened. There was a misunderstanding between the pastor and this young boy young man, right? There's some kind of a misunderstanding and then he said to the pastor. I will start my own church right and He felt in his heart that the church that I start will be better than this church And so he went he started his church You know close by very close to the previous church that he was serving in And then after that he you know began to do outreaches praying and all of it And so he told me the whole story and I asked him So the reason that you started this church Was so that you this church can be better than that church He said no no not really but I anyways knew that God is calling me to be a pastor and all of that But I knew that you know that was the main reason and I meant and I told him Take time to make things right before God No matter what misunderstanding no matter what Has happened. You have been serving faithfully He was not given recognition for what he was doing or something like that that misunderstanding.  I I want to make things right before you before man and before God and And so he did that He did that and a couple of Months later, you know, he happened to call me. He said, you know, he did that immediately He went and apologized and made things right and he also told the pastor I'm still willing to come and serve but I feel that this is my calling to be a pastor So I've started this year. So everything was alright and then he called me in a couple of Months maybe about five or six months later and he said, you know, can you come to our church and do like a conference? I said, okay, but we will have to plan out and then I think it was about seven months or later I went to his church and there were about 300 people in the church 300 people Right and I was so surprised. I said I asked him you were 20 people six months back Six or maybe six to eight months 20 people now you got about 300 odd people including children He said yes, the moment I went to apologize and I started, you know You know, just going to God and saying God, this is what I want to do. This I want to touch lives families start coming and It was such a blessing. So here's what I'm trying to get at the flesh Will profit nothing But the spirit the work of the spirit will always be fruitful right to In a revival Jesus is exalted and not an individual Right a true work of the Holy Spirit Will exalt the name of Jesus Jesus himself said in John 16 14 that the Holy Spirit Will glorify him right, so The Holy Spirit is the best advertiser for Jesus in this world that meaning When we are doing the work of God When God is moving there's an outpouring. That's a revival Jesus is exalted Three there is proclamation of sound doctrine in a revival now When we see in the early church In the book of Acts the believers established in God. What do they do? After the Pentecost acts 242 they continued steadfastly in the Apostles Doctrine and fellowship They continued steadfastly in the Apostles doctrine and fellowship in breaking of bread and in press so We see that in a in one of the important characteristics of a revival or a move of God is that there is sound doctrine Why because if it is a work of the flesh We come up with our own ideas and then we may end up Proclaiming a different gospel or we may end up with new ideologies new dogmas being taught And so if the Holy Spirit is the teacher It is obvious that what is being taught is true and sound doctrine So even when we see in a Revival or a outpouring of God check test and see hey is this doctrine, right? Is this sound is it is it in line with the Word of God? Right. So these are some things that we can check does it does it is there a proclamation of the cross? Is there a call for repentance? Is there a call for you know living a kingdom lifestyle? Call to live as sons and daughters of the most high God So when we see all of these characteristics, we'll know that this is a move of God another important characteristic of Genuine revival is there is unity in the spirit Unity in the spirit There's a strong sense of brotherly love not just in word, but indeed also Right, what does Jesus say he says if somebody Said they love God, but you know it curses their brother. They're in danger of being condemned right One of the most important characteristics is unity of the spirit people are flowing together. There is no competition There is no puffing up of one another. There is no divisions There is no titles Right, everything. There's unity and remember in Acts The hundred and twenty people praying and the Apostles didn't say okay. You all said that side We are the Apostles. We will pray separately and then you the label believers those who just come to know Jesus You be that side or the Apostles didn't say okay. We know Jesus We were with Jesus so we will pray here and you who did not see Jesus you y'all can pray there There was no division at all. They were all in unity one accord in one spirit right and So a genuine revival causes unity, right? There's unity. There's love You know even through the book of Acts when we see that People in the church who are willing to sell off their properties and help the poor help those who are a needy That's going you know way out of our You know comfort zones going way out of our you know limits To be a blessing to cause unity and oneness within the body of Christ Where the Holy Spirit is moving? There is unity in the spirit There is unity in the spirit 5 Another characteristics characteristic of a genuine revival Is people are brought to intimacy and Christ likeness Right people are drawn to walking closer with God. We don't have to tell them that Right we don't have to tell them. Hey Are you praying in the morning? Are you reading God's word? Are you meditating on the word of God? Are you praying in the night? Are you teaching your children? Are you spending time and fasting and prayer? Don't have to tell that why because people are brought automatically to that place of intimacy Remember the revivals where example the Azusa Street revival Remember it's a small corner in the street and you got thousands of people holding umbrellas at 6 a.m. in the morning waiting to get in Who puts that in their heart? Who puts it in their spirit? People are drawn to the work of the Holy Spirit There was no advertisement The only advertisement was the newspapers but the newspapers were just saying hey there's a revival happening here But you know people are drawn there People are coming on their own they're standing there William Joseph say more the person who led the Azusa Street revival he didn't stand and say please come to church or you please come here Please come for the meeting He didn't do any of that People were drawn to the work of the Holy Spirit For example in the Toronto revival there was this whole move of God where people who were emotionally and physically hurt began to receive healing And there was this feeling or this presence of the Father's love that was moving everywhere Different revivals have poured out different essence of the Holy Spirit Sometimes it's the power of God Sometimes it's the love of God Sometimes it's the conviction of the Holy Spirit Sometimes it's great joy and happiness So these are all the fruit of the Holy Spirit So he begins to manifest it in its own way And people are brought to intimacy Very important characteristic of genuine revival or a visitation is that there is long lasting fruit Like the words we read in Matthew 7 You shall be known by your fruit There's long lasting fruit We need to look beyond the manifestations We need to look beyond the preaching Beyond the teaching So for example the Toronto revival People were shaking, people were screaming, people were falling on the ground Some were roaring like a lion, some were drunk in the Holy Spirit Maybe it looked full of chaos People are falling under conviction Now through all of this Now we can look at that and say, hey this is something that is manufactured Or this is something that doesn't look right We may look at it and say that But the long lasting fruit will be the best example whether it is a true work of God Whether there was transformed lives But if you see in the Toronto revival There were thousands and thousands of people who encountered God Many ministries were birthed It was not something that was there for one year And then after one year the revival just died out It lasted for long There was a ripple effect Ministries were birthed out of it Churches began to grow People began to be transformed Societies began to be transformed In the Toronto revival Let's just take maybe two examples here Nikki Gumbel I'm sure many of us may have heard of him Founder of the Alpha course Nikki Gumbel He started his church Holy Trinity Church In London He was just pastoring that church Very few people It was his desire to teach people on evangelism He wanted believers to be equipped To evangelize with the people around And so he started a small Bible course And he named it the Alpha course In 1992 There were about 100 people attending So how this course is I'm not really sure whether it was online But the course is basically spread out So you could do it for working professionals You had morning sessions Afternoon sessions Evening sessions If I'm not wrong They also would record sessions On videotapes And they would have them played And so he was doing a good work About 100 people registered in 1992 And then what happened was Nikki Gumbel visited the Toronto revival And there there was a move of God Something touched his life He was empowered There was this whole spark of revival That came into him 1992 1993 1994 There were 26,700 students In two years From 100 students It became 26,700 students Right Now it didn't end there The Alpha course went on to 160 countries With 35,000 odd courses Every year 15 million students Being equipped in the word of God And it's a well respected organization Which empowers Which basically focuses to teach On evangelism You have courses online And all of that So we see that Because of the Toronto revival Nikki Gumbel visited there And the move of God The revival spark came into him And God began to use him To touch many lives What started with 100 students Went on to 27,600 26,700 students Now the first thing that came to my mind When I read about this was 100 people to house 100 people is alright You just get a small room How do we minister And house 26,000 odd people How It would have been a challenge Practical challenges would have been there But we see the fruit was lasting Even now The fruit is lasting So if we look back at the Toronto revival And we say hey They are screaming and shouting And falling on the floor Roaring and doing all these weird manifestations And if we discount them Then we may miss out A true and genuine work of God Because we see that there was long lasting fruit Lives were touched Ministries were blessed Many lives Many ministries were Grew and many ministries Birth out of the Toronto revival Another example is Heidi Baker Now we know Heidi Baker Many of us may have read books On Heidi Baker Founder of the Iris Ministries A young woman got called her She had a burden for People in Africa Children in Africa mainly So she went to Mozambique with her Husband Roland Baker Of course just like anyone else It was very demanding Mozambique No facilities She was physically Emotionally drained out Going through just a difficult phase In her life About 100 children Finances were difficult They were all children Who were maybe orphans She had to support and feed them So it was just overwhelming for her And then she said I need a break During that time The Toronto revival was going on So she said Let me just go for the revival And visit the place But the doctors in Mozambique said It's been a while so long You have double pneumonia You have many challenges You cannot do that It's going to be a challenge on your body But she wanted to See a move of God in her life as well So she went to The Toronto revival And at the Toronto revival She began to pray God healed her body Almost immediately Her lungs opened up Immediately Day after day She gained strength In times of worship In times of the word In times of ministry She began to gain strength She spent many hours in prayer And the team The Toronto revival team Also began to pray on her Then one night she had a vision She felt that She was giving birth And she's written it in her book as well And she felt like she's giving birth And then in that vision She's seen thousands of children Coming towards her And she's saying, God, Lord No, I can't handle this Hundred is already burdensome For me because It's difficult financially And then in the vision The Lord Jesus says Don't worry His body and says This is my bread You give it Takes out a little bit of blood From the body This is all in the vision The whole point was Jesus was telling her in the vision I will provide for your needs Go back And be strengthened in me And then what happened was When she went back to Mozambique Suddenly The ministry began to grow Families started coming Families started asking about God Started asking about healing Intelligence and all of it And then she felt I can't do all of this alone She would call the team and say Can you send some people here to serve We need some missionaries Or we need some volunteers to help us And then the bigger ministry began to grow Right now Iris Ministries is a global ministry Feeding about 10,000 children In Mozambique And just not about feeding them They are also putting in the word of God Teaching them The word of God About 4,000 families Accepted Christ 10,000 churches were established Five Bible schools Primary schools Started All of this happened During and after the Toronto Bible So what can we get at? We should not look at The manifestation And Make a judgment on that But what we can do Is look at the fruit Right, look at the fruit You know many Many years ago And this has happened a couple of times Many people came forward And said they are the Messiah You know They are in the form of Jesus Or You know if we read throughout In the early 90s And also in the early 2000s We see You know many people came forward And they said oh I am the Messiah I am You know I did this And there is one right now An Australian guy who says That he is the Messiah And you know But There was no fruit And it just died off Remember Gameliel What does he say to the Pharisees And the Sadducees Listen if this is from man It's just going to die away On its own You don't have to worry about it But if it's from God You are fighting against God And you can't fight against God Right You know the revival Understand the work of God Remember that We should be known By our fruit What is the fruit? Maybe sometimes we may look at Young people Or we may look at certain ministries And say this doesn't look right So the best way to It's not that you are judging But the best way to see Whether this is of God Is to see if there is fruit Have lives been touched Have people You know Families been restored Have people come to the saving knowledge of Jesus These are some of the things That we can look at Rupa is saying Would like to share a small testimony Of the Toronto revival Please go ahead Rupa Rupa I think your voice is too low Can you please Sure no problem Rupa No problem Okay So So we will stop here Because I don't want to get into Next point is So we can start that from next week But any thoughts Anyone have any thoughts Any questions Until Rupa comes back Any thoughts, any questions Maybe things that you have read Or ministries that you have heard about Yes go ahead Charles Thank you Parsi And in 1930s There was the East African Revival That A certain missionary That was staying in Uganda Was talking about The use of names And how the names were Talking about other gods Not the God of Heaven And the king By that time Decided to Try to kill him So he had to run And go to Rwanda Rwanda is a country south of Uganda In the southwestern And then When he was there Good moved him And he started preaching He was a doctor So he began in a hospital In a hospital Things exploded And now He came back in Uganda In the south of Uganda They were preaching And I was remembering When you talked about Teaching of the correct doctrine When one of the characteristics Of the revival Correct doctrine And the doctrine they were teaching Was like when you confess sin You must leave it Confess sin You must leave it And God used that And the revival Was much In fact even currently The president of the republic Of Uganda And most of the ministers Are the children Of the revival of 1930s And they are doing well But now the outcomes And the ones who are really struggling Because when to reduce People lost their way So But the point that I was bringing out Was the teaching of correct doctrine Men were marrying one wife And a wife would be for one man And when you confess of sin Then you leave it And then Also there was The point of accountability You needed to be accountable To your church To your partner To your friend To the prayer group So the doctrine was really good And the church was doing well And people were being healed Just singing And people demon speak And people are healed So when you are talking Of correct doctrine I was like wow this is real It happened here And we are asking the lord That he would pour out again Another one So that we would see His move again Thank you Thank you so much Charles For sharing your thoughts It's wonderful I'm not sure if Rupa is back here Rupa would you like Yes go ahead Rupa Is my voice clear sir Yes I just wanted to share a small Testimony during the Toronto revival My husband was working In a very remote place In Orisa as a mission doctor And he said And there was no television connection In that place And we were We came home to Hyderabad For summer vacation During that time I don't remember the exact vacation We were home that time in Hyderabad And I was sitting in our Living room And I have three children The second child He was around Three years old then Very naughty and very difficult To manage him And I was just sitting before that Revival I was watching that Seeing so many miracles I was sitting there And deep within my heart I was crying out to God For that child Suddenly the man who was doing that Turned towards me Looking for her child Son God is saying that he's going to Use him for his glory Really comforted And after so many years My son Second son David Is studying in Karathpur IIT now And God has He has brought that young man close to his heart And he is serving in that place now And I always prayed Because I named him David And I wanted him to be According to God's own heart To know the heart of God To love him and to serve him And really God has I am thankful for that Young man and thankful to God For giving that promise And also fulfilling it in David's life Thank you sir, thank you Thank you Thank you so much Rupa for sharing that So wonderful, powerful testimony It's amazing how We can move even through the TV Revival that was happening Somewhere in a different country And God used it to minister To somebody else in another country So that's so wonderful Yes, so we will wrap up this class We will pick up from next week Thank you all for joining us Let's just quickly close in prayer Can one of us please close in prayer Maybe Christopher if you're around Please close in prayer Yes, pastor Heavenly Father, we thank you for today We thank you for all the Learning we have got From today's session And we ask you Revivals That will happen In our lives In our lifetime Revivals that We can be Part of That we can In some way Be a part of And We can Make A difference To other people Help other people Help us In achieving this And Let us Clearly understand That everything comes only from you Only from your Only from your grace and blessings And we ask you to Continue to give us All the strength The courage And the perseverance To continue Being A beacon to your Your Your Guidance And how you want us to lead our lives And what we would expect To To happen In the days to follow We continue to ask you to bless us Look after us Keep us healthy And keep us Close to you In Jesus' name we pray Amen Amen, thank you so much Christopher Thank you everyone Have a wonderful week ahead We'll catch up on Monday God bless Thank you pastor, God bless you too Thank you pastor God bless Thank you pastor


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This is one that she came out with not very long ago but it's different than the original one. She had a French vanilla I think and then I don't remember what the other side was but this one is French poodle and French almond. Now Laura Geller just knows how to do baked products. They're so good. I mean honestly they're really good and what I love about these two baked products is even though they're a little bit more on the warm side you can see that that one looks a little bit more warm. What these are is these are a product that will melt into the skin so very quickly and it gives a light to your skin.  This is a very natural very just soft look to your skin almost like a finishing powder. They're just so pretty. I like the warmth as we're going into spring. You get a little bit more warmth there on your cheeks. Warmth on your cheeks isn't like putting you know orange on your eyes if you like cool tone. It's really nice. It can really give you a lot of life to your face and so this one really impressed me. It impressed me that it didn't show my texture. I could put it on top of my blush and I'll talk about that in just a minute. I could put it on top of my blush and it really didn't show anything. It just gave a beautiful glow. I could put it on my forehead and on my nose and my chin and it just was that soft lighted look and I love that about it.  It's not like that. It's almost it could almost be likened to the Hourglass Ambient Lighting powders. So this one in itself again this is a baked product. It's beautiful. I love the way that this is this goes across anyone's skin. I have hardly ever it doesn't matter what age people are. I've hardly ever heard anybody say a negative thing about this. I think it's so pretty if you want something very subtle. These two are the ticket for you. Another one that kind of just knocked my socks off is the Rare Beauty Eliminator. This is the one that has a doe foot applicator and it comes in a few different colors and I love the color that I have. I think this one is called Enchant. Yes that's what it is and it's usually sold out at Sephora in this color but there is a ton of other colors but you can get it on her website. So this one I just love because you can mix this with foundation if you want to. You can use it on its own. It can be built up. It can be sheared out. It gives the glow that people absolutely love without having the super high beam look to it. When it sets down it's going to be just a soft soft glow and it's not going to be a super duper high beam unless you want it to. So you can go in with another you know swipe of it and build it up and that's the thing. If you're working with it and you want it on top of your blush you want it underneath your makeup you want to use it as even a primer or a glowy primer. Put it in with your primer and have a glowy primer. So pretty and right there it's looking a lot more beaming than it does when it sets down but what's beautiful about it is when it does set down it's not tacky and it isn't going to rub off of your face either. So this is one of my favorites that I really like. I don't have another liquid one that I wanted to put in here as a comparison to that one but I do have this one from Catrice that's more than a highlighter and this is in Supreme Rose Beam. Catrice absolutely knocked this out of the park. The texture of it is so very soft. It is quite a high beam highlighter but it doesn't have to be at the same time. Again like everything else that I'm going to show you you can really sheer it out. So here is the Rare Beauty one with two coats and then here's one coat of the Catrice one. So very pretty and the texture of it again is very soft and very cream like without having with being just a powder product. So let me show you a second coat on that one so now you can see how beaming that is just like the Rare Beauty one with two coats on it. So we're looking at two different textures that's not a good word. We're looking at two different finishes but with the same result on them as far as being high beam if you want them to or being able to share them out. This is absolutely stunning and I have been so impressed with it and reached for it over and over again and I think I've shown it like 25 times on this channel. Now before we go any further one of the things that I do want to talk about is that if you love the look of a high beam highlighter you see a highlighter and they show swatches on Instagram or on YouTube and it's super high beam and you're going oh my gosh I can't wear that. I love it and I think it's so pretty but I can't wear that. Yes you can and I'll tell you how when you are a mature woman you can take any highlighter and put it underneath your blush and it's not going to show up texture. I never wear highlighter on top of my powders or my blushes unless I'm using something like the Essence or the Laura Geller but like right now it looks like that highlighter is on top it's not it's underneath that blush so pretty. So here is one that will knock your socks off. This is a high beam glow this is from NABLA. This is their skin glazing in Ozone and this is icy and gorgeous. Now you're going to see that most of mine are either pretty icy fairly rosy pink that kind of thing champagne really light light colors that's because my skin is very light but if you are not very light go for the ones that are darker. NABLA has several that are quite a bit darker. They have a gold and they have a peach and they have some really beautiful tones in these skin glazing ones. So let me show you what this is. This has a pretty darn good divot in it because I think it's one of the prettiest ones that I have come across and yes this is high beam very very high beam so beautiful. I love this this is one of my very favorites. NABLA you did a great great job but I'm also here to tell you that I love this one from Milani that is supposed to be one of their baked blushes but I can't read it because I don't have my glasses on. It is Rosa Romantica. I do not see this sold in stores very much but I do this is on their website and I have seen it a few times on Amazon and eBay. It's a little bit expensive. I'll check out Walmart. I will put the links down below where you can find it but it's got this marbling of like the lighter colors with peachy. It's got a teeny tiny bit of a kind of a almost a topy brown in there but mostly it's just high beam highlighter and it is gorgeous. So it comes across as this peachy champagne mixture and again this isn't nearly as high beam as the one from NABLA but it is that beautiful soft wash of glow that any woman can wear. I just I think it's so pretty. So all right over here again let me just kind of we'll just do two little useless brush just fell out. Okay we'll do two coats here and I'll kind of just bring it up to par with that other one. Isn't that gorgeous. So again wear this under one of the other Milani blushes. Wear it on top. You can wear this one on top.  All right one of my very very very favorites that I got I don't know I probably got this six months maybe eight months probably more like eight months ago are the Fenty cheeks out duos that are her kilowatt highlighters. Now on one side this side over here is lightning dust and this side is fire crystal. The lightning dust is a very it's just a glowy shiny product whereas the like blast the name already fire crystal is just a little bit more on the side of being I don't even know how to describe that. There are two different textures in here you know how sometimes you can get a highlighter that's just a glow and then you get a highlighter that's like whoa that's a beaming highlighter that's what those two are. Now I do have this in another color which I really like but I think that the representation of what I'm trying to show is best shown by these two colors in the way that they look on skin. It's just so pretty I love these I think that that's a great value in that you can obviously it's high end so it's not a good great value I shouldn't say that but in the way that you can try two without having to buy this packaging this size and you get to try two of them and they're so pretty. I have this one right here which again is the lightning dust that's what's underneath my skin right there and that's what's giving that pretty glow I really really like this. Now another one that I think that can do no wrong is flower beauty in these palettes. Now there are two different palettes now of this so if you are more on the dark dark skin side they do have a darker one which I think is so good. So mine of course is in the light because I'm you know almost see through pale but I love that it has these three colors in here you get the champagne you get the pink and then you get the goldish color and so you can't do all three of these you can definitely you know it's big enough pants that you can dip down into each single individual one but they are also absolutely gorgeous when they're swirled together. So there you are seeing them just the swatches of them when they're done separately. So when they're all together they just make a swirl of pretty color I could guess I could swirl all those together so you could see what they look like but you can do that separate too. This is beautiful beautiful beautiful palette. All right the last high end one I want to show you is my most expensive high end one and it is from Dior. This was the rose gold and it was the limited edition and I'm putting my finger right here because this little pan has a tendency to try and pop out on me. This says that it has a few different textures in here it says that has a sheer it has a shimmer and it has a metallic. I feel like they're all pretty darn close to each other so you know my thing is I swirl them all together and I get a beautiful color from it but again you have all four colors that you could use and I love this. I am really holding back on buying another one of these palettes that are the highlighters the glow highlighter palettes from Dior because I think that it's gorgeous but I don't need another highlighter so I'm really holding back on it. This swirl together is just beautiful it feels very soft and to me this is one of those ones that you could go into the sheer color like it says that this one's the sheer color you can go into that one and use it as a highlighter my fingers are like disco balls but you can use that one as a highlighter and it would be pretty on your face if you decided to use it over top of anything you're wearing or use it you know just dust finishing if you wanted to. This is one of my very favorites this was a huge splurge for me and I really do love it I'm saying that about all of them how many times can a woman say she loves highlighter well we've just shown how many times many many times all right the last I saved was probably my favorite formula in the whole wide world no surprise here it is the super shock highlighters from color pop they can do no wrong in my eyes I love these so much so I'm going to swatch the colors that I have for you. Flexitarian is a very champagne-y color this next one is called stole the show and this is kind of a snowy bright white color with a tiny bit a teeny tiny bit of a gold cast in the back of it it's kind of hard to tell when they're so close together so Flexitarian stole the show this formula is a cream to powder formula it's very bouncy when you start using it if you have a hard time when you start using it use a sponge to apply it use your fingers to apply it if you have a hard time with a brush but I'll tell you stipple brushes do fantastic in these and then make sure that you really tighten them down because they are that cream to powder formula all right the next one is smoke and whistles this is one of my loves I love smoke and whistles it has a champagne-y color to it but it's just a little bit more deepened so I can wear that and really shows off a beautiful glow on my skin as well I just don't want to keep putting them side by side because I'm afraid you're gonna lose the impact of how pretty they are look how pretty that is it's so gorgeous I love that it just it makes me fall in love with these all over again when I swatch them because I just absolutely adore these they are the best for mature skin if you want to wear them on top of blush instead of underneath like I was talking about these are the ticket because they are that creamy formula that you can do that with all right that was the last one that was number 10 I want to make sure I got them all I did I love all of these so I hope that you did enjoy this what you're feeling about highlighter as a mature woman or a woman of any age I don't care what what age you are what is your feeling about highlighter do you love it do you have a love hate with it are you do you adore it have you been trying to figure out how to wear it but just couldn't figure it out and so now you might try it under your blush I'd love to get that discussion going with you in the comment section everyone I hope you are healthy and doing well let's meet back here in my next video I do adore each and every one of you thank you for your very kind support and all the comments that we get to interchange with I do appreciate those too they helped me out in my life so much I love you take care let's meet back here and I'll see you very very soon goodbye my friends