Most of what I have been speaking about when I discussed symbol and sign was about using this term of amplification. Andrew Samuel says, and I quote, Amplification involves use of mythic, historical and cultural parallels in order to clarify and make ample the metaphorical content of dream symbolism. Jung speaks of this as the psychological tissue in which the image is embedded. Amplification enables the dreamer to abandon a purely personal and individualistic attitude towards the dream image. It emphasizes a metaphorical, hence approximate, rather than a literal translation of dream content and prepares the dreamer to exercise choice. This is done by acknowledging what is most immediately relevant for the dreamer and then allowing for further understanding as a consequence of reflection. An additional possibility, though not one specifically formulated by Jung, is that by way of amplification one consciously experiences oneself within and is part of archetypal energies rather than as their object. End quote. So what this quote refers to is that we enlarge our personal and in my opinion vitally correct meaning of a dream using the process of amplification. So what we are actually doing in amplifying a symbol is focusing our attention on the archetypal image that the symbol is and going beyond our own associations to the same image. There is something greater to the symbol of the horse than simply saying it is the thing that threw me and caused me to break my arm. The first part of our work in interpreting a symbol was to develop personal associations to that symbol. The next phase is to develop the universal meaning of the symbol. But, and here is where we have to be careful, there is a serious danger in symbol amplification of becoming overly intellectual. The key here for me and one that I encourage in my analytical practice is to do the research required for the symbol amplification but to stay with the material that grips your attention. As soon as you find yourself reading about some arcane symbol meaning in some specific culture and you don't feel anything anymore for the symbol you know you've gone too far. This is especially so in amplifying your dream symbols. The symbols that you have in your dream are yours and are there for a very specific reason. So amplify only until you feel the symbol begins to lose some of its value or energy. Don't thrash a symbol to death in amplifying it. Just add something that really peaks your interest or has specific relevance to your dream or to your life. This is a very difficult thing to do as we are all used to overworking the meaning of symbols when we begin this process. A really important question is where can I get good material or good dictionaries to amplify a symbol? I'm going to mention a few good reference texts that you can get from your local library or bookstore. If you want details of these references please go to my website at www.yongyun.ca and click on the podcast link and on that page I have listed these references with their publishers and publication dates. Good dictionaries, so good symbol dictionaries are by Sirlo, Cooper, Herder and Biedermann. So again these are on the website. A good book on myths is the new LaRuce Encyclopedia of Mythology. Just be aware of what you're buying. Even though the symbol dictionaries I have mentioned are well researched, they are often written by one person which means that that person's psyche was radically influential in what was chosen to include in the symbol dictionary. I often think of Sirlo's dictionary of symbols as being just that, what Sirlo felt the meaning of symbols to be.


Hi everyone, Joe for Jaspy's casebreaks.com, coming at you with a box of 2023 Padini Legacy Football. One box Ram Team Break number 26. We're going to do the break first and with the second dice roll, we're going to give away those final seven big hit express spots. That break coming up in the next video if you're looking for that. Big thank you to this group for making it happen. There are the teams right there. Let's roll it, randomize names and teams four and a three, seven times each. One, two, three, four, five, six, and seventh and final time. After seven, let's have the list shakes out. And then four and a three, seven times for the football teams. One, two, three, four, five, six, and seventh and final tempo. Niners down to Packers. Then this is a proper hoppy box. So we've got two autographs in here. So maybe we'll see some surprises. All right, there's the first half of the list, no trades though, during just for these filler breaks. And there's the second half of the list right there. And then let's alphabetize by team, print and rip. Also I think my Los Angeles Dodgers are playing tonight. They're hosting the Tigers. Torquilson with a solo shot. Interesting. All right, so there it is. Shoe Tuesday, the 19th. Single box, the legacy. The old two out solo shot. Caleb Ferguson is your, he's your opener today. I think Ryan Pepio will be taking the bulk of the innings after that. Two weeks into the football season the American football season. Football americano. I think I saw an interesting stat where where I think it's the first time in many years that a at an NFL division has three teams at two and oh. That'd be the NFC East. Cowboys are two and oh. Eagles are two and oh. Commanders are two and oh. Any early season surprises here for anybody? Suppose the bangles slow start, oh and two. I think they started slow last year. There's all these stats though, and this happens all the time after week two or three. They're like X percent of teams that start the season oh and two. Don't go to the playoffs and there's all sorts of crazy things that happen, but let's see what we've got here. We've got a Mini Gin and Ramsey. The 75. Dolphins are two and oh. Man, a healthy twoa. That team looks pretty good. Guys like him help out a lot. There's Bryce Young, 30 out of 2.99. Carolina has started I think oh and two, but this is more like hey, you want to see this guy progress from game to game. You know Duncan surprised that the Saints have started two and oh. And there's Quinton Johnson, futures dual patch autographs, 149 out of 2.49. I think the Chargers have also started oh and two. You're always surprised around the hype, the hype surrounding the Steelers. Don't tell Chris. Chris might agree with you. There's Mahomes, grind out the win over the weekend. There's a Mini Calvin Ridley for the Jaguars. There's Kyle Pitts, 2.99 for Atlanta. Yeah, they're really trying to make Kenny pick it happen. This here is a big thing. It's only a second year, so I suppose we should be a little more a little more forgiving, but people really want him to win. Here's Great Iron Grades, Ben Coates, a little tight end for the Patriots. That's going to go to Carlos. It's our second autograph. There's Bijan Robinson. There's Keishan Boute to 1.99. We're Bout. Tank Bigsby I think for Houston has been looking pretty good. Maybe moving his way up the death chart. And there's Jameer Gibbs to 100. You know Bijan's been looking good. Tank Bigsby's been looking good. So Texans might be on the right track even though they're 0-2 with Tank and Bijan Robinson. Brian Robinson isn't looking good too. Bijan Robinson looking good. That running game looks pretty good in Atlanta. All right, now let's flip back over here. That's your break. Now there's seven more hits in this break. Those are the big hit express spots. You can consider those hits, right? Try to get a big spot for a fraction of the price. There's everybody 1-32. New dice, new list. Top seven after five. Good luck. One, two, three, four, and fifth and final time. Three and a two. Five times. Five times. Now from eight through 32, sad time. Sorry, cold. Very close. Just not quite. Eight through 32. Thank you everyone for giving this go. But only the top seven can advance to the next break. And that's going to be Samuel. Last bottom mojo. Aaron, Alan, Aaron, Carlos, Samuel, and Carlos. Congrats to the top seven. We'll see you in the next video for the break itself. ShaskiesCaseBrakes.com. Bye-bye.


So in the previous video we looked at a few ways just to improve training a few concepts You can still read the rpops documents down at the RMD file from GitHub have a look at those What I want to do in this video is just to show you how we can implement at least a few of Those improvements that we saw in that video. I'm also going to introduce you to a package called TF Runs Let's just move down here We can see the TF Runs install it via your package manager and It is going to help us to look at the effect of changes that we make to our model Now this demonstration and this demonstration I'm going to use just a normal r script so that would be file new and then we see our script here Just an r script and there are two files here You see the file that I'm working in but there's a second file that just contains the model It should be familiar to you. There's our Keras model sequential We compile our model and then we fit the model So that's all that is in the second file that just the actual model Look, we're not even importing Keras here or TensorFlow or anything. This is just the model in the second file so let's go back to the first file and Let's get things started first line of code. I'm just going to set my working directory and I'm just going to click hold down control and hit enter or command and hit enter on a Mac and That just executes that line of code and we can see at the bottom here in the console that line of code has been executed so my files both of them Live inside of this folder or this directory and now it's easy just to reference the files that are in there I'm going to import Keras and import the reader packages Reader remembers to read a CSV file Keras because we need to do some machine learning Now the training and the test sets For this example exists in two separate spreadsheet files comma separated value files so they've already been split and I'm using the computer variables train dot import and train test dot import To hold those two CSV objects read underscore CSV not Dot CSV because this comes from the reader package. So let's do that control enter and The second one control enter and we'll see we have two Imports here test import train import That's what I call them and you can click on those two buttons and you can see we notice that they're 27,020 observations over 13 variables in the training set and then in the test set is 2,943 observations Along the same across the same 13 variables As per usual, I want to change these into matrices So I'm going to say train dot import and that's going to be as matrix the train import let's do that and Then I remove the names They were column headers and I'm going to remove them and I'm doing the same for test import and I remove the column headers So I'm left with these two matrices what I want to do now is to create my train and test data and For columns 1 to 12 That was the feature variable and the target variable is in column 13 Remember it's row comma columns square brackets indicating that I'm using indexing So I'm creating two train and two test sets here that to Two of each a train data and a train labels I should say and a test data and a test labels just to hold the features and Then the target variables separately. So I'm going to execute all four those Now remember in the previous video we spoke about now just normalizing Those with the way that we're going to normalize in this video is take the mean and standard deviation of each of the feature variables so each of those 12 columns and What we're going to do that's for the training set remember we're going to for each value Subtract its mean and divide by its standard deviation for that variable So I'm going to create this empty variable this empty vector. I'm going to call it feature dot means It's a vector and it has a length of the number of columns in my training data, which was 12 So it's this empty vector of 12 spaces control command enter and We can see it here feature measure It's just 1 to 12 and it's all false false false. Is this this empty? It's just this empty a vector of 12 values Now what I want to do is I'm going to iterate through each of the columns So for in I So a for loop I in 1 to the length of the feature means remember they're 12 of them So I'm going to iterate from 1 to 12 and I'm going to start populating feature means remember they're 12 empty spaces So during the first loop that will be spot number 1 will be the mean of My training data's all the rows in column 1 so I'm looking down column 1 I'm calculating the mean and I'm putting that in position 1 in my features mean Then it'll be 2 so it'll look at column 2 in train data Get its mean and place it in position number 2 and So until we get to 12 and then we see here we have feature means up here It's 12 numbers numbers 1 to 12 in the indexing and it's the mean of each of the columns And I'm going to do exactly the same for the standard deviation So standard deviation and run my for loopers as well. So I've got 12 means and 12 standard deviations Because what I want to do now is to create this normalized feature set So first of all, I'm going to create an MT Matrix that's going to be the same number of rows and columns remember it was quite a lot in In in when we first imported it it was 20,000 27,020. So rows over 12 columns. I'm creating this MT Matrix to hold that and Then I'm going to do two for loops a nested for loop. So on the outside for loops I'm going to go through all the columns and In the inside the inside for loop. I'm going to go through all the rows So what I'm doing with this I'm going to populate all of these MT values in this matrix And I'm going to start with row one column one and that is going to be that position train data subtract from that the feature mean Divided by the feature standard deviation. So the end refers to those columns So I'm going to go down each and every step each and every row in the first column Each one of those sample data data point values and I subtract from that the mean for that column or variable Divide by the standard deviation for that column or variable And once I'm done through all of the first columns all of its rows I Come outside back to the first for loop and we go to column number two And we repeat it for all the rows and column two Etc etc etc, so we just run through all of those very quick Now we're going to do the same for the test data So I'm going to create this empty matrix of the same number of rows and columns as my test set my Feature test set and then I'm going to loop through all of those this nested loop same story But I'm using the feature means and the feature standard deviation That's from the training sets mean and the training sets the standard deviation So I'm subtracting the test data So from each individual sample value data point value in the test data I subtract the mean and the appropriate mean and standard deviation by from the training set now let's import T of runs and You see we're using the training underscore run function from training runs. I don't have to put this Training runs and two colons T of runs and two colon symbols But just to show you that's that's where this function comes from And now I'm going to reference The model that I actually have so let's run through the model a model is a I'm going to call a baseline model It's a carous sequential model It has a dense layer another dense layer So two hidden layers and then an output layer the output layer is a single node because this is a binary classification So using the sigmoid activation function there be nicely to go from zero to one Let's have a look. I've got 48 units and 48 units So quite a bit more nodes there than the 12 nodes of my input vector I'm using rectified linear unit as my activation function in both and remember in the first one I have to input the shape which is equal to the number of features 12 But I've got this new thing here called kernel initializer And remember the first time that we get the first multiplication during forward propagation It's just going to initialize random values for the weights is the first time we go But we can also set those we can have a specific one and this time I'm going to specify kernel initializer and I'm going to set it to in it underscore w which I created up here So instead of this typing this here. I could have just put in all of this Right here, and I've just done it separately to show you that's possible So I have this in Initializer and this is a curious function initializer random normal So it's going to use a random normal this to a normal distribution for all the weights in that very first tensor that is going to be multiplied by My input vector and I'm saying that the values for that tensor must have a mean of zero and a standard deviation of 0.05 and I'm setting a seed value here one two three That means every time I run it and you run it you're going to get exactly the same weight values By default the bias Nodes they are set to zero all the biased values are zero initially and you see yeah I'm not even referencing it here, but you could Put it in here as well and just initialize a zeroes that is for for the Bias notes, but it's zero doesn't matter So what I want to do is just bring up a page for you here Let's bring up this page. So this is curious that our studio comm and I've moved all the way long And I've clicked on the reference tab at the top and you can see the contents here of of This whole long page, but you can just go to the right hand side and you see there initializes You see regular rises there. You see losses there Optimizes, let's have a look. So here's One of the initializers we used initializer random normal You can see how it works. There's a mean a standard deviation and a seed and you can set those Anywhere you want and you can also see all the other initializers so you can try any of these and if you click on them here, we have a Likun normalizer from young Likun from a publication and You can see you can read more about those read this efficiency backprop by young Likun I think yeah, that was and We can try that normalizer. It just has a seed. So there's no other argument to set there if we look at Some of the optimizers This is the RMS prop optimizer. You can see we've discussed some of these That Arguments in the previous video. You can read up more about them. Let's get back to a model So we're going to get to the compile step And I'm going to use the optimizer the optimizer RMS prop and I'm only setting two things the learning rate I'm setting the learning rate And I'm setting row value here So 0.01 and 0.9 those would be the defaults My loss is going to be binary cross entropy. I'm dealing with two categorical variables. That's a good loss function And then we're going to fit and we pass the training data normalized and The training labels to the fit and our validation set is going to be test data normalized and test labels now This is a data set that contains a lot of noise very difficult to learn from this data set so let's go back here and All we're going to say is training run and the file equals the name of this file because it lives in the same Directory or folder and up here we set The working directory. I don't have to refer to its full address. I can use it as such Now it's going to open that file and it's going to run that file and then something else is going to happen Let's have a look We see that the model starts running and we can see there's a big gap there's a lot of variance here a bit of overfitting I would say and We can see the model run over the 40 epochs that we have set There we go, and then this page opens up very nice We can see Some information here on the right-hand side. We can see an accuracy of the training set of 75 So we can certainly let this run a lot longer and then 70% for the Validation accuracy so quite low there. So a few things that we have to do we see the model here at the bottom The model with the the layers created and if I go to output there We can see what the model was and the code will give me the code of my model and the code of the file from which It was called as well So very good Let's close that Now we can go back to improvements and we can say let's make some changes to this. I Want to make some changes So let's change the Let's make this a smaller network. We're going to put 12 in each of these Let's put only 12 nodes in each of these and Let's make our learning rate slightly smaller 05 Let's set the road to 0.5 Just changes you can make look at those pages on the RStudio Keras website Think about some of the content concepts that we've discussed before I'm just going to illustrate Some for you here. So let's just save this go back to our original and Let's run this again just to show you if you do latest run Let's just run that it'll just give you some information down in the console as to what had just happened But we saw that in the overview that came up So let's train this again same file, but the changes have now been made. Let's run that There you go. It's run and we can see what has happened as we did before What I do want to show you though is just instead of latest run. Let's use compare runs and if we do that Very nicely we're going to see both of the two previous one ones come up and We can see the changes that were made So where the units were 48 before they are now 12 when the second hidden layer was 48 units And now has 12 the learning rate You see the change and the change in the row there for the RMS prop So you can see the changes that were made and you can do a side-by-side Comparison to see if you've improved things So we can see we can do quite a few more epochs because this was still going down So I'll certainly do that. We see that we've certainly improved our Variance here our high variance in that these are closer Pay attention to the scale though because that might trip you up that the scale make might might make this look a lot Better than than what it really is the improvements really are so have a look at these But that's a beautiful way to go about it. Just to do these Make changes and compare the runs make changes and compare the runs. Let's try something else Let's go back and for the weight initializer. We're going to use this Likun. Let's bring that back up again Likun, and you see what it what happens here. It is going to be a normal distribution but it is going to vary according to the number of input units and we spoke about that in the previous video So it's going to do this according to the input units That the input units for this weight tensor So let's just have a look at that all we have to do is say initialize a Likun normal. Let's do that So let's save this We go back and we're going to run our model again And there we go. We can see what I would perhaps do here is introduce some dropout or regularization And I would certainly let this model run for quite a bit longer, but let's have a look compare runs now and Now we can see from the previous one the changes that we have made we had we had the normal random normal initializer before now we have the Likun normal and We've to see the change that we made there and we can see the difference that it had caused So it is a beautiful way to play around with your model and see the changes that are made


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Hello, everybody. Andrea here. Here is a sneak peek inside the brand new 2023 case study practice dental hygiene package that I do offer through my company Dental L Tutoring. So case studies take a while to make like this was weeks in the making because you have to come up with questions. You have to cross reference your like variety of resources, answers, and then rationals. So you guys are going to love this. It's a 108 slide package. So this is for the dental hygiene student preparing for the board exam. You need to practice critical thinking and case studies is the way to do that. So I'm just going to do a really quick run through just so you guys can see there's questions. There's answers. There's rationals. Let me go over a few with you. Let's start just randomly. Let's do slide 24. So Mark a patient with disabilities requires additional accommodations during dental appointments. How can you act as a client advocate for Mark? So A, do you collaborate with Mark and his caregiver to identify specific accommodations needed for his comfort and safety? Or B, do you proceed with the appointment as usual assuming Mark can adapt to the standard procedures? C, do you disregard Mark's accommodations considering them unnecessary for dental care? Or D, do you refer Mark to a different dental clinic specialized in treating patients with disabilities? So remember, when you're taking the board exam, two answers are going to sound correct. But one of them you have to pick one as being the most correct because of course you can't pick two answers. So feel free to pause the video now if you need to think about this question a little bit. I'm just going to go through and discuss the answer with you. This is a tricky one. Like this is a thinker. So A is the best answer and let me explain this a little bit. So I'm going to read the question again. Mark a patient with disabilities requires additional accommodations during dental appointments. How can you act as a client advocate for Mark? So the best answer is you want to collaborate with Mark and his caregiver to identify specific accommodations needed for his comfort and safety. So A is the best because this is you acting as a client advocate. You understand that Mark has special needs and working together with him and his caregiver is the best way to go about things because although it doesn't say what type of disability he has, it doesn't say what his special needs are. But as an example, let's say Mark was in a wheelchair. Just because he's in a wheelchair doesn't mean he's going to have the same needs as your next patient who might also be in a wheelchair. Everybody's needs are different. Everybody's accommodations may be a bit different. One thing that works for Mark might not work for the next patient or the next patient. It doesn't work for them, but it really helps Mark. So this is why you need to work with Mark and his caregiver. His caregiver knows Mark the best, but Mark of course knows his self the best too. So this is why. So by collaborating with Mark, so it says it right here and his caregiver, the dental hygienist ensures that his comfort and safety are prioritized. So isn't that the main thing when you're working as your client's advocate? You do whatever they can or sorry, you do whatever you can to make their care as best as possible for them. So you wouldn't refer Mark to a different dental clinic because you can treat him just fine. You of course, I'm sure none of you picked C, but you of course wouldn't just disregard everything and you would not do B either because you're not assuming just standard procedures because it says right here. He needs additional accommodations. So I hope this helps you guys. This is part of again the 2023 case studies practice dental hygiene package for dental hygiene students. I literally just finished this yesterday June the 1st. So depending on when you're watching this video, this is brand new. Nobody has it yet. Not even my VIP members because this is something separate.  I highly recommend it. It will really boost your confidence in taking the board exam and it's good for you to practice these case study type questions because the more practice you have with case studies and critical thinkings, the more prepared you're going to be for the board exam. So thank you guys for watching. Let me know if any questions. I am very happy to help and I'll see you in the next one.


Welcome back to my channel. Thanks so much for tuning back in for another video today's video It's just gonna be a fun hopefully short and sweet video But I'm gonna be putting some color in my hair nothing permanent just some fun temporary color So I was in my local beauty supply store, and I saw the staff actor had some more gels on display this time They all had color different types of color Some of the containers had two colors in them dual colors and some were just single, but they came in different sizes Small sizes medium sizes, and then it looks like like the economy size So they had all these wild colors that I would never go out public aware So that's why this is just a fun video and you know nothing serious I just want to just try some color because it's literally been years since I've had color my hair and I have not colored My hair since I've been natural so I always thought it was fun Just to put a pop of color just to see how it looks. I'm a big fan of style factor I love their jail. This is the edge booster that I've shown many times on videos So I also got the color gel not only for the fun of it, but because I want to cover up a lot of grays so my family we gray fast and I'm only 40 so and I'm not ashamed to tell my age But I'm 40 and I have a lot of grays around my temples My temples are the worst and it just looks like a big gray streak when I slick on my hair So I figured let me just get some color and see if it will help You know just a pop of color, but let me show you what I got This is the style factor hot-out hair color wax and this is in gold So I tested this hair color wax on my niece's hair just to see how it would do and or how it would look I should say and it made her hair to me look green Her hair is more of a sandy or color than mine and I'm trying to practice open so y'all can see I Guess it feels more like a paint like a very thin paint But definitely not waxy. It does have this glitter this glitter that's in it Kind of like a glitter effect and it does rinse off very easily. So it doesn't Stay on your hands or in your hair. It does wash out easily so But I just put on an old shirt because I didn't want to stain it But anyway, let's go ahead and get started. Okay, so we're gonna start Right here at my temples because that's where the gray is the worst So I'm just going to Make a little section here. I'm gonna start at the ends first Has it looks green on my hair just like it did my niece It is this looks green It doesn't I guess it's gold, but this go looks green. I'm really trying to come up this gray Give y'all a close-up. Does this look green y'all does this show a little green to me? Okay, so let's just go crazy with this with the heck. That's what I bought it for It is gold if my hands actually look like something from the Wizard of Oz It's this gold. Yeah, it's gold the the more I applied to my hair The golder it was looking Now as far as my roots my look my roots look very golden, but the rest of it Mmm, and it was taken to my hair so fast that I just went ahead and did my whole hair Like it was just like applying like a I don't know like a leaving conditioner or something not to say was that consistency But it just glided on my hair so easily and the color was just it was just coming through So I was like, let me just go on and do my whole hair because it's really not taking anything To put this product in so it just immediately took to my hair and the color and it applied very smoothly onto my hair and Yeah, it didn't take Three minutes. It didn't even take three minutes To really get this all through my hair It just really soaked into my hair. So yeah, this is what we're looking like It's just oh Lord, this is horrible I don't know. It's like a combination of it's almost like a mustard color. That's what it is It's like a mustard.  This is definitely a very very very fun experience I'm just putting the rest of it in my hair because this was a small container and this little container costs $4.99 basically $5 for the small and the big ones were like I think there were $10 for I'm sorry the medium-sized ones were $10 and then the bigger ones were like 17 so that's it. This is this is the look. This is the color Yeah Mmm So, I hope you guys enjoyed watching me use this hair color wax from stout factor I it's your local beauty supplies where you can get it. So I hope you guys enjoyed it again This is just a fun video just to show you what the color looks like if you pick up this color and gold You'll see what it looks like, but if you try it tell me your thoughts It doesn't look green doesn't look gold doesn't look mustard So if you try it just let me know in the comments, but if you try a different color I would love to see it, but again if you enjoy the video don't forget to like comment and subscribe It's just Janine and I will see you on the next video. Bye guys


And ahead of the forthcoming general election, the Independent Electoral Commission, INEC, has commenced a verification of all accredited political parties in Oregon State. The Secretariat of People's Democratic Party in the state was the first port of call before others. A correspondent in Oregon State filed in this report. The verification according to INEC included inspection of party structure, confirmation of executive officers among others. The head of elections and party monitoring, Akambe Abidokun, led INEC delegation to the secretariat of the PDP, New Nigerian People's Party and Labour Party Abiokuta Metropolis. On October 20, 2021, Honourable Sikori Rulai Ogundele, the state's chairman. PDP chairman in Ogun State, Sikori Rula Ogundele challenged the commission to redeem its image ahead of 2023 general election. We are not taking this platform for granted.   By the end of the day, you ratify the officers and give us a list. So this kind of visit is also confirmed. The list of officers we have been involved in INEC is still intact. Have there been changes? If there are changes, have you followed the procedure of letting the commission know about the changes? For his part, the chairman of NMPP as well as the chieftain of the Labour Party encouraged INEC to ensure a level playing field for all political parties. It's a mutual meeting. It's been expected, honestly, and it's timely. So I, I mean, I appreciate that thought of coming to see us as the party secretariat to see how things, how we are feeling and how we are doing here. So it's a welcome development. And so many things were talked about. I was able to let them know that it's generally a point that INEC has got to work on their image so that what the proverb that says to pay the piper to take the tone will not come to play. And I think we have spoken to their minds. I don't have any doubts in mind. So many things we talked about. They have promised us they are going to work on it. The Labour Party is hoping to see a better organised and a partial INEC in 2023. The parties make a promise to carry out advocacy on the addition of the election centre in the state. 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.


You need a financial advisor with the freedom to focus on your specific needs. Whatever your goals, Reed Potter can create a game plan tailored to you. Call Reed at 432-0777 at Pikeville, Kentucky to learn more. Tuesday, February 28th, the Pike County Fiscal Court and Lifeguard Ambulance Services came to an agreement to place an ambulance in Phelps. Lifeguard Fiscal Court authorized a bid for a trailer to be placed here at Phelps on county property. And then Lifeguard will base an ambulance there. It's not going to be there 24 hours a day because it's going to be out on calls, but it will be based here and it will be serving this area predominantly. One ambulance is not enough, you probably need two or three, but it's a start. And I would rather have an ambulance based here because if it is here when something happens, it's certainly going to cut response times. It's not going to fix the problem, but it's a positive first step until we see what happens with the CO in the certificate of need for the ambulance service here. Currently, ambulance response time to Phelps can take over an hour, leaving residents without critical emergency care. We've had problems in Elkhorn City, we've had problems all over the county, Dorton, Shelby Gap. Pike County is 888 square miles, and that is a massive geographical area. And as you heard Lifeguard say, they're running six to seven trucks a day. That's what they can staff. And six to seven trucks a day is probably not enough. If they had more EMTs, they would put more trucks on, I believe that. But it's a large county and it's not just emergency calls. There are people who have to be transported from nursing homes, from hospitals to other hospitals. All of those things put strains on the system. And if you have your ambulances all out doing medical transports, that have to be done, and then emergency calls come in, it really is concerning that there's not enough ambulances to cover the needs. Although one ambulance is a temporary fix, the residents of Phelps are seeking a certificate of need to place an additional ambulance service in Phelps. It's a good short term. It'd be nice to have two, because if you have one already on a run, you're still left high and dry. But for short term, it'll work. Like everybody said, it's a band-aid on a tourniquet situation. So there'll be good come out of it, but we'll just have to see how it goes. Reporting for Mountain Top News, I'm Brianna Robinson.


Good morning and welcome everyone. We will begin with the word of prayer. I just want to encourage anyone to volunteer please. Father Almighty God, we give you thanks, we give you praise. We adore you and I lift your name so high. We thank you for the gift of life today. We thank you for the class today.   We pray a lot for effective network, let your network be stable. Father, for you say we are two or three, I gathered in your name, you are there with us, so we recognize your presence at this time. Holy Spirit of God, come and take us through. Give us wisdom, give us knowledge, give us understanding, and let these words that we are going to learn bear fruits in our life and in the life of the people that we are going to minister to. We pray and declare this in Jesus Christ's name, Son of the Living Good. Amen. Amen. Thank you brother Paul. We have seen the distinction between the Old Testament prophetic ministry and the New Testament prophetic ministry. We saw that God has given his Holy Spirit to live inside every believer now and therefore, you know, we can walk with the leading of the Holy Spirit but then with the baptism of the Holy Spirit, even the gift of prophecy is operational in the life of, it can be operational in the life of every believer and every believer can prophesy. So, we talked a little bit about the progression where prophesying believers are the common or the basic, basic level that we look at and later would be the grace gift of prophecy that is the prophetic ministry in which people flow. And of course, the highest level which would be the prophetic office, which are the gifts that Christ has given to the church for the equipping of the body. And we talked about the Book of Acts and how over there we see people functioning in various capacities and all these capacities, we observe them functioning. So, now we will talk a little bit about the gifts of the spirit and the prophetic. So, I have already shared this that when we use the term the prophetic, it's more of an umbrella term. So, when I say umbrella term, it means that it has within itself a few other components. So, when we look at the gifts of the spirit, what happens is, there are nine gifts that we can enlist and in those nine gifts, we would generally say that prophecy, word of knowledge, word of wisdom and even discerning of spirits typically comes under the umbrella of what we call as the prophetic. So, when I say prophecy, generally I'm referring to the gift of prophecy, but when I say the prophetic, then even other gifts such as what I've already shared, the gift of word of wisdom, word of knowledge and discerning of spirits is also a part of it. So, when we practically move in the gifts of the spirit, we mustn't get too hung up on the technicalities of which gift is operating, because our intention is to bless the person that we are ministering to. So, when we are serving them, when we are praying for them, maybe we begin with a word of prophecy, like we're just saying, God is showing me that he will be taking you to such and such a place and that these things are going to happen in your life. But as we are flowing, as the work of the spirit is flowing out of us, suddenly we might switch to saying something like you have been through many challenges in your life or in the past, this has happened. So, what is that? That is actually word of knowledge because otherwise we wouldn't know what exactly happened in that person's life. So, that is the word of knowledge. Word of knowledge is a little bit of information. So, the way the term is word is, it's not a full sentence or it's not a full paragraph. So, it's a little bit, a word of knowledge. Knowledge is information. So, some information that has been given to us, we call that as the word of knowledge and this information is obviously supernatural. It's not something that we learned because we know the person or we could get that from somebody who knows them. So, absolutely no connection with the individual but supernaturally we received a word of information or word of knowledge. So, word of wisdom is solution when God gives some solution to what's going on in people's lives. I think we've talked about this earlier.  So, what is that? It's like a word of wisdom. Wisdom is like telling people how to resolve a matter or how to apply some truth. So, that is word of wisdom. So, you notice when we are flowing in the prophetic, that's the umbrella term, we could be switching between all these gifts but ultimately it doesn't matter. Okay, the important thing is to minister to the person. So, while we are ministering, just go ahead, go with the flow. Don't worry too much and let the streams of living water flow. We generally say that gifts flow in a package. Okay, now this is not just true for these prophetic gifts but even some of the gifts could be operational. Like as you are prophesying or as I am prophesying, maybe the person receives healing, supernatural healing. So, gifts of healing, gift of healings is operational in their life. So, any gift can operate and gifts generally operate in a package. Okay, so that we must remember. Now moving on to the next subject here which is about the prophetic presbytery. So, presbytery is a company of elders and in the New Testament we see a presbytery or eldership, eldership in the local church. So, eventually there were apostles in the church but then we know that a need arose in Acts chapter 6 of distributing food. So, then they assigned volunteers in the church. So, there were all these improvements or developments that were taking place in the structure of the church, the leadership of the church. So, eventually we see that around the time when Paul was ministering and many other office mentees were overseeing churches, there were elders, elders, presbyter in the church. So, that is what is presbytery. Now, one thing that we notice Paul say is he tells Timothy in 1 Timothy chapter 4 and verse 14, do not neglect the gift that is in you which was given to you by prophecy with the laying on of the hands of the eldership. So, this is aligned to what happened in Acts chapter 13 over there the Holy Spirit told the elders set aside for us Paul and Barnabas and so they were commissioned, they were commissioned for this new ministry which started off. So, this is very similar where the eldership is commissioning or the eldership is prayerfully leading, imparting into the lives of those who are under them. So, what does Paul tell Timothy he says look when the eldership or the presbytery group of leaders laid hands on you, they prayed what happened there is a gift that is imparted to you through prophecy and the laying on of hands. So, what do we understand here? The concept is that gifts can be I use the term imparted. So, let's say you know the leader is flowing in the prophetic and as he lays hands on the mentee the gift that the leader has can be put upon or put into the mentee. So, these things are biblical it's already there in the Bible and so even today we practice this laying on of hands by a group of elders and we can trust that the gifts will be imparted. Now talking about impartation you know we've said it time and again impartation does not mean that everything which is in a person will be transferred in the same way and the other person will function and flow in the exact same way impartation will happen but what does it depend on? It depends on the faith of the person who's praying the elder it depends on the faith of the person who's receiving the desire of the person who's receiving it depends on the grace which is you know in the life of the person who's being prayed for. So, only those gifts will get imparted and they will function in the very unique way that God has called that particular person. So, these are some things we understand about eldership laying on of hands and impartation of gifts. So, when can a practice like this be used in the church? A practice like this can be used to confirm that you know God has called someone to a certain ministry. These practices can be used to ordain people, ordain or commission is the other word. We would generally use the term commission in most of our Christian circles where I have been commissioned to be an evangelist, commissioned to be a pastor so ordain. So, presbytery can lay hands and release gifts and the people who are going into the ministry or other things are receiving the gifts or even simply impartation where one prays for the other to get the gifts. So, during impartation we can do activation. Activation is what? Activation is any believer, any believer, any man or woman of God. There are certain graces and gifts in their lives. So, as an elder prays for them by laying on of hands what happens? We are calling forth, we can say something like recall forth the gifts, the graces which are in this person and those gifts get activated. So, these are some things that we observe in the New Testament. So, if there are any questions we could take that up before we go forward with chapter 4 in our publication here, Understanding the Prophetic. Yes, yes, Sivya. Yeah. Thank you, Pastor. I was just thinking about this impartation aspect. So, I'm always very, like not skeptical, but yes, as you said, like it is mentioned in the word, but we see in some circles it's too much projected in such a way that, you know, as if that person is kind of a godly figure, like a god kind of figure, you know, for after which people are, you know, drawing into so that they can get the impartation. I don't know if I make sense when I say this, but sometimes I feel why is that? Because God is no respecter of people and if we really desire, God will surely give us, you know, so why there is a person in between? That's my question. Yeah, it is biblical, but it's a very difficult thing for me to grasp, because God does not want a mediator, right? We can directly go to him. So, why the need of, you know, this impartation? Yeah, thank you. Yes, thank you. So the way our understanding is that every gift comes from God. When we talked about Elijah and Elisha also, we clarified that. We saw how when Elisha desired, excuse me, when Elisha desired a gift, Elijah did not immediately lay hands on him and say, okay, you know, you take it. Did Elisha to wait upon the Lord and follow some instructions? And when Elisha finally did it, Elisha finally did it, we know that the anointing came upon Elisha. So the bottom line that I'm trying to emphasize the view is, gifts come from God. Even when impartation happens, it's coming from God. Okay, it's not coming from that person, which is why faith is essential. Okay, faith, expectation, desire, all those key things which we need in our intimacy with the Lord, that is required even during an impartation.  I am trusting God for it. Okay, and I want that gift to whatever activated, get activated, stirred up. Now, God will release it, God will definitely release it. But there are environments or, you know, through people, association, where he may want to use these circumstances or people to actually release or activate it. Okay, so ultimately, it's coming from God only. But in the process, God does use people. So we need to look at it that way. Okay, not so much as, you know, the person is a mediator. Does this make sense, Divya or? Yes, yes, it does make sense. I'm not against it or anything. I'm just against the hype sometimes that is given to a person, because it makes that person kind of God kind of, you know, people are misled sometimes. If at all the testimony or the witness of that person goes in a different direction, you know, so people can get misled, their faith can get shattered. So, yeah, it's just that this provision in the scripture sometimes can be, you know, perverted, can be, you know, taken into a wrong level. So yeah, that's what I was trying to understand. It's not, yeah, that I'm against it. But yeah. Yes, yes. So, Divya, I understand your concern. We would term it as an excess. Okay, so there are excesses in the Christian circle when it comes to many things, not just the operation of the gifts of the spirit, we've seen in church history, even, you know, the words speak the word, claim the promises. It's, there are excesses. People have used it and unfortunately abused it. And that creates a panic that creates, you know, like, like a discomfort for the believers to continue to flow in it. So, you know, we keep saying this, whatever good has come out of, you know, certain movements of the kind of the ministry that people have done. Let's appreciate it. Let's desire for more of it. But, you know, there, there are excesses in many instances. But we need that discerning spirit to say that we know this is of God. But what is of the flesh, we will discard. Okay. And if we keep an eye like that, I'm sure we can work on the right track. Yeah, sure, Pastor. That clears it a lot. Yeah, thank you. Yes. Thank you, Divya. And I saw Jeffyna's hand go up. Do you have anything to say or if not, I'll go to Brother Paul. I have something to ask about. So, impartation, I mean, even I'm not against it. But is it something that people should seek for? I mean, ultimately, we are connected with God. You can ask him. But there are people who just go like, hey, this pastor, we can get this impartation. And just for the sake of that, people will just stand in line. And I've seen, I think in my childhood, there was one pastor and he was helping people to speak in tongues. So that was a big line of people standing so that the tongues can, they can receive it or something. But is it something that we need to seek for? Or I wonder whether the pastor should have said, like, you have your personal time with God, ask God for the gifts so that you can start speaking. Or is it something that we can seek for? Like, when a problem arises, people are suddenly like, okay, let's go to that pastor to go here for the impartation of the steps. Is it something that we can seek for? Is it a right way? It's that my question. Yeah, so Jeff, you know what I would say is, yes, the same thing that I told you, yeah, gifts come from God. So we must seek God for the gift, like, for example, prophecy. I want to be a prophetic person. I want to prophesy. So I seek after God all the time saying God, let that gift operate, let that gift operate.  And we've already said that, you know, God uses human channels, God uses many of these things to help nurture the gift. Okay, so they would not negate all that. So desire the gift. If there is, you know, no way of meeting a person and then I continue to practice the gift, I develop the gift and, you know, it gets better in that manner, wonderful. You know, you really never had anyone, you do not go after anyone also, the gift is developing on its own. But if there is some such situation, let's say, you know, there is a particular pastor, there is a particular individual, I'm not saying run after people, but I'm saying if you are in a situation where it is in your heart, okay, that you're looking at a person ministering in the prophetic and within you, you go, wow, I love the way this person is flowing in the prophetic. Okay, I'm not saying run after the pastors and say, oh, I want what they have, but it's a wonderful thing to desire, you know, desire to grow in the Lord, desire to grow in the gift. So in that sense, what I'm saying is there's nothing wrong. Unfortunately, because what people have done is they've tried to, they've tried to elevate a person above God, which is why we are all discussing it here and saying, you know, is it okay? Is it okay for somebody to pray and impart the gift to us? Actually, it's okay. But because people have been elevated so much and, you know, Christian people don't have the foundation where they understand the gifts and they know it has to anyway directly come from God. But sometimes if God has created an opportunity for us to be prayed for by someone, there's no harm in that. Okay. But yeah, be discerning. So what I'm saying is there's nothing wrong even to desire an impartation from someone or somebody's ministry, and there's absolutely nothing wrong. But just we need to be clear of our motives. Am I depending on the person in their ministry or am I really depending on God? So if there is some option where you are able to visit a certain ministry, okay, or have be prayed for by someone, okay, don't run after it. Okay, so that's how I look at it. But we should not negate, don't neglect the fact that this is a possibility. Yeah. Okay. All right. Yes, Brother Paul, please go ahead. Yes, I just wanted to add something small. I think it is in the book of Amos chapter 3 verse 6 there. I'm not very sure where the Bible says God will do nothing except He reveals Himself to His servants, those are the prophets. So actually there is no way we may run away from the people of God, but as you said, some people begin to abuse the gift that God has given them. But God uses, He reveals His things in most cases to His servants, the prophets, the people He has appointed. And then also if you look at the gifts, the gifts are really very different. The Bible even say not others are given the gifts of prophecy, others of tongue. So they are really, really, very, very different. They cannot give all of them to you. Some you have to get from us to be imparted from you from the others. So that is how I look at it. Thank you. Okay. Brother, could you please come again? And that scripture that you mentioned is Amos 3 7. I just checked it. So what would be the point that you're making? Yeah, the point I'm making is that as God has said that He will do nothing but He read His secrets to the prophets. So in such a situation, we may not avoid the servants of God. We may not avoid them because God has only revealed it to them. So God may reveal something to His servants. So how do we get that thing? Unless that servant impart it on us, we may not. So that is the point I'm trying to put across. Thank you. Thank you for sharing again. Okay. So that scripture that you said, God does nothing. Say we reveal that to His prophets. But also, you see, there are many scriptures like Psalm 25 verse 14, where we read that God confides or God, in other words, reveals His secret or the secret things to those who fear Him. So, I mean, I understand where you're coming from and what you're saying. Yes, there are prophets of God and God does reveal many things to them. So we would receive it from them. But then to think that God only confides in the prophets and without a prophet in my life, I will not be able to hear from God. That may not be correct. If, for example, let's take this scenario that I'm an individual and I'm living in a city where there are not many and there are not many prophets of God and I have now been born again and I'm growing in God and many things are happening in my life. And for the longest period of lifespan, you know, I'm not really interacting with any prophets or nothing major like that. And then I don't, you know, watch some online resources and learn from it. So just because I don't have a prophet in my life, it doesn't mean that I will not know the heart of God. Okay, so if a prophet comes by and I have a chance to, you know, meet the prophet well and good, but the converse of that will be me assuming that every individual needs a prophet because God does nothing, say we reveal it to his prophets. Okay, so if I believe in the converse of that, that yes, I need a prophet, everybody needs a prophet, what will happen as a result? Every believer will run after prophets. We need enough prophets, the believers. But then the Bible doesn't really, you know, make that a necessity. So I understand what you're sharing, but I differ in that one thought where, you know, the secrets are only revealed to the prophets and that we need to get it from them. If there is no prophet around, it's okay. God can still reveal it to me directly.  No, I totally agree with you, but even as the way I stated it, I say in some cases, not absolutely, so you are correct, you are right. We are together with you. Okay, thank you. Thank you so much. The reason why I wanted to clarify is it's very unfortunate that there are many, you know, many believers and ministries these days where it is thought that everyone needs a prophet. Okay, and that's creating a lot of havoc in the kingdom of God, in the body of Christ, where, you know, well-meaning believers who want to grow in the Lord, they're running behind prophets, they're running behind, you know, conference after conference, prophetic word after prophetic word, prophet after prophet, impartation after impartation, but God doesn't want us to live like that. So the prophetic doesn't mean that our dependence is created in that manner, that would be absolutely wrong. So God can directly minister to us, speak to us if required, He will confirm it through a prophetic word or a prophet or, you know, something else. So that we have to be very clear about, otherwise we'll create an unnecessary dependence on people and run after them. That is not correct. Okay, so useful discussion there, very helpful for us to, you know, make good choices. So let's move ahead then with chapter four in our notes, where we will talk about the prophetic word. God's, you know, prophecy as a gift can be released in several ways. There are, there are, you know, certain categories that we will look at. So the prophetic, the prophetic can come forth as a message, which we can understand as a prophetic word. So if there's a message which is spoken, we will call that as a prophetic word. Now prophecy, like I could have a thought and wonder why is God showing me that, but that could also be so that I can pray. So there is the prophetic at work or prophecy at work, but that needs to be channeled into intercession. So you understand, you know, the prophetic is flowing, but there are different ways of releasing it and, you know, different ways of seeing the power of God come forth. So one is releasing that as a message, which we call as a prophetic word. The second is when we receive revelation from God, we pray about it and that is prophetic intercession. And prophetic intercession is we pray on the basis of what is revealed. Next is prophetic power. Prophetic power is when there is a demonstration of power at the release of the prophetic word. So that's the third one, prophetic power. The fourth is prophetic song. So prophetic song is when there is a release of praise, worship or even music. So sometimes without the words when people are playing their instruments and certain sounds are released, they could be prophetic. That is, remember the case of Elisha when he called for a musician and he began to play. And so you see, there's something about music, even without words, it can be prophetic. It can carry the prophetic flow in it. So prophetic song, which includes worship, praise, but also just music, then prophetic action. Prophetic action is, it's a message from God, but then it is released in the form of an action. If you recall, we talked about Agabus in the book of Acts, when he had a word that Paul is going to be imprisoned. What did he do? He took Paul's belt and he bound himself and he said, the man whose belt this is, he will be bound. So he is doing an action there instead of releasing the word such as thus says the Lord, Paul will be bound, Paul will be. So the release comes in the form of an action. So these are all some of the primary categories in which the prophetic or prophecy can be released. Now again, though we are classifying for the sake of deeper understanding, there is no need to compartmentalize. By that, we simply mean that when one is ministering, maybe the pastor is also a worship leader and he says something to the congregation, normal general instruction, and then he begins to pray. Then comes the prophetic word. So he's saying thus says the Lord, this and that. And so he releases the prophetic word. But maybe he's playing on his keys. And for a moment, there is the prophetic music going on right there. And then some words are released to him where the church congregation begins to sing the prophetic song. So now they are flowing in prophetic song. So what's happening? The flow of the prophetic can be any which way. And there's really no need to stop and try and discern. Hey, what was this? What's this prophetic song or prophetic word or prophetic? It's just for our sake. So it can God's work can go on anyway. So that is the point that I want to make them. Now that we have an idea of these expressions, let's talk a little bit about the prophetic word. So that would be a message that comes from God. And we've been saying that the prophetic word, its intention is to build up God's people and as per first Corinthians 14-3, it edifies, it exalts and it comforts. So edification, what is edification? Edification means building up, exhortation means comfort. So the Greek words are given here in our notes. If you are interested, you could go over that. And comfort, comfort is speaking in a closed way or in a sort of a tender way to someone that is comfort. So what God is really doing for his people is he's building them up, he's encouraging them and he is speaking tenderly to the people. Now talking about encouragement, what we could say is it can be prospective or which is talking about the future.  But the comfort aspect, comfort aspect that we said, speaking tenderly to someone, speaking in a closed way to someone, that is more to do with the retrospective way, where something that people have experienced, let's say a trial or some difficulty, the prophetic word, what will it do? It will heal their hearts as you speak it over them. So the comfort falls under mostly in the retrospective part of things. And as this is done, as we release the gift of prophecy over people, what can we expect? We can expect that people will begin to grow spiritually that they will experience God very close to them because God is speaking to them in various ways and addressing parts of their life. So we've understood now the primary motivation of the prophetic word, what it does, what it means to be releasing edification, exhortation and comfort. Now the prophetic word can also reveal one's true character and potential. The good example of this would be Nathaniel. So Nathaniel, we know that Jesus saw him under the fig tree and without even knowing this person, he made a statement that behold, here is an Israelite in whom there is no deceit. So he knew the nature or the character of an individual without having you know knowledge as an in a logical way. This is supernatural without having a relationship with sin through the gift of the Holy Spirit. Jesus is saying you are a man on, this is a man without any deceit. So is it possible for the prophetic word to come forth in such a way that it shows somebody's character? Yes. So we could see words released in that manner. I have heard prophetic words where I remember once a prophet had come to Acha many years ago and one of my friends, I know how to be a very, very compassionate person. She is like extremely compassionate and the the prophet started calling different people out in the congregation and saying stuff about them. So he suddenly picked my friend and then he doesn't know her. He's from another country and we're only seeing him in that conference in person and he calls her out and he starts talking about her and saying okay God has given you gifts, God has given you, you are a very compassionate person and you know he started talking about that nature of hers, that character of hers and for me it was almost shocking. I'm like actually yes you know but how do you know, how did you know that? So God can reveal the character of people and it's in a way, it's very helpful in leadership. I'm not saying that you know you can judge or prejudge people without giving them an opportunity. Let's not do that, that's not a right thing to do but sometimes, sometimes rarely we may meet somebody and though we don't have a relationship with them we are in that place of you know understanding oh this person, they are a faithful person or this person, they are a generous person you know so it's possible to actually discern the character and the prophetic word. We have seen that it can do that and the prophetic word can also reveal one's capacity or potential. Now they may not have done much for the kingdom of God but just having met that person, the prophetic word can come to say that hey this is your destiny. Now the classic example is when Jesus was talking to Simon, he was talking to Simon and he says you are Simon the son of Jonah, you shall be called Cephas. So what is he doing? He is he is speaking over him to tell him that the potential that he carries, Cephas is a stone. So that potential is to be a rock for the church, the early church and we know that when Peter was with Jesus and you know before Jesus was crucified, his personality was not that firm and clear but then we know that at some point after Jesus was you know resurrected and they started gathering in groups, he was the first one to get up and speak, he was the first one to to you know make that sermon in Acts 2 and 3000 people got saved on that day. Now just imagine this man is not at all stable right now and based on that Jesus is not Jesus is able to see further into his life and into his destiny and he doesn't negate him from the ministry or you know from from any assignment based on his current situation but instead he speaks over Peter and he says you are Peter you are you shall be called Cephas or rock and then what has happened because of that prophetic word which is released over him we see that he turned out to be quite solid firm unshakable you know like a rock and we know that steadfastness and commitment became a part of his personality and much later it emerged during his leadership. So gifts and abilities of a person character of a person these are things that we can discern through the prophetic and it's very helpful because what we can do is it's like you know you encourage you activate people around you especially when we are leaders we can pray and say God just show us show us how how people are gifted and we should use it to use it in a constructive way where you know when we begin to identify oh this brother he's he's God is calling him to teach that brother God is calling him in worship then we begin to activate those things maybe those individuals don't even know it right now they don't know their character they don't know their potential but we can slowly say hey see as as I'm talking to you this is what God is saying and Paul did that a lot to Timothy you know he said he encouraged him he knew and and one of the things about Timothy was it seems like he was very fearful he was intimidated by by the learned people around him by the older people around him so you know Paul uses all all this information and the spiritual discernment to tell him hey you have not received the spirit of fear but of power and of love and of a sound mind so Timothy now don't don't let people tell you that you are young you can set an example even though you are young in word indeed so we can use this we can use the prophetic word to continue to know people's character and potential so that we can help them not to cut them off because of our ability to discern but it's more to encourage them it's more to counsel them and to help them get on the right track okay so what we will do is let's take a break at this point it's 9 50 already we will come back if you have any questions we can take it up and then proceed from there so have a good break we shall meet in 10 minutes thank you thank you pastor thank you thank you brother