Hi, this is Shannon Gilman and I'm going to show you how to use progress learning for student engagement and student differentiation. Okay, so in order to get into progress learning what was formally known as USA test prep, you're going to go to the Ori County website and you're going to go to the student learning commons and log into Clever just like you would any other thing. Now I already have progress learning like so it pops up right at the top but if you don't on the district page you're going to scroll all the way down almost to the very very bottom where it says test prep and you're going to come over here to progress learning. Strongly suggest that you hit that little like button so it automatically pops up in your favorites at the top and you can also set it to your teacher page. So if I click on this and students go to my page when they log in they can easily get to the things that they need for my class specifically. So once you get through Clever and you find progress learning you simply click on it and it will automatically log you in. Now once you're logged in the very first thing you're going to need to do is to set up your classes. So you'll see that my first two classes have already been set up but my third class still needs to be set up. So super super simple to set up your class there's really only one thing that's missing you click into it and you'll see that it says your class is pending please complete the sections marked below. This section is marked so I'm going to click on the subjects and you'll see that there's no subject found so what you have to do is add the subject that you need for that class specifically. So I am currently assigned to high school so I don't have access to any of the middle school ones except for a couple so I'm going to scroll down to the high school and since my class is biology I'm going to scroll all the way down to the science and I'm going to find the biology. I'm going to choose both the old biology standards and the new ones that we are getting for next year because both of them have some really good questions that I can choose from. Once I have those subjects I'm going to click okay and you'll see now that it has this and if I go back to my class management or you can click the home button either one you'll see that this third class no longer has that pending setup next to it and your class is good to go so that's step one and step two once your classes have been set up now you can start building assignments building assessments and differentiating with your classrooms so we're going to start with building a simple assignment so right here at the home screen at the top you'll see that there's one called assignment builder so I'm going to click on assignment builder and I'm just going to name my first assignment practice 23 and I'm going to choose the subject I want my subjects that I added to the class are going to be the first two that pop up but you actually have access to everything that you are currently assigned to so again I'm high school so I have access to all the high school content so I'm going to click on the standard that I want and then you'll see when you come down here that you have lots of options so if you were a former user of USA test prep you still have the option to build assignments with multiple things within it so I can use assessments that I have pre-built so I have like a biology pre-assessment I also have access to all of the assessments that have been built by either previous biology teachers that shared within USA test prep or any of the ones that were created during curriculum work in the summer that were in USA test prep those were also imported into progress learning so I can choose any of those if I want them you can have it generate its own test you can make it a practice assessment you can choose how long I'm going to save that for when I do build assessments so I'm going to just do a practice assignment so I'm going to go to practice questions and I'm going to choose my standard or what they call domains and then you can choose multiple if you want but I'm just going to stick to one for now and once you've chosen your standard underneath that you'll get all of the indicators for each one so we're currently working on biomolecules so I'm going to choose biomolecules and enzymes now in this case it would assign two separate 10 question sets to my students which I'm okay with but you can also combine them into a single activity so it takes those two and puts them into one single question set and makes it only 10 questions total so it gives them that if you choose all right you can also add video lessons so if you're familiar with USA test prep these are very similar they're the same ones that were in that so you choose again your domain and then your standard and the videos that were there still pop up so I'm going to assign them the carbs one and lipids you also have options for constructed response again it's exactly what it sounds like students would actually type a response I'll show you one as well and you can actually click and see exactly what that assignment would look like so you can read the question say okay yes I would like to include that one or I don't know if I like that one let me read what this one says pick one that you like when you check it it automatically adds it to the assignment and now I have all the parts that I want so I'm going to click save and continue and then here's where you have the chance to assign it to a class now if you don't want to assign it to a class yet you can choose this option right here creating an assignment without assigning to a class or you can assign it to one or multiple classes the other great thing that this is different from USA test prep that they added there was always a eliminate one option choice in USA test prep but you used to have to create its own assignment now you can click plus on your class and choose which students you want to assign to so if I don't want to assign it to someone they're at sore and they don't need to assign to them right now so it doesn't include in my grade book I can choose them off I can also for any of my students who have IEPs, ILPs, 504s that for whatever reason might call for you to eliminate one answer choice or I just know these students might do better if I get rid of one for them you can individually select and no other students know that they only have three options versus the four options so I click save and continue and then you can add notes as you choose so you can put no note I can attach a text note I can also do text speech I can make a video and embed that for my kids if I'm going to be absent telling them what they need to accomplish you can do any of those things that's kind of different from what USA test prep had and then save and continue and then you have your final settings so again you have a start date you have a due date you can add to the school bank so if you're working with a team and you created the assignment and you want to share it with your teammates you can easily click this and anybody who's assigned to your school can also see that in their assignment center which I'll show you once I finish and then here you can set your settings this is also super similar to what USA test prep had so you can change it to unlimited attempts or however many you want if you choose to have a minimum score requirement it will automatically swap the first one to unlimited so you can choose however you want to set that if you choose a constructed response you have to give it a point value again you can give them a maximum you can limit their characters however much and then you can reorganize how you want the assignments to be and you can make it so that they have to complete the activities in a specific order or if you leave that off then they can do any of the activities at their leisure in whatever order they want once you have everything set to the settings that you want you simply click save assignment it'll automatically bring you back to your assignment bank under the assessment and assignment center so under your assignment bank you can see that this is the one I just created right here the practice 23 it is shared because I allowed it to be shared with my colleagues and up here you have kind of like what each one is so this is a group assignment and I can tell it's a group because it has that little plus you can click on it and it'll show you that it has all of those things you can preview them at any time and then when students complete it it'll go to your grade book so I go back to my classes class management and I click on my grade book you'll now see that those students have that practice 23 assignment and when they due date passes it should automatically change to a zero so that's the second part of creating in okay so now that we have built our assignments now we're going to go back home and we're going to work on building an assessment an assessment is different than assignment because assignment is typically more of practice and you can build those multiple pieces in assessment builder is where you can create your own assessments that you can assign to students so under assessment builder the first thing you're going to do under settings is you're going to do the same thing you're going to create an assessment name so I'm going to put practice test and then same thing you're going to add your subject and then you can choose what you would like to do do you want to share that assessment do you have a team you want to work with or not do you want to allow the students to view those results so similar if you use USA test prep where you could they could just see their score but they couldn't see any of the questions view the questions only or view questions and answers you can choose to display questions in a random order um and allow for calculator or not since our EOC has a calculator I always embed that and I just do the scientific calculator and leave it as that once you have those set up then you click save and continue and it automatically brings you to content and you can do two different things you can show that I will select the questions in which case you simply select the domain that you want or what I call standard then the indicator and then you can change it to all questions the question type you can pick anything that you would like and then you can go through each one preview the type of question that you want see if it's a question that you would want to include so like this is a technology enhanced question which is great if you have like an EOC or you have a pass test at the end um how you can do drag and drops which is very common in those tests nowadays so you can include those I personally like to do progress learning will select the questions because you can now actually change what you want it to select so question show we chose them for all domains according to the percentage in the pie chart so you can choose it based on what you want and you can make it however I'm going to do small and then I'm going to click save and preview now this is where you can change some things and this is different if you used USA test prep before and allowed it to choose your questions for you so now that I'm here you can see that it chose questions based on different things so that is a little bit different because I did want it to be simply I just chose EOC so when I go back and I choose this here's the only issue with this one is that it doesn't allow me to choose a specific set of indicators so that is a little different so if you want to choose specifically the questions then you're going to want to choose this one instead and choose those specifically if you want something that kind of has a little bit of everything then you want to do it the other way so this does give you an option to do it that way but you can really choose either one whichever one works for you so I'm going to go ahead and go this way just so you can see some other options you have here this is where you can change some things so like there's domain six standard 17 standards you can group it by however you want so it'll like change it based on the standard so all the cells as a system at the top energy transfer heredity ecosystem evolution but now I can look at the question view it what it looks like as a student and if I don't like the question I can replace it so this is actually how I built my pre-test that I did I took it so it took a little bit from everything and then I went through and I looked at the questions and I was like okay I like that in that question that one's good if you don't like the question you can now click replace and I'll give you five different options that you can replace it with instead previewing each one and go oh I like this one better and you'll see that some of them are simple multiple choice and some of them are select all that apply and so you can choose to select that question and if you don't like any of those you can refresh the list and it gives you all new sets of questions and if you're like maybe I did like the first one better you can go to this x and you have that so I'm going to select save and you can do that for all of them you can view every question that was chosen and replace anything that you want so I'm going to go ahead and click save assessment and since I didn't click assign it's automatically going to take me to a assessment bank which again has everything that either you had from USA test prep pulled over or that the district pulled over as well so these ones were all ones that were created before I only created these two these were ones that were already in here when I logged in so these are all ones that have been created by the district at some point so now if I wanted to assign this you can do it two ways you can click here assign or you can actually click into it and assign from there but the easiest way is just to assign here you can always go back and edit it and you have the same options that you did with the assignment so you can click on any classes that you want you can show all the students you can click any off again you can choose which students you want to eliminate one answer choice from saving continue add notes or no notes make your assignment dates and then again you can change your number of assignments if you want a minimum score and then save assignment once that's been saved again if I go now to my my assignments I can see that my practice test has been assigned to all my students my practice assignment has been assigned to all my students and if I went to my classes and I clicked on my grade book you would see that now that practice test is also in there and I can specifically click on that and it will bring me to the whole test and I can start looking at results as students take it okay so after you've built your assessment the last thing that we are going to do is start learning how to differentiate instruction using those resources so from here we're going to go back to the home screen and you've got something where you can look at progress reports so I'm going to go right here to you can choose any of your class but I'm going to choose my first class and I'm going to click on progress report so when you click on progress report you're going to see that it's going to choose your class and it's going to automatically select a standard I'm going to select the EOC since that's still the one that we're currently using and then once you select all the options you can do it for all your classes you can do it for one class so I'm going to specifically do my first class and then anything that's been taken and then you click run report if you used USA test prep previously this was called the green dot challenge they have a green dot challenge as well super similar basically that was something that has been imported now since these classes were just set up I don't have a lot of data in fact I just used an example dataset of a student giving them a pretend assessment so you could see what things are but here I can see the class dot rank and I can see that in this case anything that's gray we haven't learned about yet they haven't had any assignments on they haven't taken any data from and that's okay so I know that this student is kind of there on interpreting data um they didn't hardly answer they had one question or one question here but there's not enough data for them to actually give them a dot yet um since they didn't get any question correct so it's going to tell me that they have a red there were two that they answered here so they gave them a red three here they answered two questions correctly here green so you can kind of see this is over the classroom you can also go to student rank and you'd be able to see where all of your students are in regards to any assessment or assignments that you've given them we'll start taking into account these things so right now again mine is relatively empty because my students have my classes just reset so I don't have a lot of data yet but you can see where they have strong points and where they have not so strong points once you have actually given students an assessment or an assignment you can assign them remediation and so what you'll do is glow go back to your class management center and if you look at the grade book so I just had a student complete a practice test just so that I could show some data so if I click on their results it'll take me to where they're at so I can see everything that they have completed where they're at I can look at things like this I can look at what they missed I can do all of those things I can also go specifically to the practice test itself and within the practice test you can see where things are scored and now now that I have data I can actually click on assign remediation so this is something similar that USA test prep added a few years ago where you could actually assign remediation you can do one week one week area two week areas or three um you can also it will not assign it to any students who scored less than an 80 so any students who scored over an 80 percent for all the assignments will not get remediation so you're not assigning random things to students who don't need it which I think is great so I'm going to click two week areas so let's say I gave our test on Wednesday we have our common assessment coming up so we're doing some remediation and make sure that we are good I'm going to go here I'm going to choose what days I want to assign it when do I want the due date to be by and then you select all the students who you need you can select any or you can select all again it will automatically tell students who scored 80 it will not give you an option to assign it and then you simply click assign it'll pop up in that student's center so I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to click on a student for you so you guys can see what it would look like on their end so this is kind of what they would see when they log in so they would see their score the tokens that they earned if they earned any and some additional practice that they can do for each thing that they didn't so here this is what it assigned them some videos and questions for conducting investigations they can see a breakdown of everything and they also have a lot of other things that they can do as well so I'm going to show you one last thing that students themselves can do after I show you I'm going to go back to the class center so that you can see if I go to my gradebook it's got that practice test they would also see the remediation so I'm going to go back to my class and I'm going to click on the class and this is where you can log in and see what the students look like so I'm going to log in as a student and you'll see that this is what theirs looks like so here she already took that practice test but now that she's completed the practice test and I assigned her remediation these are the two remediations that she has to take in order to get whatever maybe you're giving them points back on that test or however you choose to do that that would be a great way that you could bump students up because they completed their remediation so just so you can kind of see what theirs looks like when you take give them an assessment of any kind on old USA test prep with the assessments it used to be one long page that they would go in and click through now whether you're doing an assignment or you're doing an assessment the questions look like this so it's one question at a time you can have it read to them if you need it to so the oral accommodation is built right in for you another way that you can differentiate for students they have all these different options of things you can do calculator built in response masking so getting rid of answers that they're like I know that one's wrong and I know that one's wrong so all of these are built in features they can have sticky notes they can literally draw on top of their questions if they so choose they can erase all that kind of stuff so they have lots of features built in now that were not necessarily there before and they only get one question at a time the only thing that they cannot do is go back so once they've answered the question they cannot go back to the question but it will make them answer it so they're working on that feature it has been given to them so when they're doing those remediations if they miss it right then in there it's going to tell you that they missed it and then it's going to make them try and answer it again so it's like okay no that one's not correct here's an explanation so it the remediation actually walks them through what they did wrong the other thing that they can see they can see all of their graded work what they've gotten etc they also get a study plan so if they have more than one class they can look at the multiple class but they can go here and they can actually see their own progress report which shows them their own dots and they can work on anything at any time so this is another way that your students can you can remediate for your students themselves based on what they've already completed so so we are going to go back to that study plan they can look at their dot rank they can actually also see it here so when they click on this right here they can see where they're at on any of them if they've completed anything so like here their dot rank she's a 50 in photosynthesis so there's videos that she can watch there's questions that she can complete and it'll show the practice progress and how that can increase their percent and they can do these multiple times until they bring their dot rank up and as they do practice assignments for you and other things it'll increase their dot rank so this shows it right here they can click on okay I want to do the questions pull that up it'll say begin and then they can start working on those so there's lots of ways that you can differentiate for students they can have lots of different things and at any time you can go back through I can go to assignments she can see so their view is very very easy I actually like this view better than I did on USA test prep and you can message students if they're working while you're on they can message you um you can message them it you do have to both be on but there's a lot of things you can do so I'm going to return to my account all the things you need you have your school center the class center the assessment assignment center it's where everything is home everything's at the top and linked right here with your classes so there's lots of things you can do you also have a calendar lots of reports you can get those reports here the progress report the grade book this one is for elementary so you shouldn't need to worry too much about them you can see how much time kids are spending you can get assessment results reports basically everything you need and then there 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Today I would like to continue and actually finish a series called breathing room where we're talking about margin first week I talked about the spirit of python. I believe a deep demonic spirit that wants to squeeze life out of us Last time I talked about having margin in our life And that is to have margin in their finances to have margin in having a day off and then have margin in our Morality meaning don't do things that cause you to be too close to the life You were delivered from and then today I'm going to complete the series But honestly this message that I'm gonna share with you is not a sermon It's a message I know the difference between a message and a sermon a message is somebody is something that pastor says all the time just changes the title That's a message and every pastor has a message and I have my message and that's gonna be my message a sermon Is this like a sermon? So we'll have a both a message and a sermon with within a sermon There's a message it's a DNA of this house and that is to love Jesus with all of our heart and to pursue him with everything We have our name is hungry Jen. It's not because we're hungry for tacos. It's that we're hungry for God But we also like tacos Come on somebody taco Tuesday all the way Amen the phrase Potemkin village is named after the gregory potemkin who is a Russian was a Russian nobleman He was supposed to colonize Crimea and Due to failure with money issues He couldn't colonize Crimea. So in 1787 his queen Empress Catherine the great he tried to hide his failure and actually created fake villages with happy people and Farm animals that would be along the road as the Catherine the great will come and see the place So she would go further this fake village would move with her and to create this image that it's a lot of happy Excited people prosperity and riches, but in reality it was all a fraud And once she passed the villagers were quickly moved further down for her to see again making it look like the area Was prosperous and well populated today this phrase Potemkin village is actually a term that is used everywhere in the world to describe when somebody has an elaborate facade designed to hide undesirable reality It's when somebody focuses on their character The focus is on the reputation more than they focus on their character. It's when somebody shows Good sides of them and hides the bad ones behind You've seen that when especially maybe some of you young men or young women you like somebody is slid into their DMs and Then you went to meet them and you looked at the photo and you looked at the person you like men photoshop skills are real You're like this is not the same person Because a lot of times we have rottenness inside But we also have good parts about us So what we like to do is we like to show the best parts out so that people will like us and hide the rottenness Inside so that people will not see that and because of Instagram because of Facebook and because of social media It's easier to do that today and in fact there's a pressure to do that and then you come to church The challenge with church is that when you become a Christian there is a pressure to change Well, first of all you come to an environment of people who sometimes who pretend to be perfect and People who seems like I mean they look great. They don't smoke. They don't drink. They're happy And so we're like man, I need to fit in as well. And so everybody quickly becomes conformed on the outside Even when they are not transformed on the inside had this story in the Ukraine I'm the oldest of five. So I was like the little I ran the family when my dad and mom wasn't there and We had a lot of fun all the time and one of the things that when you have a large family One of the fun things that you do is you destroy the house you destroy everything everything is a mess It's just just that's what's where you have the fun more mess more fun And so my mom would always tell us when the relatives are coming in to visit us We had to prepare the house and my mom it was very important that the house looked clean to the relative So she can show and boast of the fact that her kids are the most cleanest and organized kids on the planet Even though we were not So to live up to my mom's expectation what we would do is mom would tell us hey guys clean up the house clean up the house So and so it's coming of course we wouldn't clean the house We would wait until she gets angry and goes now You know all of you had that and so we don't do anything until she comes in and now when you see the anger You see the passion and you see I said now we're like, okay We got the message we're cleaning and then we'll clean the whole house in 60 seconds Now I'm gonna teach you younger children how to do that We would take everything that you see that you shouldn't see and hide it in the places where you can't see Like a couch so we take all the toys and stuff it under the bed Or the bigger things we would throw it under the couch Put a put a some kind of a some kind of a cloth over it And so the house would be completely Completely clean we should actually we probably should have started that TV show of a extreme home makeover in 60 seconds There's this only one thing I've learned from that is that anytime you clean something too fast you don't actually Clean it you hide it and Many of us who come to church We clean up our lives really really fast, but in reality we didn't get healed from problems We just hid them better and We learned to what we call the hypocrite in fact the word hypocrite originally comes from the word actor It wasn't a negative word It was just simply a person who acted one way publicly, but was different in reality I always said that the best actors are not in Hollywood. They are in churches Why because there is such a pressure to perform and there is such a pressure to be good on the outside At the expense of being changed on the inside in the church And so today what I want to challenge each one of us is this is that not to live a life where you sacrifice your inner life for the illusion of momentum Changed life and so other people are impressed, but in reality on the inside We're like those trees you've seen them in tri-cities when the storm goes through our city and the trees that are big But have shallow root system and they go tuple and you see this Long wide but very shallow root system But the tree was so big it couldn't stand withstand the storm and many people live like that superficial shallow inner life, but on the outside Praise God doing well doing good doing good, but all the garbage is behind the couch All the trauma is behind under the bed and then all of this stuff guess where God lives behind the couch Guess where God lives under the bed He lives in a secret the Bible says and those are the places we neglect first those are the places we stuff with stuff Instead of building the secret place In the Old Testament we see the contrast of two two personas One was Rahab and the other one was Aiken Rahab was in Jericho a temple prostitute most likely and then Aiken he was a soldier in God's army Rahab had doom approaching her future, but Aiken had a promising future Rahab decided to hide spies a salmon and another guy and Aiken was hiding forbidden things from Jericho that God commended them not to take into their life So both were hiding something Rahab saved her life and her family Aiken destroyed his life and his family. Let me ask you a question What are you hiding today? I? Didn't say if you are hiding because you are and so am I every person Right now is hiding something and what you're hiding is Going to change your life in the next three to five years What you're hiding today will either become tomorrow's scandal or tomorrow's success story Those who are hiding today go into school Grinding two jobs and taking classes Five years down the road. You see that they have their own clinic The other person who today secretly drinking smoking porting cheating in five years You will see a broken relationship. You will see a scandal You will see a lawsuit you will see all of these things that follow their life and you're like oh wow such a bad luck It's not bad luck. It's bad seeds Those seeds were put into the ground day in and day out and I want to encourage you today to be like Rahab Hide in your secret place prayer fasting and giving high church attendance Hide living holy and living pure where nobody's watching and just because it's not rewarded It doesn't mean it's forgotten God knows every good thing you do in secret and in private and God in heaven lives in a secret place And he will reward those that do things in secret.  He will reward your purity life I know nobody's seeing it. Nobody's applauding it but God in heaven is watching it.  Amen Somebody say secret place Let's go to Colossians chapter 1. I want you to rise for the reading of God's word We're gonna read together. I want you look at the screen right behind me Colossians 1 and 10 1 2 3 that you may walk worthy of the Lord Fully pleasing him being fruitful in every good work and Increasing in the knowledge of God you may be seated That you may walk worthy of the Lord Fully pleasing him and that you may increase in the knowledge of God To live in a secret place. I'm gonna share with you three main things from this verse The first one is going to be that your walk our walk is as important as our work It comes from this verse that you may walk worthy of the Lord It's important to understand that as Christians Our identity doesn't come from our work. It comes from our walk with God It comes from Jesus it comes from God and Paul is saying that you may walk Worthy of the Lord in the world the focus is not on your walk The focus is on the results you produce from work You get promoted based on that you get rewarded based on that your walk Doesn't matter in the eyes of your employer But the Bible connects our walk to our work how you walk affects how you work Your walk is your life outside of your work. It's your thoughts. It's your mind. It's who you are at home a few days ago as I was meeting with some people and I told them something that in my prayer I started to reflect that when I was younger I was a lot more interested and in fact I even prayed for this for God to make me a great leader and to make me a great preacher I wanted to be a great preacher and I wanted to be a great leader and as I started to grow in the Lord I started to recognize that That's work. That's not my walk And my prayer changed to Lord. I want to be a great follower of Jesus Then a great pastor and I want to be a great husband a better husband than I am a preacher Because that's my walk My walk is what people don't see But it's what my wife sees and if everybody knows a great preacher My wife does not have a good husband Then my walk is not good and if my work my sermon is not flowing from my life It will impress people, but there will be no impartation Amen The Bible says that the hearts of the father be churned to their children And it's so easy to allow your work to become more important than your walk I want us to have a church at Hungry Gen where husbands love their wives Not just husbands who love their work Husbands who treasure their wives Not just husbands who love the stage because so many of us we actually have an addiction To the spotlight and an allergy to the altar We're allergic to home Allergic to be successful at home We just want to be successful everyone else instead of home and a lot of times we bring our home the scraps The leftovers and even when we're there we distract it all the time because Everything about our life is about our work instead of our walk And I've realized this the world has many preachers my wife only has one husband Our church has many pastors But my wife only has one husband Jesus has many leaders, but he's looking for followers And I didn't sign up to be a pastor.  It's me being submitted to Jesus. It's me loving Jesus the pasturing the leading and all of that That's an outflow that's a result of following Jesus Christ And I want to invite you today in order to live in a secret place You have to prioritize your walk more importantly than your work Your work will give you applause. It will give you a paycheck.  It's when you die People say things about you They don't talk about your work They talk about your walk and children. It's a spouse. They're impacted by your walk With them and with God As important as our ministries are our Relationships with people that are closest to us our family is of prior importance It was so beautiful today right after the first service one of our young men who's singing right here And his wife is pregnant, you know, and he's singing and I see him going picking up the kids with his wife Walking his wife because he's serving on the second service walking his wife To the car and letting her go as they go into the service. He's coming back to serve Here at the second service and that's the kind of men and women of God we want to build who love their families Who are walking with God not just working for God? Come on somebody. Amen Let's give the Lord a clap offering. I Want you to see in first Corinthians in first Corinthians chapter 3 and verse 12 It says now if anyone builds on this foundation with gold silver precious stones wood hay and straw and you don't have this verse on the screen But I'm gonna read it each one's work will become clear for the day will declare it because it will be revealed by fire So Paul is telling it to workers people who are working for God and Everyone in here is a worker for God Paul is saying our foundation is Jesus. Somebody say Jesus It's our foundation. We build on Jesus Of course, we also build for Jesus Right everything we do is for the Lord. We don't do it for ourselves But Paul says something here. That's very intriguing. He says that we can build on Jesus for Jesus With different materials and he gives us six materials, but they really broken down into two categories Gold silver and precious stones is one category wood hay and straw is the other category now track with me Gold silver and precious stones are found on the ground. Somebody say on the ground Meaning you don't see it walking on the street. You don't see gold laying. You have to dig for it Wood hay and straw is always found on the ground Gold silver and precious stones are always found in large quantity small quantities wood hay and straw is found in large quantities Gold silver and precious stones are Extremely expensive and every husband in here said amen It's way easier to buy a two by four than a diamond ring Ladies if gold silver precious stone will be as cheap as a two by four We would create a box for you in diamonds, but we can't that's why those little rings are so tiny And so small but their houses have a lot of wood and have a lot of plywood and all of the wood Hey and straw well the cows probably have straw. I hope you don't have straw in your house Gold silver and precious stones not only are found in small quantities. They're they're expensive, but they're also rare Wood hay and straw is extremely common but there's one more thing that separates gold silver and precious stones wood hay and straw is you put gold silver and Precious stones through the fire and they come out more pure and more expensive You put wood hay and straw through the fire and what you get is an insurance claim Everything goes into ashes So Paul is saying Christians can build on Jesus for Jesus without Jesus Meaning they're building their life not from things from underground meaning private devotion to God They're not building something that costs them like David says I won't offer anything to God that cost me nothing They're building things that are just they come easy just very casual superficial Christianity Yeah, anything that cost me. That's not for me. That's that's that the grace of God to care of them All I gotta do is just my life is just easy They're building their life in such a way that it's very common.  Why because your life wasn't built Just on Jesus. It was built for Jesus, but not only for Jesus. It was built with Jesus Walk is as important as the work we do. You know, there are trees that live off the water from the root that gets the roots collect and There are some that only live from the water that comes from the sky the rain and Trees like a palm tree can survive in the desert when there is no rain because its root system receives water from underground There are Christians who live like that They can come to church service and even if they don't feel anything They still flourishing in God because they live their life every day connected to Jesus They don't depend on the pastor sermon and the worship team because the root system is connected Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Connected to God's worth Connected to worship connected to the presence of Jesus and it could be a dry Wilderness Sahara around them their finances might go through wilderness their relationship might go through hard stuff But they are fresh and they are flourishing Not because there's a lot of rain, but because there's a lot of rivers of water the roots are touching I Don't want our church to be built on Sunday morning experience Sunday should be a celebration Sunday should be a bonus, but every day you're connecting to the water That you have access to if you live from Sunday to Sunday, and that's the only time you connect with God I want to tell you something you will make it in the dry seasons of life when the fire comes when the sickness comes When the challenges come the devil will take you out And you will go from church to church to say I'm not getting fed You know the only time I came to my mom and I said I'm not getting fed is when I was a toddler Because when I got older this is what my mom told me There is a fridge. Do you need directions there? And when you get to the fridge open it and feed yourself When you're a spiritual toddler, it's okay to live off of Sundays, but God wants to mature us So that we walk with him every single day, and we don't depend we love Sundays But we live off of Mondays through Saturdays in our intimacy with God I come to Sunday morning not so that I can receive I receive every day from Sunday morning I'll receive when I see people meet Jesus. I'll receive when we worship I'll receive when somebody speaking the word even if I'm not preaching But if I don't receive on Sunday, I will receive every single day because my roots are connected to Jesus That lives with me and this Jesus lives with you and I want to challenge you to build a secret place so you can walk with God Somebody say this with me say my walk is as important as my work Drop that in the chat right now But I want you to notice in Colossians 1 and verse 10 Paul is saying this that you may walk worthy Somebody say walk worthy The secondly he says fully pleasing somebody say fully pleasing The second thing is that we have to discover the win God has decided Discover the win that God had decided we don't decide our win We discover our win The world wants you to have a win win the world win trophies Win get a degree for some of us grew up in the family where if you're educated your winner Some of us grew up in the families where you have a position in the community like a principle of a high school a teacher or a businessman you are respectable Winner some of us grew up in a family where if you're a pastor You're an evangelist somewhere that has to do in the church What do you have in the marketplace as a matter?  That's how you are a winner Others of us we grew up rejected and maybe our father never saw value in us. So our win is to prove our dad wrong Some of us in here in this room We had a person who bullied us and made fun of us So our win is to beat them and be better at them and therefore we overcompensate by wearing things We overcompensate by buying things that are nicer and shiny not because we like them It's because of what they mean. They make us a winner your win Decides your drive What is your win so in basketball to win you have to score? More points than the other team in football the win is slightly different You wear the pig skin I carry the pig skin across the touchdown the ball In other aspects of sports wins are different What is your win what would what would it mean for you to be a winner Getting married is that you win? Healthy kids is that the win a good job where they like me and appreciate me And I have more than enough is that the win a husband that loves me or a wife that loves me Is that the win getting a master's degree and getting a job that is respectable in the community? Is that the win having a YouTube channel? Being a blogger and author I this dream to touch the world. Is that the win? What is your win? Have you defined it? Now I know when we go to school. They say what is your dream? That's really they're trying to plant a seed so you can have a win in your mind Now some we was like you just kind of shooting whatever lands anywhere. You're like, I'm just I'm just a free bird I just like to have life My win happy If I can be happy, I'm a winner good As a human being as a Christian What should your win be? Why is that important? It will determine the drive and the pace of your life and it will determine whether you will go to the secret place Out of pastor priestly. Yeah, I haven't been praying. I gotta pray. It's a Christian thing to do to Without secret place. I actually don't know if I am winning or not winning Sometime this year the Lord challenged me about this what I'm just sharing with you And he asked me this question in prayer He said what is your win Vlad? And I said Jesus my win is To reach the world. I just want to see many people saved secondly, I Want to reach my potential like you created me with potential right Lord says in your word I want to maximize the potential and according to Miles Monroe. I know it's not in the Bible But one of your servants he said to die empty and that's my win. I want to produce a lot of books I want to release a lot of videos. I want to preach many sermons. I want to have a large church I just want to impact the world and they also don't want to forsake my family while doing it And he said is that your win? I said, well, that's for you Lord. I'm not asking to build my name Just told for you She works just to go into all the world my disciples. I mean, how are you planning me to do that if I don't make this my win and Remember the Lord in prayer challenged me with this. He said was that my win when I was on this earth Because he says if it was according to your win, I failed. I Didn't travel very far. He says you traveled already further than I did. I Didn't write the book. You already have five. I Didn't get married you did I didn't have biological children and at 33 I died By crucifixion one of the worst ways to die at the time But he says I was able to my to tell my father in John chapter 17 Where Jesus said this in John chapter 17 that I have glorified you on earth and I have finished the work Which you had given me to do meaning I won At 33 he didn't get any of the things that I'm thinking I should accomplish and that prayer the Lord Change my goalpost And he said from now on I want you to set your win as To fully please me Not to reach the world. He says I will empower you to reach more people than you can But you can't reach the whole world. You're gonna play a small part other people will also play a part He said you will never reach the whole world You will reach your portion and then when you finish your assignment somebody else will come Other people will come your work will be finishable, but my work will continue Your win is not to be rich Your win is not to be famous and your win is not to be healthy nor is your win to be happy Your win is not to be educated. There's nothing wrong with education. I'm currently pursuing bachelors It's important Your win is not to to fulfill all of your dreams. I'm not against it. That's important But that's not my win. My win is to fully please the Lord That takes the pressure off That's why I need to be in a secret place regularly to keep on checking. Am I pleasing him or not? If my win is to be successful, I don't need a secret place secret place is a distraction But if my win is to be pleasing to Jesus guess what begins to happen I need to check in every single day to see how am I doing on the score? Am I winning or am I losing? Many of us the reason why we can't live a life of prayer for this one reason our win Has been decided by us instead of discovered by us and decided by him Hebrew chapter 12 verse 1 it says we're surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses Let us lay aside every weight that easily ensnare and sin that easily ensnares us and then it says let us run the race Somebody say run the race Come on everybody says run the race and the second section say run the race with endurance and You would think it would say Look to Jose who's running next to you is he faster Compare your life With your best friend that you went to college. Look at them. They already got two kids and you're not even married Compared to the other person look look at them. Look at how many followers they have look at how many cell groups They have look at how spiritual they are and and you're still in Whatever that you're doing the Bible doesn't say that the Bible says we run the race set before us by God Looking verse 2 looking on to Jesus Why I have to have a secret place because my win is to please him and I need to constantly be aware Am I pleasing him today? Am I not pleasing him today? So it has very little to do am I winning in the eyes of man It is very little to do am I pleasing my dad's desires and dreams to be this kind of a person it has to do with Am I fully pleasing Jesus? When pleasing Jesus is my win in life, I have to pray every day To know How am I doing and what am I supposed to be doing if my win is to be successful prayer Will become a hindrance Prayer will become a distraction Why because I don't have time and this prayer thing is just keeping me guilty. I don't like it But if my win is to please Jesus prayer is actually the only way I Know how am I doing? It's a scorecard. I check in with the Lord every day Lord. How am I doing? Am I fulfilling the assignment you're giving that to me? Are you with me? number three abiding leads to abounding I Want you to notice in Colossians? It says that you may walk worthy somebody say walk worthy somebody say fully pleasing and Then the third thing I want you to notice is being fruitful somebody say being fruitful and say in every work So we walk We are fully pleasing And lastly is we are fruitful in every good work now. I want you to notice that work It's something that is done by us, but Paul uses this phrase fruitful in every work now fruit is Something that is done by a living beings for example a Vineyard produces fruit and iPhone cannot produce fruit and AI cannot produce fruit They cannot produce because only life produces fruit Machines can produce work life produces fruit and what God is in here saying is that you are not a human Doing you are a human being That means that you are not someone that Does That's not who you are you are who God says you are you have a human being who does human doings, but not the other way around Machines are different than humans We can make machines, but machines don't have life machines have power Need power to operate machines do not know seasons and do not have cycles they work all the time We have seasons in cycles a woman cannot give birth every day Even if she wants to have a lot of children why because there is cycles Trees produce a particular time and then there's a cold season. There's nothing there and they produce in cycles Machines find their value from their work if a machine stops producing you don't carry it as some kind of a souvenir I have an iPhone in my house that doesn't work. I don't carry you with me for emotional support I don't carry it with me so that's an iPhone will not get hurt. No, I leave that sucker and then when I get I Have creative ideas that involves hammer and breaking glass I use that iPhone for breaking stuff and I just break it all toss it some or why because it's worth is connected to its work If it's not working, it's worthless Human beings are not like that. That's why you can have a blind person deaf person You can have a person that's paralyzed and they are as worth of Value as the one who can see walk and hear That's why we don't kill babies just because they are they haven't deformity or just because they are crippled That's why when a person walks in and whether they are elderly or a young person that is paralyzed, they are as valuable They're as precious in the eyes of God in the eyes of human beings as the one that can work They can walk and they can do that. Why because our worth is not connected to our ability. It's connected to his love Come on somebody Somebody say I'm not a machine Come on say a little louder say I'm not a machine I'm a human being With the rise of AI we need to remind ourselves, but see some of us live like machines non-stop That's why the Bible doesn't say Colossians 110 be successful in every good work. It says be fruitful say this fruitful Fruitful in every good work fruit comes from abiding Success comes from working and the Bible connects Garden with the factory two worlds combined that means my work Flows from my worship. I am fruitful I'm not successful. See people will call it success. I call it fruit People say you're lucky. No, I'm fruitful. Oh While you you hashtag blessed no hashtag fruitful because I abide and Therefore I abound So my abounding is directly connected to my abiding and if I'm not Abounding all I have to do is to abide more and then I will have fruit more fruit much fruit and the fruit will remain I will abound in my family. I will abound in my business. I will abound in my health I will abound in my ministry. Why because I abide in Jesus Come awesome. Amen. I Want to encourage you with that today in the beginning when Christianity started when the new Faith it was called the way started Christians were persecuted Christians were thrown to the lions first two centuries the model Christian that everybody honored and Inspired to be was a martyr. It was a bishop dragged in the Colosseum to be eaten by lions Today one of the model Christians some of us we watched them on TV read their books were like oh this speaker this pastor I want to meet him though. That's the man of God First and second century the model Christian was the one that was murdered The moment the second sanctuary ended the persecution subsided it was until Constantine came in persecution was still off and on but at the end of the second sanctuary a Shift began to take place and because there was less persecutions Christians become conformed to the culture Some became popular some became famous for being Christians and Christianity took a shift the model Christian was no longer a murderer It was a monk a person who would leave Everyday life go into the Egyptian desert live in the cave for years and seek God and in fact those were the Christians that were viewed as The Christians the people you want to be like in Christianity everybody Aspired of course nobody could not everybody could do that One of them was Abba Arsenius. He was well educated Roman Who worked in the Senate? He lived in the court of Emperor Theodosus He actually was a tutor for the Emperor's sons One day he prayed this prayer Lord lead me in the way of salvation and The voice came back to him saying Arsenius flee from the world and You will be saved Having sailed secretly from Rome to Alexandria Having withdrawn to a solitary life in the desert Arsenius prayed again Lord lead me in the way of salvation and again. He heard a voice saying Arsenius flee be silent Pray always for these are the sources of sinlessness and from third century onwards Something that morphed into and still practice heavily in the Catholic Church of monasteries Monks and nuns they lived by three rules the wisdom of the wilderness has three simple steps solitude silence and prayer Now when Martin Luther came in 16th century One of the first things that Martin Luther did is he opposed that and as Protestants We are results of that he pretty much shut down the idea of monasteries and said that's just escaping from this world We're called to be in this world and Martin Luther had a point But I think where the balance is is somewhere in between two worlds one of the first Christian monks who was born in 250 in the village of coma inherited a large amount of wealth his name was Anthony the Great he is called the Desert father He heard the message that Jesus told a young rich ruler to give all his money away and follow Jesus Anthony the Great takes all of his possessions and gives him away and Fills the call of Jesus to go into the desert and starts to live in the cave He lived there for years and years.  Well, the amazing part is you're already in the desert Some of you did not get that Some of you watching alive is like what what does he mean we live in the desert tri cities is like a desert What do you do as Christian? I believe that God wants us to live like monks in the marketplace There's a photo of a happy monk and a nun walking through the streets That's how God wants us to live Where we live like Jesus did the Bible says he often in Luke chapter 5 He often withdrew himself into the wilderness and prayed Jesus didn't leave the ministry to be in the desert But he would leave the ministry every regularly to be in the desert and there He would receive new assignments new encouragements and out of that place. He lived God wants us to go deep So we can go wide God wants us to live out of a place of the desert of the wilderness where it's quiet Where we hear his voice while we are alone with God where there's no Notifications and all kinds of bing bing bing bing and all kinds of distractions and you may say Vlad That's not possible than my family. I do believe that every one of us can make a priority To find our own desert every day or every other day to spend time with God When one preacher or one author went to Mother Teresa of Calcutta. She said the following spend one hour a day in adoration of your Lord and never do anything You know is wrong and you will be all right if we don't abide if We don't prioritize our secret place Three things will happen. Number one will be dying on the inside Number two people around us closest people to us, which is our family will feel Deprived something like we're missing from home. We're missing from their lives and that's what a lot of times Children of people who are businessmen in ministry just busy in life will say this I had a dad But I also didn't have one He was there, but he also wasn't there. Why because We're not present if we don't experience God's presence. It's very difficult to be present We're always on the go always never present because we're not experiencing his presence that can make us be present to our families and Thirdly is we grieve the Holy Spirit Even if you would say yeah, I don't care about what I feel inside. I could be empty. I'm fine and Maybe you don't have a family. You're just a college student. You're busy with life running 300 miles per hour Pretty much you live on caffeine and more caffeine You're trying to finish your school as fast as possible stay out of debt all of that is completely fine I understand that that's a season, but there is a God who loves you and love requires once fellowship love once a connection love Once to have a communion For those of you who ever been in love or you fell in love. Do you remember the pain you felt not being able to talk to that person? Just not being able to see them or do you remember the rejection you felt when that person? Didn't reciprocate that love to you. You love them and they said The pain they ache the herd is so deep Imagine God of universe who loves you wants to spend time with you and please don't have this view of God That God is just this lonely person sitting and nobody will talk to him. You'll come and say oh daddy God Just want to talk to you. I know you've been so lonely.  No no no no no God is self-existent. He doesn't need us But God loves us and as a loving creator He enjoys our company Enjoys the fellowship with us and it has very little to do with God's need It's what God's love for us That's why his first commandment he gave to us is not thou shall go to church on Sunday though That's important. He said thou shall love the Lord thy God with all thy heart all thy mind and all their soul Meaning God says listen do you really want to know what's really important to me is that you love me because I love you and Then when you love somebody you spend time with them you make time for them. Why because you love them Church our desired hungry Jen that every person loves Jesus Loves to pray because they love Jesus We take time to fast and pray so that we can be recalibrated to the love of Jesus to the love for Jesus Out of that love our inner world gets filled out of that love We walk slowly as we lead our families and as we lead our businesses and as we are successful Fruitful in every good work. We live our life fully pleasing to him And our walk is as important as our work because we have a secret place And with we spend time in a secret place. We begin to abound because we abide If this was a blessing to you, would you let me know in the comments below what stood out to you from this message What are you taking home with you from this message? 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