Hey Co-Friends, I'm Bianca Renee and you're watching Bianca Renee Today. And today it's time to announce the 2023 challenge. Now notice how I didn't say hair challenge because we're switching it up and broadening the scope of our goals this year. This is year seven and this is actually a special year because this year will be ten years of me on YouTube. A whole decade? Wow. So there's obviously going to be some growth there between when I started and now. The very first challenge was 2017 with the no heat challenge which was totally inspired by me trying to get you guys to realize how beautiful your curly hair is. And many of you just did not straighten your hair for the full year and saw amazing results. After the no heat challenge I believe it was the deep conditioning challenge. We did the big chop challenge. We did the hair growth challenge. We did the switch it up challenge and then last year was the hairstyle challenge about that. That was probably my biggest fail out of all my challenges. Hey Siri, how many weeks are in a year? It's 52.18 weeks. Yeah. So I was supposed to do 52 hairstyles. I don't know how many I did but I did not do 52. I did get a protective style like two times. I think yeah, two times but that took up a couple weeks and I was pregnant, you know excuse excuse excuse. I'm sorry that was not my best year. Then I asked all of you guys on Instagram if you stuck with the hairstyle challenge. It looks like you guys kind of failed as well. Some of you did better than others. Some of you tagged me every week after I did do a hairstyle and I see you and I appreciate you and I'm going to showcase you in this video. So stick around to see if your photo, if you sent me a photo of your hairstyle, my favorite hairstyle of last year made it in the video. So first of all, let's address the elephant in the room. The background is different. What's going on? I'm officially in my new house. We did move. So I have my very own studio now, not just in our garage and there's air condition here. I'm not freezing. I'm not too hot. It's going to be great. But I haven't exactly designed it yet. I got transparency boxes behind me. I put a sheet over it so you guys won't notice it. And then I have one tree. I don't know where my other tree is, but there it is. So I'm going to be taking you guys along my entire home journey, my product collection. I'm trying to minimize that, give more to you guys. I have to still design my whole office. Like I'm going to share it all. So that is why we're looking a little barren today because it's a blank wall. It's a fresh start. It's a new year. Perfect time for a brand new challenge. So this year's challenge was inspired by you guys. Of course, it's the only reason I do these challenges, not just for me, but for you and we all could do it together, hold each other accountable. And I asked you on Instagram at Ms. Bianca Renee, follow me if you're not. What do you guys want this challenge to be? And a lot of you even suggested things outside of the hair space, including like mental health or dieting, exercise. Some of you did offer some other hair suggestions. So I thought instead of just kind of choosing one very, very specific thing, we would keep it broad and do a new challenge every single week. That's right. We're switching it up now with our hair, but we're switching up how the challenges work. And we're going to just get a lot of stuff done this year. I want us to be able to hit multiple different goals in multiple different categories. One of the main reasons being after 10 years of YouTube. You do get a little, just a little tired of talking about shampoo and conditioner. I love my curls. I love making hair videos, but it does get a little redundant every single Sunday, 10 years consistently. There's really only so much I can say about a shampoo. Let's be honest. It either cleanses or it doesn't. A conditioner either has slip or it doesn't. It either smells good or it doesn't. There's expensive. There's low. I still want to try new products and I'll still be giving you guys reviews throughout the year, but I know that I have grown as a human being in the last 10 years. And I think you have as well. We've been evolving together. Some of you are right or die that have been here since my very first YouTube video almost 10 years ago. And I'm sure if you have been watching my videos, you've learned just about everything you need to learn about your curls at this point. I know we have some new people here. If you are new, welcome. I'm always here to offer my past videos to help you along your hair journey. There's always more things to learn. So I also continue to learn about hair in general, but I want to start incorporating other things about my life. I got babies now. I got a house now. I got decorated. I got to take care of them. Maybe you guys also have families. Maybe you have kids. Maybe you're also trying to decorate your new home or apartment or space. Maybe you like makeup. Maybe you like skincare. Maybe you like fashion. Maybe you just like shopping. Anyone else addicted to Amazon? Yeah, let's get into all of it and switch it up and have some fun with some new kind of content this year. So that's my little disclaimer. Letting you guys know that I am going to be evolving as I have been over the years into more than just curls. And I hope that you guys will stick around and that you enjoy my new types of content. Somebody already told me, nope, I only love you for your curls. I'm out. I mean, it's not what I want to hear, but that's what it is. That's what it is. If you only love me for my curls, I can't force you to stay. But I really hope you do because I'm still going to keep things entertaining, still going to be me. It's just going to be a little broader this year, hopefully, if I stick to it. And to be honest, that is kind of scary. It's pretty scary to be doing something consistent for 10 years, which has definitely been my bread and butter. It's literally my job full-time to then change it and risk annoying you, my audience, and trying something different. It is slightly terrifying. And that's why this year's challenge is the comfort zone challenge. I am challenging you to get out of your comfort zone. And we're going to be trying something new this year, not just with our hair, but with every different type of aspect of our life. And since we're going to be doing something new every single week, I want you to help me decide what each week is going to be by leaving comments, suggestions below. So let me give you an example. One thing that I'm really nervous about doing is DIY projects in my home. I follow so many DIY home-to-core things, and I've never used a sander or a brad nailer. What are they called? Brad miter, nailer gun. You know those little nail guns? Happening is one of those. I bought one. I got to practice. So I'm going to be putting holes on the wall and painting and trying new things. And I'm going to be doing it afraid. We got to do things afraid to get out of our comfort zone to actually meet our goals each year. If you want your year to be exactly the same as last year, don't change a thing. But if you want a better year than last year, you have to change something. That's not the definition of insanity. Doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different outcome. We have to switch it up in a very drastic way if you want to see drastic changes in this year versus last year or any year before that. So getting out of my comfort zone is definitely going to be doing DOI projects around the house. Cooking. Yeah, girl, can't cook. I mean, I can. I just don't do it. And I spend way too much money on DoorDash. Since it is 2023, you notice that groceries are extremely expensive. Therefore, DoorDash in restaurants is even more expensive. So I really should learn how to cook and do it consistently. So we're going to have at least one week where I'm like, okay, this week, we're not ordering out no DoorDash, no Grubhub, no Uber Eats. We got to cook at home with the food that we got. Or maybe it's going to be to try a new recipe. Maybe it's time to put down that Neutrals brown palette. Yes, I'm talking to someone out there. I have so much makeup and I use the same brown eyeshadow every single day. So bad. So maybe I might challenge you to use a color. Maybe we would do some color eyeshadow.  And that's what this whole challenge is going to be about, is that when you think about why you're not doing things, why you aren't reaching your goals, why aren't you trying new things, it's probably because of that little perfection voice in your head that I know my voice is loud. My perfection voice is in there. And I don't like to try new things because then I might fail. And then it's not perfect. If it's not perfect, it drives me crazy. So this is just really going to be pulling at all the perfectionists because we're going to try new things and it's not going to be perfect the first time, it's just not. It's going to be about not making excuses, just doing it. I almost called it the just do it challenge, but I didn't want Nike to sue me. But we just got to do it. The reason why we're not doing something, whatever may be in your life, is because you're afraid of not doing it well. You're afraid of what other people might think. You're afraid of feeling. And this could even be related back to hair stuff. Some of you have still not committed to your natural curly hair because you're afraid. You're afraid you're not going to know how to do it. You're afraid of what other people may think in your family. You're afraid of what people may think at your job. And you're still straightening your hair to please other people. Maybe we're using the same product over and over again because you're afraid to try something new. Guess what? There might be a better product out there for you that makes your hair more moisturized, shinier, grow faster. But you haven't tried it because you're afraid to try something new. See what I mean? So this challenge is going to be very tailored to you and your needs. Each week you can choose if you want to join. But I hope you do. Hope you follow me on Instagram and TikTok so we can communicate. You can let me know how you have accomplished the goals of the week. So like I said, we might do a workout week. We might do a let's workout every day this week. Even if it's for 15 minutes, I challenge you to work out 15 minutes every day. Maybe it, I challenge you to not eat sugar all week. Maybe it's something for mental health.  As a mom with two kids, I often find that I don't have any time for myself. Even making this video, I started at six times because my son kept walking in the door. And now I was really excited about the natural lighting in my new house. It's eight o'clock, it's dark outside, I got lights on. So maybe the challenge could be taking 20 minutes to just yourself, to unplug, to read a book. Maybe the challenge is to read a book that week. Maybe the challenge is to go on a date. Maybe you're afraid to get back into relationships. Maybe this is your year to put yourself out there and maybe date someone that's not your typical type. How often do we see that in movies?  I would know. So it's all about getting out of our comfort zone in every aspect of our life. So this is where I need you to help me. I want you to leave me a comment down below with all of your suggestions and we're gonna do a new challenge every single week, every week until the end of the year. I'm thinking we're gonna do four weeks in a month, three challenges together and then maybe the fourth week could be like a freestyle week. Or maybe I'll throw them in sprangly. I'm not really sure how I wanna do it yet. But maybe with a freestyle week could be something that you know you need to work on. So let's say you know you haven't been able to spend any quality time with your kids. Maybe that only applies to you and your family because of some reason. Maybe that is the week where you decide, okay, every bedtime, we're gonna read a bedtime story or we're gonna cook together or have family game nights on Friday. I don't know what it is. But maybe it could be like the last week could be like a random thing tailored to you. Let me know what you guys think. So let me go to some of your responses that you gave me on Instagram with some ideas that we might be incorporating this year. Someone said, say one thing you love or admire about yourself in the mirror every day. Some are gonna be more simple than others and I love that, we'll switch it up every week. The one might require more efforts than the next week. Someone said, I'm stuck on repeating the deep conditioning challenge. That's also okay, it's totally okay to continue to repeat my last challenges. Maybe your challenge for the year is to do all of my challenges at once.  Maybe that's a big chop. You're taking hair growth supplements, you're switching it up, you're trying new hairstyles. Maybe you're doing all of that. Maybe you're doing the mega challenge this year. Your hair would be immaculate by the end of the year. Making your hair routine as simple as possible yet effective, that's a good one. Maybe we'll do one week where you only can use one styler. Taking it back to my old roots and just using one styler like I did today. Common if you know what's in my hair right now because you've watched my stories. No silicone challenge. Challenge yourself to not use silicone, see how your hair changes. Self care challenge, challenge yourself to do something for yourself every week. Like every Sunday is your self care day. That would be great. In general, trying new anything. Food, hair, shows, stuff with the babies. That could be a great challenge too. Maybe trying a new food. What if we tried a new food every day for a week? Our palate would just slower. Recession proof hair care. Maybe I'll do a week where I only use products that are under $10. So those are all great suggestions. I need more from you because we got 52 weeks to fill. I'm probably going to be announcing maybe all of them at the top of the month would be good for me. A challenge for me personally would be like posting on TikTok every single day. Please follow me at MizBioncRenae so I can get my TikTok numbers up. But make sure you watch my Instagram stories. I'll probably also do a post letting you guys know every Sunday. Okay, this is this week's challenge. Let me know if you're down and then we'll keep up with each other so we can make sure we accomplish our goals throughout the week.  Wow, some fancier hairstyles than I did. Some of y'all did the ones that I did and they looked amazing on you as well. I'm not going to give up on this per se. I really want to give y'all 52 still. I got to see how many I owe you. And I will be changing my hairstyle throughout the year. Let's just keep doing it. But thank you for all of you that joined the Hairstyle Challenge. If you failed with me, it's okay. I forgive you because I also messed up. And that's also part of this year's challenge is letting go of perfectionism, allowing room for mistakes. You can't grow unless you make mistakes and then you learn from those mistakes. And I learn not to put too much pressure on myself with my channel, with my Instagram, trying to keep up with the algorithm and trends and focusing on comments and numbers and even brand deals and just not focusing on things that make me happy. And what's gonna be making me happy this year is switching up my content and getting that new excited feeling about trying something new. It is terrifying, but I am excited. And I'm going to be making mistakes along the way. I'm gonna show you my mistakes. I'm gonna do things not perfect. Old me would not even have recorded this video because my background isn't pretty yet. But I'm still just doing it so the content can get out there. I have so many ideas as you may have as well if you're trying to be a content creator this year. You have all these ideas and things you wanna do but you haven't pushed your court. You haven't posted it. It's not edited right. The lighting's not good. Your nails aren't done. We can find so many reasons not to post the things that we want to post, not this year. This year we're gonna stop hoarding content. So for the first challenge of the year, let's keep it to health. A lot of you guys said you wanna focus on your health this year. So this week, every day this week, we're gonna work out. We're gonna work out together for a minimum of 15 minutes. You might say I don't have time to work out. I have this, I have that. Trust me, I know. I use all those same excuses myself. I have two kids. I have toddler and a newborn. See if a newborn anymore is five months. But there's always 15 minutes. You've scrolled for 15 minutes. You've watched that one show on Netflix. You bingeed the whole season actually. Imagine if you were doing crunches throughout each episode. How many ads would you have right now? So I'm gonna be checking in on Instagram. If I do not post my workout on Instagram, you guys gotta call me out like, okay, Bianca, it's 8 p.m. Pacific Standard Time. You haven't worked out yet. What's going on? And I have to post something. I'll be sending you guys links to like YouTube video workouts that are free for you to do. Maybe we'll do like challenges, like do 100 crunches today. Or do 50 pushups. Or go for a walk, 15 minute walk. We'll change it every day. But if you want to join, let me know. But if you are down for the variety of challenges that we are going to be doing throughout the year, this is the part of the video where you commit to my comfort zone challenge. Should it be called the no comfort zone challenge? Cause get out of the comfort zone challenge is too long. Let's call it the no comfort zone challenge. All right, on this is the part of the video where you raise your right hand and you accept the no comfort zone challenge. Now repeat after me. I, insert name, solemnly swear to get out of my comfort zone and expand beyond hair. Maybe it's my health or the food that I eat, but no matter what the challenge is, my drive can't be beat. I will do it not perfect and I will do it afraid. I will do it for me, not for a grade. I will not let others' opinions or comments discourage me. This is the year I set all of my fear free. Boom, just like that, you have accepted the no comfort zone challenge. Now once again, not that I don't believe you, but as we usually do here, I do do that in writing. So leave me a comment down below and say I, whatever your name is, accept the hashtag no comfort zone challenge. And then go ahead and give me some suggestions on what you think we should do this year for one of the weeks. We got many weeks to fill, so give me all your suggestions. If you see one that you like, comment on that comment or give it a little like so I can see it and make sure that we include it. But starting off once again, we are gonna be doing a workout week. So if you want to get fit this year, this might be the little push that you need to start your fitness journey. Do I think one week of working out is gonna change your life? No, you're gonna have to keep going if you really wanna see results, but you gotta start somewhere. So I'm just here to kind of be like your jumper cables. I'm here to jumpstart all of your goals this year. So let me know if you accept this challenge and let me know more specifically if you accept my workout challenge for this first week and make sure you follow me on Instagram and TikTok at MsBeyondGrenet so we can keep track of what workout we're doing each day. I'm so excited to do this challenge with you guys and I'll see you next Sunday for the next challenge. Thanks for watching Beyond Grenet today.


Hey, good morning, Rowan. Welcome to BC 314, our course on media and technology. I've put up the PDFs for some of those classes that we had, the lectures that we had on print media, radio, television, films, and then yesterday we spoke a little bit about entertainment and gaming, and so I just put up PDFs for that and just with little information I'm not, you know it's not an exhaustive encyclopedia information, but just some outline, some background in those areas so you can think about it and you know, if there are people in your congregation or in your ministries that are interested in those areas by all means encourage people to, you know, to use those forms of communication to serve people within the church or outside the church, because God can use those forms of communication, use media to touch and bless people. Yesterday, we started talking about digital engagement, digital communications and engagement and I'll just quickly review what we did and then start going into some practical things that we can do in this space and yeah, and just share some of the things that we've done and lessons we've learned and, you know, we're continuing here at Thought People's Search. We're continuing to learn and explore and, you know, get better. In this area this is important, digital communications and engagement, like we said yesterday people are expecting digital content from their local church or ministry and and it's a great opportunity but we need to learn how to do it properly and also to keep up with changing times and so on. So yesterday, we spoke a little bit about, you know, how do we formulate a digital engagement strategy for those inside the church, those outside the church? You know, you can ask some basic questions and, you know, those answers answers to those questions will help us come up with some strategy. This is how we can engage with people on digital platforms and we also said that when you're thinking of people outside the church, it doesn't always have to be just non-Christians, but it can also be the church outside your congregation. You know, there's the body of Christ, the larger body of Christ. You can serve them as well using digital platforms and we then spend a little bit of time talking about, you know, how to really evaluate progress. We need to look at life transformation as opposed to just the engagement part. Of course, in the digital space, there will be some metrics. They serve some, to some extent as indicators, but they're not the indicators we want to be looking at. We really want to see how have people been ministered to, how have their lives been changed? And then we just kind of ran through some examples and, you know, here's a little exercise you can think about, okay, if I'm targeting teens or young adults, you know, how would I go about that? Now, how would I be able to formulate a digital engagement strategy for that particular demographic? And again, you have to think about people that you're immediately ministering to, meaning people in your region and then, of course, you can then think about people outside your region. Right? So today, we'll take a step forward and talk a little bit about websites. This is very important for a church or a ministry. You know, nowadays, people expect you to have it. So you think about, in times past, churches or Christian ministries would have brochures, they would have printed brochures as an informational piece of communication.  If you want to know what's happening in the church, and they would give out a printed piece of paper or maybe multiple papers, whatever, they give that out. And that would be a useful way for people to know what's happening in this church, what's happening in this ministry, what areas I can be involved in, you know, and things like that. Just to help people connect. Today, things have changed. People are not necessarily looking for a brochure, but they're looking for a website. And your website, in one, in some way, serves as a brochure. It tells people, look, this is who we are, this is what we do. And here are all the details about us. So today, it's almost like a given. You've a church or a ministry, you're supposed to have a website.  And then, of course, there are many advantages for having a website.  This is very important from as one of the ways you can digitally engage with people, the people you are serving and beyond, right? So typically, you'd have a kind of a web developer and a graphic designer to help you build your website. So what would you know? Typically, again, I'm not saying you have to do all these things, but typically, you would want to use a content management system. That means here's like, you know, a ready-made thing. It's almost like an IKEA for building a website. You know, when you, those of us who are familiar with IKEA, you want to build a table. You just order a box and they've got everything assembled and you put it together and you have a table. You don't have to go to a carpenter to do it. You don't have to start from scratch. Right? So a content management system or something like that. It's pre-built. It's got everything in it. Now you need to just set it up for your particular church or organization. And a web developer typically can help you do it. And if you use a content management system, then if, you know, you can also learn how to update the content on it. It's pretty easy. So there are many different content management systems out there. Some of the top ones, WordPress is, I think, the leading content management system. WordPress then there is Joomla. Joomla is what we use at APC. And then there are others, you know, several others. And I'm just mentioning three here. There are a lot of different content management systems that you could use. And these, of course, are built with certain software technology, which a web developer would know how to use. The advantage of using a content management system is, you know, you can customize it for whatever you want. It's easy, learning curve. And it's easy for day-to-day use and maintenance. You know, even you can learn how to update the text and whatever in it, graphics and so on. And some of these platforms have literally millions of developers who work on it. So it's easy to find people to help you work on some of these more well-known content management systems. Those of you who have used WordPress or Squarespace, these are things you can do yourself. You know, Joomla is a little, not that straightforward, but WordPress, many of you may already have your blogs and so on on WordPress. And they provide an end-to-end solution, you know, from domain, registering a domain name and hosting and other things. So it's all easy to set up.  You retain full control of the website. Because, you know, I've seen and I'm speaking from our experience here in Bangalore, I don't know about how it works in other countries. But I've had some churches and ministries, more than one, come to us and say, hey, you know, we engage this developer to do our church website, our ministry website. He set the whole thing up. Now he's got full control. Now he's refusing to give it, you know, give us the credentials to log in for our own website to control it. And that's it. They're stuck. And it was not a nice situation. So we had to help them out of it. I tried to negotiate, get the credentials and then help them fix what they wanted to fix. So I've seen on more than one occasion that kind of a situation happened. So I'm just saying, hey, if you're getting somebody else to do this work for you, keep full control.  And also have a clearly written contract in place. You know, again, this is a big problem in churches and ministries, they don't put a contract in place. They just, you know, get somebody maybe from the congregation or some friend, they know, they say, hey, you just develop it for us. And so that, you know, initially it all starts out well. But later on, when it comes to payments and, you know, support and maintenance, there's nothing written. So then it becomes a back and forth and things get a little messy. So I would say, even if you're hiring your best friend to work for you, put a contract. Yes, there is friendship, but work is work. It has to be treated in a very professional way. Write it down. These are the terms on which we are going to engage with each other. Both of you sign off on it and then engage that person. This is something many churches and ministries don't do. And then they get into a lot of trouble, you know, a few months later.   Sometimes people don't think about these things, but, you know, select something that's short and easy. It's got to be short. You know, example, the name of our church is All People's Church and World Outreach. So we didn't, you know, if we can't expect people to type that whole thing out all the time. So we just put APCWO, All People's Church World Outreach. So that's something short and easy. Now, short, easy, right? Now, APCWO is not necessarily easy if you could find a name that really sticks. That's good. But over time, people associate APCWO with All People's Church World Outreach. They're able to associate it. So it's not necessarily a good example of being easy, but choose something that, you know, it's almost like a mnemonic. Then they will tend to remember that easier, right? Choose something they can associate with your name with ministry, something that's easy to type, understandable words, and if possible, use a mnemonic, correct? So select your domain name carefully. Don't pick a name that later on you find, oh, man, that's so difficult for people to type or people to remember and so on. And then there's also search engine issues later on. For example, if there's a church called Hope City Church, Bangalore, you would think of something like HPCB.org, Hope City Church, Bangalore, or it could be just Hope City or something short and easy that you would find. So, you know, we've just put out some examples here. Now, you can of course check the availability of your domain name and whois.com. So we can go there, see if your domain name, what your interest in is available. Preferably, you would use a .org. Of course, you could use, you know, things that are specific to your country if you want to. Or, you know, you could use something different. You could use a .com or nowadays, there are so many other extensions available. So pick whatever is your comfortable but typically, non-profit organizations would end with a .org extension. So, just some tips there. Now, once you do that, you've got to register your domain name. And you've got to set up a hosting provider. Somebody who's going to host your website. So, the domain registrar is a company that will, you know, record your name. And the way it works is when somebody searches, you know, types out your domain name, it goes out to, it looks up, you know, goes to the registry. That's maintained by the registrar that, okay, this domain name has this IP address. The IP address is like the unique address for that domain name that points to where it's being hosted, where the website is being hosted, looks it up, then it goes out to that particular server and sends the information back to that person who is online. Right? So, that's why your domain name has to be registered. So, usually you would use different hosting providers who would do the registration for you, so you don't have to worry about it. You can find some hosting provider that's good in your country, in your region, or you could use other providers, like we mentioned some here that are, that we use Hostica. You could use GoDaddy or you can go directly to google.com and register your domain there, domain name there. There is some benefit of registering directly to Google. You may gain an advantage in terms of search engine optimization or being found. You may gain some advantage. But you can register anywhere and so on. And of course, costing is an issue. So, think about who can give you the best price and what you're able to pay. Right?  You, your hosting provider typically will help you register your domain name and also you can get your website set up with that hosting provider. So, for example, if you want to do it directly with Google, you can go to domains.google.com, search if your name is there, you know, and we can get it set up there and you can also even host your website on Google Cloud. They provide space and ways to host your website. So, that's one way to do it. Okay. Now, when you're building your website, I will definitely, we'll have time for questions. So, I'm just kind of going through this content here, information here and then I will take questions. So, when you're building your website, you got to think about, well, what kind of a website do you want to have and what are the objectives of your website? Right? So, it's not like, okay, I'll just have a website. Well, what do you want to do? To whom are you targeting? And what do you want to do with this? Right? So, depending on the people you are targeting, you would design your website that way. So, the team, the look and the feel of your website, right, has to kind of be geared or tailored towards your target audience.  If you're doing it, like, you know, you've got a wide range of people, then of course, you do also want to care for some of the more classic viewers who would like something more simple. They don't want anything too flashy. They want information, so on. So, you need to look at a team that would be best serve your people. Or if you're doing a website that is, you know, that is for a ministry that is serving poor children, well, you need a team that communicates that. It's got to give that feeling that, you know, there's, you're serving these kind of people and so on. So, pick your team thoughtfully and then what is it that you're trying to achieve through your website? Is it going to be mainly informational? Are you going to use it as a content repository where people are going to come there for resources? Are you going to use it to raise money, support for your ministry? Are you going to sell things on it? Are you going to use it to get people to, you know, maybe register for your event, sign up for various things? You know, what are the things? What's your main objective? So, when you look at our church reps at APCWRT, our main objective is this, you know, to provide content. So, we want to be like a global repository of information, Christian information of Christian resources, right? So, that's our goal. Now, of course, we've got the other elements like, okay, we have to provide information on who we are, what we do, what's our statement of faith, how are we organized, what are the events that are happening, etc. Those are there, but that's not the primary focus. Our primary focus is we want to grow into being a website that becomes a central repository for content that disciples and equips believers, right? So, that when people, you know, example, they want to learn about something, they say, hey, I'm going to go to the APC website. I know I'll find sermons there. I'll find books there. I will find content there that's going to help me in that area of my Christian life and journey. So, we want to grow into that. So, we've tried to design our website in that manner, but that perspective, emphasizing that while, you know, providing the informational aspects of it and other kinds of things that cater to our immediate congregation. So, you need to think through, okay, what do you want to do with your website? And then typically, you will have your homepage, you'll have some information about yourself. What will new people do? What about upcoming events? Who are the people responsible in the ministry and how can people come to your services or reach out to or your church office and so on, right? Just, you know, mentioning some of these may be very obvious, but it's good to state the obvious sometimes. Use colors, layouts that are pleasant. It's very important to make sure there are no spelling errors in your text and your graphics.  Keep content up to date. There's no, if somebody goes to a website and they say, oh, the last time this page was up, you know, they're giving me information from 2000 or 2001, it's not current, the events are not current, then it kind of leaves a very bad impression that maybe this website is not being maintained or maybe the churches cease to exist or whatever. You know, so keep content up to date. When there are cross links, there are links in your pages, make sure those links are all working and make sure that the website is intuitive and easy. You know, people should find the information they need. So one of the things is to have some obvious menu items, so that, you know, these are very obvious about contact, so that it's very intuitive. Okay, this is where I go if I want to find this information. Then, some of the useful things you can do when you're having a website is have options without being a pest, without being, you know, too in your face, have people, give people the opportunity to share their contact details, right? So, you know, you're not forcing them, but you're giving them a place where they could do it and also if they want to register for upcoming events, they could do it. Then, of course, you can integrate your website with your social media and so that people know where to go if they want to see you on social media. And lastly, you know, make sure you optimize your website for search engine. That means if people are searching, you know, they should find you because that is one way in which people are going to start coming to your church or your ministry. So, you got to localize your church as well as you got to globalize your church. That means, remember when you search, especially on search engines like Google or Bing or other, these are two primary. When you search on Google, the way it works is it will localize the search based on where the user is. So, if I'm searching for something in Bangalore, the first thing Google, the Google Algorithms does is it sees if what I'm searching for is something that can be answered locally. So, if I'm searching for a restaurant, it's not going to show me the best restaurant in Boston or anything like that. If I'm searching for pizza restaurants, it's not going to display pizza restaurants some other part of the world. It's going to show me restaurants that serve pizza that are very specific to where I am. So, you know, obviously Google recognizes where I am unless I do an incognitive search. Typical normal search would be it says that I'm in Bangalore. I'm searching for a restaurant that serves pizza. So, it's going to give me a list of restaurants that are right here, close to where I am. So, it localizes the search depending on what I'm searching for. If I'm searching for, you know, books on divine healing, for example, healing and deliverance, then that's not necessarily something that is restricted to where I am. It's a generic, you know, what are the books that are good on that subject, healing and deliverance. So, it will pull from the universe, the entire universe, the entire, you know, global information available. It could tailor it to my preferences if I have some history on doing similar searches, it will of course tailor that in. So, Google index says, you know, all the websites, all the content of the websites, and then in showing me the results, it's going to determine what are the best results to show to me based on where I am or based on what I'm searching for. So, you need to think about this, because suppose, you know, you have a website and somebody in your city is searching for a church to go to, then you want your website to come up as high and as, as, you know, on the search results page, preferably on the first page, right? Because typically people go to the, you know, they'll read through the first few results and sometimes they may go to page two or page three, but generally they try to, people act on what they see coming up on page one. So, you have to optimize your website for people to find, local people to find you, because the other ones are going to likely come to your church on Sunday. So, for example, I'm just giving this example, if people in, anybody in Bangalore searches for a spiritual church in Bangalore, then definitely we would like our website to come up, you know, we'd like people to see that. So, you know, for example, I'm just going to try to do that now. So, let me share, let's see now what happens here. So, you know, I'm in Bangalore, so let's say I'm a person who's come to Bangalore, I'm looking for a church and I want to go to a church in Bangalore. What would I, most likely what would people do, you know, they would search for a church. Now, what kind of a church would I like to go to? I'll say, hey, I'd like to go to a spiritual church. So, what would I type? I would, you know, I would type spirit, build a church in Bangalore. So, Google is showing me this map based on where I am and the first church that's listed here is all people's church, right?  So, people, it's very highly likely they'll click on us. Now, these are, you know, listed, we'll talk about this a little later where you can, you know, list your church and Google business and it'll pick it up from there. But this is, this is the result of just crawling off website. So, of course, the other church is listed here. Now, suppose I say I want a word-based church, right?  Somebody say I want a very word-based church in Bangalore. So, I'm looking for a church. Again, you know, all people's church comes up right on top. Yeah. So, again, we've optimized our website for that, you know, search. So, it's highly likely they'll click on it and go look for it. And so, like this, there are other terms that you could optimize your website on. So, we, for example, if somebody says I want a charismatic church, charismatic church in Bangalore. So, these are, you know, being listed there. And then you see, again, all people's church comes up right on top because, again, we've optimized our church website for that charismatic church phrase. So, like that, you can optimize your church website for different search phrases, you know. And, you know, we've done that for our Bible College as well.  I can say, Bible Colleges in Bangalore. I'm looking for that. And there are a lot of Bible Colleges. APC is listed as one of those. But then you'll see APC Bible Colleges right on top. Of course, we have a Bible College page from our main website, but we also got the Bible College page optimized for that kind of a search. So, or if somebody says, I want to, I want, I want to know free Bible Colleges, free Bible College, Bible Colleges in India. Let's say, anywhere in India, somebody's searching, they do this. So, there's another institute that's listed on top. And let's see, an APC Bible Colleges right there, like number two in the list. So, we've optimized it for those kinds of searches. So, like this, there are a lot of other things that you can do. Now, think about this. Suppose I'm anywhere in the world. I'm assuming all of you are seeing my screen right here. You're able to see my screen, right? Thank you. So, suppose I'm somewhere sitting anywhere in the world and I, you know, we can change your locations. I can show you how to do it. But suppose I'm searching for, you know, I'm searching for a book. I want a book on example, Healing and Deliverance. Healing and Deliverance. So, here's it's showing me a local church that's doing healing and deliverance. And then you see here, our book on Healing and Deliverance is listed number here, right on top. So, this is our APC book. I'm Ministering Healing and Deliverance and, you know, you've done that. We also run here, weekend schools that's also listed here. So, now, if I change my geolocation to some other country, so for example, I open an incognitive window and I pretend I'm in the US. So, I go to google.com slash geolocation is US. All right. So, I'm changing my search. That means I'm pretending I'm in the US right now. So, here you can see that it doesn't recognize that I'm in Bangalore. There's no location given here. I'm using an incognitive window. That means it's not using my local information. I've set the geolocation to US. That means I'm going to do a search as though I'm living in the US. Now, here if I search for you know, a book on Healing and Deliverance. So, this is US result, right? So, all these books are there. There's Amazon book. And let's see if we get listed somewhere here. Okay. So, our APC book, free book comes up here. That means in the US, if somebody searches for a book on Healing and Deliverance, they're going to see our book from APC, right? Again, so we have optimized our website for a global audience. So, that means anywhere in the world you search for Healing and Deliverance, you will get this book. You will see it. Of course, there are a lot of other people, other books as well. But what the point I'm saying is you can optimize your website for local audience also for a global audience, right? And so on. So, we could, for example, if you search for a book on wonderful, no, I'm searching as I'm in the US, wonderful benefits. So, there are other books that are listed here. But then you see APC's book, Wonderful Benefit of Praying in Tongues. So, somebody in the US searching for this kind of title, they'll be able to see our book, right? So, okay. So, close this incognito window. Come back. Okay. Come back here. So, what was I saying? Yeah. So, what I was saying was that you can optimize your website for these keywords. So, think about it. First, think about it locally. That means, within your city, how would people search for your ministry or for your church? What would the key terms that, what kind of people do you want to attract? So, for example, like I showed you, when it is, you know, Spiritville Church, Charismatic Church or Bible-based Church or you can even search Family Church or, you know, Pentecostal Church or whatever those terms are, which you think people will search for. And they will look for that church. Somebody goes into, you know, our city, they'll search. And they will find, then they should find your church website, hopefully on the first page. Then it's a highly likely thing that they're going to, you know, of course, they will look at location, how far it is from where they're living, etc. And it's highly likely that they will come to visit your church, right? So, that means you're not just having a website, but you're optimum. You're kind of, you're using your website in a way to reach people because that's something common people commonly do when they're looking for a church. They go online and search. So, they should be able to search your website. Now, the other thing I was pointing out is that your website can become a content delivery system to people anywhere in the world, right? So, how can you do that? So, once again, you can optimize your website and the content that you have on your website to be available for a global audience. So, like I was just showing you, if people search for certain content that is available in ABC website, it is highly likely that it will come up on the first page or within the first three pages. Now, anywhere in the world, anywhere in the English-speaking world, of course, because other website is in English. So, in the English-speaking world, if you search for that kind of content, it's highly likely we will be there because we've tried to optimize the website for a global search, right? And there are ways to do it. People who understand search engine optimization will be able to tell you, look, these are things that you need to do in order to make your website rank high in certain keywords and phrases and so on. The point I want to get across is don't just make a website and say, okay, we have a website for our church. That is good. That's a first step. But think about how the website can help you reach out to people. How you can make your website as a way to get what you have out there. Remember, just putting content on a website doesn't mean people will find it because there are literally millions of websites, all kinds of websites. So, in order for your content to be useful, it has to be found. And in order to find for it to be found online when people are searching, there is a way to make it happen.  So, there's a way to do it. So, we intentionally, and it's an ongoing work, you know, we've been doing this on and on and on. Every week, we keep searching, we keep analyzing how our website is doing and we have to keep improving it. Anytime we go to sleep, the ranking can go down. So, and we have to keep looking at various aspects of optimizing the website. It's an ongoing work. You can never say it's over. It keeps on going. Okay. Abraham's question about other languages. Should you have two different websites to focus on different groups or one website to change the language? So, what I would, at least the way we are doing it is we are having different websites and different languages. For example, we have our English website, which is what we saw, but we have a separate Hindi website. So, but it is, there are two ways to do it. One is you can have it as a sub domain. That means we have it as hindi.apcwo.org. So, it's like a sub domain. Or you could even have it as a separate page. So, you could have it, for example, like apcwo.org slash hindi. It takes you to a separate set of pages. Or you could have it entirely different like apc hindi.something. So, there are three different ways you can do it. You can have it as a sub domain. You can have it as a different set of pages. Or you can have a different domain name for the website. There are pros and cons. And one of the criteria, at least you have to think about is how would that affect the overall ranking of the main website? So, the way such engine happens is when you have a sub domain, the ranking of your main website gets divided into some measure with your sub domain. So, then you might tend to compromise the ranking of your main website if you have too many sub domains that you're also trying to push. So, you have to think about that carefully. So, of course, and then there are the other factors which is the people are going to maintain the website. Would they be the same people doing it? Or would you have different people doing it to handle different languages? So, it's kind of a, I don't think there's one straightforward answer to it, Abraham. If the same people can maintain both, that's great. Then you just, you know, you could have it as a sub domain or just add on a few pages to in that language, have it, you know, like slash Hindi or slash whatever the language is. Yeah, so I cannot, I guess I cannot give you a straightforward answer, meaning this is always the right answer. There are these various factors that you need to think about. What I can say is you have to be a little careful when you create sub domains under your main domain because then it compromises the ranking of the main website. So, that would be a very important factor to think about before you get on to creating multiple language websites. Yeah, so, yeah, I'm sorry, I'm not able to give you like a firm clear answer because there are a lot of different factors that go into it. I can say what we've done is we've created Hindi as a sub domain, hindi.apcw.org. That's how we've done it. But publicly, when we tell people, we say apcw.org slash Hindi. So, we give them a URL apcw.org slash Hindi. When they type that, it redirects to the sub domain, hindi.apcw.org. That's how we've set it up. Okay, yeah. Any other questions on websites? Is it getting too technical? Are you all with me? I don't want to get too technical, then I might lose some people. But is it okay now? You're able to digest what I've been saying. Yes, it's a perfect thing. Okay, all right. So, that's good. So, when you're creating a website, think about these things. Let me just go back to the notes and see if something I can just cover up in the next few minutes.  One important thing is, one important key to being found is to use search engine-friendly URLs. That means, you know, in the URL that you're using for your web pages, use the words and phrases that people would use for their search. So, this is a simple key, right, that try to use it. So, for example, if you go and search, you know, online church, you're very likely to find us, AP symbology up, you know, on ranked, you know, the number one or number two, you'll find us there. I'm talking about locally in Bangalore, some researchers, you know, online church. So, even if they want to stay home and watch online, we have intentionally optimized our website so that they will find us and they could join us online as well. The other important thing to do is to list your organization in Google Business. Okay, that's pretty straightforward to do. So, we just go to google.com slash business. There, you can add your information and the information about your church or your ministry and when you give your address, it'll show up on Google Maps. So, in some of our search results, you know, you were seeing a Google map with the location of those organizations that met that criteria and also when you list your business, you can put in keywords, right? So, you can say, okay, my business is known for, we provide these kind of services and these kind of things. So, it's a free listing. It doesn't cost you any money. You just do it. They will verify your business. So, they will, you know, either call or they will send a postcard to that address. So, Google has, you know, it may vary locally how they verify it, but they'll verify that you are a legitimate business or registered business. You have that place. So, that is your correct address and they verify it. So, then your business, once your listing goes live, it's a very, it's a free thing. It's not complicated and the other thing is how many, for you to be ranked high, of course, it also looks at how many people have liked your business. So, that's something you need to drive.  So, but that's a simple thing to do in terms of listing your business or it gives you a chance to be found and located on Google map when people search for church or Christian ministry, so on. Another, maybe I'll just cover this last point. Another important thing to do is to try and cross-link back to your website. You know, it's called citation across linking. That means other people are referencing your website. They're linking to your website. That helps increase your overall ranking. And so, there are different ways to do it. You can list your business and, you know, various standard directories like your yellow pages and other sites and directories. You can list it or you can list it in other unstructured citations, articles, blogs, and people write about you. They link to your website that helps increase your overall ranking. So, just, you know, so, away, these are things that you can put your information on and link back to your main website. And lastly, submit your website to Google search console, right? So, you log into using your Gmail ID, log in there to Google search and list your website. Now, this requires a little bit of technical help because they give you a little piece of code that you need to put into your website so that they can verify it. So, you can have your developer do it for you. And so, once you do that, then Google is going to be able to, you know, will crawl your website. And basically, when you submit your website to Google search console, Google will crawl your website and you'll also have a report of what it does, meaning, you know, if your links are broken or something's not right, Google will alert you to it. Now, you don't have to list your website in search console for Google to crawl your website. It automatically will try to pick up everything that's out there. But this helps definitely and you can submit your site map and so on. So, just tell your technical person to do this for you and you can get it up and it's a good thing to do. Okay. I'll pause here. We'll continue this next week. You know, I'm just sharing things with you that would be useful when you have your website so that it can actually serve. It can be useful to your church or your ministry and also useful to people globally. Okay. Any questions before we close for today? So, my question is a very basic one, Pastor, that are we supposed to develop the website or we need some technical or some qualified person to do that? So, if you use example, like we said, WordPress, you can actually, with a little bit of learning, you can do it yourself. It's pretty simple. So, you can set up your own blog or you can set up your own website with WordPress, which is a content management system, and they'll make it easy for you to update your content. So, you can register your domain name. They'll kind of set it up. You know, it'll be set up for you and so on. Now, if it's something that's totally new, then yeah, it's good to get a developer to help you out with it and set it up for you. Yeah. So, I would say maybe initially, you know, it's good to get a developer set it up for you and then if you can learn how to maintain it through using the content management system, then it should be easy to update the content, post new pages and so on. Yeah. Thank you. Any other questions? Okay. Let's close. Could somebody please pray with us and close. We will dismiss after that. Anyone? Good. Okay. Let's try. Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for this time, Lord, to keep ourselves Lord Jesus and help us to help us to be God, to be a Kingdom Minder and earthly wise Father God. We pray that Lord Jesus this time as we are learning all these technical things, this media. We pray that Lord Jesus help us to know Father God so that it'll be helpful to the coming generations Father God and we can use for your ministry Father God, for your glory Father God to reach out to the people's Father God. Thank you Lord. We submit all of us to your mighty in Jesus name we pray. Amen. Amen. Thank you everyone. Have a good evening. Good rest of the day and a good weekend. See you all tomorrow next week. Sorry. God bless. Bye now. Thank you everyone. God bless you. God bless. Thank you.


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Okay, welcome back everyone to this session. Let's pick up from where we stopped. We talked about the methods of working of Satan and we were discussing opposition. And under that, one point that we missed out last time was about Paul's thorn in the flesh. And in that passage we see that a demon is the opposition. And this is a unique situation simply because Paul was a man with great revelation. And to keep him humble, this was not sorted out for him. Though he prayed about it, he continued to struggle with the demon spirit. But then we cannot use this example in our lives today because it will not be applicable. We cannot compare with Paul's revelations. So that's how we would understand this particular passage. Now moving on to the next method of working which is deception. What is deception? So we've understood temptation, opposition, intrusion, all that we could recognize. But what is deception? Yes, Sean. Okay, miss using somebody's trust. That is one answer. Yes, Nikhil. Okay, he is sharing a Hindi word for it. And correct, that is correct. So trying, cheating somebody. Cheating somebody. Betrayal, okay. Cheating, betrayal, all that. Okay, so deception. So we have an idea of what deception is. And Satan does that. He deceives us. Why is it like a deception? Why is it like a betrayal or like a cheating? Because what he's saying is not the truth. And it's bad if we believe the lies that Satan tells us. So deception is making people believe a lie, like it's a truth. Making people think of the truth like a lie. If, for example, we read that bad company corrupts good character, that is a scripture like that. That is the truth of God's word. Now, if we are not careful about the close company, we keep the seditions, influence that comes from people. If we have good friends, great. They will lead us in good things, godly ways. But what if we have people who are pushing us into addictions and pushing us into ungodly ways. We will move towards destruction. But what is deception where Satan pushes us to believe that there's nothing wrong. What is wrong? The truth seems like the lie. No, nothing will happen to me. I will be fine. So you see that there is a sort of a non acceptance of the truth.  But what does the word of God say? No, you cannot put your hands into the wrong ungodly things and still be blessed. That's the truth of God's word. But Satan knows how to manipulate. So the truth, he will make it look like a lie. He will make it look like a truth. And when someone starts believing these things they can come into a place. Satan is a deceiver. He will deceive, but we fall into deception. So we start believing these things. We believe the lies of the devil. And the Bible says that he is a corruptor of our minds. And the Bible also says that there will be false teachings, false apostles, so many wrong things that will go against the truth. So there are many scriptures which have been given for us there where even Jesus, he warned that there will be wrong doctrines and teachings in the last days in the book of Timothy, first Timothy chapter four verse one, that also talks about deceptive people coming in and trying to corrupt our minds. One John chapter four verses one to three that also says there will be false leaders and we must discern the spirits. We cannot believe every spirit that comes to tell us about God. So that discernment is required on our part to identify what is from God and what is not from God. When we read about Satan, one thing that the Bible says is he can appear like the angel of light. See, when there is deception, right? Nobody will try to deceive us in an obvious way. Okay, what do we mean by that?   So obvious. And then Satan comes to you and says, hey, I'm here. I want to deceive you. And you know, this is what he will not come in a way that you can recognize. It'll be very subtle.  That's how he behaves. And the Bible actually says that he can come like the angel of light. So if he wants to deceive us, why would he reveal himself as, hey, I'm the bad person. I'm the deceiver. No, he'll come like an angel of light to show us the good things, give us a better life. And as we believe his lie and go against the truth of God's word, that's when we start slipping. Okay, so he knows how to be deceptive in a very subtle way. And that's where we have to watch out everything. Even, you know, something that is taught, something that is preached every spirit that is in the world, like the Bible says, be discerning, try to figure out just because things sound good, it may not be rooted in the word. So when we are discerning, we can identify deception. So one of the ways for us to find out, you know, what is from God and what is not from God is to see the fruit. Okay, see the fruit means what is the result through the ministry or through what is done. You can see that people's lives are transformed. People are leaving sin, they are following God or you might see that, you know, many people are coming to know Christ or there is a manifestation of the gifts of the spirit.  So when we see this is the fruit, we can recognize that what is happening is from God. But if we don't see those things, let's say that, you know, Satan comes like the angel of light, gives some nice teaching, something deceptive. What is the result? People are falling away from God. There is no steadiness in their lives. There's a lot of confusion. You know, their family life is affected, their health is affected, they have undergoing loss, strife, confusion in their relationships. So then you know, hey, this cannot be from God. If God is doing this work, how can the fruit be the opposite? Okay, so best is to identify deception even if it is very subtle, like immediately in your spirit, because the Bible says that the Holy Spirit bears witness in our spirit. So sometimes we can tell something is wrong, you know, with the suggestion or what this person is saying, something is wrong, we can discern it immediately. And also the important thing is to know the Bible. When we know the word of God, people cannot deceive or Satan cannot deceive us so easily. Like Jesus, we can say, hey, it is written. It is written. No, I don't believe you. So that's how, you know, we have to discern and overcome deception and stay on God, stay in the truth of God's word, stay with the leading of the Holy Spirit. So there is one passage in one John chapter two versus 26 and 27, where it says that the anointing in you will teach you all things. The anointing in us, anointing is another word used for Holy Spirit in this passage. So the Holy Spirit who is within us can help us identify what is a lie, what is a truth? Now who is a minister of lie? Who's a minister of truth? So all these things, all this discernment, we can know when the Holy Spirit is working in us. And obviously we should know the word of God also. Okay, so that will help us over. Huh, yes, please. Like ma'am, you said like watch out for the fruits or whatever you are making. This is the address, these fruits are like healing deliverance and all. But then how, like also the scripture where Jesus at the end of times when people come and they will tell like we healed, we did these things in your name and God tell like we didn't, I didn't know you. So how this both goes, like if we are looking for the fruits which are like healing deliverance and all and these both were like not going hand in hand. Okay, so the way we'll understand this is when he says I don't know you, it simply means that they don't have a relationship with Jesus. Okay, so can people who don't have a relationship with Jesus do supernatural miracles? Answer is yes. There will be deceiving spirits. There will be, you know, the Bible says, miracle workers, those are two miracles. But they're not born again. That is the interpretation of that passage. A lot of people look at that passage and say that it is talking about believers, but no, it's not talking about believers. When God says I don't know you, it's like the John chapter 15, where you know the person, like you're not connected with God as a believer, you're not born again. So then you're not a part of Christ and His body, but I did miracles in your name, I prophesied. It's just to say that they are doing miracles or supernatural works similar to what is seen in the kingdom. So why am I saying this? I'm saying this because you remember, we said we should interpret unclear passages in the light of clear passages. So throughout, we see that God is the one who's giving us the mandate to walk in the supernatural. Why would He tell a believer that I don't know you? When we are in Christ, there is no reason for God to say I don't know you. But what's happening here, the scenario is, people are moving in the supernatural, but they don't have a connection with God. No, supernatural, yeah. And we know, right? It happens. We see so many people who are in the occult and all do some spiritual supernatural things, but they're not part of the kingdom. Is that okay? Okay, all right. Any other questions? Prince Mike. About opposition, about Paul, Thorne and Pleasure, you told like it's a demonic spirit. So is it like he was a demonized or he been tormented by demon? He was being tormented. Not demonized, but being tormented. Demonized as we are going to that. We'll see why I'm saying it's not demonized. So we've understood deception, okay? So when a person moves, accepts the lie of the devil, what will happen is they'll go deeper and deeper into deception. So, you know, how do I put this? Like they will begin to believe that the way they're living is correct, what they're doing is correct, you know? So at some point it's very difficult to even speak with people who have gone that path. And they feel, yeah, nothing is wrong, but that's how Satan can deceive us if we are not careful. So the truth of God's word and the work of the spirit is very, very important. We have to go by that. Then only we'll be able to identify quickly and stop the deception. Okay, yeah, sure. So basically, can you say that as we, like as we, as we fall into the deception, what really are the line that we draw in between right and wrong, that becomes blurred eventually. That's true. Yeah. Yeah, that's true. And it's really sad, but that's also the problem of Satan, right? He's fallen into deception where he, first of all, pride and then deception. What is the deception? I can become greater than God. I will go higher. I will sit on the throne. So these kind of thoughts, it's nowhere close to the reality of what God's word says. So deceived views, terms like, he, what's self deception where we ourselves, you know, brainwash ourselves to believe some lie. Okay, so we have to be careful about these things. Now moving on, yeah, another comment. Ma'am, why didn't, I mean, Satan was much closer than all of us. He was, he was there, but why didn't he never apologize to God and get that part? Why did he never apologize? He had a better understanding than all of us. He also knows the scriptures, everything, but why never thought of apologies? Why didn't Satan apologize? I don't know him so closely before the answer, but I can guess, I can, I mean, from whatever we know, I see this whole thing of pride and deception, it's very dangerous. So it may cause us to come to a place where even though it's the right thing to apologize, I don't know if you've seen it or experienced it yourself, when we're in pride, no, it doesn't even occur to us. We feel like, yeah, I'm right. Why should I apologize? So that pride and self deception has probably kept him in a place where he's not able to, he couldn't even recognize that he needs to apologize. So eventually his pride overpowered his sense of right and wrong. That's the danger, that's the danger. So which is why when the Holy Spirit convicts us, it may be something very small. It's important to have a tender heart before God. It could be very small, but we say, God, I'm so sorry. I wanna change, help me change. So when we are in that place and throughout our lives, you're safe. But when we come to a place where we say, I know, I already know, what are you gonna tell me? That is so dangerous, because you kind of lose your sense of right and wrong from there, yeah, okay. So deception, we have an idea. The next would be oppression. Oppression is if you noticed wrestling matches, okay, we've seen wrestling matches. And in those matches, usually the stronger person will overpower the weaker person. So this subduing or taking over is what is known as oppression. Subduing is oppression. So what does Satan do? He tries to take control, okay. And when we, for whatever reason, we are weak, we don't deal with it. We don't face the enemy right at the start. He can subdue us, okay. This can happen in our mind, like for example, fear. From the beginning, it can be something simple. It just starts with, oh, I'm not good enough. I'm not good enough, I'm not good enough. And then it gets worse. But what is he doing? Mentally, he's oppressing. He's pushing me down, okay. And then what happens? The oppression can even be seen in my physical health, like maybe slowly, I feel weak or I'm low immunity, I'm frequently falling sick, but it all has to do with fear. So this is just one example I'm giving you. So Satan knows how to oppress people, primarily in the mind. So fear, anxiety, accusation, anything else. You know, some kind of a deceptive thought. So he intimidation. So he'll use all this to oppress us. And sometimes that oppression can also be physical. You can see like sickness also is an oppression because in Acts chapter 10, verse 38, we read that Jesus of Nazareth, he meant about doing good, okay. Healing all who were oppressed of the devil. For God was with him. So Jesus came to set us free from the oppression of the devil. So oppression is another way in which he can actually, influence people. So the oppression can be on and off, like we may experience the things that I shared just now, they're coming in and going off, or they can be prolonged. Sometimes even a sickness or an incurable condition. It can be an oppression of the devil and it can be broken by prayer. So this is another way in which he operates. So now coming to possession, okay. So till now, the way to actually understand is, see possession is when the human capacities or abilities, I think I've told us earlier, Satan and demons take over the abilities of a person. When it comes to that stage, we say possession. So I'll just come to you Sean.  So only when this happens, the demon spirit comes and starts tormenting. But there is another account of the man in Gadirin where he was demon possessed that nobody could even go to him. The whole time, he was a sort of a dangerous figure, okay over there. So the demons can take over for some time on and off. So we use the term manifestation. So they manifest that they are there, the whole time or sometimes. So this is what possession is.  But possession is when that will power, that control has become very weak now, that even the physical faculties and some of the abilities of the person, the demons have started using it. Okay, yeah, Ashon, you had something? To say that last class, you talked about how if there's even like a crack in us believers, that's when that's what he uses in order to come and take us over or to influence us. So that's why I wanted to add, like so when we as believers have a particular fault in it, that's what Satan like targets, that's what demons target and use that to their limits. Yeah, that's true. That's true. And that's why having our hearts healed, emotional wholeness, okay? That is so important. And for believers and we will study, like as you do your courses, when it comes to ministry, right? To minister from the place of being emotionally well, okay? And to know how to manage our emotions over a period of time. If even if something happens in our life experience, how do we deal with it? How do we quickly come to that place of wholeness and then minister from that place? All that is so important. Otherwise, what Sean was saying, we leave bleeding parts of our heart and wounds and all. That's very easy for the enemy to come and take over and mess things up for us. So yeah, that's true. So all these cracks or open doors in our lives. Okay, so we've understood possession, right? We've understood. So we're talking about increasing levels, oppression and then, you know, possession. Now, domination. Domination is to be able to have a great influence. Have a great influence. And particularly we use this term as influence over places, like villages, towns, cities. So demonic influence. And I've discussed many things earlier with all of us. There is one example in the book of Revelation, Revelation chapter two, verses 12 and 13. There is a mention of a city called Pergamos. Pergamos, where it says that it was the throne of Satan. Or in other words, Satan was dominating from that place. So can cities become strongholds of demonic powers? Yes, they can. So demonic powers were operating strongly from that city of Pergamos. So what's happening now? There's a domination. They can accomplish a domination. So that can happen through which they can affect many, many lives. And in the Bible, we have such examples of maybe cities or here in our notes, there are examples of people who became channels for the domination of demons. So Babylon, many times Babylon is, you know that term, it's a symbol. It's used as a symbol of the demonic or ungodly. So yeah, cities can have the domination. There are examples of people such as Jezebel. Jezebel in the Bible was a, she was a ruler, a ruler, but she encouraged a lot of witchcraft in her land. So that is why the term Jezebel through her, she became that channel that encouraged the ungodly, the demonic, a lot of occultic practices during the rule of Jezebel. So Satan can work through people also, certain individuals who are willing and happy to increase the demonic activities. So Jezebel, then Manasseh, a ruler in Jerusalem from Second Chronicles 33 in Samaria, in Acts chapter eight, there is a man called Simon, Simon the sorcerer. And from what the Bible says, he was called a God among the people in Samaria. So that shows us that he had a lot of supernatural power. Imagine, nobody will call anybody a God, but if they're calling a man God, then he must have done some significant supernatural things. So can Satan work through individuals? Yes, he can work, he can try to show his power and all. And the sad part is these individuals have given the power to demons, okay? There is one more girl in Acts chapter 16. She was a slave girl with the spirit of Python. It says she was doing fortune telling. So what does Satan and demons do? They can take over human beings. See, possession is, they've taken over, fine. Now this is domination. Domination where through that person, they're controlling the entire region, the village. So in Philippi, this girl, the slave girl, because of the way the demons were manifesting through her, it was affecting the people. So when Paul, when he cast out the demon, the whole city, right? Like in Philippi, people started becoming believers because this demon spirit which was dominating through this one person was now dealt with. You got it, same thing happened in Samaria that Simon became a believer, okay? So possession is, demons are manifesting through a person, but domination is, they work in such a way that they can take control of a village, of a city, of a town, show miracles, so many things like that, okay? So that's how it is. Now, moving on to empowerment. Empowerment is when it's sort of similar to domination where a human being is gaining power through the demonic, okay? For example, even Simon, the sorcerer. As a sorcerer, he would have done many things to get the powers which he got, okay? So similarly, people who are in the occult, what do they do? We know, right? They do many things to gain that authority. So that is empowerment where they are being empowered to keep doing the work of the devil and people are deceived because people when they look at such people, they see supernatural things taking place and they say, oh, but he's a powerful man. She's a powerful woman. All these miracles are taking place. Yes, they are taking place, but that's because the person has gone beyond the level of just possession and the demon powers now are giving their powers to this person, to continue to deceive people. So that's how it works. So the occult, there are many false religions in 1 Timothy 4, I said, right? In the last days, there will be Paul wrote to Timothy, people, false teachers, and they will teach all kinds of stuff and Satan will show his power also through some of these teachings and philosophies, but those who don't have the understanding of the word, those who are blinded to the truth of the gospel, they start believing all these false religions. So that's how it is, lies, signs and miracles. The Bible talks about that. So we have to be careful, but here is the truth that we must be grounded in, that even if Satan can manifest his power, it is nothing compared to the power of God. I think I've shared that, right? Moses, he also went, there were sorcerers in Egypt, but who overcame Moses overcame? So Elijah and the worshipers of Baal, who was the one who brought down fire? Elijah. So yes, there will be some demonstration of power, but God is greater, way greater than Satan and his power. So we should not be intimidated, but this is the progression. So any thoughts, any questions regarding what we have discussed so far? Okay, maybe I'll just share something, actually not so connected, but when we read about domination and empowerment and all, sometimes when there is the unknown, we feel more interested like, oh, what is that and how does all these things work? So I just want to encourage and at the same time, you know, sort of warn us, not to get too deep into these things. We understand that Satan can empower and dominate and do all these things, but getting deep into it, because sometimes what believers do, they develop a very unhealthy interest, that, oh, they have this practice, they have that practice, this is how the spirit speaks, that is how the spirit does. You know, they get deep into it and sometimes, I mean, myself, I have encountered some books where I felt like it's so unnecessary to go so deep into the things that people who don't believe in God do. So for us, actually speaking, we are going in depth for all this simply because you're in Bible college and you want to understand the workings of the devil, but more than anything for believers' authority and the deliverance, the subject that we must focus on is the cross, the victory of the cross. You get it? So keep the focus there and don't get misguided too much into these details. It's just a note, yeah, sure. Ma'am, during our lifestyle evangelism class, Pastor Paul was talking about like when he wanted to talk to a believer, unbeliever, sorry, who was like, I suppose a Hindu or a Muslim and all that. It's best like we should learn a bit about their allegiance so that we can find the similarities between that. So like the same thing is said about not getting too deep into the subject of demonology. Can you apply the same thing here because we are starting the religion of another person, but you shouldn't get so deep into it. Yeah, so just key concepts, no, Sean, I think probably that's what Pastor Paul was referring to. For example, see, if you look at a certain religion, you could say that, I mean, I'm not stating names of religions here, but you could say that salvation is attained in this way or they don't understand the concept of the Trinity. They don't understand the concept of the sun. So if you know key things, that's more than enough to actually have a conversation. You don't have to go so deep. Have any father, thank you very much for guiding us all here for this class, any father, thank you for leading us, my lady, any father. Have any father, thank you very much for giving us new understanding of any father and how to defend ourselves, how to better ourselves, any father, thank you very much, any father. Please help us to understand more, any father, and please help us to be well prepared, any father. And thank you very much for using my my lead to teach us all the new things, any father. In Jesus' name we pray, amen. Amen, amen. Thank you, thank you, everyone. I'll see you again on Friday in the next class. God bless.


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I would like to invite you to listen to the message from the Minister for Digitalisation of the Netherlands, Alexander van Hoefelen, who couldn't join us today because she is in the Caribbean. But, please. Ladies and gentlemen, although I'm unable to be in Brussels today, I'm happy to take you through the developments in the Netherlands. We are determined to base digitalisation on a strong foundation of public values, like democracy, safety, privacy, transparency and self-determination. Based upon these values, we've developed a practical and nationwide working agenda, which works towards clear goals. For example, a digital world which is trustworthy for all, and a value-based and transparent digital government. Transparency and openness foster trust and are the basis for reuse and enable citizens to check on us. Therefore, our policy is for the government to be transparent and work as open as possible, including open policies, open data and also open source, unless it's absolutely necessary to do otherwise. However, this starting point has not been sufficient enough to get open source working up and running. It's not that people don't want to. On the contrary, these principles of transparency, reusability and cooperation are broadly supported by officials and civil servants. The problem is that they require new ways of working and thinking. Besides, open source is too often seen as a technical term, and this creates the misunderstanding that practical dilemmas should be left to engineers. It should be seen as a task for the whole organization. An openness of information needs to be broadly accepted, archiving rules and internal frameworks. Too often, our challenge is found in a culture of closeness within government organizations, but it takes time to change cultural habits. In order to achieve this, we work on the following. First, we're setting up an open source program office, Ospo, within my ministry. This office will boost open source working, remove any obstacles and draw up internal frameworks. Naturally, we've been inspired by the Ospos of several other member states and the one within the European Commission. Building on this, my ambition is to strengthen the Ospo efforts for the entire national government. Secondly, we're placing this investigation firmly within the bounds of our renewed freedom of information act. The source code of government software is government information. That makes that it falls under the reach of this law. So we recently published the source code of the Dutch digital identity app. Thirdly, we're training and fostering awareness among government professionals. In this way, we make open source a standard. These practical steps will help us to build a value-based, transparent digital government that is trusted by citizens, and we aim to work closely on the European stage. For example, within the European Ospo network, or by jointly developing cross-border digital services. I hope that today's summit will contribute to greater collaboration and a more trusted digital sphere. Simply put, an open source Europe. Thank you.


Crypto What's up money gigs mr. V here welcome to another video guys so into this video I want us to talk about coin base Before they start trading today in the market. So give you guys some quick updates As they you know as the stock actually gets prepared to be listed But before we get set of guys we are new to the channel We talk about how to earn money how to save money how to invest and build wealth So that's something that interests you go ahead and he does subscribe button any notification bell So you don't miss out on new content So guys um coin base again, uh, it's ready to go today as the day has finally set There's no turning back from here from what I see So, uh, if you don't know what the coin base does again, just uh put a link in the description Go check it out as the largest crypto exchange um in the world so um a lot of crypto on here even though One of the craziest crypto. I think dogecoin is currently not trading on Coin base and I would anticipate that once dogecoin get on here You're gonna see even more momentum with coin base. So again ticket symbol. It's going to be Co in as the stock starts trading on the nasdaq just a quick update here for the price I was just reading this last night on cnbc right now reference price has been set to 250 dollars to start so if you guys recall Was it a snowflake that did the same thing where their reference price was set to 150 to 200 to 250 And then per opening about 275 So what I see happening here is that this thing is probably going to open around 350 or if not 400 dollars in my opinion. So Initially, I told you guys in my other video that I was going to trade coin base and make some profit I still I'm still going to do that. But now buying and holding long term I'm starting to rethink because if this thing goes all the way to 400 dollars To open up. I'm not buying at 400 dollars. I think that's way too much So I'll probably have to wait for you to pull back because I want to make sure that I give you guys that update But trading wise what I plan on doing is as soon as the Stock starts trading if we can get the dip the little dip out of the open that we had with Roblox, that would be fantastic for trading because you can jump in And they'll ride it all the way up and then take profit and then wait for that pull back Before you can actually get in. So if this thing opened up at say 350 or 400 I'm still not comfortable paying $200 a share for this. I'm probably going to pump the brakes like I did with c3 ai That came down and right now trading under 70 which is a good place to buy I know a lot of people are probably going to be struggling with formal because if you see this thing open at 300 and goes to 500 you probably say oh, I missed out But that's where I want to trade it But to buy a long term I would rather wait for this to be under $200 Before I can buy a long term because man I mean, I know it's going to be a really good one coming out of the gate a lot of Visibility a lot of people are talking about it So you're going to see the price goes up. I mean, I've seen people Sell companies like roblox take profit and they're bringing to dump that in here So anticipate the price to really really jump straight out of the gate but again My approach here hasn't changed But just a little tweak I'm going to trade it. I'm going to wait as soon as it opens up I would look for a dip buy that dip ride it up and take profit and again I'm not being a great savage here. Whatever profit I get. I'm going to hold it But you can see this thing squeeze all the way to $500 Today that's that's a possibility. So if you can catch it right at open That would be sweet or if because again, if he's if he just pulled back a little bit that opened That would be a good entry point and they'll ride it up and take profit And then for long term wait for these to come back to you Don't hurry and buy right now because what you can what's going to happen Is that a lot of people are going to panic and buy right now? Let's say $400 and then when this thing pulls back in two or three months And then you're going to be sitting there Having paid $400 and the stock is probably trading at like $200. So you're going to be down 200 bucks easy if you don't if you're not very careful So, uh, that's what I wanted to cover in this video guys again, um ticket symbol is c o i n Uh, right now. There's no specific time when this thing is going to start trading. They just um Usually again in my experience It starts trading somewhere around 11 and one somewhere in that window So if they can start trading early, that's even better But again between 11 and one has always been the window that I have seen A lot of these ipos come out out of the gate and start trading So let me know again the comment section what you guys think Bitcoin has been holding strong over 64,000 right now, which is gut. Uh, look at the three you're at 2300 So, I mean like crypto is holding really really strong even though other sectors of the market Really struggling especially like some of the small cap tech stocks are struggling. Bitcoin is holding strong Crypto is holding strong. So that would actually push again Um into the space of coin base giving them that momentum to continue to drive up So that is what I want to let you guys know again. Let me know if you're going to be trading it Or you're just waiting to buy the dip to hold long term if you're new to the channel We talk about how to earn money how to save money how to invest and build wealth If that's something that interests you go ahead and hit that subscribe button any notification bell So you don't miss out on new content also guys if you are looking to get started with investing Weibo has their promotion where if you sign up and deposit a hundred dollars you get Four free stocks links in the description below and as always guys Do your due diligence.


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