Hi, I'm Zor. Welcome to Unizor education. We will continue solving problems related to algorithms today. Just a little bit more difficult maybe than the previous lectures. Obviously, it's part of the course. You can't really start from here. You have to go from the very beginning, listen to the lectures, first couple of problem solving lectures, and then we will proceed to this one. All right, so one more comment. You definitely have to try to solve these problems yourself first. Go to the Unizor.com. The comments for this lecture contain all the problems, so try to solve them yourself. Only after that, we'll listen to this particular lecture. And one more detail. In many cases, we are expressing the solution to some equation, let's say, not as a number in some kind of a representation related to either integer number or let's say decimal number. Now, there are other representations of the numbers. For instance, this is also a number. Now, obviously, we can approximate this number with some decimal notation, 1.4, blah, blah, blah, etc. But this is the number in its own right. So, if the solution to equation is written as this or as this, this is it. These are final forms. Same thing applies to logarithms. Sometimes we can say that the result of the equation, the solution to the equation is something like, well, this is a number. You don't have to express it in any better form. There is no better form for this one. I mean, if it's something like this, you can express it better because you know that 3 squared would give you 9, which means that this is, which is an exponent, 3 should be raised into to get 9, then you know this is 2. This is definitely better. So, this is not an appropriate, so to speak, form of solution. But this is because it cannot be any simpler than that. Unless you start approximating with decimal numbers, etc., but we're not talking about this, and these are not really representing a true solution. If solution is this, any kind of a decimal representation would probably be just an approximation, not the exact solution. Okay. Having said all that, we will try to solve a few equations. All right. Question number one. 5 to 2x minus 5 minus 2x minus 2 is equal to 0. All right. This unusually looking equation is really a relatively simple one. And here is why. You know that something like this is actually representable as this, or alternatively as this. So, power to the power is basically a multiplication of powers. So, you know this. Therefore, 5 to the 2x can be represented as 5 to the x to the 2. Now, we will use a special technique, which we can call a substitution. What if we will substitute a new variable called y, which is actually 5 to the power of x? If I will be able to find y, then obviously x is log y base 5, right? So, which power should I raise 5 to get y? Well, this is the power. So, why did they do this? Why did they do this substitution? Well, for a very simple reason. Since 5 to the power 2x is 5 to the x square, 5 to the x I have substituted as y, I can rewrite this equation as y square minus 5 to the x is y, minus 2 is equal to 0, which is at regular quadratic equation, which everybody knows how to solve this equation.  Are these both solutions good if I consider this? Obviously not, because 5 to the power of x, this is an exponential function. It has only positive values, which means this we have to completely reject. This is not a candidate for our solution. But this is good, so I can always say that x is equal to log 2 base 5. And that's the answer. Log base 2 of x minus 2 plus log base 2 of x plus 3 is equal to log 2 x plus 10. This is a logarithmic equation. And for obvious reason, we can use this property of logarithms. Log a of b times c is equal to log base a of b plus log base a of c. So you know this property of logarithms. We can use it here. b would be x minus 2, c would be x plus 3. So on the left, we will have log 2 of x minus 2 times x plus 3. That's what's on the left. On the right, we have log 2 x plus 10. Now, is it better than this? Oh, it's much better, obviously. Now, if the logs are equal with the same base, then the expressions under the log are supposed to be equal as well. Because as you remember, logarithm is a one-to-one correspondence between its domain and its range. So the only thing we have to really be concerned about that the domain for log is actually only positive numbers. So we have to really be very careful when we will get rid of the logarithms. Because when we get rid, we will get x minus 2 times x plus 3 equals to x plus 10. But we should not forget that this should be greater than 0. And this should be greater than 0. So in addition to this particular equation, which is obviously a quadratic equation, we also have to say that x minus 2 times x plus 3 should be greater than 0. And x plus 10 should be greater than 0. So these are restrictions on whatever the roots of this particular equation we can find. All right, so let's do this. And let's do it carefully, always thinking about the proper domain. Now, this one gives me x square minus 2x plus 3x is plus x minus 6 equals x plus 10. Obviously, this is reduced. This is x minus, so x square is equal to 16. x1 equals 4, x2 equals minus 4. So that's what we've got from this quadratic equation. Now, how about this? Well, let's try. 4, obviously this is greater than 0 and this is greater than 0, minus 4. Minus 4 minus 2 is minus 6 times minus 1. It's 6 and x plus 10 is also 6, so it's also fine. So in both cases, both roots of this equation, both solutions are satisfying these conditions, these inequalities, which must be applied to make sure that the whole logarithms make sense. However, I did actually skip one particular step, and which is, you see, I have already started solving the second equation when I have log of x minus 2 times x plus 3. But original equation has them separately. So not only this, but actually I have to apply separately. x plus 2 should be greater than 0 and minus. And x plus 3 should be greater than 0. So if I really apply my domain restrictions to the original equation, not the one which I've got like intermediary one, I have a little bit more strict conditions. And if you will check it now, this one is satisfying, but this one doesn't satisfy this, which means this is not a true solution to our original equation. Because then, this particular logarithms would not be this one. Yeah, actually, yes, both. Both would be negative, so both would not really exist and cannot be a solution. So I have only one solution, which is 4. OK, done this. So jumping to quick solutions in these cases is really kind of not really advisable. So you really have to think about original equation and its original domain of whatever restrictions it puts on the variable. So next one, 4 to the power of square root of x is equal to 256. OK, obviously x should be greater than 0, otherwise the square root would not exist. Now, obviously, the first thing which we can do is we can convert 256 into 4 into which degree? Square is 16. Cube is 64, so it's the fourth degree, 4 to the fourth degree. So 4 to the power of square root of x is equal to 4 to the fourth degree. And as we know, since exponential function establishes one-to-one correspondence, if function values are equal, then the arguments must be equal. So square root of x is equal to 4 and x is equal to 16. That's the solution, and it satisfies our original inequality x greater than 0. Actually, x can be greater or equal to 0 in this case. But since we have obtained a 16 as a solution, that's OK. Now, 4 to the power x plus 3 minus 2 power x plus 2 is equal to 14. All right? Well, we obviously notice this is 4, which is 2 square. So we can always write it as 2 to the power of 2 and then to the power of x plus 3, right? Which is actually multiplication, which is 2 to the power of 2x plus 6. I have to multiply this exponential expression by this. Exponents are multiplied. So that's how I can represent this, which is good. Now, this has 2x plus 6. This has x plus 2. So again, it's not exactly like our first equation, 5 to the power of 2x and 5 to the x. When we can substitute 5 to the x as y square, but close. And here's what we can do. We will still do this substitution. And what it means now, 2 to the power 2x plus 6, since these are additions, this is 2 to the power of 6 and then 2 to the power of 2x, right? Because if you multiply these expressions, the exponent parts are summarized, which is 64 times 2 to the power of 2x, which is 64y square, right? Because 2 to the power of 2x is 2x square, which is y square. Now, 2 to the power of x plus 2, this one, is 2 to the power of 2 times 2 to the power of x, which is 4 times 2x, which is 4y, right? So now we can rewrite this equation as 64y square minus 4y equals 14. And we can solve this equation for y. This is just a quadratic equation. Now, I probably would like to skip the solution of this particular equation. However, I can warn you that y is supposed to be greater than 0. So any solution which is greater than 0 in this particular case is good. Anyone which is not, obviously, should be rejected. I'm just thinking if I can guess the solution to this equation. If it's solvable in some, OK, I just divided by 2. Well, let's just check maybe something like. Now, I'm not really sure. Well, whatever the solution is, if there is a positive solution to this equation, then this particular 2 to the power of x equals to y can be resolved. And x would be equal to log base 2 of y. It's strange. I was thinking that I was kind of putting together problems with easy solutions like this. But this seems to be a little bit too much. But well, whatever. By the way, if there is no positive solution to this equation, maybe there are only negatives or maybe there are no solutions at all. Well, let me try. Now, I'm curious myself. So we will transfer it to this form. And we will have the solution to this would be, now I'm curious myself. So it's 64, 2 plus or minus square root of 4 times plus, since this is minus. So it's 128, 135. So it's 139, 139. This is not a square of anything. Now, it doesn't seem to be an integer solution. But in any case, whenever there is a plus here, then that's definitely a good number because the result is positive and you can always find this. If it's minus, then obviously the result will be negative and it should be rejected. Only the plus should be here, which is 2 plus 139 divided by 64. This is y. And now you have to do the log base 2 of this thing and that's the solution. If I didn't make any arithmetic mistake, if I did, I'm sorry. But in any case, the whole way how you solve this equation is obvious in this case. Let's go next. Log 3 of x square plus 1 equals to log base 2 of x cube. All right, well, the first and obvious simplification of this is since you have the log of something to some power, as you know from the properties of logarithms, this is the exponent gets basically multiplied by logarithms. Plus 1 is equal to, and here we can do exactly the same thing. Since this is x to the power of 3, then I can use this property of logarithms. Now, everything would be great and dangerous if I had exactly the same basis. But the bases are different. What should I do in this case? Well, let's just remember there is a great formula. Log base a of b times log base b of c is equal to log base a of c. It's like if you basically reduce by b in the middle. Now, what does it mean for us? Well, it means that I can always change the base of the logarithm, let's say it's b, to the base a with a proper multiplier. In this case, log c base b is equal to log c a log b a. Provided log b base a is not equal to 0, this formula is correct. Now, in this particular case, applicable to us, I don't like log base 3. I would like to have log base 2. So how can I use this formula? In our case, x is c, 3 is b. So instead of this, I can put log x base 2 divided by log 3 base 2. Instead of log x base 3, I can write this. And this is a constant. So that's just a coefficient of this. Plus 1 is equal to 3 log x 2. Now, as you see, this is a simple linear equation where log x base 2 can be substituted as y, let's say. It's linear equation, which means I can always write something like this. 2 divided by log 3 base 2 y plus 1 is equal to 3 y. Now, linear equation has, obviously, one and only one solution in this particular case. And whatever that solution is, is y. Not going to solve it, but we have to remember that y is always log of x by the base 2. So the real answer, the x would be equal to 2 to the power of y, whatever y we get from this equation. By the way, I'm not really finishing up every particular calculations here, but I do recommend you do it yourself completely. After you are comfortable with the way how this particular equation gets solved. After that, I do recommend you to really, accurately, complete it to some real numbers. All right, now next, line to the power of 1 over x is equal to square root of 3 to the power of x. All right, let's do some manipulation, obviously. It looks like 3 is the base for our future transformation. So 9 is 3 square to the power of 1x, which is actually 3 to the power of we are multiplying. So it's 2 over x. That's what this is. Now this is 3 to the power of x to the power of 1 half, square root, which means this is 3 to x over 2. And that's basically an equation which we have. Now, let's just think from the very beginning about what values x can take. Well, obviously, x should not be equal to 0, because this is the main to this. Now for this, we know that exponential function can take any argument, and the result is always positive. So there is no extra restriction. So this is the only restrictions we have. Now, judging what we have here, we can say that since exponential function establish one-to-one correspondence between domain and the range, if functions are equal, the arguments are equal, which means 2 over x is equal x over 2. Or x square is equal to 4, x is equal to 2, and x is equal to minus 2. These are two solutions, and both actually work fine. Both are solutions to this equation, because both satisfy this particular inequality. Now, another thing which I don't really do, I didn't do the check. When you go through these problems yourself, I do recommend you not only complete all the solutions, but also do the checking. It's a very good practice. Next problem has an interesting financial sense. Let's say you have 100 units of some currency. Well, let's say dollars. You have $100. You would like to invest it in some kind of a bank, and you would expect that in 10 years, it would double, using whatever the interest bank pays you. So let's assume that bank pays you interest once a year on every anniversary. So if the bank pays you an interest, let's say x. For instance, x can be, well, if x is equal to 5%, then x is actually 0.05. So this is a fraction of the capital, which will be added after the first year to whatever it was in the beginning of the first year. It will be added at the end of the second year, relative to whatever it was in the beginning of the second year, et cetera. So after each year, if x is the interest, it's not in percentage, just as a fraction. If x is an interest, then your original sum, whatever the sum you have in the beginning of that year, would actually be multiplied by 1 plus x. And that would be, so if s is the beginning, then s would be transferred after a year into s multiplied by 1 plus x. So let's say bank pays you 10% interest. For instance, 10% interest, which is 0.1. And if you had $100 in the beginning of the year, then at the end, it should add 10%, which is 1.10 of this, which is another $10. So it would be 1.10, which is exactly $100 times 1.1. That's what it is. So every year, your capital is multiplied by 1 plus x. So the problem is, let's say I would like to double my money in 10 years. Which banks should they choose? Which, no, different banks pay different interest. So which bank should they choose to achieve that goal? Well, let's think about it. After the first year, from some amount of money, I will get this amount of money multiplied by 1 plus x. Then the second year, I will get s times 1 plus x. That was in the beginning. And then I should multiply it again by 1 plus x. So it will be 1 plus x squared, et cetera. So if I would like in 10 years to double my capital, then the equation which we are talking about should be 2s, which is double original amount. So from amount s, I am going to 1s times 1 plus x after the first year. s times 1 plus x squared after the second year, et cetera. Up to s times 1 plus x in the 10th degree to get to double the amount which I have. So my equation is basically this. So if my original amount is $100, then in 10 years it would be. And it should be equal to $200. And I have to choose the bank which would give me the interest, which is a solution to this equation. OK. How can I solve this equation? All right. Using logarithms is easy. Obviously, we should reduce it by 100. So I will have 1 plus x to the 10th degree is equal to 2. And what I can do now, I can take logarithm from both sides. Let's take logarithm by base 2, because then this part will be easier. So we took the logarithm from both sides. If my arguments are equal, their logarithms, base 2, should also be equal to each other. If arguments are equal, the functions are equal. Now, I know the property of the logarithm. If you have an exponent here under the logarithm, it can be actually extracted as a multiplier. Now, log 2 base 2 is 1, obviously, as we all know. This is exponent. I have to use for the base 2 to get 2. So from here, we go to log 2, 1 plus x is equal to 1 tenths, which means what? If I raise my base into this power, I will get whatever is under the logarithm, 2 to the power of 1 tenths. x is equal to 2 to the power of 1 tenths minus 1. So that's the solution. So I have to calculate this using whatever the methodology I can. Well, nowadays, we have calculators, obviously. Now, 2 to the power of 1 tenths will obviously be greater than 1, because if you remember, the graph for base 2 would look like this. This is 1. This is 1. And here is 1 tenths. So it's somewhere here. And they have to subtract 1. So it will be this value. So I have to calculate this value using whatever ways and means I have. Minus 1, that will be an x.  If they can, well, maybe, or greater, that's good too, then you invest money into this bank. If not, go to another bank. By the way, in this particular case, the original amount, 100, is called present value of your investment. And the future amount, whatever you want to get in 10 years, $200. It's a future value. So basically knowing present value and future value and knowing the term, which is 10 years, you can determine an interest. Similarly, if you know the present value and term and interest, you can find out the future value. I mean, it's all interrelated, obviously. And the formula is s present value times 1 plus whatever interest is, let's put it a, whatever term is 10 years, will be equal to s future value. So this is basically equation which combines together all these elements. So knowing, we have one, two, three, four. We have four different variables here. Knowing any three is sufficient to find out the force. And that's what all the bankers are doing. They're just calculating present value, future value, interest, et cetera, et cetera. That's their main involvement. All right, and another problem is related more to physics. There is an element called radium. It's a radioactive element. And radioactive elements have so-called half-life, half-life. Now, because of radioactivity, the mass of whatever original mass we have of this radioactive element is decreasing. Let's say every year, it's decreasing by certain fraction. We will use the same methodology as with the banks. But in case of the bank, your interest actually increasing pure amount, in case of radioactive decay, your amount of radioactive material is decreasing by certain percentage, whatever the percentage is. Now, half-life is basically the number of years. Usually, in case like this, it's a year. It's calculated in years. Number of years it takes to diminish the original mass by half. So if you have some original mass, then certain number of years, it's diminished by some percentage. Every year, some fraction is reduced by some fraction. And the number of years is this. This is your future mass. This is present mass. This is future mass. So in radioactive case, it's exactly the same as interest in the bank, except this is minus, because we are decreasing the amount rather than increasing. Or if you wish, it's a negative interest, so to speak. So here is the problem. For radium, obviously this is the clue into whatever I wrote before. It was present here and future there. It's just divided by present value. So in case of radium, in 1,601 years, amount will decrease by half, which means this ratio is equal to 1 half. So the question is, what's the fraction of losing mass of radioactive radium in one year? Well, this is a very similar problem. You have the term, you have this ratio, so you have to find 1 minus x. I mean, you have to find x. And here it is. Let's just again apply logarithm in both cases. And I will use also logarithm base 2 of 1 minus x, 1601 is equal to log 2 of 1 half. Well, obviously this is equal to minus 1, right? 2 to the power of minus 1 will give you 1 half. Now this is 1601 log of 1 minus x base 2. So from here, having this equation, I know I can calculate what's my 161 times log 2 1 minus x equals to minus 1. So obviously, log 2 1 minus x is equal to minus 1 over 1601. OK, I hope you're not discouraged by this minus sign because we are subtracting from 1. If you remember, log logarithm of 1 with any base is equal to 0. But if you go less than 1, this is y is equal to log base 2 of x, right? So this is 1 and log is equal to 0. Less than 1 argument will give you negative log. So everything is fine. So all you have to do right now is basically to say the following. 1 minus x is equal to 2 to the power minus 1, 1601. So x is equal to 1 minus 2 to the power 1601. So that's the solution. This is how much what's the fraction actually of decreasing the amount of radioactive radium happens in one year, considering that 1601 years is the half-life of radium. Well, that concludes actually all the problems I wanted to present to you today. As you saw, some of them are really kind of practical. The banking problem is practical, very practical. And the physical problem is also quite practical. So you have to know what exactly is the reduction of mass in radioactive case. That's it. Thank you very much. I do remind you to go through these problems again. Go to the very end of every problem, get the solution, and check this solution. And as usually, I do encourage everybody to check in and register on unizord.com as a student, have somebody, as a supervisor or a parent, enroll you in whatever the course. They decide and check your marks on exams. It's very important. And well, until the next set of problems, thank you very much.


Hello everybody! Welcome back to my channel! Today's video is all about design. We are doing and selecting quite a bit and I'm so excited because this is what I've been waiting for. I have not started any of the design process or really even thought about too much of it because I've been wanting to do it with you guys as you know, I've already talked about that and what you've already seen, oh and by the way I don't have an update on the plumbing situation yet. I know that I shared that with you guys recently but it is my birthday today, the 24th and I'm just over at the house enjoying the design process. That's what I wanted to do. I did read so many of your guys' comments saying that I should move in and live with this space for a year before making any changes but to be honest um that's just not me. Like that's just not me. I have some ideas. I want to make some changes before I move in because I do want to re-finish the floors potentially. I want to do a little bit of renovations and I'd like to do that before I have stuff in here. What I'm kind of leaning towards the moment is actually arching this wall here. So arching all the way over and creating a big like arched opening that will look into kind of like the coffee bar area and then keeping both of these sidewalls here to kind of section it into its own dining room. That is my current plan. Right over on this wall here with this really pretty flat door I want to do an arched opening here as well. That way I can look right into the breakfast nook. There's no need for these doors. Then I can do some sort of built-in breakfast nook situation. And then work-wise I don't think this is a humongous undertaking as opposed to removing all three of the walls because if I did remove all three of the walls too I'd have to figure out how to reposition the stove and I'd also have to figure out the wall that is connecting the kitchen and breakfast nook that is kind of not seen in this at the moment. So here's the skylight. Now I do not love the glass that is in there. I'll pop up a close-up so you guys can see. It's just like this like tie-dye. I don't know if it's marameau glass or exactly what it is but I do want to replace it. It is not my vibe at all and I actually don't think it's original either. You can kind of tell the edges. Wait what? I can make this skylight moment so much more of a statement and pull it back like all the way to here-ish and then have it come all the way down to the bedrooms right around here. In my head I have this like paneled glass situation. I'll pop up some photos if I can find any and I feel like if I just widened this and made this into like a glass hallway ceiling that would be so epic. I don't know exactly if I can but it's something I want to bring up to Berlin and I think that that's an option. I'm going to draw and sketch something out as well for this area. I also realized that I have yet to share with you guys my Pinterest mood board so this is my new house mood board. I'll probably end up breaking it into like a couple different sections later on but at the moment I'm just kind of combining everything to get my general concepts together but as you could see I definitely want to go earthy kind of in color tone but I also want to go pretty bold in some sections as well. Like I think we can have a lot of fun with tile work. A lot of Spanish homes have really really bold and you know interesting tile kind of like this here and so I want to make sure that I implement a lot of that and my design style lately has been kind of leaning really bold as well. I absolutely love these little kind of cross tiles in this bathroom here. Some pins are kind of more focusing on specific elements like I love the flooring in this one and then especially in this one as well. I like how they did this kind of diamond flooring that then transfers into this square terracotta flooring up here. I thought that was pretty interesting so I will make sure to link this mood board below for you guys and then this right here is what I was talking about in reference to the skylight so kind of like a vaulted just more focal skylight situation that could have some sort of stained glass in it. There was another photo I believe in here that had oh this one right here so pretty with the stained glass like how fun would that be but yes I'm just kind of collecting a lot of ideas fixtures textures applications fabrications whatever it might be and adding them to my Pinterest board. Good morning everybody I am headed to flooring decor. Marie's with me too. We're heading to flooring decor right now which is a tile shop I've only been there once before when I did those DIY nightstands for this better not break you guys I have broken this vlog camera so many times you don't even know we are headed to flooring decor right now and I'll see you guys when we get there I just want to get some more tile samples checking out all of the tile options and this is a humongous like warehouse size store of just different floor and decor there's lots of options here so I'm going to share with you guys more towards the end or if I find anything that I come across that I like kitchen and all that I don't think so three things I'm going to do one and the second floor the skylight you drew like the axis what is going to be oh okay so with the skylight situation I really want to like you like make it a lot longer there's another probably four feet that it can go over to the bedroom area okay so let me let me do this I don't I'm trying to explain to you how this work because you open more than two by two opening it's two by four skylights you have to go through engineering and see if you a tool if somebody fell in so it's have to be a structural open okay got it so staying staying glass they are not structural they're not structural they're just a design so you have to design first structurally called engineer pull trim it from the city for liability and for you know something happened to somebody so I highly recommend you don't don't touch it oh man okay okay so nothing with the skylight I know you what you want I know what you want the header beam we have to have a header beam above the arch got it okay after that you can further out whatever you want you can add to it you can square it out you know whatever you want yes so we have to fix the floors even have a six inches of damage floor yeah that's true which I wonder if we could pull that out of the closet and then like if I take the three arches I can start I mean in the next few days no city involves no purpose no nothing is again oh yeah that's perfect so then in a day or two I was landing the bed and if you're ready to go when it starts three arches though okay three arches perfect only thing I found in the entire store was this tile sample here it's a brick on a mesh but it's really pretty actually like the rustic look at the brick and I feel like it looks pretty like handmade as well into the second location guys this is stone land in north Hollywood I literally just googled marble slabs and this looked like the largest one so that's why I'm here this is a crazy look how big this is wait how many slabs do you think there are in here 30 000 countertops bathroom countertop some book matched marble you guys I'm so overwhelmed in here so here we have Calcutta Viola which I believe is like one of the most expensive marbles it's so pretty though it has a chunky veining and it has like some of these rusty tones in the veining as well and then some warm tones someone's bought in this one but look how pretty this marble is this one here is called Calcutta Monet and it looks like it has these really pretty dark brown and like foresty green accents in there oh Marie it's beautiful that's so wow you guys look how beautiful this one is it's called a bronze fantasy but it's like a dark black with a bronzy color in it it's so pretty it looks like a painting like this literally looks like a van go painting it literally does look at how this stone plays this is cool I feel like I'm in an airport right now literally goes across the entire ceiling to go and get the stone that is crazy this is so fun I feel like I'm like a chat like an adult amusement park look at all of this leaving stone land it was amazing you guys the lady in there was incredible I got so many swatches too it was just great I'm super excited we have an exciting package guys I got this this morning it is from samplies they actually sell paint swatch samples from like your favorite brands that you could reuse and put on the wall so I got a bunch of different I think like mainly white tones I might have gotten a couple of colors yeah I got like a few colors mainly white I'm gonna move the camera a little bit so we can see some of the trim like the white trim this is farrowed wall schoolhouse white this is the one I use throughout my entire apartment which is Chantilly lace by Benjamin Moore I'll ever swatches on the wall and have you to see each of them kind of have a different undertone to them and I'm sure when camera they're kind of coming across a little bit different than in person as well I definitely know this one's out of the picture way too dark for a white because I want to find something that's pretty universal that can use throughout the entire place of the white option after looking at these colors again I actually am kind of liking this oxford white one the Benjamin Moore oxford white you can definitely see the tone variation in the hallway a lot more in the living room so you can kind of see the undertones a bit more here from what I can see looking in the camera I'm kind of leaning a bit more towards these no these ones these left two right here Chantilly lace in oxford white I like the oxford white and that's the color that I was kind of leaning more towards in the living room as well I do quite like this one too white dove white dove looks nice something I will also say is that this hallway wall color is like the slightest bit of a green tone so this is white dove next to oxford white just a slight bit darker I'm gonna actually ask you guys on instagram okay so here are the paint swatches in the hallway which is definitely in the upper living room and this one should be a little more interesting because the walls in here are actually like already a creamy yellow color this is actually kind of challenging because the living room downstairs is blue and that's going to shift the colors for sure and the living room upstairs is yellow like a yellowy tone so the tones on the wall definitely appear different in all the spaces that we're looking at like these are definitely too dark and I will also say you know I might even paint this living room like a dark color like that's also an option but I do want to go through and do like a light coat on everything I don't know what I'm doing yet so I just want to put something on the walls you guys so yes we have oxford white on the left shuntilly lace and then we have benjamin moore swiss coffee alabaster by surewin williams benjamin moore's dove wing this is a schoolhouse color from ferro and ball and then the last one is benjamin moore's white dove which is also really pretty as well I found this stool and I want to figure out what this glass is so I want to go ahead and go up there right wait what there's a light in there too I'm so confused I always wonder how they were able to get this light in here like this I'm just kind of curious oh wow oh my gosh it is getting so bright in here there's dust in my mouth and eyes look at this you guys I have got to show you how much brighter the hallway currently is when I opened up that skylight oh my gosh you guys this was like probably one of the more darker hallways and it is so bright now but it's honestly like too bright it looks like there's a light on in the hallway I was able to remove the glass from there which is all currently right here definitely going to be keeping that I'll probably just pop it in here for the time being but I want to figure out maybe if there's a different type of glass I could put in here and then the light fixture I can also swap out if I want to do that as well I've discovered something so first off guys I don't know if you knew but this is the original wood in the closet this is the only closet that has the original wood I never shared this but over here look what I found I found the off cuts of the glass so this definitely wasn't original they probably bought like a sheet of glass and then had it cut for the skylight and these are the off cuts of the glass so I don't feel too bad about potentially replacing it but of course I'm keeping the glass pieces opening the skylight also made my bathroom so much brighter because the only light source in here are these two windows and then basically what's right behind which happens to be the skylight I'm going to head out and get a coffee quickly and then I'm going to come back I actually want to sit with the paint swatches like for the full day to get an idea like look how orangey the color is this is a bounce back from the unit so this definitely needs to be painted a white tone for sure but I also want to stop by Lowe's and get a couple of these little bullseye rosette square motifs that I might want to add to some of the trim hi thank you thank you guys if you have never tried the grilled cheese from Starbucks it is it's like unreal like it is the best grilled cheese ever I don't know what they put in it but I mean it's probably just cheese and bread but they have really good cheese and bread pulled up at Lowe's and then I got a call from the thrift store that I went to two weeks ago that they are there delivering my furniture that I got if you guys don't follow me on Instagram you definitely need to because that's where I asked you like a lot of my in the moment questions so I was thrifting last week and I found a couple pieces of really cool furniture which you're going to see in just a minute here because I'm going to go get it right now look what came the huge hutch that I got at the thrift store it is so heavy Marie and I just tried bringing it inside impossible I don't really know what we're going to do so it's going to stay here for the time being so I am back from Lowe's and I found what I needed there I want to bring in my vlog camera but I got what I needed so I ended up actually grabbing a couple of these these are called bullseye rosette and as you can see on the wall here we have bullseye rosette these are probably authentic to the home and they're just kind of like little motifs on the doors and you have them on the closet doors and what I'm actually thinking of doing with these is cutting out the corner trim on all of the doors and actually adding one of these to the edge just like that for a little bit more character and detail imagine how pretty it would look on the corners of the windows we could even do it down here as well I've seen people do that too or like maybe above I don't know something to think about like thrift store for $500 it was a thousand dollars that ticker sale and I love it so much I just love the very new details the brass hardware is so pretty and I do want to go ahead and take out these lead glass sections and like this burlap fabric that's in here and more so make this like a display cabinet so I can put the corner or whatever I want in there the other door is outside as well anyway it's 9000 pounds currently in the upstairs kitchen guys because in here we are renovating like everything now of course I'm going to be keeping the cabinet tree because it's brand new and I love it it's actually really really pretty they did a great job with however I don't know why they stuck these floor tiles on the wall and did the same exact some brick style tiles over here and some of them are shorter than the tiles are supposed to be I'm very confused on who did this kitchen but we are going to be removing all of this all the backsplash all the countertops I hate and despise the countertops they have flecks of glitter in them it's an absolute no for me so I've been ordering some samples of tile online and I ordered from Zia tile and I also ordered from clay tile now I got two floor tile options so far so I got just like a basic 12 by 12 terracotta but this terracotta in particular is so orange like it is just as you can see bright orange this one's from Zia tile it's the fired earth 13 by 13 but I'm looking more for something kind of like I guess this is more of a terracotta that I'm going for more reddish deep tone and I just don't like this floor tile color now this tile here I love look how beautiful this is the backside especially like the antique look it's really thick but these are actual authentic legit antique french tiles these are from clay tile and the thing about these is they're really really expensive I believe to do the flooring with this tile is 46 dollars a square foot which is on the higher end I believe again I don't really know what a good price for flooring is because I've never bought it before so I just don't really know a lot of this stuff if you guys have any tile resources for flooring that's more terracotta I'd love to know I actually did some google searching to see if I could find any places that had authentic terracotta tile from like the 20s 30s I can't find any salvage tile which kind of sucks so if any of you guys know anything totally let me know and something else to kind of mention I'm in the breakfast nook right now is that the tile that we use on the flooring is going to go into the kitchen it's also going to go into the laundry room and I believe into Marie's bathroom I could separate it I could like separate it here if I wanted to and do a different tile throughout here and do a different tile down the stairs if I wanted to but I'm not sure so we do have a large surface area to cover with whatever floor tile because this floor tile is not the vibe we also have our stone from the stone yard I got a couple of samples while I was there which was great and the one that I'm leading towards is the Calcutta Viola I will say that I like to the Calcutta Monet with like the green veining and the brown veining a lot more but what I'm going to do is when I go back to select the countertops which I'm going to do very very soon you guys I want to know your thoughts on which countertops you like for here I'm going to be designing this kitchen really around the countertops because it's going to take up such a large area in the kitchen I'm going to have it go up the walls a little bit as well so I'm thinking the counters are on the countertop and I also want them to go up maybe just like a little or right underneath I'm not too sure but I feel like if you go and you do like Calcutta Viola you need it up the backsplash a little bit or like that chunky marble to get that really grand look I want to pull it up the backsplash just a bit and then maybe do like a decorative tile on top and then on top of that I want to do one of these tiles these tiles here are zelage tiles and they have a high gloss to them but they are handmade and they're made of clay so these ones are from clay tile I was thinking of doing like some form of checkerboard of this maybe in like one of the bathrooms or something and keeping it really moody so I think once I actually have the slab selected and I have an idea for the colors I'll then go in and take some of these tiles and figure out which one looks best so by what I mean in a border tile is the Calcutta marble might stop right about here for the backsplash and then on top I might do like a stacked interesting border right on top and then do more of a simple tile all the way up the wall I also really like this tile a lot this is the um label for it if you guys want to find it online it's the clay brick clay guild new california in bracken and it's like this olive green tile I think it's beautiful this would be great if I get a Calcutta Monet that has green in it and we can do like a stacked brick on top and then maybe even do like a sideways brick on top of that I don't know something just really interesting with pattern so yeah really for next steps it's just deciding on the countertops which I'd love to know which kind of marble you guys are leaning towards I didn't share absolutely everything so if you have any other options as well or things that you kind of like as well definitely let me know I'm leaning a little bit more towards the chunkier veined marble just because I feel like it's so beautiful and it's always been my dream to have marble like that in my home so I think that that would be a really fun option to go with but of course we want to find the perfect slab slash slabs I feel like we're probably gonna need two slabs I hope that you guys enjoyed this video and if you have any references or resources for anything I talked about today or any questions comments whatever it might be totally leave them in the comment section below I try to respond to as many of you guys as I can and we are just getting started so make sure to subscribe to my channel if you are not subscribed we are renovating this entire 1929 home of course keeping all the original character and just updating the poor renovations that were already done I'll catch you guys in my next video which is going to be this upcoming Thursday bye guys


How's everybody doing? Really? That's as good as you're gonna do today, right? It's summertime, baby, it's warm out. Got yard work to do, man. Hey, just real quick this summer, we got some great things planned. Next weekend is Memorial Day, but then come in June, we have Brother Abraham, who's gonna be with us on Father's Day. How many have never heard Brother Abraham from India? Raise your hand, you're in for a treat. Anna, go ahead and give this to me, thank you. Everybody, Anna Sorgi, thank you. And then in July, we have a couple community cookouts, Water Baptism, so if you've never been baptized, you can sign up for that.   August, we have Prophetic Presbytery. If you've never been a part of that, you're in for a treat. September is our anniversary. October is at the movies. And before you know it, snow is flying again. So don't get too warm.  Raise your hand if you brought a Bible. It's gotta be like a real Bible, like a physical Bible. Raise your hand if you got a Bible. Okay, let's see, you keep your hand up and pastors don't count. So I'm looking for a guy. Where's the guy? Where's the guy? He's got a Bible. Where's the young man? That guy right there, yeah, you. I want you to come on up here. And where's this young?  So here's what we got out of the bookstore. Look at this. These say Arise Shine. And these are sweet 1980s style T-shirts. And we have them in the book table. And so this is for you because you brought your Bible. And where's my, let me see your Bible. What is this? How do you read that thing, bro? Look at that. It's like 0.215 microscopic font. Do you actually read this? Man, I'm 47 years old. Here you go, man. There's a little T-shirt. Give these guys some love. All right.  All right, turn with me in the Bible that you did bring to Genesis chapter 37. This morning is week number three of our Dreamers series. I'm excited about this message because we're gonna be looking at a young man who takes up more space in the book of Genesis than any other character. His name is Joseph. And so we're gonna be talking about Joseph the Dreamer. The story of Joseph takes 13 chapters out of 50 in the book of Genesis. That's more than Abraham. That's more than Noah. That's more than Isaac. That's more than Jacob. All of them actually combined. And there's a reason why I believe God goes into so much detail about the life, the story of Joseph, even more so than he does any other character in the book of beginnings. It's because what God includes in the first book of the Bible sets a pattern for what will unfold in the rest of the Bible. And the pattern that we find and the story that we find in the life of Joseph is actually all of our stories. And so I wanna, we're just gonna read 11 verses out of this story, but it will set the stage for the rest of the story. So look at verse number one, chapter 37. It says, Jacob lived in the land of his father, sojourning in the land of Canaan. These are the generations of Jacob. And then it jumps right into Joseph. It says, Joseph, being 17 years old, was pasturing the flocks with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpa, his father's wives. And Joseph brought a bad report of them to their father. Now Israel or Jacob loved Joseph more than any other of his sons because he was the son of his old age. And he made for him a robe of many colors, but when his brother saw that their father loved him more than all of his brothers, they hated him and could not speak peacefully to him. Now Joseph had a dream and when he told it to his brothers, they hated him even more. He said to them, hear this dream that I've dreamed. Behold, we were binding sheaves in the field and behold my sheaf arose and stood upright and behold your sheaves gathered around it and bowed down to my sheaf. His brother said to him, are you indeed to reign over us? Are you indeed to rule over us? And so they hated him even more for his dream and his words. Do you see a progression? Verse number nine, it says then he dreamed another dream and he told it to his brothers and said, behold, I have dreamed yet another dream. Behold the sun, the moon, the eleven stars were bowing down to me. But when he told it to his fathers and to his brothers, his father rebuked him and said to him, what is this dream that you've dreamed?  And his brothers were jealous of him but his father kept these words in mind. Now, Joseph, it says, is the son of Jacob's old age. And Joseph grew up in a family that probably a lot of us in this room can relate to. A dysfunctional blended family. And like many families, mom and dad, you know, we raised kids, Jane and I raised three, they're in their 20s now. But you know, it doesn't matter how hard you try, you love your kids the same but you treat them differently.  So it's like you're figuring this thing out. Jane and I were 23 years old when we became parents and it's like, you wanna do everything right. It's like organic baby food.  Does that have sugar? Is that all natural? Like food processor, you know, you wanna do everything right. You know, you are very careful putting the car seat into the car. When they get older, you monitor how much screen time they have if they're gonna do a stayover or a sleepover at a kid's house you do an FBI background check on the family.  And their curfew is like 7.30 p.m. when they're 19. But by the time the baby of the family comes along they're eating Captain Crunch and drinking Mountain Dew out of the bottle. They're being babysat by Netflix. You don't care who they're running around with. They come home on a city bus at like 2 a.m. And you're not even sure they have teeth. Who cares about the dental records?  And all the kids are like, mom, dad, you treat them different. You spoil them, the baby of the family. Well, Joseph was one of the babies and there was a massive gap between him and the first wave of kids that Jacob had had. They're the older brothers and then there's these two younger ones. There's Joseph and Benjamin and they're the favorites. And out of those two, the favorite, the favorite is the firstborn of the two youngest ones. And that's Joseph. And the Bible says that it's obvious to everyone that he was daddy's favorite and dad dressed him even better than the rest of the kids. Everybody else was wearing clearance from Walmart clothes and Joseph has an Armani coat of many colors. Bomber jacket, that he bought in Chicago while he took Zilpa and whatever, took the other kids to Walmart to pick something off the car hard rack.  He's a tattletale. You can tell he's given bad reports of the older brothers to dad and they don't like him. It says they can't speak peaceably of him.  That was the quietest day in our house ever. And this is what's going on in Joseph's family. And 17 years old, he's spoiled his dad's favorite and his brothers hate him. And the Bible says at 17 years old, he dreams a dream. It's not the, I watched the wrong movie last night or had too much pizza last night type of dream. This is a God dream where God downloads into his heart a dream, a dream from God's heart. You know, what you need to understand about dreams is that long before they were ever your dream, when it's a God dream, it started in God's heart over you. And then God shares it with you. I've had several significant dreams in my life that have been mile markers, little snapshots where God dropped something into my heart. And Joseph has one of those dreams. And in the dream, which he foolishly shares with his siblings, in those dreams, he's the one who's standing. Everybody else is bowing down and serving him. How many know that does not go over well in the pecking order of the family? And then he's so socially unaware that when he has another dream from God, another God dream, he shares that as well. And now it's like the escalation level in the family is just rising to an apex. And what we know about Joseph's life is eventually the brothers hate him so much that they're gonna throw him into a pit, sell him into slavery.  And because of that, he's gonna be thrown into prison. And while he's in prison, he's going to be forgotten about. And ultimately, he's going to be brought out of prison and the dream is going to come to pass. But long before the dream comes to pass, the dream is gonna take him through a process.  You say, well, how am I like Joseph? Well, number one, you're highly favored by your father. The Bible says that God has bestowed grace upon grace that you and I, in the eyes of our heavenly father, we are the favorite. And you say, well, who's the favorite? Yes, God is the only being in the universe who is capable of having favorites every one of us and treating us. That's the way that our father relates to us as if we were the only one and as if we are his favorite. The second thing that we have in common with Joseph is that because we're favored, there is a unique grace on our lives. Romans chapter 12 says that God has given grace to each and every one of us. And you know what? There was a grace upon Joseph's life. Even though he was immature, he had leadership on the inside of him. He had problem solving on the inside of him. He had the ability to keep the end in mind at every stage of his life. We won't see that actually live out through Joseph until he's in the process, but it's in there. There's a leadership grace that when Pharaoh can't solve a problem, this young man is able to step in under the grace of God and provide a solution that actually doesn't just help them survive but actually helps Pharaoh and Egypt thrive. And just like Joseph, there's a grace on your life because when Jesus saves you, he bestowed the grace, the favor of the father upon you, but he's also deposited a grace and that grace is connected to the dream. But you see, just like Joseph, we're immature in our dreams. We're 17 spiritually in relationship to the father. In other words, when God finds us, we're all at a state of immaturity. 17 is kind of like that age where you feel like you're an adult, but you're really not. And if you're 17 in this room and you say, well, I'm an adult, it's like, well, you think you are until you hit 30 and realize how immature you were at 17. It's amazing how smart your parents get, the older you get. When you look back on it and go, wow, they kind of knew something, wow. But at 17, Joseph was immature and most of us, most of us have not lived out the fullness of God's dream, God's purpose, God's destiny for our lives yet. Which means we're still in a state of immaturity. We talk about it, we share it with people, we're excited about it, but it's really me-centric. That's what immaturity is, is it's me-centric. I see the world through the lens of me. Let's talk about me. Let's talk about I, enough about you. Let's talk about me again. And did I tell you about the dream that God gave me? About here, I was and there you were. It's just immaturity. And you know what, we're all at different stages of immaturity. Today on the church calendar is actually Pentecost Sunday. Pentecost Sunday is the celebration, first of all, of Acts chapter two, when God poured His Holy Spirit out upon His church. Tongues of fire, wind, rain. People, you hear the rain, by the way? Come on, Jesus, right here. Woo, I'm feeling it. Send the fire. But God poured His Holy Spirit out upon His church. People were gathered in the city from all over the world. They hear the commotion, they gather to the upper room, trying to figure out what's going on. Peter stands up on the balcony of the upper room and he says, these are not drunk, as you suppose. Something was happening in them that had the appearance of being drunk. So this is not a dignified church service.  And then Peter, listen, Peter stands up on the day of Pentecost and he says, this, what you're seeing is that, which was prophesied by the prophet Joel. When he said hundreds of years ago that there will come a day in the last days when God will pour out His Holy Spirit upon all flesh and it says your sons and your daughters will prophesy and your old men will dream dreams. Do you know that as we celebrate Pentecost today as Christians, as the church, we're also celebrating a God who when He pours out His Spirit pours out dreams, pours out visions. God is a dream giver and a dream, listen, a dream is not just your imagination, processing information, it's God communicating something of His purpose and design for your life, depositing into your heart, into your imagination that once you've received it, you can't unknow. It's a time-release seed of eternity that's planted in the temporary in order to bring about your destiny within the context of your history. Buy the CD, rewind that, write that down. Because God puts a seed, a seed contains DNA that when it hits the right soil releases whatever it's supposed to produce. And a dream is a carrier of heavenly DNA, God's purpose and plan blueprint for your life that He puts into your life. Sometimes it's a physical dream, sometimes the way that we get a dream is our eyes are wide open, sometimes it's a scripture we read, a prophetic word, somebody speaks over our life, sometimes it's a season that produces an angst on the inside of us that drives us in the direction of our destiny and God's purpose for our life. But a dream is a gift from God. And so we're no different than Joseph. We're favored, there's grace, there's natural leadership on our lives and we're in a state of immaturity, but nonetheless we contain a dream. And what's interesting about Joseph's dream was even as he shared it, he had no idea that before he would ever see that dream come to fruition, the dream had to go through a process. Psalm 105 verse 17 says, God's sending man before them, talking about Israel, his name was Joseph, who was sold as a slave. And they heard his feet with fetters and he was laid in irons. Listen, as a prisoner, until the time that his word came to pass, the word of the Lord tested him. Until the time that it was full season for that dream to come to pass, before that happened, Joseph was constrained not by just change, but by the word and the word actually tested him. You know, when we get a word from God or we get a dream from God or a sense of purpose for our lives, oftentimes we think it's gonna happen right now. We just like, this is it. God's called me to do this. God's called me to be a missionary. God's called me to be a pastor. God's called me to change the world. And you know what? It actually might be God. I don't believe in telling people that's not from God. Because here's what I know. It's over the course of time. Fruit is either gonna bear out or people are gonna get bored. When it's a word from God, it will not let you go. When it's a word from you, you'll get over it quick. You'll get it over it as quick as the mullet in the 80s. But when it's a word from God, you won't get over it. And a word before it ever comes to pass will actually go through a process of testing. Every word of God does. Every word of God has to be a test. And Joseph goes through a test. So what happens is his brother's one day, Joseph is coming out to check on them. And as they see him, they say, here comes the dreamer. Here comes the dreamer. And they begin to conspire about taking Joseph out. They said, you know what? I'm tired of hearing about his dreams. I'm tired of hearing about how great he thinks he is. I'm tired of his arrogance. I'm tired of his good looks. I'm tired of how dad loves him. Tired of his coat. You know what we're gonna do? We just need to get rid of this guy. What are we gonna do? Here's what we do. We kill him. We take his coat. We tell dad that a wild animal tore him apart. We throw his body down into an old abandoned well that will serve as his grave. This is all as he's walking towards them. If it wasn't for his brother, Ruben, who had other plans, Ruben steps in and says, no, no, no, here's what we do. We'll take him, but we don't lay a hand on him. We don't hurt him. We throw him down into the well and we teach him a lesson, but we don't harm them. And the reason for that is because Ruben's desire in chapter 37 verse 22 is he says, that way he could circle back around so he could rescue Joseph and restore him back to his father. But the brothers, they bargained. They said, okay, we'll throw him down into the well. So they did that. They beat him up, overpower him, throw him down into the well, probably about a 15 to 20 foot well. And then coincidentally, along comes these Midianites who are this traveling vagabond nomads and the brothers say, hey, we've got this, we've got this rebellious slave down in the well that will sell to you cheap. So they sold their brother into slavery. The Midianites took him bound him. They took him to Egypt and then they put him on the slave market in a rich man named Potiphar, buys him, takes him to his house, puts him in charge over everything. And eventually Joseph finds himself in the pit on the pathway in Potiphar's house in the middle of a process that he never thought was going to be required of him in order for his dream to come to pass. Every single one of us are like Joseph. Every single one of us have a process. Every single one of us have a dream. But your dream will test you. The word of God will test you. It'll test whether you'll stick to it or give up.   He will try you not to prosecute you but test you to promote you. And I wanna talk to you in the next few moments just about passing the test of process because James chapter one, it tells us, count it all joy, brothers. When you fall into various kinds of trials know that the testing of your faith produces patience and patience when it has its full work will make sure that you are perfect, complete and lacking nothing. That's God's goal. Notice how James says when you find yourself in various tests and trials, count it all joy. How many know it's not joy but you're supposed to count it that way. Nobody wakes up and goes man, today I'm getting sold into a pit. This is awesome. Today is part of, today's gonna be a hard day of my process, hallelujah. This is so joyful. But it says, no, count it as joy. Why? Because you know that in the end God's working for you to develop you because listen, before your dream can come to maturity you have to come to maturity. It requires a mature dreamer in order to see a dream become mature. We're always focused on getting to the dream. God's more concerned about developing the carrier of the dream so that when you actually get to the place that you've seen in your dream you're able to hold up under the weight of your dream. How many remember growing up with Polaroid cameras? Anybody remember those? My grandmother had one and at Christmas time she would come out and it was always, you couldn't see anything. You take the picture and it's like I don't see anything and you were supposed to shake it. How many of you remember that? If you're like 35 years old or younger you're like, what, who does that? It's like, well they had these things and it would kick out a little picture that had chemicals in it and so you'd shake it and first it would be green. You could barely see anything about it. The more you shook it then the blues would kick in and then you can kind of faintly see the picture. After about two minutes of shaking it the picture, the full picture is there. That's how a vision works. So a dream works.  The process is the Polaroid shaking. It's God taking your life and saying hey I gave you a dream. It's like ha! And then he begins to shake you. Get all the ingredients mixed up in there and every single one of us have a process. Every single one of us are carriers of a dream. I don't know what your dream is but I know that you have one. I know that God has a dream for you. I know that you're highly favored. I know that there's a grace on your life and I know that you're immature in it and so the process of bringing you to being complete and lacking nothing immature like James 1 says is gonna require a process. And the process comes with tests just like Joseph. Joseph had to pass three tests before his dream came to pass.  Number one is the test of the pit. Genesis 37 says in verse 20, come now and let us kill him and throw him into one of these pits. So Joseph says brothers took him and he threw him into the pit. Why? It's one word. Pride. Pride.   I promise you I was humble. I was very restrained. I was very teachable. I didn't think I knew anything. I was probably other than Moses.  That is far from the truth. Joseph was this good-looking daddy's boy entitled, has a dream from God in his heart and he's not afraid to share it with anybody. He's unaware of how he's being perceived and he finds himself throwing the pit. They overpower him.  It's because of his arrogance. Now, right now, if you're thinking to yourself, well, that's not me because I'm not proud. Can I just tell you, that's a prideful statement. If you think you don't struggle with pride, you probably struggle with it. If you're arrogant enough to think that you don't have pride issues, let me just define pride for you.  Pride is much more subtle than that. Pride is actually when the lenses of your life are turned in at yourself.  When you live your life through a lens of self, it's because there's a root of pride. And there's nothing that destroys people more when they get to a place of success in the world's view of having platform, of having influence, of having material wealth and those kinds of things more than pride. Do you know that pride was the original sin? It's what got Satan kicked out of heaven? Satan's, the word Satan actually is an aromatic word that means adversary, enemy. But isn't it interesting that we've made that a capital S and we actually identify God's arc enemy by how he opposes God? His original name was Lucifer, which means lightbearer. Bible says in Isaiah and Ezekiel says that when God created him, he was perfect. He was beautiful. He had musical instruments like hardwired into him and he was the anointed chair of that covers. He probably led the angelic hosts of heaven in worship until one day pride was found in him because he was so enamored with himself and that's what got him thrown out of heaven. Do you know that pride was what made Adam and Eve fall? Because they thought they could do it without God. And whenever pride is an issue in our life, we have to go through the test of the pit because in the pit, we either try and dig our way out of it by our own power or we surrender and let God bring us out. When I was seven years old, my mom remarried and we moved into my stepdad's apartment and in the backyard, we had just this massive sand dune. It was so cool, especially for a seven to eight year old kid.  I had no purpose for digging the hole. It's just like, we got a shovel, there's dirt, let's dig. So we start digging this hole. For a couple different days, we're digging. And I had a little plastic beach pal and I'm digging it out and he's using a shovel and we're digging it out. I had a snow shovel, that didn't work, we're digging it out. And this hole's getting deeper and deeper. One day we went down and we both got to the hole at the same time and we both got down to the hole and he's digging, I'm using the bucket. And what we didn't realize is we dug the hole so deep that we couldn't get out of it. We could get out of it before because it was shallow. We could like climb out of it. But now we had dug ourselves into this hole. We tried to get out of it. We looked at each other like, uh, how are we getting out? You know, the walls are sand. You know, you don't climb up sand. It's just caving in. And eventually we just pulled enough sand down and it elevated the floor and got us out. But it was a scary, I remember being seven, eight years old, being kind of scared. It's like, nobody knows we're in the hole. How are we getting out of the hole? Do you know what? That's what we do sometimes in our pride. We find ourselves in the pit and we're there. Sometimes because we deserve it and sometimes not because we deserve it, but it's a test. How are you gonna respond in the pit? Sometimes we're digging a hole and we don't even know that we're making it deeper when we think we're trying to solve the problem. Digging a hole in our marriage. I don't need that Jimmy Evans stuff telling me about marriage on the rock. I got my wife in her proper place. I told her how it's gonna be. She better listen to me because I know what's going on. I know the score here. Guess what?  Don't be telling. That pastor is always talking about money. Telling me I need to honor God with a tithe. I got better things to do with that 10% than give it to God. And after all, I'm the self-made man. You keep digging that hole, baby. Then you look up and it's like, well, how do we get out of here? Well, dig. Go to China. Well, I really want my teenagers to serve God, but I'm taking summer off for sports. Nobody here. You're all here. Um, and then in October, your hole's so deep.  It's because you told them God's optional. And you got a baseball bat that you're worshiping up on the mantle. Uh-oh, it's the 11 o'clock service. I just went there. As a youth pastor, I had parents come to me in April and say, you know what? My kids are on travel league, so we'll see you in November. And I said, really? And then by January, it's like, I don't understand why my kid doesn't want to go to the youth group anymore. I don't understand why my kid doesn't love Jesus anymore. It's because you made him optional.  What do you want to raise a mediocre baseball player or a passionate lover of Jesus? Don't make me preach. I will come down here. I'll come preach. You gotta pass the test. We gotta pass the test, people. These are not days for us to be messing around.  No, Jesus ain't your boyfriend. Or your homeboy, or your bobblehead, or anything else. Pass the test of the pit. What's the way to get out of the pit? It's humble yourself in the sight of the Lord so that he can exalt you. He finds himself in a pit, and I'm sure that in the pit, he could have listened to all the same voices we listened to when we're in the pit. What's one of the voices? It's like, I'm a victim. I didn't deserve this. I didn't ask for this. Why am I in the pit? It's victimhood. The other voice is hopelessness. I'm never getting out of the pit. The way out of the pit is instead of elevating yourself up, like Joseph did his own sheaf, it's bowing your knee, and saying, God, I'll do it your way. My destiny, my dream is in your hands. It's not in my hands. If it's up to me, I'm gonna mess things up, but there is nothing that the enemy can do to your life take from your destiny when you submit your life constantly into the hands of God. And you know what? That's exactly what Joseph did. Joseph humbled himself because what we find is when he migrated into the next test, he was pulled up out of the pit. Immediately, he was sold in his slavery, and he had to pass the test of purity. So he finds himself a slave. He's living in Potiphar's home, and Potiphar is a wealthy businessman.  I travel a lot, so you just manage it. And Joseph managed it really well, but Potiphar had a wife who was a desperate housewife of Egypt. She's, and she's checking out the new pool boy, Joseph. It's like, oh, look at him. He's good looking, Jewish, wavy brown hair. He's, you know, he's built. GQ, he's got the cute little Egyptian linen E-Fod on. He's walking around sweeping and cleaning and managing everything. And she's bored because Potiphar's gone. And so she begins to flirt with Joseph a little bit. Do you know if Joseph had not kept his heart right in the pit, then he could have given up his dream and said, God's not for me. I don't deserve this. I'm a victim. My dream is gone. So I might as well just enjoy a little recreational activity because she was trying to seduce Joseph.  Oh, I just love your shoulders. How do you get them so strong? And Potiphar's gone. You and I should, we should do this. I'm delirious. I hurt my back yesterday on my pain meds. I don't even, I don't even know what I'm saying anymore. She's got a Selena Gomez. She's can't keep her hands to herself. She's all over Joseph. But Joseph passed the test of purity. What did he say? It says that he, he fled. She grabbed ahold of his garments. She tried to pull him close. And he literally, his clothes came off because it says that Joseph fled. He ran. He ran for it. He fled. You know, 1 Corinthians chapter six says flea, immorality, flea. Flea is a premeditated posture. You don't, if you wait till you're in a situation to make a decision about what you're going to do, you will cave when it comes to purity every single time. But you gotta make your mind up. It's like, when I'm in these situations, if they ever happen, I'm out. Nothing's going to defile my covenant with God. Nothing's going to defile my covenant with my wife. Listen, nothing's going to defile my covenant with my dream. Because when we talk about purity, immediately our minds go to sex. And that was Joseph's situation. I get that. And I think that we're in an over sexualized culture where we treat sex as just a board game. It's like Twister. We just treat it like recreational activity and we don't realize that it's God's gift as a bonding agent for covenant. Husband and wife who come together in a covenant and commit to life for one another and we've set ourselves apart for one another. That's the sexual purity of it.  You can cheat on your dream. Because what is immorality? It's promiscuity. Do you know what promiscuity is? Here's a promiscuity, a definition of it is when I take a shortcut bypassing covenant commitment in order to have immediate fulfillment. And when it comes to your dream, when you find yourself in hard times going through tests and you say, well, that's where I wanna go. That's who I wanna be. There will be off ramps from the pathway to destiny in which you can be promiscuous even with your dream. Where you say, my covenant is with you God, I'm trusting you, but I think you're taking too long. So I'm gonna take a shortcut and try and make it happen on my own. We bypass covenant in order to get immediate fulfillment. And when we do that, we end up in a place where it costs us more than we ever wanted to pay. When we become impurity and Joseph passed the test, I love the fact that he passed that test. He said, no, he fled, he ran. And you know, even though he did the right thing, sometimes when you do the right thing, it doesn't always produce the immediate right result that you were hoping. You would have thought Joseph would have said, you know what, I kept my purity ring on, my devotion to the Lord, my covenant of purity. And now here's what happens.  Man, I'm telling you what, by now, if I were Joseph, I think I'd be pretty disappointed, I'd be pretty frustrated, I'd be pretty mad. God, where are you? Have you ever felt like that in your process and in your life? God, where are you?  And now, you know, it's like my biological clock is ticking away. God, where are you? I've done it right. Where are you? Or I've kept my integrity at work but I'm not getting the promotion. If I'd had just cheated, I would have been promoted by now. But he finds himself in the prison, which is the third test, the test of the prison. And instead of hardening his heart, he keeps his heart wide open because he doesn't lose faith in God. Do you know that there are some prisons that are made with steel and iron bars to keep our bodies in place, contained? And then there are prisons of the heart that have no bars that we can see. Have no doors, gates, windows that anybody else can see. But it's a state of our heart in which we have locked ourselves off. From God, from others. And we say, you know what? I'm not trusting anybody anymore. I'm not trusting God. I'm locking it down. The only person who's gonna care is me, about me. But you know, when Joseph finds himself in prison, the integrity of his heart is maintained. He runs into two other dreamers. This guy named Baker, who's a baker and the cut bearer for the king. And they both have dreams. He's sitting in jail, probably thinking about his family, thinking about dad, thinking about how he got to where he's at. And I wonder how many times, as he sat in prison, did he think about the dreams? God, I thought you had a purpose for my life. How did I end up here? All I've ever done was, all I've ever done was what you asked me to do. And he hears a guy over in bunk B say, man, I had this dream. If he had been bitter in heart, you know what he would have said? He would have just shut it off and said, I don't care about dreams. I don't want to hear about your dream. Cut bearer says, I had a dream too. But Joseph listens to their dreams. And he says, I'll tell you what your dream means. Remember me when you both get released, because that's what your dream means. Your day of deliverance is coming. So when you get up there, remember me. Remember my story, tell my story. But do you know both of them get released? One gets hung, one gets restored. And they forget about Joseph and he's in the prison for two more years, hanging on a dream. Until one day, there's a third dreamer and it's Farrell. Farrell, the leader of the whole world. He has this dream. He can't figure it out. None of the wisest people in his kingdom can figure out the dream. And somebody goes, there's this guy. There's this guy down in the prison. He told me about my, he'll tell you your dream. Joseph gets brought up before Farrell. Farrell says, here's the dream. And in a moment, everything that God had been developing in Joseph throughout the process and the crucible gets brought into the limelight in one moment.  And here's the solution.  And it happens just like Joseph said, Joseph gets elevated to the highest place under Farrell that you can possibly have. But as he's sitting on the throne, I'm sure that there were even moments where Joseph was thinking about his family. God, what did it mean when my family would bow before me? What did all that mean? And one day, when there's a famine in Israel, a group of boys come walking into the courts. And he realizes it's my brothers. It's his brothers who've come there to buy food because there's no food back in the land. The son has scorched it all. There's no crops, the family's dying. And he sees his brothers. Do you know if he hadn't kept his heart right, he would've executed them right on the spot? The fact that after all these years, he still recognizes them is amazing. And he goes through this whole process. You should read the whole story, but he goes through this process, sitting on the throne, looking at his brothers. And he ultimately brings his whole family out of Canaan into Egypt and it reveals himself to his brothers. And I just want you to hear these words in closing this morning because this is so powerful. Sitting on his throne, he says to his brothers, Genesis 45, come near to me, please. Shows you the tenderness of his heart. I don't want you to get away from me. I want you to come near to me. I want you to hear me. I want you to see my face. I want to look you in the eyes. They came near to him and he said, I am your brother, Joseph, whom you sold into slavery. Now, do not be distressed or angry at yourself because you sold me here. Listen to these next words. For God sent me before you to save your lives. Process. Joseph had passed every step along the way and the 17 year old immature, arrogant, unrefined young man is now sitting on the throne in the position to change the lives of his family as well as all of Egypt, all the millions and millions of people that have been impacted by the wisdom of this leader. And he says, don't get upset. You guys sold me into slavery. Don't hate yourself because of the process. Realize that in spite of you being wrong, God still used the wrong in order to put me here so that I could save your lives. The final test of the process is when we come to realize that the dream that God gives us is never about us. It's always about others. God deposits something on the inside of us that if we'll give ourselves to the process when it comes to fruitfulness in the end, we'll not just be something for us to stand back and go, look what I did, but it will impact the people that are around us. Yes, his brothers and his mother and his father bowed down before him, but in that moment he didn't throw his shoulders down. He wrapped his arms around them because he realized that in every step along the way that he thought God could have abandoned him, God was there refining him seven times over so that he could be refined as pure gold. And let me tell you, I don't know where you're at in your process. I don't know where you're at in life. I don't know what God's doing in you. It may seem like God's a million miles away. It may feel like you've been the victim. It might be like you've been taken advantage of and you've even lost hope. But let me tell you, God is here.  You are Joseph.  Once you stand up with me all over this room, God has got you in the palm of his hand. So many times we think God has forgotten us. But Jeremiah says that our names are written in the palm of God's hands. Every time God's hand moves, your name moves with him. Every step along your process where you're like, God, where are you? I can't see what you're doing. He's shaking the Polaroid. He's like, hold on. Though the vision tarries, wait for it. But even though it seems like it's not going to come to pass, it will come to pass. Don't let go. Hold on to it. Because there's a hero on the inside of you that God's building and shaping and refining. And there will come a moment where he reveals himself to you. There will come a moment where it all makes sense. We just don't grow weary. I want to invite everybody to bow their heads with me all over the room. If I can have the prayer team please come and make their way up to the front, please. Father, just to say that word and to know that we're highly favored in your sight means everything. God, just to imagine that you know us by name. That long before we ever dreamed of what our lives could be, you had a dream in your heart for us. Lord, today would you bring the refreshing dew of the Holy Spirit, your presence upon our lives that we sense here today to be a reminder that we're maybe in process, but it has not yet been revealed what we shall be because you're at work in our lives. Give us grace for the shaking. Give us grace for the process. Give us eyes to see that there will be an end to your work. There's a finished product under somebody waiting on the other side of our obedience and our process. Before we dismiss this morning, I just feel strong sense that the Lord wants to release encouragement and hope to some people. There's a dream in your heart. There's a sense of purpose and destiny. Maybe it's something that you thought was dead. Maybe in the pit you thought it's over.   Something has happened that wasn't fair. And you've kind of given up on a dream, given up on a vision from God. Today God wants to speak life, hope, and resurrection over you. That Jesus wants you to lift your hand to say, pray for me. I've got a dream in my heart. I don't know how it could possibly come to pass. I've given up. I'm struggling with it. You're in process.  But if today you say, I'm in the process and I'm just getting tired, I need encouragement. I just want you to lift your hand up today. You're in process. So many hands. Father, you're so good to us. Just pray for a release of your encouragement, a release of your hope, Lord, that you would allow the vision to come clear at Lord and allow your presence to draw nearer. To be closer to us than we've ever experienced before. Lord, that you would release and activate old dreams that have been filed away. Lord, resurrect them, bring them to life today. Let us be dreamers that in our day we believe that God, you can use us to accomplish the things that seem ridiculous to us. To change the people in the world around us. Give us grace for the process. This morning before I say, man, nobody looking around, please. I'm just going to invite you that when I close in prayer just a second, if you're in one of those positions where you just feel like, man, I just need encouragement. I need God to just show up in my life. I need him to breathe on this dream. I need strength. I'm just going to invite you before you leave today to just come and receive prayer over whatever that is today. Our prayer team has been praying for you for this moment and there's really something powerful that happens when we put our faith together and we pray over those things. Maybe for you it's just, you need to come home.  You've walked away from God, but today he's calling your name. It's time for you to come home. Or maybe you're here today and you've never surrendered to Jesus Christ. It's just been a game, but today he's calling you home.  That's where the dream begins. Whatever you have need of today, we're just going to, as we dismiss, invite you, hang around, come down forward for prayer. We'd love to pray with you.  Use us to be heroes in a world that's broken and looking for hope. In Jesus' name, amen. Amen. You're dismissed. Come forward if you need prayer today.


Hey Gems, welcome back to my channel so as you can see by the title of this video I am going to share with you guys how I care for my baby bump and by that I mean what I'm doing right now to avoid getting additional stretch marks during this pregnancy. I did get stretch marks when I was pregnant with my son but I haven't so far gotten any additional stretch marks and the ones that I got when I was pregnant with my son, they're very light, I was able to lighten them as much as possible so some people can't even notice them at first glance you have to really look but I'm trying to avoid getting more stretch marks so so far I am going to share with you guys what I've been doing to try and avoid that. I hope you guys can hear me okay because I do have the fan running in the bathroom because it's hot in here and pregnancy hot is hotter than normal hot so I cannot turn off this fan in order to film this video so I'm just going to try and talk as loud as possible so that this video comes out okay. So the first thing I want to point out that I've been doing is drinking a lot of water. I am trying to drink at least a half gallon of water a day and that's what's in this bottle water this is exactly a half gallon 64 ounces so I fill this and try and drink at least this full every day I believe that since I've been back home I've been drinking more than a half gallon because it's been so hot but drinking enough water and staying hydrated is very important because what you put in your body also affects your skin and drinking a lot of water helps to keep your skin hydrated also I've been using my mommy butter so if you don't know by now if you're new to my channel I do make and sell my own natural skincare products and my mommy butter I came up with the purpose of this was for women who are pregnant such as myself to use during their pregnancy to try and avoid to try avoiding getting stretch marks in the first place so all of the butters and oils in this mommy butter are for skin elasticity it helps to improve maintains your skin elasticity so as your baby bump grows and your skin stretches it avoids the possibility of getting stretch marks because it helps improve your skin elasticity so if you want a more detailed explanation on how this butter works go to my website read the description underneath this product and you can find that out but basically it just helps improve your skin elasticity and that is what helps avoid stretch marks so I've been using this every day I do not miss a day okay using this I use it every day sometimes more than two times a day but I definitely use it every day after my shower so I could say I faithfully use this twice a day and as you can see this jar is almost empty I do have another jar but I'm going to finish this off first so what's in here is capu asu butter that's the main ingredient and capu asu butter is great for skin elasticity moisturizing the skin keeping it hydrated etc and just helping to keep the skin firm and that is what you want during this time because naturally your belly and your skin well naturally your skin is going to stretch and you want it to be able to return to its natural state once you have your child so the ingredients is on the jar the ingredients is on my website you can go and read it up for yourself but yeah I use this every day another thing I've been doing is exfoliating so I made this body scrub for myself I do not sell this but I made it for myself just out of experimenting because I wanted to make a more gentle body scrub for my for my baby bump instead of using sugar as a exfoliant because the grains are bigger I used walnut shells and poppy seeds as well as dry rose petals and I just grind it up so that it comes out really it's not like a powder but it's much finer and I add that in here as well this is how it looks and it's very soft I've already exfoliated I actually just got out the shower so I've already exfoliated and it just makes my stomach feel so nice and moisturized and it also helps with the itching that's another thing you want to try and avoid doing scratching your baby bump on the itch it's gonna itch regardless because like I said your skin is stretching as your baby bump grows so avoiding the scratching will help avoid stretch marks when I was pregnant with my son I did not care I was miserable and I just scratched and that is how I ended up getting stretch marks because I was scratching like unknowingly because sometimes you're just laying down and you feel it itching you just start scratching without even thinking like yo I'm gonna get stretch marks from this so one of the things I've been doing to try it and soothe the itchiness and so forth is exfoliating at least a couple times a week you don't have to do it often well I don't have to do it often I do it a couple times a week sometimes even once a week is not something I do every day so I drink a lot of water I moisturize daily using my mommy butter and I exfoliate quite frankly I use the butter all over my body I don't only use it on my baby bump I just use it as my moisturizer for my entire body and it's that great because you know it's not just made for the baby bump and when women are pregnant not only are all not only is our baby bump growing but you know we're gaining weight we're getting wider broader whatever you want to call it so I just to be on the safe side use it everywhere this is how big my belly is right now I am today I am 24 weeks and two days yeah I'm 24 weeks and two days this is how big my belly is I am carrying low so I try to focus and more down here because I carried low with my son and I don't know if you can pick it up on the camera but this is where I got the stretch marks with my son on my lower abdomen area so I try to make sure I really focus down here as well as up here because I don't have any stretch marks up here at all and I'm trying to avoid getting them so yeah so all I do is take a decent amount of my body butter and I literally just I just massage my belly for a few couple minutes just just massage it in make sure I get it working really good and don't need like any areas I even go down towards my head because women get stretch marks on their hips as well I had some but I was able to get rid of them I had some really dark stretch marks here when I was pregnant with my son and this is just like a nice massage for the baby as well because every time I do this I can feel the baby start to move and the baby just switch positions and I can feel literally right here I don't know if that's the head but something is literally right here just poking yeah just massage your baby bum and you know this is part of like just a self-care routine too like you just want to take care of your skin while you're going through all these changes that's about it it's nothing extreme is nothing complicated all it takes is consistency drink your water to stay hydrated moisturize every day exfoliate couple times a week do not scratch and you should be good not all women get stretch marks more women some women are more prone to stretch marks than others I'm not going to get into genetics and all of that but you know if you just take care of your skin and be mindful during this time I do believe that you can avoid getting the stretch marks however if you do have them if you do get them embrace them that's what I did after I had my son out it made me feel a little uncomfortable because it was new I've never had stretch marks before and it took me a minute to wrap my head around it but at the end of the day it's like a beauty mark from brand life into the world so it's nothing to be afraid of ashamed of or anything however if you could avoid it and you want to avoid it these are the steps that you could probably try and implement in your life to help avoid that not only do pregnant women get stretch marks for just women in general just from the up and down weight gain and all of that our body going through so many changes hormonal stuff so take care of your body keep your skin moisturized stay hydrated and just embrace yourself that's all anyways I think that is it for this video I hope you guys enjoy it if you haven't already I think my pregnancy update should already be uploaded so go watch that video to get more details on how my pregnancy is going and what I have planned for my labor and delivery I wish everyone love light and prosperity and you guys will see me in my next video this is perfect and it's the magic and everything you do is