One Football's app makes it possible to stay on top of the stats, the scores and all the transfer news, all in the one place. If you want to download One Football's app, simply click the link in the description below. Burnley 1, Everton 5, what a performance from the Blues today. You know what I've been reminded of something today, David Moise, back in the day, you know, you take a hammer in one week and then there'd be a reaction in the next game and today there was a reaction and what a reaction it was. We done to Burnley, what Spare's done to us, you know, it's just an excellent performance, I never thought Everton could go away from home and win like that. You know, we looked at Ronald Cuminera, we couldn't get a win away from home, ever, and it's just an excellent performance, I never thought Everton could go away from home and win like that. You know, we looked at Ronald Cuminera, we couldn't get a win away from home, ever. And today we've gone and beat, you know, a decent size on Burnley, you know, at the moment they are struggling, I've got to admit, and that early goal, you know, I was watching the game and Dad turned to me, Dad said, that ain't going to help Burnley, they're going to struggle from now on, and he did do that. And you know what was good about it, I didn't actually think we got out of second gear in that first half and we were free scoring. Made off of Yeri Mina getting his goal, it was a bullet header, Paul Markham from Burnley, but you know, I just wanted to see Yeri Mina dance, and he's finally done that at the Blues, so there you go, that can kickstart his career, and he's going to score a few headers for us in the Yeri Mina, you know, it's such a tall figure at the back stick. Then Lucas Dean, I just went on and that one's at me, he's got a brace today, and do we miss Leighton Baines? Unfortunately, no, we don't, we don't miss Leighton Baines one bit, and in my opinion, I think Lucas Dean is the perfect replacement, and if not, you know, could be better in the long run for Everton than Leighton Baines ever could be, and that's mad for such a legacy that Leighton Baines has left with Everton. Richard Ellison's got the goal at the end to seal it for 5-1, there's so many goals to mention, our goal can see that was actually quite poor, Ben Gibson obviously scores on his Premier League debut, didn't matter, Everton was just too good today, barely won at Everton 5, you know, that makes up for the ruining of Christmas, so enjoy your boxing day, I'm off now, I'm going to have some dinner, so I'm going to enjoy the day, have a good day everyone, it's barely won at Everton 5, I turf more.


Stephanie Mayer was born on December 24, 1978 in Hartford, Connecticut, to Stephen and Candy Morgan. Four years after Stephanie's death, her family relocated to Phoenix, Arizona. As the second of six children, Stephanie took on the duties associated with being an elder sibling in a large Mammon family. Between caring for her younger brothers and sisters, Stephanie developed a passion for reading, becoming an avid fan of classic authors like Jane Austen, Charlotte Brunt, and Margaret Michelle, among others. Though Stephanie fell out of place among the privileged population in Chaparral High School in Scottsdale, Arizona, she was an excellent student. Graduating from the school in 1992, her high marks end her in National Marriage Scholarship. She used the award to attend Brigham Young University, where she majored in English Literature. Stephanie graduated from Brigham Young University in 1997. That same year, she gave birth to her first son, Gabe, set an early followed, and Stephanie experienced a busy life as a stay-at-home mom. While it looked as if Stephanie was relegated to a full housewife, she had a dream. On June 2, 2003, Stephanie had a compelling dream to become an author and got the inspiration of the first Twilight book which she promptly began to write. Before the night of the dream, Stephanie felt that she had lost herself in the work of motherhood. She was bound out and could no longer tell who she was anymore. But in three months, she transformed her dream into a complete novel. Her sister's response to the book was enthusiastic and she persuaded Stephanie to send the manuscript to literary agencies. However, she was met with opposition. Of the 15 letters she wrote, five went unanswered, nine brought rejections, but the last was a positive response from Jody Raymer of Writers House. In the matter of months, eight publishers seeing great potentials in her work began to compete for the rights to publish Twilight in an auction. By November, Stephanie had signed a 750,000 book deal with Lita Brown & Company. Twilight was published in 2005 with a print run of 75,000 copies. By monthly books signing and events at the Changing Hands bookstore in Tempe, Arizona, early in her writing career, I helped cultivate her fan base. Twilight reached No. 5 on the New York Times Bestsellers list for children's chapter books within a month of its release and later rose to No. 1. The following year, Stephanie published the sequel New Moon and sold the film rights to Twilight. The third and fourth sequel of Twilight, Eclipse and Breaking Down were released in 2007 and 2008. The series had sold more than 250 million copies with translations in 37 languages. The books were adapted into film, which were blockbuster heats. And that was how Stephanie moved from just being a mother to becoming a famous writer. Today, she has sold more than 100 million copies and is listed in one of the world's most female authors in the world because she followed her dream. Even when it seems like your dream is not achievable, like in the case of Stephanie who had no prior experience as a writer and had never penned as much as a short story before writing her best-selling Twilight series, Don't Give Up. Rather than conceding if your dream is possible and afterwards stressing yourself without acting on it, put in the effort to find the possibilities of chasing your dreams and you develop the courage to achieve amazing successes making you unstoppable. Audrey Hepburn said, Nothing is impossible, the world itself says impossible. When you have a goal, it is essential to understand that the process of success is often ongoing. What this means is that you don't take one action or make a single attempt and then call it a day. You decide on the goal and you consistently work towards it. Henry Ford said, The whole secret of successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do and then do it. Once you have a dream, let it be a source of inspiration and put in your all to ensure that you realize your dream. As Marsha Weeders said, commitment leads to action. Action brings your dream closer and if you don't relent, you will definitely become successful someday just like Stephanie.


From my point of view, teaching is interesting because you can teach students things that will be helpful for them in understanding the world around us, and particularly in this class understand some basic economic concepts and how they apply to society and really help understand what drives environmental policy and why it fails and why it succeeds. In particular, you focus on relevant events and problem-solving issues and how to focus on people's different incentives in the environmental arena. So for instance, this summer, summer of 2009, there are big arguments coming out of Washington D.C. about a cap-and-trade bill for carbon emissions to deal with the problems of climate control, of climate change, and there are an awful lot of economic issues around here. How to set up a program to reduce carbon emissions at the lowest cost, who to hand out the rights to admit carbon to, but also there's a lot of political issues. You might think that people who are in support of carbon, carbon restraints are good guys and people opposed are bad guys, but actually any policy has a variety of mixes and you can be sure about one thing in Washington D.C. that there might be some people interested in the public interest, but there are a lot of people interested in their own private interest. 30 seconds. I think you should take this course. Why? First, you'll understand how free markets work and how they generate wealth for society. Second, you'll understand how free markets don't work and how they imply that we should have government solutions. Third, you'll learn about how governments, unfortunately, aren't the perfect instrument to solve our society's economic problems. And finally, you'll learn how to apply this into a variety of circumstances. And through this course, you'll learn a lot about how the real world actually works.


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We're here with our 3M here at the SID Display Week, and who are you? I'm Nathan Naysmith, Technical Manager in the Display Materials and Systems Division. Here is our booth at SID. We have quite a few things on show here. On the right we have a new solution for virtual reality, which reduces the pixelation or screen door effect. So you are actually in the HTC Vive? No, we are not. We just use this to modify some new products. It's actually not available yet. It's going to be coming out this summer. And where does your technology go? It actually goes on the screen itself. So it's actually inside, and what it does is it has a very controlled blur of the individual pixels. Normally in OLED you have a lot of black space around your sub-pixels. What this does is it splits each sub-pixel to nine, but not so that it's creating significant image blur, but really fills it in to eliminate that pixelation or screen door effect. So this is the new product that we're going to have coming out this summer. So eliminate pixelation, smooth it out. Correct. I should say reduce. Yes, reduce the screen door effect. So yes, it is kind of like a filter. We also have other filters, technology that we're working on, such as this new sensor type of film.  But we have new technology that really can help to hide sensors, hide cameras in the bezels, in devices, but still give the image a very good optical character response. What is it for, this filter? So this is really to be used as around the bezel, you know, more and more sensors, more and more holes on your devices, so it's to really keep that clean aesthetic appearance of your device. Sure, yes. So 3M is a leading company in your field, right? Absolutely. How do you describe your field? So our field, we have display enhancement solutions, everything from optical clear adhesives to automotive solutions, such as this where it reduces the glare off the windshield by having a very controlled output where you have minimal brightness going towards the windshield or windscreen and high brightness off to the side so that the occupants can have very good visibility of the display. It's very important to have good visibility in the car. You don't want to be not being able to see what you're doing. Absolutely. We also have a variety of backlight enhancement solutions. This has been part of our division for many years where we enhance the brightness, uniformity and appearance of LCD displays. How does that work? Because there's a backlight? It's a backlight. So we have... If you put something in front, it's going to reduce... Actually, we make many of that layers in the backlight. So we make the reflectors, diffusers, prism films, or 3M brightness enhancement film is what we call it, as well as reflective polarizers. So these all work in conjunction to manage the light output, bring the brightness on axis, recycle the polarization state that would otherwise be absorbed. You can see a great demonstration of that impact here. So this is a sub-optimized configuration. You can see 220 Nets utilizing 3M's configuration, 350 Nets, so 60% higher brightness. What did it change from here to here? Sure. It's all passive improvements, actually. So we're just changing the films in that backlight. Something in the front of the screen. No, actually in the backlight. In the backlight. Yeah. So we're actually changing the reflector, the prism films, and adding a reflective polarizer. So if you do all these layers, what's left for the other companies doing everything? We have competitors, of course. You have competitors. Yeah, we have competitors. But you're the leader and... Yes, yes. So we have been, you know, the leader in backlight innovations for many years. And so basically this is materials, right? Yes, materials. There's light material science. There's a lot of chemical engineering, polymer science going into this. So we're showing here is the impact, you know, that these brightness improvements actually have on energy. So with Energy Star, there's mandates around the target watts for a given display size. And our solutions can help enable you to achieve a lower power for a given brightness. So we help these companies achieve Energy Star. Does it feel better to look at also or not? Oh, absolutely. I mean, take a look at the slash, Steven. I think this is maybe the last good demonstration here of the brightness. So you can see off axis here, the right, the left, something. Yeah. So this is using 3M, 3M DBAP on the right. So this is compared to just, this is our latest product for the TV backlight. It's called 3M DBAP-A. Yeah. And the 3M DBAP-A can replace the top diffuser in two prison films and achieve similar on-axis performance. But what DBAP-A really does is improve the off-axis limits. So you can really see that brightness difference between the two sides here. And you don't need to run a whole bunch more power to make this work? The same backlight. So same LED configuration, I should say. Yep, same power. Two sizes, just passive improvements. Ah, so you see right there in the middle? That's the difference. That's the split. It's just much better. All right. What are you doing with the big display over there? We also have a touch systems group. We make controllers, we make some integrated solutions as well for enterprise type of solutions for touch. So to make it look better? No, we actually create the controller as well as the touch sensor itself. All right. So, there's lots of stuff happening in this... Yeah, it's a multi-touch solution. More chocolate. Yes, more chocolate. Nice. There's lots of stuff happening in the display industry, right? Yes, absolutely. So that keeps you busy? Of course, yeah, we enjoy it. I've been doing it for many years. But 3M is doing all kinds of other markets? Yes. So how big is the display part of 3M? It's a sizable division within 3M. So it has been a big division within 3M for many years.


without further ado we will go into God's word to encourage our faith as we begin this year in Acts chapter 28 verse 8 and 9 and 10 says the following and it happened that the father of Publius I think that's how his name is pronounced but he is dead so we don't know we don't know how to check that with him he lay sick of a fever and some other sickness Paul went into him and prayed and he laid his hands on him and he healed him now this guy Publius he actually was like a big guy in that place in the island named Malta he was the leading citizen of that island and verse 9 says the following and when this was done the rest of those on the island who had diseases also came and were healed they also honored us in many ways and when we departed they provided such things as were necessary I want you to pray this simple prayer out loud with me so Lord Jesus open my heart to your word Lord Jesus open my heart to your spirit Lord Jesus open my heart to your faith say amen I can't hear you say amen okay I want to speak to you briefly on a topic that will be called afflicted but not restricted afflicted but not restricted and it will come from the story of Paul Paul is a very interesting figure in the Bible Paul wrote a lot of the New Testament this combination of his letters that we call New Testament today two thirds of those letters were written by Paul Paul had a very interesting story Paul was a religious man from all his life he actually studied in a religious school where he learned about the ways of God and though Paul was a zealous religious man yet Paul wasn't saved and one day God comes to Paul and actually in a very explicit way where Jesus shows up physically to Paul Paul was so radical that I think it took Jesus coming physically for him to believe and Jesus comes physically to Paul he he meets Jesus and Jesus tells him Paul you what you're doing is wrong you're religious but you are not a Christian you're not a saved and I died for you I love you I want to forgive you of your sin and he tells him the gospel and Paul by the way asks him the question what should I do and Jesus tells him Paul right in the same occurrence same sentence Jesus says Paul you're gonna go and you're gonna preach the gospel you're gonna be a witness to everyone around and you're gonna make a big impact with your life for my kingdom I want you to remember this first thought is that you were saved with the purpose when Paul was saved Jesus didn't just save him to save him he saved him and God wasn't hiding any secrets God right away told all put all the cards on the table and says Paul I'm saving you that is awesome that is incredible you're gonna spend eternity in heaven but you also have an assignment on your life you're like Jesus I just got saved like two minutes ago give me some time before you actually tell me what I need to do with my life just let me get established in the church let me pick up a Bible actually there was no physical New Testament Bible but let me find some Christians let me let me get to know a little bit about this but Jesus says you need to do that and this is what you're called and Paul comes to the city of Damascus spends their three days being blind and somebody prays for him he receives his side he gets filled with the Holy Spirit and the Bible says and immediately Apostle Paul joined a Bible school now that's not what it says it says immediately Apostle Paul's they're going on the streets and telling everybody about Jesus Apostle Paul three days saved and he starts telling other people about Jesus Apostle Paul did know much about Jesus yet but what he knew he told other people I want to tell you something today when Jesus Christ rescues you from sin from the grip of the devil when Jesus when you give your life to Jesus Christ you must understand one thing about your life is that at that moment not 15 years down the road when you finally is sober for 15 years not when 10 years down the road when finally for 10 years you haven't done drugs look the pornography or did some immoral or illegal things but in that moment you become a witness and you gain a purpose not just salvation and somebody say a man somebody say a man turn to your neighbor say you got a purpose turn to your other number say you have a purpose you know I share this story many times in our church and it's worth repeating all the time there was one man who was trying to commit suicide and he wrote and letter in his house left the suicide note went to the bridge and was about to throw himself from the bridge and as he was looking down and mustering up the emotional strength and reminding himself how horrible his life is and you know to kind of build himself up to throw himself out and he notices there is a girl there that's swimming and she's not swimming she's actually dying because she is not knowing how to swim so she's drowning and so he realized that she's drowning and he was a good swimmer and he quickly forgets about his suicide attempt climbs from the bridge goes in there swims to her rescues her from drowning and pulls her to the shore by that time everybody gathers around the news media come the family comes everybody comes and they begin to ask this man he said how in the world were you at this place at the right time so when he told them the real story the next day the newspaper wrote this article about this story and they named it like this a purpose saved men's life when you find your purpose your life can change when you meet Jesus the second most important thing that must happen is you mind you must find your purpose your life is like an unsharped pencil without God it's pointless it has no point it has no usefulness well with God it becomes on purpose and the purpose is not just not to drink smoke and get high the purpose is the same purpose God had for Paul and that is to reach your world for Jesus Christ amen for Paul I want you to mention I want you to underline in your mind a point number two is the Paul's purpose was reached gradually why because when Jesus met Paul he told Paul three kinds of people Apostle Paul has to reach in his life first it was the children of Israel in other words the Jewish people the second one it was the Gentiles Gentiles is you and I Gentiles is non-Jewish people anybody any Jewish people here full blood Jewish half Jewish one quarter Jewish one eighth no okay anybody doesn't know you're like dude I'm Mexican man I'm Russian American leave me alone so for Apostle Paul Jewish people this is what God says you're gonna talk to Jewish people about Jesus and then he says I want you to talk about Gentiles means you and I people who are not Jewish and thirdly God says I want you and you are going to stand in front of kings and talk to them about Jesus so Paul spends a very much part of his life talking to Jewish people then he talks to the Gentiles people like us who are not Jewish and then Apostle Paul toward the end of his life gets locked in the prison ends up spending many years talking to kings about Jesus Christ and brings the witness to Jesus Christ to kings I want to let you know today is that God has a specific group he wants you to influence for his kingdom some of you are single girls and honestly the most probably effective you will be is not with grandmas and with people in retirement home or even maybe with older women who are married have children but you will be probably most effective with those kind of girls like yourself when you grow like Apostle Paul there will be different categories of people you will be able to influence as you are faithful to God but you must understand all the goals God gives you upfront cannot be fulfilled upfront as you fulfill one another one unveils as you feel it fulfill another one and another one unveils Apostle Paul had the privilege of bringing the gospel of Jesus not only to the Jewish not only to the Gentiles but also to the kings I believe it is the purpose and the call of God to bring the message of Jesus not only to the homeless not only to the drug addicts not only to the alcoholics not only to the people who are lost their way but people in politics people who are wealthy people who are famous people who are known people who others look up to the gospel is for every type and category of people as a church as a Christian you must understand God is calling you to be a light not only to the people who are doing worse than you when Paul was talking to the kings he was chained up yet he was sharing the gospel most of us feel disadvantaged telling someone about Jesus when they know you got bigger problems than them because we feel like the only time I have advantage like you know when they see I got a nice car when they see that I have a breakthrough that is the only time I can talk about Jesus it's true it's good to talk about Jesus when your life is doing good and God is establishing your family God is healing you and there is testimonies but please understand Apostle Paul talked about Jesus even when the guys he talked to were higher financially higher economically higher politically but they were not higher spiritually and Apostle Paul acted like an ambassador from heaven dough and chains he still was an ambassador and he talked to them like a boss he witnessed today I'm not hiding and say oh I'm just I don't know guys this whole Jesus thing got me locked up I got you locked up so be careful it was not sure you know I know yes he helped me but just not sure no I just don't want to talk no Paul was bold he was talking like he was a boss he knew what he was talking about some people are afraid to share their faith with their boss some people are afraid to to tell their manager when they're going through a hard time about Jesus you're like well he's a manager well that doesn't mean that he is an angel he's a human he needs Jesus the gospel of Jesus Christ was some people well he's a football player he's a cheerleader you know she's famous she's you know everybody knows them he's a drug dealer you know he's he's this he's that you guys we should never characterize people we should see people this every person has a soul look at me every person has a soul and that's all needs Jesus I remember the first time that I met with a person who drove very very expensive car the car is probably more expensive than my house and I met with him after he got saved and right before that in the morning prayer I had to deal with my heart with one thing God said lot don't look at him as a man who has that money look at him as a soul don't look at him at nothing and don't let him buy you a drink you buy his coffee and so I remember we came in you know he pulled out his wallet there's little like ten a hundred dollars sticking out I was like oh Jesus and here I am literally I don't have much money at that day and I'm pulling in like no I got you bro no I'm paying for you he's like are you sure in the back of my mind I was like if he says one more time I'll let him pay and let him pay for my Starbucks card as well but in he says I'm like no no no I got you and I met with him and when I talked to him I looked it in his eyes and one thing I didn't let I didn't let his wallet stand between me and his soul don't let somebody's accomplishments don't let somebody's anger don't know whoever they are remember inside of that big person is a little soul that is hungry for God because somebody say amen put your hands together for Jesus Christ you know most of you most of you heard of one of the most famous evangelists of our day is Billy Graham in his lifetime he met with 12 presidents 12 presidents including the current president have paid visit to him called him and met with him and asked him for direction and for advice quite few of those presidents he actually led to Jesus one of them is the president you are seeing right now right here when Dwight Eisenhower when he was dying and he asked Billy Graham to come and visit him Dwight Eisenhower he called Billy Graham his pastor and when he came to visit him in the hospital and he was about to leave he talked to him about Jesus and everything he's about to leave and this president he asks pastor please come back he says stay with me a little bit longer he said tell me the story again and Billy Graham goes again it shows exactly the same story and after that he says could you pray with me because he says I'm about to die and I don't know what I'm going to go and Billy Graham right there president of United States who was a president of United States leads him to Jesus Christ after he finishes the prayer he says pastor now you can go and I will die in peace and few hours later our president that president passed away there will be presidents you will meet in heaven that other men and women were not ashamed to tell about Jesus without getting into politics they were able to influence them for the cause of Christ be that person don't look at people by their statue by their position by their income or by how low they are today how poor they are or how struggling they are what people talk about them look at each person and remember one thing no matter how they look what they've done they're so sexual orientation their income and their status they are a soul and God loves them amen amen point number 3 when our mobility is restricted it shouldn't limit our mission when apostle Paul was reaching people for Jesus he got to the point where he got locked up he got in prison he got chained up and it's interesting that when Paul's mobility his ability to walk to places his ability to travel was restricted when he was not allowed to go as free as he was able to apostle Paul doesn't stop talking about Jesus apostle Paul a convention already he talks to kings he talks to other people but then apostle Paul begins to write letters to churches and he begins to send those letters and encourage those churches in Christ now I'm pretty sure apostle Paul was in jail and he was probably feeling like man I could have planted so many more churches I could have raised up so many more Timothy's and Titus's and I could have done so many more healings I could have cast out so many more demons I could have established so many home groups if I would have been free but now my life has changed and man I'm so bummed out because I'm so limited now but apostle Paul though being afflicted in this area of not being able to travel he still continued to minister to God though in his limited way as it seemed well today apostle Paul didn't know that in one day more people will read his writings then he will be able to see face-to-face in his lifetime apostle Paul didn't know that 2000 years later the letters he wrote are not just gonna be letters they're gonna be found they will be combined into a book that people will buy buy and this book will be the best seller on every list of all time he didn't know that there will be an app called Bible app and people will download millions of people every day this Ukrainian boy in United States and the morning prayer will be reading apostle Paul's letters for 20th time he didn't know there's gonna be you and I so they're in jail still doing what God called him but limited not knowing it's gonna make a bigger impact in the whole run my friend don't let your mission be stopped even when you feel afflicted in a certain area of your life let it change your method but not your mission let it change your method not your mission maybe you don't in college right now you got all the school you got full-time school your part-time job you're like I can't make it I can't be as faithful I can't be as committed because of so many responsibilities I'm like Paul I am like in jail college is jail it could seem like with the time restraints you feel like you're restricted but even then this is not your time to say well I'm gonna take a break from God I'm gonna take a break break from preaching Jesus I'm gonna take a break from telling telling about Jesus I'm gonna take a break from home group maybe you're a single mom your single mom or maybe you just got a child you're like you know what I can't have a home group no more because I got this little baby and I can no longer witness or do these things as they used to do yes you're right you are limited yes you are right there is a certain limitation but you should change your method not your mission maybe you moved in new in town and you don't have nobody here you're like I don't know who to invite to church I don't know who to talk to over there I was talking to my co-workers but in here it's so new it's different listen change your methods but don't change your mission do not change your calling in life but change how you do it and your approach can somebody say amen there was this guy his name was John Bunyan he was a preacher long time ago and at that time for preaching the gospel you can also be put in jail and like Apostle Paul he was put in jail for 12 years for preaching the gospel and during that period of time the officials came and they said if you're gonna stop preaching about Jesus will release you he said if you release me I will speak about Jesus the next person I see they locked him up again 12 years he couldn't see his wife he couldn't be with his family and during those 12 years you know it seemed like a life was wasted but he started to write his experiences with God he started to get revelations from God and he wrote this book called the pilgrims progress that most of you have read this book most of you have heard about this book but if you don't if you ever come close to literature you will find out in the English language the book that's on the top after the Bible that's sold the most is pilgrims progress it's translated to 200 languages about 80 African languages alone this book has made more influence on not just the Christian world and the literature itself and probably any other book little did that guy knew that when his circumstances changed but he didn't change his mission and his calling God will still use him in his own powerful way listen my friend maybe your finances change maybe things in your family change maybe there are certain things that happen with your schooling when things change with your circumstances listen do not lay down your calling do not lay down your assignment to win souls and make disciples don't make it excuse and say well now I can't do it because you know I drive a truck now I cannot do it well because now I have a child now I cannot do it because I have a full time and another full time and I do school at night I can no longer serve God as I used to you are right you can no longer serve as a used to but you should not stop serving the way you can now can somebody say man put your hands together for Jesus Christ I want you to write down thought number four don't allow problems in one area to restrict success in the other don't allow problems in one area to restrict success in the other when apostle Paul had chains on his hands when apostle Paul was in prison we read a scripture here in this island named Malta where they had a ship the ship that wrecked and apostle Paul was on the ship and being a prisoner being almost like a failure in this area he still exercises his gifts in the other area he tells the Centurion and the ship director he says guys I don't want you to sail at this time because God has shown me a vision it is not gonna be really good for all of us and the guys ignore him and of course what Paul said becomes true the ship wrecks and and then when the ship is about to the guys didn't eat for 14 days and they're lost they don't see the Sun for 14 days apostle Paul gets up like anyway like I said we will be in this trouble since none of you guys obeyed me but now last night just gotta tell you guys last night he said God's angel came to me and he told me that I'm gonna make it to Rome and as a gift he'll allow all of you guys to survive so just letting you guys know heads up all of you lucky that you got me on the ship I'm on chains I know but you're gonna survive because of me so brought some bread tacos to the tortoise and start giving different things to people people start eating rejoicing encouraging a prisoner he's not a Centurion he's not nobody a prisoner and he literally he's a boss at least everybody tells everybody what to do everybody survives they come on the island and the Bible says that the gather up some sticks and a snake bites Paul's hand and Paul is a boss shakes it off and doesn't suffer no harm he finds out that the main guy on that island that this this guy is sick Paul goes in there lays his hands that have chains on the guy gets healed when people hear about it people start lining up and Paul has church in chains and people getting healed left and right left and right and you see that being restricted in this area he is still successful in this area and he doesn't stop as though he doesn't see his chains though they exist don't be so obsessed with the area of your life that is currently not working that you pause everything else about your life be like Apostle Paul be a boss pretend it doesn't exist and you know what time came those chains were lifted he met with the emperor and the emperor released him but what would happen if Apostle Paul would have closed his Apostolic ministry what would happen if Apostle Paul would shut everything down and say hey guys I'm going through my dead season I'm just going through it I'm just barely trying to make it Apostle Paul didn't live like that and no should you whatever you're facing today maybe a particular area of your life is stuck do not cause that to cause every area of your life to be stuck continue to pray continue to be successful focus on the areas where God is moving God is doing something then just on the area where nothing is happening amen there was this wonderful preacher his name was Lester Somerall and Lester Somerall he got called by God at the age of 17 and this young man he was diagnosed with tuberculosis very rebellious liar thief hated his parents had big rebellion issues and he had a he had a sickness tuberculosis and he was laying on his death bed the doctor came in and he told him that in two hours Lester will die so parents already made the funeral arrangements they actually had I saw the testimony today they had his death certificate already written and signed by the doctor because the doctor says I won't be coming back to sign this death certificate he's gone so two hours two hours later he's supposed to be dead and in that moment he gets a vision and in the vision he sees a casket a coffin and a Bible and he hears a voice from God it's an honorable voice it tells him Lester in two hours that is your casket at 17 you're gonna leave this earth but if you preach the gospel then you will miss that casket and he says no I hate preachers I hate the gospel hate the church and hate everything no and God says then you'll die he says no I don't want to die and he starts debating with God and God says then you're gonna preach he says no I don't want to die and I don't want to preach and God says you're gonna die he says you got now an hour and a half not two and about an hour into it he says okay God I will preach he says are you sure you're not gonna lie he says no God I'm gonna really preach and he falls asleep his parents think he's dead he wakes up next morning and the first thing he says mom I won't drink I won't lie and I'll preach the gospel his mom looked at him says he's definitely dead at 17 he packs his bags goes into some unknown village and starts preaching Jesus only because Jesus rescued him from a casket not because he wanted to he preaches it and then actually God touches him he begins to travel at the age of 21 around the world on the ship preaching in China and other places he preached with this one guy who had this very weird policy amazing policy at that day where he said we will always travel to places you will provide for your own ticket out of your own money and you will never tell anybody that you need money you have to trust God so he said we were in this particular city and we needed to go to type bed and this mentor of his 21 years older said we're going to type bed in three days he said okay we'll go to type bed but you can't tell another person that you need money to buy the ticket the guy already has a ticket and Lester Somrell doesn't have a ticket so he's praying to God say God you gotta bail me out you gotta bail me out and nothing comes nobody gives him money nothing happens until one Chinese lady comes the day before he's supposed to leave and gives him an envelope of something he didn't even open it because he knew in his mind there would not be enough to cover the ticket it was like maybe like 20 or something dollars ticket he knew it wouldn't be enough and so he was so mad until God told him he says open the envelope at night he opened the envelope and there was $3,000 in that envelope now at those days you can buy a brand new vehicle a Cadillac for $400 so $3,000 he said that money lasted him for about 10 or something years of traveling all around the world and this is how that testimony happened that lady was an atheist and she was in China in particular city there going to a cancer treatment and as she was going to a cancer treatment she saw a poster saying that if you come we will pray for you and God will heal you so she comes not knowing nothing about Jesus comes in the line and this little boy 21 prays for her she feels heat going through her body goes next day to the doctor the doctor checks her she has no sickness at all comes back next day and says pray for me again doesn't tell him the story prays for him just in case she gets it in the future he prays for her she feels the heat goes back to the doctor the doctor says you don't have any cancer stop coming here you're annoying us she goes in again just in case if he leaves and she can't find him to pray for her so he prayed for three times until Esther got offended he says I've been praying for you three times what's wrong with you and when she told him the story it built everybody's faith people start receiving healings rapidly and she went home that night and God said you have $3,000 in your envelope you supposed to give that to the doctor give that to that preacher because that's God used him and those money will go a long way to help spread the gospel and she gives him that money I want to tell you something right now is that when some area of your life is stuck maybe nothing is moving don't stop in every other area for the glory of God because somebody say amen in the conclusion I want you to write down these tips but of faith borrow faith from your miracle to sponsor your need borrow faith from your miracle to sponsor your need always look at what God is doing in your life and take it from there to encourage your faith in the things that are maybe stuck borrow faith from your miracle to sponsor your need number two always remember that to reject a murder mentality when apostle Paul in stood in front of the kings apostle Paul looked at these chains and when he witnessed to them he said this he said guys I wish all of you will become like me accept these chains apostle Paul didn't endorse didn't passionately desire chains though he was so comfortable moving what God called him to do but he was not condoning being able to find peace when you're sick does not mean you should endorse sickness in your life just because you found God's joy when you are poor that does not mean poverty is God's gift just because you've been in every broken relationship and it brought you to Jesus that does not mean it is God's will for you to be in a broken relationship just because this and that has happened and it really humbled you and changed you that does not mean that makes it the will of God yes God can use it but apostle Paul never once said hey guys just want to tell you become a Christian and Jesus will give you chains because the Bible says Jesus came to give us life and more abundantly and if you have to go through chains for some time listen go through it don't get stuck in it and don't live in it for the glory of God because somebody say man don't allow your situation even if God is using it to become your identity and to become God's will for your life do not allow a murder mentality look at your situation and simply you have to say this to your situation this too will pass you have to look at your situation like I like what Martin said during the conference he says I know what I belong and it's not here you have to be like a seed that goes in the ground and people step on it and it's dark and it's lonely and seems like nobody is there and the farmer has abandoned me and it seems like I'm going only lower on the never come out of it but you have to tell yourself I'm gonna break through I'm gonna come out and this darkness will end I will see the sun I will see the rain and I'm gonna bear so much fruit when you are an arrow and you feel like you're being only pulled back everybody's going forward people getting married people getting promotions people finally finish college and you're trying to scratch your head what I should do with my life and you feel like your life is only going backwards backwards you only got bills then you got things with the card and the ice came on the road and you scratch your bumper and then the insurance is due and then that is due then the taxes are coming and the school fees are coming seems like everybody's getting breakthrough but you destroy within you a weak victim and murder mentality you have to tell yourself I am in the hands of a make you and if he pulls me back it's only to release me forward I will fly forward I will reach my destiny I will succeed I will overcome I will not live by accidents I will not live in sickness I will live in power I will not live in poverty I will not live depressed I will not cry myself to sleep I will be successful because royal blood is flowing through my vein God has called me blessed me and says you're fruitful and you will multiply feel the earth and you will have dominion and that is you and that is me can somebody say amen and lastly and lastly don't blame yourself Apostle Paul Holy Spirit warned Apostle Paul about going to Jerusalem explicitly a numerous times God told Paul if you go to Jerusalem they'll lock you up but you never see Paul blaming God after going in Chase now we don't know exactly whether it was his mistake or it was God's will fully it's a very debatable subject and I've read it so much even this week theologians are disagreeing one with another and I'm gonna leave that for theologians to do that in a seminary but what I want to leave it to here is I've never seen once Apostle Paul blaming himself and saying man I should have stayed away from Jerusalem you don't see Paul saying God where are you God how is it that this hand got bitten by a snake and you healed it but you can't remove my chains how is it God at these hands healed the heathens but you can't deliver these hands out of chain how is it God I was in prison in one city and you shook the whole city to get me out and now I've been here for five years and I'm still in my chains you don't see Paul ever complaining blaming God or himself you see him plowing like a bull knowing if I spend a minute complaining or blaming it will only make me stuck in this and listen I know what I belong and it's not here remove blame game completely do not blame yourself even if the situation you are in you are a hundred fifty percent responsible for it your mama told you not to do it your brother told you not to do it everyone told you not to do it everyone and you still did it do not spend one minute blaming yourself when you ask God for forgiveness blame only puts you deeper into that problem I just had an opportunity to minister to one particular person who made a decision to commit abortion many years ago and this particular person wonderful person begin to break down and cry and say that ever since that day I tried to do good things to prove that I'm better person and this person goes on to say says that the harder I tried the worst I got so I've gotten so worse and this person begin to mention the things that they were currently doing and I was like oh my goodness how are you able to do this and and this person said that I let myself a seam drop so low all because I've done something so bad that I cannot forgive myself I asked this person have you asked God for forgiveness and this person says there has not been a day I asked God for forgiveness and I asked this person second question have you received forgiveness and this is what this person said I don't know what you're talking about I said asking for forgiveness and receiving forgiveness are two different things I let this person in the prayer and I said after this prayer God forgave you I want you to stop asking for that and when the thought of guilt comes in you tell yourself I've been forgiven it is wrong to make another car payment after you receive the letter that your car is paid in full I said you no longer need to pay for your sin if Jesus died to pay for your sin and this person said well but I cannot forgive or what I've done I mean I you know this is so bad I said yes it is very bad but if God being so holy and being so out there could forgive you being down here who you think you are that you can forgive yourself when did you elevate yourself higher than God that you can release yourself forgive yourself if God being holy can forgive you being sinful listen you're not holier than God not to forgive yourself loose yourself just let yourself go and simply say I've done it that was wrong I won't do it again if you keep blaming you will relive it again but if you receive forgiveness not ask what you've done million times but receive that Jesus died on the cross and that was enough I don't have to pay another day for my sin because Jesus is cross and his blood your life will change in Jesus name now does that mean there's no consequences does that mean that you call your jail pen county jail is simply see I know I owe you guys 12,000 but Jesus paid all of my debts amen no those debts you still have to pay those tickets you still have to pay maybe supernaturally God will give you breakthrough but you still have to take care of some of those things but we're talking about between you and God can somebody say man you can overcome you're not going to be restricted even if you're afflicted amen the Bible says the more Egyptians afflicted Israel the more they multiplied you will succeed in spite of that in Jesus mighty name


This is stock number 9766A. We are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. Your new and used heavy-duty truck headquarters. Today we're checking out this super clean 2014 Ram 2500 crew cab short box. This truck has a 6.7 liter Cummins diesel and from this HD video you will be able to tell that this truck is extremely clean all the way around inside and out. Flame red is the color. We shoot all of our videos in 1080p so if you have HD capabilities on your computer tablet or smartphone device turn them on right now because it's like you're right here looking at the truck with me. It comes with works painted and polished aluminum rims, middle trail grappler 35 by 12.5 R18 LT tires with about half the tread buff and the frame and underbody is a really nice shape on this truck. It does have the Rocky Ridge Altitude Edition conversion package on it so that includes the lift, rims, tires, all that good stuff. 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Thank you very much for keeping it to eye in the morning. It is a very fine Monday morning. If at all you are just joining us, you are just in time for the next conversation of the day and the last conversation of the day right here on Y254. My name is Ram Aguco. Thank you very much for keeping it to eye on Y254 TV. Imagine. Well today let's have a conversation on alcohol and addiction. This has been an issue that many people fight and in different ways we all fight alcoholism and addiction with family, with friends but today we are having this conversation with a reverend. That is reverend Lawrence Mbugwa. He is from Emmanuel Anglican Community Church in Dolly. That is in North Carolina. Thank you. Thank you. He is someone who is here to give us his story about this conversation. So mention that you will be part of this. Send us your thoughts, your questions as you continue. The hashtag is why in the morning at Ram Aguco and at Y254 channel. This conversation is going to be interesting because as we hear the story of a reverend who is talking about alcohol, why did he choose to start a conversation like alcohol and addiction for reverend? It's not something that is common. Well, I want to thank you this morning and all Y254 KBC crew and those who have invited me this morning to come here so that we can have a discussion on alcoholism and drug abuse in Kenya. I am so excited and happy that we can even address this topic. I came to just like this topic because I'm a recovered alcoholic. I was not born a reverend. I was not born soba. So I started drinking at quite an early age because my parents were making the local traditional brew. We call it moratina in Kikuyu. So I could be the one who was being told to prepare it, to prepare the water and the sugar before it started to ferment. So as I prepared from the first step of it I could take a sip, then when I put it on the guard so that it can be brewed, after a few days I could also sip it. And when the old was us would come and also want to taste whether the beer is good, I would be told to go and get it for them. So my parents, my father instead of preparing me was preparing me a drunkard without his knowledge. And so this got into me and even when I went to school and did school certificate, unfortunately my parents died when I was too young. And I was mad with God at that time because my parents, my dad and my mom they had a span of just one year before they joined the heavenly kingdom. So at that time I was around 16, 17 and I became mad with God and mad with life. And so I started drinking and I started a life that was not worth it and I did it for like 10 years. Drinking for 10 years? Not same moratina, I graduated from drinking moratina to drinking cana. And I became like a vagabood as you call them. But the fortunate thing that had happened to me is my parents died when I had already done my school certificate. The secondary one? Yes, the primary one. The secondary one, I had graduated from secondary school and my life became a life of an alcoholic. And one day after 10 years I had an experience that I felt I'm not doing the right thing. So I decided, it was that first of December 1985, I decided that I am going to have a life change. And I decided to stop drinking. I said I will stop even smoking bang because I would smoke now and then.  And because I didn't go to a rehab, it became like a battle in itself because my body already had a little bit addicted to alcohol. So that withdrawal was a problem? Yes, the withdrawal was so tough I didn't go to a rehab. But after one and a half months, that is 86, 20th of February 1986, I accepted Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior of my life. And from that time, I tell people that is the praying truth. Jesus became my hero because I became a new person. Just as the Word of God says that he who is in Christ is a new creation. I became a new creation. I cannot tell you how it all came but I recovered and I started preaching in our local church. I joined the youth group. And the journey became very, very exciting. You started preaching in 1986? 1986. The journey became very exciting as a youth. And after a while, that is, after a number of years, I cut a long story short, I got an opportunity to go back to school. And this opportunity opened a door for me to go to the United States of America. And I went to seminary there. Then in 1998, I was ordained as a deacon in our church. And then after one year, I was ordained as a priest. And now when I joined ministry, I felt the urge to reach out to these young men and young women who are addicted to alcohol and drugs and who are in a hard position because they would want to live the lifestyle that they are living. But because of many things and many issues of life, they cannot be able to do it. So I started this work and started talking with them and engaging them one on one which I even do it up to today. I'm one of those priests who can sit with drunkards and talk with them, not argue with them, but try to understand. You connect a bar? Yes, I do. And a club and sit there? Ah, I can. As they pour the drinks? And by the way yesterday, which is Sunday because we have started another program, Value of Hope. And we went to a place here in the Thogoro. We sent a young man there. And he was preaching outside the pub. And the owner of the pub told the guy, don't preach outside there. Come inside. Come inside. And I will give you 30 minutes to preach to these people. And those 30 minutes, the report was coming that they were not drinking. He was not selling to them. And he was able to share with them. Now, Reverend, you have quite an interesting story. And let's get deeper into it. You've talked about going through getting mad with God. Yes. And for someone out there who is watching you, someone is mad at God right now. Yes. So pissed. They're saying maybe God doesn't love me. Maybe God doesn't care for me. What is it that made you not to stop getting mad at God and actually change your life to actually become a reverend? Where yet once you're mad at the same God? What I did is that when this issue or the reality of life came to me and I realized that I will be the rusa. God will never lose. I will be the rusa. And I started listening within myself. Calling myself in places where I can listen out and see what has 10 years of drinking done to me.  I started to listen with myself and my heart. We say it calling a meeting within myself and evaluating my life from the time that I left school to where I am right now. Being mad at God does not help me. What about if I can reconcile with me?  A very good praying mother. She was praying for us when she became sick when my dad died. She started praying and I could remember in my mind those days in her life when she was on the edge of leaving this world. She was praying to God and asking God, God, how do I live my children? And me being in a drinking mood I could tell her, Yes, you are going but you are going to leave us in the hands of God.  Yes, I was telling her yes you are going to go but you are going to leave us in the hands of God. And surely God is a caring God. So he heard those prayers and I have told you it was 31st of December 1985 when I realized that I have to listen with myself and see that the way that I am going I am heading to destruction. Now after drinking for a decade or so, how did it change your life, that life of drinking and addiction to drugs? How did it have an effect on your behavior and your character as a person? Actually this is the praying truth even those who are watching out there. I had turned out to be the young people you see around towns speaking very good English and learning from bar to bar and being able to talk to people who have money and you know to survive without a job and survive with alcohol you have to be very smart. And that is why you see this, some of these guys who are addicted to alcohol and drugs they are very smart people. For you to survive in alcohol you must be very smart because you don't have a job and you need money to get a drink. So you have to be smart so that you can be able to tell people stories. These are some of the things, the survival mode. I knew the survival mode at that time and I would make contact with the various people of influence even those people who are around Kiamu at that time if they can remember very well some of them I would even pop into their offices and talk sense to them and I would come out with money from What would you be getting into someone's office to tell them? I could go even to the DC's office and tell him you know I am a poor guy you need to go to the poor man's box and he would ask me who told you there is a poor man box at that time and he would come out with something because there are those funds out there. I could go to our local politicians and I would tell them about the forthcoming erections and what is going on I would get also from them so a smart guy and also I could do odd jobs here and they are just to get money to go and get the next drink. But the men who tend to go to stealing cornmanship, buglery and they get into illegal activities to get money just to go and drink. I thank God because God protected me because of this day to tell them that you cannot be able to survive on that because it's wrong to steal from others and I did not go into that position of stealing but I steal in them I could also advise them that this is not something that is worthwhile You had your way of getting money Yes and I wonder how a politician will accept you because aren't you drunk when you're knocking at that office Have you ever seen drunk people dealing with politicians? They are more less like them They are intertwined They are intertwined When somebody is going through stress they normally tend to say I need a drink Was that the same case for you? I don't want to say that was the same case with me because before you get into drinking there are so many people with various reasons on why they tend to drinking They are those who are social drinkers The social drinkers they just take it for fun They are those who cannot do away with it They are addicted to it They wake up The first thing they want to get into is not a cup of tea No, they first start with a cup of water because they had learned previous night they were so drunk So the first thing they will ask for is for a glass of water or a bottle of water Then the next thing not something to eat but it will be now something to drink which will be alcohol and that is a stage very, very, very important to note when you start to be addicted that you can do nothing without a glass of alcohol in the morning you are getting into trouble Another thing that I would want to mention to you is that one drunk person affects so many people those around him affects the family affects the neighbors affects even the rajas society because one alcoholic one addicted person in the real sense of addiction he affects 15 people just within his circles and this effect can be either directly or indirectly and for you let me talk about how it affected you first of all before I talk about your family and friends did it have any effect on your body on your health on your well-being as a person Yes, it had my health I did not go to the hospital because my health was bad but health wise you could see even in yourself that this person is having a problem How are you? I was something that you cannot be able to look at but God has given you earlier you said that God has restored that which was lost but I got saved when I was 28 years old and my dreams had been shattered because of alcoholism but when God when I accepted Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour of my life right there the day that I did that that was 20th of February 1986 that was a day that I had a transformation of my mind even of my heart because I had an experience in itself I tell people even when I preach that I cannot be able to explain to you what I felt because it was around 7.30 p.m. in the evening and I was walking along along our rock or rural road and I had an experience Jesus Himself appeared to me I tell people I cannot be able to explain this to you You saw Him? Yes He came to me and Lia and told me within a very audible voice that the love that you have never found in the world is the love that I'm going to give you You are saying you saw Jesus Christ one on one? Yes, I experienced it I tell people I cannot be able to explain to you or write it down to tell you the experience that I had but I had a personal experience with Christ What do you mean when you said you had a transformation of the mind on the spot? I started realizing the life that I was living was not a life worthy the God who was calling me So what did Jesus tell you? He told me that He will take care of me He will take care of me I will love you the madness that you had and you had asked this question how was I able to transform the madness and the goodness of God So when Jesus appeared to me and I accepted Him as Lord and Saviour of my life there is a scripture of a story that is given in the Bible of about Jesus when He was elected there were two disciples that were following Jesus when they were going to a house there was Curiopas one of them was named Curiopas The Bible says was unnamed His name was not mentioned in the Bible So when Jesus appeared to me I was reminded of this story and I was convicted that this other person whose name was not mentioned in the Bible was you and any other person who would want to follow Christ So when I accepted Him as Lord and Saviour of my life I was spirit filled and mind you I was not going to church No one preached to you No one preached to me but I knew the story because in my school certificate when I was doing my religious education we were taught the Bible very deep by Roman Catholic priests in Kanunga High School they taught us deep Bible I'm looking at Revenant how that experience was for you on the road what about the environment how did people see you That is why I was getting to Those around you notice that there is something going on with this gentleman That is what I was getting to Mr. Lam When I went home I told you it was around 7.30 Yes When I went home and told my people or my brothers and my sisters and those in our compound what was going through my life they started saying this man has done to be insane What I was talking about they said I'm insane you look like a mad man what you talking about can you remember what you are saying good things to come even in my own personal life good things that will happen even to our family good things you are speaking that this will happen in my life this will happen then the reality is spoken of today because they stopped saying that they saw this is something that is not just for today this is something that has happened there is a transformation so I changed I started taking now even taking care of my own personal hygiene that is cleaning myself even where I would sleep I started making my bed just the small things of life I started working So can someone have a life changing experience without going to church and can that this person who is watching it today come out of alcohol addiction and get into Christ and how do they do it Yes you can Yes you can be able one thing is to admit that you have a problem because remember I told you 31st of December 1985 I accepted that I had a personal problem with Akko and any other intoxicating thing that I would take the first step just as you say that the longest journey starts with the first step the first step which is the hardest the hardest is to admit I have a problem and I need help so when one accepts that I have a problem and I need help that is the beginning of a journey in itself the other thing that one takes is the step to say that the people of influence people who have been leading me into what I am doing the people I have been relating with I have to change my company those are the two basic things agreeing and then leaving some of the company because change your friends because some of the alcoholics the most people who influence them are the friends and when they are drunk and they get home they say I will leave this drink I will leave this because it is leading me nowhere but when they wake up the following morning and they join with the other friends they go back they go back to the same old problem that is eating them how can someone stop taking alcohol especially when someone who is you have been used to the culture of if I am stressed I take a drink is it possible to come out of that norm yes it is how do you do it by first agreeing just as I told you just accepting that I have a problem okay then still the same first accept you have a problem and this is where now I was coming to tell you also that over the years this passion of these people I just did not create it in myself the Lord again put this burden on me to help people to help these young people because when I was recovering I did not have a wife I did not tell you that the years the first years of my life from 1986 from when I left school and started now into a life that is not worth the living that people would find appropriate even the girlfriends that I had when I was in high school they came to a point where they could not even relate with me they left you some of them even told me personally because you never had of being somebody I have left you to go to somebody else and family what about family even family had a burden on also me you know because you know my parents had died my brothers and sisters were ashamed of my life but it came to a time where they accepted me back when I accepted Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior of my life you know when you go for family meetings family gatherings how do people I don't know if it was the same whether you had family gatherings but how do people receive you in most family gatherings that I have attended the drunkard one doesn't have a say in anything those times I didn't have a say but now most of the family matters now you have a say I'm not the order I'm not the order of them but not much can be passed without the resolution and the idea from the library but back then whatever you said it didn't matter even when my mum was being buried you know when they came to KBC at that time there was only KBC radio to announce the death to announce the death there was people who are doing it in the vernacular language my mother would be told is the mother of this and this mother in law to this and this person and among many others I was among many others among many others I was among many others and now they accept you yes because I accepted myself just as I said the first thing is to accept accept that you are yourself wow you mentioned something earlier on about the upbringing that you had when your parents used to make the muratina yes what would be your word of advice for a parent who is watching you right now they drink and how that parent affects or influences their child that is one of the most bad things that a parent can do to a child don't give them or don't even show them do you drink near them they shouldn't because you are raising up a drunkard generation and I without due respect you can see the problem that we are in right now some of the alcoholics who are now grownups if they can tell you every weekend some of them there was a culture here and I don't know whether it's still here parents would take their children to Nyama Choma joint they would ask for beer and ask soda for children as they wait for the meat but these children the daddy or the mum would go to the toilet they would see some of these drinks when the mum has left the table they would see what is this juice of daddy and I tell my people even those who are watching from the diaspora please do not put alcohol in your homes let me give it a top that's your camera I tell those in diaspora even when you go home don't take beer in your homes because you will raise up a generation of drunkards without knowing because right now in Kenya you might disagree with me but in Kenya this generation was raised who thought that they are giving ratio to their children weekend ratios but it has turned out to be a pandemic and by the way I started talking about alcoholism in the year 2007 here in Kenya nobody was talking about it I was telling them now they were talking about AIDS that was killing people I told them even in public forums because that is the first rehabilitation I started in Kiambu a priest called Keregiti in five years time here in Kenya we will be talking about a pandemic of alcoholism here because it will have affected our country and sure enough now the cry especially in our Mount Kenya region the cry there go to Moranga go to any place within the central part of it you will see drunk people even at this time we are talking about this as early as now it is even late others have gone back to bed are sleeping on the side of the road because of alcoholism alcohol when you you say parents go out with their kids and they go and they they sit on the table and the kids sit on the opposite table they take alcohol the kids take sodas how should an outing be for a parent who is watching you right now if they want to go out with their child what should they do? I would urge even as the community let us start up non alcoholic places where families can come without even without having alcohol those would be safe places I don't mean it's bad to take children out but let us find places where it's an non alcoholic environment and we will be able to save a generation do you at any point say that however you are raised by your parents you feel like we can do better as a generation the way we are raising our kids now this yes we can last week I was preaching somewhere and I asked parents whether they were excited that schools are being closed again and they said they are not because the freedom is not there they are saying they are not because we have abandoned our responsibilities although our parents brought us how they knew it they could not even allow us to drink but you see we were drinking because they were sending us they were enabling us by sending us to do some of the jobs that they were supposed to do as grownups but they did their part they took responsibility many of our generation did not go to boarding schools and I now say boarding schools are bad parents had taken their own responsibilities these days many parents have taken responsibility to teachers you transferred your parental responsibilities to your teachers to take care of your child not many people can like this when they close school because now they have closing school and by the way today I want to wish all those candidates who are sitting for their exams I am wishing them well and I am praying that we will also have people who will prepare a ground for them that after secondary schools there were things that will be done so that we cannot only be talking about making jobs for this generation but teaching them on how to create jobs for themselves yesterday I had a preacher who said something that really touched my heart he said these days the people who are making it are the people who fail in exams because when you fail you don't have any papers to go and show so you go and create your own job but those who pass with A's and B's they are the ones who are out there drinking and trying to fight jobs because they passed their exams and I said wow that is something but I am not telling them not to do good but it is also good to be creative and know that there is hope we have talked to the parents let's talk to the youths there is a young man watching you right now who says that I just cannot drink alone or I can't stay alone and not drink well young person out there if you see me see a testimony of what God can do to somebody who say I have found a purpose in my life and in my work for my future because your future young person is in your hands it is you who can be able to take it to make it or it is you who can be able to break it so you better make it than break it if someone wants to indulge they say this is a quote from the Bible you are a reverent enjoy your youth while you still can which is a verse many refer to but they forget the last one there and then they say in the Bible it says that a little wine is good for your stomach that was Timote because they are being advised by Paul there are many youths out there who are watching you right now reverent and they are wondering okay the reverent is too old to tell us about how our life is right now what would be your piece of advice to someone who feels as though you do not understand him you do not connect with him because that is the complaint of many young adults many teenagers that you don't understand my position you don't understand what I am going through I am justified to drink the way I am drinking because I have my own stress one thing they need to understand is yes I am a mad man and they should not disregard that I was also young like them wow you also there where they are I was also there where they are we had our own excuses because as I told you I did my school certificate in 1975 and at that time you could apply for a job and get a job you could write an application and get a job but in 1978 the crisis of joblessness got into our country and president gave an order that 10% every company had to employ 10% of their staff and they did that when they were employed the 10% there were school certificate rivers they would be employed as cleaners and subordinate staff and the director was one of those people who had started before education the director of a company the director of the company especially Parastatos they were appointees of the government so this young people they started leaving those jobs so joblessness did not start in the era of president Uhuru Kenyatta he started back then it started way back in the 70s it was there but we as the young people many of us started thinking otherwise we turned into what others have turned into today started making cheap alcohol started making changa started selling it and it became a pandemic just as the way it is until a time also the attorney general then who was attorney general who is still alive he can testify he said that he is going to legalize changa he legalized it and we could sit comfortably in those houses and we could drink it executively we could say executively and it went down you know the conception of changa went down so what some of these steps if we all work together and believe that we are in this problem all of us together whether it is the church whether it is the youth whether it is the government all of us we work together as a team and address this just as the way we had started addressing COVID-19 all together in this in the world we can be able to overcome it but if we bring we put the game there that these are old people they don't understand it and then we old people we started bringing these young people that they are doing it you are too young you have not seen life we will fall into a pit is there all of the church especially when it comes to removing people from alcohol and addiction there all of the church is very minute the church has done nothing most churches have done nothing they have done nothing concerning these people why do you say so because I am a witness of this have you ever seen many churches with the programs reaching out to alcoholics and addicted people I am asking you this question we don't have a question how many churches have you seen addressing this issue when a drunk person gets into a church how many have you seen I have seen the catholic church tries to do it the Anglican church sometimes tries and I am not saying that because I am an Anglican but they try they try but not not as we are supposed to do and to me I would say just I have mentioned to you Mr Lam that if we all do this together all this we do it together collectively every one of us take responsibility that this is our problem let's see how we can be able to handle it we can be able to fight this war together so we need more engaging programs so the youth and the community yes, yes also bring them bring them even on life those who are drunk let them talk themselves out wasi me shina zao zote wasi me shina zao zote wagi na tukai nawao kama bili nimeo na wumeka nawa re kua nawao nbelendi kawin people who are passionate for them to show them that there is still hope but still let's say nakunya tukidogo start conversing from there start the conversation from there that is where you start the conversation an example is in the programs that we have held there is one man who makes me very proud very very proud that young man I went and picked him from the streets of kiyamu he was so drunk and I met him in aroundre store and he was speaking to young girls who are doing the customer service there he was interested you can see a young man who is interested in those girls but the girls were telling were making fun of him there is nothing you can be able to handle you are out and I felt it and I said young man these young ladies are telling you the truth none of them can accept you the way you are but no one gets into addiction knowingly you find yourself addicted it all starts with the first drink it all starts with the first drink we have so many addicts out there who do not even know that they are addicts so back to the story of this young man before we lose it when this young girl started confronting him I talked to him and told him in case what young man tomorrow if you allow yourself to go to a rehab these young girls will one day accept you he said really? and he walked with me to a rehab we called it grace house today that young man he does hoking work in kiambutown sales what do you call this? earrings small things for redis all these things and guess what today he owns a car of his own loan free loan free loan free and he is so smart that even he is smarter than me I tell him I want to be like you when I grow up because of how smart he is this day I want us to finish this conversation and I want to give you just a minute or so give a final word a parting shot a take home for someone watching you today I would want to tell all of us that in the book of lamentations chapter number five in verse one Jerusalem there was a cry of what was going on because they had done evil in the eyes of God Jeremiah was preaching to God to restore Jerusalem guess what God had the prayers of Jeremiah we are in such a mood now we are crying for the restoration of our generation let us hold on let us not throw away everything there is hope there is hope in Christ Jesus who can handle you as a young person and I mean as a young person is a young girl a young man who has fallen into this habit we call it habit that has ruined your life and has tried to ruin your future I want to tell you make a decision just as I said earlier the first step can help you and you can have a future God bless you thank you very much Reverend it's a pleasure that is reverent Lawrence Mugwa Emmanuel Angelican thank you very much in North Carolina it's a pleasure having you Reverend I have so much but because of time we have to end it thank you so much for coming and you've said about Jeremiah one word from me don't worry about tomorrow Jeremiah said for I know the plans I have for you say it's a long time plans for hope in the future plans to prosper you and not to harm you so don't go to that bottle we want to see you having a bright future and remember don't drink and drive well it has been a pleasure being with you today I've had a fantastic time with the Reverend I hope you too have had the same make sure that you keep commenting on our social media pages the hashtag is why in the morning at Ramaguko and at Y254 channel well that's up thank you so much for being with us for everyone on behalf of everyone who made this show a success my producers my directors everyone we say thank you so much may God bless you may God bless the work of your hands my name is Ramaguko keep it Y254 this is why in the morning