Today I would like to continue with part two called escaping the news or escaping the trap, escaping the chokehold of the enemy in our life. We live in a very busy culture. We live in a culture today where a lot of people are overwhelmed, a lot of people are depressed, a lot of people are stressed out. The straw that breaks the camel's back. So I've read this thing about camels this week is that camels can survive in harsh conditions of a desert. They can go for 10 days without water. They can travel up to 40 miles per hour. They can carry up to 900 pounds of weight for 25 miles a day. 900 pounds, it's like a truck. Camels can carry great loads, but if a straw is placed on the camel, maximally loaded down, its back will be broken. The back is not broken by the straw, it's broken by the overload. So though they can carry 900 pounds for 25 miles, once they reach their max and you add a straw, it breaks their back. They collapse. The researchers agree on two things. Almost all the researchers agree on two things. One, all of us as humans are limited. Somebody say I'm limited. So burn that book that you bought that says you have no limits because that's not true. You have limits. You have limits physically, you have limits with time, you have limits with your gifts. All of us are limited. What makes God God is that he is not limited. You are limited. And one of the problems in our generation today is that we have many self-help gurus who are trying to lie to us and tell us to break our limits instead of live below our limits. This building has a limit of how many people we can fit. Let's say that this building can fit only 200 people and we stack 600 people. It's going to ruin this experience for every person. The bridge we are driving has a stress limit, meaning the amount of weight a semi can have when it rides on it. If you take a semi and load it five times more weight, it's not going to be fun if you're driving right behind a semi.  Why? Because a limit gets broken, limits get pushed. We live in the generation today where we have caffeine, where we have five-hour energy things you can buy at the gas station, anything you can do so you can constantly push your limit instead of live below them. And researchers say that we have limits. Number two, if we constantly push our limits, we go into overwhelmed, overloaded, overdrive, which eventually chronically destroys our relationships, our health, and our life. Something that I want to share with today is that when you live an overloaded life, it will lead to a burnout. Once the threshold of your limits are exceeded, overload replaces margin. It's kind of like a tree. If you take a tree and you bend it, you release it, it goes right back up. No harm done. You hold the tree lower, you hold it more and more and more and then something happens with the tree is snaps. Once the tree snaps, you release it, it doesn't go back up again. And that's what happens in our culture today when it comes to the issue of burnout, when it comes to the issue of being overloaded, overworked, depressed, and stressed out. The idea of stress didn't exist until like 1950, that one doctor started to study this topic. Until that time, the reason why stress wasn't really existence because we didn't have telephones. We didn't have televisions. And most of us didn't read... Well, I wasn't even alive that time, but there was no newspapers. It was also that time where we did not have light. And as much as incredible Thomas Edison and everybody else who invented electricity is great, what happened with an invention and light is that we started to prolong the day artificially. When our bodies were supposed to come down and go to sleep, what we did is we tried to trick the system, push the limits and say, no, we can stay up longer if we have artificial light. God is not giving us the light, we're gonna find more light. And so what started to happen, then came the telephones, then came the social media, and then came everything else. And what started to happen in our culture today is that though we are way more advanced, our phones are smarter, our cars can drive themselves, we have robots that can serve us, we have an AI jet, jet GPT thing that can pretty much like write everything and anything, and very soon it's gonna control probably half of the world. We have a world that is extremely smart, but we as humans are suffering because many of us are no longer humans, we're machines. We're no longer made machines, we become machines. There's something about a machine that you must understand, machine needs to be turned on and off, you can't.  Machines that don't operate in seasons, they operate all the time, you have seasons. You can't just have a baby because you got pregnant yesterday, you have to wait for nine months and there's no pills and no medicine you can take to make that baby go from nine months to just nine hours and just be born right here. It just can't, there has to be certain because that's what life produces, life and it takes time, you can't speed it up, nothing you can do to speed it up. Makes us nervous, confused and a little bit tense so we create systems to try to bypass that. And so what I'm gonna do today is I'm gonna dive into God's word and deal with something, this message is gonna be most practical message you probably have heard from me in a very, very long time. But I believe it's gonna be applicable. This message is also the one that I'm struggling to live the most.  No, I'm just gonna share more about where I'm struggling in this area as well. This is not gonna solve every problem. If the problem is demons, please go watch last Sunday's message, Spirit of Python. But for a lot of us, the problem is not demons, the problem is us. The problem is our habits, the problem is our lifestyle and the problem is our decisions. And we can name it, claim it, blabber, grab it, confess it, possess it, go to the altar, spit it out, vomit it, shake it, bake it, fall and roll and all of this stuff. But if you have bad habits established in your life, you are not going to find peace permanently. Jesus says, if you are stressed out, overwhelmed, come to me, give you peace. And then he says, if you stay with me, you will find peace.   But what's not okay is that if we only come to Jesus instead of walking with Jesus to change the way we live, the way we think, the pace of our life, the way that we behave in our habits so we can constantly live in perpetual peace in the midst of chaos. Have joy that's unspeakable.  Hallelujah. I personally struggle with the issue of having margin. Somebody say margin. Now margin, as we said last week, is having space between your limit and your load. Margin is having breathing room. Margin is having money at the end of the month. Margin is going up the stairs and having a breath after that instead of being completely dropping dead. That's what margin is. When I think of margin, when I think of free time, little extra money, free space, I'm always thinking that this is a problem to solve, not a virtue to protect. And it's been a personal struggle for me. Ever since we went on a vacation with my wife this year, I got rocked there by the Lord because I felt a revelation that came to me that really just rocked me. And this revelation in this form of a statement that I live my life trying to maximize my potential.  Meaning keeping breathing room because when you have breathing room, you make yourself available to God. When you have breathing room, you make yourself available in your finances, in your time and in your morality. When you don't have breathing room and you're constantly maxed out, maxed out, maxed out all the time, what begins to happen is that you won't reach really your potential. You will reach your burnout. And ever since that's been my prayer, Lord, help me to live my life in such a way that there is a margin. It's not easy like everybody in here. I am in the Bible college right now. I'm halfway through to my bachelor's in theology. I have a full-time ministry and a full-time church, full-time wife and a part-time dog. I also write books, create courses, blogs, podcasts, videos, travel and so many, so many other things. And so sometimes I feel like the 27 balls that is hanging out there and to be able to create margin and all of that, find breathing room. And one of the biggest things that everybody meets me and the first thing they say, I know you're busy. They're not even asking like, I know you're busy. So just, I know you're busy. And they keep saying, I know you're busy, which I know is not good. So, by the time I'm done with my message, I'm gonna be at the altar. You're gonna be coming and praying for me today. But the reason why I'm sharing this with you is because what I'm gonna share with you today is not something that I'm preaching at you.  So it's my own journey of walking with God and I wanna share that with you as well. It will not relate to some of you teenagers. You're like, margin, I have too much margin. I need something to do during the summer because I'm gonna go crazy with all this margin. But hang in there, this season of your torture will not last very long. Once you go to university, pick up two jobs and try to pay for college, trust me. You're gonna look for this message on YouTube. Let's open our Bibles to Matthew chapter 13, verse 22.  So I want you to notice something about this seed. The seed goes into the soil. So we see three things, seed, soil and the sower. The sower, of course, is the preacher of God's word. We know that the seed is Jesus. It's the kingdom of God and the soil is our hearts. And the Bible breaks it down to four types of soil. Seed is the same, soils are different and because the soils are different, there's different results. And we see that the third type of soil is actually, everything is fine, that it's very frutal soil, meaning very successful, very productive. It's so productive, everything grows there. See, some of us struggle with failure. We're like, man, anything I touch is just broken. Some of us struggle with success and that's also a problem. Because anything we touch, we get opportunities, we get ideas, we just type A personality, we wanna run, we wanna like just hustle and bustle and side hustles and things on the weekend and we just like create different things and school and work and kids and the football practice and this practice and the golf and then social media and then we started the YouTube channel then we started the podcast and we're like doing all of these amazing things and there's nothing wrong with the soil. It's super frutile, but it's also not super healthy. And the Bible says this what happens, the seed goes into the soil, the seed, somebody say seed. Seed has the potential to produce a harvest. Somebody say harvest. And so the seed goes into the soil and the seed doesn't really need anything. It has a potential to become a harvest. It has a potential to multiply itself but there's just one problem with the seed is the seed needs space. Somebody say space. So the seed that goes into the soil needs space. If it doesn't have space, it cannot multiply, it cannot become a forest, it cannot do anything that is sort of not natural. Because if you put a rock on a table, it stays there on the table for five years. Will it there be a mountain from this rock? A rock doesn't produce a mountain. Why? Because it just doesn't have the power in it, it cannot multiply, has no life in it. The seed on the other hand is very tiny, very small. You put it into the right environment, the soil, your human heart, you give it space, it can produce a harvest. See, this is what I want us to get out today is this is that God wants to do more with less. Say this with me, say God wants to do more with less. Which means God wants to multiply things. God wants to supernaturally accelerate your finances. God wants to supernaturally bless your family. God wants to supernaturally bless your business. God wants to supernaturally bless your relationships. God presents his kingdom as a seed, not a rock. Meaning it has a supernatural ability to multiply itself. If you give it margin, if I give it breathing room, if I give it space, somebody shout space, somebody shout my space. That was a social media network. I just was trying to see how many older people we have here today. You need, God needs space, breathing room. We need to have that space. This is what we need to remember about this seed. The seed can multiply, the seed needs space, and the seed, though it can multiply, it can fight, and it cannot find space unless you create it. The seed will not choke the thorns. The thorns will choke the seed. How could that be possible if the seed is so powerful, but it cannot fight, it cannot compete with weeds. And weeds, weeds are all these extra things that all of us have and I have tons of them. Weeds happen when you become fruitile, when you're good at something, what you do, when you become blessed, when you become successful, you get the job, you get the degree, things are going, and you get more opportunities. We can do more. We don't wanna miss out. Well, look at the Jonas's. They already moved into a new house. Look at my coworker. They already got three kids and you're still not married. Come on, hurry up. This idea of missing out, this idea of keeping up with other people, this idea of putting pressure. I need to be further. I looked at my wife today. I'm like, I'm 37 years of age. I feel like I haven't done anything with my life. She's like, well, that's what happens when you're in your life. You see, when you step out of it, she's like, then you get stuff done. I'm like, we don't have anything. We don't have done anything. And that's how some of you of us feel because we're kind of in it and then we compare ourselves to other people. No, it's not true. Because we're not here to be productive as much as we are here to live for God and to be fruitful. Can somebody say amen? Something I want us to keep in mind and that is this, the blessing of God makes one rich but it adds no sorrow with it. Proverbs 10, 22. Blessings of God will make you busy but busyness doesn't make you blessed. You can be blessed and a little bit busy and you can be busy and not blessed at all. Burdened, overwhelmed. Blessings must have boundaries or they become burdens. In Psalm 18, 19, it says, He brought me out into a broad place. Somebody say, broad place. Broad place. He delivered me because he delighted in me. God doesn't just want to bring you to a place where you are blessed. He wants you to bring to a place where there is space, where there is broadness, that there is a margin. John 15, two, it says, every branch in me that doesn't bear fruit, he takes away and every branch that bears fruit, he prunes that he may bear more fruit. God can do more with less. Our relationships needs room. Seeds need space. Miracles need margin. Blessings need boundaries. Grace has a pace to it and revival needs a rhythm. Sometimes we have to say no to good things so that we can say yes to God things. Sometimes you have to say no to weeds. So you can say yes to a seed. At first it doesn't make sense saying yes to a seed. The seed doesn't grow fast. The seed is not boisterous and big. The seed will not get you a lot of likes on Instagram. The seed will not get you win a competition of who's better, who's ahead, who got the new nice and shiny and the latest and the coolest thing. That's not how the seed works. The seed is slow, but the seed multiplies itself and the seed cannot do that. God cannot work if we don't give room. When COVID happened and then my ministry, VSM started to take off. What I started to notice is it started to get a lot of opportunities. A lot of opportunities to go and speak to other churches. Something that a lot of pastors or preachers look to that are like, man, this is like amazing. God's answering my prayer. I realized at the time God wasn't answering my prayer. God was testing me. And so I took a whole year off from travel, declined every single invitation to really stay back home and not only stay back home, but find out what does God have for me to do? What did he call me to do? And said no to everything so I can say yes to listening to God's voice. And then a year later, I started to travel and I made a decision that pretty much for every yes that I will say, I will say about five no's because you can't say yes to everything and say yes to God. And so now I am super intentional. Make sure that I'm here on Sunday. Make sure that I'm able to do my school. Make sure that I'm able to still meet with the people that I need to meet at church, to meet with the team. Make sure that I also have peace and my relationships are healthy. And the moment that some trips or invitations do not answer that, then they have to go. No matter how big that is, no matter how much opportunity there is, no matter how much money I need because I started to let go of the church's salary until we move into a new building, all of that has to take second because it's better to say one yes to God than to say too many no's, too many yeses to man. Interesting, in the beginning of the year, the Lord told me this in my heart and he says, if you walk my path and if you say yes when I tell you to say yes and keep margin in your schedule this year, I will surprise you with things during this year that you were trying to or were hoping to get one day. The whole Sid Roth interview, I was trying to get there for the last five years for those of you who don't know who Sid Roth is, he interviews people and he has a television network. When I released my book, A Break Free, I was trying to be there. I actually sent the book there. Nobody opened it though. Nobody responded, nobody called back. I had two other people that said, we will call and we will get you in there, nothing worked until I gave up. And not only until I gave up but until I also said, Lord, I'm making room for you. We'll see what's gonna happen. This lady calls me. Turns out she was from Richland. Ukrainian-Italian and she says, I watched your stuff last year. Yeah, didn't like you. I was like, ma'am, I'm totally not offended by the way. You know, and she's like, but this year, she's like something just spoke to me. That's the guy that we need to bring for that interview. And I really felt even when that happened, when I finally gave that up and I said, Lord, you can do more with less than God started to move more.  A lot of us, what we do today is we do more and we see God doing less. God wants to do the opposite. But to do that, there has to be room. Three things that I'm gonna leave you with today or highlight when it comes to room. Number one is in our mind. Number two is in our money. And number three is in our morality. So I'm gonna make it something very practical to find room in our life, in our mind. We need to take one day off a week and not work. Number two, to find room in our money, we have to spend less than we make.  And number three, to find room in our morality, we have to not ask the question, how close to the line I can get. But we have to ask a different question. So let's dive in. Number one, when it comes to finding space in here, finding room in here, finding breathing room, finding peace, more peace, we have to follow God's principle from the creation. And that is to take one day off a week. Now, we are not 70 Adventists. We love 70 Adventists. They let us park our church parking cars over there. We love them. But there's something about 70 Adventists you have to remember is that statistically, 70 Adventists live 10 years more than every other denomination. Somebody did the math. Every Sabbath they keep, keeps them, adds to their life. Because they take one day off a week and they don't work and they do it legalistically, some of them, they do it religiously, meaning no work on Saturday whatsoever, they go to church and afterwards they spend time with the family, no vacuuming, no gardening, none of the work that we all do on the weekends on our days off we just don't get paid for. But they actually take the day and they separate it to God, separate it to family. Statistically, they get those days back by living longer. Now, I grew up in the home. We were not 70 Adventists who were Pentecostal Sundayists. I know there's no word in the dictionary but we can create words, we can create words in America. On Sunday in the home that I grew up in, we were not allowed to do anything. We went to church twice on Sunday. I mean, I remember I didn't finish my homework on Saturday so I needed to use scissors. I got in trouble for using scissors for cutting piece of paper for my homework. It was not allowed. We're not allowed to vacuum. We're not allowed to play sports. Okay, we took this Sabbath thing to the extreme. We're not allowed to do anything. Food had to be prepared and there was this rule in the family. I thought there was legalism until I came to America now and I'm missing those days. But there's something biblical when God created the world. He did six days that you work and the seventh day God unplugged. Now, God doesn't get tired. God doesn't get weary. God doesn't need that but he did it for the humans to follow the pattern. Six days you work and the seventh day you stop. The word Sabbath means stop. Somebody shout stop. Stop meaning we have to take one day a week. This is God's rule for life. This is God's law. This is not something we do to go to heaven. This is something we do so we don't go to heaven too fast. Yeah, this is something we do so we follow God's pattern. So this is something we do so we can live with this memory. I am a human being, not a human doing. I am not a machine. Machines work all the time. If my iPhone decides to not work on Sunday, he's fired.   But see, we as human beings were created in divine circle, divine cycle and that is this. Work, work, work, stop. How we have it in America is this. Work, work, work, months, months, months, months and then we have a vacation. Vacation was not biblical idea. God's biblical idea is you have a vacation once a week called a day off. That was God's idea for Sabbath. Now when Israel came out of Egypt, I want you to notice, God introduces the idea of taking a day off first in Exodus and he says, because I worked for six days, I rested on the last day, you need to do exactly the same. In fact, the fourth commandment has the most lines than any other commandment. God was so focused on that. Why? Because human beings sometimes become human doings unless we stop. Some of us like, I can't afford to stop. We'll get to that in just a second. In Deuteronomy, God talks about the Sabbath and he no longer talks about the creation as an example for him, for Israel to follow him. He talks about slavery now and he says, you were in bondage in Egypt and he says, now you can keep the Sabbath and remember how you were slaves. And when you're reading that, you're like, why is God referring to slavery when he's talking about a day off? And now referring to the Genesis account of creation, you know, the cycle of God, which is work, work, day off, work, work, day off, work, work, day off. But God is referring to bondage. What does bondage have to do with the day off? Slaves don't have a day off. And God was saying, you're no longer slaves. That means work cannot be your task master. Work is not your identity. It is a gift from God and we work six days but we have to have one day that we stop from all the work. Why? Because slaves don't rest and we are not slaves anymore. Don't allow your job, your hustle, your dreams to become a Pharaoh that drowns you in the sea of stress and being overwhelmed.  Just one post office worker, just won a lawsuit against the post office.  I told our aunts to go and to Supreme court so they can get Sundays off too. Not just Saturdays. Are you with me? Many of us want God to direct our steps but God wants us to follow his stops. Let me say that again. If we want God to order our steps we must follow his order to stop. God wants us to stop once a week. Now when it comes to this, it's most difficult to do because there's a spiritual principality that does not want you to stop. I like what Old Testament scholars said. Sabbath is an act of resistance. It's an act of rebellion against Pharaoh and his empire. It's an insurgency and insurrection against the isms of the Western world. Globalism, capitalism, materialism, all of which sound nice but quickly make slaves of the rich and the poor. John Mark Cumber in Elimination of Hurry said, this Sabbath is like a guerrilla warfare tactic. If you want to break free from the oppressive yoke of Egypt's task master and it's restless, relentless lust for more, just take a day off each week and stick it to the man. Come on somebody. If we don't stop, we drop. In Chronicles 3621 it says, to fulfill the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah until the land enjoyed her Sabbaths. As long as she stays desolate, she kept Sabbath to fulfill 70 years. Little background story. Israel goes to Babylon as into exile. Jeremiah prophesied 70 years that will be in exile. In Chronicles, we see the insight of this story. So Israel was supposed to keep Sabbath, not only for them, they had to have a Sabbath for the land. So every seven years or so, you had to take a break and not plant anything and allow whatever grows, kind of grow, pretty much give land a break. Israel didn't do that for 490 years. Now they end up in exile in Babylon and God is prophetically saying, because you did not give land a break, I'm gonna kick all of you out of the land into the exile so that the land will get its break. I wonder if every time we don't take a day off, we actually incur God's judgment. I am not saying that God doesn't love us more or less. There's nothing to do with that. Your body is incurring judgment. It's kind of like going on a red light all the time. It's a matter of time. You will get hurt. Some of us were like, we'll undergrace. This doesn't mean being undergrace doesn't mean that we reject God's laws and God's principles for living as human beings. It means we submit to them without making those principles and those laws something that dictates legalism. Jesus says on the Sabbath, if your ox falls in, meaning something happens in an emergency, you can do that, but many of us don't live like that.  That's me. Something that the Lord challenged me on a vacation. I need to go more to vacations. I feel like I hear God more clearly there.  He says, what excuse do you have for not giving a tide? I said, well, I could do more stuff with this money. He says, but you trust that I will do more with 90 that you can do with 100. I said, yes, Lord, and I never doubt it. When I tide every single time that I get paid, it's been a habit instilled to me by my parents that God can do more with your 90 that you can do with 100. And God says, do exactly the same thing with your time. I can do more with your six days of work that you can do with your seven days of work. Oh, but there is a book that I can write. If I just take these days off, I can finish the course. I can finish the homework and everything. And a lot of us have this thing, but exactly the same thing we would could do with our finances, yet we don't do them. Many of us were faithful with tidying. We're like, no, this belongs to God. I trust he will bless the rest. I want to challenge you today to rise against the principality in the United States and rebel against it. By honoring one day a week, God created cycle and taking one day and completely stop. And you may say, what do I do on that day? Three things. One, stop working. Meaning stop doing work that you get paid to do and not paid to do. For a lot of us mowing the lawn, fixing the car, repainting the house, changing the roof is work. We just nobody pays us. And so what many of us do is we have two days off a week, one day we do the work in the houses, which we all need to do, catch up, pay the bills, fix the computer, fix this, fix that, run around to this. And then we have to have one day where we don't do any work and we stop, the worst Sabbath means to stop. The second thing that what we must do is to enjoy ourselves. Enjoy, do things that enjoy us. And no, going to the bar is not enjoying. That's a sin. It's like, yeah, perfect. Bench watching, that's not enjoying. That's numbing. Entertainment, that is numbing yourself. That is not enjoying. Do things that enjoy. Go for a walk, go drink coffee, get a meal with somebody. Do something that replenish your emotional energy. And the third thing is contemplate God. Do something that reconnects you to God, whether it's in prayer, whether it's in worship.  That's not that. Did you enjoy the Lord? Pull back to enjoy God. For some of you it's Sunday.   Take time to stop completely.  We can't be smarter than God. Can you do more things by working all seven days?  You will not enjoy things. So how do we get our peace in our mind? How do we get breathing room? Is we make like seven day Adventists, make a religion out of this. One day we keep off with our family, with our God, and with our fun. Amen, is it hard? It's not hard, it's very difficult.  And we have to honor that. Can somebody say amen? If we keep the Sabbath, the Sabbath will keep us. Chick-fil-A is the most loved fast food restaurant in the United States. Chick-fil-A has less stores than McDonald's. Chick-fil-A is closed on Sunday, which is one of the most profitable days in the fast food restaurant world. And Chick-fil-A makes more money, only being open six days than any restaurant, fast food restaurant, in the United States. You may say, how do you explain that? You can't, the same way you can't explain how somebody can tie 10% and still make it at the end of the month and have extra. Why you can't explain that? Because the seed brings the harvest. And you're making the room for the seed. God will supernaturally provide when you tithe, and God will supernaturally provide for your life when you take one day off. Trust God with your time as you do it with your tithe. Keeping the Sabbath should be as normal as giving 10%. And this is, I'm preaching to myself right now. Tithing is giving money. Keeping a day off is giving time. God can do more with 90% of your work than you can do with all of that work. There was a story of a wagon train of Christians traveling on its way from St. Louis to Oregon. They observed the habit of stopping for the Sabbath during the autumn. But as winter approached, the group began to panic for the fear that they will not reach their destination before the snow began. Number of members of the group proposed they should quit the practice of stopping for the Sabbath and travel seven days a week. This caused an argument in the community until it was finally decided to divide the group into two groups. One group will rest one day and trust God with the whole snow and the weather situation. And the other group will take everything into its hands and go as fast as possible to Oregon. And they wanted to see who will arrive to Oregon first. Both people and their horses, the ones who rested will rest it by their Sabbath observance and they could travel more efficiently by other six days and they arrive to Oregon first. Sabbath is about taking 24 hours to stop work, rest and focus on God. Constantine, the Roman emperor, the first Christian Roman emperor is the one that ordered the whole empire to take one day off and actually to serve and to worship God and to be with their family. American colonies had blue laws. Blue laws were laws where you were not allowed to work on the Christian Sabbath, which was Sunday. 100 years later after American colonies came, they still observed the blue laws where you could not work on Sunday. In fact, George Washington, the first president of United States was just elected to be a president of United States, was traveling from Connecticut to New York and was stopped for violating Connecticut's law for bidding travel on Sunday. This was the history of United States. In 1980s in Arkansas, James Armstrong was fined $25 for digging potatoes in his field on Sunday. John Meeks was fined $22.50 for shooting squirrels on Sunday. I think that's a recreational activity. That should have not been fined. But this was the history of the United States. The history was this is that we honored God. Everybody had to be stopped working because there was an honor of Judeo-Christian valleys. Today, what we see is, I call it greasy grace, where anything goes, God's law doesn't matter. We're not under the law. No, we're not under the law, but these laws still work. These principles, I'm not preaching to you a way to get to heaven. What I'm preaching to you is on the way to live in a way that glorifies God, in a way that replenishes your family, your health and your life by taking one day, getting a good nap, reading a book, praying, worshiping, going on the nature, coming to church, whatever that day is, if it's on Sunday on Sunday, the idea is not which day, the idea is that there is a day that is observed that we honor God. Can somebody say amen? The second thing, and that is we find breathing room by spending less than we make. Quality of life is not always determined by the standard of life. Look chapter 12, verse 15, and he said to them, take heed and beware of covetousness, for once life does not consist in the abundance of things he possesses. The standard of life is about your possessions. The quality of life is about your relationships. In order to raise the standard of life, a lot of us, we don't see the increase in our finances, so what we have in our culture is increasing debt. For many people, they increase the standard of life by increasing their debt, which produces more stress, more need to get an extra job, because the standard of life tells us if you have a better standard of life, you will have a better quality of life. But one person did the research and found out this, Dr. Angus Deaton, no matter where you live, your emotional well-being will be as good as it's going to get at $75,000 per year. And money is not going to make it any better beyond that point.  Now for some of us, we're like, man, there's a lot of room to grow. Lord, increase that, and that's completely fine, and there's room to grow. But what I wanna encourage us with this, with finances, and this is where many Christians make a mistake, and they don't think anything is wrong with it. Man, it might not be wrong, but it's completely a foolish decision to live your life financially maxed out. Credit cards maxed out. Spending is at the level of income. Guess what begins to happen? There is no margin room there. When there is no margin room there, we have to do one of the two things. We have to either increase the income or decrease the expenses. So we can have a margin. When it comes to do we buy a new car? Do we upgrade a house? You have to ask this question. If we get that, will we still have a margin in our life? If we don't have a margin, then God has spoken. You shouldn't get it. But we got a prophetic word. I had a dream that I was driving a brand new car. It's not a dream, it's a nightmare. Forget about it. Because once the bills begin to come, there will be no dream, it will be a nightmare. There will be fights. People divorce because of money problems. And what begins to happen is this lie. If I increase my standard of living, I will have higher standard of life. But the standard of life doesn't consist on the standard of living. Does not depend on the standard of life. What it depends on is on the quality of relationships.  It doesn't increase the depth of that relationship.  I need to have a new iPhone. But the question is, can you afford it and still have a margin? Not, can you afford it to put it on the payment? No, can you afford it and still have a margin? If you don't have a margin, that means it's not God's blessing. It is the devil's temptation. Oh, it can't be God wants to be blessed. Yeah, but the Bible says the blessing of God doesn't add sorrow. Anything that adds a burden with the blessing might not be a blessing. It might be a temptation. And what we do is we max out our credit cards. We max out every single thing and then we come like, man, I'm stressed out. Well, you dig the hole. When Noah took animals into the ark, I want you to know this few things. This really just excited me when I saw that. Is Noah took seven pairs of animals, seven types, no, apologize. He took seven pairs of clean animals and two pairs of unclean animals. I always thought that it was just one pair of each. Turns out there was seven pairs of clean and two pairs of unclean. So of each animal, he had to take about nine pairs for few reasons. One, preservation. So when all of this is done, there's animals that could continue to live. Preservation speaks of our savings account. A lot of us, what we make, we don't have any preservation, meaning nothing is there for tomorrow. Everything is eaten today and that's not healthy. The second thing why he took some animals is to eat while they were going through the stuff. All of you vegetarians, I'm sorry, but it happened in the book of Genesis. Animals were being eaten and eating. So this speaks of spending. But then he had one more thing that he had clean animals for is to offer them as a sacrifice. So he had these seven pairs of clean and two pairs of unclean so that they could be eaten, so that they could reproduce and continue the lineage of more animals so that we can have animals as well and so that they can offer to God as a sacrifice. That's really, animals is like our money. We need to save, we need to spend, and we need to give. And sometimes we're like, man, but that's a lot. I don't have money to give. That means a few things need to happen. Number one, we need to increase our income. How do we do that? Ask God, like Jebus, Lord enlarge my territory. I remember fighting with my wife over $5 Starbucks a long time ago. She would go like once a week to meet with people and spend $5 in Starbucks and Starbucks coffee is just way overpriced and way overburnt. But anyway, and we're fighting, fighting over it. I was like, babe, could you cut it back? If you just cut back the $5 Starbucks, it will solve all of our financial problems, pay off all of our debt, and we will never fight again.  Everything I'm missing in my life right now can't be resolved by you not drinking Starbucks coffee for once a week. So this is in my head. I didn't tell her that yet. I was preparing the speech, making sure that my points were bulletproof. And I remember in my car, I felt the Holy Spirit put prompted in my heart and he said, instead of fighting your wife to reduce the $5 a week, what if you ask me to help you increase finances by $5 a week so you don't have to fight and your wife can get that overpriced burnt coffee? And praise God, she got delivered by now. She doesn't drink Starbucks anymore, praise you Jesus. She drinks other coffee. She has a suspensive though. And now I drink, I take more coffee. And I remember I said, Lord, you're right. It will take exactly same energy for us to cut off $5 of coffee and fighting and all of this stuff and then she's gonna slip back into that habit. I knew she's gonna slip back. It will take all of this hustle. But what if I take half of this energy and I pray the prayer of Jabez, all that you would bless me and enlarge my territory? Lord, increase my income. Lord, increase our income. When we just got married, we lived in an apartment, incredible place to live in. But then instead of buying a brand new home, we said, what can we buy so that we can have margin? If we buy a brand new home, we wouldn't be able to have margin because we couldn't save $150 a month when we lived in the apartments. But we said, okay, what if we buy a rental so that we can rent one side, live in one side, rent out to basement? That was before Airbnb. And then we can have margin and we can have even extra so we can go on the vacation. Now the rental property didn't look as pretty as our dream home. But see, what drove our decision, our financial decisions wasn't how it looked. What will it do to our margin? A lot of us make decisions based on how will it look and make me feel. But you're 25 years old. Those things shouldn't matter.   What should be driving your financial decisions is this. Can I still save, spend and give? Can I have margin if I make the decision? If there is no margin, that means that's pretty much, you know what God is telling you. Hold up. But what about my friends? You're not living your friend's life.  Your peace matters more than your prosperity and that peace will lead to prosperity. I pray that you will prosper as your soul prospers and be in good health. Christian prosperity is not maxing everything out and leaving stressed out, popping pills because we can't sleep at night. Christian prosperity is that we prosper and we protect here so that everything else flows out of there. Amen. Joseph saved during the time of famine. 20%, one-fifth of everything Joseph was making, they could have just built bigger. What do they have those things in Egypt? Pyramids. They could have made golden pyramids. All this grain was coming in. This would be a good moment to upgrade, update, bigger, nicer, newer. Shania, did you guys see the new vision thing that Apple is releasing? Didn't you see the new card the Tesla is releasing? Didn't you see the new thing that this is releasing? This would be a good moment, prosperity. Let's make things bigger, nicer, newer and updated. But Joseph had a wisdom that came from the Holy Spirit. He says, when we have plenty, that means there's coming a day we won't have enough. We have to exercise wisdom. We're gonna take 20% and we are going to store it. We're gonna store it so when the famine comes in, I can make Pharaoh the richest man on the planet because now he has grain to sell. Other people are losing during a famine. I'm winning during the famine. Why? Because when things were plenty, I exercised prudence and wisdom. Now I understand this is not plain in the spirit out in Jesus mighty name message. But this changes everything when it comes to our life. When it comes to our finances. God wants us to live with prudence. It saddens me how many Christians are in debt to their eyeballs. Saddens me how many Christians are stressed out and fighting. It can start today. You can break the cycle in your family today by making the decision. Maybe you're looking and you feel more overwhelmed. You're like, man, this message makes me more depressed.  My goal isn't to offend you or to cause you to feel more depressed but to plant a seed that maybe in three, four years you will get out of that and you will live a different legacy. Leave a different legacy and live a different life. Come on somebody. Let's give the Lord a praise. And the last thing is put a distance between you and temptation. Blessed is the man who walks not in the council of the ungodly but stands in the path of sinners nor sits in the seat of the scornful. So we mentioned how do we practice breathing room, margin. Number one is in our life, we honor God's principle. We take one day off. In our finances, we honor God's wisdom and that is not only that we tithe but we try to live with the margin that we have extra every single month. If we cannot have extra, we either cut back our expenses or we increase our income and we look at how can we live so that we have extra. Sometimes it's hard. Sometimes it's not possible for a season but we seek them knowing that's God's wise standard. But there's one more area that I wanna mention about margin and that is morality. You have to, I have to have a distance between me and my temptation for me to walk in righteousness. Many people what they do is they cause their temptation to come too close for them by playing in the gray areas. The Bible says the righteous man doesn't walk, doesn't stand and doesn't sit. What does this mean? This means we don't actually fall into sin as many of us think. We gradually walk into it. You don't just fall into sin. For example, the big sin Samson committed, judges 16-1. Samson went to Gaza, saw a harlot and went into her. Okay, minister of God, anointed man of God, slept with a prostitute. Bad, bad day. No, it wasn't a bad day. Did you know how many miles Gaza is from where Samson lived? 25. Did you know how many steps it took to get to Gaza? 56,250 steps. Did you know he didn't just fall into sin? He took 56,000 steps toward it. It wasn't a sin when he took the first one. It wasn't a sin that he took the second one. It wasn't a sin when it was a 56,000th one until he finally ended up in her house. Greg Grishel said this. He says, people don't ruin their life by taking one tragic big step. It's never one. It's more like 56,250 steps. But this is where we do it. This is how we do it, is this. It's not sin, therefore I do it. The fact that it's bringing me closer to sin, we ignore that. Kids, young people always ask me, Pastor Vlad, is it wrong to kiss before wedding? And I ask him this question. Is it wise? In light of knowing where this will lead, they ask me, is it wrong to do this? I ask them this question. I said, don't ask me, is it wrong? Ask me, is this wise? Why? Because nobody does something that's wrong until they do multiple things that are not wise. But the reason they did multiple things that are not wise is because those unwise things were not wrong. And we say, it's not wrong to do that. It's not wrong to do that. And when you stack too many, not wrong, not wrong, not wrong, not wrong, not wrong. The Bible doesn't say anything into it. But if you ask the different question and say, is this wise? In light of what I got delivered from, in light of the dreams and the plans that God has for me, in light of the pulling grip of temptation that exists, in light of Satan walking like a roaring lion, is this the wisest thing that I should be doing with that joker? With in that place, should I be hanging out with that person? Should we be doing this right now? I know it's not wrong. We don't have a Bible verse that it says it's a sin. But if we keep stacking these things that are not wrong, we'll find ourselves dropped into a place where like, how did this happen? 56,000 steps that were not wrong. So how do we make margin? You put as much distance between you and your temptation as you possibly can. On your difficult day, Satan will bridge that gap by coming closer.  But he won't be able to overtake you.  And the devil still is fast. He will catch up to you and you find yourself in the same scene. Not because God didn't deliver you, but because you didn't practice wisdom. You thought it was legalism. It's not legalism, it's wisdom to put a space between you and the temptation. It's not legalism. For me, not to ride with a woman in the car or to go alone somewhere to eat, this is about wisdom. When we begin to put a space between us and temptation, between us and our struggles, the things that we battle with, it might not be wrong for you to have social media on your phone. But if that is the area that the devil always uses to trap you, the wisest thing would be to remove it. Oh, how will I live without it? You will live wholly and pure. Come on, somebody. It might not be wrong for you to date right now, but listen, you just got out of a relationship two weeks ago, it is not the wisest thing to do. The best thing to do is to put a gap between you and the temptation by separating yourself as much as possible. Make a margin, give God a breathing room so you can walk in holiness and righteousness. Instead of asking a question, how close to the edge of the cliff I can get without falling, we should ask a question, how close to Jesus can I stay? How close to Jesus I can stay? You know, for a lot of people, that's where the questions are always asked. How close? Really, that's the mindset that needs to shift.  How close to sin has to land? It's not wrong to smoke weed. The Bible says we have authority over the grass. Yeah, will you smoke weed? Grass has authority over you. And people always come up and they, because the goal is this, how close to sin can I get? Now imagine me coming to my wife. My wife is watching right now. Babe, forgive me for this illustration. And I said, babe, the Bible clearly states adultery is sin, meaning the line is me sleeping with another woman. Babe, how close to another woman can I get without you considering it an adultery? Making out, hanging out together, DMing each other, snap chatting each other, sending inappropriate stuff to each other. But now, sin, my wife would put me out of my misery by just asking that question. And she would sign me up for a therapist for even thinking that question. Because she would say, how in the world are you asking that? You should be asking how close you can stay to me so you don't have to think about no other people. That's how we should live, remember. The man who built his house on the sand was called what? Foolish, he was not called sinful. What he did was nothing wrong. The man who built his house on the rock was not called righteous. What he did wasn't righteous. What he did was wise. The man who built his house on the sand, he didn't do anything wrong.  Many Christians live by this. I didn't do anything that is not in the Bible.  The Bible gave us book of Proverbs.  You remember the 10 virgins? Did you know that they were not called 10 sluts and 10 five virgins? They were called all virgins, meaning they were all pure. Only five were wise. The other five, not wise. Why? Because they didn't take extra oil. They didn't create extra in their life. There was no margin. There was no breathing room. Just enough in case he makes it in time.  It's not their thing. And he doesn't come on time and they miss the appointment not because they slept around, but because they lacked wisdom in their life. When we don't have a margin between us and our temptation, when we don't have margin between us and our debt, our income and our expenses, when we don't have margin in our life and our minds, what begins to happen is we are not operating in wisdom. I'm not saying we're going to hell. I'm saying we're going to live in one. We're going to experience what the man experienced to build his house on a sand. Overwhelmed. Now the enemy will attack us. The spirits of python and depression, they will attack us. But there's something we can do when we're not under attack is to build our life in the way that honors Jesus and puts a margin between us and our expenses, between us and our temptation and between us and our stress load. Amen. Oh, I got fired up. Don't ask, is this wrong? Ask, is this wise? Parents, when your kids come up and they begin to say, Mom, it's not wrong. Ask them this question, but is this wise? Young men, young woman, about that dating relationship, about that purchase that you want to make, about the school that you're going to go to, ask this question, not is this wrong? You passed that now, is this wise?  Amen. Also, if you enjoy these messages, would you help us and hit thumbs up to this video and subscribe to our channel so you can get new videos every single week delivered to you on your YouTube app. If you go to hungrygen.com forward slash sermons, you'll actually be able to download the transcript, the notes and the quotes of this sermon and the rest of all of our sermons free of charge. Until next time.


My name is Kevin. Today is November 29th. We're here at the Placent Planning and Development Agency's city planning meeting for Glover's Corner and we're here with community residents and a group of organizations that come together to do an action in response to their planning process. We're really just concerned with the way this process has gone down so far and so we're asking for a six-month stop to that process and a real community process that involves residents, residents that are going to be impacted as development comes and we're not against development but we just want to make sure that development happens without displacement and in a way that really you know, maintains the small businesses, the jobs, the livelihood of the residents, mostly immigrants, folks of color, working-class folks in the neighborhood. I'm a resident of the community of Rochester and I'm here today with a community of people from Vietnam and we can see that this process is not within the community. We are the people of the people of Vietnam, the American people and the people of the community that are not in this room. We have a meeting with the DPA, LATHA and they don't want to answer us. We want to take this process back for six months to happen. My name is Tran and I'm a resident of Dorchester. I'm here today with many voices and people in the community that are feeling left out of this planning process. We represent the needs, capabilities, working-class of our neighborhood in many areas of Glover's Corner. We had a meeting with the BPA about the importance of development without this placement and the need to slow down this planning process. We want a six-month moratorium and this planning process to have more time to engage and learn about the future of Dorchester together. My name is Cindy and I'm a resident of Dorchester and I'm here today with many voices of the community that are feeling completely left out of this process. I live on Wells and I'm concerned that the housing costs in Dorchester is forcing residents out and this plan does not address the real income levels of the many families and affordable housing options for the families who live here and want to remain as residents of Dorchester. We want a need development without displacement. Good evening everyone. My name is Mimi of a Dorchester resident and I'm here because I really am concerned about where this planning process is leaving the voices of our residents out. We're here because we care about the voice of our neighborhoods for them to be at the table around the economic opportunities that this planning process will bring around good jobs. It's not just about the construction and good jobs coming in but who's going to gain access to the good and permanent jobs for our community. We want to make sure that our neighborhood is strong and can take place with us in the community around this opportunity so we hope that you can stand with us. Maria. They paid the microzone. You have to speak a little loud, okay? This is Maria everyone. You can join us. Can you say your part? Yes. Okay. But you have to speak a little loud so that the community can hear. Okay, my love. Good afternoon. Everybody. Good afternoon everybody. Thank you. Could you turn it on? Good afternoon everybody. I came here to say that I'm paying too much as far as rent is concerned and I don't know if my family has a problem with that rent. Yes. I am in this community so that the whole community can be served because I want to do the same for me and the other. I don't know where I could go. All that I do is to pay rent. I don't have money to pay. I don't have money to eat and either feed my son. I pay almost $2,000 as a rent. I need you to help me to see how to resolve the issue because I don't have where to go with my son. The house where I'm currently living, they're saying that starting from the time of the new contract, they're going to pay, they'll be paying $2,300. I need help in the community. I go to work. I come home. I come to the community meetings. That's what I would like to say. Thank you very much. Please give us back our mic. We're not done yet. Let's have our peace. We want to say again that we're here as Dorchester residents. We care about this community. We want to stay in this neighborhood. It is that we don't want development. But what it is is that we don't want development that threatens to displace the community that is here now. If you take a moment and look around the room right now, for those of you who are sitting, just take a look at how many empty chairs are there and take a look at how many community residents from this Dorchester neighborhood who are here who have been impacted by the displacement or worried about that because they set roots here, they build families here. They have community here. And so it's not to say that we don't want it, but it's to say that we don't want it if it threatens the fact that we might get displaced. And so we really want the BPDA and the city to listen to this community, to listen to Dorchester residents who have lived here, some of us, for all our lives. And really take our knowledge and our lived experiences as something that is to be valued and to be recognized and to be cared about. Now, if you really care about Dorchester, you'll really listen to the folks who are standing in this room and the folks who are standing up here now. Let's repeat. We have been coming together as one community under one Dorchester because we care about our neighborhood. We care about the future and the direction that Dorchester takes. And let's be clear, we don't want to just come to meetings so that you have our names and information on a sign-in sheet. We want a real process, we want real decisions, and because it is our community. We are here as tenants, walks of life, and we deserve a seat at the table, a real authentic seat at the table. We sent the BPDA a letter, no response. We had a meeting with you, no response. We've asked for data so that we can make informed decisions as a group. We haven't heard back from you. So we are not here coming out and to have a conversation. But we are serious and you will respect the voices of our neighborhood. Thank you. We're coming and thank you for participating in this. We understand what you're saying. My name is Lara Merida. I'm deputy director for community planning at the BPDA. I think we're here all for the same reason. And I know workshops are tough and I know workshops don't always reach out to every community. We've had these conversations and I know that we are still working to get data to you. Data is collecting it and we're still in those conversations. We haven't had conversations yet about what are we looking for in this new opportunity in this space where maybe converted into another use. So I think what we need to do is have those conversations together and we're all at the table. We have the same goal of wanting to make sure we're making an equitable neighborhood that's right for everyone and gives people choices. So I think what tonight we're here talking about is transportation, which is the number one choice we need to talk about because it's been talked about quite a bit in these conversations. We want to make sure, as Vinit had said earlier, what are our choices for transportation? Can I also ask that our interpreters are working that we're paying? Could be also interpreting what I'm saying to the people who are here. Thank you. Our other interpreter? Yeah, he's in the back. Okay, thank you. Okay, I just want to make sure that if interpretation is needed that we're using it. So I think what we'd like to do tonight is we haven't talked about one of the houses. I'm sorry, I'm going to be very honest with you. Thank you. We've sent a letter. We're here because we believe in development without displacement. My voice is not being heard here. And I believe in development without displacement, too. It is one of my biggest fears is displacement. So. And we'll begin. We'll continue the conversations about housing. It was great. Public action. We're with a Dorchester Not For Sale working group of residents in Dorchester Fields Corner. And we had our first public action at their monthly BBDA meeting on transportation this month. It was very empowering. We've been meeting for weeks and try to get residents from all over. You know, Dorchester inclusive. Vietnamese, Cape Verdean, Latinos working class. We just had our first big action. It was super exciting because we were trying to figure out the right timing, making sure that we had the opportunity to talk and say our piece about how this process hasn't been inclusive. And so we want to be, you know, at the table, we want real decision making power. And this was just, you know, a really amazing opportunity to be able to share with the community. And I think it's a great opportunity to share with the community. To be, you know, at the table, we want real decision making power. And this was just, you know, a really amazing opportunity to be able to showcase that and really empower our people and our residents right in Dorchester. More than half the residents of Boston can't afford to live here anymore. People are being pushed out and nobody's paying attention to how do people have enough income that they can stay. And especially in a neighborhood like this, it's very diverse. People speak a lot of languages. You have to, you have to make it happen as a choice. And it's not getting structured into the plan. So standing up seemed an important thing to do. Personally, I'm bothered by events like this that happen in our community. Because too many times we sit and see this same scenario reacted in our community. Developers come in our community, gobble up property, land and everything. And they come with plans what to do. But they act like they want our opinion about it. Well, they're not really looking for our opinion. They already got their plans to do what they want us to do. They just want us to be able to say that we came to your community and discussed this with you. But it ain't working. I agree with what you two just said. I'm very disappointed that it doesn't seem that community involvement is really the priority. That we seem to just be here to be a stamp of approval for them to say all folks showed up and listened and were there. But we didn't have real decision making power input. We didn't get to decide for ourselves and our community for our diverse neighborhood what we want to look like. The effective matter is a lot of people in Boston are being left behind. Folks, again, cannot afford to live here. They're being pushed out. They're being neglected and forgotten. Not only do we have cuts all the time in human and public services and social programs, but then housing just by the nature of its cost is saying you're not welcome here. You need to leave. This neighborhood is no longer for you. And I reject that. I'm proud of Dorchester. I'm proud to be a resident of Dorchester, to have been raised here and to grow up here and live here. I've lived in Dorchester for 45 years. Most of my adult life. I moved into Codman Square 45 years ago when I was teaching in Boston. And I wanted to live in the neighborhood where my students were. And at that time I could afford to buy a house with a group of friends and then later rent an apartment for many years at very low rent because that was before everything started getting more expensive. And I had the good fortune to be able to buy a house with my partner before it got unaffordable for a very low price. I am just horrified at how high the housing costs are going. I feel a number of things. I mean, first and foremost, I feel love and solidarity with my community. And that we were willing to be bold together, to stand together to say this process isn't okay. What's happening in our neighborhoods, what's going to happen. And this process that the Boston Planning and Displacement Agency is doing is not representative of a true community process. And I feel both frustrated, angry at what's happening. But really I feel really joy and love for my community and to stand together to take courage. And we're willing to fight together for what we want and need in our community.


The fact that we also know we have such a tight range here from 320 to 311, the focal point going into this week, at least the start of the week, at least until one of those two levels gets confirmed, maybe stay away from Beta. Welcome to Access a Trader, the number one community for those who are committed to taking control of their trading in order to achieve success, profitability, and longevity. Thank you for joining us. Here's Dan Shapiro to help you find your edge, master your process, and own your future. Hey, guys. Good evening, everybody. Welcome to another edition of the Access a Trader.com. We can update show. Hope everybody is doing well. Spring, slowly, but surely, is coming into bloom. And if you are like me, especially if you've lived on the northeast of the United States, you know how horrible the winter we've had. 70 degrees yesterday, 70 degrees the day before. Today is 40. And oh, by the way, it's going to snow again next week. So Mother Nature is still not ready to get her nails out of our back. But anyway, hope everybody is doing well. Stock market, let's talk about that. So the Dow, the S&P, the Russell, all at all year highs, right? All time highs. Obviously, the big catalyst this week. A lot of the big cap names, a lot of the old world deal names, big, big run-ups, the $1.9 trillion bill finally got pushed through by the Democrats. It's going to help out a lot of people who were tragically affected by this whole pandemic. So hopefully, they'll get a little bit of breathing room. It's a very, very small amount of money. But the point is, anything will help and should help. And this really kind of fueled the fire of the markets. And the Dow and nuts, the Dow and absolutely nuts, huge, huge move over 4%. The S&P added 2.5%. And the problem is, it's the Nasdaq. The Nasdaq continues to be the very, very kind of like the redheaded stepchild, no offense to any redheaded stepchild children in the audience. But you got to look at the cues, right? You got to look at the cues. And this is where leadership or world time, old world, old school leadership is provided. The apples of the world, the Facebooks of the world, the Amazons and the Teslas and everything else in between. And this is an obvious, very, very painfully obvious area that is lagging the market. So we had three weeks, three and a half weeks of pretty aggressive selling. And again, if you've been watching this broadcast just in the last month, I've been sell buys. I've been sell buys. My primary focus has been the Nasdaq 100 names. That's kind of where the aggressive order flow, the option flow, the money flow, the institutional bias, the institutional darlings, the cult stocks, they all live. And they just haven't been performing for the last three weeks. And it's pretty obvious we've been talking about the aggressive disconnect they had, but they finally woke up this week, right? And, you know, look, you could say what you want, and you could call it what you want. Somebody will turn around and say, look, it was a very, very aggressive dead cat bounce from a pretty, pretty aggressive sell off. I mean, the cues literally went from February the 16th from 338. And they went to 297 in three weeks.  And a lot of people who are long growth stocks throughout that time, you know, you really saw a really major haircut. Some stocks got hit for like 40%, 30%, 20%. So you saw a major, major decline. And what we saw in the last three weeks, and you're not going to really tell about the 3% scoreboard than the Nasdaq rally back 3%. It's more of the question of kind of what happens next. Now, before anybody starts with their theory, and again, if I'm in a room full of especially newer traders, I could convince them one way or another, which way the market's going to go next, but it's not the point of trying to convince somebody what's going to happen next. The point is gather the information, make an intelligent read of what you think is going to happen next based on technical analysis. So we had the three weeks sell off, right? We had the bounce off the 150 day moving average. And the most important part, especially again, if you've been watching this broadcast, you know how important this 320 level is on the QQQs. And if you saw what happened on Thursday, right on Thursday session, we got rejected perfectly right at supply at 320. And Friday we put in a lower high, lower low, but the good news is we did hold the rising five day moving average. Again, if you've been watching this broadcast have been trading with me for the last 11 years. In the webinar, you kind of know how important that five day moving average is. So the good news is, we held the five day moving average off the bounce, right? That's positive. That's the shortest term sentiment. However, we did get rejected off the 50 day moving average, which is me very, very key. And a lot of people are asking, well, Dan, when can I start swinging stocks again on technology? When can I start, you know, have a more exposure, more exposure having on the books? And the question to that is very simple. As soon as the QQs start reclaiming the 50 day moving average and start building, you hear, you know, you hear me use the word build a lot. You know, the word build is basically a level gets taken out. And now price action needs to be taking place above that level, the longer it builds above that level, right? The word build, the longer it builds above that level, the higher probability that it's going to advance to the next supply zone. And if you do believe in that, well, look, here's the area of concentration here. It took out the 320 level. And now it needs to start making its way back into the 330. So the line is pretty much drawn in the same. Again, I don't think we need to guess going into this week, 320 to the upside, right? Very, very, this is not a subjective number. This is not a number you should be having a wild argument with some random person on social media. This is the number. This is where we got rejected. So we need to reclaim 320 on the Qs. And then we'll start making our way to 324 where it got rejected one, two, three, four times, right? 324. And ultimately, if that gets confirmed, we go back into the 330 level. And then obviously, any confirmation or any build or any reclaim, whatever word you want to use above 330 gets us back to all time highs. And then the NASDAQ starts playing catch up with very impressive moves, again, in the Dow Jones industrial average in the spies and even the Russell, right? Even the Russell has been doing incredibly well. For some reason, my chart's not updating. Okay, there you go. Even the Russell has been doing incredibly well. But again, the big lag is the NASDAQ and kind of going back to the flip side of what you need to know going into this week. So if we're stuck in this little channel here and understand one thing, the prime focus, at least on Monday, until we get a very, very clean view of which way the NASDAQ 100 is going to flow next, we understand our levels, right? 320 to the upside and 311 to the downside. We close above 320. That's green. We close below 311. There's a very, very good high probability that we're going to start retesting the lows. And that before somebody turns around saying, there's no way we could retest the lows. Why? This has been the lagging group for a very, very long time as everything else is taking all-time highs. So it's a very, very important number. The fact that we also know, because remember, it's all about collecting data. The fact that we also know we have such a tight range here from 320 to 311, the focal point going into this week, at least the start of the week, at least until one of those two levels gets confirmed, maybe stay away from beta. Maybe stay away from it. Because again, if the Q is going to trade in a very, very tight channel, that means the individual stocks more than chances of not going to be trading in individual channels as well. So if you look at the individual stocks, you'll see what I'm talking about. Look at Netflix. Not here, not there. Stuck in a channel. Look at Apple. Not here, not there. Stuck in a channel. Facebook that actually showed some strength came right back into the channel as well. Look at Amazon. Everything's stuck. You can see here. And Amazon is so below. Like Amazon is going to, they really need to split their stock. I mean, look at the channel. Look how many trees in the forest they're going to have to go through just for the stock to go higher again. It's pretty amazing stuff. Alibaba got hit on some China news. This stock is completely dead in the water. The video, it's been a really good trader. It really, really has been. Again, it's stuck underneath supply. So the NASDAQ really needs a lot of work to do. And my focus, and the funny thing is it actually started on Friday session. My focus on Friday was away from beta. If you look at it, and we'll talk about the pivots in a second, there was not one stock that I put on the Twitter feed, right? The private Twitter feed that had anything to do with data. Just because the IWM is so strong, and it's such a big, aggressive presence in the small, smaller priced speculation names, it's actually giving us a lot more flexibility to trade names that have nothing to do with the NASDAQ 100. Again, as much as I love trading beta, and that's kind of my prime focus, and it has been for the last, let's say, eight and a half, almost nine years out of my 21 years of trading.  I'm going to go with the money flow though. The key is, especially if you are a trader and you have a very specific group that you trade, whether you trade Bitcoin, again, this kind of really does represent how strong speculation money flow is. It's almost like a mirror image of what's going on with the Russell. Bitcoin is 60,000 this morning. Saturday morning, it's around 1130. It really does demonstrate that there is no fear in this tape, even though that the NASDAQ went down three weeks in a row prior to this past week, there was no fear, right? At least there was no fear in the trading aspect of things. The Bitcoin stocks have been reflecting the strength from Bitcoin. You see all these NFT stocks going crazy. Bitcoin stocks going crazy. You have alternative fuel names because of the Biden administration starting to wake up as well. So there's a lot of value in other places. And I've always maintained the fact, you could be very, very stubborn and get chopped up into this tech space, especially starting in the starting of the week, going in on Monday or Tuesday, or you could look, you could do it. I did a really thorough charting session this morning. I did one last night, and there was some really good value coming into this week, right? Really coming into this week that I have nothing to do with Netflix, has nothing to do with Tesla, has nothing to do with Apple. And a lot of people turn around and say, well, Dan, Tesla is going to start this next leg up. Yeah, I mean, maybe, right? Maybe, again, huge, it mirrored the NASDAQ 100. It's exactly the same way we had some monster, monster moves on Tesla to the downside, to the upside. But even on Tesla, you already know where the value is on Tesla. You don't have to guess, right? You have the channel here. You have one, two, three candles in a row. And all you have to do is look at the chart and see the top of the channel where its supply is. If it starts confirming this channel, then, yeah, maybe it goes back to the 50-day moving average around the 770 area. But it has to clear it out. You can't just say, well, Tesla's going higher. What, based on what? Because you need it to go higher? You want it to go higher? Or somebody turned around and said, no, no, no, no, Tesla's going to go lower. It's going to re-test the lows. We don't know yet, right? Again, we don't need to guess. The top of the channel gives you a green light. If it starts getting below the 5-day moving average, well, yeah, there's a high probability, then it'll test the bottom again. But don't guess, right? Don't guess. Don't anticipate. Nobody cares about your opinion. Nobody cares about my opinion. It's all about price action. We don't have to be the smartest person in the room. This business is not about being smart. You can't be dumb, but you don't need to be smart. All you need to be is practical. You need to be patient. You have to have a good ironclad process. And don't anticipate price action. Let it tell you what's going to happen next. And if you look at Friday's pivots, and there was some very, very aggressive pivots, the one thing you'll notice, again, the common denominator, as we've been talking about for a long, long time now, the game right now, if you're an aggressive intraday trader, and I've been kind of talking about this a lot, especially in the last three, four months, but the game right now is pretty the same, especially speculation money goes. The formula is this. You have repeat out of the money, aggressive call buyers coming in in the name, one after another, after another, after another, after another, right? Then as long as it confirms the daily chart, that option flow, that aggressive option flow dictates the price of the stock what happens next. And that formula has been exactly the same, no matter how good or how bad the price action was. That's the market. That is where the common denominator has been playing out over and over again. And again, I've said this for a long time now. You don't need to be an options player to get an option scanner. Find where the monster order flow is coming from. And once it starts correlating the daily chart, usually, good things are going to happen. So let's talk about Friday's session. And I'll give you guys some ideas of kind of what I like for this week. And again, this is where I, this is basically how the day played out. I go, look 99% of beta, which is the mega cap cold stocks, they're in the middle of the channel. So we need to be patient again with them today and turn our attention to other areas as we saw yesterday, which was Thursday, NVIDIA, Netflix, they finally came out of their channels and had pretty good spikes. But that's not where the attention of the market flow is. That's not where the attention of the active trader is. It's another area. So I wanted to make sure and if you look at the Twitter feed, again, there's no beta. There's literally not one beta stock here. But again, it's not the money we want, excuse me, not the market we want. It's the market we have that we have to take advantage. So let's talk about this Dropbox. Again, that was the formula. They came for the $26, $27 calls. Dropbox is a name that's been been rumored for a while now for either private equity or some sort of takeover. This thing has been forever on the tongues of a lot of speculation. So Dropbox 2580, 26 needs to build. Again, the word build, it has to trade and build a new base over that level. So here is the Dropbox 2580, 26, big move here goes. It went to the 2740s. I still like it for this week if the market continues to be good. It looks like it's going higher there as well. QS I still like. It didn't trigger, but I really like this QS. The weird part about QS, if you look and you go through the option flow, QS, they've been having some pretty aggressive bets, especially towards the summer month expiration. Somebody came in a couple of days ago for the I think June 85 calls. I like this chart. It hasn't confirmed yet, but look at this thing. If this thing confirms, you can see here, it's building again over the 50 day moving average, two days in a row. If it starts taking out this channel here, this thing has room to like $68. You should definitely keep an eye on it for this week. TCOM, again, a name that has nothing to do with Beta, 42 needs to build. Here was TCOM. It took out the 42 and went to 44. Really nice move on TCOM. Workhorse never got to the 1785, 18 area. It's still in that fight and that fist fight with the United States Postal Service. God knows what's going to happen there, but I still like that area. If this week it starts taking out 18, it should give a move. XONE, apparently it triggered after I logged off for the day. I like this chart. 36 needs to build. Look at XONE. 36 needs to build. Finally got above this channel here of 36. Close to 36. 3640s. I like it. I think this is a shot against the 38 this week. Planteer, a lot of order flow as well. Again, it stopped right at 27, guys. That's the number. That's the number. I'm giving you a pretty good setup here. If this thing starts building over that 27 level, look at this PLTR. Look at it. This is now the second day in a row. Same thing as QS. It's closing above supply. If it starts confirming this whole channel here, maybe it gets to 28.5, maybe it gets to 30. Again, a lot of good option flow as well near-term $30 expiration on the name as well. Penn National Gaiman, obviously the Prez, the whole Barstool crew. Penn, $131.50. $132 needs to build. Here is Penn. Took out that $132. Again, not a big move at all. We traded at the 33. I still like it higher. If it starts confirming this 33 area, it should get to 37. Again, assuming the market doesn't die an angry death, Jumiya never got to this 50 level. I still like it for this week. Again, TCOM take on the way up. This is the most amazing part. The QS just did not participate. If you look at what the Dow did, what the S&P did, what the Russell did, look at any of these stocks, NASDAQ stocks, not only did not participate, they got hammered. Again, look at Facebook, hammered. Look at Alibaba, taken down. It's not like they were just flat. The market was exploding and just these stocks weren't participating. Amazon, same thing as well. Again, that's not where the money flow is right now. They're not long, they're not short, we're waiting for more guidelines from the NASDAQ 100 macro. Tesla obviously never got to 666. Lenders Club, again, another perfect example. They were coming for the March 17, this was in January, February, March, April, excuse me. The buyers were coming in repeat buyers for the 17 calls. 1430 needs to build. Here was Lending Club. It took out the 1430 and stock went to 1530s. Again, it looks like more upside there. I traded the Lending Club, I traded Dropbox, take on the way up. DS, little stock. 310 needs to build. Again, here it is, repeat, $319, $5 call buyers. Here's DS. Again, not a huge move, but maybe it is a big move. I don't know. It took out 310. I didn't trade this thing, but it took out 310 and went to 330. Is it a 20 cent move on a $3 stock big? Again, I don't know. It all depends what you trade. This thing looks like it's going higher as well, but again, if you took it a 20 cent move on a $3 stock is not bad at all. I think going into this week, for the macro view of the NASDAQ 100, I'm kind of waiting. Let me give you guys some ideas that I kind of like for this week. I do kind of like this week. Smaller names that look pretty good here. I definitely like Plantier, PLTR. I want to see it kind of confirm this channel here. If it does, again, I don't think the first move is going to be huge, but you could get like a dollar, dollar and a half. Any close though over 28 can start a really big cycle. That's going to be a very, very important area. I like this CLNE. It kind of goes into the whole Biden, clean energy, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. First close above supply. If it starts confirming Friday's channel, it has a lot of room as well. Blackberry. The meme stocks have been kind of going nuts. Look at Blackberry. Not horrible, not interesting. Really interesting. Stop right at the linear regression line. If it starts confirming this linear regression line, maybe it starts opening up. Keep an eye on that as well. Friday with a $2.50 price target. This thing has, you know, this thing definitely has a history of making multiple day runs. Here it went from like 38 cents, like $1.70. Pretty decent push on Friday. If this thing, any close above a dollar on this thing, you know, who knows? Maybe it goes back to the areas as well. Other than that, all beta is going to be pushed to the side until we get a clean confirmation. Guys, the one thing is for all you guys who are joining us in the live webinar this week, this upcoming week, or on the Twitter feed, please watch the workshops this weekend. Again, just keep on rewatching them. Again, I could feed you pivots till you're blue in the face, including Sunday. But again, if you don't understand, you know, the moving parts, you're doing yourself a tremendous disservice. So guys, have a great weekend, everybody. Stay blessed. Love you all. And God's help. I'll see you all next week. Take care.