Hey, great to have you with us here on yesnetwork.com for our Yankees Hot Stove segment. Bob Lorenz, John Flaherty, Jack Curry with you. So pending physical, got to cross some T's, dots, some I's. Zack Britton back in that bullpen. What does it mean for the Yankees? It means that they have another power arm in the bullpen. And that's what managers and pitching coaches want. They want a guy who can come in and get strikeouts. Or when the ball is in play, keep it on the ground. And Zack Britton does that better than anyone in Major League Baseball with that power sinker. Guys, we talked about it on our last show. The Yankees didn't see the best of Zack Britton after acquiring him from the Orioles. But they saw enough that enticed them to want to make sure he's back. Well, I think what it also tells us is that he wanted to be a New York Yankee. And closing games wasn't the most important thing for him. That's been the biggest question mark this offseason. For Britton, did he want to go somewhere and be the closer and rack up those statistics? Or did he want to pitch in New York with another chance to win? Now you start thinking about the rotations in good shape. The bullpen is coming together. You think about the late innings, the Yankees are all set.  The tances right there. Chad Green, maybe for a couple of them. Suddenly you're starting to think, that thing is stacking up against the best in baseball. Yeah, and when you're worried about David Robertson maybe losing him going to the Phillies and Britton, would he come back? Now, obviously he's back. And you wonder if the Yankees will go for another big time reliever. Adavino's name is out there. He's an attractive guy because of all the strikeouts that he racks up. You start bringing him into the fray. Now we're really talking about something special. And I'm glad Bob brought up Chad Green because I did a phone interview with him that will be on our show. And I asked him what it's like to be in a bullpen where he could close on some teams, but Chapman, the tances and Britton will be the first three options to close on the Yankees. If you want to know Green's answer, you got to watch the show. Oh, that's a great tease. That's what you do. That's a good job by you, Jackie. All right, that's it for now. Keep up with yes's social media feeds and yesnoteword.com for all the latest on the Yankees and make sure to check your listings for airtimes of Yankees Hot Stuff.


Yeah, so thanks again for being here and I was really excited to hear your podcast that you did with my friends Monashichiro and with Sina last year when there was a bunch of takeaways that I find extremely interesting because they combined an aspect of epistemological and shift and also applied to how we were thinking the regulatory framework and the political framework, but also this connection with a shift in consciousness, especially consciousness bound to certain geographies. So you made a comment about Western countries and Asian countries and especially like Asian country that are they still think they can get capitalism right, you know, some this kind of modernity, this resistance of modernity that is trying to permeate also other countries. And then I think something that is really resonating with me specifically is this pulsation, this regeneration that is also tied to a new way of accounting for the energy flows. And I think this is a very nice stage because I mean, I think after anybody study a little bit of what's going on in the world, you cannot help but thinking that we need to somehow tie our the thermodynamic nature of our of our biosphere with our constitution and with our laws. And of course, it's a problematic space. It's something that is not so also technically easy to be to do. But I'm very excited and curious to to hear what you've been working on in that action. And also I think it's a nice stage because increasingly every year, the CCC is hosting climate aware and climate adaptation talks that are very specific also in the nitty gritty of, you know, all the planetary boundaries that we're hitting, inviting, inviting scientists and politicians and and different perspectives. So I think this is a good direction that we are seeking as a Congress. And yeah, so I leave the stage to you with us. There is also Oliver Salter, which will is joining us at the end of the talk, but he just joined join us in the room and Jacob Huun, which will also make some some questions at the end. So I'm going to leave the stage to to you, Michelle. Oh, right. Thank you so much. It's the first time I talk in a CCC related event. So I'm very happy with that. Well, so basically what I want to do is, you know, we wrote a report at the P2P Foundation called P2P Accounting for Planetary Survival, in which we looked at emerging new forms of accounting. And what that tells us about how we can reorganize our economic flows. So basically, can we produce for human needs within the planetary boundaries? Right, which assumes that we know when we make decisions what those planetary boundaries are. So the key issue that that, you know, we have to solve as humanity is the issue of externalities, right? You have positive and negative social and ecological externalities. And the system that we have now, which is only based on, you know, the value of commodities, including the value of labor as a commodity, does not take into account these externalities. And there's been various studies showing that market pricing, you know, does not actually reflect any dangers to the to the ecology of the planet. We have the sixth extinction of the animal and of the animal kingdom. And it's it's not reflected in our economy. We can't see it. Right. And that has a bit to do with the history of accounting. And I maybe want to start with this by saying how important the accounting is in the history of humanity. So for example, if we look at the origin of accounting, that's actually also the origin of the state. So it's in Mesopotamia. I don't know, 2000 BC, I've got the exact dating, but it's in the book against the grain from James Scott, which I really recommend. So the first tablets of clay with language are actually accounting tablets. You know, it's the grain coming in and out of the of the royal temples. And so that's very important. And I learned, for example, that for 1000 years, language was not the the written language was not used to represent speech, but to represent accounting. That's really interesting. Then the second phase is the reorganization of accounting by a Franciscan monk in Italy, Luchto Patschui, if I pronounce it right. And he invented a double entry book accounting. And this is very important because double entry book accounting is really about what comes in my entity, my closed entity, my firm, and what goes out of my firm. And again, you have no vision of the natural world of what you do to people. It's simply, you know, economic value and whether you have profiting capital going up within your own. And so it's really more kind of narcissistic accounting that is the basis of our current economy. And so here's the so the question is, can we change that? Can we have forms of accounting that can reflect not just the value of the commodity, but the value of, you know, what we do with people and the environment. And so that for me is a third accounting evolution. And it's connected a bit to the emergence of the blockchain. Whatever we think about the blockchain, what it does, it creates an infrastructure for shared accounting. So we can move potentially from closed accounting to ecosystem accounting. And so nearly all the blockchain projects that you can look at, that's what it is about. There are open collaborative systems where people can come in and out. And they can share accounting and logistics to the degree that they want to. So I think that's a very important step. So sometimes I say to make it easy for people who are not technical and I'm not very technical myself. Now we move from the Internet of Communication to the Internet of Transaction. And what that means is that what we have developed around open source and urban commons, you know, what I call the Stigmergic collaboration, so mutual signaling, that is now possible to do in physical production. Before the blockchain, we did it for open source or knowledge, design and software. But now we can actually do it for everything. Everything that's represented through accounting. Any flow that we can represent to accounting can be subjected to the same capacity of looking at each other in an ecosystem and adapting our behavior in real time if we want to. So that's really what I want to talk about. So what we did, and this is what we usually do at the P2P Foundation is, so we don't say how things should be. We actually look at what we call seed forms. And seed forms are, you know, basically you have a system in crisis. We can solve it within the logic of the system. And so people start exiting the system and try to solve their problems in new ways. And these new ways potentially represent, you know, something that comes after the crisis. So you think about the medieval times, you know, you have the invention of purgatory. So suddenly you can be a Christian, you can earn money. There's the printing press, there's the voluntary book accounting. So this is actually the basis of capitalism. So that's what we're talking about. And so in the report, I mentioned three new forms of accounting. The first one is Contributive Accounting. So typically any open source community where, you know, which is open for permissionless contributions will have the same issue, which is you have a whole community that is co-creating value, co-creating use value, something that is useful for everyone like the Linux operating system or Wikipedia or whatever. Now then the market, you know, over time a market is created around these open source comments. And then the issue becomes where only some people can actually realize their value through the market. And so typically what you have is a lot of people will contribute to an open source system, but only some of them, you know, can make a living through their efforts. And so there's a question of equity and fairness, which is typical for open source projects, which is how do you deal with that dynamic? And so the solution to this is Contributive Accounting. So very easy. The basic principle is you have a community, you have some kind of membrane around the community. And what you do is that you say, okay, so whatever comes from the outside, which can be government subsidies or, you know, market income, and now I have a plane flying over. So I'll just pause for 15, 20 seconds. Just to make sure you can hear me. All right, you can hear me. I'll just continue then. So Contributive Accounting are basically schemes where you differentiate between the outer and the inner. And so you're going to redistribute a part, at least the part of what is coming in, with a different system internal to the community. To make a very simple example, you have a Translators Collective. They do a lot of things for free. So they count the characters. And they say, well, anybody has a contract to translate a book, which is partly due to the co-creation of the value we did together. Well, 15% of that will go in the second accounting scheme. And that will fund the contributions, right? And, you know, my friends at Commons Transition, they have this booklet about this co-coops. That's about that. It's how do you create internally a more just and fair value distribution based on not just commodity value, but on contributions.  You declare within your community that you're going to create value in a certain way that is different from the mainstream economy. And by the way, this is nothing new. If you know Bernard Lietard, the mystery of money, which exists in German, he will tell you that throughout history, there's always been two kinds of currencies. You had the royal currency, the extractive currency, which was to fund the army basically. And then local communities often had different currencies. For example, in Bali, I live in Thailand. So this is my neighbor. In Bali, they have a currency for the watershed, you know, to fund the watershed maintenance in that in these communities coexist with the national money. All right, the second form of educate of accounting is flow accounting. And that's something that exists for the last 20, 25 years, maybe, but is now taking on taking off. And that's called REA resources event agents. And I call this post cost, post capitalist accounting, because just like contributive accounting, it moves away from the pure commodity value system. And what you do in flow accounting is saying, well, you don't have double entry. So you don't have a closed entity. But every transaction represented is a 3d picture of where you places in the ecosystem, right, the resource, the event, the exchange, and the agents that are doing this transaction. And that is visible again, to all the people in this open ecosystem. So this is the second form of accounting. And the third form of accounting that I discussed is called thermodynamic accounting, you could say. So matter energy flows. There's different projects. If you want to look at that must see SMM us I a S EM is based in Barcelona, but the one that I looked at is called global thresholds and allocations from our three dot Oh, and these people are multi capitalists. So they want to take into account not just financial capital, but environmental and human capital. And they want to treat these three couples equally. So this means that today if you you know, cheat with the finances, you can dump in jail. But you can end up end up in jail if you do something bad to the people or the planet. If you recognize those three capitals, then you would actually also be liable for how you treat these externalities. Okay, we're not there yet, because that would require a lot of legal reforms and probably social struggles. But one of their innovations, which is really interesting, is called global thresholds and allocations. So what does that mean is that you have some institution, a global institution, that basically is a group of scientists that monitor the availability of resources. So not just the planetary boundaries, as described by Kate Rayworth, but all the all the commodities. So there's a list of 131 they call this commodity ecologies. And so imagine a group that just keeps track of what is available in the world in terms of copper. What is the expected findings of copper in the in per year, you know, based on an historical average? What is the growth of productivity in the use of that material? And also what is the bio circularity? So if you reuse copper, how much copper is left? I think it's 70%. So you know, they have these tables. And so what what we can do and what they're prototyping and experimenting with is diffusing this knowledge of flows of matter and energy into every accounting system. And that begins to become quite exciting to me because that means that you know, you have to keep the capacity as an agent. So it doesn't have to be top down, you know, like rationing, which could happen if we, you know, continue like what we're doing today. But you actually enable and empower all the Asian distributed system to make decisions within that framework, right? So and I want to continue with this with which we're kind of trying to convince you that this opens up a vision of a new what I call a cyber physical infrastructure for production for human needs within planetary boundaries. And it's based on three different levels. And I think most of you are too young to know about these debates. But in the 1930s, there was a huge debate was called the calculation debate. And you had the old style socialists who were saying, you know, we need to plan rationally plan the economy. Not just the markets, we had Karl Polanyi and others were also involved in this debate. And the other had you had Schumpeter and Hayek saying, No, this is not possible. We need markets to do that. And of course, the the market economies won this debate. But I think it's possible to do three things, which is take the best of the comments. So take the best of the market pricing as a signal for allocation and take the best of planning, which is but in the sense of frameworks that determine the degree of freedom within certain frameworks. So the first layer would be a strategic collaboration. You're in an open ecosystem, you see what everybody else is doing. And so you can adjust your behavior, because you have a whole optical knowledge of the whole system. Right? Just as if you do Linux or Wikipedia, you know what everybody else is doing. And so you can adjust your your contribution. That's the same idea. But it's now moving from just knowledge, design and software to accounting and logistics and coordinating physical production. The second thing you can do is to inject what I call generative market practices. You might be familiar with radical exchange. There's a group of people that are specialized in this know how do you can use market techniques to actually have fair and equitable outcomes, how to do that. They focus on that. And for example, you would have a proposal like fish coin, which basically says, you know, this is a cryptocurrency for the fishing industry, which represents the the reproduction capacity of the fish. So it's not a money that is blind to externalities. But it's a form of money that is intelligent and integrates that knowledge in itself, right? So you only distribute as many fish coins, then there is fish that you can fish without endangering the reproduction of the fish. It's just one example. So you could have a whole series of these specialized currencies that, you know, manage specialized markets within certain constraints. And then the third level is what I call orchestrated planning. And so I'd like to introduce a little concept. I call it the fifth magisterium of the commons. I got it from a friend of mine called Robert Conan Ryan. Sorry, I forgot his name. Robert Conan Ryan, I think. And so his idea and I resonate with me is that we have four magisteria, that's politics that regulates what we get from the state, the economy, who gets the surplus, the culture, what can be said and not said, and science with legitimizes facts. And, you know, they're relatively independent functions in our societies that they're even beyond the nation state, they regulated that trans national levels. And I would suggest that we also need a magisterium of the common. In other words, we need a capacity to manage and protect human communities and extra human resources and communities, right? So basically the humanity embedded in the web of life. And you might be interested in that I won't have time to explain we have now movements like the sovereign nature movement, you know, that proposes to have DAOs, right? You have forest commons, it's the DAO, it has sensors, it can mobilize lawyers when there is overgrazing or over cutting of its woods, it can generate income and it can actually distribute that income to the contributors who protect that commons in that case that forest. Just an example how this might work in the future. But so you see you have a kind of an idea that I that I'm proposing is to integrate the best of the commons, which is the collaboration open collaboration effect, the best of the market. And also orchestrated planning, which is used as a framework.  That's the basic idea. All right. And so we need institutions that that can protect that and we don't have them yet. But that's basically what I wanted to tell you so that you know, as we transition to a more stable human system that can live for longer period of time in balance with with nature, that actually we are starting to have the technological means to do that. And these already exist, they're being prototyped experimented with. So this is not just a topion, this is actually something that is ongoing. And of course, technology alone is not the answer because you need institutional change to make that work as well. But as you know, we work on public commons cooperation protocols at the P2P Foundation. And that's also moving quite fast in the world. So I think that, you know, what they say in China crisis is opportunities the same word. So the more we enter in this downward spiral of systemic crisis, the more also people are motivated to look for alternatives. And so all these seeds forms start to make sense. And all these patterns start into connecting with each other. And can kind of be a prefigurative vision of a potential new economics. And so I also finished, and you know, you can ask me maybe via Eugene or something. I have a three chapter commons economics textbook that we are pre publishing privately for the moment. So if you're interested in knowing more, and then P2P accounting for planter survival, if you look it up in Google, you'll find it in the full text, which explains what you know, the story I was just telling you now. So that's that's the basic story. Thank you, Michelle. Thank you very much. I think our audience really enjoyed it. And somebody is asking in our Telegram Q&A, which I also invite you to join if you want. They're interested in all those reference. And I told them to look in the book. But I also ask you if you want to just share a few links with me. Also via email, I can put them in the in the in the chat. And yeah, actually, let me just change the view so we can also have Oliver and Jacob on. And Oliver, I think you so you were really interested during the conversation. You're muted. Oh, I'm muted. Yeah. Thanks, Michelle, for taking the time to latest all out. There was so many interesting and new concepts also for me that I want to dig into afterwards. And of course, nice. It's the first time we managed actually to see each other on a vehicle has been a while. My question that came up is like, when you're a small organization, or a startup that that wants to start deploying internally, these processes of better accounting, better value, specifically value accounting. What do you recommend? Diving into reading what practices are really useful, or maybe small practices that you at the PHP Foundation already use to do this? Maybe there is no handbook for the for the moment, because all this is fairly new. So we have one little booklet. It's called Value in the Commons, which is just to help you think differently about what value is. Then, of course, P2P accounting for Planetary Survival, which gives you access to these sources. So, you know, like Sensorica, for example, is a really good example of a very sophisticated contributor accounting system. They've been doing it for 10 years already. The disco book, which is a Sensorica, Sensorica, it's an open hardware commons, they make sensors. And they have a very sophisticated, yeah, it's Canadian, Tiberius Brashtanivau, I hope I don't miss spell his Romanian name. And they have a lot of literature online about the project. And they're, they're very sophisticated, you know, for example, they put all the collective property, which is called non-dominium. That might be interesting just to explain to the audience. So dominium is, you know, the normal private property, I'm the master, you know, dominus of my property, and I can do what I want with it. Non-dominium is it belongs to nobody in particular, but to everyone at the same time. And so what you can do, for example, in the case of Sensorica, if you need a machine, you know, you can crowd from the machine, but the machine goes into the property of the trust. And so anybody else in the system can also start using the machine, right? So you have a system then for the collective use of the machine. So you're mutualizing, you know, the hardware, as it were in that system as well. So it's, it's a very interesting and sophisticated system. And then disco, which I forgot what it means. But it's, you know, kind of like a DAO, but for the commons. And that's by friends of mine, Stacko Tomcozzo and commonstransition.org. So you might have a look in that. I have a section in my wiki, which is wiki.p2pfoundation.net. And I have, you know, a lot of documentation under the section P2P accounting as well. So until now, basically, unfortunately, what you need to do is talk to people like TB or me. And we know many people, we're very well connected with the people doing that. And we'll say, well, you know, talk to them, talk to them, talk to them.  And then you can say, okay, can I contextualize this in my own situation, right? And then do your own thing. There's no standardization yet. We're in, you know, we're in the period of Cambrian explosion of these new accounting systems. Yeah, in this direction goes my question as well, like, what is the fields where you feel like you gave some examples, but like, I mean, interesting how this pattern then also will interact, how the fish coin will interact with the tree coin. I mean, but how do you envision the implementation of these new accounting systems?  Yeah, well, that's, that's a bit of a problem. So, so it's a bit what I said about the Cambrian explosion, right? So it's a big problem within the commons. And, and, like, I should give you an example. So I was in Tuscany a few years ago, and they had 16 different pieces of software to order organic food in the solidarity economy only, right? So this is a big problem. People are reinventing the wheel all the time. So what I'm advocating, and, you know, I actually believe in public commons cooperation. So I think that, you know, we will have public institutions in the future as well. There's no way around it. And so we look at, can we have optimal relationship between the commons and the public sphere, you know, so that the commons remain free and autonomous, but can still cooperate with the public sector, right? And so here's a thing you could do. I don't know if you know John Takara, he works with something called factor 20 reduction, which I'm very enthusiastic about. For example, if you want to do transport of goods and services in a city like Berlin, if you use cargo bikes and pedaling, you can do that with 98% less energy and still do the same amount of transport, right? So the idea is that we will start, we have to start mutualizing our provisioning systems, all of them, you know, real estate, housing, so shared mobility, shared housing, shared, you know, shared organic food. And then we build ecosystems that in those provisioning systems, for example, community supported agriculture is a good example, right? It's an ecosystem that combines a group of consumers and a group of organic producers. And, you know, they're still buying it from each other, but the ecosystem is a commons. They is not based on a power relationship is based on solidarity and cooperation between all the partners in the ecosystem, right? And so the kind of basic attitude that I advocate is the idea of reverse cooperation, or reverse cooperation, sorry, what so what you do is, what kind of collaboration do we need with public authorities to make our commons work? And what kind of market mechanisms do we need for commons to make our commons work? Right? And so instead of having the opposite, which is no capital eating the commons and extracting value from the commons, you have to reverse the logic and start thinking, like, how do we preserve our community? How can we preserve our livelihoods? And start organizing ourselves so that, you know, this that we get a bigger part of the surplus. And, you know, if you think about the blockchain that way, I'm, you know, in Chiang Mai, it's the capital of digital nomads. So we have a lot of people here, developing these ecosystems. And, you know, that's already how they start thinking, right? They, when you do a crowd funding, ICO, and, you know, we can be critical about the hyper capitalist aspects of this, but it can be done in different ways. Basically, what you're doing is, first of all, you're distributing the capital, you're no longer dependent on just one bank or one venture capital, the whole world can participate in your project. And you consider the coin as micro shares in, you know, what is the expected value of your project is. And then they keep 40% of the tokens for labor. And that's really interesting. And then you have progressive groups, like Exa, Economic Space Agency, like Commons Engine, like Common Stack, like the Holochain. And these are all blockchain or, you know, post blockchain oriented project that have these other values embedded in them. And then finally, sorry, I'm rambling on, the idea is to create what I would create is coalitions of public players, solidarity and impact and solidarity finance players, and the Commons to mutualize development of these infrastructures, right? So if you do shared mobility, you know, like co-op cycle, for example, you know, you could have an alliance of cities supporting this for all the cities in the world. If you want to have, you know, fair, fair B&B type solutions, you could have these alliances funding open source depositories. And so this is something I call protocol co-ops, protocol cooperatives. They invest collectively in open source depositories, which can be used by everyone.  And that's, that's the problem. So if I can say one thing, more thing about this, you know, I've been following open source cars for 12 years now. None of them has worked except maybe open motors, which is more like a white product. They don't really operate publicly. And local motors, which is just crowd sourcing this design, but none of them has really worked well. And now you have this company called Arrival. And they do everything with proprietary software. So finally, we have distributed manufacturing. But instead of having an open system, we're going to get yet another proprietary system with one company controlling everything. Right. And that's very sad to me that we had 10 years to do this, and we haven't succeeded in doing this. So, you know, if we're too slow, we're going to miss a lot of opportunities. This brings me actually to one of the next questions I had, which is in thinking about building up these regenerative processes of value counting. And now the example that you brought with the open source cars, why do you think this didn't work? Why do you think it only worked once or like started to work? I never heard of that company. So I assume it's, but a player that you consider as being maybe more, more. Yeah, they have 1000 software engineers. So they're extremely well capitalized. And they have a big factory in London. I think they're actually in Berlin as well. But I'm not sure about the details. But you know, they have their videos, you can check them in YouTube. It's very impressive. They, you know, they have the whole thing is ready. It's like, you know, hub and spoke. You can install the factory in a week. And then they can start building vans and buses for the cities, which is something I dreamed about 10 years ago. And technically it was possible. So the problem is that open source itself works because you know, it's, it's bodies voluntarily working, you know what I mean? Like, any software engineer can say, I'm going to do, you know, open source software, and you can live with your parents until you 40 and you can do it. You know, but once you need buildings, materials, you need capital, right? And so what I'm thinking we need to do is to find a connection between the cooperative world, which has a lot of money, you know, the big co-ops and the open source world. And that hasn't happened yet. So that's a problem. So it's really comes down to funding. It comes down to funding and to find ways to solve that issue, which hasn't been solved yet. So what we're doing instead, and this is not bad, of course, is that we're starting with all the small stuff, right? So I don't know if you know the multifactory model. So these are craftspeople coming together all over Europe, looking for empty factories. And then they, you know, they make, they work with wood, 3D printing, metal, iron, and they work with open source and cooperative principles. And there's 120 of them in Europe already. And they have an invisible factory where they, you know, kind of do their open source collaboration. So, you know, they exist or in France, you have a huge federation of farmers called Atelier Payson. They already made like thousands of designs for, you know, machines for farmers, open source machines. They're much more successful than open source ecology. So these things exist, but they exist, where, where they're low capital requirements. So they still function, you know, a bit in the periphery of the system. You're already unmuted, you were already unmuted, you need to unmute yourself. I think we definitely need a follow up conversation on this one, because we will continue the placemaking the solar bank beyond the CCC as well. And I mean, we will come back later today to the scope of the city having a conversation on municipalism, metaphylicity movement, and for, you know, for the framework of placemaking the solar bank, we were really coming a lot from the kind of really neighborhood scale level. And a lot of the ecosystem building just needs to come from really a different even state innovation or like from from different kind of powers that that support that. On the other side, I'm already very inspired. And I feel we can just wrap up here and keep the continuity open as well as for our listeners in the in the chat to engage further and see, see how this can be, can be. Yeah, yeah, I'm, you know, I'm open to any form of cooperation, or, you know, more talks, whatever you need to cool. And I need to learn also, of course. Awesome. Thank you for joining, Michelle, very much. We'll see you in five minutes with an exciting workshop on this channel. Stay tuned.


This is crazy. It's really crazy, but I need to tell you this There are potential clients in your area as I'm talking right now Who go to bed at night? They're crying. They're frustrated. They're depressed and it's because They have not gotten your help yet and these are potential clients that need help They need your training You are the person who can help them and because you haven't helped them yet. They're struggling they're in pain and They know they're desperate.  It should be your duty as a trainer To help more clients in your area. Now. Why am I telling you this? It's because I remember I had someone tell me that a few years ago. They said Ben There are prospects in your city who have never worked with you. They might be working with another trainer They're not getting the results they want They're going to bed crying at night because you haven't helped them and I remember how hard that hit me That made me hunt that made me go on a mission to help more clients And I'm telling you that today because I want to challenge you. I want you to ramp it up There's so many prospects or so many clients in your area that you could be working with But they haven't heard about you yet. So what are you going to do about it? See you later


Thank you for tuning in to Sister Power. I'm Sharon Thomas Yarbrough. Our topic, your vibe attracts your tribe, the power of sisterhood. Yes, our special guest, Gail Moore, backed by popular demand, and Ella Johnson. Welcome to Sister Power, ladies. I'm so excited. Gail was on before, and then she was on your show, Ella, and listen to your show. I said, I've got to meet this lady. I'm honored. Yes. Yes. She is really too special. I mean, Ella has got more, I've got more comments on this show, and Sharon on your show, people are still calling about the show.   Yes, of course. My brother called me and he was like, you know what, you didn't even ask her about Johnson, because my family's Johnson. Really? And you're from Alabama, just like me? Yes. So my brother's like, she might be a kid, she might be a cousin. I'm telling you. Anyway, I want to tell you that it's right out of the air from everybody. Your vibe attracts your tribe. That's what we're talking about. You know, so, you know, I have an organization, Hawaii's Sisters in Prying Hawaii, Hawaii's foremost women's empowerment organization. And I love that both of you ladies have organizations. And so, Gail, you are the founder of a young women's movement entitled Just Girls. Tell us about this organization. Just Girls is actually an organization that was really created from speaking in so many schools and, but you know, in school assemblies, you only have a few minutes. And but so after the assembly was over, all of these girls would be lined up like 100 deep to the point where the bell would ring and they would just stay in line and the principal would look at me and say, okay, Gail, just keep them because I know they want to, they got questions. But they had so many questions that birthed Just Girls because I thought I needed to do something to give these girls a platform to share their experiences, to vent their frustrations and find real answers for them. And that's the folks, but I thought I was just going to do it for like 30 girls. 800 girls showed up the very first time off the box. Since then it's been running 1500-2000 girls that have been doing it for like 10 years. Yes. You know, we got gang bangers coming, hating, we're in rivalry together, but when they leave, maybe they are in tears and hugging each other. The penitentiaries would call and bring bus loads of their women just to be, they'd call, is it okay? And I'm like, yes, bring them, we want them to be involved. Just put them in regular clothing.  Because women, we have more in common with each other, which is what I tell the girls, than we do to resent one another. You know, we all love clothing. We love to be loved. We love to be accepted and honored and adored. You know, the fighting has got to stop. That's just not ladylike at all to me. That's right. In these schools, they have so much fighting and violence. The principals would call and say, girl, Gail, the girls are beating up the guys. Some of them are hotheads because they just, they're upset. People are hurting so much right now. That's why I've developed the Just Girls program. I like it. I like it. Ella, my new bed. You are the president and CEO of two businesses, Mahogany Motivations and Women at Work International. Please tell our viewers about your businesses. Well, I'll start with Mahogany Motivations. How I came up with Mahogany. This is a funny story. I used to sell Mary Kaye back in the day and my color was Mahogany Bronze. So I just adopted that Mahogany theme. So that's where the name comes from. Mahogany and I love to motivate people, but I'm a writer and I have four books out there, which is a compilation of the Torn series, which I am definitely looking to have that turn into a movie. Just stay tuned for that. Oh yes, absolutely. And then the other organization is Women at Work International. That's my nonprofit 501C3. And I'm from Alabama and this dream of having this nonprofit started from me as a young girl. I would, we were very poor. We grew up very poor. And I remember as a young girl making a promise to God saying, you know, I'll always come back and give back. And so Women at Work International is a nonprofit that was started to go back to Alabama. And what we do is everything's given, we go back and feed families. And I just wanted to stretch my faith a little and like three years ago we started doing it in Africa as well. Because I feel like if we can feed one, we can feed a thousand, right? It's the same God. It's the same God. It's the same God and he's everywhere. And you know, I like how we put, we definitely make it a faith-based situation. Everything that we do, yes I can, is faith-based. Because you'd have to give these young people scripture. God is the only healer. He's the only one that can really change your life and give you the joy that you're looking for. That you think you're looking for a man. They just have the wrong information. They just don't have it correct. But when you go and inspire them and encourage them, like they do with Ellis Organization, with Mines and with Sister Power, all of these things, like I said earlier on the show, we don't, you can't have enough. I'm telling you can't have enough. And I, you know, just like all of the ladies here, we love people and we empower one another. We bring our resources together because we have one common goal and that is to bring people to Christ. The end of the day, that is the end of the day. Yeah. And that's what it's all about. That's what we have in common. At the end of the day, it's all about Jesus. Because in this day and time, in this climate, you need to run. If I wasn't saved, I would run to get saved. I'm telling you, I would be looking for Jesus's feet. Give me a tote, even.   God is our source and he already promised. He told us he warned us that this was going to happen. And he said, I'm going to take care of you. So don't worry about it. Don't worry about it. The moon is up there. Man is just trying, just getting on the moon. So that's one of the answers right there. But if people are just tuning into sister power, your vibe attracts your tribe. And so my tribe is of course my sister. I have my traffic tribe extends way back 60 years. I've had the same girlfriends who are there for me. So Ella, I want to ask you, who is your tribe? A lot of people. I, you know, I, I don't really define it by whether it's a cousin or uncle, because God uses anybody. I have even met people that maybe under the influence of alcohol that have influenced me in some kind of way. My tribe, I am attracted, people are attracted to me because of the message that God is trying to give me, and he will use anyone willing to be used. I think I was sharing with you before the show, when we first talked sharing that, you know, I found God in my desire to turn over from the club life in the club. I know it's like Ella, really? Yes, really. Yes.  It's not. And at that time, I wasn't going to church. So I said, if he's going to find me, he's going to have to find me where I'm at. And that's where I was. And, and listen, he used that man. He used the beggar. He uses whomever. Yeah. So my, oh yeah, my vibe is to serve him. And my tribe are the people that he uses to get me there. I love that. Gail, who is your tribe? My tribe are people who I have likeness with, people who will support what I believe in, because I don't really, I'm not really big on me, but I'm like Ella too. God has used all kinds of people to get me where I am right now. You know, but my tribe, the people in my vibe, really, I connect with people who are on a positive, who love to love people. I like to keep myself around people who are the positive thinkers and believe in the Word of God and can, can encourage, you know, and inspire. And then we go collect those other ones who may not know we are there to inspire them, but my, my, my vibe is definitely always going to be bottom line.  I'm not mad at you. Let's just love each other and be there for one another. Man, we couldn't need that more in our lives for the women especially. Especially. Yes, because women are running the households a lot more now. So we need them strong because the world has continuously tried to strip the man from the household. And in a lot of cases they have done that. So women, we need to prepare them because it's a different world than when I was growing up. You know, back in the day when I was growing up in Alabama, if you needed something, you could go knock on your neighbor's door and ask for it. And it was, it was no thing. Sharon and Gail, it was nothing. Nowadays, we're a little taken back by that. We're like, I don't know. Because you're afraid you might get raped. You don't know, you know, and that you don't know. So we have to adjust ourselves accordingly. You know, we do have to adjust ourselves so we can't be as careless and as those bills with a good old days. Yeah, those are the good old days. We could go to our neighbor's house and say, hey, you know, I need a cup of sugar and it would gladly give it to you. Nail, I mean, I'm from California. You don't be, you don't bother people. You don't get to know your neighbors. You leave people alone. And that is just not the way God created his people. We can always embrace one another and we need it like COVID when COVID came, oh my God, it just took the relationships and people need to be around each other and see the smiles and and say hey, how you doing and that that that's what they're trying to rip strip this country up, but that is not God's purpose for our lives. I don't play into it. Well, you know, I think I had a conversation with you about the skill about COVID. My husband I both came down with COVID. And as you know, yeah, I'm his caretaker. So when he had COVID and I'm sick with it. What do you do? I reached out. I sent an email. I reached out to my tribe. This is why you go ladies. Listen to this. It's easy to have a tribe when you're doing well. You're feeling good. Yeah, but you don't have a tribe. When you are down and out you haven't lived yet. My tribe came through. They cook dinner for us. They deliver groceries. The small things we take for granted.  You know, if you want to do you know the saying I know Ellen knows this and you did to Sharon. If you want to know where you're going you look at the people that you're hanging out with. So your vibe, it definitely attracts your tribe. You know, I don't, I'm not a crackhead. So I don't hang out with crackheads.  And I'm there to influence their life. So, you know, one of, I'm a quotes person and I remember reading this quote once about if you really want to test the people that you're around, raise your standards, because they'll either go, or they're going to grow. That's very true. That is so they're going to go around one of the other. Yeah. Yes, I'm right. It's like for a reason or a season season, you know, anyway, yeah. So it's left up to us to decide, okay, well, Lord, if God is in control of your life, that he's going to lead you to the right people. Amen.  You know, women are doing a lot of things, but I always tell them, is it getting you the results that you're looking for?  But you cannot bow to their level. That's right. And that's why when we are around people, we can't conform to what they're doing, or we can't, we can't be the light they need. Right. We can't be the light they need. Absolutely. You have to, we have to stay focused on who we are, because all three of us know that we're calm. God has given us a specific thing to do, a duty, and you have to man your post regardless of where you are in your life.  And I heard Megan Good say that earlier.  They don't bother you. Because when you know, no, I can't go this direction, I must stay right here. That's what the Lord's called me. You know, it's very, very important. It is. Well, because it's a lot. Ella, you know, I just want to switch gears. Your author, what motivated you to write the torn series, and your newly released children's book. Love you more. This is this answer that I'm going to give is 100% the truth because I am 100 about everything. I lost my children to the state of Florida, because my husband was accused was allegedly accused of touching my daughter. And that turned into an entire case with the state of Florida, and my children were removed from my home at that moment when that happened to me. I was either going to live or die. Can you imagine it's one thing to lose your children by death, but I was losing mine to the system. So I had to make a decision.  I had to use this to help someone else. And I pulled out a tablet, because back then I didn't have a laptop. I pulled out a tablet and a pen and I just start writing. I didn't care what it sounded like I just wanted to get it out. And every day that I was going through this I would journal, and I was able to put my real raw emotions into my writing. And that's why when people read my story, they felt what I felt, because I wrote it as I was allowing myself to relive it. It's a true story. It's based on true events in my life. So what motivated me Sharon was the fact that I didn't want to die. And I wanted to do something positive for someone else. So I did it and I couldn't stop writing because I wrote four books. And each of the books are over 400 pages each but it is definitely a movie and a series. Just putting that out there here on Sharon show. You heard it. But the Lord use you. Yes. Right now, the best thing to do is just find me on Facebook, Ella Johnson find me there. And the reason is because I want to introduce you guys to the relaunch of the torn series. We are currently relaunching that it's getting re edited and all of that, because we're going to break it down a little more and turn it into, you know, the movie that's that's because I've already written a script as well. And I didn't even write a script I googled it Google is your best friend, let me tell you, but I have written the script I've written a script because I'm ready for this this is a lifetime movie that is all has always been my dream. And so that's what we're working towards and now the children's story. That was more than the motivation from that came from my sister recently passed. And I was the one that was there with her when she took her last breath. And she always said love you more to everybody. I made a promise, and I keep my word. I made a promise to my sister that I would always look out for her. Neff, I mean her grandkids her kids, who had to say goodbye, because she always believed in me I don't care if I sold a button my sister purchase it. She was very supportive of me. So I had to do this for her. And so I turned the book and made her a character. She was an angel. I want to write books that are real life in our in our day and time because pie in the sky, somebody else can do that for me, I want to reach kids and reach them in their heart, because they're going to be leaders one day. So we have to start with them and in my book I used a homeless man, and these kids saw him and our kids these days they look at homeless people, and they just think they're nothing and they poke fun at him and throw rocks and all this, like they're not human too. So I wanted to change that mindset. So I wrote a book about a homeless man and the kids my sister, the angel inspired her grandson in the book to do something. No, you don't have to just look at him he wants love. And when you go do it tell him that God loves him. And so that's what the book was about and I don't want to give the whole thing away because you guys can go to Amazon and get the book. But, but in the end, she tells him I'm always with you. And he said I love you grandma and she says I love you more. And that's why I titled the boat love you more dedicated it to my sister, who recently passed. I'm loving beautiful story. It's a beautiful story and this is what I love about it. But I want to come to you gal. How do we build a genuine sisterhood. Well, first of all, you have to be genuine. First of all, you, it starts with us. Yeah, yes, we have to be genuine. And you can only be genuine. You can only. She likes that she's like, I'm shot and with you that's awesome. Yeah, it's one thing to give out information but you first starts with you. How do you become genuine. You can't be genuine, unless you have God because it takes love to be genuine. Yes. In order to reach out to people, you can only do it through the love of God, because he is love. If you're looking for love. That's where love is. And the love that he has placed inside about all of us three here in thousands of others. That's the love that is automatically going to reach out, like Ella was saying, about the homeless. When I was a child, my father, there was a home, there was a homeless guy that continued to come to our church. He was filthy. I mean, very dear. You can smell, you can smell him just sitting in certain way and he always sat in the back. My father one day, I'll make a long story short, my father one day took this man to our beautiful home. And we just got a brand new bathroom, blue carpet, white cream, French bought that man to our home, put him in our bathtub. He had sores all over his body. His hair had never been washed. My father took that man, washed his clothes, gave him a bath, cut his hair. Now I'm just a kid looking on that impacted my life. And I think that is why where I see the genuine, my father was a genuine man because he truly was a man of God. First, he was a man of God.  So it must start with you being genuine first, in order to attract your tribe, a genuine tribe, and to show them genuinely true, true love. You know, what's, you know, like my husband, we were thinking about, we have a, we haven't, we have, we were beginning this, this youth organization is called the Love Center. And so I told him, I said, baby, if we're going to have the Love Center, let's really love people for real. You know, we don't have to fake love. We can just love people. That's where I'm at with it. I want to be, like you said, what is genuine? You got to be genuine first and really love people. Because people know the difference. They know the difference. People can tell the difference. They can't because you're not going to be able to go the long way. You're just going to go so far. You're only going to do it as far as people are watching. As long as people are watching, there you go. As long as the cameras are off, very good to get out of my face. Yes. When I call you, you don't feel like it. Yeah, because a lot of times they're going to call and you may not feel like it. But love will take over. If love is there, it will take over. We come to, you know, the golden rule. So there's the golden rule. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Yeah.  We are. We are. We are the salt. We are the salt in the soup with the salt from the bread. We are that we are that entity that God, that's, that's what's so powerful. Everything that, that you women are sharing right now shows the power. Like what Ella is doing when she, when she went through this whole thing with her, her husband and that whole thing with her child, being molested or whatever. That power, it was the, that shows how much power we have invested in us. That's the part that stands up. That's how powerful we are. God has invested that in us. That's power that took over and made you say, you know what, I'm not going to die. I'm going to live.  We have to do it every day, every day.  Right now, right now. So power. I'm not saying is that power. If you're tuning in to sister power now, your vibe attracts your tribe, the power and sisterhood Ella. Yes. If you could change anything you've been through. Would you. Absolutely not. It's just like Joseph. If Joseph, Joseph had to pick being thrown in the pit being sold into slavery, being accused of rape. If he knew he was going to go through that he would have never chosen that he would have said I gotta go through all that for the palace. But I guarantee you now, if you ask Joseph, he would say no because look at the reward. That's just like a woman when she's in pain and I've been in labor, when she's in labor pain for six times. Yeah, six kids. There's something about when you're in labor and you push that baby out once that joy of that baby, you forget all about the pain. So when you asked me, would I change a thing. No, because it was all necessary. Because it really that's really what we're why we're where we are right now. That's right because of all of that's why I was telling the young lady who called me this week, and was ready to commit suicide. Well, because my parents don't love me and I've been raped and, you know, this guy invited to church and on the way to church he said I need to stop by my house real quick. I left some food on, and he bites her in, and he rapes her, and locks her into his house. You know, those kind of things, if we focus, it will bring you down. But you know what? I want to love on her. I want you to connect with me. She's going to help somebody, isn't she? She's going to like what you just shared your story. That blessed my life because when I see your life, now I see what you've gone through. It's a beautiful thing. It's a beautiful thing. There's so much power in it. And I told Erica, you do not, people need to hear what you've been doing, how you made it through. That's right. You can't, you can't jump off the edge now. And it makes her stronger. It really does. I'm not going to change a thing right now. Me neither. I am. No, that's it. That's indeed. And I love me. That's another thing. That's right. I love ourselves. Yes.  He is so crazy about me. He really is. He loves me so much. That's the way I really feel. So there's nothing, I couldn't trade that love for nothing. Right. And I wouldn't trade one moment of chaos and trust me, honey. I have been through pure hell. Yes. Tell me, tell me. Intense. You know, we're going to have to have a part two. I hope you ladies are available in two weeks to do it. Always. Five tracks, your tribe. Give us closing in 10 seconds. Some healing words. Don't give up. If God brought you to it, he can take you through it.  So just hang in there. It's going to be all right. Trust me. If I did it and I went through it, because let me tell you something. I see lot of people in the chapter with blood in their hands, nose, nose, nose, nose and nose man with Ron and the lions. Dan. They were in there and nothing touched them.  Real talk. And Ella Johnson. Thank you, Queens, but your expertise and your wisdom. And in closing. it just blooms. Blooms where you're planted ladies. Thank you for spending your time with Sister Power. I'm your host Sharon Thomas Yarbrough, Allah. Mahalo.


I truly believe that you're going to have an encounter in the presence of the Holy Spirit. It's my prayer that his power would touch your life in a fresh way. As I talk about the many reasons why I love the precious Holy Spirit, I want you to allow your faith to be stirred because as I show you from Scripture, the different attributes of the person of the Holy Spirit, I want you to believe that you're going to have an encounter with the Holy Spirit. You're going to be drawn closer to the Holy Spirit. You're going to become more sensitive to the voice and the presence of the Holy Spirit. So toward the end of this lesson, we are going to pray that you have an encounter with him. Don't allow doubt. Don't allow cynicism. Don't allow past disappointments to distract you instead. Set your mind on the things above. Focus on his presence now. Let all distraction be removed as the flesh tries to pull you away even now. The flesh is trying to distract you and pull you away to various different things. Stay focused. Hear this word and then believe for your encounter. First, I want to show you in Scripture clearly the Holy Spirit is God. So it's not a sin. It's not wrong for you to ask for an encounter in the Holy Spirit's presence. Let me show you something in Isaiah chapter six, verses eight and nine. Now, initially I missed this until somebody showed me the connection here. Isaiah chapter six, verses eight and nine. Also, I heard the voice of the Lord saying, whom shall I send? And who will go for us? Then said I, here am I, send me. And he said, go and tell this people, hear ye indeed, but understand not and see ye indeed, but perceive it not. Here the context is the call of Isaiah the prophet and the Lord is speaking to him concerning the purpose he was giving to him. Isaiah the prophet was to go and declare the message, the word of the Lord. So we know for certainty or for certain I should say, we know with certainty that Isaiah the prophet was encountering God himself. Now look at this in Acts chapter 28. We'll read verses 25 and 26 and look at what's revealed in this New Testament portion of Scripture. And after they had argued back and forth among themselves, they left with this final word from Paul. The Holy Spirit was right when he said to your ancestors through Isaiah the prophet, go and say to this people. It's the Holy Spirit speaking. The Holy Spirit is God. Go and say to this people. When you hear what I say, you will not understand. When you see what I do, you will not comprehend. Even now I can sense his presence. I'm telling you. Even now I can sense his power flowing like a mighty river. I want you to just write in the comments say, say right now in faith, thank you Holy Spirit. Write that in the comments section and I want you to write that in faith knowing that he's going to touch your life in a fresh way knowing that you're being drawn closer to him knowing that you're becoming more sensitive to his voice into his presence. Let's just say, thank you Holy Spirit. Genesis one, one and two, the Holy Spirit is called the Spirit of God. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was formless and empty and darkness covered the deep waters and the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the water. So quite clearly we can see here that the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of God. The Holy Spirit didn't just begin his work in the book of Acts chapter two. No, the Holy Spirit has been at work since the beginning of time. Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit three distinct persons, one God, three in one. The Holy Spirit is omniscient. 1 Corinthians chapter two verses 10 through 12 and this by the way is one of my favorite portions of scripture but it was to us that God revealed these things by his spirit. For his spirit searches out everything and shows us God's deep secrets. You want to know the secrets of God? You want to be drawn closer into those places of glory? The Holy Spirit reveals those secrets. No one can know a person's thoughts except that person's own spirit and no one can know God's thoughts except God's own spirit. And we have received God's spirit not the world spirit. So we can know the wonderful things God has freely given us. Later on in the chapter the scripture tells us that we have the mind of Christ. So that's one of the functions of the Holy Spirit the mind of Christ. The omniscience of the Holy Spirit is clearly laid out here. The Holy Spirit knows what the Father knows and he searches those deep things and then reveals them to you and I. He's omniscient. The Holy Spirit is omnipotent. Look here in Luke chapter 1 verse 35 where we see the power of the Most High equated with the power of the Holy Spirit. The angel replied the Holy Spirit will come upon you and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the baby to be born will be holy and he will be called the Son of God. So quite clearly we see here that the Holy Spirit is omnipotent. His power is the power of the Most High. And then we see that the Holy Spirit is omnipresent everywhere at all times. The unofficial term I use this is describing the everywhereness of the Holy Spirit. Psalm 139 verse 7 I can never escape from your Spirit and thank God for that. This is one of the many reasons I love the Holy Spirit. Yes, I'm establishing the fact using scripture that the Holy Spirit is God but I can't help but celebrate this attribute that he just doesn't leave you. The Holy Spirit doesn't leave you. He puts up with our humanity in all of our failings in all of our frailty with all of our missteps, mistakes. He abides a faithful friend. He doesn't abandon you. He doesn't leave you to your own demise. He doesn't leave you to mediocrity. He doesn't leave you to your own disobedience. He loves you too much to do that. Instead, he leans in, he abides staying alongside of you helping you to get it right. I can never escape from your Spirit. Thank God for that. Thank God that we can never escape from his Spirit. I can never get away from your presence. In those moments when you feel him he's there. And in those moments when you feel like he's a million miles away I promise you he's still there. Don't wait for your feelings to confirm with the scripture already promises. Don't wait for your emotions or some experience to validate the truths that are clearly laid out in the scripture. We can never escape from his Spirit. When you're going to work he's in the car with you. When you're sitting in church he's in that chair with you. When you're at home enjoying a meal with your family when you're at home alone he's there with you. Wherever you're traveling whatever you're doing however you're feeling up or down the Holy Spirit is there. I can never escape from your Spirit. This is one of the things I love about him. He's a true faithful friend. You know some people will promise I'll be there. Some people will commit you can count on me but people fail. The promises of man are bound to fail at some point. No matter how much integrity the person has even if they were to keep all of their promises sometimes it's not just about their willingness but their ability where they're willing to fulfill their promise. They're willing to fulfill their word but they can't do it because they lack the ability in some circumstances. Life just does that. Sometimes you can't keep your word because it's just physically impossible to fulfill that promise but not with the Holy Spirit. He keeps his word. He faithfully commits to you. He speaks the promises and then he has the power to back those promises. Then he faithfully abides as a true friend. People will fail.  The Holy Spirit won't betray you. The Holy Spirit won't turn his back on you. The Holy Spirit won't slander you. The Holy Spirit won't misunderstand you. The Holy Spirit knows all of your quirks all of your flaws and he loves you despite them. In fact, he loves you through them. Psalm 139.7 I can never escape from your presence. Galatians 5, 22 through 23. You know, you can't produce in the life of another what you lack in your own life and so the Bible tells us about the fruit of the Spirit. The fruit of the Spirit meaning they are of his very essence in nature. The Holy Spirit can give these things because they are of his nature but the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives. Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. The Holy Spirit is loving. The Holy Spirit is joyful. The Holy Spirit has stability and certainty and clarity and therefore he gives peace. The Holy Spirit is patient and kind. The Holy Spirit is good. He doesn't just do good things. He is goodness itself. The Holy Spirit is faithful. You've heard it said that the Holy Spirit is not a gentleman nonsense. It's right here, gentleness. If he produces gentleness, it's because it's of his nature. This doesn't mean he's never bold. This doesn't mean he doesn't ever move with great force but we mustn't forget about the gentle nature of the Holy Spirit as well. He is in charge. He has authority. He is competent and therefore he produces the fruit of self-control. There is no law against these things. Yes, that's what the Holy Spirit produces in our lives. You become like who you spend time with and so as you begin to fellowship with the precious Holy Spirit and sometimes people wonder how do I do that? How do I connect with him? What specifically do I do to fellowship with him?  What do you speak? What are you thinking? What exactly are you doing? Are you sitting? Are you standing? Are you pacing?  Do you have to speak out loud? Can you think the prayers in your mind? All these questions flood my mind or flooded my mind when I first began to develop this friendship with the Holy Spirit. It's quite simple. You set aside distraction. You allow the mind and the heart your thoughts to be focused on the truth of God's word on who the Holy Spirit is and you just speak to him and then you read the word and let him speak to you through the word. Mostly he speaks to the word but every so often he'll also speak something directly to your spirit and you fellowship with him in this way. You worship Jesus. You worship God. You sing his praises. You know, a powerful man of God once told me if you have an hour to pray worship for 45. Worship for 45 minutes out of that hour if you don't know what to pray and you just love him. Well that's what King David would do. He would just allow that worship to overflow from the depths of his love for God and of course that spilled over onto the pages that we now read today but there's this beauty in that worship where you're just lavishing him with your praises. Jesus, I love you. Jesus, I adore you.  Father, I thank you for your unfailing love and your compassion. No one compares to your might and strength. No one compares to the depths of your wisdom and knowledge and you just begin to worship and you praise him.  You're wowed by him. Your being is responding to who he is. That's what worship is and so as you begin to do that and you talk with him and you read the word it's that simple. You begin to fellowship with him. That is fellowship. That is the fellowship of the Holy Spirit where now you're communing with him because he's there with you. He's not distant. He's not a million miles away. The Spirit of God who raised Christ from the dead dwells in you. Scripture is very clear on that. And so knowing that the Holy Spirit's presence abides with me I can fellowship with him in confidence. Not not not worried. Oh, do you hear me? Oh, are you next to me or are you at a distance? Stop begging the Holy Spirit to be near to you and have the faith to believe that he is already abiding with you. Somebody needs to hear that that's a word for someone right now. Stop begging for the Holy Spirit to be near to you and simply allow yourself to have the faith to believe that he's already abiding with you. And so I pray knowing that I'm already connected. I pray with confidence that I have his presence. And so as you begin to fellowship in that way it's simple. The fruits of the Spirit begin to become your attributes. You become like him as you spend time with him. The Holy Spirit is Heaven's greatest evangelist. Another reason why we love the precious Holy Spirit. I want you to write that in the comment section right now. If you're just being overwhelmed by that love for him as we go through the Scripture I want you to write I love you Holy Spirit in the comment section. Well think about that. We say I love you Father. I love you Jesus. You should say I love you Holy Spirit too. Or you thought of the fact that the Father loves me. Jesus loves me. But have you also considered that the Holy Spirit loves you too? The love is the same. So we can say that. Just say I love you Holy Spirit. Now he is Heaven's greatest evangelist. John chapter 16 verses 7 through 11. But in fact it is best for you that I go away. Because if I don't the advocate won't come.  And when he comes watch this now. He will convict the world of its sin and of God's righteousness and of the coming judgment. So not just sin. He convicts of those three things. Sin God's righteousness and of the coming judgment. The world's sin is that it refuses to believe in me. Righteousness is available because I go to the Father and you will see me no more. Judgment will come because the ruler of this world has already been judged. There's a whole bunch we can unpack there. But for now let's focus in on these specific points in that the Holy Spirit convicts of sin. Now what is what is conviction? Conviction is a deeply held belief. So when the Holy Spirit convicts you of something he is convincing you of something. He is causing you to deeply believe that which he's communicating. So the conviction of the Holy Spirit isn't just a feeling of guilt. Yes. If the Holy Spirit convicts you of sin you will fill Godly sorrow. But conviction isn't just guilt. Notice the scripture also says and of God's righteousness and many times we skip this part. The Holy Spirit doesn't just convict you of guilt. He doesn't just convict you of sin causing you to fill Godly sorrow. Now additionally the Holy Spirit also convicts you or causes you to deeply believe in God's righteousness. So he doesn't just say what you shouldn't do. He doesn't just tell you what to avoid. He also raises a standard to which you can aspire. So he causes you to be deeply convinced concerning God's righteousness. Not just about sin. So yes, he convicts of sin and yes, he'll produce Godly sorrow when he convicts you of sin. But he also convicts you of God's righteousness. And this is the part many believers are missing because they're not they're not allowing the Holy Spirit to have his full work. They're they're in the flesh. They're not surrendering to what he's doing or they won't allow themselves to be convicted of righteousness because they think so little of themselves that they think they should be only convicted of sin. But no, the Holy Spirit also convicts me convinces me causes me to deeply believe in God's righteousness which was imputed to me when I believed on Christ Jesus. And so now I'm not only looking at what I should disdain and what I should avoid. Now I see there's a standard. Okay. I've become the righteousness of God in Christ. Christ is seated in heavenly places. Christ is seated at the right hand of the Father. Christ is in authority. I am in Christ. Christ is in power. I am in Christ. Christ sits in perfection. I sit in Christ. Now this is not to say that we are Christ. Of course not. And don't ever get that confused. I have to say that because many times people take clips and they might take it out of context. That's not what I'm saying. Apart from him we're nothing. He's divine. We're the branches. Apart from him we can do nothing. But he allows us to experience the benefits of the sinless perfection in which he lived and the death that he died upon the cross. So I live in him. No longer I live but Christ lives in me and I live in him. And so the Holy Spirit convicts you of this as well. He calls you to higher places. And he convicts of the coming judgment. People know there's this coming judgment. So in this regard he is Heaven's greatest evangelist because everyone who's ever been drawn to Jesus was drawn by the Holy Spirit. So he shows you when you're wrong. Yes, that's a part of it. But he also shows you the standard to which you must aspire God's righteousness. And then he convicts you of the coming judgment. There is that urgency. I have to get this right. I have to be I may write with God. I have to accept the free gift of salvation. Otherwise I'm convinced that there's a coming judgment. That wrath that's being stored up until the day of judgment. God holding back not wanting any to perish wanting all to come to everlasting life. He holds back that judgment and the Holy Spirit convinces the unbeliever of the fact that judgment is coming. I don't believe atheists exists. This is why I sincerely I sincerely believe that. I'm not trying to to to be sarcastic or poke fun at anyone. I truly don't believe atheists exist. I think that deep within their hearts they understand that judgment is coming. And if they've passed that point oh my goodness then that is even far worse I think that is direct rebellion against God and possibly a seared conscience but still deep within they know there's a God. Why? Because the Holy Spirit is convicting the world of its sin and of God's righteousness and of coming judgment. So the Holy Spirit is Heaven's greatest evangelist. The Holy Spirit is your teacher. John 14 17 he is the Holy Spirit who leads into all truth. The world cannot receive him because it isn't looking for him and doesn't recognize him. But you know him because he lives with you now and later will be in you. So the Holy Spirit guides you into all truth. You want to understand the depths of scripture. You want to understand the truths of the Word of God in a way that it's not just going to be information but that it will be transformative revelation than you need the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit was the one who moved these men to write the Holy Scriptures the epistles New Testament records. The Holy Spirit moved them inspired them to lay out for us the Word of God. And this of course because it is inspired by the Holy Spirit can only be understood by the Holy Spirit. I've said this before atheists can read the Word of God and come up with some arguments perhaps. Philosophers can read the Word of God and come up with some philosophies. Historians can read the Word of God and they can find many historical facts for their studies. People of other religions can read the Word of God and still not be convinced of its truth. The heart, the Spirit is brought to life. Revelation comes by way of the Holy Spirit. He is the teacher. So when you read the Word you have to realize that as you read Scripture the Holy Spirit is there with you teaching you. Now this does not mean that you shouldn't study. The Bible directly tells us study to show thyself approved unto God. So there is an element of study that must be done. So we don't want to become unbalanced in this either. It's not as though we can just pick up the Word and whatever I feel it means, it means. No, you're going to end up in a lot of strange doctrines if you do that. But rather the Holy Spirit works through your diligence. Hear me now? The Holy Spirit teaches in part through your diligence. Yes, there are some truths that are communicated to your Spirit. In fact, all truth is known in the Spirit. This is why I say that Revelation isn't the receiving of truth. Rather, it's when what I understand in my Spirit is known in my rational mind. So that of course is the Spirit bringing understanding to the natural mind. But still, it's important that we recognize that there's an element of diligence and study that must be applied to this.  He's also our Comforter. John 14, 15 through 18. If you love me, obey my commandments and I will ask the Father and He will give you another advocate. Watch this. I love this. Who will never leave you? I'm going to read that again because somebody needs to hear that. And I will ask the Father and He will give you another advocate who will never leave you. He doesn't abandon you. This, I believe, I should say more clearly. This idea that the Holy Spirit abandons us when we make mistakes comes from a works-based gospel. It comes from a works-based gospel and a works-based gospel is rooted in legalism, self-righteousness and pride. I am not saying that we do not need to live holy. Of course, we as believers should live holy. In fact, I'll say this. I'll take it one step further. Every true believer desires to be holy. But what I am saying is that the Holy Spirit isn't going to abandon you when you make a mistake. The Holy Spirit isn't going to abandon you when you make several mistakes. No, he's going to abide and help you to get this right. I've said this before, but I think it's worth repeating. When it comes to salvation, it's a clear, bold, distinct line. It's saved or unsaved. Many believers imagine salvation like a gradient. And there's somewhere in between saved and unsaved. And if they go far enough this way, the Holy Spirit leaves. Or if they go far enough this way, the Holy Spirit now comes closer. How can the Holy Spirit draw any closer than within you? Now again, it's worth repeating. This is not to say that we shouldn't live holy. You should live holy. And if you do not live holy and that doesn't bother you, then that may be a sign to you that you were never saved to begin with. But the Bible is quite clear and I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate who will never leave you.  No, no, no, my friend. He abides with you. And I'm gonna say it for a third and final time so that nobody can misunderstand. Paul said it. What am I saying? Shall we go on sinning then? By no means, of course not. So no, we shouldn't go on sinning. Holiness is the standard. Sin has no place in the life of the believer. And a true believer has the desire to live holy. But what I am saying is we have to stop living in this fear and this paranoia. Balance, balance, balance based on the word. We have to stop living in this fear and paranoia that when I made that mistake, well, that's it, he abandoned me. Why would God remove from you your only power to live holy as a punishment for you not living holy? Think about that. Well, you made a mistake. You're not living right. Let me pull my Holy Spirit from you now as a punishment. Well, how are you supposed to live holy now? The Holy Spirit is not a reward for holiness. He's the source for holiness. He's the comforter. He abides. He is the Holy Spirit who leads into all truth. The world cannot receive him because it isn't looking for him and doesn't recognize him. But you know him because he lives in you now and later will be in you. No, I will not abandon you as orphans. I will come to you. So in those moments when you feel abandoned, in those moments when people disappoint you, in those moments when people misunderstand you, in those moments where maybe you perceive that nobody wants you, nobody loves you, which isn't true, but sometimes that's the perception, isn't it when we get into our feelings? Holy Spirit abides. He remains to comfort you. When you lose a loved one and you're facing heartache, he abides with you. You know, people have asked me before to speak at funerals. I've spoken at a few funerals here and there. And in moments like that, people aren't looking for philosophy. People aren't looking to be impressed by how much I think I know about the Scripture. In moments like that, people are looking for comfort and peace. I mean, what do you say to a parent who loses a child? And they were born again. They have questions like, why would God allow it? How will we go on living?  In moments like that, there is no philosophy that can comfort them. There is nothing that you can say that's so theologically profound that you're going to awe them out of their grief. Now, in moments like that, they're looking for comfort and peace. And so all you can give them is the comfort of Scripture. Of course, that their loved one is with the Lord. That's part of it. But on this side of eternity, we need comfort. And that's where the presence of the Holy Spirit shows up. He's near to the brokenhearted. He is near to the brokenhearted. You lose a loved one, he's there. Something lesser happens, but still heartbreaking. You lose an opportunity. You lose a job.  You lose familiarity. You lose a relationship. He's there. There is no problem so big that the peace of the Holy Spirit won't work for you. And there is no problem so small that God will refuse to give you peace for it. We can't compare our situations to one another saying that you can't be sad because someone else has it worse. It's like saying you can't be joyful because somebody else has it better. Never mind what others are going through in terms of whether or not you feel sorrow. If you feel sorrow, he understands. If your heart is broken, he's with you. If you are having trouble dealing with your emotions or grief or something's weighing you down, he's the comforter. He's there with you because he loves you. He's the mighty intercessor. Romans chapter 8 verses 26 and 27. Did you know that the Holy Spirit prays for you? I'll show it to you. And as I said in a moment, we are going to pray that you would have an encounter in the Holy Spirit's presence. I believe there are many encounters about to take place. Do not turn this off. I believe there are many encounters that are about to take place. Romans 8, 26. And the Holy Spirit helps us in our weakness. For example, we don't know what God wants us to pray for. But the Holy Spirit prays for us with groanings that cannot be expressed in words. And the Father who knows all hearts knows what the Spirit is saying. For the Spirit pleads for us believers in harmony with God's own will. In other words, the Holy Spirit prays for you and draws you to the will of the Father. Nobody knows you like the Holy Spirit knows you.  Praise for you like no one else can pray for you. Grownings, meaning he's praying with passion. The Holy Spirit prays for you with more love and compassion than a parent prays for a child. Then a spouse prays for a spouse. Then a grandparent prays for a grandchild. You know the power of a praying grandmother, hopefully. You know the power of a praying parent, hopefully.  And if you don't know those, I'm here to tell you that no one can pray for you like the Holy Spirit can pray for you. And he pleads for you in harmony with God's own will. Meaning he helps to draw you back on the right path. There's this purposeful pool on your life. And it's because of the prayers of the Holy Spirit. He helps us to pray, Zachariah 12-10. He glorifies Jesus, John 15-26. Meaning he makes Jesus real to us. Now, don't misunderstand what I'm saying. I'm not saying that Jesus isn't real, apart from the Holy Spirit. I'm saying he reveals Jesus to us in a way that we become more aware of that reality. This is something I wrote in my book, Carriers of the Glory. In 2015, I believe I wrote that. Way back in 2015, I wrote a section in Carriers of the Glory about how the Holy Spirit makes Jesus real to us. He vivifies the Savior. He brings us into that awareness of His presence.  It's that you're becoming more aware of that presence that abides with you. He empowers us unto holiness, Galatians 5-16. He helps us to worship in spirit and in truth, John 4-24. He convinces us of our sonship. So when you feel like you don't belong to God, he reminds you that you do. That's Romans 8-15. He performs the miraculous through us. Galatians 3-5. He's the miracle-working spirit. He gives you faith. He's the spirit of faith in 2 Corinthians 4-13. He gives you boldness as he did to Peter in Acts 2. The very one who denied Jesus three times wins 3,000 to the Lord on the day of Pentecost. Why? Because the Holy Spirit came upon him. He produced that boldness. And the key to the true and powerful Christian life is friendship with the Holy Spirit. I want you to begin to pray right now. If you are able to close your eyes, remove as many distractions as you possibly can right now.  You're home with the kids right now. Maybe you're traveling on public transportation. There's a lot of chaos around you. Okay, but as best you can, I want you to focus in right now. Remove as much distraction as you can. And if there's nothing you can do about what's around you, then retreat to that inner place in the Spirit and receive a touch of His presence and power. Don't focus on an encounter. Don't focus on a feeling. Don't focus on an experience. Let Him do a work in you. Whether you feel something or not, He's doing something in your life right now. All you have to do is surrender, trust and obey. Just believe. Just believe. So Father, I thank you for the presence of the precious Holy Spirit. And I pray, Lord, that you would cause that one to come into an encounter with you such as they've never known. Let them know that you're near to them. Draw them into the depths of glory, I pray. And I ask you, Father, now to let your healing power flow. Let your delivering power flow. Touch each life, I pray. Break addiction. Break sinful habit. Remove doubt and fear. I come against anxiety and intrusive thoughts. Father, I thank you for your presence. Abide. Listen to me now. He's in the room with you. He's in the room with you right now. He is looking at you right now. He is listening to you right now. Lift your hands received right now. I thank you Lord.  Some of you right now are beginning to sense like electricity come on your body. Others are sensing like a heat or a weight or like waves. Whether you feel something or not is not the issue. I do know however that there are some who are feeling the power of the Holy Spirit physically manifested in the room with them right now. Just receive that. I thank you Jesus for what you're doing in their lives. Heal each one, I pray. Deliver each one. Let them be drawn closer to you. Let us be more like Jesus than ever before. I thank you Father. Thank you. Now help them to walk in the awareness of your presence. Help them to set their minds on the things above. Jesus I give you glory and honor and praise. I want you to say it because you believe it. Say amen. Tell me in the comment section what did you just experience? What did you encounter? Healing testimony, deliverance testimony or maybe just a touch of his presence. Maybe you didn't feel anything physically but there was peace or there was focus or a torment was removed. Write your testimony in the comment section and also make sure that you leave a like on this teaching so that others may experience what you just experienced. Just by leaving a like you're spreading this live stream even further and if you haven't done so already don't forget to subscribe to my channel so that you don't miss any content. Do click that notification bell when you subscribe. Now I want to read you a portion of scripture here. Go with me to 2 Corinthians chapter 9. I'm going to read beginning at verse number 6. 2 Corinthians chapter 9. I'm going to read beginning at verse number 6. Now the context here Paul the Apostle is talking about money, finances and let me be very clear you cannot sow money and then get a healing.  Deliverance and healing are free. Jesus already paid that. I can't sow apple seeds and get oranges. I can't sow watermelon seeds and get grapes. You reap what you sow. So the exchange of the monetary for the supernatural that's sorcery and I understand that the message of financial stewardship has been abused. We all acknowledge that. Yes. And even to this day many still abuse that message to make people feel guilty or shame or pressure them into doing something. But we can't allow the misuse or the twisting of truth to cause us to throw the truth out entirely because the reality is the Bible talks about stewardship. I'm going to show it to you right here in scripture in that when you give resources financial resources for the purpose of the kingdom God takes note of that. There's nothing mysterious about it. There's nothing magical about it.  And again, I understand the message has been abused but guys, this is Bible and we have to deal with that part of us that fear or that selfishness or whatever it may be that causes us to grip tightly to the things of this world. Look at 2 Corinthians chapter 9 beginning at verse 6. Remember this, a farmer who plants only a few seeds will get a small crop. But the one who plants generously will get a generous crop. So again, this is in the context here. He's taking an offering. He's talking about financial resources. Now watch this in verse 7. You must each decide in your heart how much to give. So there, that's the Holy Spirit speaking to you. And don't give reluctantly or in response to pressure. For God loves a person who gives cheerfully. So not guilt, not greed, not gimmicks, just giving for the gospel as the Holy Spirit leads you. Now watch this promise here. And this is the word verse 8. And God will generously provide all you need. Then you will always have everything you need and plenty left over to share with others. Well, think about what the scripture is saying here. It doesn't say that you will sometimes have some of the things that you need. It says you will always have everything you need. And so we as Christians love to give to the gospel. I've never met a person who was surrendered to the Holy Spirit who was a grumpy giver. I've never met a person who was surrendered to the Holy Spirit who had an issue when offerings were taken for ministry. And if there is an issue that arises, you have to check your heart and say, okay, what is it in me that's causing me to resist this portion of the word of God? Why specifically do I single those truths of scripture out and wish that nobody talked about them? Because it's addressing something in us. Now watch this again. And God will generously provide all you need. That's a promise. Then you will always have everything you need. And this is my favorite part right here. And plenty left over to share with others. You know, it's all relative. The scripture is not promising that everyone's gonna live in a big mansion and drive a fancy car and wear the most expensive clothes. That's not the promise of the gospel. In fact, if someone makes that the point of the gospel, they've warped the gospel. The gospel is not about wealth acquisition, but the principle of stewardship and how we take care of our resources, that is biblical. Now watch this in verse 10. For God is the one who provides seed for the farmer and then bread to eat. In the same way, watch these two words here. He will provide and increase your resources. Why? What's the purpose? And then produce a harvest of generosity in you. So we have to keep a balanced perspective when it comes to finances and sowing into other ministries. So prosperity, again, is not necessarily you have a nice house and a nice car and nice clothes. Prosperity is simply your needs are met and you have enough left over to be a blessing to others. And so we need to keep this in mind. Not just obeying the parts of scripture we're comfortable with. Not just celebrating the preaching of the parts of scripture that we're comfortable with, but also acknowledging that this is true biblical reality. The idea that as I use my resources for the kingdom, God notes that, and watch this, He will provide and increase your resources. Why? For the harvest of generosity in you. And so now I want to ask you to hear from the Holy Spirit. Are you being a good steward of the resources God gave to you? Remember, he's the one who gave that to you. He's the one who gives seed to the sower. So he's placed something in your hand and you have to of course be responsible with that. You have to make sure you're budgeting properly. You have to make sure you're not getting into unnecessary debt. And of course, make sure that you're being generous. And as you become a good steward with those resources, the scriptures clear that God increases those resources. So that's my challenge to you today. Take the word and find out what is that in me that's saying, well, I liked the lesson up until you took an offering or I think this was going great until you asked for money or I agree with everything you said, but why do you have to talk? Well, it's because it's in the Bible. Why would we ever ignore anything in the scripture just because it makes somebody uncomfortable?  I want you to know what it is to live in the blessing of that generosity. And so this is something I've seen in my own life and every season God challenges me to give, to pour into others, to be selfless. And as we do that, I believe he increases us. So I'm going to ask you to do what the Holy Spirit leads you to do.  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