I'm going to open Book of Acts chapter 9 and share a finished part of Towers and Titles series and the message titled, What Should I Do? Book of Acts chapter 9 and verse 1, Then Saul, breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest. He asked letters from him to the synagogues of Damascus so that if he found any who were of the way, meaning any who were Christians, they were called of the way at that time, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem. As he journeyed, he came near Damascus and suddenly a light shone around him from heaven. And he fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? And he said, who are you, Lord? And then the Lord said, I am Jesus whom you are persecuting. Verse 6, So he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what do you want me to do? Then the Lord said to him, Arise and go into the city and you will be told what you must do. I want to focus today on these two questions that Paul asked when he encountered Jesus. Now, I want to bring first a comparison between two souls. In the Old Testament, there was a king soul who was the first king that the nation of Israel had. He was good and then at one time he went bad. He started to chase his son in law, David, trying to kill him. And one day in a similar story as this, Saul went to Rama to find David to kill him. And on the way to Rama, God encountered him there. In fact, he encountered him so powerfully that Saul laid on the floor naked and prophesied. So this Saul, we read in the New Testament, goes to Damascus to kill Christians. And Jesus meets him and knocks him out of the horse. He doesn't prophesy, he just goes blind. That Saul, when he meets Jesus, has a powerful encounter with God. He experiences the spirit of God. He experiences the power, the fire of God. That's why he removed all of his clothes. He got right back up, felt bad for what he did, and went back, trying to not do bad. This Saul, after meets Jesus, he gets up and he doesn't just feel bad. He repents. And when he repents, he doesn't just go back to his old life trying to not do bad. He goes back to do good. One Saul, he went into the history as an apostate. An apostate is somebody who turned his back on God. This Saul went into the history as an apostle. Somebody who gave us the New Testament, most of the New Testament. I want to tell you something this morning. Encountering God is so powerful. When you meet God, when you encounter God, when he meets you, it's so amazing. Some people meet God in their car. A song goes on to play and it touches them so much. Tears roll down their eyes and they realize God met them.  They wake up to the reality, life ends. Eternity is real and something happens to their heart. Some people meet God when somebody gives them a prophetic word about them that they had no idea they knew and they didn't. It was God who said that word. And the reality that God is real touches them so much. Tears roll down their eyes and say, God is real, OMG. Some people meet God when their life is falling apart and a friend reaches out on Facebook or a friend from work messages them and says, could you come with me to church? They come to church and they haven't been in church for a very long time and the preacher happens to read their mail. And then there's a call for salvation and without them wanting to do it, the hand goes up. They go up to the front and they never cried before. They cry and something happens. They meet God. Some people go to a life group and they are surrounded with love and they never experienced that in their life and they meet God and God encounters them. It is so powerful. Your encounter with God will be probably different than mine. Your neighbor's encounter with God will be different than yours. But I believe, first of all, there are people in this room today. It's not an accident that you are here. God wants to encounter you. Through the songs that you heard, through the testimony that you heard, your heart is softening up to God and God wants to encounter you. You might not fall from your horse. You might not lay naked. I hope not. You might not prophesy right away. You might not be like Paul and go blind. Your encounter with God might be a little bit different than someone else's. But one thing is certain is that God, during an encounter, becomes real. It's more than a sermon. It's more than a song. It's more than a beautiful atmosphere. It's more than an emotionally induced environment. It's the reality of God that you come in contact with. You need to have an encounter with God. We create services as such. Our services are dynamic. We create them. We pray for them. We strategically approach them so that this can become a place where God can meet man.  He can meet you. With that said, no matter how great your encounter with God is, or how not emotional it is, it does not change your life. An encounter with God doesn't bring transformation. It's an invitation to a transformation. Encounter alone doesn't change you.  But it's like an alarm. But you still have a choice to go back to sleep. We have this thing called snooze. And many people, when Monday hits, so is snooze hits. Sunday is the day where the Lord wakes him up. And the Monday is when the snooze hits and we just go back to sleep. We just go back to sleep. I want to share something today that I believe will give you a course to see change in your life. Both men had an encounter. One soul had an encounter. He was the king. And the other soul had an encounter. He was a murderer. Yet one encounter led to the fact that nothing changed in that man's life. And this encounter meeting with God led to something that not only his life changed, it changed the world as we know. They said the second greatest confirmation, the Christianity is real, after resurrection of Jesus is the conversion of Apostle Paul. It's the second greatest thing that made an impact. And the Christianity that we know today is the conversion of this guy. It's not the encounter how powerful it was. It's that it was an invitation for something to change. And this invitation starts with two questions. When you meet God, you have to have two questions ready. It's interesting because these two questions are not the questions people have who don't meet God. When you don't meet God, your questions are why is there evil? And why does somebody in my family die? Those two questions are real, they are genuine, and they're very important. But they're not the primary questions. Those two questions, why is there evil in this world? And why my loved one died are important until you meet God. When you meet God, these are not going to be the questions you will ask first. Mower in the Bible has somebody met God, ask those two questions first. We all ask them until we see God face to face. When we see God face to face, the first question has to happen. If you had an encounter with God, if you recently got saved, Baptists in the Holy Spirit experienced visible healing in your body that you know it's true, God is real. But you don't see change in your life, I want to invite you to that change today. It has to start with question number one. Who are you, Lord? Who are you, Lord? Please understand, Saul knew who Jesus was. Jesus was not a new guy on the blog for Paul. Saul knew who Jesus was, in fact, knew so much to know he was a false messiah. Saul was not oblivious to the idea and the name and the person of Jesus. But when you encounter God, you always see God in the new light. You always see God in something new, and the question Saul has is who are you, God? Before you discover your purpose, you have to discover God's presence. Before you ask, what do you want me to do, you have to ask, who are you? Many young people today want to know what God wants them to do. God wants you to first know who he is. God wants you to first ask the question, who are you, God? Not which degree I should get in college, and not which person I should marry, which place I should live, and where should I work, and where should I go to school? The first question your Christian life has to start with is who are you, Lord? And brush off the thing, well, I know everything that is about Jesus. The more you think you know about Jesus, the less you actually know him. You got to know him personally, not just about him, but personally. I met a girl in Tanzania, in the huts of Tanzania, and she knew Barack Obama. She wore his hat, it said Obama. And I said, do you know who the president Barack Obama is? She said, yes, I do, and she named his family and his daughters. I didn't even know the names of his daughters. She knew about Barack Obama, but I can guarantee you one thing. If she would show up at the White House at that time, she would be arrested. Because Obama doesn't know her. See, knowing about God is one thing. Knowing God intimately is where Paul was asking the question. He said, Jesus, you just hit me off of my horse. I like the lightning. I like the show. I like what I feel. I like vibration.  I feel something amazing. A weight is lifted. But I know the feelings won't last me. I got to know you. Who are you, Lord? See, many people, they rely on the manifestation of God's power instead of revelation of God's person. When you know who Jesus is, that will get you through life. That will get you through jail. That will get you through poverty. That will get you through sickness. That will get you through trial. That will get you through temptation. Who are you, Lord? Who are you, Lord? Before we ask, what should I do? We have to ask, who are you? If you are wanting to know your purpose today, if you're wanting to know why are you on this earth, don't start with that question, my friend. Start with the question is, who are you, God? God hides your purpose in His presence. God hides your assignment in Him so that you seek Him. And when you find Him, you find it. Sometimes God enjoys and plays hide and seek so that He finds the pleasure when we pursue Him. God not only rewards when we find Him, He rewards the very act of the pursuit. That's why it says that He's a rewarder of those who diligently It doesn't say He's a rewarder of those who successfully find Him. God blesses if you seek. The Bible says blessed are those who hunger for righteousness. It doesn't say blessed only are those who are righteous. We know the righteous are blessed, but God says if you just want to be righteous, I'll bless you. David is called man after God's heart. The Bible doesn't say David had God's heart. The Bible doesn't say David had God's heart.  Seek God's presence. Seek God's love. Seek His face because you must understand even if you don't think you have a purpose, even if you don't think you have an assignment, even if you think your life on earth is an accident, I want to tell you it is not. But your assignment is not hidden in a university. It is not hidden in a degree. In the title position or accolades or your skills or your gifts, it is hidden in God. His presence is the hiding place. His presence is the hiding place for my purpose. Say this with me. Say my purpose is hidden in His presence. And that's what Paul did. Paul didn't seek his apostleship. He sought Him to know Him. And in that, he found something else. Who are you, Lord? And you would think the typical New Testament response would be, I am Jesus who died on a cross for you. For three days I suffered and arose again. And Paul, look at these scars. I love you so much. He does not present Himself to Paul or Saul as Jesus who loves Saul. That takes me off, that throws me off a little bit because I always tell people Jesus is the one that loves them. But in here he says, I am Jesus. You're currently hurting. That tells me Jesus is personal. That tells me Jesus can be injured. That tells me. And Paul says, how am I hurting you? Like, you're out there, I'm here. And Jesus says, you're persecuting my people. Therefore, you're hurting me. I find this thing with us who begin relationship with the Lord is we decapitate His head from His body in our view of intimacy with God. Let me explain. We kiss the face like Judas and call Him friend and plunge the knife in the back of somebody's reputation, somebody's life in the church, betray trust, gossip about other people, abuse our spouses, hurt our children, talk trash about our parents while kissing Jesus on the cheek and think our relationship is always based with the kiss. But where knife goes on the back of His back doesn't matter. And Jesus is telling Paul, he says, relationship with me is relationship with the body, not with my cheeks. See, we as charismatic many times we love to spend time in His presence, meaning we love His face. We just hate His body. If you want to have a relationship with God, do not decapitate His head from His body.    Listen, father, it's the way you're treating Jesus.  You can't just have a devotional life and talk trash about other people.  And Paul is saying, excuse me, Jesus is saying, I've made my people so dear to me. I actually made them part of me. My people are apart. Jesus didn't make us into purses and toys. He made us into members of His body. Like right here, He actually has. We are the members of His body and He is the head. That tells me the relationship I must have with the Lord is not just the relationship where I learn about Jesus and I relate to Jesus by praying, worshiping and reading the Scriptures, which is the kisses on His face. That is so wonderful. I had this problem when we got married. I know that raising my voice against my wife and raising my hand is completely, it's wrong. It's bad, it's bad. But I found a loophole. When she would do something that brought me discomfort and like really, and I just wanted to like scream or manifest or do something and I knew it's wrong and I would hold myself. I did this thing where I would pinch, pinch her. I am very embarrassed to admit. I would pinch her and I would pinch her so hard that she would vocalize the very feelings I had inside of me. I'm not giving any husbands ideas right now. No, no, no. And she would say this, Ouch, you're hurting me. And I said no, I'm just playing with you. She said, excuse me? He said, you're hurting me. But I love her. But at the same time, I was pinching her side. And as I was reading these verses, I felt that when I am pinching Jesus, yet spending time with Jesus, yet married to Jesus, but the way I treat people, pinches Him. And many of us would never do what Paul did. We would never persecute and kill other people. But we find a loophole. We like to pinch Jesus. And some of your Jesus is screaming out of pain. And that's the Jesus we need to discover this morning. It's not just the Jesus that loves you. It's Jesus you're hurting. When you hurt other people, you pinch Jesus. And it doesn't matter how many kisses you lay on his cheek. And it doesn't matter how much of your makeup is left on his cheeks.  I want to tell you something today. It's that your confession that you are saved and he is your saver is great. He will smile back at your Judas and say, yes my friend, why did you come? But remember, the relationship that's only based on kisses is very shallow. We have many Judas's today who kissed Jesus publicly. But stab him privately. Pinch him privately. If you want to know your purpose, you must understand that the presence of God is not only the face of God, it's the body of God. And the way I treat the body is the way I treat the face. Somebody say ouch. After Paul asked that question, he did exactly the same thing as many of you. I'm looking at your face like, I see some spouse is going mm-hmm, go deeper. So he, trembling and astonished, Lord, what do I do? When you discover that God's presence hides your purpose, and when you discover that Jesus shouldn't be decapitated, something begins to happen. You are ready to find about your purpose. What do I do? And I love Jesus' answer. I mean, he's right there next to Paul.  And you know what Jesus tells Paul? He says, Paul, I want you to go to the city and you will be told what to do. Not only my purpose is hidden in God's presence, but my purpose is also hidden in God's people. God hides my calling in the community. God puts my assignment in the gathering of His people. He says to Paul, this is one of the greatest Christians ever lived and Jesus doesn't tell him what he's going to do. He doesn't tell him what he's calling him to do. He says, I want you to go to the right place and in the right place you're going to meet the right people and these people are going to tell you what to do. Well, Jesus, are you busy? Like, are you in a hurry somewhere? Could you just tell me why you're here?  Tell me straight up. What do you want me to do? What is the ABC? What is the step one, step two, step three? We're here right now. I mean, you knocked me out. You got my attention. I got it.  I get it. Never do it again. What do I do? You're here, Jesus. Are you in a hurry? No, you're not in a hurry. What do I do? And Jesus says, go to Damascus and you will be told what to do. If you take your notes, write this down. Before God will tell you what to do. He will tell you where to go. God will always lead you to a right place before he brings to you right people. He didn't tell Saul what to do. He told him where to go. When he went to the right place, in the right place, he eventually met the right people. If you don't know the right people, you need to find a right place. Instead of telling Saul what to do, he tells them what to go. God will guide us to the right place before he connects us with the right people. We must understand is that not always God will tell you what to do.  He will guide you to a local church. He will guide you to a small group. He will guide you to a group and a community of people that maybe you had interactions with before. Or see for Saul, Damascus and the Christians are not necessarily his favorite five people on his phone. Christians were the people he was killing and now he's not comfortable around them because he has to depend on them to know his assignment and he was actually destroying them. See, God will sometimes push you in the places you're like, but I can't connect. We don't click. We have such a different interest. They don't understand me. I come from a different kind of world. This is not the right God. Can I just spend time with you? God says, you can do that. But if you want to know my purpose, you need to go to the right place. My friends, not only God's presence holds your assignment, but God moves your assignment into the right place. And that right place first is the church. When you go to a church, I know some of you here today, you're like, but I've been burned by the church. I've also had baristas make bad coffee. I didn't give up on coffee and I didn't give up on coffee shops. I also had a lot of disappointments in Walmart, in Target, Marshall's and TG Max. And in every place. But if I need to get a piece of clothing, I still would go to those places. I want to tell you something today that devil will use your past hurts and disappointments and he will say, listen, toxic people hurt you. Let's give you another hurt is isolation. Isolation is as bad as toxic people.  And so I want to tell you today that before you find your purpose, you're going to have to find a right place. But sometimes the right place doesn't feel right. It doesn't have to feel right to be right. Damascus didn't feel right for Paul. You know what felt right? Jerusalem. Damascus was uncomfortable a little bit because these were the people he sought to kill. But God says, I want you to come to the right place. Ruth found a right man on the right field. See, some of you, ladies, some of you young men, you are looking for the right person in the wrong place. You're not going to find a right person in the club because club is the wrong place. Right people hang out in right places. Wrong people hang out in wrong places. And many of us, we find wrong people in the wrong places. And then we come to God and you say, God, give me a right person while I kick it in the club. Give me, send me the Mr. Holy and Mr. Righteous person. Send me a man that will love me. But you're looking for a man who drinks. He loves alcohol, not you. Now, that's your choice. Don't blame God. God can give you a right person if you're at the wrong field. Ruth, if you want to find your boas, you need to go to a right field. If you want to find a purpose, if you want to find a right person, you got to be at the right place.  You're like, well, so what? I'm at the right place. But I still haven't met the right person. I still haven't met somebody who can mentor me. I still haven't met somebody who can unlock my destiny. I still haven't met somebody who can connect me. I love this about Saul. He's at the right place and he's blind. At the right place and he can see anything at the right place. And for the first time in his life, he has no idea what's happening to him. Three days blind. And God comes to Ananias. Is that Ananias? Go to that right place and see Saul. And I love what it says in the Bible. It says that he is praying. When you're at the right place, have not met the right people. Pray. At the right place, but don't know what to do next. Don't know what college to go to.  Don't know if you should marry that person. Don't know if you should buy a house, build a house. Don't know if you should go to the medical school or if you should go to a teacher's school. Don't know if you should go to a Christian college or an internship when you are at the right place, but you are in the dark. God didn't leave you. He wants to see you pray.  Pray. It means Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, five in the morning, six in the morning, seven in the morning, eight in the morning, whatever your time is, if you are in the dark, but you're in the right place, and I know God's supposed to have me at hungry Jen, but I don't know what to do next. Pray. So always pray. Great destiny ahead of him. Horrible past behind him. Completely oblivious to what he should do next, but he is praying. When you don't know what to do, talk to God. When you don't know what to do, get on your knees and say, God, I seek you. I don't know what the next step has to do. I don't know where to go, God, but you are my light and my salvation. You are my way. You are my truth and you are my light. I will be praying. I will be praying. I will be fasting. I will be seeking the face of God. Somebody shall pray. You gotta pray more. You gotta pray more. If you don't know what to do, pray. You know how to pray, pray. The Bible says, behold, soul is praying. Behold, soul is praying. God will lead you to a right place before he leads you to right people. If you are at the right place, but you haven't met right people, pray. I remember something happened with me and Lana. I met Lana and then the next day, I broke up with her. And I had a problem with my head. So, I truly did. I had such indecisiveness. I wasn't sure, was this the one, is this not the one? And it was the new years of 2009. And our church, two days later, goes into 21-day prayer fasting. I was confused. I was in the dark. I did not know, what do I do next? Do I pursue? What is wrong with me? Why do I start relationships and they end? And I get cold feet and I get so indecisive and I quit and so. But when I was in the dark, we were praying. And after about 17 days of fasting, something happens when you pray. God will send you ananias. When you are in the dark right now, but you're in the right place, start praying. Ananias will come. And for me, just the clarity came in. Just understanding came in.  And so I could testify from my life that your purpose is tied to the right place. When people come to the right place, there is that gap where you need to pray. And I'm not talking about that prayer on the way to work while you're doing makeup. I'm not talking about that to your favorite Caleb song. I'm talking about you set some time to pray. I'm talking about you set quality time to pray. I'm talking about you give your attention. Now while you're scrolling the Instagram and you say, well, I'm praying for all my feeds. No, no, no. Your feeds don't need that prayer. You need prayer right now. You're praying. You set some quality time. You put your heart into that prayer. Under your sheets. That's not praying, my friend. That is laying.  Get before the Lord. Do something where your blood is flowing. You're awake. You need to be praying. And then the right person comes. But I want you to see when it comes to our purpose, when Ananias came in, when Ananias came, he does something to Paul. Ananias, the right person covered Paul's basics. What does it mean? He came in. He right away removed his darkness by giving him vision. And then he prayed for him to be baptized in the Holy Spirit. So Saul started to be filled with the Holy Spirit. Then he right away baptized him in water. And then the Bible says later on that Saul received food. So he gave him food. And then right away the next day he took Saul not to a Bible school. He took him to evangelize right away.  They will not help you to be an apostle. They help you to be a Christian. God didn't send someone to help Paul to write New Testament. He first sends right people to help him cover his basics. Even if your destiny is to be the next Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Billy Graham, Richard Bonke, Catherine Kuhlman. Even if your destiny is to be the next creator of an app that will change the world. God will send right people not to help with your destiny but first to help with your foundation. And what is your foundation filled with? That you live with vision. Meaning that you see your tomorrow better than you yesterday. Secondly, God will help you with your basics or those people will help you with your basics. What is the second thing that you speak in tongues? That you know the Holy Spirit? You will get water baptized. Before you write the New Testament, before you go saving people and changing the continents, you need to go to that pool and get water baptized. And then what needs to happen is you need to receive food. One day you will write food but now you need to receive some. One day you will preach sermons that other people will make movies about. Right now you need some food for yourself. You got to cover your basics. Somebody say basics. And then not only that but you got to start sharing your faith. You say but I need to go to college first. Bible calls you to be a witness.  A witness has an experience and they then open their mouth. It's good to go to college. It's good to go to intership. But you don't need that to be a witness. All you need to have a witness is to have a testimony. Jesus encounters you. He touches you and you begin to testify. If you get saved today that means afternoon during lunch you already need to start evangelizing. Not tomorrow. Not next two months. Not after two years. I see how the church Jesus thing is and then I'll see the Bible says Paul the next day and that's confused people. Because everybody's like what? We saw this guy. This guy's like what? And that's where you want to evangelize when he confuses people. When your coworker's like dude really? Are you going to drugs or something? You find religions like no, no, no. I lost religion. I found Jesus. In fact, you found me. Your basics. Ananias will come into your life in the form of a small group leader in the form of a leader in the church a brother in Christ and they will help you to cover your basics. Some of you here today there's a destiny that is inside of you. You're in the right place. Some of you here today this is the right place that you're supposed to be in. You have prayed long enough Ananias into your life. Is there a life group booklet that we've received on the way today? And so I want to tell you something right now is that an amazing part is the hungry Jen gives you so many Ananias. You can choose whatever one you like. So Paul only had one. You have about 23 or 24. You just choose whichever Ananias and I'm going to tell you about these Ananias. They're believers like you and I in the baptism of the Holy Spirit. They will help you to get into the Bible. They will help you to sign you up for water baptism. And they will help you to start reading the scriptures and give you practical advice on how to share your faith with your friends. That's the basics. Somebody say basics. That's your foundation. That's your foundation. And the Bible says after that and I'm finishing it says when Paul got baptized he started to preach after some time the scripture says that the disciples after many days have passed Jews plotted to kill him but their plot became known to Saul and they watched the gates of the city day and night to kill him. Then the disciples took him by night and let him down through the wall in a large basket. I want you to see this. The right place. No right people pray. You get the right people. They don't come to help you become an apostle or worship leader. They come to help you to make sure you're a good Christian. And the right people they cover your basics. But there's something else. The right people also they cover your blind spots. Paul was about to be killed before he opened the churches and conquered the world by the Jews. And it was disciples who made a basket and during the night these people were not apostles they were regular church folk who loved Jesus. Cared enough for Paul not to let him be killed by his first problem and they covered his blind spots and during the night dropped him and therefore they protected his life. The right people they not only cover your basics they also cover your blind spots. We all got blind spots.  Paul had a blind spot. I have a blind spot. There were people that were out to kill him. There are demons that are out to kill me and that's why you need to be in the community you need to be in a small group that's why you need to be surrounded by other people who can cover your blind spots.    Somebody say Lord Jesus help me but he can help us if we allow people to cover our blind spots. Before I turned 20 there was like 5 people that I wanted to marry not all at once one after another and one of the people that I had in my life is my pastor and unlike the teenagers that do it today where you know they hook up they get the girl praying and then they come to their parents they want to marry and so I would go to my pastor if I had a crush I mean I'm talking about I had like an infatuation they didn't even tell my friends yet I had an infatuation and I would come to my pastor I remember a few times where he was already asleep and I came to him and I'm shaking because I'm scared to tell him that I have a crush and I'm like 16 and a half and so and I didn't know it would pass you know and so I would come and I would tell him saying you know he's like what's wrong with you it's like is everything okay you know are you in drugs he's like why are you here why is it 11 o'clock and you're here I like this girl he's like no that's not from God move on he says that's why you came he says leave you're good now no it's not from God and I say you didn't even hear about all the signs and prophetic words I got about this person I look back today and God bless all of those precious ladies but I am so glad I am so glad that at the age of 17 of my infatuations I would have splashed my brains and my head if I would have fallen from that wall see God will send disciples mentors in your life to cover your blind spots and you gotta be willing to submit to their ropes and to their speed as they bring you down instead of saying I'm an apostle nobody gonna tell me what to do you gotta kick that out there's gonna be nothing of apostleship left if you don't cover your blind spots somebody say amen you need to write people before they unlock your destiny they will protect from your personal problems I'm not saying we should let people rule our life but we should let people help us to get closer to Jesus and if they see something to say something like they say in the airport and that we will listen so that we will be protected lastly and I believe this is a prophetic word for somebody in this room this is a word that I believe so strongly about when Paul had ananias he helped him with his foundation he had disciples they helped him get protected from the death threats that he had and then Paul comes to Jerusalem and if you read in chapter 9 it says that when he came to Jerusalem all disciples were so scared of him in verse 27 but Barnabas took him and brought him to the apostles and he declared to them how he had seen the Lord on the road and how he had spoken to him and how he had preached boldly at Damascus see what you're doing right now that you consider is not helping you to get your destiny it will be one day part of somebody saying that on your behalf to people you dream to meet he told the apostles he says the Lord met him he's seen the Lord he's preached boldly in Damascus nobody saw that it's not on YouTube nobody took photos of it but he preached boldly in Damascus and how he had preached boldly in Damascus in the name of Jesus in verse 28 and he was with them at Jerusalem coming in and going out I want you to see the process here is an apostle but God doesn't lead him to apostles until he leads him to cover the basics cover the blind spots and then God supernaturally gives you a Barnabas who is a Barnabas? he's your connection to high places he's your connection to apostles you might say apostles is it only so I can take your photos with apostles no no no it's because you have a calling of an apostle and God will place put you in the place of people who are doing what one day you will do but the problem is those people don't want to hang out with you because they're busy so God will send you a Barnabas who will bring you to them who will tell them what God has done in your life and those people will open the door and say now you're part of our clique now you're part of our circle now you're part of our community let us teach you how to preach let us teach you how to prophesy let us teach you how to go out and go in Paul let us teach you how to activate that gift activate that anointing activate that calling upon your life hallelujah I believe somebody's Barnabas is coming I believe God is releasing a Barnabas in your life he will connect you to your destiny he will connect you to the dreams you had at 12 dreams you had at 16 visas you had at 21 God will send you a Barnabas a Barnabas see when Joseph was in prison little did he know is that butler was his Barnabas yes it looked like he abandoned him but then when the butler went to Pharaoh butler made the connection between Joseph and his destiny God will use the butler God will use a Barnabas God will use the Peter to connect Cornelius to his calling God will use somebody there's about one church in Florida I went there a long time ago and I saw three schools in that church and I started to have a dream one day we will have interships it will be different but I saw what's possible and what's gonna be capable in our city next year exactly same thing that I was exposed in it's a large influential church but because somebody opened the door for me to be in that church I was exposed to something I didn't even know was inside here and today we are seeing that same thing happened with Missouri there's a church they connect church and one time I remember I preached in that city for another church and I felt that I need to go to the church it's led by a Russian pastor but it's predominantly an American church and remember when I went there and I saw three services I was like man one day we're gonna see similar things 20-30 people getting saved little did I know eventually I went and I preached in the church and a lot of things including growth track and some of the things that we actually even copied from that church why? because they placed you in the circles of things that you got inside of you things that you got inside of you even today after the second service I'm gonna fly in to have a dinner with pastor Benny and it's not because I'm looking for a photo shoot I don't care about that it's because not only because I was invited but because I know deep inside there is crusades and there is ministry that God has for us that will be international I'm talking about Brazil, Argentina I'm talking about Africa I'm talking about China I'm talking about Korea I'm talking about Europe I believe that God will take this ministry and it's not a coincidence that David Diga without even me asking for it he created the connection let me sit in that circle where I can be like a fly on the wall and learn and watch and see oh wow that's how they do it why in us we need a right environment to cultivate what God has placed inside of us and I speak that over your life what God has promised you he will connect you to a right environment he will connect you to a right community he will connect you to the right people people you dream of feeding one day God will send you a Barnabas God will send you a Barnabas and that Barnabas he will open the door to meet with the apostles because you are called to be one why are you gonna need to meet with them not so that you can take a photo and post it on Instagram oh I met this great person it's because one day you leave the company just like that one because one day you will have the same impact in your sphere of influence as that person has why because one day you will make the same difference as that person has it may seem impossible but Paul just wait because what God has promised he is faithful to do what God has deposited he is faithful to pull out of you that's why he is placing you with the apostles because there is something inside of you married that is kicking when you meet Elizabeth something is inside of you married is leaping when you meet Elizabeth somebody give God some praise right now I believe in destiny over your life I believe in the calling of God upon this church I believe in the calling of God I believe in the calling of God upon our pastors our preachers and our evangelists somebody give God some praise right now


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Welcome back to Think Tech. I'm Jay Fidel. This is Global Connections, and we have with us Michael C. Davis. That's Michael Curtis Davis, if you didn't know. And we're going to talk about the 4th anniversary of the movement in Hong Kong. We've been following that with him for years, and now here we are. It's a 4th anniversary, not necessarily a happy time. There is a map of Hong Kong and will also show you a map of India. And the reason is that Michael has an enormous biography would take us the whole show to go through all of it. But one of the things he does, he teaches at Dindal Global University near New Delhi. He also was associated with the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. He's written. Dozens of books and articles about Hong Kong and other international issues. And he's testified in front of various governmental organizations looking into human rights in in Hong Kong and elsewhere in the United States and elsewhere. Welcome to the show, Michael. Thank you. So, let's talk about what this 4th anniversary means. And one thing that caught my eye is that in the past, the Tiananmen Square celebration memorialization in Hong Kong had been going on every year. Because people, although you can't really have a memorialization of that in China, you know, you could in Hong Kong and it was celebrated in Hong Kong for years and years. But this year they turned it off. And it's just a sign of the times, isn't it? Yes. And I mean, that's exactly 4 years ago when they did that. They started denying at first they were using COVID in 2020 to disallow this memorial. And I've been to many of them over the years because I, as you know, I was a professor at the University of Hong Kong for many years. And in fact, almost all of them. I went to and it was very peaceful, no violence, no threat to anyone. Just memorializing drawing attention to issues, which was what people do in regard to human rights. And now it's not allowed. They couldn't use COVID this excuse this year. So they just, I think pretty much they've decimated that anybody who would protest because the organization that organized it is disbanded. And the leaders of that organization are in jail awaiting trial under the national security law. So, and there was no one else stepped up and asked to do it, although there apparently some people who showed up on their own in Victoria Park in Hong Kong and we're arrested. So that's kind of where Hong Kong's at today in your right to draw attention to because it's symbolic of what's happened to Hong Kong. Yeah, well, I mean, it's a sad story and you and I have been talking about it. Oh, gosh, didn't see umbrella, umbrella days, if you will. Yeah, 2014 15 in those days. Yeah, yeah, that was a good time to leave you left in what 2016 thereabouts. Yeah, I, well I left but I came back every year under the Hong Kong system, the retirement mentor retirement 60 so I left then, but I came back kept coming back until 2020. I could pull it off after the NSL was passed because I was in New York and could teach my classes remotely, but I haven't been back to Hong Kong since it's, it's, it's kind of precarious to go back there. You're speaking out on human rights issues that human rights involvement is not much welcomed today in Hong Kong but you, the kind of things that involve promoting human rights could be treated as violating the national security law and accuse you of collusion with foreign forces and all these sorts of things. Yeah, a couple of questions flow out of that. So you've been hither and yon and various forum aura and venues, what not talking about the human rights little rights in Hong Kong. What is your message on it because it's, you know, it's, it's not a happy story. I guess was predictable that the pijing ping and his friends would would terminate those rights and they are and have and what can you say about it except the fact that they've been terminated. No, I think there's a lot to say actually I got a new book coming out to sign the contract on, but so I say a lot about it. But it's, you know, one thing there's two levels of ways to look at it. One is that promoting human rights, that's what you do. You draw attention to it, you keep publicizing it. And you'd like to believe that you're on the right side of history and that eventually the concerns that you're raising will be addressed and the people that are violating human rights will be called out for it. But that's what human rights work is, you know, I teach my students that you have to speak up is mostly about publicizing. So publicizing that on its own is important and it's done in, in, in a way to highlight a kind of broader concern in the world today which we call a kind of illiberal term that hard line regimes like China are promoting a kind of illiberalism around the world. China does not like the Soviet Union that tried to promote some version of communism. The Chinese Chinese regime the Communist Party isn't very communist anymore. Rather, it tends to do trade and stuff with countries with poor human rights records and sort of educate them and encourage a kind of illiberal systems of government where there's the structures and some of the institutions that look like democracy. They all undermine in various ways. And so there's something to learn from Hong Kong beyond what we can do about Hong Kong to highlight that this is the sort of model that's being promoted. And what the consequence are Hong Kong went from one of the most vibrant outspoken societies in the world to silence. And so that's something to be mindful of it's something to warn governments when they get in bed with regimes that promote this version of government that this is what's happening. And it's a warning to the rest of us in the world even in democracies where populist leaders are promoting us the same kind of a liberalism that undermines the institutions that guard democracy. There's an article by Tom Friedman today's New York Times where he talks and talks about domestic issues and he talks about Trump, of course, but that's exactly what he says he says if you want to deal with an autocrat or would be autocrat, you've got to speak up, speak out. That's that's the only antidote for it and people don't do that enough. They are afraid. And it's very interesting article, and it's reminiscent of Ann Applebaum. You know, years ago, I think was in the Atlantic where she gave an analysis of what happened in Eastern Europe after World War Two, where the communists wanted to take over all these countries and people were afraid, so they never spoke up. And that's what you're doing speaking up and urging other people to speak up. You mentioned you had a book out or we're coming out with a book. It's not your first one on this. Can you talk about your array of books dealing with Hong Kong? Yeah, well, this what I the editors of the first book which they showed at the beginning of our show today that the cover of it because we'll show what protests look like. I'll ask me if I would now because this was published right after the National Security Law was asked and in there I go through the history of many things in Hong Kong but also highlight the threat posed by the National Security Law. And the editors then asked me to three years later to do an update where I look at whether these things actually happened. I'm sad to report in this book I report in some detail, just exactly how they do it. I mean if you're in favor of authoritarianism there's almost genius to what they're doing and how they manipulate all these institutions, because what they want to do is create the impression that they still are running one country in Hong Kong and open society there, the rule of law. And so they maintain the facade or sort of structures that we see in democracy and that's why I said a moment ago that this is an education for us all because a lot of the countries that China does business with where this kind of governance is encouraged have also the sort of architecture of democracy, pretence of democracy, courts, you know, judicial review and all these things that claims to the rule of law, but have degraded these institutions. The title of working title on this new book has been freedom undone. Of course some reference to Hong Kong and that as well, but it's how do you undo freedom. How do you undo an open society. And so this becomes a kind of textbook study of how that is done and what was done and what the consequence was done. So I think this is kind of what we're looking at. And this is where lessons are to be learned and the point you made a moment ago, people are afraid to speak up and they're rightly afraid to speak up when they face jail or worse in many societies That puts an obligation which we all take on board. When our country signed the international covenant civil and political rights, when our countries declare their support for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, we take on board an obligation to speak up for people who cannot speak up for themselves. I find it very interesting that some of the things that China is doing, the PRC is doing in Hong Kong sound like they are liberal, but it's false. They have programs that sound like they're really interested in helping people and all that giving you know I mean I forget exactly what it was but there are programs and events that that sound like they're really helping people, but it's not true. Did you cover that? Do you know what I mean? Well this is how authoritarian regimes in effect have to behave, especially in this case where they're pretending to carry out this one country, two systems model. The basic law that was agreed to, it was agreed in a joint declaration which stipulated the content of this basic law. This basic law is hard to read it as promising anything other than an open liberal society with the rule of law because all the things that are instrumental to that are guaranteed in that. Now the National Security Law comes along in Article 4 says it's going to maintain those commitments but then it's going to protect national security. Who's the threat to national security? In China the biggest threat to national security is the Chinese people themselves in Hong Kong they presume that's the case as well. And so that's how it works and it's what we're seeing is they will pretend to do all these things that are still there because that's the basis for keeping Hong Kong, Hong Kong. I'm not making it China today I was interviewed by someone from the wire, just asking me whether Hong Kong is, you know, I called my book was making Hong Kong China how far have they gone on that road. And that's that's sort of the tension here, you know, in one country to systems it was often stated that China was one country and the Hong Kong people were two systems. But this is kind of the tension we're seeing. And unfortunately it's not just in Hong Kong because of the sort of global promotion of this kind of governance, where these kinds of leaders who think they know better than everyone else are promoting their version of governance and countries in that are democracies are having to stand up against that or not, you know, and that's sort of what's what's going on.  And a lot of it is language it's rhetoric it's propaganda. It's lying to people. It's creating what what appears to be reasonable on the surface and before you know it. Jimmy lie and spirit it off to a prison. And so, you know what what you have is kind of a mind. It's having to do with your mind where you, you are told one thing but the reality is another thing and as you said a minute ago it's brilliant. And my question we talked about this before the show is, where does this brilliant come from.  Well, I think when it comes down to Xi Jinping it's interesting with Father's Day on the horizon here there's a piece by one of my friends in the Washington Post talking about why Xi Jinping isn't more like his father, who was more of a kind of gone through being sent to the other side where Xi Jinping himself was as a child young man, and then eventually being rehabilitated as they say, during the Maoist era, and promoting more liberal ideas and free press and so on. Well it seems that she's lesson was that if you want to survive under communist regime, you have to be tougher than everyone else, not. You have to be more like Mao not like his dad so maybe the lesson he learned was to not be like his dad. And, and he, I think his idea is that that they believe for reasons are hard to explain that the Communist Party is essential to China that the country depends on it that without it there would be chaos, and that if you want to maintain the rule of the Communist Party, you have to block any kind of tendency towards liberalism and liberal liberalizing the system towards democracy. These ideas are the primary threat, and Hong Kong was, you know, Grand Central for these ideas. And so I think the idea became after the protest in 2019 that we have to shut this down. The Communist Party is threatened more than anything else by ideas that that is, they've issued documents on this back I think in 2013 document number nine, forbids even teaching constitutionalism separation of powers, Western notions of democracy, and she has woven that same idea block these things into his recent speeches and policy statements.  I think it's mostly him. I think he's very much in charge of it. And he articulates a very broad notion of national security, such that under this version. There's a whole society version of national security anything everything involves national security. And so Hong Kong, the national security law isn't just arresting Jimmy lie, or the 47 politicians that had the audacity to have a primary election. But it's a red it's basically stopping these ideas on all fronts, intimidating the press to not promote these kinds of ideas. It's re educating the youth teaching national security all the way down to kindergarten level. And so over these years since the national security law was imposed on Hong Kong, it's reach has gone to all of society, and people ignore that at their peril. You know, we talked years ago. Maybe, you know, we were looking into the future at the time that what happened, what is happening, what has happened in Hong Kong. And so somehow advances that she's interest and willingness power to try to take over Taiwan. How, how is, how is that happening. Is that happening has what he has done in Hong Kong affected his ability to take over Taiwan. This is interesting question because one of the things about the one country to systems model that it was primarily designed for Taiwan to let Taiwan rejoin Beijing as part of the People's Republic, and yet have this high degree of autonomy in its own system, and so on. And then when people and then Hong Kong became a sort of execution of that, maybe as a model, see how well things are in Hong Kong, of course, people in Taiwan weren't having been impressed lately with how well things are going in Hong Kong. And so that means that this, the idea that Taiwan people would accept this kind of model is just not going to happen. And so then that means how do you get back Taiwan and Xi Jinping has a lot of political capital invested in that. This is where Ukraine comes in because Putin has sort of taken the bull by the horns and tried to do just that. And we see how well that's going. And of course she, while trying to pretend to be a peacemaker is very much behind Putin and supportive of Putin. So does that does the Ukraine situation and the Hong Kong situation signal anything to Xi Jinping, I guess if anything it signals Hong Kong may signal while we have to use force, and Ukraine may signal well maybe that won't work out so well. And so it kind of leaves it with a high level of uncertainty at the moment, whether that risk is approaching whether an attempt to do a Ukraine in Taiwan is on the horizon or not. And a lot of people are speculating about this. You talk, you talk about speaking, giving testimony, writing articles and books, speaking out on autocracy, speaking out on what happened, what is happening has happened in Hong Kong, but you're not only talking to Hong Kong because Hong Kong, actually in the reality of it can't do that much. It's already that the train is the train is on the track is, you know, it's not stopping, but really talking to other places. You're talking to other places that could be victimized by autocrats that want to invade or, you know, undermine their democracy. And I think that that becomes a global interest. When you talk about the loss of human rights and civil rights in Hong Kong, you're really sending a message everywhere and suggesting that people must speak out if they ought to prevent this from happening in their town. Right. Right. And to know what it looks like. What are the tools that are being used. So this new book I tried to weave some of that into it I don't want to take over the book but I do try to point out. That this is not just a Hong Kong problem. And I think a lot of the Hong Kong activists in exile now are very conscious of this that they they've been seen out working with Ukrainians. They've been seen interacting with people in Taiwan, interacting with Uyghurs, Tibetans. There's a I think now in the old days when Hong Kong was sort of hived off from the other or worse cases. There was some reluctance to engage these other groups because they didn't want to bring the, you know, the fury of Beijing down on their heads. But now that's sort of taken off the table that so in exile, a lot of them do work together. They go to various parts of Europe and elsewhere where they can go safely and they promote democracy. So the diaspora of Hong Kong, while Hong Kong has been silenced, these conditions have brought light to the exile community of Hong Kongers. Yeah, right. I suppose that's still happening. People are leaving Hong Kong go to Britain and elsewhere just get out of the way. Am I right? Yeah, they're doing that in large numbers. And not just that I mean business is leaving just today I read an interesting commentary on even the Hong Kong dollar peg is under some degree of threat, because if business community loses confidence in the system, then they start pulling their money out. And then you can degrade the Hong Kong dollar but because it's paying that means Hong Kong has to use US dollars to buy back Hong Kong dollars, and they've apparently over the past year used a lot. So there are sort of parameters if you will that tell us how successful Beijing is doing and convincing people that all is well in Hong Kong and apparently it's not doing a very good job. Well, we, you know, we had before a very vital business community. Everyone saw Hong Kong is an international business center. And I wonder, you know, how this has affected that business center the light, not only the vitality of it, but the appeal of it to the international financial community, for example. And whether whether he is trying to undermine that actively in favor of Shanghai. Can you talk about that. I think they, you know, of course they've tried their best over the years to build up the Shanghai stock market and to try to make Shanghai more of a base. So they don't put all their eggs in one basket as it were, but Hong Kong has still stood the its ground and over the many years until recently, because of its rule of law and basic freedoms. I mean just this week they they try to go to court and get an injunction against the, you know, Google and everyone else. Twitter, you name it, Facebook for having they saw Glory to Hong Kong on their websites to make this to get an injunction against it so that you're held in contempt of court. If you do it, but the court, at least at first said well you guys got to go back and name some defendants who you're trying to enjoy. You can't just joined the world. And so it's held held back for a while I don't think that's this there a signal the court is out to protect free speech on the internet but merely that it wants to have a solid case. If it's going to restrain, you know, the this thing what happened is that it's Glory to Hong Kong which was invented in 2019. During the protest as a Hong Kong anthem and Hong Kong never really had its own anthem before used to have the British one. Now the Chinese wanted to have the Chinese one. But the Hong Kong people in their hearts have this Glory to Hong Kong. Well, apparently, when they go play in sporting events around the world, these hosts have been playing this thinking it was the Hong Kong anthem. And so the police in Hong Kong are going after athletes and athletic organizations for failing to police this. The government wants to prove it's loyalty to Beijing it's actually gone to court to get an injunction against Glory to Hong Kong. And so I would think this will just make people want to play it more. I guess if they're not in Hong Kong, they probably will. But nonetheless, this injunction will see if it's granted. I guess it goes back to court in July after it failed in its first attempt because they didn't name any defendants. They just wanted the whole world to be a joint.  You know, this is this is part of the long. And it's the new story of the week because the speculation is that is this the first step in imposing China's great firewall in Hong Kong. You know, if anything, now after the degrading liberal institutions, Hong Kong still stands out from the rest of China because you can go to Hong Kong and turn on CNN, the BBC, and, and you can Google on Google, but you know there's no Google in China. You can do all these things on Facebook. But now it seems that this is this the question being is this the first step to start closing down the free internet in Hong Kong is firewall next. Of course, we don't know the answer to any of that this point. Well, you know, back when in the days of the umbrella movement say 2019 or so. Hong Kong was on the front page over and over and over again. All those crowds. All the protests that was was really quite something. And since then, though, we've had a lot of other news. And, you know, domestic politics and Trump and the insurrection, what have you the trouble in Congress and the Supreme Court in this country have have sucked all the oxygen out of out of the headlines and the Ukraine, of course, only a year and change told it's a lot of oxygen out of the headline. And so you don't see Hong Kong on the headlines nearly as much. So, you know, who knows to you Michael for keeping the torch alive but factors that major media in the world don't cover it as much as possible and it strikes me. And that works in she's favor, because he can operate under the radar that way am I right. And so this has always been the challenge for human rights work during intense moments. It's, we get all the news media showing up I was doing serial interviews during the umbrella movement I was in Hong Kong then. But even also during 2019 protests there was, you know, even from overseas I was doing a lot of that and many of my friends were doing likewise. But now it's not in the news, many of these friends are in jail actually or in exile. And they're trying to draw attention to it they get Congress to speak up from time to time, but without events on the ground it's it is hard to keep the world's focus on issues like we're seeing in Hong Kong. But it is so important. I mean, when you think of Hong Kong, think New York, London, Paris, I'm in Paris right now actually I noticed from your camera I have a bit of a sunburn, who thought I would get a sunburn in Paris. In any case, you, you think of these big major cities Hong Kong is one of them. So, these are centers of culture centers of information centers of business of finance of just about all the things we value in the world. And when you take one of them off the playing field, it should be a newsman. It's something that we should try our best to pay attention to. Well, I want to put two things one is Paris. Thank you for joining us at night from Paris. This after it is right now 930 and this breath sun is brightly shining out. How are the French, the all of this. So, I mean, are you in your travels to Paris are you talking speaking writing about these issues and what kind of response to get from the French. They understand, you know, freedom they understand right of expression, millions of them come out in the street over issues that I'm afraid I would not go in the street for but you know they feel they have the right in fact the obligation to express themselves. So, they respond to what's happening in Hong Kong. Well, it seems like it's a very much a side issue McCron of course, and the French maybe more than him I would guess. See China more in terms of business. So there's a slight tension with the US sort of hard line on China right now here in Paris that that the McCron was, I guess he was in in Beijing recently. He was trying to keep promote business. So, how do you thread that needle so that you promote business with China and still speak up about these issues and I think that that French leadership is having a hard time threading that needle. I have some ill advised trip for my money. In any event, the other thing I was going to ask you is this what we are in 2023. It's been five years plus since this all started to degrade. I mean, actively degraded on time. And the question is, when we go from here is, is, is that what in John Paul soccer is the game up. Or is there more to come. Well, I wouldn't underestimate Hong Kong. They thought the game was up in 2014 and 15 when the umbrella movement collapsed. And then 2019 came along. But before the umbrella movement there was the 2003 article 23 protests, you know you and I talked about that that as well. We go back a long way that was 2003 and a half million protesters on the street 2004 again 2012 national education movement because of brainwashing in schools tips by Beijing and so Hong Kong has bounced back more than once right now it does look tough. I mean, because that they they've taken away the pretense that they're carrying out these basic freedoms and giving the court rain and the people rain to defend their freedoms. So it does look pretty hopeless to a lot of people, but that I'm still not willing to count them out. I think things change and people suddenly things that we don't imagine happen and we don't know where China is going to be in 10 years time. So that's a really good point and everything changes the dynamic is global. Right. And so we have this is influenced by things way beyond Hong Kong, and it is influenced by the continuing determination of people from Hong Kong and around the world to fight for democracy to fight for the guarding of liberal institutions we're not talking about the global liberal economy we're talking liberal constitutional institutions that Americans know well and guarding those has become more and more of an imperative and whether that will Hong Kong will become part of that story in the future. We'll have to stay tuned. Well it's a flat in an interdependent world we know that more every day. The question is there are a lot of people that are not aware, not thinking about this, not hearing anything about this. What is your message to them. What, what kind of mindset should they have about the events that have happened that are happening in Hong Kong, as it relates to we want to call the global sea I think it's it's right at the front line of the global fight for democracy. So if you believe that there is a challenge to democracy both in democracies with populist leaders that undermine liberal institutions of separation of borders of free speech rule of law. If you believe that if you believe that countries like China, Russia, and many smaller ones have leaders who will not guard those institutions who seek to undermine them that the powerful countries like China offer economic advantage to those countries, then you realize that and you just look at home and your own mirror, and what's going on and you'll see what's happening in Hong Kong is very relevant to to the world at large. And so guarding freedom anywhere is guarding it everywhere. Oh, wow. Thank you very much, Michael Michael Davis, a professor and author, a member of the Woodrow Wilson Institute and so many things. Thank you for your contribution to what you want to say global thought about basic freedoms. Thank you so much. Thank you. 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All right traders. So today we have another bow daily recap It is Monday March 4th and today we have two things that we're gonna go over. So first things first bow does live trading on CIFS and this is tailored to the backside of the move This is backside trading on CIFS and also bow brings on a member by the name Mashalot in chat And he gives a sick testimonial for MIC So we wanted to share that with you guys and to catch the rest of the 90 minute hour and a half video The bow put together today guys go to myinvestingclub.com and become an exclusive member All right, let's get into it Mashalot Jason how are you doing man with so Jason Mashalot is He started to do more of The quicker scalps to build his account versus buying and holding How how is that working out? Can you explain to the group?  Yeah, yeah, I could go on camera Take the tape off I don't want the government spying on me All right So Jason couldn't explain what he's doing maybe he can help a lot of people Yeah, so I mean I'm basically doing exactly what you're telling us right now And what you've been saying all along you haven't deviated from what you say And I know from personal experience That it works So unbelievably well, it's hard to imagine If you actually like really do this really go for what he's telling you to do What am I telling you to do just just to reiterate what what you are doing just to clarify so buy buy at support When the stock pulls back From emotion so it pops up a lot everybody's buying a Bunch of noobs are buying the breakout It's going to probably pull back and if it has a strong emotional pullback down to a support level and it can be a support level that You know, you're not very confident about but you just you take the shot you try because it's all about probabilities So you get long at that spot and it bounces. I just aim for 10 cents If I make if I get more than 10 cents, that's great Less than 10 cents. I'll take it if it looks like it's heavy And it works so well It's really hard to believe but it really does work and the way that I was able to build the confidence to actually pull the trigger Because it's really scary to buy when you see a bunch of red candles and it looks like it's going to just plummet I paper-traded, you know, I paper-traded last year for a long time and by doing that and and Having success with this strategy over and over and over and over Eventually, I had enough confidence to do it with like I just had to make like 10 bucks, you know And I just built up from there And it's going really really well right now just by the way Remember this is a member you have to learn how to walk and crawl first before you run So what Jay what Jason is doing is I mean, he's getting comfortable with the trading He's getting comfortable with going in and going out the more of these he does the more confidence he gets and then he can size up later He's working on process in my opinion process the most important thing guys Don't worry about your P&L because the P&L takes care of itself when you trade well Okay, if you follow the same process and do not break the rules, you know over time probably says you will make money Support is there for reasons and then later on he can try new things guys This is not like that. This is not the strategy for your entire lifetime This is but this will start you and the reason I this is like the movie The karate kid guys the guys like why am I cleaning the car wax on wax off, right? And that's the whole point the whole point about taking these cows in my opinion It's just to get yourself comfortable with the lines getting yourself comfortable with placing trades and taking money off the table So basically the wax on wax off and then later on you can you can add more and hold longer So don't just think of this as dude This is what you can do for the rest of your life, right taking these tense 20 cents moves So then you start doing recycling like I do and all that it starts at home It all comes upon being comfortable and being trusting of your strategy and in my opinion the strategy I always like to use is the lines man V-wap matches the line everything matches the line. I just show you if it doesn't match the lines Don't trade that stock I would agree with that 100% look for stocks that match the lines another thing that's really helpful that I see people asking about is Yeah, I put my orders in beforehand, you know, these things they move too fast to Hit it right at the moment. You know, you could try, you know, it drops down to whatever your support Line is and you can try a market order But that's a terrible idea because you could get filled 10 cents 20 cents above the support And now you're starting out in a bad location in a bad spot. So you put the orders in before And then I'm still working on my exits. My exits are really bad But you can limit out or you can mark it out whatever but the point is you put the orders in ahead of time And then I personally I just hope it it pulls back to that line, you know Yeah, exactly. That's what it is, man.  I'm happy to help. So just mash a lot. Yep Yep All right guys, welcome to today's day recap finally back from a long trip away. Man felt like an eternity um Came back in I I knew I was gonna have major formal. I knew I knew it's gonna be like man. I'm I want to trade. I want to trade So I needed to make sure that I don't go all crazy. So I actually Being away actually helpful. I'm making sure you guys can hear me. You guys can hear me. Well, so I don't scream I'm still a little sick never got well. I got well and then um, the guys over in london killed me so I was out Those guys can drink that but I I took them. Oh, I took them down. I took those guys down. So, um Notice civs and man, it's still it's still holding this but As as I if you go long is just risky as hell The easy move of the long is done now Now the v-wap. I mean all the indicators are lining up that this sucker is like backside but You know what man? They they held it here and they squeezed all the way up. They couldn't hold it here and squeeze it up But it's like What was the odds, right? I mean it Right now all everybody's looking for a short the six dollar line would be a great short on this stock right now civs if it comes back up to six bucks So you see how that works? I mean they could save it guys But the easy move is over. Why why why are the longs now trying to play the hard stuff? It's like you're most likely may lose more than you'll win Does that make sense to you guys?   So here here here's my jmu shorts here the 250 line. So i'm gonna cover Took some off I mean remember what I said man, you gotta take some off from the front side, man If this is all front side, I could break 250 again do whatever so I took the easy wins on jmu So I've been I just been shorting to 250 jmu and covering down here Um, but okay, let's get back to what we're talking about here So there's so many things to talk about look at cfs cfs. You see that man? It did trap it went down to 528 So 528 was what I bought on the way up remember on the way up guys Remember I was waiting for the so let's let's show you what I really let's say I'm gonna show you this That's just so much to uh to show here. I just want to see if uh, what what can I show? Look at that trap man from 528 You see this so I post all my all my trades. I post over in the charts recap room for you guys to see So let's see what we did here. Okay. Um In the morning, I recognized it was a I woke up late on purpose because I knew I was gonna have FOMO not really on purpose, but I just didn't want I couldn't get up but um When I woke up it was around here I got to my desk around 815 Around this point right here that I know is that hey, there's a line here. This and I know is dude This thing rip the shorts, but the shorts are dead um, and so I'm like dude it's not gonna keep going down because You know why what gave me the confidence? Let me show you Do I go to cfs? While I was away remember cfs went to 350 And then tanked down people thought was dead and so it started to climb notice a t plus two So it started to climb so these are the tricky stocks man. This pattern happens all the time Okay, take a look at this. See that that's why you cover man. Look at this. Shit.    There's so many people stuck right here at this level right here And so that's why it gave me the confidence To go long and I saw a pattern remember I'm just looking for a pattern So the pattern I see is every time it hits the 460 line here. It bounced It did it two times It didn't you know these these wicks are just like miss prints or late prints or whatever Okay, so we ignore these but here it supported it twice and it went back up So then it took us a chance here and it worked So I took here and I took some off here And then went down and did the same thing so I keep doing the same thing People the shorts are upside down man They're I mean this even at the 460 level here guys 460 right here. The shorts are all here So there were upside down so the the hard part the first part you gotta see is recognize if it's a long or a short Okay, I I came in I was like dude shorts are upside down. Why them I'm not gonna chase I've seen it so many times that they trap they run. This is a low floater So all I did was I you know, I'm I'm I'm seeing the if the 460 line broke down Yeah, I will Then maybe think about the short but it held all day long So why not keep doing it and these these 25 scouts add up man You do this three times that's 75 cents And so what I did is then I scaled scaled out The only trap for the major trap that so at the open 930 open so people so people thought This was the major trap for shorts. If you were a short You were short here So I took a little short and I covered here But if you didn't if you took a big position here, this spike up will kill you and then So what happens now is this I recognize that the shorts were stuck So I'm not I'm not eager the short guys the only reason I shorted here because I I six is a mental resistance And I see them trying to break it a couple times that I couldn't So I just kind of joined in just nibbles right and I took my covers for 20 cents You see this I covered it I shorted the six line covered it just to see what I was gonna do I I at this point. I don't know I'm not committed man I'm my I set a max size for the front side. So that's how I stay alive So let's let's revisit what I said there So all these times man, we don't know what's going on. So we we just try to Play with the odds See the key to staying alive on the front So this is a this is a long all the way But then when it reaches an overextended point because look it parabolic up to the sixth line when it does this There's a high Likelihood that is going to have to give some relief. Okay until the next leg. And so that's why we went On this So went all the way to six and went all the way to 528 guys. That's a big move It's still over the support here 460 line support from the morning. So shorts are still upside down man So all we did was we we looked for the first bounce First bounce is basically the first wash off of a major move. So this was a major move From 460 to 6 dollars is a major move. It's pretty much a parabolic up So if the parabolic's up, it's going to crater down. This is what's called a technical balance. Okay So it's basically it's all technical stuff if it goes up so fast It has to drop down a little bit. Okay before it goes to the next move And so all we do is take an advantage of that and the fact that The fact that it's being supported here people upside down now You're just trying to see what the next support is So the next support I see was around this point here because this is where it's stalled Which also lined up with here So you take a if you do a line from here to here It comes with this and how to matches this right here. So all day this line has been supported So this is the magic line in my opinion All right guys that concludes the preview today of the full length 90 minute hour and a half video If you want to watch the rest of this video go to www.myinvestingclub.com And sign up and in the full length video you get to see live trading from bow as he demonstrates on CIFS and jmu. All right guys catch you later