how to intercede for others effectively. Fasting is one of those spiritual disciplines that will lead you to also intercession. Sometimes you will be interceding for your friends, your family members, you will be interceding for your co-workers, and I want to share with you today biblical principles of how to intercede for others. Now, few examples of intercession. Job interceded on behalf of his friends. Abraham interceded on behalf of sinful Sodom. Abraham interceded on behalf of Abimelech. Moses interceded on behalf of Pharaoh. Moses interceded on behalf of Israel. Samuel interceded on behalf of Israel. Solomon interceded on behalf of Israel. Ezra interceded on behalf of Israel. Esther interceded on behalf of her nation. Nehemiah on behalf of Judah and Jerusalem. Jeremiah on behalf of Israel. Daniel on behalf of Israel. Syrophoenician woman interceded on behalf of our daughter. Parents interceded on behalf of their epileptic son. Church interceded on behalf of Peter. Paul interceded on behalf of God's people. Jesus interceded for us. The Holy Spirit interceded for us. And God is looking for intercessors. It says in Isaiah 59 verse 16, he saw that there was no man and wondered that there was no intercessor.  It sustained him. The Bible also says in Ezekiel chapter 22 verse 30 and 31, for I sought for a man among them who would make a wall and stand in the gap before me on behalf of the land that I should not destroy it.  But at the same time he's looking for an intercessor who will stand on behalf of that land so God doesn't destroy it. But God says I found none. I found none. Therefore I have poured out my indignation on them. I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath and I have recompensed that deeds under own heads as the Lord God. So we see that God, the ministry of intercession has been practiced by great men and women of God from Job, Abraham, Nehemiah, Ezekiel, Esther. Jesus Christ who continues to live to make intercession for us. The Holy Spirit who makes intercession for us. God is looking for intercessors because as the wrath of God, as judgment of God is coming on the land, God says there is one group of people that can actually stand in the gap and prevent that or postpone that. And guess who these people are? Intercessors. Intercessors are extremely valuable people in the realm of the Spirit. They move things. They shift things. God himself said that. This is not us, you know, coming to that conclusion. God himself is looking for intercessors and God himself says that they have such a big role that they can postpone and sometimes even actually stop God's wrath from touching the cities and the land. You can look at that in the history of nations where the nation was plagued with corruption, where cities were filled with churches that had so much garbage in them. Pastors that bickered, gossiped and, you know, had infidelities and then a group of intercessors will rise up and they would cry out to God and not only God will extend his mercy as he promises in chronicles, God will actually forgive the sins, God will heal the land and God will begin to bring restoration because of people who intercede. Now, what is intercession? So as we are fasting and we're coming to an end of this fast, to my understanding, I've actually have never shared about this that I remember. And the Lord put on my heart today to share with you because many of you have been interceding during this fast. Many of you have been invited by God randomly during the night and during the day to stand in the gap for somebody and I just want to confirm that and I want to acknowledge a very important ministry of intercession. Maybe you felt that intercession is not necessarily, you know, it's not a ministry that gets a lot of spotlight. It's a ministry that moves things behind the scenes that nobody sees. When I was 16 years of age and I saw the vision of the kind of church God will give us, like a winco store, it's like a grocery store. It had the front doors and it had the back doors. The back doors, you know, are the doors where the semi trucks come. They're not very pretty. They're not very good looking. It's not the doors you want to take photos in front of. They're not very appealing, but if it wouldn't be for the back doors, the food would never come to the store. The store would have nothing to offer. If the church and if Christians don't practice ministry of intercession, we will not see some of the results promised in God's Word. If in the Old Testament, Israel would physically drive out enemies in the Promised Land. In the New Testament, the act of shifting the spiritual atmosphere is done more through intercession than anything else. Then the preaching can come. Then the evangelism comes without intercession, clearing the spiritual airways. We will not have as much effectiveness as the ground food soldiers. Moses interceded on the top of the mountain and only because of that, Joshua was effective on the bottom of the mountain. Many times pastors wonder why there's no revival in their church and the solution is usually very simple. There is no prayer and intercession and there's no fasting. Fasting, prayer and intercession, they clear something in the spirit realm that nothing else can do. They purify the atmosphere, if I could say. They create an environment where revival can take root. Now prayer is good, but intercession is also a very important aspect of prayer. So let's define intercession. First, intercession is the act of bringing requests before God on behalf of others. Drop this in the chat. Intercession is the act of bringing requests before God on behalf of others. Another definition of intercession is intercession is standing in the gap. Is you standing in the gap? I already read the verse where God says, I sought for a man who would make a wall, almost like create resistance. And you would think resistance against demonic forces, right? But in here, in Ezekiel 22, God says, who will stand in the gap before me. It's almost like God says my wrath is about to destroy this land, not the devil's wrath. God's wrath opens the door for the demonic oppressions. But God says I need a man to stand in the gap and intercede. You know, when Moses interceded, he interceded with God not to put out his wrath on Sodom. When others interceded, it was intercession made to God. They didn't do spiritual warfare. They first pleaded with God to have mercy on the people that were deceived, blinded and bound by sin. So intercession, as we've mentioned, is an act of bringing requests before God on behalf of others. It's standing in the gap before God. Now, the third definition of intercession, drop this in the chat. Intercession is filling up a cup of prayer so God can pour out an answer. Intercession is filling up a cup of prayer so God can pour out an answer. Now, when people commit sin, there's a cup of iniquity that's filled with the sins of people. In Genesis 1821, God says, I will come down and see whether those people who have done this, whether this outcry is true or not. As people were crying out because of injustice, because of poverty, because of violence, because of abuse that was happening in Sodom and Gomorrah, this cry was collecting in a cup of iniquity against this city and God came down to punish the city because the cup of iniquity got filled. The sins of people groups create outcry against people and this outcry fills the cup of iniquity which provokes God's judgment. We know God judges all sins at the end times. We will stand before God and give an account, but there is a judgment. There is a wrath that gets poured out before the end times. How does this wrath get poured out? How does this judgment come on people groups? It comes after the cup of the outcry against the city, against the region, gets filled up and then God begins to move. Now, sometimes it takes very long. One of the reasons why it takes very long for God to pour out that judgment is because God is patient, hoping that among those people will rise another group of people who will begin to fill another cup called the cup of prayer. So there's a cup of iniquity and there's a cup of intercession. Cup of iniquity is filled by the sins of people that they cause against others and people cry out for God to have justice. The cup of intercession is different. It's people who are they know God's heart and they cry out to God for mercy. They cry out to God in repentance on behalf of the people that are wicked and they're asking God for revival so that the wicked people don't get punished but that they get pardoned, they get repentance and they get revival. So two cups are competing and let me ask you a question. In your city, in your family, in your neighborhood, which cup is currently being filled up? Is the cup of iniquity filled up with the cries of people?  So much cries against this regime but at the same time there was a cup of intercession all around the world including the underground churches that was getting filled up every single day with believers not saying God destroyed the Soviet Union though that's going to happen but saying Lord save people in that regime. Lord destroy the evil regime and deliver people. What's happening with China right now? There's an outcry, a silent outcry of people who live under that regime. There's a lot of injustice that is done, there's a lot of human dignity that is not being valued and God sees that and the cup is being collected. When abortion happens in the land, the cup of iniquity, the cries of those babies that maybe you don't hear but God hears, it comes up to the Lord, the author of life and this cup of iniquity sooner or later will provoke God's judgment and sometimes that judgment can come in a way that we don't even realize. Not always it comes with firestone, with fire and brimstone, sometimes it comes in a way where a people group begins to live under a particular curse and a particular judgment. God gives the enemy the right to create havoc in that people group and we see that in America. There's a lot of stuff that is happening in America that is part of God's judgment and I believe that if America doesn't repent, you know more judgment will be poured out. This is happening in other people groups as well and I'm not the prophet of doom and gloom, I'm not a prophet at all but what I do want to encourage you to date that as a church our responsibility is not to just preach that the cup of God's wrath will be poured out. Our responsibility is that God is looking in the midst of abortion, in the midst of you know all of these perversions that are happening right now, in the midst of a woke church that is leaning more and more toward progressive theology instead of a biblical orthodox you know scriptural foundational teachings. In the midst of all this God is calling people like you and I that's why we're fasting to begin to make intercession, to begin to fill the cup of prayer. Why? So that God can pour out revival. May our cup be bigger, may our cup be deeper than the cup of immorality and transgression. Now for those of you who may be like think I'm just coming up with this stuff I'm not coming up with this stuff. In book of Revelation chapter 8 verses 3 it says I saw another angel he had a golden censor he came and stood at the altar he was given much incense that he should offer with the prayers of all the saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne and the smoke of the incense with the prayers of the saints ascended before God from the angels hand and then the angel took the censor filled it with the fire from the altar and threw it on the earth and there were noises, thunderings, lightnings and earthquake. Intercession is us crying out on behalf of unbelievers, iniquity the cup of iniquity it's people crying out under the burden and the weight of the sins of their community and of people around them and God hears those cries and though God is slow to judge because he wants to have mercy and is waiting for more people to stand in the gap so for those of you who think that you know why is there's been so much death so much shooting maybe so much injustice in my region and God is not judging it maybe because God's been waiting for you to intercede God clearly states before I come in in judgment I wait is there somebody who can stand in the gap is there somebody who during their fast I can really speak into them speak into them and to see that they are the ones that can stand in the gap for me not to pour out that wrath amen is this helping anybody is somebody receiving this right now if you are drop in the chat drop this in the chat that I am going to be an intercessor I am going to be an intercessor amen amen now I'm going to dive in now more into how to intercede biblically as I've highlighted intercession is presenting our requests on behalf of somebody to God it's standing in the gap intercession is filling the cup of prayer so that God could release the cup of his miracles into our life now let's look at how to intercede I will take the reading or the story of Daniel I believe that Daniel is one of the best examples of intercession in the Bible now there's many examples in the New Testament as well where Paul tells Timothy to make intercession and to bring all kinds of prayers to God in intercession but I love Daniel's story the reason being is that because there was also fasting involved in that and in Daniel's story we see that he actually went very layer by layer in an intercession and so I'm going to right now go through just few practical principles on how to intercede the first thing that I want to highlight is intercession should be in response to God's word drop this in the chat intercession is in response to God's word intercession is not just response into the needs and the cries of people or the problems of people I want you to see how Daniel intercedes he said in the first year in the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by the books the number of the years specified by the word of the Lord through Jeremiah the prophet that he would accomplish 70 years in the desolations of Jerusalem so Daniel says I looked into the books I've seen in this in the scrolls that this desolation this hardship should last 70 years now 70 years has already came to an end and so Daniel now goes into intercession now how does that apply for us intercession is in response to God's word you should always have the scripture as the foundation for your intercession when you're believing for your loved ones that you have the scripture where God desires none to perish but everyone come to the knowledge of him when you are praying for your family members and you are in a place of authority like a father and mother that you take the scripture of me and my family will serve the Lord when you're praying for your city and your region that you take the scripture where it says to pray for the kings and those in authority that you take the scripture in chronicles where it says that if my people humble themselves and they pray and they seek my face and they turn from their wicked ways that I will hear from heaven I will forgive their sin and that I will heal their land and so this applies for the land not just for individual family and so it's important that our intercession is made in response to God's word God's word is what gives us license God's word is what gives us green light to begin to make those petitions your intercession will always be in line with God's will if it's founded on God's word drop this in the chat your intercession will always be in line with God's will if it's founded on God's word the second thing I want you to see concerning intercession and this again comes from Daniel if we go to verse three then I set my face toward the Lord God to make a request by prayer supplications with fasting sackcloth and ashes the second principle of biblical intercession is that intercession should be characterized by brokenness and fasting what gives fuel to intercession is brokenness and fasting prayer with fasting and brokenness is what fuels intercession that's why when you are fasting many times during the fast the Lord will lead you the Lord will guide you to intercede it could be moments of deep travail it could be moments of deep cry it could be moments of groaning sometimes where you are not even able to utter words and these moments where many times tears will roll down your eyes and you will be crying out on behalf of somebody else not on behalf of your needs but on behalf of somebody else it's a very special very sacred and I do believe it's led by the Holy Spirit why because he intercedes through us it's also led by Jesus because Jesus lives to make intercession for us and so these are very special moments and for those of you who have those moments more frequently I want to tell you something that God is using you specifically to stand in the gap and there will be answers to those prayers some of them you will only see in eternity therefore intercession should be characterized by fasting and brokenness now I have mentioned already about fasting so let's go to the next one and that is Daniel and chapter 5 excuse me chapter 9 and verse 5 and it says this we have sinned and committed iniquity and we have done wickedly and rebelled even by departing from your precepts so we see that Daniel he acknowledges God's greatness so I want to highlight something right now in verse 4 is that intercession sees first God's greatness before it sees the suffering and the pain of people I want you to see what Daniel saw is that Daniel saw the greatness of God he says oh Lord God awesome God who keeps his covenant and his mercy so intercession is something that we look to God's greatness God's character and few other times that Daniel highlighted that intercession depends on God's righteous and merciful character and we see this in Daniel when he talks about God's awesomeness God's mercy and for those that love him and then later on if we go to verse 7 he says the similar things oh Lord righteousness belongs to you but to us shame and it is to this day and so then in verse 8 he says oh Lord to us belongs shame again and he keeps acknowledging and keeps honoring the goodness and the righteousness and the beauty of God's mercy intercession keeps seeing God's mercy and God's character keeps seeing God's holiness and God's awesomeness intercession is not just seeing the righteousness of our nation the righteousness and the the lostness of how people are so lost but it's seeing the beauty and the awesomeness and the glory of God I would encourage you as you interceding that you take these verses in Daniel's prayer and you pray them to the Lord you acknowledge God's righteous character you acknowledge God's mercy that you acknowledge God's greatness that you acknowledge that God is faithful that you acknowledge that God is slow to anger that God is quick to show mercy why because these are the characteristics within the character of God these are his attributes and we're actually leaning on these when we intercede that he will be slow to anger that he will be swift to show mercy that he will extend compassion that he will be patient with our family members that he will be patient with us and so as you're interceding as we are interceding we are trying to appeal glorify acknowledge and look to the awesomeness and the beauty and the kindness of our God the goodness of our God who's good all the time who's merciful all the time who is loving all the time who is awesome who is holy who also is righteous who is judge who will not let iniquity go unpunished but he extends mercy to thousand generations and so your intercession not only supposed to be built on scriptures it's supposed to be dependent on the attributes and the character of God this is not just you having a fit this is not just you God if you don't do it right now God if you don't say it right now this this is not that this is not cornering God this is not making threats as we mentioned this is in brokenness coming and remembering reminding God worshiping God and acknowledging the attributes that become the source of our faith and motivation honestly they are the reason we're invited to intercede in the first place if God wouldn't be merciful our intercession wouldn't mean anything if God wouldn't be compassionate our intercession means nothing if God would not be slow to anger you asking God to postpone his judgment and you asking God to have mercy and to save people would really mean nothing if God wouldn't be loving if God wouldn't have an unconditional love for us for all humanity our intercession would not mean anything so another facet of intercession and that is found in verse five in verse five Daniel says this and i want you to see this is very common he said we have sinned and committed iniquity we have done wickedly and rebelled even by departing from your precepts and judgments neither have we heeded your servants the prophets who spoke in your name to our kings and to our princes i want you to notice that to us belongs shame Daniel uses intercession and this is the next practical step of intercession intercession should be identified with God's people now this mainly deals with praying for nations for our cities but it can also include our family Daniel uses we and us 22 times from verses five through nineteen 22 times honestly in those 22 times of references of we and us Daniel wasn't guilty in pretty much any of them he didn't commit those sins but he identified with God's people so when you repent on behalf of your city when you repent on behalf of your nation when you repent on behalf of your region identify with your region you're not asking God for forgiveness for them so that God can forgive them without them repenting that is not what intercession is intercession is to cancel those legal rights through repentance by which satan has gained access to our regions when you identify with them when you repent as part of the group because you are part of that group you are part of that family when especially when your family was involved in that iniquity when your whole family was involved in that sin and maybe you were a part of that too and you begin to repent even together with them as identifying with them you're not saying that by again by repenting on their behalf that they will be now forgiven from sins but now i believe the Lord can move and begin to break certain habits and certain strongholds in their life now final things that i want to highlight and that is intercession does not involve engaging with principalities and doing second hand second heaven warfare i want you to see in daniel's story he did not fight the prince over jerusalem he did not find um a principality over israel he did not engage second heaven we can experience we can experience needless casualties by engaging in second heaven warfare and a lot of intercessors have made that mistake and they paid for that dearly one of the biggest pitfalls of intercessors is they spend more time fighting demons for which they were not given clear assignment to do and less time on their knees pleading with god i have when i went to romania i've seen also and a good who now has become a good friend of mine a leader of a prayer movement in romania and he said something to me he actually recommended a book that i've read it's called a needless casualties of war and we can drop that link when you and he mentions something he says everywhere he has seen and he has a very strong house of prayer they have a very strong team and i am always very weary when people are in a very strong in intercession this is my only one concern with intercessions is that a lot of times they go into a deep um intercession by engaging with principalities who are in second heaven and so when i was conversing with him you know i kind of wanted to get a feel and he really spoke very boldly and he says vlad everywhere i've seen were intercession teams begin to engage in second heaven warfare there comes casualties and he says casualties in their families there are churches the church he would describe he was describing it was a mega church it got reduced to just 50 or 60 people and he says the core reason he believes as an intercessor himself was in being involved in second hand warfare so i want to invite you not to do that as an intercessor now we are wrestling against not flesh and blood we are wrestling against principalities and powers but in the Ephesians chapter six there is no indication of us having an offensive battle with principalities but it's more of a defensive battle by putting on the armor of god nowhere did paul mentioned in Ephesians chapter six that you are to pick a fight with those demons remember your authority as a human being from genesis to revelation has always been over the earth god bless them and set be fruitful and multiply have authority over the birds that's earth over the fish that's earth and over everything that lives on the earth we are not given authority in the spirit realm in the other dimension which is second heaven that's what we call it jesus said the same thing behold i give you authority he says i saw fall fall down and i let i'm giving authority to trample upon snakes to trample we're dealing with demons on the earth we're not dealing with supernatural beings in the heavenly places there's a lot of teaching that these supernatural beings were actually initially assigned by god over regions and nations but then later on they rebelled against god that they were god's sons i have a whole teaching on that just check it out it's called dealing with principalities so if you're an intercessor this does not mean we cannot bind and lose demonic spirits from people's lives again we're dealing with demons that are tormenting people we're not dealing with the high ranking entities that oversee regions and so what many times intercessors in their zeal and i believe lacking wisdom have done is that skipping these principles of intercession of praying through god's word praying into god's character standing in the gap and identifying with people and repenting fasting crying out to god what they have done a lot of times is to skip all of this and just go straight for you know i bind the spirit the principality over my city i bind the principality over my neighborhood and so and they get involved in that and sooner or later these practices out of which most are not warranted they result in needless casualties on your family on your health and on your finances why because when you go into the realm you were not given authority people say well we have all the authority legally yes but the parameters of our authority is casting demons out of people we were never in the scripture given assignment to drive out spirits over regions we just don't see that we can be aware of the kind of spirits that are in the regions and we can pray for god to begin to bring people to salvation we can evangelize make disciples and we weaken that principality's stronghold over our region okay but when it comes to engaging directly with those kind of demonic principalities we can find ourselves in needless casualties of war that we could avoid by staying within our lane now for those of you who maybe this was just a little bit too much we do have some videos and i would encourage you to watch it there's an interview i did with don derkament where we talked about that as well and there's a sermon that i did called principalities where i go through 10 points on who principalities are and there's also other videos that we've done about not engaging in a secondhand warfare so i just want to encourage you to begin to pray and intercede now i do believe that god has given us power to bind and to lose okay and so whatever is bound in heaven will be bound on earth we are to pray for individuals our family members and we can pray like this that we come against every scale over their eyes every demonic deception over their eyes so we're praying again for individuals when praying for regions we mainly pray for people in authority we pray for them not necessarily against a spiritual entity controlling them we pray the bible says to humble ourselves and to pray in repentance for our healing of the land not it doesn't give us instruction to go and attack something that is controlling the land jesus says to pray for jesus he didn't say go and fight the principality of jesus and so when it comes to the regions we mainly pray a prayers of repentance and we pray a prayers of four our people and four those in authority believing that as they come to christ one by one and as we begin to see a higher percentage of people committed to christ we begin to see a shift in our culture thus resulting in that principality being weakened and being defeated this is our way of doing spiritual warfare against principalities now so therefore like these things of walking around you know your neighborhood or a bar or something and you know praying it down that it closes and all of this stuff you know there's better ways to do that than just you know conquering that if that place of business is not yours if that place of business legally wants to operate and they want to you know sell drugs do alcohol and you know have prostitution your goal is not just during the night to pour you know 27 gallons of oil on the on the sidewalk hope that this oil is gonna damage them and i know there's plenty of stories of people saying and this got closed down and that got closed down but there's also a lot of other stories of people doing that having very heavy repercussions and so the best way to do that is to begin to pray for people who are victims people who are sinners and then start evangelizing to them start telling about Jesus start going and speaking the good news you know bringing maybe some food there and start bringing winning people over from the dark side to to the light to Jesus's kingdom and so your intercession is for people not against the principalities but when you're dealing with a family member that maybe is currently under a spell and they want you to pray for them or even if they are not believers and they don't want you to pray for them we are still invited by God to stand in the gap and intercede for their salvation that God will open the eyes that the word of God will penetrate their hearts that God will grant them repentance that any resistance will be broken down that any pride will be broken down that God will speak to them in dreams in visions that God will send them people in their work and in in the coffee shop who will begin to witness to them and so these are the prayers we ought to pray sometimes God will lead you and specifically reveal to you that the person you're praying for has a demonic spirit this particular demonic spirit that is deceiving them and so in prayer and intercession you know after you've pleaded for their salvation you know you come against that and you bind that you say I bind that demonic spirit that is blinding my family member that is deceiving my family member I'm breaking the grip you know Pharaoh let those people go in the sense that let this person go they belong to Jesus Christ I claim them for Jesus Christ and so we mainly deal particularly with with the spirits that are holding these people hostage versus going into the second heaven where we are dealing with principalities and of course the safest place when it comes to dealing with demons is when they people have them and they come for help we see this happen with Jesus he delivered people that came to him for help and then he delivered them instead he didn't necessarily kind of go everywhere and just look for demons and so he just delivered people that came to him for help and so that is kind of how the ministry of deliverance usually operates we don't go people sometimes say well if you if you do deliverance why don't you just go in empty hospitals you know for mentally ill people if you do healing why don't you just go in empty hospitals and you know people who say that they're yeah that that's just not how that works and stuff so I would say to them well if you believe in the gospel why don't you go and just save everybody and stuff that's just not how that works some people don't want to be saved and some people you know they don't believe in Jesus to heal them and so we don't impose that on people nor do we impose deliverance so that is in a nutshell about ministry of intercession has this been helpful to anybody drop that in the chat number one if this has been helpful and if you have received something from this amen and when I take a moment and pray right now for people that are sick people that are battling with illness and so if you are struggling right now with sickness and with pain I'm going to pray for you and so I'm going to ask you that you just in the in the chat in the comments there's everywhere we have about a thousand people on all the platforms watching right now but begin to just drop in the chat what you're believing God what you believe in the Lord to do for you right now and so and then we're going to be praying right now we're going to be asking the Holy Spirit to come and for the Lord to begin to move powerfully in the name of Jesus Christ dear Holy Spirit I invite your presence in this chat right now dear Holy Spirit I thank you for your power I thank you that nothing is impossible to you right now in Jesus mighty name I speak healing to those that are sick I speak healing to those that have a neck pain bone pain pain in their bones pain in their joints in Jesus mighty name precious Holy Spirit I ask you right now for those people that have issue in in their body right now when you bring restoration right now in Jesus name restore them to their original position I speak healing to every muscle pain I speak healing right now to every lower back pain in Jesus mighty name Lord heal ankles heal liver right now Lord heal infirmities right now in Jesus mighty name I rebuke every gastritis in the name of Jesus I rebuke deafness right now in the mighty name of Jesus come Holy Spirit with your presence come Holy Spirit with your power come Holy Spirit with your anointing right now Holy Spirit come minister to your people restore your temple right now in the name of Jesus I take authority over every spirit of infirmity tormenting your body every curse that is generational of chronic disease I rebuke you right now in Jesus name I rebuke you right now in Jesus mighty name and I commend you to come out of that body lose that person right now in the mighty name of the Lord Jesus Christ be healed right now in your body be healed in every place where there is pain heart problems liver problems kidney problems skin in Jesus name be healed right now sleeping I rebuke every problem with your sleeping in the name of Jesus I speak healing to your mind to your brain Lord nothing is impossible to you bring your restoration and healing right now in the name of Jesus Christ lumps growths cancer cells even as we're fasting let them be gone let them be removed in Jesus name let them be removed in the name of Jesus Christ thank you Holy Spirit thank you Lord for those of you who receive the prayer right now I want you to begin to exercise your body do something that you could not do check in that place where maybe you have had that pain and that suffering um if you notice that the pain is gone let me know in the comments as well as go to hungrygen.com forward slash testimony we would love to hear your testimonies I know the Lord heals every time we pray the spirit of God moves and He restores people and so today is going to be no different and so let us know in the chat as well as let us know in the email when you send to us on hungrygen.com forward slash testimony so this is going to be very much appreciated guys a few things that we want to take a moment to do we do have our deliverance digital deliverance starting in just a moment so I will send you all in just a moment to record live stream and so they're live streaming we are live streaming deliverance in just a moment where I believe you can also receive deliverance even just participating watching but even if you missed being on zoom but we wanted to answer a few questions for those of you that are asking right now a few questions so go ahead and John Adams praying for you and John Adams in the chat is this the John Adams from Canada the pastor that it's going to be ordained tomorrow he's always curious if it's the same person no or because John Abrams that's right that's a different one I apologize so because when I see that I'm always wondering if it's it's John Abrams okay so I thought maybe he's watching us on the live stream all the time okay so you have some questions go ahead and just drop it as we are doing that I want to invite you to partner with our ministry for those of you who are coming to the end of the fast this would be a good moment to make a decision to be a partner with Vladimir Subject Ministries it will help us to reach more people for Christ it will help us as well to produce more courses to release the things that we've released and to do the ministry that God has called us and so this ministry is reaching people globally and as well as discipling them digitally and so you can go to pastovlad.org forward slash partner we are believing for more partners this year and we can do more things for God this year thank you for everybody who's been doing that and especially if this fasting last three three weeks has been a blessing it's been a huge sacrifice for me as well but I joyfully make this sacrifice so I'm not going to complain about it and but I would love to have your also participation participate with me and that is partner with us it will be much appreciated now for those of you who are partners how many of you are already partners with Vladimir Subject Ministries drop number one in the chat and thank you for those of you that are giving through the youtube or giving through the cash or Vimo and then I'm going to just look at few questions and answer them oh how excited I am for this to be over not for the live streaming to be over but I'm excited for the fast to be over my wife is already craving for me to take her out to to eat and you know she's fasting to in her capacity and in her way it's a little bit harder for my wife to fast because she she's really tiny and so but she she's still participating especially right now interceding we have a particular need for a person that we're believing for to be safe and to be really rescued right now and so we're interceding and praying so this these teachings come comes very very good to me you know and even though it seems like it's one day left guys but to be honest with you tonight I'm going to talk to you about this so do not miss tonight it's not really one day left of fasting it's really about five more days because when you're going to be coming out of the fast you can't just come out in one day so we will kind of talk about it tonight so for those of you who are you know thinking hey that's it tomorrow I'm gonna go and eat so much you missed the whole point so it's really still about a week left of kind of gradually coming out so so yeah so we'll talk about that tonight so I'm gonna leave that for tonight what time does the fast end tomorrow so for us the fast ends after church so after church we are coming out of a fast yeah so that's about that but yeah it shouldn't be the burger the burger should burger should not even be on your mind for at least the seven days and stuff so yeah as a young believer I have been guilty of praying against the principalities I believe I've suffered for it as well anything I can do you can repent you can repent it's what I had to do because I used to do that too when I was younger and just kind of you know out of my zeal and when I started to learn more about this I recognized that you know a lot of times we hide under these binding of principalities but we actually don't evangelize and so as our church started to focus on actual evangelism and you know let's go win souls we really started to you know shift our strategy we intercede a lot we have an intercession group on telegram global intercession group we also have an intercession group that's hungry gen intercession group we have few person intercessors as well that we are standing in the that they're standing in a gap with with us and yeah so but I would just repent and they just not do it again pastor Vlad when will you be coming to North Carolina I will be coming to North Carolina in March can I have a fruit roll up like just one just like one with my bone broth separated we'll talk about that tonight so tonight at 7 p.m. so tonight I'm going to do my finale fasting stream and we're going to talk about tonight about that so yeah okay you need to tell us what is good to eat when they come off the when we come off the fast soup chicken lol noodles tonight we're gonna address this I'm not gonna address that right now because I'm going to address that tonight so Graceland if you can schedule the chat if you can schedule the stream right now and then we can drop this so that people can ride away hit remind me so that tonight we don't miss it so it will be late for those of you in the east coast it will be at 7 p.m. here I'm thinking maybe we should do at 6 30 yeah let's do at 6 30 guys let's do it 6 30 so just slightly earlier let's do at 6 30 the fasting videos will be left up will be left there on our playlist yes so let's do it at 6 30 tonight on my channel so right after this we're gonna drop the link right now so this way becomes a little bit easier for those of you on east coast so yeah what time does deliverance start so deliverance from my understanding has started okay so Rickard is still playing the no no okay so deliverance has started already so I'm gonna send you guys there in just a moment a few more few more minutes and then it will be on zoom though and only those people who have went through the courses and have received the zoom link will be will be on him so not you're not gonna be able to join the zoom right away okay but you'll be able to just kind of watch and participate and receive even from online when is the march fasting it's March 6th through 8th that's where the march fasting will you ever come to Philadelphia I don't have any plans yet I'm in Netherlands and do not have a local church yet can Hungry Jen be my local church yes Hungry Jen can be your local church I know actually pastor Rickard is going to Netherlands this year so to a conference there but if you don't have a local church welcome to be part of Hungry Jen watch us live where's the link to the videos he posted in the chat um not sure which videos you're referring to but the videos and principalities you can just YouTube it's a principalities pastor Vlad and they will come out the video for tonight we are scheduling that right now and we will drop that in the chat so when you log off you can just go to my youtube and it will just show up on the featured how do I repent from intercession against principalities you just repent you know ask God to just kind of forgive you for stepping out of your boundaries and then ask God to remove any repercussions from that to to break off any consequences from that and just make a promise to stick within the scriptural boundaries of intercession when you come to Colombia which city so I am coming to Bogota but I am not coming for an event what I will be ministering okay so I am coming there to a conference Bogota Colombia but I am not coming to minister there at least not this time maybe in the future I will what is the meaning of the second heaven warfare in intercession what did you mean by this I am lost on your explanation second heaven intercession and warfare it's when you are fighting principalities as part of your intercession principalities that rule regions that's what I mean my second heaven so the first heaven is the one that you see physical one a second heaven we believe is the one that is between in between the third heaven is where God's presence is at so you know heaven is not necessarily like a you know a place on another planet it's just another realm so and in between this realm that we see and then the realm where God dwells you know there's this where a lot of theologians would say the second heaven warfare you know the devil being the ruler the prince of the air and all of that stuff will you be doing deliverance when you come to Houston in April I think you asked me that question yesterday but that is usually my format is to do two services and one of them is to deliverance yes will you come to South Africa I don't have any plans yet I started to receive these tremors baby earthquakes shakes in my body right in the middle of my chest they don't hurt hard hard to describe really have you heard about this before no I have not I wonder what day of the fast you were on and then if you do notice that during a fast you're not feeling good you know your heart maybe is racing or you're puking all the time throwing up all the time you know you really need to consider coming off of the fast and do something else with your fast and if you are you know doing good and just like slightly tired then you know continue but if you're not you definitely should not you know be fasting completely food and stuff and so I am not a medical doctor so and nor am I a nutritionist so I can't advise you on what each person should do majority of people in they seem to be able to fast water you know for for some time and but there are cases of people who are not able to who are not pregnant they're not nursing and they're not you know they're not anorexic or they're not children they're not on medication but they still do they're just not able to fast and so it could be spiritual it might not be spiritual it could be physical and so you have enough time take a shower and done to able to watch so I'm not sure what this question means whoever puts this question let's put questions that actually kind of make sense because I'm sorry I don't don't understand this question I was added to the deliverance today I'm trying to get the link through the email that was sent to me but my phone wouldn't open my email app how do I connect now maybe do it on your computer and stuff so I don't I can't do you have enough time take a shower and be done and still able to watch ah or I apologize do you have enough time to take a shower and watch I'm assuming deliverance if you are talking about deliverance yeah you should the stream will be for a few hours if you haven't had a breakthrough should you keep fasting um you should finish fasting when you decided to fast for this long and then um sometimes people continue to fast until they get a breakthrough sometimes people get breakthrough after the fast so I wouldn't concern myself too much with you know did I get a breakthrough so for me I'm gonna finish the fast when I decided to fast you know for 21 days and um and I focus very little on the breakthrough I got or not I do know that there will be a breakthrough I just know that God sometimes releases it in a different times I already have received certain things during the fast I do believe that I'm gonna be reaping the benefits of this fast even down the road I keep getting angelic visitations what's the meaning of this um actually quite few people during a prolonged fasting get um angels visit them given instructions and um given guidance I know a few people who had a 40-day fast and they had an angelic visitation in the dream or they had a actually one pastor shared he actually had a physical angel came to his house and so um it's totally possible and sometimes these angels they're ministry spirits so I have a whole teaching on angels that you can watch and these angels you know God assigns angels for a season for the reason for particular assignments and they bring certain information that you know sometimes God chooses to use them in that regard so I think it's a good thing it's the night 6 30 p.m eastern or 9 30 eastern so tonight 6 30 pacific time so so I think in your case it will be 9 30 eastern time if there is no significant change during the fast should you do more days I really want to know um it depends on you I have a friend Ben Fitzgerald and he went on a 21 day fast water fast and he didn't feel that he got any breakthrough so he actually continued from 21 days to 40 days and then on the 37th day you know he really got a huge breakthrough and that's how this Europe Europe awakening started actually was during that fast so it depends I always say this if the Lord doesn't lead you then end the fast when you decided to end the fast if the Lord leads you and you can be very certain it is the leading of God not you just kind of like you know want to fast for very long then I just stick with the decision that you already made before and just fast and God will reward the fast but like I mentioned in previous live streams sometimes harvest comes after sowing not during sowing how often do you do an extended fast a year personally I do an extended fast once a year unless I am led to do it you know more my cousin Ilya faster of hungry Jen like last year he did four of 21 day water fast you know so some people use it differently but he felt led to do that so I usually do just one extended one and then the rest of 11 or 10 shorter they're still still prolonged I consider three day fast prolonged fast and so doctors will consider that as a prolonged fast one day is not a prolonged fast but three days is a prolonged fast so I usually try to do 10 prolonged at least that's that's my desire for this year and then one extended I want to know what exactly does the fasting include not eating and eating God's word praying and again not eating the word fasting means not to eat is it recommended to acknowledge angels when you see them there's nothing wrong with that as long as you don't worship them you know angel came to john and gave him actually the book of revelation and john started to worship him and angels say whoa whoa stop doing this so if an angel starts telling you to worship him then you're most likely dealing with the demon and whatever angel says if it's not consistent with the scriptures or the gospel then you're dealing with a demon and you can fall into the same hair you see that Muhammad fell and Paul warns us in Galatians if any spirit comes and teaches you a different gospel then I taught you he says let it be anathema meaning like curse that thing get rid of it and just rebuke it you can even ask an angel if it acknowledges acknowledges Jesus he came in the flesh you know this acknowledges this is the savior of the world as a son of God so yeah does the fasting include only drinking water all 21 days I am interested biblical fasting includes it is abstaining from food for the spiritual reasons biblical fasting now in the western world we have added you know daniel fasting which is like you know abstaining from certain foods but in a biblical day fasting meant no food at all and you were allowed to drink water or you know drinks now in the old testament of course they didn't have necessarily drinks like other drinks like we have you know as much as they mainly drink water and a lot of times they did drink wine because their water was not as purified and so but during a biblical fast I believe it's okay to drink water and sometimes even to supplement some other things in the water like fasting salt or maybe add we encourage people to add supplements be complex it helps with fasting and it just helps overall to take a sub to take supplements where do I find the classes to be able to join zoom services and meetings we don't have zoom services and meetings except deliverance zoom and that one is found at hungrygen.com forward slash deliverance pasto ilia has his live streams with zoom ministry and iven also has with zoom ministry and they add them under live streams when they live stream ever since I start fasting I've had dreams every night which I didn't have before I don't understand them though can the enemy be preventing me from interpreting them we have a whole live stream that we've done on dreams with my wife I would encourage you that you write your dreams down and some dreams are pizza dreams some dreams are demonic dreams and some dreams are from God and usually when you wake up a lot of times you just have this instant interpretation that the Lord gives you and if he doesn't give you but this dream lingers in your mind and you're pretty sure it's not demonic what you can do is just write it down and then just pray about it and let the Lord give you interpretation and if he doesn't give you interpretation just keep it in your notes how can I join the zoom deliverance meeting again you have to go through the classes on Vlad school calm as you go through the deliverance classes it's a deliverance prayers actually after all of those prayers you will get a link for the next month's deliverance online service should I be fasting if I've been have anorexia no you shouldn't be fasting if you have anorexia you're gonna die you already you need to be healed of that or delivered of that first you need to gain some weight because a lot of people with anorexia are very very skinny so I feel the Holy Spirit is leading me to fast but I don't know what kind of a fast I should do since I am under maintenance drugs ask ask a doctor ask a doctor what fast would be okay in your situation most doctors are pretty open if you have a good doctor you know do a fast and they're not necessarily gonna tell you oh please don't do it this is really bad and so most doctors but some doctors you know will will try to keep you away from that because there's a lot of benefits of fasting and so and the problem is that when you start fasting a lot and when you start fasting regularly you might not need a lot of medication or you might not need a lot of you might not have a lot of sicknesses and that's not really good for um big pharma what does the bible memory group look like or is it called so this is what the bible memory group looks like right here um so if you go to pastovlad.org over slash memory this you will get the free bible app after you download the app then you open the bible app group and it will look something like this let me give you an example so it will look something like this inside after you join the group you will click on this tab over here so you you know get these verses you click join the group you can message us you can invite your friends actually and then um you can actually choose which version of the bible verses i'm using new king james you can choose your own then this is how it will show up once you accept the invitation to the bible group you'll have the groups here you can have your verses here then um you can actually make your own collection so like i have my own collection people say oh i just want to memorize more verses come on you're totally free to do that you can actually just make your own collections and start memorizing on your own i just encourage you that you don't start doing it so much that like next week as your life gets more busy and you're not fasting you drop it completely so two verses may seem a lot it may seem very little waiting till you get about 40 of them remember these verses you will have to review every few days so like right now i have 16 verses to review you know yesterday had about 50 and so um so yeah and i added three verses yesterday on the top of the group that i'm doing but again so i just kind of want you to pace yourself and once you are clicking on one of those verses you know you can choose one which you see all the verse you're typing the first letter of each word two is when it skips some words and three when it completely removes the the word you can click on these three buttons choose to change the verse verses translation and um shuffle verses like do a lot of other stuff with it so yeah so this is kind of the this is the group how it looks on a desktop and i just given you a tour of how it looks on um on the app i was very sensitive crying a lot in the beginning of the fast after the conversation with my friend i also noticed that stopped any advice sometimes it's possible to be more sensitive emotionally in the beginning of the fast um i usually get a lot more sensitive like that too um people actually get moody sometimes for me it's a lot more easier to cry when i fast than any other time um even in god's presence sometimes sharing something about god i could just get like the little to start crying so like i don't know maybe just we're just more sensitive to the lord all right guys um so now i'm gonna ask you for something so as deliverance is going on past the record is already dropping fire so let's go ahead and and show support i want you to go to this link right now okay for those of you've given you became a partner so i want you to go on this link right now and just say hey we are here from past the last stream so the record is just doing deliverance prayer right now so you will be just in time for the deliverance okay so go ahead and click on this so you can receive prayer for deliverance right now that's why i didn't do prayer for deliverance because i want past the record to pray for you guys and stuff so um so go ahead and jump on the live stream and say from past the last stream right now we are here for prayer for deliverance so um yeah i just dropped a comment there as well so let's do that and let the lord right now bring deliverance into your life in jesus name let's have this powerful deliverance prayer amen god bless you guys let's drop that let's go all to rickus let's help him to break at least like 300 or 400 if you are on facebook as well okay so they're praying right now and they're ministering to other people so they are ministering right now to people on zoom so the prayer for deliverance i think it's over already but um they're ministering to people on zoom you can still join in because we have different pastors right now on zoom praying and you will be able to receive that you'll be able to receive that prayer even there amen so go ahead and join that and then i'm going to switch it to thank you and i'll see you on the deliverance uh live stream i'm going to be there as well yeah so uh pastor ilia mentioned that uh he will do different mass prayer points during the live stream so just just get in there just kind of hang in there for a little bit there will be different mass prayer points coming in every few every few minutes or so so just receive i believe that the lord's gonna use you for those of you on tiktok we're dropping the link right now so grace and if you can drop the link on tiktok it's on youtube it's on youtube right now so it's on youtube and the youtube channel is called the deliverance podcast


Great. All right. I'll get started then. My name is James Pepper. I'm the chair of the Vermont Cannabis Control Board. Today is June 15th, 2022. It's 1 p.m. and I call this meeting to order. There's just a few remarks before we get started today. I need to pick up on a point from last week's meeting and just reiterate that if you're currently operating without a license, you are in violation of state and federal law. And if we find out about this, it will impact your ability to get licensed by the board. It's a somewhat difficult situation that we're trying to pull off. Almost every other state that is legalized cannabis essentially decides to replace the legacy market with big business. We're taking a different approach in Vermont, and we're really trying to shift the legacy market into a regulated space so that it's the very people that have been incarcerated or have been living under the threat of prosecution for decades that will benefit the most from this market. We listened to the legacy market in developing our rules. We kind of laid out the board's priorities, and you helped us craft the least restrictive regulatory framework that achieves those goals. It's not perfect. Every regulation has a cost, and every cost is a barrier to entry. But they are among the most lenient rules in the country when it comes to things like insurance requirements, security requirements, criminal history records, reporting back to the board, and local control. You know, it's not Maine, and frankly, our legislature didn't want us to be Maine, but it's also not California or Illinois. So I just need to be as clear as I can be. If you have an application pending with the Cannabis Control Board, or you're thinking about submitting an application, you are subject to our rules right now. People who are engaged in the unlicensed sale of cannabis or cannabis products are in violation of the law and board rules. We have a complaint form on our homepage of our website, and we're currently getting reports about violations from concerned citizens and, honestly, other licensees that are trying to comply with the law. If we have credible evidence that you're advertising high THC products on social media, if you're selling high THC products out of your head shop or at an event, if you're making false statements to local authorities about your CCB licensing status or compliance, if you're dispensing to minors, we cannot look the other way, and it will impact your ability to get a license. So please stop. If you're not willing to follow the rules, you won't have a place in the regulated market. I just want to say we're almost there. You know, you all have carried this plant through the dark days of prohibition. We're finally approaching the light at the end of the tunnel. We want you and your expertise in this market. We want you to share in the prosperity of this industry. We have a backlog in applications right now, but it's not going to last forever. Understand that there's a microscope on all of us right now. If we stumble out of the gate, if we flaunt our regulatory mandates around user prevention, consumer protection, and public safety, this program will be made unrecognizable in a very short order. On the flip side, if we can collectively demonstrate success in these areas, things like farm gate sales, social consumption lounges, delivery, special events, high THC concentrates are all on the horizon. So it's an important point to make that the rules apply to you, whether you are licensed or not, if you want to be licensed. And Julie and Kyla, given the kind of complaints that are coming in, I figured I'd ask if you guys have any comments you want to make. Yeah, I think I'd acknowledge that the next couple of months are going to be probably the most intense for everyone, especially those that have the faith to be early adopters and enter this market early, and then those who are moving from the legacy market into the regulated market. This is going to be a really, really intense time. What I would ask people to do is to focus on a long-term gain and really focus on the culture of compliance, which I think is what you were alluding to, because that is really, really essential for the market's survival. I think Kyla can probably speak to this having just met with regulators in other states that what we have built here, and when I say we, I mean everyone who spent hours and hours watching meetings, sent public comment, participated in some way or another. This is a real group effort and an industry effort. And what we've built is unique and forward-thinking, and you all can be industry leaders, but we have to protect that right now. And I think really that's what we're talking about, is sort of protecting what's been built. I think I would also say that probably most of the folks that I've spoken to really have a great deal of respect for this plant and industry, and so those are not necessarily the folks that we're talking to right now. It's the people who intend to sort of blatantly skirt the rules or ignore them all together who really pose the greatest risk to the market, and we'd ask you all to just really protect this market right now. Yeah, and I would just double down on what James and Julie both said. There are folks out there that want you to fail. They might not be in your immediate circle of folks that you talk to on a day-to-day basis, but they're watching. They want us to fail as a board. They want all of us to fail. They don't want this marketplace to be present amongst Vermonters. It's our job to show them that it does have a place amongst Vermonters. And yeah, I was at a conference last week with fellow regulators and folks, if you, Vermont, as a unique state, we're trying to push through to the next phase of how this plant can be regulated. And folks think, quite frankly, some of them I thought we were a little naive. They don't think that our licensees without these strict controls and reporting requirements will follow the direction and this culture of compliance that we're trying to pull off here. They don't have that same kind of value set that we have as it relates to this. And I don't want to prove them right. So please work with us. If you have questions around compliance, reach out to us. We'll have a compliance team shortly to help. We want to set this culture. Don't make us swing the hammer. I know 95% of you most likely are trying to do everything you can the right way by the book and you're waiting on us to tell you when and where is the correct way to do something. But one bad apple can spoil the bunch or whatever that phrase may be. We don't want a few folks that are trying to not adhere to what we're trying to do to ruin this for the rest of you. But please just work with us. That's really all we ask. We understand that there's a backlog, as Pepper mentioned. It won't last forever. I still think this is one of the most forward-thinking programs in any state. Let's prove everybody wrong. Thanks for that. So with respect to the backlog, I figured I'd talk a little bit about our priority of licensure and how we're moving through that backlog. So obviously the fairest way to approach licensure when you have unlimited licenses is kind of a first-in-time, first-to-review and approve. And that is the basic backbone of our system. However, the legislature added a few layers of complexity. First, they said that social equity applicants need top priority. Then they said women and minority-owned businesses also need priority. They said that the current medical dispensaries deserve priority. And then they also said that the board can prioritize based on the needs of the market. So of course, when you only have four full-time employees, it's difficult to prioritize anyone without slowing the whole process down for everyone. Because you have to create procedures to verify that an applicant actually falls into one of these categories. And we are also running into the problem that not everyone's applications are complete at the same time. In fact, the reason that we started to issue non-social equity, non-women and minority-owned business licenses is because at any given time, all of those applications had been teams incomplete. They were sent letters of incomplete letters, and we moved on to standard applications. But this isn't a static process. We knew social equity applications come through. They are being prioritized, but that doesn't stop a standard application that was under review from moving forward. And then there's the needs of the market concern. We know that every day that passes, outdoor cultivators are looking at the calendar and wondering if they're going to be able to participate this year. We know that this is an industry that can get saturated very quickly. We're taking these concerns into account. We also know that testing can be a major bottleneck. We can't just license a group of cultivators and not give them anywhere to comply with our testing protocols. So we have been licensing testing facilities well. And soon that calculus might be true of product manufacturers and wholesalers. So my point is that we are working quickly to get through our backlog. I would say on a staff to application ratio, we're moving as quickly or quicker than most other majority states in the country. And we are prioritizing outdoor cultivators, but we're not ignoring our other priorities. Please reach out to the board. If you have questions about your incomplete status, email is the best ccb.info at breman.gov. If you've submitted an application and the board has not been in touch, first thing you should do is check your spam folder. Many servers automatically move any email containing the word cannabis in them to spam. And also just recognize that calling us four or five, six times actually just slows us down. We will be in touch. But do reach out if you have questions and recognize that our licensing staff is about to double. So that will increase our efficiency. I think our platform is moving into a new. I was going to say, yeah, also the capabilities of our licensing portal are being upgraded continuously. The application itself is more streamlined than its original version. For instance, when you select a specific license type, you will only be prompted to answer questions related to that license type. Also, when you get an incomplete letter now, you can correct your deficiencies directly in the application as opposed to kind of uploading documents to SharePoint or emailing them to the board. One area that's been causing quite a few incomplete letters is payment of fees. Someone whose parents have been scammed multiple times on the internet. I'm actually glad everyone's being cautious with their sensitive information, but obviously we can't issue a license without a fee payment. So I just wanted to review a few quick tips on how to verify that it is in fact the board you're talking to and how to make sure you're paying through our online portal. So first thing first, no one from the board to CCB will be calling you asking you for money. Do not give your credit card information out to someone who has called you claiming that they're from the cannabis board. All of our fee payment requests will come via an email from the address ccb.feas at vermont.gov. The email will direct you to our fee payment portal. If you feel like it's still a suspicious email, you can go directly to that portal through our website at ccb.vermont.gov slash forms. About halfway down the screen, you'll see a link that says cannabis control board application payment service, and you can pay your fees that way. And again, if you ever have any questions or concerns, you can always call us. The direct line here is<PHONE_NUMBER>, or you can email us at ccb.info at vermont.gov. So I just wanted to give a quick note on packaging as the kind of last point today. Just a reminder, all packaging has to be approved by the board in order to ensure its compliance with our packaging requirements. We have a packaging guidance that's up to date on the guidance page at our website. It's ccb.vermont.gov slash guidance. This guidance includes changes that were made pursuant to Act 158, which was passed earlier this year, and will hopefully make packaging requirements easier on everyone. The two big changes that were made with respect to packaging. First, cannabis flour does not need to be in child resistant packaging. The elimination of this requirement does not open the floodgates to any and all packaging options for flour, but it does mean that you don't need to use those heavy plastic push and turn tops. You can use things like glass jars with a latch. You can use things like tear resistant paper bags that are capable of being sealed. This change also will hopefully help facilitate our packaging take back and reuse program. Second, cannabis does not need to be pre-packaged for consumer sale before it goes to a retailer. Originally retailers were not permitted to package product for consumer sale. This meant that the packaging costs were either shifted to the cultivators or outsourced to wholesalers. Allowing retailers the package will hopefully lower cost for cultivators by allowing you to shift your product directly to retailers in bulk. We've asked the Vermont industry to move away from reflexively relying on plastic for packaging. This is a tough ask. Plastic is inexpensive, it's easily child-resistant, and it really dominates the cannabis packaging universe. But plastic used for cannabis packaging is also almost always non-reusable, non-recyclable, and non-compostable. We think it'd be a major oversight to care so much about environmental sustainability on the cultivation side and then turn a blind eye to environmental impact the environmental impacts of creating so much consumer waste on the retail side. The board in Vermont more generally knows where it wants to go in reducing plastic waste. We think that it's better to do this at the outset of the market than to try and ban plastic down the road. But we're not unreasonable, we do have a waiver request form that's live on our website for people who are not able to comply with the plastic ban. Just like all of our waiver provisions, we will only consider waivers under a narrow set of circumstances and only after you demonstrate a good faith effort at trying to comply. But if we do grant a waiver for a specific piece of packaging, that packaging will be approved for the entire industry. I say that because I think this is an opportunity for everyone, including the board, to work together. To work with your networks to look for compliant packaging that uses as little plastic as possible or better yet ask Vermont companies to create packaging that meets our criteria. I've seen examples of child-resistant, non-plastic or de minimis plastic packaging for almost every product type. And remember, flower does not have to be in child-resistant packaging. So, you know, try and get creative. If your packaging passes the straight face test that will not be easily accessible to a person under five years old, we want to approve it. And if your packaging does not have any plastic, you don't need to seek waiver for it. It can be approved through our product registration process. We'll be keeping a list of packaging that has been approved, either through the waiver process or through that registration process, so that those types of packaging will be available to the entire industry. Any other comments? Can I say one thing on the waiver form? We've gotten a couple waiver requests already for packaging. I think there's three or four on the back end of our website. We're kind of exploring in that waiver request form. We do ask for the model, the brand, the serial number, so we can do our own internal research on that piece of packaging. I can say some of the other answers in that form. There is some hard questions that we're asking you to think critically about. This is not, as James alluded to, just another paperwork exercise where you click the box and move on. We want you to think critically and answer our questions and take them seriously because some of the answers I've seen already, I don't necessarily believe that they do so. We haven't made any decisions yet on whether or not any waivers will be granted. Half of it is the information you provide us. Half of it is looking at the product itself and how it stands without your explanation behind it and whether or not it's necessary. Please take the time, take the question seriously, and answer them to the best of your abilities. Again, one person needs to submit a waiver request for each type of packaging. Maybe you don't feel comfortable answering a certain question because you don't have that kind of environmental expertise, but you're talking in your networks and somebody might have that, have them put forward the waiver. I want to see something that makes it seem as if you've thought critically about the issue because plastic waste issues in this state are a big thing outside of this industry. The last thing that we need is another set of eyes looking at every single thing that we do unintentionally. Siri agrees. I don't have anything to add. Okay, great. Well then before we move to the agenda, why don't we approve the minutes from our last meeting on June 6? Is that a chance to look at those? Yeah. Yes. Is there a motion to approve? So moved. Seconded. All in favor? Aye. All right. Bryn, I think this is where we turn to you. We'll use that recommendation on social activities data as pre-qualification and license. Okay. So as usual, we'll start with our pre-qualification recommendations for the board. Today we have 17 before the board for your consideration. One thing I wanted to point out is that the pre-qualification window as we know is closed. So this is probably the second to last batch that the board will see and approve. We'll probably have another batch next week, but that we will probably be done after that. And this far left column here submitted an incomplete where there are 344 pre-qualifications in that category. This is one of the reasons that staff has been so busy. We have hundreds of applications, pre-qualification applications. The staff have issued incomplete letters to folks, and those are really just remaining complete. So there's quite a bit of work also on the pre-qualification side the staff has been doing. Again, we've got 17 today. We'll probably have one more batch next week that will be approximately a similar size. And then we'll be probably done issuing pre-qual approvals for the time being. The list I have here, as always, all of these applicants have demonstrated compliance with board rule and are suitable for pre-qualification. So we've got submission 310, an indoor Tier 5 cultivator, submission 323, an outdoor Tier 3 cultivator, submission 548 for retail, submission 74B for retail, submission 579, Tier 1 outdoor cultivator, submission 91, Tier 2 manufacturing, submission 123, Tier 3 manufacturer, submission 457, Tier 3 manufacturer, submission 466, Tier 3 manufacturer, submission 482, Tier 1 mixed youth, submission 268, Tier 3 indoor cultivator, submission 268B for a testing lab, submission 279 for a Tier 2 manufacturer, submission number 16 wholesale, submission number 493, Tier 3 manufacturer, submission 373, Tier 2 manufacturer, and submission 373B for retail. So those are pre-qualification applicants up for board approval today. I'll move on to the full license application numbers. So you can see we have a new category on our table here, which is at the far rate pending board review. So as the chair mentioned at the outset, we have some new functionality with our application portal. And so we have people are, once people receive their incomplete letter, they're invited to go back into the application and provide additional information, amend their application. And then once they resubmit it, they are following in this category resubmitted. So that's the new, that is the new category for application status. So today we have eight applicants ready for the board to review and approve their application for a full license. And as is always true, all of the applicants that appear on this list have demonstrated compliance with all the requirements for their license that's contained in board rule and statute. And staff is recommending them for licensure. So we've got, first up, Heligood LLC, Tier 1 outdoor cultivator, Vermont Green Castle Reserve LLC, Tier 1 indoor cultivator, Victory Garden, Tier 1 outdoor cultivator, Edwards, Tier 1 outdoor cultivator. We have another testing lab, Ondine Incorporated. And we have GBs Organics, mixed use, Tier 1 cultivator, Craft Cannabis of Vermont, Tier 1 indoor cultivator. And lastly is Justin's Craft Cannabis, Tier 1 indoor cultivator. Moving on to social equity, the social equity numbers. So you can see our social equity numbers as of Monday. And we had one pending board review. Most of our applicants are still in incomplete status. We have, I think, seven up for staff recommendation for social equity status today. We've got submission 120 for a Tier 1 indoor cultivation license. And staff are recommending social equity status for this applicant as they meet the criteria for a socially disadvantaged business applicant. Submission 537 for indoor Tier 1 cultivator. And this applicant, staff is recommending them as they meet the criteria for social equity individual applicant as defined in board rule. Submission 365, outdoor Tier 1 cultivator. Staff are recommending social equity status for this applicant. They meet the criteria for socially disadvantaged business applicant. In board rule. Submission 639, Tier 1 outdoor cultivator. This applicant meets the criteria for social equity individual applicant. And then we have 576, indoor Tier 2 cultivator. This applicant meets the criteria for social equity individual applicant as defined in board rule. So we have five up for social equity status. And we have two recommendations for social equity status denial. Then that's submission 598, outdoor Tier 2 cultivator. They don't meet the criteria for social equity individual applicant. And submission 203 for indoor Tier 1 cultivator also don't meet the criteria for a social equity business applicant as defined in board rule. That is your list for the week. Renee did notice that one of the applicants for full licensure was from a town that has a local cannabis commission. Yes. Does the fact that they're being referred mean that they they've been approved by that commission? No, they have not yet been approved by that commission. So they're the approval will be contingent upon the approval from the local control commission. So the process now though right is that we would share with that local commission if we prove it today. Yes. And we also provide a set amount of information to them for their consideration. Great. Thank you. Is there a motion to approve? I move that the board accept each of the recommendations for pre-qualification social equity status and licensing approval as presented to us. Nice meeting. Second. Any discussion? Okay. All in favor? Aye. All right. Okay. Thanks for that. And we'll just move on to public comment. You have a comment and you join by the link. Please raise your virtual hand. We'll try and call on you in the order that you raise your hand and then we'll move to folks that have joined by the phone. Ellie, could you just help us with the order? Absolutely. Sarah is first. Hi. Thank you so much. And again, thank you all for your time. I know that you have a lot that you are all doing right now and we all appreciate it very much. I'm just kind of concerned. I submitted my application 51 days ago and I am an economic empowerment applicant and I have really had no communications from anyone other than me prodding and saying, hey, are you missing this? Are you missing that? What's going on with my background check? It's really disheartening because I have a lot like many other people here a lot writing on this and I may not be able to participate this year and that's really sad for me given that I've been working on this for so long. I just want you to hear more voices around this frustration and knowing that as an outdoor cultivator, the clock is ticking and I'm looking at not being able to participate. Thanks for listening. Thanks, Sarah. Dave. Hey, I was wondering if you guys had, I'll say SLA for lack of better term on how long you guys will need to review and grant the waiver, the packaging waiver approvals. I asked because some of this packaging has significant lead time, particularly when the packaging is customized with graphics, logos, etc. There are some back and forth and potentially overseas shipping and everything is these days, lots of delays. It would be great to know kind of how long we need to allocate for that approval process when it's de minimis plastic or whatever. Thank you very much. Thanks, Dave. Hey guys, thanks again for all your hard work. Hey Ben, I think all of us here are having a hard time hearing you. I don't know if it's at the connection or if you're somehow far away from the speaker. Sorry, is this any better? Yes, it is. Sorry. Yeah, I was just saying thanks for all your work as always and I was just going to ask on behalf of everybody who's in a larger outdoors here to just comment and ask you guys if you could try to find it in your time to review and approve some of those next week. Thank you. Thanks Ben. Tree frog farms. Hey guys, how you doing on this afternoon? Good, good. I was just wondering if there's any way you could comment that may help people understand how the licensing process goes once submitted. I know that we can follow kind of through that portal that we get access to once it's submitted and I've seen the application change from submitted to received. I'm wondering if received means it's being looked at and then the next step would be either notification of a background check or notification of an incomplete status. Just wondering how that indicates what you guys are looking at at what time. Thank you. Thank you. Anyone else who joined via the link, please just raise your virtual hand if you'd like to make a comment and if you joined via the phone you can hit star six to unmute yourself. All right, well so in general we don't answer questions directly during public comment period but we do appreciate the questions. You know these are things that we try and collect, update our website FAQ, talk about in our opening remarks to get to give you more context so feel free to keep the questions coming and we will try and get answers to you on all those issues. So with that if there's no other business anyone have any other comments? Okay, then I will adjourn the meeting. Thank you.