Well, it's that time of week again for another installment of Fishing Tips on this week's segment, Ray and Mandy talk about fishing in deep water. Today we're going to talk a little bit about fishing for deeper fish, fish that are down in that 18 to 30 feet of water. How do you get down there? How do you get your live baits down there? How do you get your crank baits down there? There's a number of different ways that this can be done that are pretty easy to use. And one of the common ways is to use what we call a bottom bouncer. And a bottom bouncer comes in a different cup of varieties. I've got one here and Mandy's going to show you another one. But the basic idea of this is you tie your line to your rod and then you drop this into the lake and that weight is, you want it to be straight down as much as you can. Actually when you're moving trolling you want about a 45 degree angle from your boat. And so when this is bouncing you have a leader line that runs back and I have a long one here. This is about an 80-some inch but if you're in 30 feet of water you want it away from this. You don't want the fish to be hung up by the bait with the bouncer. You want them to be looking at what's on the end of the line.  And it's a very effective way to catch northern bass and deep water bass and also walleyes. Here's a smaller weight that you've got also very effective.  Basically there again, ray goes way overboard. That's a big snel. Personally I like a three to four foot snel. So these come in different sizes. There again, a different style. Then you've got one of these. This is kind of a neat product. Actually it's fairly new to me. Your agent has showed this to me but the principle of it is you run your line through here and then simply push the orange tab back down in there and that holds that weight in place on your line. But big, small, bigger, they all seem to work. I'm Ray Gildall with the Niswell Guides League. And I'm Andy Yerick, the bass and biologist. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.


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Let's say you're on a Zoom meeting and the chat is going pretty fast and you're being distracted, you're feeling distracted by it. You want to pay attention to the speaker and you can't because people are chatting so fast and you want to read it. Well, there's two things I want to, two tips I want to give you. One is you can scroll up in the chat if you have a scroll, if you know how to scroll without using your click and drag, that's the best. But those of you who don't know how to do that, you can click and drag the right side, hopefully. And when you click and drag, the chat will stop refreshing. Well, it'll, new messages will stop, but you'll still see how many chat messages as you can see here, how many chat messages you haven't seen and you can simply scroll down again to see what they are. Now, that's one tip. The second tip, if you just don't want to, if you don't want to see the chat, you can simply close the chat by going here. But the thing is, as people continue chatting, you're probably going to see below where my finger is, you might see that there is numbers and those of you who are live here with me can just quickly chat a few things. Yeah, you can see that things are still popping up. Thank you, Jonah, for showing us. So, if that's, you know, too distracting for you, here's the third tip. You can simply click and drag the chat window to the very bottom of your screen and so that you don't see any more chats. You just simply see the word chat. Now, you can't see, there we go. You can drag it to the bottom of your screen, you know, so you no longer see the chat messages, but it's still there if you want to drag it back and look at it. So, I hope this is helpful to make your Zoom meetings more less distracting, more pleasant for you. And if you have any other tips for others for Zoom, especially managing the chat, you can comment below or any questions, comment below. Thanks.


Welcome, EGU members and colleagues at the annual General Assembly of the EGU. EGU is the Europe's leading organization for Earth, Planetary and Space Science research. We count about 20,000 members from across Europe and many other regions. Most of them sent a contribution to the General Assembly. Vizion in our vision is to realize a sustainable and just future for humanity and the planet. EGU helps advance fundamentally-deplied Geoscience research by publishing 19 scientific open-access journals in collaboration with Cotonikos. Organizing Geoscience events, such as the General Assembly held each spring in Vienna, to je Evrop's largest geoscience event, in promočuje geoscience v rovnih, edukacije, projekti in rekomendacije. As a result of the current worldwide pandemic, the GU decided to postpone its in-person general assembly this year and instead hold the largest ever virtual chosen meeting. Moving 18,000 abstract into this virtual format in a very short period of time has been a huge and challenging project. We have made considerable effort to assure a smooth week, but we ask for your patience if you face technical difficulties. We hope that showing your science online will be a great opportunity for if planetary and space scientists to share their research and set up or continue collaborations. Sharing to your science online offers free online access to and discussion of 18,000 abstracts in ways that promote equal accessibility and inclusivity for all attendees. It's an exciting opportunity for us all to test new virtual models for scientific interacting that could help reduce the environmental impact of scientific conferences. There will always be a need to meet in person, but we hope that our experiences with virtual ways of sharing ideas will help set the basis for accessible and green conferences of the future. We wish you a great week of sharing to your science online.


God is good, amen. I can't hear. I said, God is good. And all the time, amen. Turn to your neighbor and tell him, you look good. Come on, say it with confidence. You look good. Okay, we're going to get straight into the message. Straight into tonight's message. It's going to be a short message, but I believe out of every message that we hear, we can get something out of it and it can change our life if we choose to. God is speaking something all the time, but it is us. If we are listening, we can change our lives, because God's word, it says that it never comes back void. So if we pay attention to God, if we open up our hearts tonight, God can speak a word into your life that can change a part of your life or your whole life if you give it a chance. Amen, church. How many guys are going to open your hearts today to God's word? Amen. Amen. Let's open up our Bibles. If you have your Bible open to judges six, verse 11, judges six, verse 11, and we have the words on the screen. So you can just pay attention to follow with me. It says, now the angel of the Lord came and sat under the turbid tree, which was an offra, which belonged to Josh, the Abbas, Abbas writes, while his son, Gideon, trashed wheat in the wine press in order to hide it from the being at nights. And verse 12, and the angel of the Lord appeared to him and said to him, the Lord is with you, you mighty man of valor. And the message title for tonight will be mighty man of valor. So if you have your notes with you, you can write that down. We live in a generation which suffers with this disease called identity crisis. Many people do not know who they are, what they can do, what God said about them. So they begin to go from one point to another one, searching into who they are. They follow crowds, they follow opinions, they begin to make choices depending on greed, depending on fear, depending on desperation, depending on loneliness.  For example, myself back in the day, I almost became a rapper like it or not. I almost did. That was this picture. I'll go back through some of our pictures back in the day. I had this beanie, this wife beater, and these huge headphones on the, going to camp on this rock throwing gang signs. I'm looking back, I'm like, Jesus, thank you for pastors and mentors. I didn't know who I was and I was searching for that. Almost five years ago, I, true story, I almost got married. It's no immense that. So it's because we look, we look for who we are in people. We look for opinions. We look into our friends to tell us who we are. We look at what the crowd is doing. We're following because we do not know who we are in Christ Jesus. Many choices are made because of fear, because of loneliness, because of desperation, because we are lacking to know and to see what God says about us. And here we read in the scripture, Gideon, he's, he is just basically somebody who's flesh and wheat and the angel of the Lord come to him and says, the Lord is with you. He says, you mighty man of valor before getting does anything before getting wins a war before getting conquers or has his achievement for defeating an enemy.  We have to understand before we can accomplish anything in life, before we can do anything. We have to understand our worth, who we are in God, what God says that we have and what God says that we can do. God comes to get in before he does anything before he asks, Hey, what are you doing with this wheat? Why are you hiding for people?  You are not your position. You are not condition or an opinion of others. We have to understand that we have a generation that is running behind people's position. They think they are what they have accomplished. We see many people who get a degree and they begin to walk with their shoulders squared up and saying, Well, I am because of what I achieved.  So they begin to label them as somebody great. So they live their life thinking that there's something that the people and opinion of people, opinion of others, people begin to label themselves because they make six digits income. That's why they begin to feel great. People base their identity upon their position, upon their condition and opinion of others. And this is what gets many people into trouble. And then many people that I come in contact with that I talk with, they made so many mistakes because of this same issue that they base their identity on what they have and how they feel and what people say about them. And one thing that we have to understand from this scripture is that God says that you are a mighty man of valor before you can do anything. We have to understand and realize our worth before we can do anything for God. Before we have these these amazing dreams for God, before we want to become a doctor, before we want to become a basketball player or just a family man, we have to understand who we are in God. We have to understand and find out what does God say about me? Who am I? Am I what people say or why what God says about me? Am I who God says that I am? What I can do and what I have or am I the opinion of others? You have to find out who you are in Christ Jesus. And we know God's word says that we are more than conquerors. We know God's word says that we are sons and daughters of the most high God. We know that God's word says that we're kings and queens destined to reign, that we're chosen generation, we're peculiar people, that we're not our mistake, we're not our issue, we're not our past and we're not the opinion of others. Amen church? Who are you in Christ Jesus? If you do not know it will be easy for somebody to give you that label. If you do not know who you are in Christ Jesus, you can easily be swayed by opinion of others that saying you should choose this, you should do this, you should marry this person, you should choose this career and the opinion of others will begin to sway you. The pressure of other, the pressure of your peers, the pressure of this society will begin to make a toll saying you need to get this kind of car or you need to dress like this or you need to do this because you do not know who you are in Jesus Christ. I remember back in the day I used to do, I used to trade stocks and Nozzar you feel me bro? So back in the day I used to do financial things and I remember one day I was just like racking up some serious money, I think it was like one day we made like $20,000, I'm just like for real, for real, like I can't even show you the bank statements, you know, I'm not lying.  The next day I find out that the bank account gets closed, that we were dealing with this Ukrainian bankers and that's when the market collapsed and all the banks closed and we lost $20,000. Then from then on I got back humbly with my niece in central, I'm like I like this car. It was so easy for because I did not know who I was in Christ Jesus, that position, that the things that I acquired made me feel like I'm this this guy who like is on top of the world whereas I'm basing my identity on things that can easily disappear. This generation they begin to mark themselves and they begin to attach their identity to material things that can easily disappear. I remember one of my friends we were talking when it was back when we were doing this whole financial thing and then you know when this whole collapse thing happened you know we I got out it was couple of like few weeks of depression you know we got back on our feet but I remember one guy that I was listening to and he was in the same thing that we were doing. The next morning what we heard a news from from all his friends is that he lost everything he had like I think it was like $500,000 and that day like he lost everything and that week we heard from his family that he just stood in front of the train and just killed himself. People in this world that attach their identity to material things that can easily disappear. Relationships, degrees, health, they begin to attach to what they acquire instead of what God says about them so they begin to make mistakes they begin to influence their life and they begin to derail from the purpose that God has created them amen. We are who God says that we are. We can do what God says that we can do and we have what God says that we have. Amen church come on put your hands together for Jesus Christ. We have to understand that tomorrow is a mystery and that we cannot base our identity on things that can easily disappear. Today we have it tomorrow we don't. Tomorrow is mystery just like in Job's life we can clearly see that if Job has tied his identity to the possession that he had one day would have wiped his name out of the face of the earth. The one day came just like that but we know that he said and he knew that tomorrow is a mystery that God only is the one that knows tomorrow but he put his trust in God it says blessed be thy name in good times and in bad times alike. We as the people of God we need to first of all know our identity in Christ Jesus who we are in God and not attach our identity to things that can easily disappear. Amen church we see another thing that we read in verse 11 that getting trashed wheat in the wine press in order to hide it from the Midianites. Getting was basically hiding. He was hiding from the enemy just living a life of survival mode living a life where he can just just do the bare minimum and we know that this is not the life that Jesus Christ died for.  Many people say well I do not want to be radical I don't know these whole dreams the whole vision that you guys have to pursue to be somebody great in life I just want to chill I just want to relax little do they know that this whole chill period is never chilled that they're going to become radical in one way or the other you cannot stay in the middle that you can't have gray you either have white or black you either be passionate for God and go all out for God or you're going to be very passionate in depression you're going to be very passionate into drugs you're going to be very passionate into party life in things that can destroy you but you cannot live a life that is just chill you cannot there is no neutral ground you cannot sit on the fence in this life you might sit in the fence for one day but it will never last more than a week you either will go all the way for God or sooner or later you're going to go all the way for depression for sickness for anxiety for fear for those things that will destroy your life and we see in the scripture getting was just hiding the light was just was just wanting to survive was wanting to live a life that is just normal but God comes to him and he says you are a mighty man of valor before he did anything he had to realize that I am more than an overcomer in Christ Jesus I can do all things through Christ who give me strength I am a chosen generation I am a destined queen for God's glory can somebody put your hand together for Jesus Christ I am not my appearance I am not my mistake I am not my past I am not what my parents labeled me as I am not what other people think of me I am I am what God says I am and that change is not because God's word says that heaven and earth will pass away but my words will always remain the same that means if God says that you are an apple of his eye that you are his beloved that you are his child that means that does not change you have to see yourself the way God sees you in order for you to accomplish the things that God has for your life God has placed a dream a vision as something beautiful in each one of us when in order for us to access that we have to see yourself the way God sees the same man church another thing that we cannot expect a lot from people and expect a little bit from God it has to be different way around we have to expect a lot from God and little from people we have to expect and get our strength and our energy everything from God than from people because we know one thing is sure and certain with people is that they have the tendency to disappoint they have the tendency to disappoint don't expect a lot from people from your family maybe from your friends maybe you're looking for the acceptance from people except expect it from God maybe you're looking for the acceptance from your work or or your degree or everything that you're looking for look for that acceptance in Christ Jesus because he is our hope he is our strength and he's our joy in Jesus name and man church another thing that we see we can get from this scripture is God comes to Gideon and he says in verses did we read verse 14 no we did not read verse 14 let's read for verse 14 real fast judges six verse 14 is just it goes later on it says that then the Lord turned to him it says go in this might of yours and you shall save Israel from the hand of the Midinites have I not sent you so he said to him oh my lord how can I save Israel indeed my clan is the weakest in Manasseh and I'm the least in my father's house and the Lord said to him surely I will be with you and you shall defeat Midinites as one man after God comes to Gideon he says that you are a mighty man of valor the second thing that he says he says go and rescue my people go and fight for the people of Israel after we find out our identity in Christ Jesus we need to realize another thing is that God wants us to be fighting for his people many people think that you know it's like we're talking about our lifestyle has to be only winning people we can't work we can't have a job we can't do anything that we like we just have to be bringing people to church and that's all we have to do no there's a difference between a purpose and a calling there's a difference between a career and a calling career is something that you choose in school something that you like to do for example if it's you know being a technician or is it being car mechanic is it being engineer is it be a soccer player is it be just a driver or whatever it is going to be that is your career that's something that you love to do something that you get money for and something that will not hurt people that is your career but your calling is chosen for you it's chosen when Jesus Christ has that in the cross and you accepted him into your life and you say God I belong to you that is your calling is to fight for God's people so career it's something that you can change anytime you can start off being a rapper like me and ended up being I don't know what I am now but I'll let you guys know or you can you know become a just a family man or somebody that just loves to do bare minimum that is your career and that's something that you can change anytime but your calling can never change your calling is one thing and that's the instruction that Jesus Christ has given to us he says go into the all world win souls and make disciples baptizing name and the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit teaching them to do everything that I've told you that is your calling that's something that can ever change that's something that we're obligated to do as a Christians and God comes to you get in he says go and fight for my people we as people we need to understand that many things many dreams many many talents will be unlocked when we begin to reach out for God's people I talked about a message one time is that how David reached the throne how David became a king was his first desire was to fight for God's people he did not even have in mind I'm I'm gonna go fight for these people I'm gonna become a king no David said first that I want to rescue God's people and the rescuing God's people has led him to his throne same thing with our with our lives many of us we have amazing dreams that God has placed inside of us our calling has to usher us into our dream winning people fighting for God's people rescuing God's people has to usher us to become what we want to be to be in our career you can be a doctor still you can have a place and a time where you can fight for God's people you can be just a housewife or you can be an engineer you can be a stalker player but in that career that you're chosen you are still obligated to do what God has called you to do is to fight for God's people we have to do what matters to God the most we have to make what matters the most matter to us is rescuing God's people saying that God I will fight for them we are called for one purpose only is to see souls being changed to see people get out of their addictions to see people who are bounded by drugs being set free to see people who are under the curse of sickness seeing them being healed seeing lives being changed that is our calling and that is what God wants us to do doesn't despite our career so I remember there was a time in our church where we literally didn't know the difference between career and a calling we did not know I remember a surgery a poor guy I was like counseling him I don't know what I was doing to him we were talking I was like remember he was like man I don't know what God wants me to do for you I'm like let's fast bro we like fast for like seven days I think he did I just did like two or one I'm like I don't know bro we were just plagued with this thing is what does God wants us to do like it's for sure has to be something with holding the mic preaching being a worship team or flipping we had these like paper slides for worship you know how you guys have so you would like put in this projector and that would be up on the screen so that was one of the callings and we were like we have to do something in church this is our life you know we did not know the difference between career and a calling and tonight we have to let you know that career is something that you love doing something that does not that does not hurt people something that you get money for but your calling can never change because that's what God has chosen when he went on the cross to see people's lives being changed for the glory of God and man church and one thing that we see in verse 15 that getting tells to God before before God's like okay you go do this getting is like hey how can I save Israel indeed my clan is the weakest in Manasseh and I am the least in my father's house before the getting is like it's not even thinking about about rescuing God's people he's like hey my family is like weak I don't I'm weak I don't know I'm the weakest I don't know what to do I don't know why do you've been chosen me to do these things and I was thinking about that it's like sometimes God is he works in such a mysterious ways if you look throughout the Bible God always chose people because of the weakness if you see anybody that God comes to Moses and he's like Moses can't even speak he says you're gonna lead a nation out of out of the strongest empire in the world this and Moses like you know he can't even speak right I mean if you really think about logically if you think about it it did not make sense God comes to anoint David to be king and and David's not even in the house where the where the thing is going supposed to have David is not even considered as a son of Jesse before he gets anointed David is just a young young boy who just spends time with sheep and and God says that you will be the king we see Paul and Peter you see their lives how the weaknesses were so big who Paul was a murderer and God says to him that I'll you'll be the one to who have the foundation of the church Peter you're the rock and Peter's just like I'm far from rock I don't even know what you're talking about rock I can't even make up my mind and God begins to choose people not because of the strength but because of the weakness begins to say because God knows that if we rely upon God's strength our weakness becomes perfect in his strength our weakness begins to turn to strength our fear begins to turn into strong faith when we rely upon God God begins to take us from somebody that is so weak into becoming a man of valor just like we read in the bible we cannot be able to identify our lives according to our weaknesses according to what we've done or the mistakes or the things that we left undone because God says my strength will become perfect in your weakness my courage will become perfect in your cowardice because all your strength all your might will come from me and I do not change I am the beginning and I'm the end I am the often I'm the mega and I do not change we cannot look at our lives according to our weakness but know that our weakness can be turned to strength if we give it a chance for God amen church I mean if you look at this story it's ridiculous because the task that God had I mean thank God like God is like okay you're gonna deliver this you're gonna go against an army with 300 people against like this vast I mean probably getting it would have lost his mind and continue treaching the wheat or whatever he was doing you know if God just begins to tell him that hey this is you you're a mighty man and and he's like I'm weak I don't know if I can do it and God's like no my strength will become with you you you walk with me I'll give you directions and you will conquer this city we've seen in this this bible is is the less the more the more weak we are the more strength God can give us the more perfect we are the less available and the less surrendered we are to God we read in the scripture and we see a young ruler who's like Jesus he comes to Jesus and he says God I've did everything I'm like you know you picked your disciples who are fishermen you don't even know what to do we don't even know the law they're just like stink like fish and they they don't know what to do with these nets and they they can't catch a fish you know I fulfilled all righteous I did all this law I know how to love God I know how to love my neighbor but Jesus says give up everything and follow me it seemed like he was a perfect candidate for God's ministry for to become the 12 disciples to become this this rock who God's gonna build this church but yet he could not surrender his life to Jesus the more perfect we are the less surrendered we become to God's will the more strong that we think that oh I have these things I'm gonna use for God the less surrendered that will become to God's will we see that our our weakness begins to turn to strength if we give our lives to Jesus Christ God is not looking for perfect God is not looking for strong but God is looking for availability God is looking who is available to go and to do what I have called you to do this is my people are being suffered my people are being destroyed under the hand of midden eyes they're being struck down in drugs that generation is being swiped by by media by all these things by sickness by witchcraft by adultery by all these things and God is looking not for perfection God says who is willing to go who is willing to answer my call who is willing to stand in the gap and fight for my people we cannot look we cannot look at what we cannot do we cannot look that we cannot speak or we cannot do this or do that we just have to look that God says my strength will become perfect in your weakness you mighty man of valor looking back when we when we first begin we started this church when we first when our pastor had a vision to to be able to see thousands saved to see people being healed being delivered I mean if you looked at our group it's just it's pitiful I mean you see a grown man 35 a pastor just looking a bunch of teenagers saying you're gonna win the city for Jesus so we're like guys we're gonna rob Goodwill next week literally that was our minds were like man this is a Schwinn bike came out you know it's our Goodwill right now or rob that story I mean that was going through our mind if you logically if you look at that I mean I thank God for pastors for come on give it up for our pastor that's who didn't give up on us and I mean seriously just looking at our lives it's when we were at that point on the beginning and that's I can relate it to the the story of Gideon from the story of Gideon because that's what God saw I mean he saw a guy who was hiding from people guy who's weak who comes out of the weak family weak clan and God sees in him and he says you are a mighty man of valor God says I my strength become perfect in your weakness you can rescue generation you see people being saved you see people being healed being delivered you see to your center being filled for the glory of God will be packed with services you see that this place will be too small you'll see people being healed from a curable diseases these things will happen to you but you have to realize that your weakness is not a hindrance to God because he says that my strength become perfect in your weakness amen church how many of you guys gonna answer the call that God has for us and next week we have is coming up a miracle catch this is a perfect way a perfect opportunity for us to be able to answer the call and to be able to fight for God for what God has has given us as a as a call I see people saved I see this generation being rescued from the hand of the enemy to see generation being rescued from the grip of drugs of sickness of immorality all these things are how can we answer the call that God has for us is inviting people reaching out to people how the we just shared a wonderful word there's no better way to be able to describe it and to tell you how you can reach out to a lost generation there's no better way last week I had a chance to be able to go visit a guy in the hospital who's just who's suffering from drugs from from just so many bad choices and you see his life and it's just Satan is just destroyed it completely you know and had opportunity just an hour just to share with him what you know what kind of plans that God has for him you know it just I'm like hey my God loves you God wants to see you delivered from these drugs from all these things the same just destroying your life you know God can help you and to see in this is his eyes and he's like man I hate this life he's like I wanted to take my if I want to commit suicide I just I hate this life somebody help me how many people are like that in Tri-Cities how many people are that like that in your in your circle of friends on on Facebook on Instagram and your college place where you work out at so many people are just surrounded and they're just brought down by this by this meeting that's by Satan who has captured them and he's holding them down many people are in this place can testify that they were once in that position but somebody said God I will go I will fight for your people and that's where your result in your sitting here today but how many people are still waiting for you to go how many people are still waiting for you to step out and say God I know weak I know I'm not perfect I know I have faults I know I messed up I know I have a past but I'm saying yes I'm willing to go I'm willing to fight I'm willing to stand and to see a generation being rescued from the grip of Satan I'm seeing I'm willing to stand in a gap and say that God my generation will be a generation that will seek after your face they will not seek after drugs they will not seek after morality and pride and greed and all these things but they will seek under your face God I'm choosing to say yes God I'm choosing to go forward God I'm gonna fight I don't know how I'll do I I know I'm weak but God I know that you said that I am a mighty man of valor I believe it I believe I'm gonna go I'm going to do it God is looking for you to step out and say that God is looking we have many people I mean we're talking on Facebook how many people are waiting for that encouragement word or we're talking about when we go to the gym or we're talking about when we go to the park or things like that people are being destroyed by Satan and there's somebody is waiting for you to step out and to do what God has called you to do and the last point I want to talk about is that God said to verse 16 he said to Gideon and the Lord said to him surely I'll be with you and you shall defeat the Midinites as one man third point is our relationship and not our work we have to understand in order for us to go with God in order for us to be able to to do what God's called and you have to have the relationship with God we have to have the relationship with the Holy Spirit you cannot be with one person for such a long time and not to get to know them and when God says I got God says to Gideon I will go with you he met the look I'm going to guide you I'm going to give you instructions I'm going to give you how you're going to defeat your enemy but you have to be willing to know and to understand and to obey our relationship with the Holy Spirit is not something that we just say that our I know the Holy Spirit it has to be that the Holy Spirit knows us our life does not begin when we get Holy Spirit but when Holy Spirit gets us many people can proclaim and profess that you know they know the Holy Spirit but how many people does Holy Spirit know how many people that when they walk and they speak the Holy Spirit backs up on what they speak our relationship with the Holy Spirit has to be the fundamental because we see the victory for getting came only when he obeyed the instructions of the Lord we can only conquer this generation and to be able to see people save to see miracles to see signs of wonders like it says in the bible when we developed our relationship with the Holy Spirit when we get to know and when we obey his voice want the first thing first few I want to just give you a few points on how to get to know the Holy Spirit number one is make a decision to stay with the Holy Spirit forever because Holy Spirit has made a decision to never leave you or forsake you number two is make time in your daily schedule for the Holy Spirit this is a wonderful opportunity that we have in our church and I just thank God for a church because I have not heard a church around here that has morning prayers from from as early as even three in the morning where you can come and you can develop that relationship with the Holy Spirit gives you an opportunity so we want to challenge our vision and our goal is actually to see a 24-hour prayer being offered here at church the prayer never stops if we're going to see right now I mean before for us was like when you said 430 in the morning I was like 430 in the morning I'm like it's but now it's like five in the morning it's easy became easy now we're pushing further because we have a generation that is dying and we know that unless we get to know the Holy Spirit unless we have Holy Spirit with us we cannot accomplish and we cannot see the victory that God has for us number three is come back when you make a mistake it's very important that when we make a mistake which we all will do that will be first ones to run to God before Satan does when we make a mistake which we all do that will be the first ones to run to God before the devil does and number four is obey the Holy Spirit obey his voice we see from the life of getting that getting he makes a history he makes it change he transforms a nation of Israel because he chooses to obey the instructions of the Holy Spirit he rewrites the history of his family he rewrites the history of his generation becomes to accomplish things that it's not even impossible to understand how he accomplished it but because with Holy Spirit he obeyed the instructions of Holy Spirit he became a man of valor it became a one who made a difference in his generation and has changed the history of Israel we tonight as people of God as Christians as believers when we choose to obey the Holy Spirit we begin to know the Holy Spirit we'll be able to see a generation that is saved we'll be able to see our friends our family being rescued from affliction from bondages from sickness from drugs we'll be able to see a generation being saved from the grip of the enemy we'll be able to see our lives being changed for his glory but we have to answer the call that God has for us saying that God I will go and to begin to go and to be able to develop that relationship with the Holy Spirit


ultural city within the United Kingdom, with a tremendous track record of welcoming people not as strangers but as family when they come to the city and participate and enjoy these great events. I hope that there is talk of us bidding for the European Games at a future date. I hope that we do, and I hope that we have that success. Looking at the legacy, I suppose that you do not measure it in terms of bricks and mortar of that old exhibition. Only the Kelvin Hall and the Glasgow Museum remain of the empire exhibition. I went once looking for the buildings and found one. I tried to read what it said. My wife was bewildered because when I read it out, it said, Lais-au-Fart. She pointed out to me that if you restored the letters that were missing, it said, Palace of Art. That took me time to work out. It will be measured not in bricks and mortar but in the confidence and stride of the city, in the energy, passion and commitment and goodwill that we bring to ensuring that the legacy of those games is to tackle the public health record of the city of Glasgow itself. I came back to the games from Switzerland, where I patted myself on the back for going up in a cable car and enjoying a very nice lunch and walking down the hill, only to find Swiss families and their children walking back up the hill passing me on the way. I think that we too often take the easy option, whether it's the lift in this building or whether it's the soft rather than the physically attractive or unattractive route. That's what we've got to try and encourage in the primary school children to which Liz Smith's amendment refers. I hope that there is a legacy for Clyde, Beth Gilmour's wonderful creation. I'm not a big fan of mascots, but this one certainly captured the heart of the city and I hope that Clyde can continue to play a part in it. I also thank the 10 people who hosted the Clyde costume, including Brian Borland, who I was delighted to see was given one of the UK Points of Light award for his efforts by the Prime Minister. Of course, the legacy exists in the medals for individuals, for families, for communities, two invidious to name any and of course in that golden cone rather than post boxes on top of the Wellington statue. Surely that actually represents an award to the people of Glasgow, to all those volunteers, to the organisers, to the public services, to the armed forces. I want to thank three politicians, Jack McConnell, for his inspiration in bringing the games to the city. Sir John Major, who I was delighted to see at the gymnastics event, who instituted the national lottery, which, for a generation of young athletes, has given them the consistency of sustained funding in their sports. The reward for that must have given him great pride. Of course, to the cabinet secretary herself, it's been many years in which she's had to wait for the success to unfold. Like Tessa Jowell, who earned the affection and respect of the whole of the United Kingdom for her contribution in the Olympics, I hope that she feels rightly proud of herself for the job that she did, because I know that we all do as well. As you draw to a close. Finally, I just want to say that politicians in sport, it was great to see that banner, Tattie Marshall for First Minister. Was there an MSP here who wouldn't like not just to have Charlie Flynn's boxing skills, but his ability to coin all those bon-mose? As a Glaswegian, Presiding Officer, I've always known I come from a city without a castle. Rather, I come from a city with a heart bigger than any other. What a heart?  What a games? What a people? What a team, Kenny Stewart? What a country? Is there anyone here who doesn't stand taller and prouder of our city this summer? Let that be the legacy and the commitment and drive that we bring to ensuring that that legacy produces a success. Thank you very much, Colin. Patricia Ferguson. Eight minutes please. Thank you, Presiding Officer. Follow that, if you will. Jackson Carlaw's comments, though, about the experience of Glasgow and Glasgow being an inclusive city, is of course right. He is also right to say that we need to begin in our primary schools. In fact, I would go further and say that we need to begin in our nursery schools and in our homes in allowing our young people to be physically literate and to be able to take that skill forward for them. For those of us of a certain age, in case we feel left out, I can tell you that my father, who is now 90, won a bronze and a silver in the Erskine Homes Commonwealth Games and proudly told me that he was aiming for gold in four years' time, so there is hope for us all yet. I was struck by a comment that Elaine Murray made because it reminded me of something that I had been thinking about last night. That is that, in effect, the games this year are a legacy of the 2002 games, because it was the inspiration that it gave to Jack McConnell and to Elaine Murray as the Sports Minister at the time to think that this is something that we could do. This is something that perhaps one of our cities could do, because at that point it was still not decided where the games would actually be held. There was actually a competition, if we recall, between Edinburgh and Glasgow for that honour, but not only were those games a legacy directly of the 2002 event in Manchester, but also the Commonwealth Endowment Fund was a legacy of the 2002 games in Manchester. It struck Jack McConnell at the time that he was so impressed by our athletes and by the hard work that they had done and the dedication that they had shown, but when he discussed with them the biggest challenges that they faced, some of it was about their facilities and some of it was about coaching and other issues, but the thing that they all identified was that there was no money to help them to get to and from again. There was no setup that allowed them to be properly kitted out for the events that they were going to do. He thought that was wrong and established an endowment fund that has continued to accrue over the years and which is still the money that helps our athletes to get to the games and to be able to compete to the best of their abilities. I think that that legacy is an important one, one that is perhaps not often talked about, but one that continues with that original sum of money to this day. It is also what helps us to take the size of the team that we do. It is easier for us to have a big team when it is home games. I think that it will be a bit more challenging for us to take a team of the same size to the Gold Coast in a few years' time, but let's aim for it and let's see if we can do it. Liz Smith is absolutely right to say that it is very difficult to define what the legacy should be and to query whether or not politicians should be part of that. I think that, as I say, that the idea of our primary skills having to be where skills and interest is nurtured is absolutely right, but I was also taken by the point that Liz Smith made about the broadcasting of sports and how the Commonwealth Games allowed sports that perhaps are not on our television on a daily basis to be broadcast into homes across the Commonwealth, which will no doubt do those sports a real service, but I think that it actually goes further than that because many of those sports were sports in which women participate, some in which only women participate, but some where women participate as well as men. I think that, for young women who, as we know, do not tend to pursue their interests in sport and activity beyond puberty, as often as their male counterparts would, that is a very important element of it. Indeed, we talk a lot about football being the fastest growing sport for women in Scotland, but it is still not regularly broadcast except on BBC Alpa, for which I am very grateful because it allows me to catch up with Glasgow City women who, by the way, are usually the only Scottish team at that point competing in Europe, and long may that continue. I think that, in that sense, the broadcasting of those games around the Commonwealth has been a great success. I must admit that I did not share John Mason's scepticism about whether or not Glasgow should or could or would be able to pull this event off, and I think that Drew Smith was right not to ever be in any doubt about that. I think that we saw that at a very early stage with the number of people who went online and backed the bit, and the number of people who signed up from Glasgow, from Scotland and beyond to say that we want those games to come to Glasgow because we think that it is Glasgow's time and that Glasgow can deliver. Then, of course, that was followed up by the thousands of people, the 50 odd thousand people who applied to be volunteers. In the course of my volunteer journey, I met people from literally around the world. It took me aback that there were people from America coming to volunteer in our games and people coming from Slovenia. In the team that I was working in, there were a number of people who had also volunteered at Manchester, some at London, and, interestingly, some of them are now on a Facebook page because they are going to volunteer to go to the Gold Coast as well. They might get more consistently good weather in the Gold Coast, but I doubt that they will get as much of a welcome as they did. John Mason was right to say that we have to think about the demographic of the volunteers, but we have to recognise that, if people are travelling a distance to be a volunteer, as many of them did, the likelihood is that they will be in a particular bracket of people who can afford to take on that kind of enterprise. I noticed from some of the information that we were given as volunteers that there was one person travelling every day from Lancaster. I cannot imagine doing that, but someone was. In my team, there was a young man who had come up from down south without accommodation and had no accommodation for two days, literally slept on sofas for two days where he could find one, until one of the other volunteers said, come and stay with me, and he did for the rest of the game. People were making real sacrifices and doing things that perhaps they should not have been required to do. I wonder whether the free travel that came with the uniform and the accreditation that was afforded to those of us who were travelling in and around the city would have been welcome if it had been extended beyond Glasgow. For those volunteers who were travelling perhaps from Ayrshire and Edinburgh, I realised that that is a difficult ask, but it is maybe just something that could be looked at if we do anything like that again. I think that the idea of providing that kind of initiative was a very good one. One of the things that has always struck me about the Commonwealth Games, besides the fact that it always integrates the Paris sport with able-bodied sport, is that it is also very careful not to include events that require the host nation and the host athletes to have a great outlay of money in order to be able to participate in sport. It does not require custom-made kayaking, for example. It does not require countries to have that level of infrastructure and expertise. It is the kind of events where, more or less, countries are able to participate with a relatively small amount of facility, and I think that that is absolutely right and is part of what we should be doing. Colin Kear, when he was talking about the £100 trainers hit the nail in the head, and that was really the point that I wanted to make about that, because the barriers that are sometimes in place are things that we should not allow to be there. I do think that Drew Smith had a point. Today's debate naturally has been one where we all want to praise and thank people for their efforts, and so we should. It may be that we should have some regular but not necessarily frequent debates about the legacy going forward. Jackson Carlaw mentioned that Glasgow used to be the second city of the empire. After those games, I think that we can safely say that it is now the first city of the Commonwealth. Thank you, Ms Ferguson. I now call on Shona Robison to wind up the debate. Cabinet Secretary, you have till five o'clock. Thank you, Presiding Officer. It's been great to have complete agreement in the chamber on the success of the games. Just to thank members for their kind words has been very much appreciated. I want to respond to as many points as possible that have been made during this afternoon's debate. Patricia Ferguson made a number of points. I just want to touch on one or two of them. I think that she is absolutely right about the community endowment fund. It has been really very important in helping athletes to compete. I think that also her comments about the games in the bigger picture of multi-sports events being probably more on the affordable side than perhaps other comparatives of recent. I think that that is really important because if we are going to see future bids come in perhaps from new cities and new countries that have not hosted before, the costs have to be reasonable. The legacy of what is achieved in hosting the games has to be visible. We are very keen, as the most recent host, to tell that story. Although yes, it was a significant amount of public money that has been spent on the games and the infrastructure. In terms of value for money and what has been returned, it has been a very good story to tell. When you look at what we did with Hamden, we did not see that there was a business case for a brand new, all-singing, all-dancing athletic stadium. Therefore, the engineering solution to convert a football stadium to an athletic stadium was a very much a cost effective solution. That engineering solution is now there out on the market, potentially for other cities to use. I think that that is really important because in this day and age of difficult financial situations, not just here but across the world, I think that those types of solutions are really important in taking the games forward. On the issue of volunteers, we did provide support for those who were less well-off volunteers, although I recognise that, even despite that, there were a lot of personal sacrifices by a number of people who wanted to take part in these games. John Mason asked about the profiling of the volunteers. I can tell him that there is research being taken forward by the Glasgow Centre for Population Health around the demographic of games volunteers, and that will be published in due course. Liz Smith talked about the better usage of the school estate. We are working very hard on that, as I am sure that she is aware. The quality of PE provision is not just the quantity, but the focus of the most recent investment in PE. She made a point that it is worth reiterating to pay tribute to the BBC, because the presentation of sport was excellent, not just on the field of play but on the wraparound programmes. It made it very accessible. For some of the minority sports that do not get that profile very often, they have had a tremendous opportunity to profile and sell their sport. I know that the clubs around those sports have been working very hard to build capacity and anticipation of an increased level of interest from people of all ages in taking up and trying those sports. Sandra White, quite rightly, paid tribute to the wider people who made the games a success, the bus drivers, the people who worked in the hotels, the pubs and clubs, all working hard to deliver a very friendly atmosphere. That counted for a lot in how people enjoyed themselves. Drew Smith, quite rightly said, will all miss Kenny Stewart's emails that we will, and that Glasgow had been gallous and generous in putting on a good show. That is absolutely right. He asked about further debates. I am very happy to have further legacy debates. It is quite right and proper that we do that to monitor where the progress that is being made. I can certainly give that commitment today. John Pentland asked about the social capital and that of the volunteers in my statement. On Tuesday, I made reference to the sharing of data that we had asked volunteers when they applied, whether they were unsuccessful or successful in becoming cloudsiders, whether they would be prepared to have their data shared with Volunteer Scotland. Very happily, most people did. That means now that Volunteer Scotland will be working to signpost volunteers into local volunteering opportunities in their community. I am sure that we will get a huge boost, not just in sport, but perhaps in other areas of life, as well as those volunteers want to continue the journey that they have started for the first time at the games in Glasgow. James Dornan mentioned the celebration city. Again, the community events that went on around the games were really important in creating a buzz, but also reaching out to people who perhaps were not going to be touched by the games in the traditional sense of going along as a spectator or being a volunteer. The work that went on at the Oakheath Carch Parish Church by Reverend Galbraith was a great example of that. I had the pleasure of visiting the Saturday club, and I have to say that the way that those young people were engaged in trying sports, some of them, with very, very profound disabilities, was quite remarkable and a fantastic thing to witness. Tavish Scott was quite right to mention some of the other Shetlanders who, as well as Erie Davies, have made their mark, Linda Flaws and Andrea Strach. I think that it shows that, throughout Scotland, we are producing fantastic athletes, and we need to make sure that that continues. We certainly will do that. Bob Doris mentioned the opportunities in the community empowerment bill, being an opportunity for sport. I should mention that there is, of course, the legacy 2014 sustainable sport for communities fund, which is a £1 million fund that aims to support communities to realise their ambitions of owning and running their own sports facilities and, again, one of the national legacy projects that will hopefully see sports facilities take on a new lease of life locally. Elaine Murray, quite rightly, paid tribute to Louise Martin, as I did in my statement on Tuesday, very instrumental in bringing the games to Scotland. I think that it was through people who were very visionary, like Louise Martin, that they could see the potential for Glasgow, Scotland and for sport from hosting that event. Michael Biagi talked about the success of Pride House and the fact that Pride House gave a voice in a platform to people whose voices are not always heard. I thought that that was embraced very much by the city. A huge number of visitors visited the John Barrowman kiss, adding to the very clear, but not lecturing message about where we were coming from in terms of equality. Going forward, we have some real opportunities. Sports Scotland will, of course, support and promote the LGBT sports charter. We have leapsport, of course, which we are continuing to work with to make sure that barriers are removed from participation in sport, whatever those barriers are. Colin Kear, quite rightly, also paid tribute to Mike Whittingham from the Sports Scotland institutes. That high performance model is very technical and scientific these days. No one could argue other than that it has been a tremendous success. Going forward, the analysis of performance in terms of future funding plans will, of course, be undertaken in an equally scientific proper manner. George Adam talked about Paisley, as we would expect him to do, but, importantly, he mentioned the sports hub at St Myrin. Again, a great example of people embracing the opportunity to come together and make sport more accessible. Richard Lyle reminded us, of course, that we have some more to come because we have the Rider Cup at the end of September, when we can once again bask in the glory of hosting a huge event, but more importantly, in, of course, Roseanna Cunningham's constituency, she is just reminding me. Importantly, again, the opportunity to promote Scotland on the world stage, those images of Scotland and of Glasgow that we have had over the last two weeks. We have an opportunity to again promote those fantastic iconic images of Glen Eagles and of Scotland to the rest of the world, and that is a huge opportunity for us that we will not miss. Hanzala Malik paid tribute to parents, and I think that he is absolutely right. Every elite athlete starts their career by being taken from club to competition, and that huge sacrifice that parents and families make seeing someone through from an interest in sport right through to the elite performance cannot be underestimated. I think that it was quite right and proper that we remember the role of parents in that. Just finally, to end on with Kenny Gibson's comments about the Parasport Centre, I think that it is a great opportunity for us to add to our fantastic array of national centres and state-of-the-art facilities that we now have in Scotland that we can add a Parasport centre on to that. When you look at the network of local 150 plus community sports hubs that will be delivered, the opening up of the school estate through to the regional facilities that are providing both communities and athletes with really good facilities right through to the state-of-the-art national facilities, if we think back to 10 years ago, there was very little of that. I think now we have a picture there of sporting infrastructure that is there with the best of them. What is important is what we make of that and keeping using it and making sure that we get the best out of those assets, and I for one will be leading that to make sure that we do so. Thanks again to everybody who took part in this very constructive and good debate this afternoon. Thank you cabinet secretary and concluding the debate on the legacy of the 20th Commonwealth Games in Scotland. Can I remind members that they are all invited to join me and the First Minister along with representatives of all the organisations involved with the Commonwealth Games in the garden lobby from six o'clock to eight o'clock on Wednesday the 13th of August? That's Wednesday coming. It will give us an opportunity as a Parliament to celebrate the games and to thank those that work so hard to make these games the best ever. We now move to decision time. There are three questions to be put as a result of today's business. The first question is at amendment number 1076.2 in the name of Patricia Ferguson, which seeks to amend motion number 1076 in the name of Shona Robison on the legacy of the 20th Commonwealth Games be agreed to. Are we all agreed? The amendment is there for agreed to. The next question is at amendment number 1076.1 in the name of Liz Smith, which seeks to amend motion number 1076 in the name of Shona Robison on the legacy of the 20th Commonwealth Games be agreed to. Are we all agreed? The next question is at motion number 1076 in the name of Shona Robison as amended on the legacy of the 20th Commonwealth Games be agreed to. Are we all agreed? The motion as amended is there for agreed to. That concludes decision time and I now close its meeting.