Welcome to the RC3. Hello and welcome at the Franconian stage. Sorry for the delay, we had some technical problems. We have to get used to it. I want to present you an interesting talk from Miro. He talked about names and if you think about names, names can have first name, last name, middle name, prefix, postfix, but think about encoding. It could be difficult. Some of the difficulties that Miro experiences, he will tell us about it. So welcome Miro. I'm glad to hear your talk. Thank you very much. Hello, everyone. My name is Miro Slav Švedivi. No, that's wrong. No, that's still wrong. There's still some character is wrong. No, that's still the wrong encoding. No, no, no, no. Yes, now it works. My name is Miro Slav Švedivi and what I hear quite often is that my name is unfortunately invalid. That cannot be true. Miro Slav Švedivi, this is how you write it. This is how you pronounce it with IPA. And if you have the standard keyboard layout and you use the combo key, you can type it as well. All that I'm going to speak about today, I'm going to speak about names in IT, in programming. Python is just an example programming language. If you are using a different one, it may very probably apply by the same extent or a little bit differently. I would be interested to hear what are your experiences. I'm going to speak about strings and bytes, about encoding, about normalizing, case folding, sorting, regular expressions, and about the names on the web, on the web forms on the databases, how they are formed, how they consist of different parts, prefix the first, middle, last, topics names, and about the allowed character. So how you should prepare or program your app that it works with the names of people correctly and without problems. In Python 3, now we have strings and bytes that are two different objects or types. Strings consist of characters. So these are actually the characters that are used to write in some language. And we have more than one million different code points that are in Unicode. And these strings are only in memory, in the working memory. So if you read something from a file or over network, it will come as bytes, because byte is the standard old 256 different possibilities of eight bits that you have in a byte. But as soon as you read it in a byte, you convert it to a string, because as we are going to see, one character can consist of several bytes because there are many more than 256 different possible characters. Then in the memory, you work with those strings. And at the end, you convert it again to bytes when you want to save it to a disk file, or you want to send it over network. So if your name is Chagnaris, you don't need any encodings. But now, of course, the byte or the string Chagnaris will be encoded into bytes using the dot encode method. And the other way around your bytes, you encode them back to Chagnaris. Both look the same. In Python 3, the default encoding is UTF-8, and Chagnaris looks the same in UTF-8 or as the original characters. So there is no change. You see that Chagnaris is 12 characters or 12 bytes when it is encoded as UTF-8. If you are from Germany and your last name is Miller, then it will be a little bit different because in UTF-8, the U with the deoresis, so umlaut, doesn't fit into one single byte, and you need two bytes. So there are two bytes that will save or that will encode your U with umlaut. If your last name is Chagnaris, of course, this is not the last name. This means Nihou. So hello. The two Chinese characters are encoded as six bytes in UTF-8. So it works one way, the other way around.  But there are also other encodings, apart from UTF-8. UTF-8 is great because it works for Unicode and for most characters that we need. But earlier, earlier, earlier, there was ASCII. And ASCII knows only seven bits and only 128 encoding possibilities. So there is a limited number of characters that you can encode directly. In the case of Chagnaris, it works. But if your name is Nihou, then you will need something like Latin 1 encoding. Latin 1 or ISO 8891 is encoding that works perfect very well for some Western European languages like German, French, Spanish, Italian, and other languages. And it knows, or it has the information that these several characters can be encoded into the respective bytes. But the U with Umlaut has a place in this Latin 1 encoding table. But many other characters don't have because you have quite limited the number of possible characters that can be encoded. My last name, Szyliwi, which means grey haired in Czech and Slovak, it comes from Czechoslovakia, cannot be encoded in Latin 1. In the languages like Czech, Slovak, Polish, Hungarian and in other central European languages, we have used Latin 2, which has, which knows some other characters on the place of the characters that are encoded in Latin 1. So the S with Karen has a place there, but it is not encoded in Latin 1. You need to encode it in Latin 2. And then, living in Germany, sometimes I get packages post mail from some German companies that do touch stuff. And you see that I think they have some problem with my last name because on the web form my last name is written correctly, Szyliwi, on the sticker, on the package, the Szy is replaced by a question mark. And now I just wanted to know, why is it like that? Because Szy and question mark, they look quite similar, but that's not a problem. How is it possible that they encoded my Szy as a question mark? In Python, if I encode my last name, Szyliwi, into Latin 2, it will work. But if I encode it as a Latin 1, then, of course, it will not find the S with Karen, the Szy, character and it will raise an exception. In the coding code error, I don't know the Szy because it is not contained within Latin 1. Okay, but I receive a package. I don't receive an exception. So probably there is some possibility how they do fix it the way that it works and that I get my package, although with a wrongly printed name. And yes, there is a function or the parameter in Python where you can encode to Latin 1. And if there is an error, you replace the character. Default for errors is a raise, to raise an exception, as in the first case. But if I tell it, if there is an error, replace it, it will be replaced by a question mark. Why they chose a question mark? No idea. It is not configurable. But there is a small hack that gives you the possibility to replace your character, missing character by something else. But this is probably how that big company encoded my last name and converted to Latin 1. And that's where the question mark comes from. And you can write a short one-liner in Python, for example, like this, where I say if there is an error, use the replace randomly function. And in that case, it will just put a random number. You can write something else, some funny character that will be printed there instead of a missing character. And in this case, I got a five instead of s. Well, a five looks more like she than a question mark looks like she. That's fine. And there are some other big companies in Germany. One, I will not tell you the name, but they have beautiful, big trains all around the country. On the mail that I get on the customer card, on the online tickets, they manage to use always a different encoding and always to write my last name differently. There is another big company that has big airplanes. When I wanted to buy a ticket and I've write my last name, they tell me, you can only enter letters in the adults last name field. A, my last name consists of letters. What is a letter? In Python 3, you can call a variable. You can name a variable using any character that looks like a letter. So, for example, I could do something like that. But I cannot name a variable, for example, a question mark or a smiley. Where does Python know that she is a letter and question mark or a smiley or some row is not a letter? If you import the standard to Unicode data library, there are some functions that will give you the possibility to investigate, to inspect how the characters look like. So, now I have a few characters, a umlaut, the sharp S, lowercase uppercase, yes, there is uppercase sharp S, and the dot and the question smiley. And then I ask for the category and for the name. And what you see in the first column is the character, then you see the two characters, LL, LU, ZS, POSO. And this is the category of the character. It starts with an L, it means it is a letter. And then if there is a U or L, it means it is an uppercase letter or a lowercase letter. ZS, P-O-S-O-R, different other categories for symbols, for numbers, digits and so on. And then you see the name. So, for example, Latin small letter A. This is the list of all categories. And actually every character in the Unicode table has a category, belongs to some category. There is a possibility to access the information behind that. So if it looks like a letter, I can use it as a letter. If it looks like a number, I can probably get the decimal value of this number or of this character, even if the character doesn't look like a number if it is a number or some other alphabetical number. There is the character maps app that will also give you all the information about the character and where you can see also the category and the name and all the characteristics. Quiz folding. Quiz folding is the possibility to switch between lowercase and uppercase letters, which works in Latin alphabet, in Greek alphabet, in Cyrillic alphabet. It doesn't work in Chinese. It works in some alphabets. But in our case, we did it. So if I have some characters in lowercase, I dot upper, I get uppercase version and vice versa. There are some exceptions. So for example, the sharp s, uppercase version of the sharp s, there is an uppercase sharp s, but it will, Python converts it to uppercase ss, which is probably wrong. And the other way around, if I have uppercase sharp ss and I convert it to lowercase, then it will work, but this is not a symmetrical operation. So yes, and this works for all characters that are lowercaseable or uppercaseable. But this doesn't work always correctly. So we have seen here the case of sharp ss, and there is also one other case that is contained even within ASCII, even within the basic 26 letters of the Latin alphabet. And this is something that we don't see as a problem, but we broke it to some other languages. And that is the case of I. You see the difference between lowercase I and the uppercase I. There is one tiny difference, the dot. There is lowercase I with dot and uppercase I without dot. And there is a language, at least one or several family of languages that distinguish between these two eyes. It is, for example, Turkish. The I with dot is pronounced as E and the I without dot, dot less I is pronounced as I. And now imagine that if you have some Turkish text, not you, but your Turkish colleagues, and they wanted to convert between uppercase, lowercase, it can be wrong. And sometimes it can be so wrong that even the verb can mean something different if it is with dot or without dot. So our Turkish colleagues, they have actually to make a workaround, they have to import ICU, which is the International Components for Unicode Library, and then import their locale and then convert it this way. So that's a little bit more complicated. Normalizing is something that you probably don't see usually, but this is the normalizing, this is the decomposition of characters into their parts. For example, we have the German word Zeus, which means sweet. And I have two words that look the same. The first one, three characters. The second one is normalized NFD form. What does that mean? I take again my small tiny script that shows me all the characters within the stream. And you see that the first word contains three characters. The second one contains four characters. And the difference is with this U with umlaut. In the first case, it is U with umlaut as a one character, Latin small letter U with deoresis. In the second case, there are two characters. The first one is Latin small letter U, and the second one is a combining deoresis. And you see that the column in the second word, this line with combining deoresis, has moved a little bit by one character. That means that the combining deoresis doesn't have a width. So it has zero width. It is just glued to the character before.  And there are plenty of combining characters that allow you to combine. You can actually make a sharp as with deoresis on the top or combine most characters with other combining characters. This is an example. This is a stegoverflow answered to the question how to parse HTML with regular expressions. Of course you can't. But what you see at the end, these are just characters with plenty, plenty of random combining characters just after them. And it looks cool. Alphabetic sorting. There is built-in function in Python sorted that will get a list or a string, which is actually a list of characters, and will sort them according to some rules. If you have some numbers, great. That's easy. But if you have characters, it will store them. And what you see is that in the example that at the beginning I have capital like uppercase aou, then lowercase aou, then with umlaut uppercase, then sharp as, then aou lowercase, then I have some central European like Czech slow xl. And then the sharp as uppercase, it comes at the end. The order looks, doesn't look very natural. And this is because all these characters are converted to unicode code points, like the numbers, like their position in the unicode table. And then they are sorted according to them. And sharp as uppercase came later, so it is at the end. And this is not what you would like to see as an alphabetical list in a fold list or a list of some names or so. We want to sort now according to the German language because sorting according to every language it may be a little bit different. So we import the locale and we say our locale is German and we sort these characters using the locale string x form method. And it will look better because I have, first I have both a's, then I have a with umlaut and then I have b. This is how it should look like in a German dictionary or in a German phone list or list of names. But if I have a Swedish user, for then seeing a with umlaut between a and b is not natural. Swedish expect the umlaut characters at the end of alphabet after that. So if you have the Swedish alphabet, it should be at the end. In Hungarian, there is the Czech sound, which is written as cs and cs doesn't get between cr and ct. cs is as a special character between c and d. So this word cheaper, which means sharp as a chili, cheaper comes after all the c words. In Czech and Slovak, we have also the Czech sound but we've write it with c with caren. You have seen already in my last name, which is s with caren. Plenty of characters like Slovak alphabet has 43 letters with all the possible umlauts. And another thing is for example the ch, which is the ch sound, which is also alphabetically between h and i. But there are also exceptions. If you have two words glued together and the first one ends with a c and the second one starts with an h, it is not ch, it is ch, and then it is sorted differently. In French, this is even more interesting. They sort something from the beginning of the word, some other things sort from the end of the word. So usually when they sort words, they sort everything according to ASCII form. And then they look if there are some, like these four words that have the same ASCII form, they look at the end at the last syllable. And then you see the first two words, they have on the e they have nothing and the other two words, they have accent aigu. So first come the two words where the last syllable is without accent and then the verse with the last syllable with accent and then within these two they sort according to the penultimate syllable, so the before last and so on and so on. So that's French. That's okay. I have seen there, if you have seen their keyboard layout, you understand why they are doing it like that. The problem is that locale is connected to the process. So it means if you do something like this, like set locale in your code, then if it is a library or if it is a website with plenty of users, with plenty of threads running, this will change the locale of the process. And this is not what you want because if you have two users, one of them clicks, I want to sort it, at least according to German rules, to Swedish rules, then they will just break it to each other. And there's a problem because locale is connected to the process. But we have seen already this ICU library that allows you to use the locale as objects, object-oriented, and that allows you to do something in your corner, in your method, and you use all these things, but the whole process is not changed by that. Another possibility which is much more lightweight is PYUCA, that you see that sorts nicely, but that sorts according to some English rules because it doesn't define which locale it has, which language. So they have some better sorting than the default sorting according to Unicode at least. But this is not optimal for every language. But if you need one general list, you can go with PYUCA. Now, regular expressions. If you have a problem, use regular expressions. Now you have two problems. But anyway, let's say that we want to extract from this word Munichen 1, 2, 3. Munichen is the German name for Munich. Munichen 1, 2, 3. And we want to extract the name Munichen. So if I import the regular expressions and then I ask for Orca extras A2Z, A2Z, it will see the M, capital M. And then HEN, it doesn't see the U because it doesn't belong to the list of A2Z. There is backslash W, which finds the U. So it finds the word Munichen, but it also finds all digits. I'm not interested in digits. I just want to see Munichen. So how can I extract Munichen in a regular expression? The research party library regex, that works identically to the standard RE, but it has some more functionality. And in this case, that's the possibility to ask for backslash P, which is a special character from the Unicode list. And in the L, the capital L, as you remember, is the category for letters. So if you have L, it's any letter, L U would be uppercase, L L would be lowercase letter. And this is how you can actually use regular expressions to find words that contain some other characters that are beyond ASCII. So I came here for Python, but I said for the names. So that was the programming part. Now let's have a look at the names. I cannot see you, but you can just raise your hand if your name fits into first name, last name category. Mine fits. But maybe there are some people here who have some middle name or that have some petronomic surname, metronomic surname like in Spanish, who are Guterres Savatira. So these are names that are, this is not last name, there are two last names or two surnames. Maybe there is someone from Hungary or from Eastern Asia who has last name first and then first name last. Are there any popes or queens or kings here? Maybe somebody who has only a name. Or for example, from the Nordic countries, if in Iceland someone is called Sigur and their father is Johan. So this person is called Sigur Johansen. But Johansen is not the last name. Johansen is the petronomic name. So this means that Sigur Johansen, you can call them.  And in the alphabetical case, they are not under J, like Johansen, they are under S, Sigur Johansen. There are names like different forms of names. So for example, in Czech and Slovak, the names for the masculine and the feminine forms of names are different. My name is Sherevi, all the female's names of my family are called Shereva, grey-haired, but this is the grammatical form of the feminine form of the grammatical form for this adjective. All the substantive, all substantive in Czech and Slovak, if someone is called something like Mule, the females, women, they are called Mule Rova. There comes an ova at the end. And this is not only for Czech and Slovak names, this is also for other names. So if you read Czech or Slovak newspaper, we will see Angela Merkelova. Sometimes Merkelova is still okay, because Merkel sounds like a name, last name, that would be acceptable also in Czech and Slovak. But there are also some names from Africa, from Asia that are grammatically not compatible with our language, and that gets always the ova at the end. And of course, if you have some title, phonon 2 or some economical title, which is a part of your name, then this is also more complicated to decide whether how to write it in a form, because if a form asks for a first name and last name, and where do you write your title or your second name or patronaming, patronaming, or the parts of your name. So actually what I propose, suggest is to have one form for full name, where you write the name as it is, official, on your passport, and then how should we call you. So in my case, full name, Miro Slavšiđivi, and you can call me Miro. And there are some other people who make it really clear on how you should call them and how you should write their names. Yeah, this is what I see sometimes when I write my name on some forms here in Germany. Please enter characters from the European character set only. What is European character set? Slavšiđivi is a central European, Czech or Slovak name, and it contains only characters from the central European or from the European character set. Please enter a full, valid name. I'm sorry, I don't understand what you mean. My name is Valit, a name of a person cannot be invalid. So if you program something that has to do with names, I'm not speaking about GDPR, I'm speaking about common sense. Don't assume anything. Don't put random limit on the length of a name. There are short names. There are long names. There are very long names. There are names that are so long that even if they make a typo on Wikipedia, the person won't notice it. Don't use stop words. If it is a stop word in your language, it is probably a perfectly valid name in another language. As I told, family members don't have necessarily the same family name. In my case, all the names in Czech, Slovak, Polish and other languages. Different transcription from non-Latin alphabets. So of course, if you have the Russian name of Chekhov, every European languages writes it differently, the same with Chinese. On the other hand, I went to Russia twice with the same passport and I got to my visa. And on the visa there was always my whole name in Latin and in the Cyrillic alphabet. And on those two pages, the transcription, the Cyrillic transcription of my last name was different. So also the Russian officials, they see my last name and they try to write it somehow to transcribe it into the Cyrillic alphabet. So it works other way around. The men change their family names too. So if in your form you ask for the maiden name or name is probably not what you want because there are plenty of men who after they get married, they change their family name. One letter name is probably not an initial. So Benua Belanda Madelbrough, the French guy who did quite a lot of beautiful stuff with fractals. The B is not an initial, it's just a B. So probably everything that is printable is probably fine. So you have to expect anything in the name. If you now have heard about this guy, Christopher Nal, hello, I'm Mr. Nal. My name makes me invisible to computers. If your program has problems with that, I'm sorry for that. Someone tried to, or both, customized a license plate for their car and they wanted to have Nal on it. The guy thought, hey, this is great. If I get a speed ticket, they are not going to be able to attribute the speed ticket to my license plate because there is written Nal. And at the end he received all the speed tickets in the county that were not attributed, that were not attributable to some license plate because it just was mapped to Nal. So he received a way too much. If your database has a problem with a guy named Robert, drop table students, okay, see you in the Q&A. There's a street and cities. There's also something interesting because it's like names. If you're in Germany, you know what is the most common name of a street in Germany? Yes, it's Einbandstraße. No, just joking. Einbandstraße means one-way road, but many foreigners think that it is a street and when they park a car, they just ride down. I am in the Einbandstraße and then they need quite a long time to find their car again. What you can see in many U.S. lists of directories of companies from Germany is the concept of Hauptstraße because their OCRs probably or some other programs are not able to identify the Schaff SS and they write it as an uppercase B. The names of the places, they can be very short, like the O somewhere in Scandinavia or the Y somewhere in France. The inhabitants, they call themselves Ypsilonian. So if you live in a place like this and then you get some control question, check question like what is your mother's maiden name or what is the place of birth and it says, oh, you have to enter at least six characters. No, don't do that. And there are some places like Llanwark, Wenge, Gogorah, Vindro, or Quantasilio, Gogogoch, that are a little bit longer or Chzonci, Rzewoszice, Pogelwenko, Wadi. So you need really much more place and you don't have to stop after 10, 15, 20 or 30 characters because the places have really long names. And sometimes the places don't even need names because somewhere in Iceland you can just draw a map on the envelope and it will arrive. There are plenty of things that you have to think about when you are doing programming something with names and that can surprise you. There are some pages like this, falsehood programmers believe about names. I invite you just to read them and you will see quite a lot of interesting stuff that you have not thought about earlier. Your name is invalid? No, your name is not invalid. Please, as a developer, respect the names of your users because their names are not valid. Don't break the locale. So import ICU if you are in Python. Convert from bytes to string as soon as possible and from strings to bytes as late as possible. Or work with strings the whole time. It's cool. UTF-8 is cool, Python 3 is cool. Be cool too and use Python 3 and UTF-8. And if you tell the user your name is invalid you will land on the Twitter account your name is valid. Actually this is also a limit of Twitter because you can have an account with maximum 15 characters so your name is invalid wouldn't fit there so there is a Twitter account your name is valid. And be nice. Thank you very much. Miro, thanks for your interesting talk. Thank you. It was a pleasure to hear what kind of problems you can have with names and encodings and how you can circumvent it as a programmer and you really should circumvent it. I have some questions from the audience and they go very specific to non-letter characters. Which characters? Non-letter characters like the upper straw and it's called M- and what do you think about they should be allowed in names. How do you handle that? At least in passwords it looks like they are allowed. If they are a part of a name of a person so they are valid. There are numbers maybe all of that should be allowed so as I thought you have to accept almost anything and deal with it. We have a question from the audience really thank you for your talk. It was interesting for us all sorry for the problems with the stream we had if you missed something from the stream just go to the recording afterwards there will be a full recording of this session including questions and answers. Thanks again Miro. Thank you very much and enjoy the congrats. Bye.


The study reviews evidence of the responses of marine life to recent climate change across ocean regions and finds that general trends in species responses are consistent with expectations from climate change. However, the volume and type of evidence of these responses varies across ocean regions and taxonomic groups, with most investigations focusing on temperature changes and few observations of effects of changing oxygen, wave climate, precipitation or ocean acidification. The study also highlights that while observations of species responses linked to anthropogenic climate change are widespread, they are still lacking for some taxonomic groups such as phytoplankton, benthic invertebrates and marine mammals. This article was authored by Elvira S. Polyksanska, Elvira S. Polyksanska, Michael T. Burroughs and others.


In the Bible, watchmen were individuals who were assigned to watch over a city or military base. Usually, watchmen would be posted on a high wall or tower so that they could see the enemy coming from long distances. The watchman's primary assignment was preventing surprise attacks from surrounding enemies. Where the enemy to attack, the watchman would sound the alarm.  Ezekiel chapter 33 verse 6 says this, But if the watchman sees the enemy coming and doesn't sound the alarm to warn the people, he is responsible for their captivity.  As spiritual watchmen, you and I have been assigned to preventing attacks of the enemy. We sound the alarm by proclaiming the gospel message and the need is urgent. Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet and show my people their transgression and the house of Jacob their sins. Isaiah chapter 58 verse 1, We are the watchmen of the night, the spiritual light in darkness. Though each man and woman is held personally accountable by God, you and I have the responsibility to preach the gospel. 1 Corinthians chapter 9 verse 16 says, For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of. For a necessity is laid upon me. Yea, woe is unto me if I preach not the gospel. Don't abandon your post. Don't neglect your assignment. Don't allow the enemy to take the city. Sound the alarm. There is a very real threat out there and we must lovingly warn all. Be a watchman over your home, over your community, over your school, over your workplace. God holds us each responsible for our assignments. This is a spiritual battle for souls. Take your position, stand strong and preach the gospel. The hour is late and time is running out. I'm David D. Hernandez and that is your Moment of Truth. For more free teachings like this, make sure you're signed up to my email list so that I can send you weekly emails with content that will help you to grow spiritually. Go to davidhernanisministries.com slash email. Thank you for watching EncounterTV. Don't forget to subscribe and click the notification bell. Also, help us spread the gospel of Jesus Christ in the power of the Holy Spirit. Make a one-time donation or become a monthly supporter by clicking on the donate link now.


The Narcissist will never leave you if you do this. There are certain things we do that can push the Narcissist away. Certain things that they don't like. If you do these things, the Narcissist will no longer desire to be around you. But there are also things that the Narcissist does like. There are certain things that you can do to make the Narcissist desire to be around you. If you don't want the Narcissist to leave you, if you want the Narcissist to remain in your life, here is what you have to do. Be a Dormant. Be submissive and allow the Narcissist to dominate you. Be ready to conform to the authority or will of the Narcissist. Be obedient or passive. Let them have control over you. Let them have the power to influence and direct your behaviour at the course of events. And don't make any attempts to fight back. Don't make any attempts to question or confront them. Or hold them accountable for their behaviour. Let them do as they wish and take responsibility for it. If they make a fault or mistake, let them shift the blame onto you. If they reveal a flaw or imperfection, let them project their insecurities onto you. For the Narcissist to not want to leave, you have to be the enabler. You have to be the person who enables the abuse to take place. You have to be the person who makes it possible, the person who allows it to happen. The Narcissist will never leave you if you validate their false self or the illusions that they are trying to portray. If you feed their ego and make them feel as though they are special and important, attractive and desirable, regardless of how they treat you, they are not going to leave you. The Narcissist does not want to acknowledge the truth about themselves. They do not want to exist in reality. They hate reality. It reflects back everything about themselves that they do not like. So they prefer to live in denial of reality. In denial of any truth. They created a false self who is everything that they are not. Everything that they wish they were, but because the false self is not real, they cannot sustain it on their own. They need someone around them at all times to constantly probe up their false self and validate their illusions of superiority. But to do this, you also have to remove any sense of individuality. You cannot be yourself anymore.  You have to think how they want you to think. Feel how they want you to feel. And behave in the way that they would like. You cannot be yourself. You cannot have your own characteristics or qualities. Your own likes or interests. Because that would mean that you have a separate existence. A life outside of them. And the Narcissist sees you as an object that exists to serve them. You cannot have a life of your own.  They cannot live without you. So you should not live without them. They see you as an extension of them. Not as something that is separate. So you cannot have your own identity. You cannot have your own individual characteristics or qualities. Likes or interests. You have to adopt the Narcissist way of thinking. The Narcissist values and ideals. If you are willing to detach from reality and live in this fake world with the Narcissist, they are not going to leave you. But as soon as you put one thought out of their world, it is going to be a problem. It is going to cause an argument. And your relationship with the Narcissist will be on the line. So if you don't want the Narcissist to leave you, ignore the truth. Pretend like it doesn't exist. Detach yourself from reality. See the Narcissist as this perfect, flawless specimen of life. And see yourself as someone who is not worthy or deserving of being in the Narcissist's presence. But although you might not be worthy or deserving of being in the presence of such an impressive and imposing individual, you should still feel and display your appreciation of them and how fortunate you feel to be around them. You should feel fortunate that they have chosen you as their emotional trashcan. You should feel fortunate that they have chosen you to habitually exploit and rely on. You should see it as a privilege. You should see it as a special right to advantage. By doing this, you will be validated in the Narcissist's false sense of self and also their false perception of you, which makes it very unlikely that they are going to leave you. You become their life support. You maintain their essential functions. You regulate their emotions. You boost their self-worth, self-esteem and self-importance and enable them to remain in denial of the truth and reality of the situation. If you do this correctly, in most situations, the Narcissist will not leave you. They will still desire to be around you. But is that what you really want? Is that what you really need? What we all really want is just to be happy. We want to have a sense of trust and confidence in something. We want to feel satisfied. But even if the Narcissist never leaves you, are you ever going to feel satisfied? Are you ever really going to feel happy? Happiness does not come from anything outside of us. Happiness comes from within. It comes from having a sense of progress. Forward movement towards a destination. But how can you ever move forward? When the Narcissist is always holding you back, you will never have a sense of individuality. You will never have a life outside of them. You will always be taking care of them. Instead of taking care of yourself, you will never be happy with the Narcissist. Take control of your life. Separate yourself from the Narcissist. Discover yourself again. Redevelop your characteristics and qualities. Get involved in your likes and interests again. Remember what you valued. Remember what you believed in. And you will find happiness. Thank you for watching. I hope this video resonated with you. Please like, comment, share and subscribe. 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z vsi in poslednjih vseh. Pravih je to je z vseh, ki ga vzelo z vseh. Tudi, ne bo izlečiti zelo. Tudi, da se pobila. Tudi, da se pobila. To je pa nisi. Tudi, da se pobila. To je nekako vzelo. To je vzelo. Tudi je vzelo. Tudi, da se pobila. Na vseh, kako se pobila, da se predstavimo, nekako vzelo. 15-20 minut. Hydrodynamic instability is controlled variety of processes and fluids, plasmas and materials, including formation of hotspots and inertial confinement, fusion, compression of applause in Z pinches, core collapse, supernova, propagation of nuclear flame front and thermonuclear flames, supersonic flows, premixed combustion, as well as detonation to deflagration transition. Material dynamics is often characterized by strong acceleration, sharply and changing, sharp changes of scalar and vector flow fields, and by relatively small influence of dissipation and diffusion. This leads to formation of interfaces or fronts that separate flow heterogeneities or faces at macroscopic continuum scales. In my personal view, the formation of a phase and the transport of a multi-phase flows is maybe one of the most interesting and productive areas of research for the future. To capture the transport of mass, momentum and energy, a boundary value problem should be solved. And in this work, while still working in a far field approximation, and while looking at a field separating incompressible ideal fluids of different densities, we identified two quantitatively different behaviors of the front, stable and unstable, depending upon whether the energy flux produced by the perturbed front is large or small compared to the flux of kinetic energy across the planar front. The solution for the landauder instability is consistent with one of these cases. In principle, the front evolution can be studied in a continuous approximation, and this is what is commonly done in a diffusive approximation. In this case, initial value problem is being solved. Solution is relatively easy to find. However, to describe the dynamics reliably detailed information on the structure of the front is required, and this was the discussion presented today in the lecture of Professor Golov. This information is often a challenge to obtain and quantify in experiments and simulations. Therefore, the models necessarily use adjustable parameters, and the use of these adjustable parameters may influence predictive capability of the model and bound the parameter regime. On the other hand, the front evolution can be studied in a sharp boundary approximation. In this case, a boundary value problem is being solved. Solution is usually hard to find. Flow diagnostics, but the advantage of this approach is that the flow diagnostics is conducted away from the interface or from the front. Adjustable parameters are not employed. The model obeys the conservation laws, has high predictive capability and can be applied in a broader parameter regime when compared to diffusing models. We consider the evolution of a front that has a mass flow across the interface, and for us, the front is a boundary separating two fluid phases. So, we are not talking about a flame, even though this type of dynamics is usually studied in combustion, actually, consider it in the dynamics of the front and in premixed flame. There was a lot of work done on premixed combustion and especially on the stabilities and instabilities, because the first works that have been appeared, maybe dated by 1944, by Landau who considered the flame front as a hydrodynamic discontinuity and found that the front is unconditionally unstable, and the growth rate of this Landau instability is proportional to the velocity of the heavy fluid and inversely proportional to the wavelength. This result contradicted some experiments, because the stable front exists and absorbs in the laboratory. Several approaches were applied to resolve the paradox, including the seminal works of Markstein, Sivashinsky, Williams, Klawine, Peterson, many others. And indeed, there were extensive studies and seminal works, which are listed here, and it's only probably a very small list of the papers that we would like to refer. And, in fact, a number of stabilization mechanisms in Landau, the reinstability have been proposed, and one of them has been discussed today in Professor of Gold lecture. However, as a rule, the idea is such that the complex transports of the temperature and mass at the interface, as well as various diffusive mechanisms, may potentially stabilize the front, and if the front is thick, then it is stable. So, in our work we, again, consider the two incompressible ideals, so in a sense it's a model mathematical problem, but we justify it with the use of a far-field approximation. We are not staying in the vicinity of the interface. We don't look at it like that, we look at it like that. So, in this case, the conservation of mass momentum and energy governs the dynamics. It's a, in principle, three-dimensional motion with an unsteady end. There is a density, velocity, pressure, and energy fields that describe the dynamics energy. It involves internal energy plus V squared, where W is a specific enthalpy. Here we introduce a local scalar function that describes the interface, presuming that the first derivative of this function exists, and that the light fluid is located in one region, and the heavy fluid is located in the other region. In the bulk, the flow fields have this form. There is no, there is a mass flow across the interface, therefore the standard transkin-gubanian conditions should balance fluxes of mass to components of momentum and energy across the interface. So, the front is presumed to be planar and steady. In the moving frame of reference there are the boundary conditions at the outside boundaries of the domain, and the initial conditions include perturbation of the flow fields at the interface. As I mentioned, the fluids ideal and compressible have constant internal energies. We, of course, may linearize these dynamics, consider small perturbations around the uniform flow fields, and reduce our unkin-gubanian conditions to zero-order terms, which are presented here, as well as to the first-order terms, which include conditions for the velocities in the bulk, as well as the conditions at the interface, which are given here. Then the structure of the solution is actually based on the observation and was proposed by Landau, such that the velocity of the heavy fluid is potential, whereas velocity of the light fluid has a potential in the vertical component, and there is an interface perturbation. So, we essentially have four independent variables. So, potential of the heavy fluid, potential of the light fluid, as well as the interface perturbation. And there are four different equation, conservation of mass, normal and tangential components of momentum, and energy. So, we may introduce the wave vector, substitute all these expressions into our governing equations, count what would be the typical characteristic wavelengths of the vortex field, calculate what would be the pressure perturbations, and then all this is reduced to a certain linear four-by-four matrix, where r, where actually the r is represented, is built from the functions containing the potentials of the heavy light fluid interface perturbation and vertical component of the heavy field. Definitely it's a four-by-four matrix. We can identify its eigenvectors, eigenvalues. So, even though this is kind of straightforward approach, Landau used somewhat different approach. He considered the boundary conditions that balance mass to components of momentum at the interface, and he didn't consider a question for energy transfer. How are four variables still required for equations? And referring to the constant of the flame velocity, Landau employed additional condition at the front, which was called the continuity of the normal component of perturbed velocity, or this. So, even though it's written in a very simple mathematical format, really long as a long physical description. As soon as we employ this condition, it would immediately lead to continuity of perturbed pressure at the front, and it would identify the boundary conditions in the following way. So, as a result, if we would consider that r large is a ratio between the fluids, we are actually from the system of our governing equations, which is involved this and this equation. We may derive the characteristic eigenvalues, one of which corresponds to the Landau re-instability, which is here. There are a few interesting things here, in the previous talk, in the talk on Wednesday, that in fact, despite we have four variables, and four by four matrix, there are actually only two conditions, which are classically considered. In fact, actually there is a sort again value, which is not presented here for simplicity, because it has zero perturbation fields. However, still the number of eigenvalues appears to be smaller than the dimension of the system. And in fact, Landau system is indeed degenerate, because one of the conditions specifically this condition is a kinematic condition, rather than dynamic condition, on the side of physics and on the side of mathematics, it actually, this degeneracy can be seen from the form of the matrix. On the other hand, if we look at the Landau re-instability and actually look at the structure of the flow field, we will see that actually this solution has three important properties. First, it's only coupled potential and vertical components of the dynamics interface perturbation. That characteristic land scale of this vortex actually this vertical field is very large and in fact, actually it approaches infinity when density ratio approaches one. It also approaches infinity when density ratio approaches infinity. And it has a typical maximum size of the land scale at this specifically value of the density ratio. However, a remarkable property is that that therefore ideal incompressible fluid with the Landau solution is incompatible with the condition for energy balance across the front. And this can be found by means of simple calculations because if we substitute these equations into the equation for energy balance and by performing some calculations we will realize very quickly that the reason indeed our energy equation is reduced to the requirement of the zero perturbed enthalpy jump which is here, and given that our internal energy does not change it essentially would mean that our p divided by rho should have a zero jump at the interface, but because p is constant and rho is not constant, this condition actually appears to be incompatible with the momentum balance. Thus, Landau solution requires energy imbalance across the front and probably for the flame this is okay because flames are indeed known to produce the energy. And in fact, if we will be trying to see what kind of scaling can be applied to quantify this energy imbalance we see that there are two possible mechanisms because one of them is a kind of traditional scaling which is presumed that our enthalpy perturbations scale is actually the zero values of the enthalpy and in this case in fact, accounting for that our delta omega large would be proportional to delta t essentially would be proportional to delta in the density ratio it would be might be something in the order of r minus 1 on the other hand, we might apply the scaling which is associated with the pressure and in this case our jumping in enthalpy might be scaled like this, so it might be scaled with the kinetic energy. Dimensional parameters can be introduced and can differentiate between these cases. To see importance of the energy balance for the front stability, we may further analyze the conserved system which balances all transport including mass to components of momentum and energy and it's indeed can be found that is stable because there are the modes that include oscillatory modes that has these typical eigenvectors as well as there are the modes which describe the steady solution and while both for the system and for these solutions there is an unstable mode it has zero perturbation fields so in this case we have a completely different vertical dynamics and I will not be just balancing it, I just would like to point attention that in this case this vertical component is effectively decoupled from the interface perturbation. Now, if you would like to model essential effect of energy imbalance produced by the perturbed front within the frame of an ideal incompressible fluids we just need to introduce additional source term which is producing energy which is done with this term and then we essentially derive our equation governing equation for the eigenvalues which can be considered in two different limiting cases so in fact actually what is this it's a term which is coming from the balance dynamics what is this, it's a term which is coming from landauder instability so when f is small this term is essentially done and we have a balanced dynamics so this is actually oscillatory stable oscillations when f is large become very large approaching infinity then this term should be very small leading to generation of landauder instability and this type of questions can be essentially found and analyzed in certain limiting cases including large density, contrast, large energy perturbation, small density contrast, small density perturbation, etc. What is more important is that what I would like to point your attention to the effect of gravity on the balance dynamics rather than balance dynamics in this case we may actually turn on the gravity field repeat the same exercise analyze the stability again because it is just a linear problem is the same structure of the flow fields and what we actually will derive that the balance dynamics which is a potential dynamics it has a very interesting flow structure because first of all it has a zero component for the vertical field both here and here on the other hand it has coupled components of the potential motion to the light and heavy flow to the interface perturbation but what is interesting it has a completely different growth rate, completely different dispersion relations that is described in the classical book Landau and Liffschitz and in fact what we can see in this situation that I mean for this solution which is omega 3 marked here some vertical dynamics can be implemented with a special choice of the dynamic of the initial conditions however just for standard for general initial conditions that we may observe here there is the gravity induced dynamics which are solution omega 1 and omega 2 here are essentially potential dynamics and this potential dynamics becomes unstable only when the gravity field increases certain threshold which depends on the density ratio in this particular form in other words the larger the density ratio the bigger gravity is required for us to destabilize in a sense actually this type of approach might be applied further to model ablative Rayleigh Taylor instability I think probably the gravity induced dynamics can be first of all it's interesting that despite we consider the interface that has a mass flow across the interface and we would not probably expect it to be similar to classical Rayleigh Taylor instability but in fact it appears to be quite similar to classical Rayleigh Taylor instability in that sense that the flow is potential in both cases so we don't have any bulk varticity compared to Landau de Reinstability on the other hand it's quite qualitatively quantitatively different from the classical Landau de Reinstability at least in the values of the growth rate which is given here and the fluids with highly contrasting densities are mega as this particular form and typical gravity that has a threshold value is given by this expression the fluids with similar densities we have a somewhat different expression which also can be calculated so we see that when we balance in the dynamics of the interface that has a mass flow across it and it's in gravity field then this interfacial dynamics is unstable when the gravity value is large enough or for a fixed value of g when the perturbation wavelength is large enough and in this sense actually this offers us great opportunities for stabilization of the front on the other hand if we will still keep on going with an imbalanced dynamics such as Landau de Reinstability in a gravity field we may apply similar mechanisms as it was discussed before and consider again limiting cases when our energy imbalance is very small which is described by the letter f and in this case we have our limiting expressions that they have been just been discussing or consider another case when the energy perturbations produced by the perturbed front is very large and in this case we are transferring to the Landau de Reinstability and this is exactly that expression that is given in volume 6 of Landau Leveschitz course it is interesting though that this imbalanced solution which is classical Landau de Reinstability in a gravity field it has a somewhat different physics properties because first of all it is imbalanced for any gravity value it does not have any stabilization mechanism it does not have a cutoff or a threshold value of gravity in contrast to what the balance solution has and while the imbalanced solution in gravity field looks like Rayleigh Taylor instability it has a completely different flow field specifically for this solution the potential and vertical components of the motion are strongly coupled and there is a large scale vortex in the bulk of the light fluid behind the front we definitely may consider various limiting cases as I would do it here and I probably will proceed to the discussion and I would mention that we consider essentially a linear problem of the effect of the energy flux as well as the mass flux on the stability of an interface with and without gravity field and we identified some interesting properties that have been not discussed before and again in a far field approximation we found two different behavior of a hydrodynamic discontinuity which is stable and unstable we found that the flow stability depends on the energy flux produced by the perturbed flow and Landau de Reinstability is consistent with one of these cases


Somebody already, Lily already mentioned about mentorship and actually today I'm gonna be talking about along those lines. In life we actually learn from three main sources. One of them is our mistakes. Mistakes, they teach us a lesson after we get burned. You have PowerPoint over there you can put it on. The second people, the second case that we learn from is our mentors. Mentors, they teach us a lesson so we don't get burned. And the third thing that we learn from or the third being that we learn from is our master, the Lord Jesus Christ. But the interesting part is that each person says I want to learn from Jesus only. But people don't learn from Jesus who reject their pastors, their mentors, and their parents. Even the Lord Jesus Christ demonstrated that to us. When he was a teenager at the age of 13 he had to listen to his father and only that set him up to listen to his heavenly father to give up his life. If you think that by avoiding your parents, avoiding your pastor, avoiding your home group leader or avoiding your authority, I don't need them, I just need God. Let me tell you something, obeying your earthly authority is far much easier than obeying your heavenly authority. Idea that I'm gonna avoid my parents, avoid my pastor, avoid my home group leader but I just want to obey God. No, what we usually mean is that I want to obey the God I create in my own image and likeness.   It positions you to eventually know him more and submit to him more. Can somebody say amen? So it's very important to submit to our authorities. We either learn from mistakes or from mentors or these positions as learned from our Master, the Lord Jesus Christ. There's many authorities in life. I'm gonna just underline three right now. There's the authority of civil authority, the government. There is a wife has an authority of her husband and most of you who were here yesterday, you received a very encouraging word. I was so happy the pastor said that I just looked at my wife and I said baby you just need to be helper.   That's what I got out of pastor's message yesterday. It was a good message. I think all the men felt like finally somebody said the truth. I think pastor needs to teach more about marriage in our church. Amen. And so more wives will be submissive and husbands will feel like a royalty. Anyway so there's mainly three authorities in life and I'm just gonna show one from the King David's life, the parental authority. Parental authority are those people in your life that treat you like a kid. David had his father, his father was Jesse and Jesse treated him like a kid. Samuel came into the house to look for a king and Jesse calls all of his sons and doesn't bring David to the table.  You don't need to be here. I mean that's kind of offensive. David gets anointed as a king and you would think his dad will graduate him says hey son you don't need to do the shepherding. Let's hang out in the table. His dad says well since the party is over David go back to the sheep. I'm like dad didn't you hear I'm a king? No that doesn't matter to me you go back to the sheep. David goes works as a musician for Saul and Saul gives him some vacation time and guess what's David goes back to do working with the sheep? His dad didn't care he's gonna be a king.  See and we all don't like that sometimes as kids but we all need that to develop a character for the destiny God has for us. See all of us we like the authority in our life the second one the prophetic authority that sees a king in us but the problem with prophetic authority is that they cannot be your parents. Prophetic authority is the authority like a pastor or like a mentor or sometimes somebody on TV in the book in the podcast who speaks life into you who it tells you who you are tells you you are righteous they don't care about the chores you do they don't care about your finances they don't care what you do with your girlfriend they only care about one thing your destiny and well man I love that I want that to be my dad well Samuel can't be your dad David had a Samuel but Samuel was not his friend and it wasn't his father you need to have a parent who only cares about one thing is your room clean how are your grades when are you coming home why didn't you cut the grass that's the only thing they care about not about your Bible reading plan not about anything else are you there at morning prayer and they care about these kind of a minion things that you're like you know what I don't like that and then you have your home group leader who speaks life who speaks encouragement into you you're like man why didn't God make my home group leader and my dad into one person God puts your parent to develop your character but he gives you a Samuel in life to develop your destiny and you need the character to sustain the destiny because somebody say amen Samuel is the one who sees a king inside of you but the problem with Samuel so if you go back to the number one parental authority the key to parental authority is to remember God will not bless you based on you having good parents God will bless you based on you having good relationship with the parents you have no one in the Bible God said he will bless you because you had good parents actually people who had good parents usually were messed up kids you see in the Bible all over kids who had parents who didn't even believe in them who were harsh on them but because they had a good attitude God bless them don't think having good parents will give you a blessing it's having a good relationship with the parents God gave you is what blesses your life your parents might not be believers your parents might not even support you but your attitude how you treat them how you speak to them how you deal with them makes a big difference if your parents make mistake and you attack him or I heard sometimes kids gather together actually physically beat their parents complete stupidity not realizing God is not gonna look at how your parents are doing to bless you he will look at how you responding to your parents to determine whether he will bless you or not the prophetic authority the key here is this the goal is not to stay close to Samuel the goal is to stay close to the course Samuel lays for your life David only meets with Samuel twice once when he anoints him and the other time when David runs from Saul you don't see David and Samuel being buddies you don't see them going for coffee every weekend you don't see Samuel asking him for his sins every every single month you see them meeting only a few times but the Samuels course for David's life David held on to the rest of his life the benefit of prophetic authority in your life is not being the buddy it's being as close to the instruction they give you for your life you know for me it's my pastor and for me it's other people in my life who I've met maybe twice in my life who prayed and gave me specific instruction and my goal is not to be their best friend my goal is not to go out with them for coffee my goal is to stay as close to the course they give for my life I remember a man who came to our church a very successful and very famous man and he grew up believing that because he's so successful every church he's gonna go to pastor is gonna be his buddy and when I kind of sense that I was like oh my goodness you're gonna be set up for a big failure in our church and he was so disappointed because every Sunday night he wanted to have a coffee with our pastor number one pastor wouldn't drink coffee and number two he won't drink it with you he's gonna drink you with the TV watching TV Joshua and not you and I remember he was frustrated he was talking to me because he wanted to be pastor's closest friend you don't become a friend to Samuel you have to be a friend to the course Samuel lays for your life if a pastor gets up and throws a vision and you don't take that vision for your life but you're over there slobbering him and you just want to be his friend listen you missed the whole point he's not your papa he's not your mom and he's not your girlfriend or your boyfriend or your friend he is your prophetic authority stay close to the course he sets for your life can somebody say a man number three I call him painful authority now painful authority don't look at your husband right now and don't look at your pastor painful authority we all feel like every authority is painful this is not that every authority can be painful but painful authority are those who throw spears at you not correction not rebuke this is not when you know your parents ask you why you're not a morning prayer why you're sleeping all the time or why your tabs on the car are not changed why is your room so dirty you know why you 27 and you know you keep getting collection lettuce why are these that this is not painful authorities these are those people in David life like King Saul where he sits there holds a spear and does the spear throwing at David throws a spear right at David and then he chooses a manhunt to kill David for no reason he fabricates stories we all in life will come across an authority which might be painful now there's very poor powerful key here what David did and I'm gonna give you a secret of how to deal with painful authority from the life of David one move your head number two don't throw the spear back otherwise if you don't move your head what is it move your head means any accusation you get from the authority that wants to destroy you is not personal you're not the problem they are they are hurting they are under demonic oppression or maybe they're going through something very difficult and you happen to be close enough for them to spank you you are not the problem as long as you deal with painful authority and see that you are the problem you're not gonna move your head you're gonna let whatever they say hits you and once he hits you you're gonna hit him back the best way to do is to do a check as painful as it hurts move your head means recognize tell yourself I'm not the problem they are now when you are the problem actually when there is actually reasons then you cannot use that but we're talking about when you're not the problem at all this person had a bad day came vomit the things that you if you take it personally you don't move your head you will be tempted to throw the spear back which what we'll do is it will duplicate their problem inside of you the very thing you hate you become kids who say I hate my dad because he drinks he always comes drunk he never gives money to us and everything that hate because you're taking it personally it turns into bitterness and resentment and guess what happens with that child they either become an alcoholic or become harsh in other way you become like soul we need painful authority make sure that we don't become painful authority God allows painful authority to give you an insurance and guarantee that you and I are not become like that authority to someone else amen we are going to be switching now instead of just talking about you need a mentor starting this Sunday our words on mentorship is going to be you need to be a mentor because many of you have been ready to be a mentor to someone else and you no longer just need to hear to be have a mentor you need to be a mentor to someone else in Jesus name for a few moments that we have left we're gonna along this line we're gonna talk about home groups and I'm just gonna read right now first Samuel chapter 14 and verse 6 to 7 Jonathan said to his young armor bearer come let us go over to the outposts of those uncircumcised men perhaps the Lord will act in our behalf nothing can hinder the Lord from saving whether by many or by few do all that is in your mind his armor bearer said go ahead I am with you heart and soul oh God send us those armor bears I am with you heart and soul we're gonna talk about when kings go into caves God doesn't want us to be kings who hide in caves he wants us to be kings who win wars who accomplish things for God who have a spoil who have testimonies of people we brought in the kingdom people that we've healed through the name of Christ demons we've expelled through the power of the Holy Spirit I want us to underline the first thought out of here is Jonathan had a clear-cut vision Jonathan knew exactly what he was supposed to do he didn't know exactly how to get it done but he knew what he was supposed to do his vision was simple defeat the Philistines rescue the people and defeat the Philistines it's important that your life has a clear-cut vision in that vision you must understand what God expects of you and in that vision you must understand a realm of the spiritual a realm that is not visible you must have a clear-cut image of the enemy and you have a clear cut image of people in bondage to that enemy we have many people today who don't know what they're supposed to do and many people who ask God what does God want me to do and when they think of that they expect this some kind of a supernatural revelation like somehow God will give him something unique and something particular but it is very foolish to stand in front of a green light on a traffic light on road 68 and Argent and call Department of Transportation and ask him what should I do it is foolish to do that because the green light in front of you does not give you it cancels all your excuses and reasons to call Department of Transportation to find out what you should do God in the Bible made it very clear and simple so clear a child can understand go into all the world and make disciples of all nations Jesus has given you the green light to do two things bring people to Jesus and disciple them help them to grow in Jesus there is no need to ask God at least once what am I supposed to do for you on this earth bring people to Jesus and disciple them in the Lord Jesus Christ every person in the church is called to do that the same way as every person on the traffic light is given the green light from the secretary of transportation to go when you have a green light Jesus has given you green light your mission has to be clear your mission is not just well I want to grow a tree build a house buy myself a Bentley and then raise a good family I want to be an outstanding citizen travel to Hawaii I want to redeem my air miles my air miles oh Jesus my air miles that mission that's not mission that's ambition and that's not in the Bible all of that is good to keep secondary but your mission has to be clear bring people to Jesus and disciple them whether I am a pastor with a microphone whether I am a person behind a soundboard or a photographer or a person who edits videos from the back to the front you may not be able to do that today you may not be able to disciple somebody because you just came to church you need discipling but even as you're getting discipling you have to begin to see and know your mission next year in three months in two months you have to be discipling someone else otherwise you are rejecting what Jesus called you to do and you will go to heaven and ask God Jesus you just never made it clear to me what I should do Jesus did you read English yes did you have an English Bible yes which part of God did you not understand go G or O which part of make disciples you didn't understand the make word or the disciples we have to make it very clear mission in our church is every person winning souls and making disciples it's not my personality tell that to Jesus actually people who don't have this outgoing evangelistic personality are the most effective I don't know much about God most people Samaritan woman didn't know much about God brought all the men she probably flirted with all the way to Jesus and Jesus saved them don't ever use that as an excuse you simply obey Jesus and he will make the rest of it make it happen because somebody say amen Jonathan had the second one that was very important is the second point is second one your reality will live up to your vision your reality will live up to your vision Jonathan had a clear-cut vision but secondly is Jonathan had a audacious faith Jonathan didn't have a prophetic word he didn't have a prayer group that everybody laid their hands on him and said Jonathan go and you will conquer there was no verse in the Bible indicating God will help him actually he was going on the limp on the word maybe God will save maybe God will use me maybe but Jonathan had a very clear-cut vision that they will be defeated and God Jonathan had a vision that he will overcome and the God just helped him to have that faith it's very important when we have a mission after the mission to have a positive vision that is above our reality many people wait upon God in the wrong place it's important to wait upon God in your prayer room so that God in your prayer can lift you up out of the reality you are in and put you into the fantasy world called faith put you into the world called dream and vision so that when you come out of your prayer you come out on the cloud you come out above your reality you come out like a hand that is incubating over eggs sees eggs but knows they're gonna be chicken do you come out with faith you come out like Jonathan you come with the reality of the you are above the situation you are in seeking Saul he didn't wait for God he didn't wait for Samuel instead of waiting for Samuel he went and offer sacrifice illegally and then he didn't get the faith from Samuel actually the only thing he got from Samuel is what you did was wrong when you walk out of the prayer with discouragement disappointment that you disobeyed God with shame guilt and condemnation that kind of attitude you're walking down you're walking bent out you're walking discouraged you're walking nothing is working out you can't fight you will not live responding to God you will live reacting to the devil and Samuel was waiting every day when the Phyllisians will make a move because he didn't wait on God to lift him to a place of faith where he will receive a prophetic word from Samuel go I'm on your side the only word he got is you crazy man you didn't obey and God is not gonna bless you when your inner spirit is defeated when your inner spirit is not filled with optimism and faith you cannot move in your vision you cannot move in your mission and you can't make a big impact for God I know that personally from my own life ministry people life bills everything has a chance has this way like a vacuumer suck life out of you you begin to think about different problems people have different challenges different families have different people who are fighting a sickness or an addiction you begin to see how leadership report how one leader didn't have a home group the other leader didn't have a home group for two months already the other leaders stop coming to church and you're aware of so many negative things the next thing that happens is you walk into prayer like this you beaten up and then you keep praying for those things and you walk out from prayer like Saul discouraged defeated and disappointment and then you can't move forward with God you can't advance the mission of God and prayer has to be a place where you come beaten down discouraged saying God I don't like my home group God I don't want to have a home group God people are not changing all of these things you suck in your reality and in prayer Holy Spirit lifts you up and puts you on the cloud like in the aeroplane he puts you in faith where you see the reality through the lenses of your dream not the dream through the lenses of your reality and God changes your vision and you have faith and then this what happens when you have that kind of faith these problems they look smaller they're still big but they look smaller and you will tackle them with the Holy Spirit without vision we can't have faith without faith we cannot cooperate with the Holy Spirit if you are beaten defeat it on inside if you don't see yourself as a home group leader first if you don't see your home group multiplying and growing first if you don't see your child being free first in your mind if the only image in your mind is they are bad they are defeated they they hurt me so much if that is what you're caring you are like King Saul wait upon God in prayer until he lifts you out of your painful reality to the pleasurable vision you want to see and then that vision will line up your reality to itself because somebody say amen we always tell our home group leaders make sure your home group is better in your mind than it is in your house the home group in your mind has to be bigger and better than the one you have in your house your daughter has to be better in your mind than the one that is in her room your finances have to be better in your spirit than they are in your wallet your situation it has to be better here before it gets better there the church breaking 200 every single Wednesday has to first happen here before it happens in abuse seeing 50 home group leaders first has to happen here before it happens on the board over there I want to challenge each person right now prayer is not for the sake of prayer prayer is for the sake of the Holy Spirit giving a ladder and saying climb up higher and let's dream together let's change the world you are in don't be stuck in that world don't be chained by that world let's change the world by coming up higher if in prayer you don't dream very soon your prayer will suck life out of you your prayer will become a routine your prayer will become a burden it will be too hard to wake up in the morning it will be too busy life will be too busy but if a prayer becomes an escape into a world of fantasy which is a world of faith which is a world of the Holy Spirit you will look forward to that world it would be like almost please excuse me like a drug almost like you need to get away get a relief where you are in the world where everything is perfect where you and the Holy Spirit you paint and brand new reality you come down from that world you're seeing reality is still different here but very soon the world you create with the Holy Spirit will change the world that devil created through sin in your life can somebody say man vision has to be real you have to live in the vision every growing church in the world today that has over 50,000 members every single one of them lives by this principle people first dream and then they work works without faith are dead just evangelizing just discipling without having a dream it will wear you out it will bring you down but you have to work with the Holy Spirit Holy Spirit is not going to come down to your level you have to come up to his his level is faith his level is the cloud you have to be in the cloud of the Holy Spirit because somebody say man number three faith is contagious when you get faith other people will get infected Jonathan had faith his armor bearer came up close to him close enough to catch that faith you see a man yawning it affected the big elephant that's exactly what's going to happen if you walk with the dream the people in your home group will catch the dream if you walk with the dream the people you bring will catch that dream you know some of you don't know my brother Andre before he was coming to when he was coming to church he invited his friend Taylor you don't know but they went to the Goodwill parking lot a smoked weed before they came to church they both infected one another but then when God touched Andre and Andre walked away from weed so the Taylor you know God touched Andre and he received a revelation to be a Nazarite with long hair and dreadlocks so the Taylor you see this all the time with people when you are infected with dream people around you will be dreamers have you noticed that David was such a mighty man of valor before he fought Goliaths he had an image of them being destroyed and defeated all David's men were not wussies and wimps all David's men killed Goliaths and giants some of these men the Bible says that they would go and they would fight to the degree where a sword will get attached to their hand they will become one with the sword some would attack a lion on a snowy day in the pit without any without anything some will rip this big animals why were they like that because they will hang out around men who infected them with that kind of faith you must understand about faith if you walk with faith you are like a person who has a cold you infect people by just being around you and if you walk with fear and negativity you infect your children with negativity you infect you work with negativity you infect your circumstances with negativity and there will be repercussions protect your faith protect your vision at any cost because you are in danger or infecting that on other people number four get an armor bearer I want to talk specifically right now to people who have been coming to church for some time how this starts for you what is your next step your next step is make it very clear for yourself what is your mission on this earth let me help you it is to win souls and make disciples so step number one is done step number two you need to see yourself need to get a vision the reason why you need to get a vision is so do you will have motivation for prayer if you pray first but you don't have a vision your prayer very soon you'll come to visit don't have time but once you get a vision you start going to prayer where you live in that vision have a vision of yourself start with a small vision for me to have a home group which will have from 10 to 15 people draw that on a piece of paper get a picture from online put it in front of you do something that will help you to remind you and pray for that every day in prayer walk in where you in your house in the living room there's 10 15 people and you are in that home group the moment you get the home group then you increase the vision to having 12 home groups now how do you go from having a vision of starting a home group to actually starting a home group you first start your home group with getting a helper the person that you go to home group where if you go into Martin's home group Ilya's home group Mariana's home group Lana's home group whichever home group you first start with getting an armor bearer means you look for a person who you can impart that vision and who can share that vision with you this armor bearer doesn't have to be the most talented this armor bearer doesn't have to be the person who knows the more Bible this armor bearer has to be a person who is pliable flexible and who is ready to catch the same vision as you if they know so much the Bible they can save half of China but they don't want to move a finger to bring a person to Christ leave this poor armor bearer to someone else find yourself someone who will say I'm a hard and soul with you when you find that armor bearer just one person because the problem with some of the guys here today is that you have 20 guys but you don't have an armor bearer you have to start with an armor bearer start with the helper and then with that helper you begin to conquer in a home group where you go you begin to conquer one person you bring to Christ together and you disciple them second person and when you bring two people to Christ with your helper you are ready to launch your own home group and somebody say amen you are ready to launch home groups after that and then your armor bearer can become a home group leader let's go to last last one number five win your victory your victory is to start a home group your victory is to release home groups so have a mission a vision have a faith that infects other people find a helper after this helper begin to bring other people to Jesus Christ and then you have to release a home group you may say well do I have to have a home group to be a person who disciples others no but you if you're gonna disciple other people this is what's gonna happen you will get a home group because if you're getting follow Jesus 12 people to disciple that's already a home group you cannot disciple people without having a home group but home group is for discipleship process and that's what we are all about in our church our church is outgrowing this building really fast without home groups without leaders without people getting out of their blessed assurance Jesus's mind and doing something for the kingdom of God we are not you are not gonna be growing we are not gonna be growing and thousands of people will go to hell and they'll point their finger at us and said these people got too comfortable that's not gonna happen with us not gonna happen in our city not on our watch can somebody say