I want to agree with you in bold faith that by the time you're done listening to this message that you will hear the Holy Spirit with both confidence and clarity. The Holy Spirit speaks to every born-again spirit-filled believer. So why does so many struggle sometimes to hear him? I wanna give you simple biblical practical keys that you can apply today. And I believe that you will hear the Holy Spirit clearly. You don't have to settle for confusion. You don't have to settle for second guessing. You can hear God because you are his child. I want you to write by faith in the comment section right now, I can hear him. Whether you struggle to hear him or not, whether you believe that or not, whether you feel you deserve that or not, it doesn't matter. Write that in the comment section. As I said, bold faith, I can hear him. It's a lie of the enemy that you have to work to hear the voice of God. It's a lie of the enemy that you have to prove yourself in order to hear the voice of God. Many believers imagine that they're working for God's approval or that they're trying to convince God who maybe is hesitant to connect with them, to connect with them. But we do not pray for connection with God, we pray from connection with God.  It's just a matter of exercising simple biblical keys that will cause his voice to become clearer. So there is a difference between praying to hear the voice of the Holy Spirit and then praying to recognize the voice of the Holy Spirit. You already hear him. In fact, I believe he's speaking to you right now through his word. I believe there's something that God has spoken to you deep within your spirit and you know that you know that you know deep within that he's spoken to you clearly, but it's all of the external clutter. It's all of the external distractions that cause us to doubt what we've heard in the Spirit. So the greatest truth that I can share with you concerning the voice of the Holy Spirit is that you already hear him. In fact, you are hearing him now. I'm not saying that you're hearing him because I'm speaking. I'm saying that in your spirit, he's speaking to you. So it's not a matter of hearing God. It's not a matter of, can I hear his voice? It's a matter of, can I recognize him? Let me show you this in first Samuel chapter three. Again, first Samuel chapter three, I'll read verse one and onward. Meanwhile, the boys Samuel served the Lord by assisting Eli. Now in those days, messages from the Lord were very rare and visions were quite uncommon. Verse two, one night Eli, who was almost blind by now, by the way, this is a parallel reality that physical ailment in his eyes was symbolic for the spiritual condition. He was not hearing the voice of God as he should have been hearing the voice of God. So Eli, who was almost blind by now, had gone to bed. Verse three, the lamp of God had not yet gone out and Samuel was sleeping in the tabernacle near the Ark of God. Suddenly the Lord called out, Samuel. Yes, Samuel replied, what is it? Verse five, he got up and ran to Eli, here I am, did you call me? I didn't call you, Eli replied. Go back to bed, so he did. Then the Lord called out again, Samuel. Again, Samuel got up and went to Eli, here I am, did you call me?  So then the Lord called out again, Samuel again, Samuel got up, went to Eli, here I am, did you call me? This repeats, verse seven. Samuel did not yet know the Lord because he had never received a message from the Lord before. So in other words, he's hearing God but mistaking the voice of the Holy Spirit for the voice of his mentor. So the Lord called a third time and once more Samuel got up and went to Eli, here I am, did you call me? Then Eli realized it was the Lord who was calling the boy. So he said to Samuel, go and lie down again. And if someone calls again, say, speak Lord, your servant is listening. So Samuel went back to bed and the Lord came and called as before, Samuel, Samuel. And Samuel replied, speak your servant is listening. So here we see an example of a prophet who was hearing the voice of the Holy Spirit but didn't recognize it as the voice of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit was speaking clearly to him but he was mistaking it for the voice of a man. So Samuel heard the voice of God. He just didn't recognize the voice of God. John 10, 27 says, my sheep hear my voice and I know them and they follow me. So the question isn't, can I hear the voice of the Holy Spirit? The question is, do I belong to Jesus? Because if you are a child of God, then the Holy Spirit speaks clearly to you. If you belong to him, then you can certainly hear his voice with both confidence and clarity. This is not a skill to be acquired. This is a sense to be sharpened.  Nobody had to teach you to see. When you were born, you were born with sight, you were born with hearing. Now later you had to learn to observe and to listen but the actual sense itself wasn't something that was taught to you or wasn't something that you were trained in. It was something that you were born with simply by your nature. So when you were born, you were born with hearing and sight. When you are born again, you are born with spiritual hearing and spiritual sight. So again, it's not a skill to be acquired. It's not a reward for the super spiritual because again, I think sometimes as believers, we try to divide ourselves into groups and we say, well, those are the real spiritual ones over there, God speaks to them but I'm not special like that. I'm not close to God like that. I don't have what they have. They're favored in a way that I'm not and therefore they can hear God and I cannot. That's not the way it works at all. All of us who are born again have the Holy Spirit. All who belong to Jesus have the Holy Spirit and he speaks to you.  Now granted, when we walk in disobedience as I'll cover in a moment, this can affect our ability to hear with confidence the voice of the Holy Spirit but this doesn't mean that we don't belong to God just because we make mistakes. So it's not as if you have to get to a certain level and then all of a sudden God says, okay, well, now I love you enough to instruct you or now I love you enough to speak to you or now I love you enough to give you specific guidance for your life. That's not how it works at all. So it's not something you're working toward. It's something you're working from. He's speaking to you now. He's being direct with you. He's convicting you or he's correcting you or he's encouraging you or he's revealing something to you in a prophetic way. The question is, are you removing the distractions that cause you to not pay attention to what God is saying to you? Are you recognizing that voice of the Holy Spirit? We complicate this so much. Think about this.  I want you to think of them. Just imagine a loved one talking to you right now. Hear their voice. What are they saying? What do they sound like? Now, if your loved one were to talk to you amongst a crowd of a hundred people, let's say that room is chattering. People are talking. They're having conversation. You could, because you recognize the voice of your loved one, pick out your loved one's voice in a crowded room of even a hundred people. Why? Because you know them. You're familiar with their voice. You recognize their voice, but it's not something that you can necessarily teach. This is why when people ask me, well, what does the voice of God sound like? I have to be very careful in the way I answer that. Yes, the scripture talks about the voice of God causing us to tremble. Yes, the scripture talks about the thundering voice of God or the voice of God sounding like many waters. So, or the voice of God being like a still small voice. So those are some descriptions that the scripture gives us about the voice of God. But think about this. If we go solely by those descriptions, then we fall into religion rather than relationship. So what happens if you have an emotional thought that causes you to think it's the voice of the Holy Spirit simply because it was spoken with might or maybe spoken gently like the still small voice? So we cannot, and this is very important that we recognize this, we cannot by description alone come to understand the voice of the Holy Spirit. Sure, what the scripture describes is that the voice of the Holy Spirit is absolutely accurate, but that doesn't mean that we can't in our own minds create similar voices that sound that way. And this is where we become confused because we say, well, I wanna make sure I'm hearing God. I don't wanna miss him. I wanna make sure I know I'm walking into a future that he's instructed me or I wanna make sure that I'm being attentive to the voice of the Holy Spirit and not distracted by other voices. And so it's important again that we do not go by descriptions alone. Is it a still small voice? Yes, that's what the scripture says. Does he speak sometimes like a thunder or the voice of many waters? Absolutely, God speaks in that way sometimes. But we can in our own minds create instructions and then add to those instructions, those descriptions and then we become convinced we heard God when it's actually just our own mind or our own emotions. This is why again, we cannot go by descriptions alone. We do not hear the voice of the Holy Spirit by descriptions. We hear the voice of the Holy Spirit by familiarity. Going back to that analogy where you have that room filled with about a hundred people, you could pick out your loved one's voice. Why? Because you love them, you know them, you speak with them. But if you were to come to me and say, David, here's the description of my loved one's voice. They maybe have a little bit of bass in the voice. They speak softly and they talk really fast. Okay, I can take those descriptions, but even with those descriptions, those descriptions alone won't be sufficient to help me in trying to identify the voice of that loved one. I would walk into that room and I'd hear the bass in some people's voices, maybe people who talk fast. And through those descriptions alone, I couldn't identify their voice. So in the same way, we cannot do descriptions alone, identify the voice of the Holy Spirit, but we know the voice of the Holy Spirit when we become familiar with his voice. So how do we become familiar? I wanna show you that in scripture again. This is not a skill to be acquired. This is a sense to be sharpened. I'm not teaching you how to hear God per se. I'm teaching you how to recognize God because he's already speaking to you. He's already talking to you. I can't make God speak to you through instruction. You can't make God speak to you through any act that you can carry out. It's what God says is what God says. He speaks by his own will under his own terms in his own timing. And we have to be okay with that, but that doesn't mean we can't position ourselves to be undistracted by the other voices. So when you hear the voices in this world coming at you recognize that really there are four categories of voices that speak to us. Number one, you have the satanic. Number two, you have the secular. Number three, you have self. Number four, you have the spirit. Now you recognize the satanic because the satanic, even if in a subtle way, will always contradict the word of God. The secular will always contradict the nature of God. The self will always speak selfishly. The spirit will always speak according to both the word and the nature. And people complicate this. So imagine this, you have these four voices speaking. You're speaking to yourself. And sometimes we lie to ourselves. That's what you call self deception. Often the enemy tries to lie to us. Even more often the world tries to throw images and ideas through music and through movies and through posters and through all the other expressions of culture. The enemy, or excuse me, the secular world tries to push its agenda on us through constant propaganda and constant messaging. It's a barrage of deception. And if you're not careful, you will lend your ear to the secular communications of this world and it will cause you to walk under the heaviness of having heard those deception. So the satanic is speaking. The secular is speaking. Self, your mind is running. Your emotions are running. And the Holy Spirit is speaking in the midst of this. And so what we have to learn to do, and yes, we complicate this, what we have to learn to do to make it simple is instead of trying to pick out which one is the Holy Spirit, we have to learn to silence the satanic, silence self and silence the secular. Because by deduction alone, once you've rid yourself of those voices, the only voice now that's speaking is the Holy Spirit. And that is perfectly clear. Why? Because there's no other distraction now. So I wanna show you how to do that. How do you make it to where now you've silenced everything else and it's just the Holy Spirit speaking to you. The key is silencing the other voices. So here we go, key number one, silence and stillness. As you continue to pray consistently, you'll notice the intensification of your ability to hear the voice of the Holy Spirit. You'll become more sensitive to his voice.   Here, Jesus is speaking about the necessity of private prayer. Now, within the context, the larger context of what he's talking about here, he's talking about the motivation behind your prayer, namely that some pray because they want to be praised by man. Well, those who are sincere pray simply because they want to actually fellowship with the Lord or communicate with the Lord himself. But something that we can glean from this portion of scripture that I think can still be applied to our everyday lives is the fact that Jesus tells us to go away and pray privately. In fact, as you study the gospels and you look at the life of Christ, you'll find that there were many instances where Jesus would retreat from the crowds, retreat from his disciples, retreat from the 12 disciples, and then even retreat from the three closest disciples. And he would go off by himself and he would be secluded. So there's something to be said of seclusion. Now, remember that there is a big difference between moments of seclusion and a lifestyle of isolation. Moments of seclusion are carved out of the day, mainly scheduled and planned so that you can devote time to the Lord every single day where you're just totally focused on him. Whereas a lifestyle of isolation is never being connected with anyone for either spiritual pride or fear or whatever it may be to where now you think that you don't need anybody else and that's not the way God designed us to function. But there's something about carving out a specific time in your day where you say this time belongs to the Lord and I'm not giving it to anybody else. And you have to stubbornly refuse, right? That in the comment section. Stubbornly refuse to give that time to anyone else. It's not for your spouse. It's not for your children. It's not for your friends. It's not for your work. It's not for your scholastic studies. There must be a time carved out of every day that is totally devoted to the Lord himself. This could be time in the word, time in worship, but of course, time in prayer. When you go, go by yourself. Go away privately, why?  So if you want to remove outer distraction, you have to go to places of seclusion. This means you turn off the phone. This means you turn off YouTube and Facebook and all the social media channels. Wait and finish this lesson first and then you can go practice that. But there has to be a time in your day where you turn these things off. There has to be a time in your day where when people call, they're not gonna be able to get ahold of you. For me, it's the mornings. No one can get ahold of me in the mornings because that's the time with the Lord. No one can get ahold of me really even late at night because I even give that to the Lord and sometimes I have to switch those up depending upon how the schedule is. But every day, there's a carved out time where I say, Lord, this belongs to you and no one else can touch it. Now that removes outer distraction. What about all that inner chaos? Because you can turn the phone off and you can turn off and you can tell your loved ones, hey, leave me alone just for the next few minutes and they'll understand most believers who are living with other believers have that benefit of your loved ones understanding. You're not to be disturbed. And even if they're not believers, more often than not, they'll be understanding of that. So now you've removed outer distraction. There's not all of this imaging and messaging coming at your mind. Now you're in this private place. What do you do then? Okay, because now all of a sudden you begin to hear this inner chatter.  You're thinking about relationship issues. You're thinking about finances. You're thinking about the future. You're thinking about maybe the fact that you're hungry or maybe you wanna go to sleep and all of these thoughts begin to clutter the mind or you go to pray and then 10 minutes into the prayer you realize, wait a minute, my mind has been wandering this whole time and I don't think there was anything fruitful about when I went to pray or maybe you're distracted by prayer itself. Do I sit? Do I stand? Can I pace? Is it all right if I lie down? When do I do intercessory prayer? When do I do spiritual warfare? When do I worship? When do I make my supplication? When do I lift praises to God? And for that matter, when do I pray in tongues? How much of my prayer should be in tongues? Can I pray out loud? Do I have to pray in my mind? How does all of this work? And all of these questions begin to arise. And not only that, but you're also bombarded by the internal conflict with some of the lies of the enemy that you actually led yourself or allowed yourself to believe over time, namely that you think God has rejected you or you can't get over that past mistake or you think that God is maybe displeased to hear from you or you imagine that God is maybe disgruntled and he doesn't really want to talk to you. He'll do it, but he's doing it begrudgingly. And so there's all of this conflict, whether that be guilt or fear or doubt or questions, all of this is going on inside. And you have your questions about prayer. You have your doubts about God. You have your doubts about yourself. You have the guilt. You have the shame. You have the distractions of life. And all of this is stirring inside. Am I talking to anybody this evening? All of these things are stirring within you. I call all of this inner chaos. Now, here's the thing. Many times we as believers will say, oh my goodness, none of these thoughts affected me. None of this was here until I went to pray. Isn't that what we say? We say, I was perfectly fine. My mind was perfectly clear. Oh, but the moment I went to pray, suddenly all of these things started to clutter my mind. My friend, I have news for you. The inner chaos did not show up when you went to pray. The inner chaos was revealed when you went to pray. You've just never been silent enough to hear what's actually going on inside of you. Psalm 4610 says, be still and know that I am God. I will be honored by every nation. I will be honored throughout the world. There is a stillness with which we should approach God. And that inner chaos doesn't allow for that peace to take hold of your mind and your heart. And so again, we say, well, this just showed up when I prayed.  You've been walking around with that all week.  Constantly distracting yourself, social media, TikTok videos and YouTube videos and Facebook posts and news reports and on and on and on and conversations and entertainment and constant distraction, constant movement. Why?  But the moment we finally do, we finally realize what has been happening within our hearts the whole time. We just didn't pay enough attention to see it. No wonder we're walking around with fear. No wonder we're walking around with depression. No wonder we're walking around with confusion. Why? Because all of this has been stirring within us and we've never had a moment of silence and stillness to where we could actually expose it and then address it. So you deal with outer distraction through silence and that is seclusion. And then you deal with inner chaos through the stillness of the soul. How do you bring stillness to the soul? Only the Holy Spirit can do that. How does He do that in us? This is where you worship. This is where you meditate on the word.  But the scripture is quite clear. You can even reference this, for example, in Psalm chapter one. When you meditate on the word day and night, you become like a tree planted by the rivers of water. So what does it mean to meditate on the word? It's quite simple. Meditation in the world says empty your mind, empty your mind, empty your mind. Why? Because the enemy likes voids. But meditation in a godly sense is to fill your mind. Fill your mind, fill your mind with the word. Meditation is repetition in thought. And so we say things like, well, I have intrusive thoughts so there's nothing I can do about this. No, my friend, you can take hold of it through the authority that God gave you and through the practice of meditating on the word. I know it doesn't seem like you can control your thoughts. I know it doesn't seem like there's anything you can do to help that. I know it seems like you're absolutely helpless but this is what the Bible teaches that we can choose what we place our mind on. So when we make a practice of meditating on the word, thinking of those truths, rehearsing those truths, repeating those truths internally, now the word begins to wash our minds and then we can also worship. A very powerful man of God once told me that if you're gonna pray for an hour, worship for 45 minutes. Now this wasn't an exact formula that he was giving me to follow. Rather, he was communicating the importance of worship in our devotion because the scripture declares, thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee because he trusted in thee. In other words, when I can put my focus on Jesus, suddenly there's stillness that comes over my soul. When I put my focus on my circumstances, I can be riled emotionally. Why? Because my circumstances constantly change and therefore my emotions and my thoughts will constantly change. And if I link myself to my own thoughts, then that's gonna be a constantly shifting ground because there's nothing stable about me unto myself. But when I focus on the Lord Jesus, when I give to him my worship, when I focus on the word and I meditate on the word, there's a stillness that comes over the soul and suddenly the voices of internal conflict, the voices of shame, of guilt, of doubt, of confusion, of distraction, of worry, all of these voices now go silent. Why? Because I'm so enamored with the person of Jesus.   And as you begin to worship, there's this stillness that comes over the soul. And it deals with that inner chaos. So that's key number one, silence and stillness.  I'm not saying you have to lose your mind. I'm saying that you have to focus your thoughts on who Jesus is, on who God is. Trust in him. Stop looking to yourself and instead trust in him. That's number one, a key to hearing the voice of the Holy Spirit or I should say recognizing the voice of the Holy Spirit. Silence and stillness. And this is why many believers can't hear the Holy Spirit. It's not that he's not speaking. It's that they're allowing so many distracting things to come at them that they can't decipher between the voice of the Holy Spirit and self and the secular and unfortunately the satanic. This is why we must practice discipline of prayer, time alone with the Lord, remove the outer distraction through the practical means of shutting that door so to speak. And you removed that inner chaos by worshiping and meditating on the word. Number two, the word. The word is key to hearing his voice. John chapter 14 verse 26 says, when the Father sends the advocate as my representative, that is the Holy Spirit, he will teach you everything and will remind you of everything I have said. So here we see that the Holy Spirit has a twofold job when it comes to the voice of God. He reminds and he reveals. He reminds you of all the things that God has taught you through his word and through teachers. He reminds you of the truths of scripture and the sayings of Jesus.  The word of God familiarizes you with his voice. Remember I talked about that familiarization. Well, when you're in the word, you become familiar with the voice of the Holy Spirit. Don't tell me you're serious about hearing the voice of the Holy Spirit and you're not serious about devotion to the word. Don't tell me you're desperate to hear instructions from God when you're not disciplined to get into the word. You wanna hear God speak, get into the word. You wanna for sure word, get into the word. You wanna know instructions for your future, get into the word. The Holy Spirit works with the word, not against the word.  And this of course enables us to become more familiar with him through that relationship. And so when I become familiar with the word, a foundation is laid. If you're not in the word, you're not gonna be able to recognize when the satanic is speaking. By the way, the word of God is your greatest weapon against the voice of the satanic. Think about Jesus in Matthew chapter four when he was being tempted in the wilderness. Whenever the enemy would speak, Jesus would reply with the word and he would say, it is written. So that's how you combat the deceptive communications of the enemy through the word of God.  If you don't have a standard, you'll never know if you're off standard. If you don't have a plumb line, you'll never have a reference. You need the word of God as the reference for truth so that when the secular world tries to communicate to you or when demonic powers try to lie to you, you can recognize those deceptions because right there it is written.  Now I'm gonna give you a bit of a breakdown here because I think it's important that we cover this. I wanna show you the four ways that the Holy Spirit primarily speaks and these are really categories and you won't find necessarily another category though you may find other methodologies by which the Holy Spirit communicates. But it first starts with the word. So I'm still under point number two. Point number one was if you wanna hear the voice of the Holy Spirit, get the practice silence and stillness. That's the removal of outer distraction in the quieting of inner chaos through worship and meditation on the word. Number two, I'm showing you that the key to hearing the voice of the Holy Spirit with confidence and clarity is silencing the voice of the Satanic and silencing the voice of the secular to becoming familiar with the word. Now we're gonna break down the word a little more and how it works with our overall or I should say probably the more holistic way of hearing the Holy Spirit. So second Timothy chapter three, verses 16 and 17 says, all scripture is inspired by God and is useful to teach us what is true and to make us realize what is wrong in our lives. It corrects us when we are wrong and teaches us to do what is right. God uses it to prepare and equip his people to do every good work. So number one, it's the word.  The word is the safety net. So often we think we hear God and let's just humble ourselves and be honest. None of us hear God for ourselves with perfection. And if you think you do, you're walking in self deception and you have to be very careful about that. We primarily rely on the word. You wanna hear God speak? Look to the word. So the word is the foundation. So imagine that we're building a structure now. The word is that foundation.  The framing is wisdom. Romans 12, two says, do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewal of your mind that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. These, by the way, aren't different degrees of God's will. There are three different descriptions of the same will. James 1.5 says, if you need wisdom, ask our generous God and he will grant it to you. He will not rebuke you for asking. So the word is the foundation. Wisdom now is the framing. Now many believers are of the impression that the Holy Spirit is constantly speaking specific instructions for our lives. And often what they're confusing for the specific instructions of the Holy Spirit is actually the wisdom of God that was deposited in them or imparted in them through the devotion to the word. So first it's the word, the foundation, and the word itself begins to reform the way you think. It begins to reshape your thought patterns. It begins to refocus your mind. And now you'll notice that your thought patterns begin to change. Your inclinations begin to change. So the word is the foundation. Wisdom is the framing, like the wood framing. Imagine you're building a house. Word is foundation. Wisdom is the framing, okay? And now with wisdom, you have that inner guiding voice of the Holy Spirit working to wisdom. Really, wisdom is that divine pool on our lives. It's divine guidance that comes through us and works through us. It's God's reasoning nature within us, that's wisdom. It's God's reasoning nature within us, that's wisdom. So the word, foundation, wisdom is the framing. And these, by the way, are the two primary ways that you're going to hear the Holy Spirit. And then number three, the whisper. Write these down. The word, wisdom, the whisper. Now this is where you begin to see specific instructions from the Holy Spirit for your everyday life. We referenced, of course, John 14, 26 for that, where the Holy Spirit doesn't just remind us of what God has said, but he also reveals and guides us into all truth. And so someone said, if it's in God's word, why does the Holy Spirit need to speak it to us? If it's not in God's word, why would the Holy Spirit speak it to us? Now these questions fail to take into account the need for specific instructions for details of our lives, not addressed in chapter and verse. For example, where you should live, who you should marry, where you should work, and so forth. Now of course we understand that wisdom would actually cover a lot of these bases, but there are moments when we absolutely need to hear for ourselves specific instructions tailored made for our everyday lives that come from the Holy Spirit. So the word covers most, wisdom takes care of what's left over and the small percentage that's left over after that, the whisper of the Holy Spirit will take care of. So then there's wonders. So if the word is the foundation and wisdom is the framing, then the whisper is like the drywall and the electrical and the plumbing. Now it's beginning to come together a little bit more. There's some function to it. And then you have the wonders and I would liken the wonders to the decorative aspects of the construction phase. Now you're putting in the wood floor, the carpet, maybe there's a certain light fixture that you really like. My wife is big on interior design, so she likes the details coming together at the end. And that's what I would equate to the wonders. This is things like prophets versus Thessalonians 5, 19, and 21, visions, Acts 2, 17, and 18. This is also things like dreams, John, excuse me, Job 33, verses 14 and 15, miracles, signs, and wonders, as we see in Mark chapter 16, verse 20. So wonders now are the decorative pieces of this structure. They're not the foundation, but they are the decorative pieces of this. Now, many believers have this reversed unfortunately. And by that, I mean that they live by wonders first.  And because of that, they walk in this very strange way. They're very bizarre. They come up with strange ideas. They get themselves into situations that God did not call them to be in. So this is why we have to, of course, use the word as the foundation, wisdom as the framing, the whisper as the plumbing, the electrical, the drywall, and then the wonders as the decorative finishing as opposed to the other way around where we think we can hear them first through wonders, because then you're gonna be swept up by lying wonders because you're not grounded in the word. So wonders are important. The whispers of the Holy Spirit spoken directly to our hearts. That's important, and he still speaks in that way, but you have to base it first on the word and wisdom. So that's number two, the word. So so far we've seen keys to hearing the voice of the Holy Spirit with clarity. Key number one, silence and stillness. Key number two, the word. Now, key number three, and I wanna challenge you here, obedience. The Bible says in Psalm 37-23, the Lord directs the steps of the godly. He delights in every detail of their lives. Whose steps does he direct? The godly, Proverbs 3-6 says, in all thy ways acknowledge him and he shall direct thy paths. This means that for every way you acknowledge him, you receive direction from him. Faithfulness is progressive. You have to do the difficult thing. Don't tell me you want the Holy Spirit to speak to you prophetically when you haven't even listened to what he said in the word. Don't tell me God is calling me to cross the oceans to preach the gospel. When you're not even listening when he's told you to cross the street to preach the gospel. Don't tell me God is calling you to serve in some large ministry when you haven't even served locally.  Don't tell me God's raising your voice to speak to the nations of the world when you're not even speaking correctly to your loved ones in your home. First obey the practical, the foundational and then God will begin to guide you into the more supernatural. So we must obey what is written in the word. We must obey what wisdom tells us to do. And as you obey the written word and as you walk according to the wisdom of God and only then does he begin to entrust to you the whispers of the Holy Spirit. God will speak and then not speak again until you've obeyed what he's already spoken. Why are we asking for step number 10 spoken directly to our hearts from the Holy Spirit when we haven't even taken step number one clearly spelled out in the word of God. Many believers get stuck and unable to hear the voice of the Holy Spirit because they're not obeying what he has already spoken. They know what he said. He's made the instruction clear. In fact, this is why many believers avoid prayer because they already know what God has said and they don't wanna go back to the prayer room and be confronted on their delay. Once you know what the Holy Spirit has spoken, once you see clearly what the scripture instructs, this is when you need to act and then he'll begin to bring to you the next instruction. Father, I pray you help them do it. Give us wisdom, Lord. Help us walk according to your word. And as we practice these things, as we repent of sin and compromise, and as we turn to you now, I pray you would help us to hear your voice. Make you precious Holy Spirit that you're working in their heart now. Come on, just begin to ask him to forgive you. If you've been walking in disobedience, you need to turn from that. Ask him to forgive you. Devote yourself to the word, to the discipline of prayer and to the joy of obedience. Holy Spirit, empower them. Give them grace. 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Thank you for being here. As you probably suspect by now, I'm gonna be talking about UPNP and UPNP mapping.  I'm gonna try to go into as much details as I can, but any other questions or whatever, you can just go to the Q&A and I'll answer any questions. So let's do a brief introduction. Who am I? Not very important, but I'm a security researcher. I started working with security at the tender age of 14. I used to hang out and under it and work with ISPs back in the Dominican Republic, which is where I'm from, cable companies and all that. So that's that. What is UPNP? UPNP is Universal Plug and Play. Universal Plug and Play is a technology made by the UPNP forum, which is code name for Microsoft. They made it back in 1999 and the name probably gave it away. That was something made by Microsoft. The point of UPNP is to make devices work seamlessly. Be it connectivity devices or networking devices or media devices. There are also other devices that can be used, but mostly that's what UPNP is used for. So as you probably suspect, making devices work seamlessly is not a very good idea or it's a good idea, but it's not very plausible. We're gonna talk about specifically IGDs or the part of UPNP that works with networking devices. As you probably suspect, to make the network devices work seamlessly, you need NAT traversal. How many of you were, raise your hands if you were in the Dan Kaminski talk? All right, so you probably get the idea or the basic idea. Basically, a device on the LAN uses UPNP to automatically add port mappings on the device so that extra one devices can access the LAN, which is a great idea. But as you will see, it's not that great if you make it like UPNP does. So IGDs are basically found mostly on DSLs and some other devices. Cable models, not that much because cable models usually are bridged, but if something is routing and doing PPP, it's probably doing IGD. So big question and I've been working with Dan Kaminski on this one on how many IGD devices are online and a shed load. I mean, it's amazing. We thought we would have a minority of the devices on the net, but I have personally seen half a million devices across different countries open and accepting UPNP requests. So let me, first of all, explain a little bit of how UPNP works briefly. Basically, you start with a discovery process, which is relies on multicast UDP. It sends a multicast UDP and any device listening replies back with a unicast UDP. This unicast UDP, I probably you can't read it very well, but it's in the white paper. It describes or points out a location, which is just an XML file describing the different services and devices available. To execute on that UPNP device. After you get that unicast, which is the blue part, the yellow part, you get to the green part with this, which is unicast TCP. Basically, it's SOAP requests and after that, after you get the SOAP request, the description of the device to XML, you get send a SOAP request which maps a port. You probably can see it either, but over here you have different arguments that you can use like least duration of the port mapping, internal client, external port, and remote host. Basically your basic port mapping arguments. So let's do a bit of the UPNP hacking timeline. It started in 2001 and came from FDU security. He found a couple of denial service attacks for the Windows XP stack. Obviously, UPNP was implemented in Windows XP first. Microsoft wanted to promote the technology. Then in 2001, again, EI published buffer flows for the same stack. You probably remember that one. It was pretty popular. Then in 2003, Bjorn Stikler talked about UPNP information disclosure. Now, there's not a lot of information that's being thrown out by UPNP, but it's enough. It's not that good. You'll see with the demo how much information we can get. Then in 2006, Armin Hermel, that's a typo where Armin is in, he started publishing UPNP facts on the site, UPNPhacks.org, and he's basically, let's say, like one of the fathers of UPNP hacking. He has examined all the UPNP stacks and described which stacks allow some actions and whatnot. Then in 2008, we had an attack by New Citizen, which was pretty smart. They basically relied on the clients, internal clients of a network sending soap through JavaScript. Basically, the purpose of that was opening the web administration port of clients that access sites and such. So what are the main problems of UPNP? Well, first of all, this is the word plug-and-play. I don't know if you guys remember Windows Night Again and plug-and-play and the whole idea, it didn't work. I mean, it's not rocket science, and every time I see plug-and-play anywhere, I just have to look it up because I don't want to go through the same nightmares that we went through in the early or late 90s. So the other thing with plug-and-play, it's a pretty nice idea. We would love to have things plug-and-play, but it doesn't work good with security.  I mean, you need to authenticate something, you need to ask questions and all that. Well, that's one of the main problems of UPNP, too. UPNP has no authentication whatsoever at all. In fact, the only way they consider an entity that could actually execute commands is just if they have an IP assigned for it, which is ridiculous.  How would we know who would let in? And then someone said, if they exist, they can't come in, which is ridiculous. I mean, don't even go through it. After that, the other problems are that most stacks do not validate data. And what we mean by this is that, first of all, UPNP was made or designed for land use only. And that's not true, unfortunately. But not only that, port mappings were designed to work for internal hosts that wanted to traverse an app and add port mappings. So in this case, most stacks, or a lot of stacks, do not check if the internal IP is actually on the land or internal. So what that actually allows us is that UPNP is to stick any IP that we want in that port mapping. So if I want to say, add a port mapping at the device pointing to Amazon IP port 80, it's doable in most devices, which is also a little bit weird. The other problem is, as I was saying, UPNP was designed for land use and most, or a lot of devices, use or allow indiscriminate one request. I mean, requests of UPNP actions coming from the one, which is, doesn't make any sense. In fact, the UPNP protocol says not to do that. But to be, it's that the IGD version one protocol says specifically, it's not recommended to do that. To get them credit, though, on the IGD version two paper, they made that sentence on caps. So I guess they're making a better point now. And on the other hand, we have devices that don't even log UPNP requests. I mean, we can play with it, do whatever we want with it, and no one will ever see it because the device doesn't have the capacity of logging in, which is also a bit weird. There's also a ton of other problems. We have command execution on some stacks. And as you saw, the denial service and buffer rule flows. In fact, the denial service is so bad that when I was programming UMAP or the tool I'm going to showcase, I accidentally crashed my modem like a thousand times. And I didn't even do anything. I'm just sending bad requests and the device will go dead. So the devices affected so far, we don't know yet how many devices are affected.  And we have Linksys, edimax, sidecom, Broadcom, which is not listed here. But the most common stack on the net, which is vulnerable, is the speed touch or thumbs on, or now, technical stack. We have devices roaming around the net on big amounts. So UMAP, the tool, what is it? First of all, it's a SOX proxy server that forwards or pipes the request through UPNP devices. I'm going to explain it a little bit better and a little bit further down the road. It's also a TCP UDP scanner for hosts behind the IGD net. Basically, we can scan the services of the hosts inside the net from outside. And also a manual port mapper for UPNP devices. So how does it work? As I explained in the first part of the presentation, UPNP relies on multicast. So that is not a very good scenario for a one request or search. Obviously we can't use multicast on the one. So basically what we do is we skip that part completely and we just go on to fetching the XML description files to the locations. It's pretty simple. It's like fetching HTTP files, not that big of a deal. And then it also uses a control part of the UPNP protocol, which is actually what executes the actions or the commands that UPNP allows on devices. So here's a flow diagram of more or less how UMAP works. It basically takes a list of IPs and starts scanning for open control points or UPNP devices. Once it receives a SOX request, if it has a positive UPNP device, it attempts to add the port mapping, then it opens the connection and pipes the connection through to the SOX request or the client that's making the SOX request. And after that, it attempts to delete the port mapping. And this is very needed on UPNP because UPNP does not allow an infinite amount of port mappings. Actually, some devices allow as little as 10 port mappings at a time. So if we actually did a port mapping for every connection, we wouldn't have a very accurate or a very good connection. So we also have the part of scanning the internal host. And basically it also checks for open control points. Then it tries to guess the IP or the internal LAN block that's being used. It adds a port mapping for each IP, internal IP. Let's say if I want to scan port 21 of all the hosts on the inside of the LAN, it starts adding port mappings for 10.001 and 21 and then tries to map it to an external port. And then the program tries to check if that port is opening the external port on the one IP. If it's open, obviously you can establish the connection for the internal host and the internal services. And also it does the deletion of the port mapping. So what are the cons with UPNP mapping? A lot. First of all, the UPNP stacks are buggy and unstable. It was kind of hard, or not that hard, programming U-Map. The one being distributed on the CDs are very buggy. So I would suggest just telling you the new version when I release it tonight on the site. But basically UPNP stacks, even though they're supposed to be in a standard, they don't behave on the standard and they have minor differences. The other thing is that obviously we have limited bandwidth because we're relying on the upload bandwidth of the devices. And also we have problems with protocols that have a heavy amount of connections. I mean we can use UPNP mapping for maybe mapping ports for SSH, maybe some web request. But if you get something like torrent or whatever, obviously it won't work that well. I mean if we have only a limit of 150 or 200 mappings at a time, it's just not going to work. And the other thing is that some devices, even though they report that they opened the port, they don't. They say everything's okay, 200 okay and everything in the reply. But when you go and try to connect to the port, you have nothing. So that's obviously not very good. So let's do a little demo on U-Map and let's go for the proxy mode. Let's see if I can get this to work. I had to modify U-Map so that the real IPs don't show because I don't want my Astrone in jail and raped. So when you get the real version though, you can have all the fun you want. It shouldn't matter. In fact, there's also an issue on if this is, it's obviously maybe it could be illegal but not that much because it's the same idea of an open proxy. It's just someone that has a badly configured device on the net that's allowing people to forward traffic. Obviously you're not authorized for doing port mappings but it's not actually breaking into the device. So maybe I won't get my Astrone in jail. So here we go. I'm just going to scan a standard IP block and it should start running right away. I don't know if you can see it back there. Can you? All right. So on the right hand here we have the positive IPs and as you can see here, we have a lot of details that come out from the device. First of all, we can get the serial number from the device, the model number, who makes it and the MAC address of the device. This obviously would help also for those devices that come with WEP keys tied to the serial number and all that. So that's not good either. So not only that, we also have a group of commands that we can execute on any device. And let me remind you that we are scanning a random block somewhere and it's not, I mean, we're not doing any tricks. So here are the commands that we can execute. There are not a lot of interesting commands. Well, maybe or maybe not. So we have the first part that's not on bold and those are the commands that are actually advertised by the device. Now the ones that are on the bottom are the ones that are not advertised by the device. Obviously, we wanted to try just in case a certain hacker would do and it works. I mean, even if the device doesn't advertise this command, you can still execute the command. So, for example, if I want to check out what's the upload and download bandwidth for this device, I can just execute and here we go. We get that this device is running an upstream of a 350-something and a downstream of two max, which is pretty convenient if you want to use for a SOX proxy and you want to know what kind of bandwidth or latency you've been using. And we also have other commands like force termination. I assure you force termination is not for a contract or anything. It will actually close down the device and close out the connection. So I don't think the denial service is even a big deal because if you have a command that actually turns off the device, what's the point? I mean, we don't need the denial service. We just have to turn it off. So we also have other commands like ad port mapping, which is basically what UMAP uses for connections. And we also have these other commands like get username and get password and they actually work. Now, on the bright side, the username and the password they're talking about is not the administration interface but the PPP authentication username and password. Now, this is maybe not that bad for some guys because, I mean, there's not much you can do with it. But unfortunately, some providers use a customer number as a username for the PPP device.  Let me hit another command. Let's see if the username works. There you go. That's a username for the PPP of that device, which is also very weird. So, onto the more important stuff, let's go for what I set up is this UMAP is actually scanning and it opens up SOX port and you can send a request and it will map it through to that IP that I have selected. We can test it right here. I've set up a page to show this mapping. Let's see if it works. Remember that UPNP usually is very buggy and unreliable. Then there it goes. It works. Now we have a very disturbing image of Bill Gates over there. But as you can see, we have the IP over there. You can test that URL out if you want to and you can see that it will point out the IP you're working at. If you can see an UMAP, this is the IP we have selected. Now, if I want to just use another device, like the one below 244.6, then it should work too. Let's see. There we go. Let's see. In fact, we can go on Google and show you should go to the Google for the Dominican Republic as this is a device for the Dominican Republic. Now, as you probably suspect, this is pretty bad. I mean, we have devices like this going on in the Dominican Republic, Colombia, Thailand, a lot of countries, and a lot of devices are going on like that. We also have another functionality of the UMAP, which is scanning for internal hosts. Now, I don't want to do live scanning of the hosts because most hosts nowadays are using other gateway devices like Lynx's wireless routers and all that, which block all the one request. But if there are devices that have direct connections to other devices or PCs, then we could actually map. Let me show you a couple of mappings I did earlier on. Now, don't laugh at my lead smudging skills from GEMP. So basically what I want to show you here is UMAP and this number up here on the total positives. This scan was running for a couple of days and we got 88,000 devices with open UPNP ports, which is ridiculous. And this is actually a port mapping. As you can see, the smart part is the external IP address and the external port, and we have the internal IP address, which the mapping has been made for. We also have another example of, in this case, for example, I just set it to run for that IP and we got a Windows IP <IP_ADDRESS>5. Now, this is maybe a bigger problem because obviously you can traverse an ad from the one, which is something you don't want. And we have all the possibilities. Now, we can't use this sometimes on some protocols, let's say, because we have to map these ports on some of the higher ports. We can't use the same 139 or the 445. So that could make things a little bit more difficult, but it still works. And obviously if you have an SSH port or an HTTP port, it won't matter that much. Let's keep on working here. So as the internal LAN scanning tool, and how do we fix this? I don't know. There's no real solution or the best solution. First of all, we need to get everyone to be aware of this and start configuring their devices for UPNP only accepting action from the LAN side. Now, unfortunately, some devices, even if after you configure them to accept the action from the LAN side, they just don't work. I mean, you can configure them and they will keep on working on the one side, which is pretty bad, too. We also could work with ISPs, which could do some base configuration to disable by default the UPNP 1 request. And then we can do this. Now, this is a big problem because most ISPs just say that's not my problem. That's a customer's problem. I don't want to, you know, it's an industry problem, which is, yeah, deplorable. And on some cases, if you don't have any other choice, you could just disable UPNP all the way, which is not good. I don't know if you guys have used UPNP that much, but I'm a gamer and you can't play with PlayStation and Xbox without UPNP, unless you have some kind of DMC or an external IP address pointing directly at your device. So mitigation is going to be a little difficult, but most people can just configure their devices so that they can block the request from the one. As Stan Kaminski was saying at the previous talk, it's like having a firewall, asking people if they want to block or unblock, which is kind of weird because, I mean, why should you ask? If obviously if you configured, you shouldn't be asking. And that's about it. I have any questions or, I'm sorry?


Hello everybody, Andrea Maesky here with dental and mobile hygiene. So things are super exciting. I am starting to get things now ordered in in the mail things have things have just been taking a little bit longer because of Canada Post and not knowing kind of what's happening, but I am booking a lot of patients So I'm just kind of telling them if my you know stuff comes in sooner I promise to let you know so I do still work in a dental office two to three times a week sometimes four times a week sometimes five times a week if I'm picking up shifts so I do still work in the dental the dental office and I am still seeing patients that way but ultimately I want to branch off and do my own thing right to have my own business so that's what I'm doing now but I am getting all of my stuff in and I've been taking business courses also and just pretty much what they say is you know set yourself apart which makes perfect sense so I think of myself when I'm a patient when I'm a customer what do I like and why do I like certain places more than than others and a perfect example is I got my hair done and I thought to myself so why do I like this hair salon over others it's because they always take it a step above and beyond like I could go anywhere but I I literally travel about one and a half hours away from my home to see the same hair salon because I like them so much I've known them all since I was about 14 so that probably makes a difference too right but I talk about convenience all all all the time um because that's what dental l-mobile hygiene is all about is being convenient um so me going an hour and a half away isn't the most convenient thing ever right it's just not but I love them because they always take it a step above they offer me tea coffee you know what sure they do um a nice shampoo and conditioner where they do offer a scalp massage with with a conditioner and I love that oh my god it like it just feels so nice um so just a lot of different things their um salon chairs for the shampooing area is a lot more comfortable than any other salon that I I've been to like half the time it pretty much hurts my my neck but this one is just you know amazing so they go above and beyond so I was thinking what can I do to go above and beyond right so what I've decided to do was what I want to do is I um travel with a portable uh diffuser for my essential oil so anywhere I go it will kind of smell like a spa tight you know area at least I'm not working in your typical dental office where when the patients see me they just smell the dental office so they will not smell that because I'm either in their home or their office or a nursing home but I will bring that with me so then that way I can have natural essential oils with me all the time so it just smells nice smells uplifting smells relaxing you know plus what what I have also decided to do was warm up some hand towels so after your dental appointment I don't know if you've ever had this happen but stuff can get all over the face you know after you're polishing just you know things feel kind of yucky we rinse inside the mouth we might like wipe the mouth but that's about it right but what I have decided to do is to offer warm hand towels to wipe your hands with obviously wipe your mouth with and then that's it so when you leave you actually feel not like you've been to a spa but that's kind of what I want right so you don't feel like oh I have to get my teeth cleaned again it's oh I get to have my teeth cleaned again you know so I'm just kind of trying different things so you don't smell that smell being in a dental office and you don't feel as yucky you know afterwards because we always seem to make a mess everywhere so with the nice warm hand towel you can kind of do that right another thing is I will be traveling with my laptop so I can play some nice relaxing music so I'm not talking like punk rock or anything but just some nice relaxing music and I thought about this when I go to see my massage therapist she always plays such nice relaxing music and I just like it um the last time though that I saw her her laptop had stopped working or something so there wasn't any music and it made a big difference like not bad but I could just if they'll kind of awkward if that's the right word like it's just nice to have that nice relaxing music so I thought for cleanings I'm going to do the same thing have nice relaxing music so you're not just listening to me or or you're not just listening to my you know high speed suction or like the air water so it's just nice and relaxing overall so I'm thinking of different things like that so if you guys can think of something else let me know I would love to hear it I would love to hear your ideas of what you think I can do to go above and beyond because that's what I want to do that's my mission statement over overall is to have people have and experience a different type of teeth cleaning for me to give them the knowledge to care for their teeth as much as possible for me to be nice and convenient for them because I go right to their house you know home office nursing home I'm compassionate so I do understand if you haven't seen somebody in 10 years to have your teeth cleaned that's okay you have to start somewhere and to save the money seeing me save the money over going to a typical dental office where they might have to spend a little bit more so every little bit helps so please I would love to hear your comments your suggestions and I look forward to talking to everybody soon thank you so much for watching


Bolehkah anda dengar saya? Baiklah, okey. Bagus, bagus. Bolehkah anda melihat skrin saya, yang ada di atas? Bagus, bagus. Sebelum saya mulakan, mari saya lakukannya dengan anda. Untuk tiktok, jika anda ada pakaian dengan tiktok, ini tergantung pada tiktok dan nanti jika ada pertanyaan yang anda ingin tanya saya, bukan daripada, mungkin anda ingin tanya saya tentang pakaian yang berbeda, etc. Dan jika anda telah menghubungkan masa, anda dapat sentiasa memberitahkan mesej dengan platform VIP, tetapi apabila anda mempunyai pakaian, mungkin untuk bronze adalah $100, silver adalah $1,000, dan platinum adalah $50,000. Anda dapat tentu-tentu datang ke platform dan berikan pertanyaan dan menjawab ke sana. Okey, hanya untuk informasi dan jika tidak, mari kita mulakan dengan agenda untuk hari ini. Jadi mari kita mulakan. Terima kasih. Okey, selamat datang ke webinar kami. Saya akan beritahu anda, pelajaran pelajaran dan pelajaran pelajaran. Okey, seperti biasa, ini adalah disklima di sini. Tiada apa-apa yang patut diperlukan sebagai pelajaran pelajaran atau pelajaran pelajaran. Jadi tolong lakukannya sendiri sebelum anda berjumpa. Okey, jadi jika anda bergerak, saya adalah penghubungan untuk hari ini. Nama saya Woon Hong, dan saya akan berjumpa dengan anda pelajaran pelajaran dan pelajaran pelajaran. Okey, jadi untuk agenda, apa yang boleh kita tanya di hari ini? Kita akan berjalan melalui 4 periuk yang berbicara, apa adalah lakukannya pelajaran pelajaran pelajaran dan kedua, apa adalah lakukannya, dan kecuali lakukannya dan apakah anda menemui mereka? Okey, tiga, bagaimana anda mencapai mereka? Dan keadaan keadaan akan berkongsi apa yang anda gunakan? Jadi pertama, kita akan berjalan melalui apa adalah lakukannya pelajaran pelajaran pelajaran pelajaran pelajaran pelajaran. So, what are these custom indicators which I've always been saying for the past few minutes. So, it's independently developed in Metacodes Language 4 by a user and it functions as a technical indicator. So, graphical displays of custom calculator formulas. Later on, I'll be showing you guys different custom indicators that other users have actually created from scratch on mt4 and mt5. And usually the custom indicators are factor whereby is to assist you with trading. And usually for beginner traders, they would usually use different indicators such as maybe trend line indicators, pivot point indicators, etc. So, yeah, let's go to the example. So, the first example is the custom automated daily slash weekly pivots indicator. So, we can see from this is on mt4. We can see that there's a daily pivot right here and then there's a weekly pivot also and then there's a monthly pivot. So, this pivot areas whereby is sort of key levels in a sense whereby the traders will see this line. Then they will know that, okay, maybe I'm looking for sell right here because it's where the daily is not able to break through this area. And it's been making multiple weeks over here. So, this is where they know that, okay, since the indicator is giving me a signal to sort of sell here, means that price will actually pivot from this area, from bullish to bearish. So, for this indicator wise, it has weekly pivot, daily pivot and monthly pivot. So, next will be custom all pivot points indicator. For this indicator wise, there's multiple pivot points and it may actually look kind of complex to you guys, but it's actually kind of simple in a sense that if you know all the settings of the indicator itself, you will be able to understand what each indicator means and the settings of each indicator. So, for this indicator, this PP stands for pivot point, then this S1, S2, S3 and S4 are the support lines. So, S1 stands for support 1, S2 support 2 and so on and so forth. S1 for R1 will be resistance 1, then as you can see, all these lines, all these red lines over here, there are many, many red lines and some don't make sense for example you see these red lines over here. So, this just shows that not all indicators are always perfect. There are some flaws in indicators but nonetheless, some indicators, custom indicators actually do work. And you can see, here is the pivot point, support 1, support 2, support 3. So, it's just indicating that okay for resistance wise, if maybe price will just here. So, current price is at this pivot point right here. So, it really cross the pivot point. So, where do you look next? So, for this indicator, you are looking at this resistance 1 area. And if it reaches this resistance 1, it shows that the indicator is telling you to sell at this area because it may actually hit the resistance point. And this particular trader may actually look for sell here. As for support wise, just means that if price comes down here, then you'll take a buy over here. And you just need to be careful about indicators because indicators are not actually always right. They are definitely flaws in it. So, moving on, one of the other, this is the example of a complex custom indicator. So, this is a combination of different indicators such as the movie average trend and then ADX trend strength and lastly will be high timeframe candlestick strength. So, this indicator itself is a 3-in-1 combination and you can definitely find such indicators out there in the market but it's definitely more costly than normal indicators and EAs because these indicators combine different confluences to ensure that the trader only takes a trade or 3 indicators suggest the same bias. So, for example, if this is buy, so for example, we can see that this area right here, the price has actually crossed the moving averages lines so actually cross 3 of it. I'm guessing it's the 50 moving average, 200 moving average and 250 moving average. As for this ADX trend strength, we can see that this trend strength it just shows that on the daily, it's actually bearish but on the H4 it's actually bullish. So, this is starting that is actually bearish in the long run but here says bullish and lastly what we can see here is that the candlestick is all bullish. So, if you can see that all the candlestick is bullish and then you can see that MA crossover has already happened. So, if you are confident enough it's actually 2 out of 3 of the requirements of taking a buy trade here. So, the trader will actually want to take a buy trade. And not to mention that this indicator also includes a trend strength. So, you can see that it's turning bullish right now. So, you have already 3 out of 4. So, I believe that 3 out of 4, which is 75%, means that you should actually take the trade but risk maybe slightly lesser. If it's 4 out of 4, then go ahead and take the trade. Okay, next I'll be going through with you guys what are expert advices. So, in short, EAs. So, what are EAs? EAs are developed in our metacodes language 4 and 5 which is MQL 4 and 5 and it's a software that optimates trading functions based on algorithms. So, it notifies traders of trading opportunities and suggest traded trades that can be profitable. So, basically saying that EAs is a more convenient way for traders that cannot spend a lot of time chatting because if you were to trade manually, you will have to spend quite some time learning about the markets and to trade manually because you have to understand the markets look at candlesticks and trends etc. So, EAs actually makes life easier in the sense that it automates everything. So, what are the various types of expert advices? So, the various types of EAs would be scalping EA, new trading EA, breakouts EA and lastly hedging EA. So, for scalping EA, if you ask me, I've only tried scalping EA and new trading EA because breakouts EA and hedging EA are more complicated in a sense and I can share with you guys my experience later on how I actually use EA to start my journey in trading if you guys are actually curious. So, for automatic trading EA you can see that it's fully automated and basically the board itself, this EA will actually take trades based off its own settings and then it actually automates everything for the trader. You can see that price it shows lot size 0.01 what is the tick profit, stop loss I have no idea what is this magic number 1, 2, 3 maybe just one of the settings and then it shows you all the account details and then it shows the spreads as well and then the board will actually take trades based off its own settings for example, following trends breakouts, hedging, scalping etc. So, another automatic trading EA would be this EA so, if you can see here the name suggests breakout EA so, this EA only follows if there's a breakout of certain key levels so for this EA we can see that I believe this is the resistance level and this is the support level so you can see price is within this range so if it actually breaks out of this key level it will take a buy trade and if it breaks down this level it will take a sell trade because you're only trading the breakouts would you be able to share some of the EA that you are using oh ya sure so, I'll be sharing with you guys my past experience of using an EA and different EA's that I used previously but I'm not using any EA right now because I trade manually and my suggestion is that EA's can only help you in the short run and not in the long run and you definitely want to be able to learn more about the markets itself because EA's are not that reliable and it actually cost you to lose money in the long run oh ya ok, so later I'll be going through with you guys my experience with EA ok, so next another automatic trading EA that I'll be showing you guys will be this EA called Dark Venus I'm not sure if it's still operating now but this was maybe quite some time back and if I'm not wrong, this EA is more of following the trends and let me just search it up later on if it's still operating because I've tried it once and I used it for maybe a few days and I stopped using it because it was actually not taking that many trades and I prefer scoping EA's because scoping EA's it takes trades maybe every five minutes while this EA usually takes trades every one hour or every four hours or maybe don't even take any trades and all so if you're curious so where do you find this EA's ok, so the first place that you can find this EA's will be the Meta Trader Market Page so you can definitely find a lot of this EA's from MQ5 itself so if you later on, I can show you guys what I mean by that because I searched a lot of EA's in the past and I definitely have a lot of experience whereby the EA's just don't work as well as what they are promoting so my tip for you guys is that you should only purchase and sell us with excellent reviews for example you can see all these little 5 stars or 4.5 stars etc and you can see the reviews from other customers also do not be fooled by their advertisements I'm pretty sure I'm not sure if you guys actually see EA's being promoted on Instagram, Google or maybe YouTube I'm not sure whether you guys have experienced that but I definitely have seen a lot of EA's out there that are being promoted in a sense that they are just lying to you guys and they are not what the EA whatever that they are saying it's not what the EA can do so however on MQ5 platform you are able to test these EA's on demo accounts and then you can maybe try it for a day or week and then the maximum will be 24 or 48 hours if I'm not wrong some are more generous whereby they let you try it for a week on demo accounts and not on real accounts ya okay so for fiber wise you can engage a coder if you have a specific strategy for your custom EA and also if you want revenue stream you can do a wide level service after licensing your custom EA so what I mean by that is that basically you hire a coder to code your whole EA and then you sell it to you hire another person to license this EA itself so maybe the coding process if it's not too complicated on the market price for on fiber will be maybe 200 to 300 USD and then for licensing wise to license this whole thing this whole EA will be maybe 150 to 200 USD so let me just tell you guys about my experience on fiber so basically I had this strategy so this strategy is basically a trend following strategy provider your EA is damn good ya that's true so previously I had this strategy I don't mind share with you guys later on I'll just show you in short what my strategy is about so basically I had this strategy and I believe that that was the start of my training journey and I literally had no clue about forest at all and I only watched youtube videos and then came up with like strategy because I combined different indicators and I read I read up a lot on forex but I didn't know how to trade it manually so I just talked about why not I just go to fiber since fiber has a lot of coders and when I searched fiber has this let me show you guys so let me just show you guys this okay so basically if you see here there's this auction whereby it's fiber's choice and then you can see I will code forex ea as per advisor auto board for you mt4 mt5 so last time I actually hire another person to code for me and then they will basically listen to you can have a call with them and basically opt for different pricing so mine was about 250 USD so I I opted for the more premium package because I believe that cheap not good so if I did the standard package I wouldn't be able to code the strategy properly because it's quite complicated and basically you can see if you have any larger needs they kind of thing so if your strategy is rather complicated you can call them and basically have a talk with them and they will understand your needs so basically what I did was I hire a coder I coded the strategy and ask him if it's viable or not so we did a couple of changes and then after I got the board itself I definitely had to try it myself so I tried it myself then I felt that it worked for quite some time so I back tested it for maybe 2 weeks then every day it was averaging maybe about $4,000 for a 500 USD account it was actually averaging about easy 50 USD per day with a medium resetting 50 USD a day a day which is 10% a day so it was quite ridiculous because the market pre-COVID was pretty decent so the board itself was actually running quite well and it was just the downside of it was that you have to be careful of the drawdown so the board was actually in drawdown for quite a bit I think the highest drawdown was 25% so 25% quite high so just for that maybe 10%-15% profit so I had to be in a drawdown of maximum 30% so after that I actually sold to quite a few clients but I realised that in the long run the board isn't really going to make you that much money because the board always have its flaws and after covering back the cost of the board and profiting maybe 20-30% then the board started to lack so the board started taking lesser trades the board started to not perform as well because the market changes over time like market structure will always change and there so it's pretty difficult to run a board in the long run and having to make consistent profits but if you are confident about long term strategy maybe you can consider this option so it can be maybe your side income etc so that's my advice for you guys if you are confident enough to sell boards to other people but you have to remember that just a tip if you guys want to do that usually a single board cannot be used on two separate accounts with different IDs so if you do that the board will actually not perform the way it is supposed to perform because when I did this last time when I actually coded the board I tried it on two different accounts and the board actually complicated its settings and didn't know which account it tricks in so it's just to prevent you from making this mistake so it's best if you can create a duplicate board and then it's not that difficult you just have to change the licensing key for the board itself so that's just my recommendation for you guys because I've actually experienced this before and there were a lot of complications and then she said that the board isn't performing the way it is supposed to because maybe someone else is actually using that licensing key so the third option is 4x factory website actually shows you all the free expert advisors, indicators that everyone is sharing with the public the three expert advisors usually don't work as well because they usually have basic settings even for beginner traders you maybe spend a few hours to learn you can definitely even learn what the board does you can just trade it normally so you can see here let me just swap this screen so they said I'm listing it here for free so I don't want for sale anywhere so usually when people say you may be a bit skeptical about it because it's definitely too good to be true so just need to be careful of what you download on whichever website usually mql5 marketplace is the safest usually just don't download these free ones because if you guys want to explore it but just be careful about all these free EAs and indicators lastly just google and you can find on mql5c they show you mql5 marketplace for a scratch just don't trust all these for a scratch all these websites because you may not know what they are they may actually be malware so please be careful about all this and do your own due diligence and research about all these EAs and what does it do to understand more instead of just blindly diving into this EA market okay so I'll be moving on to how do you use them so basically you just download the EA for example you bought an EA or you download the free EA then you double click the expert advisor that you want to use for example we choose the dark venus okay so we double click it and then they'll show you a pop up whereby you can see all the settings of the expert advisor but you can also see the common inputs so for example you see long and short positions enable alerts okay so for EAs this option is very important this and this allow DLL means for this option is to show that all the settings of the board can be important into empty 4, empty 5 then allow modifications of signal settings and modify all the settings for the board so once done you'll see the whole EA and then you can see your account, balance, equity profit and loss journal percentage, spread lot size etc I think for this board if you say start lot size usually it will mean that this board will actually do like martingale okay if you start from 0.01 then if it's losing then it will increase to 0.02, 0.04 0.08 so usually these boards martingale boards are not recommended because you need a large account size in order to hold that many trades for that big of a lot size okay so it will be how do you back test them so basically how do you back test them you can see on if you go if you click into empty 4 you can see this little button with the magnifying glass just beside new order then you can click on it and then it's basically the strategy tester button and this option is not available empty 4, empty 5 because this can only be done on the computer version hold on i got a question let me just go through first i will have Q&A session towards the end okay so once you are inside you can see this option So you can see the name of your EA and then the symbol means that which pad do you want to test it on and then the model. Usually you'll choose the every take, the most precise method based on all available lease times frames that you use date. Basically just choose about five to eight years is good enough. Okay, then your period you can choose based off your own box requirements. For example, if this is a, let's see, maybe this box is based on trends. So H1, H4, etc. Then your spread will follow the current market and then you press start. So once you press start, you will actually look all the way once you see this green thing, then you finish loading. So yeah, then results tab, you actually show you what the board did. So buy, buy, buy, close, close, close. So you can see the number of profit and loss. So actually this board is profitable because it has only lost one trade, so which is a small loss of $1.18, then the biggest profit is 3.24. You can see the graph. You can see that it was actually pretty going up in a, not a very steep slope, but it's pretty still just that it had a major drop right here whereby it was actually in profit. Yeah, it was in profit and then it dipped quite a bit. So this is, and then it went back all the way up and then it continued going profits consistently. Then lastly for the report tab. The report tab is where you see your whole EA, whether it's profitable and draw down and how many wins and losses that it actually made. So you can see initial deposit is a $1 million account. So total net profit is $500, so means that it's profitable.  Okay, so it took 523 trades in total and then gross profit was 1.5K and then maximum draw down is this amount. So you can see usually for the maximum draw down, usually just because the account size is really huge, which is $1 million. So if it's maybe 10K account, the draw down is actually 21%. So it's actually quite a big amount. But this board is actually pretty stable. You can see consecutive wins 19. So it actually won 19x in a row and then consecutive profit total up to $795. So you can see gross loss $1,015. So you can see how the net profit is $500. And then you can see here, let me see, long duration stock, loss trades. One profit trades. Okay, so you can see the profit trades is $404 and the loss trades is $119. So if you even it out, I think the win percentage is maybe about 50 plus percent, 60 percent. Okay, so you can see consecutive losses 12, but the losses basically is all being covered up from the profits itself. So basically, this whole idea, it actually stems from some traders being lazy and not wanting to trade it manually or maybe just beginner or amateur traders that don't really want to do it manually, but just want to do it automatically. Because when I actually did this auto trading back in 2020, I think early 2020, I was actually just started, I just started learning about forex and didn't know what was forex at all. I just read through, watch some YouTube videos and then I decided, oh actually, why not just do a board, right? Since the board may actually help me to make money. But overall, if you want consistent profits, I would suggest learning more about manual trading, start from the basics and then slowly learning a lot more, rather than just diving into auto trading. Because if you were to rely too much on auto trading, it's actually not that good for you guys. So, let me just show you guys. Oh yeah, so that's the end of the EA section whereby I'm not, yeah, there isn't anything else much to cover. But just, yeah, so now just ask me any questions that you guys want to ask. Okay, so one of the question would be, does a candlesticks EA work on main candlesticks pattern? Which is interesting is, what is interesting is to automate automatically. Okay, so Karim, I'm not sure what the EA candlesticks EA does, but let me just, okay, let me just search on it. Okay, give me, is it to identify? Okay, let me see. Oh, okay, so, okay, Martin. Okay, so just a tip for you guys, if they said martingale grid averaging or other dangerous techniques are not used, this is a stable EA because you want to avoid EA's that actually use martingale grid and yeah, just martingale and grid because martingale is basically if you are in a loss, you just double your loss size. It's basically just gambling and it's not advisable. As for grid, grid is just out of the question. If you guys later on maybe after this webinar, you guys can search more about grid EA's is actually very dangerous and the drawdown is actually quite a lot. So for Karim, basically your question, okay, basically for candlesticks EA's, it doesn't work 100% of the time where it can identify candlesticks properly. Okay, so guys, this is Karim's question. That's candlestick EA work on main candlesticks pattern. So to answer that, it's actually pretty difficult for EA's to work 100% on candlestick patterns. It may actually identify for you. Wait, let me see. Let me see if I can see this. Okay, there are no images but I think, let me see if there are any images right here. Oh, okay, so I think for this EA wise, whenever it identifies a pattern of the candlestick, then it will show by or sell whatever. So you can see this example. Maybe it's three wise soldiers means that it's bullish. So after three candlesticks, then you'll tell you to, okay, the EA will show a line and say, okay, I want you to buy here. So you just enter a buy trade blindly. So I mean it's doable if it's actually profitable. Maybe you can exploit it but try to exploit it on. I'm not sure if they allow you to exploit it on demo account. So you guys can see this free demo, this free demo button. So just click it and maybe you can see what it does on the demo account. And then if you want, you can try it for three months. It's just a short, it's just a small amount of 30 USD. Yeah, don't bother trying all those 1,000 plus, you can see 1,000, 5,000. Look at this, 5,000 and then it has only 3.5 star review.  Okay, so the next question is what programming language is best to learn if I want to build auto-training strategy from scratch by myself? Okay, so Jake, this is a very good question. Let me show you guys sorry, just give me a second. Okay, there are two different so let me see. Okay, so yeah, C++ but you have to remember for if you want to only do it for MT4, right? It's C++ but MT5 is a more complicated version of C++. I mean I tried they have a set of files. If I'm not wrong, let me show you guys I've searched on this before. There are a lot of templates and then there's a lot of APIs for you to implement into your auto-training but it's quite complicated so I suggest not to spend so much time learning into it. If you can spend maybe $300 you can hire a coder for you and make your life so much easier because time is money but if you have a coding background you can definitely explore this option and I think there are a lot of YouTube tutorials on how you can use the MQL APIs so if to answer your question Jake I believe C++ is the answer if you want to do indicators on trading view it's a whole other thing so trading view is a little bit different you'll use something like a pine script but you cannot code Ease on trading view but only indicators so there's a whole YouTube video on how you can code just that you'll take quite some time because you have to learn all about the length, smoothing you see all these variables it's very complicated so the next question is Karim prefers to set a repeatable stop loss amount he once saw a trader presentation that showed a program just to create an EA but for now I do not get the program's name oh okay usually usually for Ease people will give false promotions about it I believe the best option you should only trust someone if they manage to show you from hey okay you can only trust someone if they show all their data on my FX Book and then this shows how much their percentage gains how good is their EA working and make sure there is a live account instead of like a demo account yeah what was the indicator you had in the beginning of this talk oh okay okay so for trading view let's go to trading view let me just log out okay let's just log out maybe just use this okay so trading view there are many indicators so you can see here let me just click here so this is where you find all the indicators and let me just show you okay okay so there is this when I was a beginner trader I actually use this and it's quite cute so yeah it's a combination little areas whereby they tell you to buy and sell so these are what indicator does they tell you okay I want let me see if I can do a replay just one USA okay so let's say we are at high seasonal so you can see I think this indicator is basically wait let me okay display over our trend display indicator okay so this indicator is so cute they tell you to sell and buy with an indicator logo so there's different indicators so for this one this indicator so you can see this cute little crocodile so they tell you to sell and buy so it's based on the indicator so indicator indicator if you guys want to learn more it's actually quite an interesting indicator and this signals just shows tell you to sell and buy but it's not very accurate so usually indicator signals okay so let me just play in real time whether the signals will pop out or not now we are in a bullish trend so let me just play so you can see if the signal actually pops out okay so from here if I if I zoom if I go down to maybe one hour okay if I go down to one hour then let me just replay for you guys so I think this indicator just shows that if price starts to hover below all these 3 lines you see these 3 lines come here price will actually start to sell so if you just follow this indicator blindly I think if you back test this indicator you can profit quite a bit if you hold your trades because I see that 0.3x okay let me just play you can see price is now here and then you sell wait for the signal so the signal will come out okay so once this signal comes then once the signal sell signal comes okay okay you see this signal it says sell so let's say if you sell here you just follow this signal blindly you sold here you'll stop loss you see this signal it shows you this height you place it above this height okay v62 pips okay then when should your target be your target can be maybe either 1x1 or 1x2 and let just see if it actually hits the target itself let me just play it okay let's see if you fix it at 1x2 let's see how price actually reacted then slowly slowly if you hold your trade just fix it at 1x2 okay then you actually hit or take profit just like that so this kind of indicator sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't let me just show you guys I'm not saying to ask you guys use this indicator but such indicators are more reliable because it's based off a trend and if you look at daily timeframe I'm not sure if it follows on the daily timeframe better but yeah so you can see yeah you see if you buy here it broke out that's why it bought but this indicator is wrong if you did that if you bought here the stock loss put below maybe the low right here you will have easily you will have easily just hit your stock loss yeah so it's best if you know what the indicator does and its own market structure as well so that's how you understand whether the EA will actually bought me for this scenario you can see sell here and then it looks like a very nice sell because if you see market structure highs lows low high then this low low low then low high then low low right so market structure is quite beautiful in this scenario so if they try to sell here it actually aligns with your own confluences so sometimes EA is work and sometimes EA doesn't but let's say I draw a fit and then it lines super nicely with the 38.2% so I say okay if it lines very nicely with my feeble and it's below these 3 lines then the indicator also tells me to sell and you cannot just do it so sometimes you can use such indicators to your advantage because it's pretty good in a sense that they will tell you where you should buy sell but you should also learn about forex also so that you can be adapt in this kind of situations and to be careful of where you actually buy and sell so digmi the previous indicator that I was actually using just now is just an example but I'm not too sure about its functionalities because it's an example but I can use this just to an example for you guys so if you guys want to explore indicators just feel free to click on this indicators or you can see community scripts usually there are some where there are a lot of likes and then those are the ones that maybe you can trust so let's see let me show you a very popular one so let's see ICT kill zones so ICT is an inner circle trader so it's very popular in a sense that a lot of people are using this for smart money so I'm not sure if you guys know about smart money but let's see so if you're on oh this cool you can see all these different names if you go to the details let me see if I can go to the details settings so it's New York A.M New York New York A.M, New York Low, New York P.M et cetera so these kind of indicators are more complicated so try to avoid them unless you actually know the backstory of it and you can definitely search for all the different indicators et cetera and you can learn from these we are searching our indicators or expert advisors so that's all I have for you guys any last question before I end this session okay advise where to find recording for today and past Monday webinar hold on I think I think TickMail's website will be posting the recordings because usually I seldom do TickMail webinars but I think they'll be posting it on their website later on I'll ask my colleague and yeah we are not able to locate okay no worries I'll check on this in the next webinar just Peggy also could not locate as well oh Peggy is she able to locate for the Taiwan or the Taiwan is not able to locate as well because if the Taiwan is able to locate I think the English one is able to be located as well okay no worries Richard let me ask Desmond and see maybe if you attend the next one I'll let them know because it should be able to locate don't worry I'll forward it to them let them know we have this issue you can write pyscript and link it to a live account okay for pyscript it works on trading view and you can only do it on trading view and then you use your phone or computer to trade so trading view is just to see the indicator and then after that you should only enter manually on mt4 and mt5 okay for Jin Tiong okay okay Richard maybe you can maybe you can see on tiktok youtube see if you can locate it but don't worry I'll forward it to the rest just join in the next webinar and maybe I'll tell them to let you know or let everyone else know about this issue okay alrighty okay guys I'll see you guys in the next webinar and I hope you guys enjoy this session thank you for joining us and I hope you learn more about indicators and custom EAs okay guys in the next webinar enjoy sharing with you guys my experience for indicators and EAs alright so take care guys bye bye