In 1988, school children from across America were asked to help name the newest space shuttle orbiter. One of their requirements was to name it after a sea vessel of scientific exploration. After months of competition, a name was finally selected and our newest orbiter was christened. Record the space shuttle endeavor on this its maiden voyage. The name endeavor has a long history of scientific exploration and discovery. Over 200 years ago, the oceans of the world were still great frontiers filled with mystery and adventure. No ship helped to unravel those mysteries more than the British sailing ship endeavor. It's obvious we've progressed quite a ways since the wind-driven sailing ships, but we are still inspired by the quest for knowledge and the sense of adventure. During the next few minutes, we will take a look at the endeavor of long ago to see how much we've changed and how much we've stayed the same. So join us for the voyage of endeavor then and now. He minors 10, 9, 8. We have a goal for main engine start. We have main engine start. 4, 3, 2, 1, 0. And lift off. Lift off of the space shuttle and it has cleared the tower. Yeah, you're on. Thank your touchdown. Endeavour Houston, go ahead. The original endeavor was commanded by one of the greatest sea captains who ever lived, Captain James Cook. Cook, the very name dominates an age of world exploration. At the helm of Endeavour, he sailed across the Atlantic, around the treacherous horn of South America, and into the vast Pacific Ocean. The voyage of Endeavour took him to Tahiti, New Zealand, along Australia's great barrier reef. And finally, around the tip of Africa, back into the Atlantic and home to England. It was a voyage that lasted almost three years. As a young boy in England, James Cook fell in love with the sea. Born the son of a farmer, he quit his job as a grocery clerk to work as an apprentice on a coal hauling ship. Because he aspired to a career normally reserved for the privileged upper class, Cook worked hard. He spent much of his free time studying navigation, astronomy, and physics. Without a doubt, his knowledge of these subjects led to his success as a great explorer. Like Cook, most every astronaut can tell you that he or she became interested in exploration at a very young age. Space exploration. We come from different backgrounds. Some of us are pilots, others are scientists, engineers, mathematicians, and even medical doctors. But one thing we all have in common is a college degree and a strong background in math and science that led us into the space program and into space. The shuttle is the workhorse of the space program and Endeavour is the fifth shuttle to be built. Although she may look the same as her sister ships, Endeavour is actually pioneering new shuttle technology that will soon be incorporated into the rest of the shuttle fleet. These modifications include the addition of a drag chute for safer landings and improvements that will allow shuttles to fly longer missions of exploration. Cook's Endeavour was also modified before she set sail. She started out as a short-range coal hauling ship named Earl of Pembroke. She was then refurbished for longer voyages and rechristened Endeavour. Then in August of 1768 Cook sailed her from Plymouth, England to begin one of history's greatest voyages. But what was he looking for? His primary mission was to transport a group of scientists to an area in the Pacific Ocean where they could observe an important astronomical event. It was the transit of Venus when the planet passes in front of the sun, an event that happens only twice every 100 years. But Cook also had another job or secondary objective. He was to explore this relatively uncharted region of the world, claim all that he found for England and make maps of the area. Along the way the scientists with him would observe and document new plant and animal life they encountered. Whenever we launch a shuttle into space we also have more than one job or objective in mind. For example, our primary mission on this light is to retrieve the Innosat satellite. Rescuing the satellite turned out to be more of a challenge than we thought it would be. Like Cook we discovered there are unknowns associated with exploration. While exploring the uncharted Australian coastline, the Endeavour ran aground on the Great Barrier Reef. But Cook had a skilled and ingenious crew who was able to repair the ship and enable the voyage to continue to its successful conclusion. We ran into problems too when we first attempted to capture the satellite. This task was easily performed on Earth, but in space it was a different matter. Well it's not ground, I didn't get it. But in a case of history repeating itself, the crew of the space shuttle Endeavour was able to devise a new plan of action. And we successfully completed our primary mission objective. But that's not all we do. We, like Captain Cook, also have secondary objectives. On board we're conducting life science experiments which will help us to better understand the effects of weightlessness on the human body. We're also working outside the orbiter in the payload bag evaluating construction techniques for space station freedom. So, like Cook, we're blazing a trail for those who will follow. Beautiful. Documentation is also an important part of what we do up here. In fact, on this flight we're carrying 21 cameras to bring back some of our activities to Earth. We can show researchers their experiments in action, or tests of space hardware. We give oceanographers a new view of our oceans and geologists a different view of the Earth. And the beauty of the Earth from space sparks the imagination of everyone. We can send images from space as they happen via satellite. But we also bring back a lot of pictures. In Cook's day there were no satellites or cameras, but he still needed to document the things he saw. So, he had two artists on his endeavor to document the landscapes, the people, the plants, and the animals they encountered during their exploration. But that meant the scientists back in England had to wait until Cook got home to see their pictures. And Cook was gone for three years. A ship, whether it's a sailing ship or a spaceship, has to have a crew to make it work. We have a crew of seven on our flight. A commander and a pilot who fly the spacecraft, and five mission specialists to perform microgravity experiments. Do spacewalks, operate the shuttle's arm, and deploy satellites. Of course, with such a small crew we all have to help each other out and share the work. For example, while Pierre and Rick are spacewalking outside the orbiter, the rest of the crew are all busy with jobs that make their trip outside possible. So there's a lot of coordination between all of us. On the shuttle, seven people have to live and work in a volume equal to half the inside space of a school bus. But we make the most of what space we do have, even the ceiling. These lockers are where we stow most of the things we use on the flight, such as our clothes and even equipment for some of our experiments. Cook had to consider living and storage space on his endeavor, too. He had more than 90 people on board a ship that wasn't designed to carry nearly that many. This meant they had to make use of every nook and cranny on the ship, just like we do on the shuttle. Cook had to also carry enough supplies to service the ship during its three-year voyage. That meant extra canvas for torn sails and other items to keep his ship sailing. Remember, endeavor ran aground on Australia's Great Barrier Reef, and her hull was damaged pretty badly. But thanks to the carpenter and blacksmith that Cook had on board, they were able to repair the damage and continue their voyage. Occasionally, we may also have problems that require immediate maintenance. And even though we don't have a blacksmith or a carpenter on board, we do have a well-equipped tool kit and extensive maintenance checklist. During the flight of STS-30, the crew used these maintenance procedures and tools to change out an important computer. We sure hope we don't have any emergencies like that, but if we do, we have the tools and the procedures to get the job done. Food was another thing that took up a lot of space on Cook's endeavor. Carrying enough food for such a large crew was quite a task. Meat was packed in large barrels of salt to keep it from spoiling. The typical food on such a long voyage consisted mainly of salt, pork, and bread with a little rum or beer thrown in. Because of diets like that, many sailors of that day suffered and died from scurvy, a disease caused by a lack of vitamin C. But things were different on Cook's ship. He loaded endeavor with as much fresh meat, fruit, vegetables, and onions as the ship could carry. And because of that, he didn't lose a single member of his crew to scurvy. Cook even took a goat along with him so that his crew would have fresh milk. I don't think that would work up here. For the most part, our meals are already prepared. Some foods we just have to heat up in our small galley. Others are prepared by adding water to them. We also have some that we eat straight out of the can. Tonight I'm having beef tips with mushrooms, asparagus, and butterscotch pudding. We also have a choice of drinks, but no rum or beer like in Cook's day. This would have been a feast for Cook's crew. And then there's housekeeping, a chore on any vessel. Cook knew the disease in germs could destroy his crew, so he regularly had endeavor's deck scrubbed with a mixture of vinegar and water. But if one of his crew did get sick, he had a medic and a doctor on board to take care of them. We also have to keep our ship clean. In space, dirt and other things don't fall to the floor like they do on Earth.  And if one of us becomes ill, two of our crew members are trained to be crew medical officers. Using the shuttle medical kit and the medical checklist, the crew medical officers can treat problems as simple as a headache or something as serious as a heart attack. Here's a lecture they didn't have on the original endeavor, a toilet. In Cook's day, they used to have to use a bucket or hang over the side of the ship. As you can imagine, that could get pretty dangerous in rough seas. Man overboard! Another advantage we have as far as comfort goes is climate control. Our life support system keeps the crew compartment at a comfortable 25 degrees Celsius. On Cook's voyage, endeavor sailed through the frigid waters off the tip of South America and through the tropics near Tahiti, all without air conditioning or heaters. Cook also sailed without the sophisticated navigational aids that we have today. To chart his course, Cook used a sextant, a device that uses the stars to pinpoint latitude, or how far north or south we are from the equator. It would still be a few years before the use of a chronometer would enable sailors to accurately determine longitude, or how far east or west they were from England. But thanks to Cook's knowledge of math and astronomy, he was able to compute endeavor's longitude to within a few degrees. Most of our navigation is done by modern tracking satellites and ground radar. But we have to help them out by pointing endeavor's navigation instruments up at the proper stars. To do this, we use a device that's a lot like the sextant Cook relied on. It's called a star tracker. With a star tracker, we can accurately determine the orbiter's attitude and then do precise maneuvers like a rendezvous with the intel satellite. Cook's voyage on endeavor was a challenging one. And in spite of the hardships endured by him and his crew, the journey was one of history's greatest voyages of exploration. During the voyage, Cook explored and charted New Zealand, proving that it was actually two islands. He charted the eastern and northern coast of Australia, and established that Australia and New Guinea were separate land masses. And he circumnavigated the globe, bringing back a wealth of scientific information about plant and animal life in that part of the world. The crew of the Spatial Endeavour salutes Captain James Cook and his great accomplishments. His life is an example of how far one can go. He overcame great odds and obstacles to make his dreams come true. With hard work, study, and perseverance, Cook became one of history's greatest explorers. We in the show program are also explorers, charting a course for the future, a future filled with new frontiers. Today, our voyage of endeavor is keeping the spirit of exploration alive. For you.


What's something you hated hearing as a kid? We'll go first. You'll understand when you're older This is a phrase that hasn't furiated kids for decades. Many psychologists, like Eric Erickson, for example, have taught us that we develop in stages. As children, our brains haven't developed enough to handle the complex situations that we'll encounter as adults. Thus, birthed the dreaded phrase.  We're usually able to call them immature, but what do you call someone that doesn't understand or cope well with those heavier topics consistently? That's what we would call emotionally immature. Let's explore four signs someone might be emotionally immature. Impulsivity. In the OG and remake of Willy Wonka, we meet for Ruka Salt. In both versions, she's a rich, demanding, and impulsive brat ordering daddy around. I want this and I'll get this.  Now, what if you have an adult that acts just as impulsively and does whatever they want? According to Lindsay Gibson, a psychiatrist and author of Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents, people who are emotionally immature are also incapable of thinking deeply and analyzing the situation thoroughly. So, their decisions are usually emotionally charged rather than well thought out, just like Ruka. In the OG, she wants a golden goose. In the remake, it's squirrels. Either way, she isn't taking into consideration that these are Wonka employees or how much her daddy will need to spend to buy an employee. Not to mention how awfully similar to slavery this sounds. This inability to analyze a situation fully can be a sign of emotional immaturity.  When people need to be accountable for their actions, it can seem like everyone is passing the buck. In 2016, a study was done on better emotional intelligence in adolescents. The researchers stated an emotionally mature person is able to reflect on their thoughts and actions in order to determine if they did the right thing. This is called emotional regulation. Those who are emotionally immature typically don't get to this stage of thought, nor the personal growth that comes with it. They like the fact that the attention is on them, but not have something they did wrong as being called to attention. This is where the immature and emotionally charged response comes. This response and the lack of self-reflection can help determine someone's emotional maturity. Bullying. When children fat, they usually resort to bullying and name-calling to protect their feelings. People who are emotionally immature might also act the same way. According to a study on adolescent bullying by Epsurisa Ramirez, bullying is that same emotionally charged initial reaction that we've been talking about. Since emotionally immature adults still lack the tools to cope with difficult emotions, they might resort to playground tactics like bullying. An example of this, might be an employee making fun of the boss's outfit while getting reprimanded. This emotionally immature response prevents the self-reflection we mentioned earlier, and is used as a coping mechanism to help protect the person from feeling like they're in the wrong. Selective caring. As we grow up, there actually is a stage of child development where kids are actually supposed to be a bit narcissistic. According to our buddy Ericsson, this is around when the child is three to four years old. Now, a little looking out for number one doesn't make you a bad person. However, being an adult and only caring about how your actions impact you, can be a sign of emotional immaturity according to Tracy S. Hutchinson PhD from Psychology Today. Let's say your friend just lost their job and can't pay rent. They confide in you to let some stress off by venting. If you're an emotionally mature friend, you might be able to comfort them and help brainstorm some solutions to help get them on their feet again. If you're emotionally immature, you might smile and nod while your friend vents, but you might not even be paying attention since their situation doesn't affect you. Now, there can be a lot of reasons for someone to act a bit self-absorbed. This is just one of those reasons. Do you know any more? Share them below, and you might see them in an upcoming video.  Remember, their actions, or reactions, aren't a reflection of you. They're a reflection of the thoughts and feelings they're unable to express in a healthy way. Do you know any other signs of emotional immaturity? Let us know down below. As always, keep an eye on Cy for more Psych2Go content. Until next time!


Let's see. Okay. Hello, everyone. Thanks for joining us today. We're going to give it a second so more people can enter the webinar. Congratulations on another amazing Give Local NRV. We're going to start here shortly and cover just a couple different things to kind of wrap up post-event. So thanks for joining us. I'm going to start in a second. Alrighty. So welcome to the Give Local NRV post-webinar. My name is Sarah. I am a project manager for Give Local NRV with Mighty Cause, the platform provider for the event. So for pretty much for today's post-webinar, we're going to talk through different ways how you can kind of close the loop on the 2022 giving event, review how you can continue using the platform on a year-round basis. And of course, we are also going to make the big announcement for this year's winners for this year's event. We also have Jess and Lindsay on with us. I'm going to pass the mic over to both of them so they can see a few congratulatory words to you all. Go for it. It's been good to be with you today and just wanted to echo what Sarah said. Great job this year. It was really fun to be a part of the event. I think probably most of you know that I just started at the Community Foundation at the end of April. So it was fun to have a really big project to work on when I first started. And Laurie and yes, I have gotten some rats and I hope everyone else did too. A couple 1 a.m.s in a row. I'm not used to that. And I think Jess is finishing up lunch so we can maybe hear from her later. Sounds good. All right, so I'm going to show you a quick agenda slide. Like I said, we're going to review some tips on how to follow up post-giving event, kind of talk about how you can find and use your donor reports from the event. Look at some disbursement dates for you all. We'll also kind of share how you can continue getting the most out of the platform even after the event has ended. Because as most of you probably know, some might be new, this platform is available to you year round. So if you have any questions, you can feel free to type them into the Q&A chat bubble during our presentation. It'll be kind of a quick presentation. So if you think of anything, feel free to send them over. You don't need to wait till the end. So giving day a follow-up. So with Give Local NRV Complete, it's time to consider your follow-up post-event if you haven't already done so. You're really going to want to go beyond the platform tools and our automated thank-yous on the donation page. So if you haven't already, start planning your thank-yous to donors. Anything like making a video, sharing a personal photo of your staff can be really good for this. Really trying to make a connection with your donors after they've contributed to your campaign. When thanking donors and continuing communication with your donors, you definitely want to be sure to talk about the impact of the funds that you raised during your event. And overall, the goal is to really close the loop on your campaign. So this means if you are fundraising for something specific, say on your piece of equipment, any improvements to a building, anything that you were campaigning for, you'll really just want them in. Sorry, it might be me. Is anyone else having trouble hearing Sarah? I have issues in my office with Wi-Fi, so just wondering. I can take out my headphones. And I'm able to hear okay on my end. Okay, it's probably me again. Jess, I'm going to come join you in your office. Yeah, come on in. Okay, well, if anyone can't hear me at some point, just let me know. I'm using a headset. Alrighty, so pretty much just at the end of the campaign, you really want to close that loop. So like I was saying, if you are fundraising for something specific, even if you are fundraising for a general fund, just kind of tying that loop, making the connection with the donor, letting them know where their dollars will go, thanking them, and then just continuing that communication with them throughout the rest of the year is really key. Updating them, sending emails periodically on your progress. What you'll want to do is just make sure you keep them connected to your organization. You don't want a donor to give during the event and then the communication just dies after that. If you have new donors who gave during the event, you'll definitely want to start making sure that you have an onboarding plan in place for new donors. You want them to come back to donate to you again. So you can consider things, kind of creative little ways to make a connection, make these new donors feel seen, let them know that they're appreciated. A lot of organizations consider mailing a welcome packet as a fun way to get them onboarded. You can create an automated email journey where they can start to get information about what you do year round and why it's really important to continue to support your work. So overall, thinking and appreciating your donors is going to be essential to retaining donors. You know, you might be thinking, well, this is a lot of time and energy, but it really costs less to retain an existing donor than to acquire a new one. So all the time, any money, any effort you put into thanking your donors, creating welcome packets, all that's going to be very well spent. Donors that are feeling appreciated and valued on an ongoing basis are definitely likely to stick with your organization for the long run and just really continue providing you that valuable support for years to come. Reports and disbursements.  You can download a detailed donation report and a CSV file at any time through your organization profile to thank and follow up with individual donors to tabulate kind of your donation values, number of donors. So you can find all this information within your reports, all donations tab on your organization dashboard. From this section, you can filter by the giving event itself to pull your data. So if you go in there, you can select give a look at NRV 2022 and you can pull specific data just from the event timeframe. You can also select custom timeframes because like I said, this platform is available to you on a year-round basis. So you can pull donation reports from any point of during the year. Just you'll enter in the custom timeframe. Regarding disbursements for the 2020, sorry 2022 event, the money is going to be dispersed by July 10th. So in general, electronic dispersals through many calls are going to happen twice a month on a consistent schedule of like the 10th and the 25th of each month. So that's if you're set up with EFT that's twice a month. If you're not set up with EFT checks are dispersed once a month on the 10th of the month. So you can expect to check mail to the legal mailing address that's listed in your organization profile. And if you need to check this legal address, you can see it on file within your settings organization profile tab. Continuing the momentum. So this is going to be really important. Even though the give local NRV 2022 event has ended, this platform give local NRV and money cause is available to you and your organization on a year-round basis, which is very cool. So just be sure to take full advantage to know of all the tools and the resources that are available to your organization during the year. I kind of screenshot it and listed here everything you have continued access to within your organization profile. Now is a really great time to kind of take some slow time to dive deeper into any of the tools and features available to you that you might have not had time to kind of explore during the busyness of the campaign. You may have been like hyper focused on certain areas of your page and not been able to check out others. So if there's any features you didn't get a chance to check out, just take a moment now, you know, things are slower where you kind of explore those tools available to you. If you do feel like you could benefit from really slowing down and having someone walk you through your profile page, you can always set up a demo with a member of the mighty cause team. They can kind of tour you around screen share with you, take you a bit more in depth in the different features that we have as well as show you any kind of additional advanced features we have available. So if you're looking at this and wondering if there's some way to integrate with Salesforce or MailChimp, Google Analytics and that, we do have that option available. So if that's something you're curious about, you can always set up a demo. These are kind of the advanced features that are available that you could also do a free trial for. So this is part of the advanced package, but of course the slide before this is showing you what you have continued access to throughout the year. Super exciting news. We are very excited to also announce that in celebration of Give Local NRV's 10th anniversary next year, starting this fall for all participating Give Local NRV orgs, Mighty Cause has gifted two new advanced features for use on all of the Give Local NRV organization pages and this is going to be text to give and opportunities management. I'm going to explain a little bit next year for, well it's not totally next year, but in the fall we can kind of talk more about this and do like a deeper dive and a tutorial for you all. But you can utilize text to give for campaigns or general fund needs. Text to give is going to provide your donors pretty much the ability to donate directly from any smartphones or any devices. In a nutshell, you're going to create a unique keyword to set it up. Once the donor texts your keyword to a phone number, they're going to receive a response. They'll click the link in their text message. They can complete their donation within this kind of message interface and whatever amount they choose, Mighty Cause is then going to send their donation information, confirmation receipt and it's really cool just because text to give is going to provide you another really wonderful avenue and opportunity for your donors to continue donating to your cause in another easy way. Briefly on the opportunities tool, which is a brand new feature on Mighty Cause, it's going to help you share new and ongoing volunteer opportunities, any calendar events you might have, help you manage current opportunities, really just expand your reach within your support network, your donors, anyone who's supporting you quickly and easily. New opportunities you create are going to be added directly to your organization page under a new section that's going to be called Get Involved. Volunteers can click on that opportunity that you create to learn more about it. They can click a register button found on the bottom right corner. If the opportunity is managed directly on the platform, the Mighty Cause platform, when an individual registers for your opportunity or your workshop or your event, they'll receive a pop-up notification, they'll be emailed. If you are managing, you can also have the opportunity to manage your event on a third-party platform like EventPrite if you need them to get a ticket. So when the user is going to register for an opportunity like that, they'll be taken directly to the link you provide when you create your opportunity and you very easily can view all of the individuals that have registered for your opportunity within your Opportunities tool. So those are two super cool new features. We're excited to have you explore and just really help you continue engaging with your donors and supporters. Already, I'm going to pass it back over to Jess and Lindsay for our big 2022 winner announcement. You're muted.  Okay. Go for it. In your sound, it's... I can turn it on. Okay, I'll turn it on now. Okay, sorry. We're having... You're in the same room with the same mic, so you're good. You don't want an echo. Yeah, exactly. And I'm sitting right next to Jess, but my internet's on staple. So everyone, we probably, most of you have seen the leaderboard. We have a couple of grants that we haven't announced yet. So we just wanted to go through the winners and just say great job again. And we realized when we were counting up the grants that we had actually miscounted, but it was a goodness count. We thought we had $15,000 available. It was actually $16,500. And so we had 18 grants available this year. And we're excited to share. So if Sarah, if you want to advance the slide, thanks. So early giving was a lot of fun to watch this year and to see everyone kind of kicked Junof with some friendly competition. And probably a lot of you saw Spring House come in hot, frankly, with their donations. And they get a lot of parents and students involved. So it's pretty exciting. That was pretty exciting to watch. So they ran away with their early giving superstar grant. And that when it's given to the organization that raises the most money during that period. So they get an extra $1,000 for that. And then for most money raised. So as probably folks know, but if just to refresh her on how we approach it is we, if someone gets a grant that knocks them out of the running for the other grants, and they're also eligible for a power hour or golden ticket as well, but try to make it so one organization isn't winning every category. So that meant that even though Spring House had the most amount raised, under money raise, the grant for this one actually went to the YMCA for who came in second. So great job to you all and exciting to see what you all are going to do with the food truck. For medium and large organizations, Floyd Center for the Arts beat the Montgomery Museum just by a little bit. You all were working so hard and we saw that. And so nice job to everyone there, but Floyd came out with it at the end and then leading lives for small organizations. And just another, I probably should have said this in the beginning and you all probably remember, but we determine those categories based on budget size for everyone who submits for the year. So once we closed registration, we looked at the whole list and did it by third. So who's in the lower third for budgets in the middle and then the top and that will shift a little bit each year. So congratulations to all of you guys. And so, and then moving into most unique donors for large organizations. I mean, these numbers are pretty amazing. So St. John Newman Academy had 246 donations. Medium organization was Cal Fee Community Center, Community and Cultural Center at 127. And I know I saw them on social media a lot and they're did a great job there. So in the same thing with Jals County Christian Service Mission for small organizations, they had 42 gifts. So way to go for all of you. That was all really fun to watch. So Sarah, if you'd like to go to the next one and then Springhouse also won another grant for most money raised using peer to peer fundraising tools. And so how those work is your supporters can set up their own individual funding fundraising page and they had 17 different pages and raised a little over 16,000, I believe. So they really use that tool well. So it'd be great to hear more from them kind of their strategy about how they utilize that. And it's, I think that they're probably a great organization for that in the school setting to engage their constituents but definitely see it being used with other organizations. And then early giving superstars. So, pardon me, giving day superstars. So this one was both hard to choose and fun to choose because we saw so many organizations out there working so hard and just using creative ways to engage donors, great PR strategies. So we just talked to them and staff about folks who we thought really did a really awesome job of kind of getting into the spirit of give local. And we thought that the Montgomery Museum of Art and History and the Wilderness Road Regional Museum both did really wonderful jobs this year. And I think that these grants would be fun to give out to a bunch more people but just had two available this year and just wanted to say great job to you all and we saw how hard you were working and it was a lot of fun to watch. So congratulations to everybody. Awesome, thanks. Congratulations to all of our winners this year. So two final things that I wanted to just quickly touch on. We would love to hear your feedback on your experience this year. So we have a feedback form on the site. So if you just head to the give local NRV.org site you'll see a link, a button in the nav bar for feedback. It's six questions, super short. We would just love to hear anything you thought worked well, anything that you would like to see improved, anything you want to see more of if there was a prize. I think the team would love to hear just your overall thoughts anything you would like to see. So you can head over to the site and take that and then just as a reminder because this platform is available to you year round this means that our support is also available to you year round. So I just want to make sure you have all the resources the contact info for you as you continue to just kind of get the most out of the platform utilizing the features and the tools available to you. There's any features you're curious about if you need help with anything just let us know let the mighty cause to support team now. And of course if you want to check out a demo you can reach out to our team and we can get that set up for you as well. So if anyone has any final questions we can take those now or else. Thank you to all of you for taking the time out of your day to join us and congratulations on an amazing event this year. Sarah, I'll just add another plug for filling out the feedback form. It's six questions. We tried to make it short but any comments help whether something frustrated you or something went really well or whatever the feedback is we're reading all of them and it really helps. And we also have a question on there about potentially changing the format of giving day next year and thinking about it doing it from noon to noon versus midnight to midnight and we haven't made that decision yet and so we're really looking for feedback to hear from folks about what they think. And we're still working on getting out t-shirts so it's just first come first serve if you would like them. I've already pushed t-shirts on a number of people but please come and get them out. Don't want them just sitting around but hoping to get them in earlier next year so maybe pick up will be easier. And then one more thing that I wanted to add we've got a question about pulling your donation report and I just wanted to mention how to do that because I had the same question being the new one at the foundation. When I went into download our donor report it looked like it was just downloading a file for offline donations but just make sure you go and look at your downloads because what it does is it you'll have two separate files that download. So one is the offline donation spreadsheet and then one is the online donation spreadsheet and so it might just take a little bit to download but both of those should show up but if they're not for some reason just let's know and we can help you out there. That's good. I don't see any questions coming through so I just want to congratulate you all one last time. You've worked so hard. I know there's a lot of buildup and prep for this event so I hope you can all just take some time to celebrate all that you've accomplished within your organization. So thank you for joining us today everyone. Have a good rest of your day. Thanks everybody. Bye.


Okay. Yeah, so good morning everybody. Wonderful to see you all here. Once again, hope you've had a good pleasant couple of days before. So, yeah, so welcome to Week 8 of our class on emotional wholeness. Welcome to the e-learning students as well. Thank you for being faithful and ensuring that you're following with us week after week doing the doing the knowledge checks and the application. We really appreciate your questions and your interaction with us. Now, just before we get started, it's just just an announcement that the graded assessment, the first graded assessment has been uploaded. It was uploaded last week. Your due date is on March 8th. So I'm requesting each of you to kindly be up to date with that and complete it before the March of 8th. That is for the online students. And for those who are the e-learning students, you have time till the end of the course to finish it. So you can you can do it at your pace, but definitely before the end of the course, which is the April 28th. But for the online students, please ensure that you do it before the 7th or before the 8th of March, so that you can get your marks and that goes into your final grade as well. I will release the marks once everyone has finished. So for those of you who had finished earlier, thank you. I appreciate that you've been able to do your work on time, but kindly bear with me with patience till the rest of your classmates are up to date with that. And I will release it all together. Okay. Good. So shall we just start with a word of prayer and we can head right in. Heavenly Father, we thank you for your grace this morning. Thank you because your mercy follows us every moment of our lives. Thank you because you are with us and you are within us, Father, working good things Lord. Lord, even as we move into our lesson today of journey into emotional wholeness. Thank you for taking us through the last week of releasing and coming to you with with our confession and with our declaration of our healing. Other than as we look into how we can maintain this and how we can walk into our wholeness on a day to day basis. I pray that you will give us willing hearts and open minds and earnest spirits to hear from you. Thank you Lord. I bless each person who's joined in today. We pray for all those who are still to log in. I pray that you would remove any kind of hindrance from their lives so that they could join in and be blessed by your word in Jesus name. I pray. Amen. Alright, so we're going to move into our next portion of what we're learning and just for us to follow through. We're on journey into emotional wholeness. I'm just bringing up the page. Yeah, and we're on chapter five. We're on chapter five and that's on page 26. We're on chapter five and page 26. Okay, so would would anybody like to quickly go through what we did the last two classes on our receiving healing and deliverance? What were some of the things that we learned? We went through some of those action points last week and we went through praying together to casting out whatever that was not of God. So I believe that was a time that was blessed and really spoke to each one of us. So anyone would like to quickly do a recap as to what we what we handled last last week with the most difficult part of classes, isn't it? Yes, somebody are we all just waking up already to sleep? Okay, thank you Abhishek. Yes, we renounced sin and consecrated ourselves to God. Okay, thank you. That's that's wonderful. Thank you Abhishek. All right. What what were the other steps that we followed last week? Ma'am, we almost covered 14 different points, taking one step at a time and we towards emotional wholeness. So healing and deliverance through sanctification and consecration we started with. And then we moved on to ending how God's presence and anointing can break the yoke of enemy and help us in this journey of healing and deliverance. And then how we can, repentance is one of it. We can repent. I mean, we should repent, ask God for forgiveness. Yes. We live in the finished work of the cross. What God has done for us on the cross helps us in this journey and we learned about the truth of God's word, how it can help us renew our mind through God's word and be able to release forgiveness. Also, if there are any lies that we are holding on to in our hearts, we call to renounce it and renew our mind and breathe the truth of God's word. And then if we have any idea of anything that is holding us, then we can wait for closing all the entry points. Okay. Great. Thank you. Thank you, Avni. Someone else like to take over from what Avni is saying. Thank you, ma'am. Thank you. Excellent. Or what are some of the changes that we, I think what Avni was talking about was what we do, the initial 10 points that we do in actively resisting and coming to a place of repentance, forgiveness, consecration, also renouncing that which is of the enemy. So what are some of the lifestyle changes that we need to take place? The last four points, someone else could take over. So this also helps your online, sorry, the e-learning students as well to do a recap. What were the last four points that we looked into where it's more practical, more tangible things that we do to receive our healing? Anybody else? Make lifestyle changes? Yeah, I think Sissy has written that. Yeah, to learn and develop skills. Yes, it is to cut away. I think, yeah, someone is, Sissy, yes, go ahead. God's word should be in our eyes so that we can bring it out in our life. Okay. Okay. Bringing us in our life because of listening, speaking and God's word. This can bring changes in our life. Right. Okay. Ultimately, our life becomes clean and we become the temple of God and we can honor God through this. Okay. Right. Thank you. Thank you, Sissy. Yes. So a couple of things that highlighted in what Sissy said was, the first one is to cut off all ties, cut off anything that keeps us from going back to our sinful cells, our sinful nature. So that could be probably relationships or anything that has kept us from our emotional healing. The second one is using the word of God to renew it, to meditate on his word, to obey God's word on a regular basis and developing those patterns where we continuously renew our minds with God's word. Then it is also to develop a godly lifestyle, being able to keep ourselves away from lust and continue to pursue righteousness and thereby growing into Christ's likeness. And lastly, we said was developing certain skills that we need for a life of wisdom and fruitfulness because wisdom is what brings success. Okay. Great. Abhinavastu, did you have a question? No, ma'am. Actually, I just wanted to say something, but I think you have told, so. You can, why don't you add in? Please, it would be nice to hear you. Yeah. There's a point, 11th, right? This is several ties. Like last time we said that it could be the relationship. It could be place where we go. It could be some events or habitual scenes, things that we did books, or it could be the browsing, what we do see. So we have to cut off all of that. And when we come to the renewing our mind, here we can do that, the meditated God's word, listening to songs, memorizing words, so that it will be helpful when we find talent or we fall. And that then is the blow of a godly lifestyle. So we answer that keep our life that honors God. So we are called to be free from ungodliness. Great. Thank you. Thank you so much, Abhinavastu. Thank you. Nice. Very nice. Okay. So we're going to move into the next part of our learning, which is how do we journey into this emotional wholeness? Now, through the last time we spoke about the basis of what our healing and deliverance is. We spoke about how we receive that healing and deliverance. And we did pray. We've taken that action point, coming forward in, first of all, recognizing and then coming to a place of taking action, that is to repent, to confess, to renew, to cut off, to consecrate, to rebuke everything that is not of God. So we've come to a place to do that. And while that is very necessary, we cannot just stop at just doing that. We cannot stop at that place. Now, we need to move ahead. We need to journey into a place of emotional wholeness in order for us to stay emotionally whole. So we can't just stop at praying and taking action. But it is something that is done on a continual basis, something that you do regularly to maintain that. If we were to look at a parallel example, let's say you've had some kind of an injury to your, or maybe it's some kind of a transient disease that's come, or a transient illness that's come about. And you've found that there is a certain cause and you've treated the cause and you've got that out. You have to continue walking in that. You have to continue ensuring that you don't put yourself in any kind of a jeopardy or any kind of a struggle that will bring you back to that initial place. So that's something that you need to do on a regular basis. So that's what we are going to look at as to what are some truths or some practices or some disciplines that we must live by consistently as we move into a place of emotional wholeness. And this is more, it's maybe probably not something that you can do as in the sense of you know, tangibly do, but this is something that you discipline your spirit, you discipline your spiritual mind to stand on the truth, to stand focused on the truth of what we are going to learn. And just to quickly discuss these three as in the sense of you know, talking about it as three pointers, we will take each of them in length as we move towards today's class. So the first one is to be in a place or having standing on the foundation of this truth of receiving the Father's God, the Father's love, receiving God, the Father's love. The second one, the second truth that we stand on is to be established in our identity in Christ and not just knowing and establishing it, but even living out of that identity. And the third is being able to release the past, to be able to let go of what has been our past. Now these, even as we look at these three topics, they may be quite, you know, huge and quite extensive. And if, so for those of you who may be interested, there are specific studies and sermon series on each of this. And, you know, if you would, if you would like to know more, we're just probably going to take a couple of insights from it and maybe I'm not really going to go into lengths of it now, but you know, to go back and read some of that. And I can put it on the stream, I shall add it on the stream as well as on the e-learning portal for other reading that you can actually go back to on the Father's love as well as who you are in Christ. So these are extensive studies that have been done and, you know, to just listen to it and grow in these disciplines. But here for our course and for our class, we will be just taking a couple of insights so we can begin to grow in these areas. Okay. So we will take each one of one of these one by one. So the first one, as we said, is receiving the Father's love. So we know we understand in the Bible declares that God is our Heavenly Father. The Bible declares that God is love. And he declares that there is a Father in heaven who is a God of love. And when we understand that the Father is a God of love, we are His creation who must receive this love. So it's not just about knowing about the love, but coming to an understanding of this love, having a deeper revelation of this love for ourselves. And after having that revelation to be able to walk in this, to be able to live out of this, and this becomes the place of emotional wholeness. So when we look at the Bible and right from the beginning of its page is still the end, one of the key messages of the Bible is about the love of God and how God, being our Heavenly Father, wants to have a love relationship with us, His children, wants to have a love relationship with mankind. And from the beginning, it talks of how, and there are so many examples of people who walked through the Bible. And we see of how God has poured out His love, God has wooed them, God has pursued people of His love, God has instituted many things to show His love. And we see the greatest truth of love through Jesus, of how God the Father sent the Son so that we could be saved because of what He did for us on the cross. So the entire of the Bible is all about, it's a love letter. It is a love letter to each one of us to help us stand in the truth of what God talks about. Just a little bit pulling out from one of the other classes that we've been talking about, and that's Christian counseling, when we spoke about the human needs, you know, the most crucial needs of man. We see that one of the biggest attributes before the fall was that we were inherently loved. Adam and Eve being in the position that they were, they were inherently loved. Those attributes were there. They didn't have to seek after God's love. They just knew and felt and walked the presence and the love of God in their communion with Him. Okay, so you can just probably imagine what happened before the fall where Adam and Eve were in perfect communion with God and feeling completely loved and completely loved as well as being able to experience His love in a very tangible way. So we see in scripture shows us that the Father's love is perfect. If you look in our world here on earth, our lives here, you and I will not find this kind of a love. The love, human love is limiting. Human love is very often conditional. Human love changes. Human love is meted out because of certain measures. We find that what we see here on earth is not what the love of the Father is. And a lot of times we measure God's love by what you and I have experienced in here on earth, in the way that others have related to us, in the way that love has been shown to us. We see that God's love, the Father's love is unlimited. That means there's no end to the love. It keeps on and on and on. It is immeasurable, which means there are no dimensions to the love. In fact, I think we will be looking at one of the scriptures that talks about the dimensions of His love that says how wide, how deep, how long is His love to us. There isn't any kind of a boundary to this love. It's unconditional, which means it is not based on what you do or what you have done. You don't need to earn it. You don't need to perform to earn it. You only need to receive it. Whereas you will see human love is very conditional. You get me this much. You do this for me and then I will love you. Or if you are able to meet this and this for me, then I will love you. So human love is conditional. Whereas the love of God is not based on who we are. It's not based on what we have done. The love of God is consistent.  It doesn't change. It is the same today, tomorrow, forever. His love is always there. It is who, it is we who need to respond to that love. It is we who only need to receive it. It's only taking from God. It's like this when you make a huge meal and lay it on the table and you invite your guests to enjoy what is there. Unlisten until they receive it. They come in and take of it and eat of it and partake of it. They don't experience the love. And the Father's love is there for you to receive, for you to take.  It says God so loved the world that He gave His only Son for us. It's that much that He loved the world, His creation, that He didn't withhold His most precious part of Himself that is His Son. So He did this. And often even Paul talks about it. It's easy to give up something for somebody who's good or someone who's probably worth it or someone who deserves it. But we see in Romans 5.8, He did this for us even when we were still sinners. He did it for us even when we were still sinners. So He loved us so much that even in our state of fallenness, even in our state of depravity, God loved us so much. And this was something that was not conceived after that thing. But this was God's plan right even before creation. Even before He chose the foundations of the world. Ephesians 1.4-6 says that. And let me read that out for you. Just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world that He should be holy and without blame before Him in love. So this verse says, God chose you, each one of us. He chose us and He decided to love us even before the foundation of the world.   That's how sovereign and limitless God is. That He knew each one of us. He loved us even before we ever came to being. And just think about it. That seems kind of unimaginable for us because we are so bound by space, by time, by understanding, by actual interactions. It's just something that we're not able to conceive. But it says here, He chose us in Him. So He chose us in Him even before the foundations of the world. And what did He chose us? He says that we should be holy and blameless. That is, we are so covered in His love and because of the covering of His love, we stand holy and blameless in Jesus Christ. So He chose us to be holy and without blame before Him, where we were covered and clothed and surrounded and immersed in His love. Now, because we are in His love, we are holy and blameless. And out of this immeasurable, unconditional love, it says He brought us to be His sons and daughters. So verse 5 says, having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself. So because and out of this love, because we are covered and immersed and surrounded by His love, we became His sons and daughters. And He was and was this out of a grudge? No, it says according to the good pleasure of His will, which means He was absolutely pleased to do this and make it happen. It's not something that as parents we may do that may be grudgingly not really wanting to do something because you know that your child has made an error which you have probably told him a couple of times and then you grudgingly meet out something. But here scripture says it is out of His love that He has predestined. That means He has already even before everything, the foundation of the world, He called us to be His sons and daughters. And that's how much He loved us. And He did it out of the good pleasure of His will. You know, He was delighted. He was glad to do that for us. And so He says He decided to adopt us into His family. He wanted, He decided He said, these are my children and they will be adopted into the family. And thus we are called sons and daughters. And verse 6 says, to the praise of the glory of His grace by which He made us accepted in the beloved, which means we are accepted by God in the beloved because of His love.  He loved us so deeply with such a great love even when we were lost and dead in our sins. He loved us so much that He would bring us out of what we were in and move us to a place to be seated with Him, to be elevated with Him as we read in Ephesians 2, 4 and 7. It says, but God who is rich in mercy because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ and raised us up together and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus that in the ages to come, He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness towards us in Christ Jesus. So, He loved us so much with such a deep love. It says, a rich, if He's a rich in mercy and because of His great love. I mean, these are such strong words and I'm sure when we read it in the Hebrew also, it has so much of power and so much of depth in it where and it says, when we were dead in sins, He still loved us and brought us out to where we are, to seat us alongside with Him. So, even when we had no, so what this verse is actually saying is even when we had no inclination towards God, even when we didn't even have God on our minds, He loved us and He made us sit next to Him. So, His love for us is beyond our understanding, immeasurable, unlimited and absolutely unconditioned. So, all, like we said, all we need to do is to receive this love and be completely established in this, to be firmly established in this and let God love us because He chose to love us. And we see in, you know, if you look at Ephesians 3, 17 to 19, it talks about this this dimensions of love. So, let me read that for you Ephesians 3, 17 to 19. It says, that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith that you being rooted and grounded in love may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and the length and the depth and the height to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge that you may be filled with the fullness of God. So, it is to just show that we are securely and firmly established in this love that God has for us and this, it's there, it's, you know, it says rooted and grounded in love, you know, think of a tree that is rooted that especially those trees that go deep and wide, you know, through the ground through the soil to keep its roots strong. It's really difficult to uproot a tree that has itself rooted in the soil. So, imagine ourselves being rooted and grounded in the love of God. So, think of yourself like a tree being rooted in the love of God. So, and now for example, you know, it's really easy to shake some, to shake a tree or a plant or a, you know, or a plant being. If it is not rooted well enough, if it is, if it doesn't have its roots strong well into the ground, it's very easy to uproot a tree like that, right? And that's the picture that Paul's attempting to give us that we need to build our roots of our lives grounded completely in the knowledge that God the Father loves us. So, no matter what the storm comes, whatever the storm may be, the storm of confusion, the storm of fear, or a storm of difficulties, or a storm of sickness, whatever it may be, it will not shake you because you know that you are being grounded in the love of God. So, that's what it means to be secure and firmly established in the love that God has for you. So, when we're looking at emotional wholeness, the more that we receive this love, the more that we stay rooted and established in this love, when human love fails, when human love corners us, questions us, betrays us, abandons us, when human love meets it out partially or conditionally, we are in a place of not being moved because we know that God's love for us is strong. God's love for us is deeper than what we are able to imagine and experience, but to be able to fill our minds with the love of God, to continue to keep our minds strong with the love of God, okay? We are to know that by experience that this immeasurable love, that this love is beyond knowledge. So, it would mean when we are going through the storms of life, we, when we say we are being rooted and established in God's love, we are saying that I know my father so much. I know my father loves me so much that there is nothing he will do to me that will, that is beyond his control or beyond his plan or beyond his love for me. That's what being rooted is. Often we find ourselves questioning God with the things that come up, you know, why God, why me or why is it that I have to go through this? Why is it that so and so has, has had it better than me? When we are saying we are rooted and we experience this immeasurable love, we are so sure that no matter what comes to us, we know that God in his wisdom and in his love will not allow anything more than what we can, what we can bear, right? So, being established in that love. Now, when we are rooted in this unlimited immeasurable, unconditional, unchanging love of God, what does it do? It sets us free. You know, first John 4, 18 says, perfect love casts away all fear or perfect love banishes all fear. It sets us free from fear. We know that, that, that perfect love comes only from the source and the source is God and experiencing every day the perfect love of God frees us.  It, it frees us from this love just to understand that God's love for us is never, never changing even though the love that we may experience in our earthly lives may, may wax and may wane, may, may, may be shot, may be, may be conditioned. We, we see that, you know, when, especially when we, we are going through something difficult, the first thing that comes about is fear. And that, what does fear have? Fear, torments, right? The, the only other place that where there is torment is, is, is hell. So fear is like living in hell, you know, living, living in fear is just, just so, so binding. It is so, so trapping it, it can just captivate you that you're in a place of torment that you're not able to move out. Okay. But when we settle in this love, we do not have to fear anything. Not what is, what is here right now that, that is, that we are going through neither anything in our future, future either. When we experience the of God, the Father's love, we definitely go through it, it brings about a sense of release. It, it gives us, it exchanges something for us. And, and let's just look at, at that, you know, just experiencing and being rooted and establishing in the Father's love. What does it do? It takes us away, it releases us from guilt. It releases us from a state of shame. It releases us from condemnation. Why? Because he calls us holy and blameless. And we are protected and covered in his love. So it takes away this, the sense of guilt, or the sense of separation that we feel from God when, when we are in a place of guilt or in a place of shame, right? Because God, the Father says he has received us even when we were dead in sins, even when we have been, been absolutely guilty of the worst kind of sin. That is, we are just understanding and experiencing the Father's love removes away every kind of guilt and shame and condemnation. Experiencing God's love for us releases us from feeling unloved or rejected.  Because as, as we read in Ephesians 1 6, you are fully and completely and totally accepted in the beloved.   Okay? Even if there is a rejection in the natural, even if there is abandonment in the natural, even if there is comparisons in the natural, you can be assured that you are fully and completely and totally accepted for who you are for the way that God made you. He made you with a purpose and he loved you that way. So no matter what rejection you may be feeling, and this can come through very many different ways. It can be coming from your own homes. It can be coming from your marriages. It can be coming from your children. It can be coming from your workplace. It can be coming from even within the way that you've just rejected yourself. It can be, it can come from probably your own family where there has been rejection in the past. It can come in different ways, but you can stand grounded on the truth that you are completely accepted in him. Experiencing the Father's love, it releases you from the need to do something to earn God's love, that you need to be a certain way in order for God to love you. Human love, yes, needs to be earned unless and until you reciprocate or you do something, you know, you don't experience love, but he loved us even before even we knew him. That's what 1st John 4 9 and 10 says. He loved us even before we knew him, even before we were conceived in our mother's womb. He knew us and so there's nothing you and I need or can do to earn his love or nothing that you do will make him love you more or will make make him love you less. Experiencing the Father's love releases you from that sense of worthlessness or unworthiness. Often the love of a human can make you feel worthless. You may be pinning on something, pinning on the affection of someone, but it can all be gone in one day, right? And we see that as scripture shows us, we know we are always accepted in his love and he has adopted us as his sons and daughters. When you know that you belong somewhere, remember again I'm going back to some of the learnings we did at the counseling class for those of us who were there, is that the need to belong, the need to feel secure, right? And so that's what God's love does. He brings us to a place of being secure, a place of belonging and that's how he says he has adopted us as his own sons and daughters. He doesn't treat us as slaves. He has bought us as his sons and daughters, which leads me to the next point of experiencing the Father's love releases us from being like a captive or being enslaved or clapped as if you are caged, but here Romans 8.15 says, you are free. He did not give us the spirit of slavery to be fearful like slaves. There is no need to feel like a slave because you have the position of sonship. You have the position of being an heir. And the next is to experience the Father's love. You are free from the need to be controlled or to be manipulated or to be used. Human love often manipulates you for their own use. In a relationship, you may feel after someone has had need of something that you've given, they've left. They really not wanted a relationship with you. So you kind of sense the feeling of being used and manipulated and taken advantage of. But Scripture shows us that we are empowered by God's love. When he loves us, it doesn't take away, but it gives to us. Human love often, you kind of sense that a lot has been taken away, that you've given, given, given and it hasn't been taken away and there's nothing that can hold you on. But God's love empowers you. The more that you experience God's love, he pours out grace upon grace from the abundance of his grace. He pours about grace and grace. So you are empowered by that love. And lastly, experiencing the Father's love takes away all feelings of fear. Feelings of what is to come, fear about what is at the present, fear about our future, fear about how we would be if we fail, fear about lack, fear about insufficiency, fear about anything, fear about, I mean, think of anything. It drives away every feeling because we know that we are in the right place and the right time if we live according to his will. We just begin to understand that God will take care, God is in control, God will hold us through which shows us that his perfect love drives out all fear. So whatever fear that's coming in experience the love of the Father. And I think as a general exercise, just coming to that place, especially fear is something that sometimes can be so real, even as simple as just being fearful about maybe about doing a test or maybe about meeting someone in an interview or meeting somebody who's quite intimidating or having a conversation that may be difficult. These feelings of fear can be very entrapping, but just spending some time to be in the presence and the empowering love of God and say, God, you are here with me as I go through the situation, you see me in love, you cover me with your love. In fact, Zephaniah says he sings over you. He has songs of rejoicing over you and that's what it shows to show that his love for us drives out all fear. So it's so beautiful to just concede what the love of the Father can do for us, removes us from every place of bondage and trapping into a place of freedom. That's what God's love does. It frees us. It completely takes away everything that holds us back. And what do we need to do? We simply need to receive this love. And in order for us to experience what his love has done for us, we receive it. What do we do? We let him love us because he is love, because he is our Father. We just say, Lord, I receive your love. And not because you're not in that state or you don't have to earn that love or he does not meet out his love because of anything, anything else but because he's just loved you. So we find that you do not have to be the best performer or you don't have to be the super, the best child like how you would see in a classroom of 25 children you will have that are two, three kids who's yearning for the teacher's love. So it is not like that. God loves each one of us and because of what he's done for us, we allow him to love us because he simply just wants us to receive his love. He simply just wants us to be in a place where we can receive that love. As I was talking about that verse, Bethaniah 3.17, it says, he will rejoice over you with gladness. He will quiet you with his love. He will rejoice over you with singing. So we find that all our needs, our emotional needs, that sense of acceptance, that sense of security, that sense of love, that sense of purpose and significance is completed when we receive and have an understanding of God's love for us and walk in that love for us. So no matter what happens in our natural, we can stand rooted and established in the understanding that God the Father loves you. So receiving the Father's love brings about that emotional healing and brings us into a place of wholeness and well being. So the more that we receive it, the more that we experience it, the more that we are rooted and established by it, we will begin to see our inner selves, the deeper parts of us slowly coming to a place of wholeness. As we said, God's love exchanges so many things for us and brings us to a place of freedom. Amen. Amen. Are we all here? Amen. Okay. All right. We've come to an hour. So let's take a 10-minute break. We're at 10.51. We'll come back at 11.01. We could probably start off with a couple of questions and then we will go ahead with the rest of the last second to two truths. So you can quickly go grab a coffee and come back soon.