Thank you so much, Mike. I think you've raised some things up so well. I've been working on this conference for a couple of years now and it's always a pleasure. I can tell from the Twitter stream that a few of you have been challenged today. I think we've all been challenged and I hope we've managed to challenge you throughout the conference just to think about what you're doing, get on with it and start joining the dots with each other. Thanks to people. Thanks to everyone for being here. Thank you for coming. Thank you to your organisations for supporting you to attend. Our speakers, a special thanks to all those people who hadn't spoken on a stage before. I know it's frightening. It's a terrifying thing to do. I hope you've grown from it and you'll do it again next year. All the speakers, thank you for the huge effort you put into being here. Especially our keynotes. Brewster, you talked yourself hoarse. You've been all over the place talking to Rodney New Zealand, the US Embassy. Thank you so much for that. Mia is doing a round trip. She flew in from Dublin on, I think, Sunday and you fly out tomorrow. Three days in Wellington to talk to us about what she's doing and how we can learn from her. Fantastic. Lee challenged us. You've stepped outside your zone and I think you've made some of us step outside our zones and that's a good thing. To Rick and Evelyn, just to be sharing something of the wider digital environment that we actually are part of and we need to be aware of. Sponsors, we can't do this without you. We love your support and I think it's testament to your belief in us that you keep on coming back. Volunteers, session chairs, people around the workshops on Monday. Thank you so much for all your work. And to Pada Cooper's for keeping everything on track and keeping us moving. I was going to mention Earl. I think we need a new hashtag, finding Earl, track him down. Now I do want to embarrass Thomason by inviting her up on the stage to give her the applause that she so richly deserves. Come on. It's a very small token of our appreciation but you have done an amazing job this year, Thomason and I thank you very much. The whole board thanks you for all the work you've done. Thank you also to the rest of the programme committee who have supported Thomason. You've done a wonderful job. We are always looking for volunteers so do see me afterwards. That's it. It's all over. Thank you so much for coming Ngataunga, Sound Ambition on Taranaki Street, number 84 on the corner of Gosney, hosting drinks and nibbles at 5.30. Turn up and have a drink. They'll also be screening a new digital cut of Sleeping Dogs at 7.30? 6.30. Free entry if you wave your little thingy thing which I guess means don't recycle it. Anyway, thank you all for being here. Thank you everyone and see you again next year.


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it unfortunately. So yeah just have to make sure that we record every session. I mean if the faculty forget please do remind you know in your classes because sometimes we just kind of tend to forget. Okay so the record is on that's great. Let's pray and we'll get started. I just like to request someone whoever can to please lead us in prayer and then we'll study the next chapter. Okay anybody Subajit are you comfortable to pray? Yes yes please go ahead yeah thank you. Father God we come before you in this morning Father God thank you for this beautiful day and thank you Father that you've allowed us to join in this class Father God we pray Father as we learn about building your kingdom and we learn about the various principles Lord I pray Lord give us more insights Lord and Lord help us to to apply all these things in our life in our churches Father God so that we can we can be used in the advancement of a kingdom Father God. Father God bless pastor bless us Father God so we can receive what what we learn through her Father God speak to your spirit Father God and Father God we pray Lord help us Father God to move with all these things I believe you will be with us through and to the end thank you Father in Jesus my name we pray amen amen thank you thank you Subajit for leading us so last session we were talking about the citywide church and how we must strive towards unity how we must help one another you know how we must we must impact the society we looked at the spiritual things that need to progress in a in a in a city we looked at social transformation which is essential we looked at you know physical transformation that kingdom builders must engage in and also the marketplace transformation so it's only when we make an impact at a citywide level that the the light of the kingdom of God is impacting people's lives so since we're talking about kingdom builders we need to have that kingdom mindset because one church one local church one ministry cannot do it all and then we also said that you know as far as we we know that people are born again they are sincerely in agreement to the the core beliefs of scripture we can join hands with them and we we must not try to major on the miners and you know see where there can be differences of opinion instead you know we we agree to walk together with them and it's in togetherness that we will see a great work accomplished for God's kingdom in any any city any region and this is we've talked in terms of this city we've talked in terms of the city but of course you know it's applicable for a region so we can get together with pastors from a certain region ministers of God or a nation even so we join hands together and we saw how everyone has something to contribute in one person cannot will not be gifted and have the grace to you know how do you say whatever the kingdom needs for advancement you know one person cannot really provide those inputs so everyone together accomplishes much more so that is what we were dwelling on in the last class and today we move on to something really important we initially when we started discussing about kingdom building we said that the kingdom is about the kingdom the kingdom is about God because he is the king of the kingdom and then we also stressed a lot about the character of the kingdom builder the character the attitude the approach of a kingdom builder so today's subject the the title here chapter nine it says brothers brothers and fathers and obviously even though it says brothers and fathers it is meant for women as well so sisters and mothers you could take it that way so how can a kingdom builder be a brother be a father so it is our attitude in our relationships with others okay and this is really really important because you know one can claim to serve God and to honor his kingdom honor the call on one's life but if we have hatred in our hearts towards scriptures say our brother who's a brother usually in the early church the term brethren was used for anyone who had committed their life to Christ anyone who was born again so a brother the simple meaning of that is anyone who is in the body of Christ so if one hates a brother and still claims to love God you know that doesn't equate let's look at the scripture from one John chapter two in fact if you study the epistles of Apostle John you would find that he repeats this theme over and over and over again he talks about the importance of love for God the importance of experiencing and understanding the kind of love that God has for each and every one of us and at the same time releasing that love to our brothers and sisters if we don't do that then you know we we're missing a link something something within us something in our relationship with God is not right so one John chapter two versus nine through eleven this is in our notes I'm on page number 98 I would like to request one of us to please read it one John two versus nine through eleven please anyone one John two nine and our verses nine to eleven he who says he is the light and hates his brother is in darkness until now he who loves his brother abides in the light and there is no cause for stumbling in him but he who hates his brother is in darkness and walks in darkness and does not know where he is going because darkness has blinded his eyes okay thank you Christopher and I think that passage is quite self-explanatory very clear for us to understand it simply says that anyone who claims to walk with God or claim to be in the light and yet hates his brother is in darkness so by the faith that we have we are proclaiming that we are children of God that we are followers of Christ but with our life you know we are contradicting that so walking with God also means loving having regard for our brothers and sisters in Christ if we if we don't have that this passage actually says that one walks in the darkness now it is true that in our journey with God you know there might be some seasons of aloneness for various reasons maybe we are just you know we we are just being equipped prepared by God so we don't know other believers we don't know other ministers of God and thereby there isn't much fellowship so that happens okay now intentionally if we try to keep ourselves away from others so that we don't have to interact with them we don't have to build our relationship with them now that is not something that you know the the bible prescribes so if the season of aloneness happens in our journey yeah that is normal it happens to all of us but the normal thing to do is also to connect with others as much as possible I mean again it really depends on each person's personality and you know temperament so but script just tell us as long as far as it is possible we need to live at peace with everyone so we do develop you know relationships now we must make sure that you know we learn to be brothers or learn to be available to people and also to be fathers now speaking more specifically about being a kingdom builder you know a brother is one who you know like a brother is one who has a relationship with with another brother in the body of Christ and who knows that person so that is why the term brother and relates you know with with love relates with that sense of tenderness with another believer and that is why we're using the term brother and a father is someone who really cares who wants to nurture who is intentional about seeing the spiritual growth of another child of God that God has connected to to him or her so that's the definition or that's the understanding of brother and father now for ministers of God you know what really happens is that we become very very busy with ministry work okay and I'm sure everyone can just totally agree with that that you know ministry can get really it can become very demanding and then you know you're spending all your time serving you're spending all your time getting the tasks done you know you're spending all your time you know serving in different ways not that it's bad but we may not intentionally make time to develop relationships or you know be a father to others in the body of Christ now we'll talk more about it now I just wanted to introduce this that you know we as ministers we do struggle and when we say that you know we struggle to have relationships it could also be it could simply be because we are so busy and you know if there are two ministers of God each one is doing their you know part of the kingdom work and maybe they're traveling they just don't have the time when one person's the city the other person's not there so it gets challenging to really meet and to build a relationship to strengthen a relationship and thereby having this fellowship in the kingdom of God where we have brothers we are fathers or mothers to others you know that that can be neglected okay that is the the challenge in the kingdom of God so as ministers of God you know this this thing about building relationships and we are talking more specifically about building relationships with other ministers okay in the kingdom of God so we if unless we are intentional about this unless we're intentional about being fathers to new ministers who are rising up it'll not happen it'll not happen and the extreme is what we read in the passage here what John says he says that if we hate okay not being able to make time for others is one thing now if in our hearts we dislike or you know we carry unforgiveness we carry bitterness we we haven't settled you know matters with with other ministers in the in the body of Christ maybe in our own city then it becomes very uncomfortable to connect with them and then you know the gap keeps increasing right and that is not at all a good thing that's not a good thing to have a negative attitude to have something against a brother or a sister in the kingdom of God in our hearts so we need to work on maintaining good relationships as far as possible okay with others and other ministers of God now we'll yeah okay what does it mean to be a brother now we can also use terms like fellow laborer okay fellow laborer so when Paul he writes to Timothy you know we we understand that you know there was a nice bond that he shared with Timothy so he in 1st Thessalonians 3 and verse 2 he says um Paul Paul says and sent Timothy our brother our brother minister and a minister of God so he's calling a person who is in the ministry you know during his times as a brother okay what else does he call Timothy as and he says our fellow laborer in the gospel of Christ so you know we see that attitude the attitude is uh just the way he wrote to the Corinthians he said Apollos planted uh or I planted Apollos water you know you you are God's field okay so basically he sees the people as the field and he sees everyone who's working in that field as a fellow worker or a core laborer or he you can also see when he says Timothy a minister of God later we will talk a little bit more about Paul's relationship with Timothy because this is a special relationship when he found Timothy Timothy was you know nowhere close to the minister of God that you know we are talking about right now but he had an investment in Timothy's life and at one point you know Paul is recognizing him as a minister of God now for us in the kingdom of God you know these things sound very uh correct you know theoretically correct and biblically correct but to walk in these things is what is very important you know we can just look at another minister of God and completely disregard their ministry and think oh what ministry is that person doing you know I am the one who's doing really good ministry but look at how Paul sees Timothy he says brother he he calls him fellow worker he also calls him uh you know a minister of God so that's that's a big thing um and of course you know Paul is the Paul is the person who actually fathered Timothy in the ministry now uh looking at our relationships today in the kingdom of God now you know there is really a need to um have brothers recognize other brothers as fellow ministers you know um fellow workers in the kingdom of God uh does this happen it does happen okay however no as I began by saying that you know ministry can become very busy uh we we may not have enough time to share our lives with other ministers of God so what ends up happening at least most of the time is a very superficial connect where we we just cross paths at a conference or you know you just cross um you bump into each other in a in a pastor's meeting or you you know just just things like that and there is a certain level of connect there's a there's um a little bit of knowing one another and uh you know if uh we make the effort then the relationship can deepen a little bit but otherwise it remains very much at the superficial level and worse still you know in ministry relationships can also just remain at a transactional level meaning uh okay you know I am I'm doing this uh in in one particular event uh brother you know your ministry y'all are good at doing something else how about we work together so it's very transactional like you do this I'll do that we'll do ministry together and that is what is our that is what our relationship looks like now the kind of uh relationship that Paul is talking about you know when he calls Timothy brother fellow worker and uh uh minister of God is a deeper relationship okay I want to use the term genuine genuine relationship and and you know genuine relationship uh the the kinds that we have uh in families where you know it's it's just so natural it's natural it's not that okay you give me this I'll give you that and you know if we don't perform then hey you know I don't know you it doesn't work like that you know we in in the families siblings spouses we we kind of know one another really well and uh we we work with we understand people's weaknesses but still we're there for them they're there for us so it it's a genuine relationship it's a genuine and a strong relationship so when we're talking about uh having relationships in the kingdom of God it's about strengthening and deepening and having a real and a genuine relationship with other ministers of God okay so that's what we are talking about not just a superficial uh level of connect okay um so we'll just keep moving on you know section by section whatever is given here in our notes uh so the next section here you know it talks about how um sometimes we as leaders struggle alone okay um it's it's like it's uh you know it's not that God wants us to suffer alone but uh when we don't build these strong relationships in the kingdom of God um it feels like that it feels like hey you know I have nobody to stand with me and uh it could happen uh you know more so to um I'm just giving a scenario here maybe a pastor and a senior pastor who is very busy with the ministry and for whatever reason he or she you know they have not built these relationships over time and when ministry gets you know really busy um then uh you you kind of feel isolated sometimes and we know about the journey of of ministry it's not always easy there are tough seasons okay and sometimes it's not sufficient to have just your family members to share with because they may not understand all the uh if they are in the ministry great but even then they may not completely understand what one is going through but when we have you know strong and deep relationships uh at that time it really really uh strengthens you know one spirit if we have a brother in the ministry or a sister in the ministry or a father in the ministry a mother in the ministry who uh we we can sort of bear our hearts and we can you know um uh be open we can be vulnerable and you know they are there to speak into our into our hearts and they are not afraid of you know bringing correction and telling us things in a in a in a clear way in a plain way without hiding the truth to have those kind of relationships you know it's very important and particularly in the time of adversity because one needs uh uh scriptures say that you know we do need we do need uh you know brothers and uh people who will stick together with us so the the whole point that you know we're trying to make today is that one must develop these relationships in the kingdom of god and be very intentional about it uh now you know I if each of us think there are there are um uh examples of pastors and leaders that we can think of uh who have probably not had uh uh this you know this kind of relationship where they were not able to open up and they ended up in um you know trouble they just went on with whatever they were they were struggling with and there was nobody to really speak into their lives and you know things got worse so uh one does not want to be in that uh extreme position so uh we must really invest in building such relationships the next section here I mean I just thought that it was so beautiful that I probably don't have the language to explain it as well as it is written so I'm just going to read it out and I'm sure it'll minister to our hearts so this section is um on page 99 and I will read it uh a personal challenge okay so this what pastor's written is written to be a brother to another minister of god I need to spend time with him to really get to know him I need to spend time with him and his family and watch how he treats his wife and children I need to spend time at his church or ministry office with his staff and see how he works with his staff I need to invite him to my home and my church or office we must spend time where we worship pray and see God together I need to lay hands on him and pray for him I need to have him lay hands on me and pray for me I need to stand by him in times of difficulty and journey with him through it I need to celebrate his success and moments of victory with him I need to be able to uh I need to be available for him when he needs counsel or advice similarly I need to be able to reach out to him for his counsel I need to receive from his gift anointing and ministry similarly he must receive through the gift anointing and ministry that God has placed in me I must honor him for who he is in God and similarly he honors me for who I am in God we must partner with each other as friends I must sacrifice and give for his personal welfare and his family when people hate him criticize him I must stand in defense and still be his friend we need to be such friends such brothers in the kingdom so no again it's really beautiful and it drives the point home to build these strong relationships where on both sides it's it's giving and receiving at both ends and these will make for you know a strong kingdom strong kingdom of God okay now we've understood what kind of genuine relationships one must build with other ministers of God now let's talk a little bit about brothers who may stumble now one of the wonderful things about being in a genuine relationship with other brothers and sisters in Christ is if we are in error or let's say that person is in error there is an opportunity for correction there's a scripture from Galatians 6 and verse 1 end of page 99 would somebody please be able to read this passage this service Galatians 6 one please yeah yes please thank you Galatians 6 one rather than if a man is overtaken in any trespass you who are spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness considering yourself lest you also be tempted yeah thank you Sam yeah so uh you know we we see here that there is an opportunity to correct somebody or it's not just about correction it's it's more about restoration you know restoring the individual back uh into the call and the destiny that God has for that person we when we relate as brothers you know it's a lot easier to do and we've already spoken about how challenging it is to speak the truth in love particularly when someone is is uh you know not on the right track when we have a relationship you know with another minister of God as a minister of God we can help bring them back we can speak life we can provide counsel we can provide direction and the support that one would need you know in during that span of time obviously you know when when one stumbles now it might take a duration of time for that individual to to repent to you know change and to align themselves to what God is calling them to do and as brothers we can stand with them through that process uh and wouldn't it be so wonderful uh if ministers of God stood by you know other ministers of God and especially when when we notice that someone has fallen or you know somebody is falling uh if there are brothers quickly step in or basically relationships strong relationships others can step in you know and and uh they can they can be there to see that restoration but again on the other hand uh if we don't have those genuine relationships where we really care and love one another when we see a brother stumble you know it's easy to to join with the the people who criticized with the accusers uh you know the people who publicized the news and make things worse for that minister of God and how many ministers of God you know would have actually suffered like this because they they felt alone maybe one of the reasons why they never opened up uh is because they couldn't trust you know other others in the kingdom and they felt that hey like if I share what I'm going through now uh you know I I'll I'll be uh you know shut down and so will uh my my ministry and my family will have to pay the price and you know there'll be other repercussions so it's unfortunate if if that uh is the situation that one faces when when you know maybe they have stumbled in some way so uh when we have genuine relationships restoration is possible okay uh and uh people can step in people can actually be there for that uh fallen minister of God and with as scripture says you know with meekness and with gentleness they can bring correction and uh see that brother try it once again okay uh so the next section here is again about genuinely loving uh a brother in Christ we've already read that passage from one john chapter two um and uh this is a repetition you know where where we are being encouraged once again to not carry um you know ill feeling about a brother or a sister in ministry in our hearts uh again you know it is really possible as we are serving together you know that we rub one another the wrong way and uh with the thought of that particular person you know we all those wrong all those emotions come up of anger of of you know frustration just you know uh the memories are so unpleasant that you don't want to relate with that person uh but you know we've already said that as far as possible we must overcome these feelings um and uh see if we can make peace with every single minister of God now we may choose to work uh more closely with some ministers as compared to the others that's okay that's understandable you know we need not um go out of our way to make you know a working relationship happen with every person in the kingdom of God that's not what is being asked here but you know to just have that peaceful and a good and a cordial relationship with every uh minister in the kingdom now that is that is possible okay that is definitely possible uh and one must work towards it uh if at all you know through the journey of um our ministry or relating with other uh ministers of God if there has been you know some form of hurt then we must look at ways to resolve it uh or you know because of our personal insecurities if you know we are going through issues uh where um we are envious of others you know we are envious and jealous of uh the ministry accomplishments of you know some other maybe you know I have a church but you know there is another brother uh in our city who has a bigger church who has a better format of doing church or you know maybe I I'm a minister I preach the word there's somebody who's much better a preacher than me really I teach the word but there's somebody more you know they they're very thorough they're very eloquent with their uh teaching now if I am personally insecure then again you know to be able to relate with others it's I would rather you know be by myself and uh feel good you know by myself than connect with other ministers of God these are all the issues and we've touched on this when we talked about a minister's character excuse me so uh to relate you know genuinely and maintain that love for uh other brothers and sisters we must really uh check these things okay and put the past behind us sorry yeah put the past behind us you know we've um talked about that uh have the the wounds if at all you know some wounds by cause uh just ask the Lord to work just ask the spirit of God to minister uh to us our soul our spirit and come free of those things so that we can serve from a place of security and love and relate with others okay and the last section here talks about uh arising of fathers and mothers in the kingdom of God now just as much as we have talked about being a brother to a uh minister of God um being a father and a mother is also an intentional thing okay uh ministry can keep us very busy and uh one can be so occupied that after years of ministry one realizes that there are no successes you know there was no investment made in the life of a younger uh a person right a younger minister of God so uh this is not just you know detrimental to a local church now suppose you know I have not invested uh in the lives of we've talked about this when we talked about you know mentoring fathers and mothers find somebody who is way younger than us maybe even 20 years younger than us 25 years younger than us and then if we sense that special connection that God uh has for us to mentor that person we must see how we can start investing in that individual and work with them no journey with and by the time now we are ready to retire you have all these okay yeah uh by the time we're ready to retire we have all these uh younger folks who have been equipped who are um you know tempered in a in a way ready to launch out no just uh around when you are um in a sense ready to settle down okay so that'll be a beautiful thing and when we uh saw that example of Joshua we saw that Joshua and his uh peers they they did so well they they um fought enemies they conquered uh pieces of uh you know their territories but when they were about to settle down and stop doing what they were called to do the younger generation we we uh read that passage in fact it's in your notes uh in the book of Joshua we saw that the the younger generation did not know the Lord okay so they had no clue what Joshua and the other elders had done for the kingdom and what the relationship um which they had with God looked like and that is the most unfortunate thing that you know we live this era of if you want to call it you know revival awakening outpouring of the Holy Spirit and all of that you know it's it's thrilling it's exciting but when when we are all done okay and uh we we are ready to uh maybe move on to roles where you know God may be calling us in an apostolic way to to minister to um you know government leaders and things like that we don't have any successes who can continue to impact you know the local church the kingdom of God in various ways because the the fathers and mothers as Paul says you have many instructors but you don't have any fathers so nobody really invested in the lives of the younger ones and the kingdom of God and and you know that is something we must be aware of and see how we can overcome this deficit and make sure that we are strengthening younger ministers in the kingdom of God so this is a little bit about being a brother being a father and a mother in God's kingdom so along these lines you know if there are uh points that you would like to discuss we we can do that maybe i'll just ask a question and that can help us think along these lines how can how can one be a genuine brother or a sister to fellow ministers in the kingdom of God how how how can i be you know that genuine brother or a genuine sister or how can you be a genuine brother or a genuine sister so you know any thoughts on that how to be a genuine brother or sister uh yes yes okay canady yes canady yeah please go ahead by being humble and teachable you do something wrong okay wonderful okay so canady saying um attitude of humility uh being teachable that helps us be a good brother yeah that's true thank you anita uh is adding to that she says for god so love the world okay anita can you expand on that so is it by by loving them you while we wait for anita to yeah yes anita go ahead like whenever we meet any brother or sister if that word comes in our mind like god so loved him that he gave his one and one like she when he's that with that love we can't love them yeah with our yeah because uh when we have to love we see so many characters things which we cannot love with but because of god we can thank you thank you anita that's that's beautiful so we can love with god's love which he has given us and abhishek adds faithfulness so we can be faithful in our relationship with other brothers and sisters so uh would anyone like to share how you have been a brother or you have some people you know who have stood with you through your ministry journey or your christian walk and how that has strengthened you these relationships okay rose uh rose is answering our first question about being a genuine brother treating everyone as family okay little family and looking through the eyes of jesus and how he sees the brothers and sisters okay instead of our own our own faulty spectacles okay thank you thank you rose that's wonderful so true yeah so prabhakar treat others as you want to be treated yeah so so true yes yes uh yes child's coming to you i'll just read the comments here first uh sam samir says uh so many ways to assume that the other person knows something that i don't and that i can always learn from him or her yes that's that's right uh to have a heart of compassion knowing that even he or she is serving the lord that i'm serving okay great great yeah so if we can uh uh incorporate all these things have it develop it then you know i'm sure we'll we'll make good brothers and sisters for others uh yes child's please go ahead can you hear me yes i can hear you okay thank you um the the person that has helped me work is the the wife of the pastor when i joined the church after my getting saved and then she is the one who did the discipleship part she taught me the the 16 lessons for discipleship and then there was a program that the church was running of here see and and learn so she even would take me with them to go for open air evangelism door to door evangelism she she continued and made sure that i am in the children's ministry she's the one who recommended me to to go for studies for children's ministry and right now she is um sending me daily messages on how to to raise up our Christian children so she's been there for me thank you yes thank you thank you Charles thank you for sharing um so this is someone you know who has helped Charles in his spiritual walk and his ministry journey so Charles this would be more like a spiritual mother right uh uh how about a brother or a sister where where we pour into their lives but you know they also um pour into our lives so it's it's both ways it's both ways i walk with them so anyone uh you have any example about a brother or a sister yes i have a brother is is also part of the home sale that i attend yes it's like we are having what we call accountability is my accountability partner uh make sure that i am i am having prayers make sure that i have attended the church but also i check on him we missed one another we we share the the same uh devotional materials uh our children meet so he is called Perez is is my friend yeah thank you thank you um Charles so it's nice and i like what you said at the end you know you said he is my friend so uh having fellow ministers as friends is uh so key and uh you know as we said earlier it's it's always very helpful when you have people of the same gender uh who um who do life with you who know you really well and even in the ministry you know when you have um people that of the same gender usually uh to whom you can open up and it's always safer that way um so just like from my life i think finding fellow ministers finding fellow ministers uh as as a lady in the ministry it's not always easy because the proportion of men somehow it seems to be at least i like you know perceptibly it seems more um but you know there are there are women there are so many women from church that you know i i know of for several years and they've seen my journey i've seen their journey um and uh it's it's so helpful like just to be able to open up and share uh and you know when when we are going through like when you're when you're in the ministry right sometimes what happens is uh the expectation is to to really appear strong like because you have to be there you have to be preaching you have to be sharing you have to be teaching you have to know the answers right so some for for some of us as ministers uh we kind of try to hide behind that facade and we never really um get an opportunity to reveal that that side of us where you know we we do need help or we do need counsel we do need a listening here but when you have you know brothers and sisters so i have you know a couple of women who know me pretty well and you know there are there are times when they know my journey as well right from the early days of ministry so i can kind i can share with them even after i've preached a message and i felt like you know it was it was just not uh up to the mark you know i i made all these mistakes i never want to preach again you know i i can just sit with them i can share that or i can i can tell them hey these are my personal challenges you know i am concerned about uh these aspects of my personal life could you please pray with me could you please you know pray through till uh i see uh these results so i'm going up for this uh conference or i'm going to be ministering here and i don't feel up to it you know could you just uphold me in prayer and you know the reason why i'm not feeling up to it is you know x y and z i really open up really open up or you know i could i could just share with them and say look i'm really having a problem with anger or i'm really having a problem with jealousy so i don't really have to hide anything with those people because i'm just giving you some some example you can just have all these open conversations where you know they some of them they are ministers themselves you know one particular lady she's a preacher and a really wonderful preacher i've always like from my younger days i've always admired the way she talks when she speaks it's it's like she's been with jesus you know it's like that so when i share she's able to share and say hey look and see this is the issue or that is the issue why can't you think of some practical ways of you know taking on lesser work and make more time for rest so just simple things that that we are not able to share with others maybe i won't be able to share all this with somebody in my congregation because i have a different relationship with them or even my family member right they may not understand ministry challenges but when i'm able to open up with a fellow minister of god they can speak into my life and i don't have to be afraid and i even this thing about stumbling right when there is a multitude of counselors there is safety that's what scripture says and we don't have to go finding too many counselors even if you have one or two such people that we can open up with it really really is a blessing and you know vice versa there are times when i have spoken into their lives and i've told them hey look this is not right or you know why is why is this happening maybe you know maybe you're not you're not taking in the right content you're looking i mean why why are you having these negative thoughts maybe you're spending too much time on your phone maybe you're spending too much time you know watching a certain here listening to a certain material so very openly we're able to just speak into each other's lives strengthen one another be real that's the whole point to be real and not to be that you know i'm that preacher person or i'm that ministry person i'm that kingdom person yes we are all that we are all that but we do need others who can journey along with us and it's like we understand the humanness right we understand the the challenges we understand the the moments where one needs that lift okay so just somebody to to be there to listen and not judge okay these are all priceless things and if we can have it in our journey if we can develop it we can also try to be that brother or sister to someone and we find such brothers and sisters it'll really strengthen the work of god and the kingdom of god okay all right so we will take a break now and also just quickly read roses point here she says also pastor what we do to the brethren we do to jesus himself yeah yeah that's that's good rose so let's take a break now we'll come back and we'll talk a little more about being fathers being fathers and mothers so we've focused in on being brothers and sisters so far if you have any questions you know we can start there in the next session but we will look keenly at being fathers and mothers okay so it's 10 52 let's come back at 11 or 2 and start again yeah thank you


So we're looking for South Bishop Rock, which is a mile and a half over there, can you see it yet? Can you see it yet, Mick? I can't see nothing. I can't see nothing. Can you folks at home see it? If you can, just give us a shout, let us know where it is. Can you see it yet? It's a big rock, in the misty distance. Welsh Whales over there. Not yet, but I can see some breakers to the starboard. If you keep coming out, I can see white breakers. Just through the shrouds now. The lights flashing every five seconds. And a horn, three horns every 45 seconds. If there's a horn. I can see a white tower on the top of it now. I just saw a flash. Yeah, the left hand top. No left. See that one? One flash every five seconds. That's it. And relax a little bit. But look at the breakers in front of it there. That's why I think we'll just bomb on down here for a while.


Let's look at geometric object in its subclasses again. In addition to get area and get perimeter, which are overridden in each of the subclasses, I've added to each subclass a method that is unique to that subclass. Here in circle, I've added a getDiameter method that returns the circle's diameter. That's sort of a useless method, but I needed something. Here in rectangle, I've added a getDiagonal method that returns the length of the diagonal of the rectangle. And here in triangle is a method that returns the opposite angles for all three sides as an array. Let's take a look at this test program. We already know that this is valid. I can set a geometric object variable to refer to a rectangle object, because any rectangle is a geometric object. Because this is, at heart, a rectangle, what I'd like to do is show what its diagonal is. If I try something like this, double-diag equals shape.getDiagonal, and then print the result, this will not compile properly. Because as far as the compiler is concerned, shape is a geometric object, and geometric objects don't have a getDiagonal method. To get around this problem, I can use a cast. I can say shape is really a rectangle. I'm telling the compiler to treat shape as a rectangle, and rectangles do have a getDiagonal method. Now, when I compile, it's successful, and when I run it, I get the correct result. By the way, the outer parentheses in the cast are necessary to make the compile work correctly. Now let's look at this code. We have an array of geometric objects, and a loop that prints out what each one is, and its area and perimeter. This works fine because all the subclasses have overridden to string, get area, and get perimeter. It compiles fine, and it runs fine. What I'd like to do now is get the specific information for each shape. For the circles, I want to print their diameter, for the rectangles, their diagonal, and for the triangle, the angles. Unlike the preceding example, where I knew I had a rectangle, I don't want to write this program to depend on knowing in advance what kind of a geometric object each array entry will be. Here's the pseudocode for what I want to do. If the shape I'm looking at is a circle, then it's okay to cast it to a circle and call its getDiameter method and print that. This part I already know how to do. I can say diameter equals, do my cast to a circle, and then getDiameter. This will compile okay because I'm telling the compiler, treatShape subi as a circle, and circles do have a getDiameter method. And now I can print it out. The question now is, how do I determine whether an object is a circle object, a rectangle, or a triangle at runtime? The answer is the instance of operator. If shape subi is an instance of the circle class, this expression will return true, and it means I have a circle. If shape subi is a triangle or a rectangle, it's not an instance of the circle class, and the expression will return false. Similarly here, I can ask, if shape subi is an instance of rectangle, then it's okay for me to say diagonal is treatShape subi as though it were a rectangle with a cast, and then it's okay to have the getDiameter method call, and I can print out the length of the diagonal to save some time. I can use the code to handle triangles. Let's compile, and let's run. And there we have each of the shapes with its area perimeter and its specific information, the diameter, the diagonal, and the angles. The takeaway from this video is to remember how polymorphism works. At compile time, whatever class you used to declare the variable is the one the compiler sees. If you want to use a method that belongs to a subclass, you must explicitly cast the variable to that subclass. But before you cast, you need to make sure that the object really is a member of that class, and you use the instance of operator to give you that information at runtime.


Income tax 2022-2023. American opportunity credits. What expenses qualify? Let's do some wealth preservation with some tax preparation. Most of this information comes from publication 970, tax benefits for education tax year 2022. You can find on the IRS website, irs.gov, irs.gov. Looking at the income tax formula, we're down here at the bottom in the credit area. Remember in the first half of the income tax formula is in essence an income statement, although it was strange one bottom line being taxable income. Similar to net income bottom line of a normal income statement, we calculate the tax on the taxable income, not using one rate, not a flat tax, but with the progressive tax system to get to the tax before credits and other taxes.  And then we have the payments out which would generally be


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Friends, welcome back to my channel and welcome if you're new here. It is Monday, so that means it is meal prep day. This week, I am going to follow the purple plan on WW. I'm doing a test run, a trial run. I am not switching plans. I've been getting a lot of comments about why I've chosen to switch plans. I'm not switching officially. I'm switching for the week because ultimately that is my goal is to move over to the purple plan. It lends itself really well to my clean approach to WW. But I need to make sure that I'm able to keep my portions in check and also that I feel that the purple plan is a good fit for me. So in order to do that, I need to give it a try. So this week, Monday through Friday, I'm going to be eating on the purple plan. I will be filming the entire thing and sharing that with you once the week is over as well as away an update. So this meal prep is geared a little bit more towards the purple plan but of course fits into any color plan because everything here is WW friendly. We have breakfast, lunch and a snack and you guys, everything sounds incredible. I cannot wait. So without further ado, let's jump into this week's WW meal prep. My breakfast this week, I'm going to be making a five minute oatmeal power bowl. I'm gonna show you how I'm going to put this together for the week and then we're gonna put an entire bowl together because this is going to be my breakfast this morning. So let me show you first what's in the power bowl and then what toppings I'm going to use. For your power bowl, you'll need some almond milk or milk alternative of your choice. Rolled oats, these are from the Thrive Market. The link for Thrive is always in the description box. Right now they are shipping quick. I ordered and my order shipped the next day. So they're right back on track. Their organic rolled oats are my very favorite. That's exactly what these are. You also get $20 worth of free products when you join the Thrive Market. So the link to join is down in the description box. I highly recommend checking that out. You're also going to need some chia seeds, ground cinnamon, ripe bananas as ripe as you can get them, the riper they are, the sweeter they are. And then we're also going to need some water. And then for, oh, and sorry, flax seed. So in the recipe, it says you can add the flax meal directly into the oatmeal, but it will make kind of a flax egg, which is kind of like a chia egg, a little bit of a gummy mix. So I'm going to top my bowl with the ground flax seed, but it is figured in the point of the oatmeal bowl. So I wanted to show that to you as part of the bowl, but I'm actually going to sub it as a topping. And I'll put this all together for you in the video here. And then for other toppings, I'm going to do some unsweetened toasted coconut flakes, some sprouted pumpkin seeds and some fresh blueberries. So let's get started on our breakfast. So let's put together our first power bowl. I have this pretty bowl for this morning. And then I have three of my meal prep bowls for the next few days worth of the power bowl. I will link these bowls down below for you guys. So in my bowl, the first thing I'm going to do is take my banana. I'm going to massage it just a little bit in the skin. And that helps just mash it up a little bit easier once we do add it into our bowl. And that's definitely important to do if your banana isn't quite all the way ripe before you go to use it. If it's a little bit on the green side, if you massage it a little bit in the skin of the banana, it really helps it ripen and smash up a lot easier. So go ahead and just give it a quick mash in your bowl. You want to make sure you kind of have a paste, sort of a banana paste. And then to that, we're going to go ahead and add in our ingredients. So I have one tablespoon of chia seeds. I have one third cup of water, one third cup of my organic rolled oats. And remember to always buy your oats organic. They are heavily sprayed with glycosate, which is the active ingredient in Roundup. So always make sure your oats are organic. We're going to add in some cinnamon, and this would be kind of to your preference. The recipe calls for about a quarter of a teaspoon, but I love cinnamon, so I'm going to put a little bit more than that. And two thirds cup of whatever milk you're using. And then you're going to give this a stir. You want to make sure everything is combined. Those chia seeds will start to soak up the liquid, and they'll become kind of gelatinous, which makes them really, really easy to eat. And they are so incredibly good for you. And then you are going to cover this and put this in the refrigerator, preferably overnight. I do not have that much time today if I'm going to have this for breakfast. That's why I wanted to make today's bowl first. But I'm actually going to go ahead and get this covered and in the refrigerator while we put together the rest of our power bowls. So I'm going to start putting together the rest of my bowls. I'm going to do three more bowls. So let's get these put together so we can get these into the refrigerator. While our bowls are in the refrigerator, I'm going to put together the toppings for the power bowl. So I pulled out some of my little reusable cups. And in my cup, I'm going to add all of my dry toppings. So first I'm going to use some of these unsweetened toasted coconut flakes. Look at that, yum. I got these off of the Thrive Market. I'm only going to put in a very small amount just because these do have quite a bit of points. I know it's very bizarre because it's just coconut, but really it's maybe half of a tablespoon of the coconut flakes. And then I'm going to put in the same container, one tablespoon of my pumpkin seeds. I picked these up at Costco. So I'm going to do one tablespoon of those and the one tablespoon of the flax meal that I'm going to add to the top instead of actually putting into the oatmeal bowl just so it doesn't become kind of that flax egg. I don't really care for that consistency very much. And we already have a little bit of gelatinous from the chia seeds. So there are my dry toppings for my bowl and then I'm just going to add just a tiny bit of cinnamon to the top so I can have that little extra bit of cinnamon when I go to put my bowls together. Pop a lid on that. And then there are all of the dry ingredients. So it makes it really easy to take it with you because everything is put together in one little to-go container. And then I have my fresh blueberries here and these little mini snack size Ziploc bags. So I'm going to just put in about a half of a cup, not even a half of a cup. Maybe, yeah, less than a half of a cup at another zero point. So ever many you would like into a little baggie here. And these are going to go with my dry ingredients and this is what is going to top my power bowls. And then when I go to eat it, I'll go ahead and add my toppings. And you'll see that when I put together this morning's breakfast. So I'm going to get the rest of these for the other two bowls ready to go. So here are my bowls. So I have my three power bowls. I'm going to go ahead and get those in my refrigerator. Essentially it's like overnight oats. You'll keep them in the refrigerator and then we're actually going to warm them up before we eat them. But basically you could eat them warm or cold similar to an overnight oat. I have my three bags of blueberries and my little container of all my toppings. So really, really easy. I'm probably going to pair this with a boiled egg. I did hard boil some eggs in my Instant Pot. So I probably will pair this with a boiled egg for a little extra bit of protein and zero points on the blue and purple plan and only two points for that on the green plan. So for the power bowl itself, and this does not include toppings. The only thing it includes is the bowl and the flax seed. It is five smart points on both blue and green and two smart points on the purple plan. Now my toppings that I chose to add to my power bowl is one point for the pumpkin seeds and one point for the coconut flakes. And then of course it's zero points for the blueberries. So with the toppings, my bowl is seven points on blue and green and four points on the purple plan. But what a fabulous, fabulous breakfast. So let's put together one of these bowls so you can see what the completed power bowl looks like. So this is the one we tossed in the fridge. Look, it's already solid and the chia seeds have already started to become gelatinous. So I'm actually going to pop this in my microwave for a couple of minutes until it is heated through. I warmed mine up. Again, you can have it cold if you would rather. So now we're gonna add our toppings. So first I have those little bit of those toasted coconut flakes. I love that these are toasted. It just really brings out the flavor of the coconut. I purchased these off of the Thrive Market. I find that they have the most affordable price for the coconut flakes. And again, that's linked down below. I have pumpkin seeds, one tablespoon worth of pumpkin seeds. So I'm gonna go ahead and add those.  These pumpkin seeds and coconut flakes are just going to add some really good texture to the power bowl and just pump up the protein and all the good nutrients. And then I'm going to just sprinkle on some blueberries. I think adding a fresh fruit is good too because it kind of balances out and gives it that little extra bit of sweetness. So little less than half of a cup of frozen blueberries but you can do as much as you want. You can do whatever fruit you want because of course, fruit is zero points on all plans. And then lastly, I'm just going to add a little bit of cinnamon just right over the top. And there's our oatmeal power bowl.  And this is a large bowl, very filling. I'm going to be pairing mine again with just a hard boiled egg with maybe some everything but the bagel seasoning on it. But what a fantastic, clean eating, filling and really actually low point breakfast option. So there you have it, a five minute oatmeal power bowl. For lunch this week, I'm going to be making a mango chicken wrap. I'm really excited about this. It's going to be spicy from a salsa but sweet with the mango and I get to use my new tortillas. So let me show you what's in my lunch. You're going to need some salsa of your choice. I have this in the fridge so I didn't buy any other salsa. I would much prefer organic because tomatoes are on the dirty dozen but I didn't want to waste this. So I'm going to use this up. Also you'll need some chicken breast. This came from Butcher Box. So I decided to go ahead and order a Butcher Box just with meat being hard to find in the grocery store especially good organic, grass-fed, grass-finished meat is really hard to find. You guys, I love the Butcher Box. It is a fantastic, fantastic deal. You can select what comes in your box. We're not pork eaters. So I did a lot of chicken and red meat and hamburger and it is the best meat and it is so incredibly affordable. I love it. I signed up to continue to get the Butcher Box. The next time one comes I'll definitely share it with you guys but before I shared it I wanted to make sure that I felt like it was good quality meat and a good value and it most definitely is. I do have a link down below for $30 off of your first Butcher Box. It's not an affiliate link. It's just $30 off for you. I use someone else's when I signed up for the Butcher Box but it's awesome. I love it and their meat is exceptional.  Definitely check it out. Especially right now when just good quality meat is really hard to find. And then you'll need some lettuce. So I'm just gonna do this organic romaine chopped up lettuce from Trader Joe's. I'm gonna use my new tortillas, my Siete Almond Flour Tortillas. I'm so excited to try these. You guys, the ingredients on these are absolutely perfect. Almond flour, tapioca flour, water, salt, xanthan gum. That's it. They are three smart points per tortilla. So they're only one point more than my La Victoria which also has, or La Tortilla I'm sorry, which also has amazing ingredients. But I really wanted to try these. They are grain free, non-GMO, gluten free, super, super excited to have those. And then we need a big mango because we're gonna add some mango to our wrap. So let's get started on lunch.  I think it's gonna be the fastest way to get the chicken cooked with the least amount of cleanup. So in my instant pot, I'm going to go ahead and spray the bottom with some of my non-stick cooking spray. I just don't want the chicken to stick to the bottom of the instant pot. And then I'm going to add in my chicken. This pack is one huge chicken breast, which is, I mean, it's a big, big chicken breast. It's going to be plenty. And then I'm going to add in what's left here of my salsa. And I'm just going to put that on top. So basically we're kind of making a salsa chicken in our instant pot. And then when it is done cooking, we'll go ahead and shred it up. So I'm just gonna get this started for about 30 minutes. So I'm gonna go ahead and do my mango while the chicken is in the instant pot. The best way to cut a mango, and this is a trick that I found on YouTube actually, is to go ahead and slice your mango.  Now the riper of the mango, the easier it'll slide through. Unfortunately, my mango is not that ripe. I actually just bought this two days ago, but it still works really, really well. And look at that, a perfect piece of mango. So I'm gonna go ahead and get my mango done and set aside, and we'll cut this into strips for our wraps. So we have our mango all sliced up with the glass. It's seriously, you guys, super good hack. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to just slice my mango into just some strips, and we'll put it back here in the bowl and throw it in the refrigerator while our chicken continues to cook. And then we aren't going to assemble the wraps entirely just because we'll do that when we go to eat them, but I'm gonna show you what they look like. So I just popped the lid off. This looks so good, you guys. I'm going to let it cool for just a couple minutes. Then we're gonna just shred this up with some forks really fast. So the chicken is done, look at that. Doesn't that look super good? So I'm going to put together the components of my wrap here. So in my meal prep container, in the small side, I'm going to put one third of the chicken. So this chicken is enough for three wraps. The rest of the days of the week, I'll just have something else. You guys know I'm following the purple plan this next week so I wanted to show you guys a few different options because I'm filming of what I eat in a week on the purple plan. So excited to do that and see how it goes. So I'm going to leave myself a couple of days to create a different lunch, maybe share something different and unique with you guys. So I'm only going to put together three of the wraps. So in the small compartment, I have one third or about one third here of the chicken. Pretty darn close anyways. And then in the big side, I'm going to put together some little baggies of the lettuce, the mango slices, and then one of my siete tortillas. So I'm going to go ahead and take a sandwich size Ziploc bag and I'm going to put in some of my romaine lettuce. Now these almond flour wraps, they're pretty small. So we're not going to be able to get in a ton of the ingredients. So this is kind of a lot for the wrap. So I'm going to put my lettuce in a small bag and really not very much, maybe about a half of a cup of the green lettuce. And then I'm going to divide my mango by three. So there's my lettuce. So it's about as much as I think we'll be able to fit. And then I'm going to do the mango slices divided by three. So I'm just going to put in a handful here of the mango slices. I'm actually really darn excited for this. I love mango. And again, I think the combo of the sweet of the mango and the spicy of the salsa is going to be so good. So there are the mango slices. And then let me show you. So here is the size of the tortillas. I'm going to go ahead and pull these out. So these are about the size of a corn tortilla, I would say. So there it is in my hand. So I'm going to put one of those in the meal prep container as well. Just kind of, actually, you know what? No, I'm not. I'm going to just pull my tortilla out as needed. So if you are taking this to lunch, you could just put this separate. I just don't want it to crack. So I'll just pull one out as needed. So I'm going to put one tortilla, fill it with the mango, the chicken and the lettuce. And that is going to be my mango chicken wrap. So I'm going to put together the other two meal prep containers. And I'll be back to share the total lunch and give you the smart points. So here is my lunch prep. I'm so excited about this. You guys will actually see these wraps put together during what I eat in a week on the purple plan because this will be my lunch three of those days. So you'll get to see how these are put together. I didn't want to waste anything by putting it together just for the video, but you can get the general idea. I'm going to take one almond wrap, fill it with the salsa chicken, mango and lettuce. So what's really cool is this entire lunch is zero points, with the exception of the tortilla, on both the blue and purple plan. And it is only two points on the green plan because you have to count for the chicken. And now the tortilla that I'm using is three smart points. You could use a one or two smart point tortilla and lower it even more. I'm okay using this one because the ingredients, I'm super excited to try it. I've heard it is delicious. So for me, this is a three smart point lunch. Now I'll probably pair this with maybe an additional fruit or I may have some of my butternut squash pretzels or even some siete chips. I'm not sure yet. Again, you guys will see that in the what I eat in a week on purple video, but this is the clean eating mango chicken wraps for the week. Cannot wait. For a snack this week, I'm going to be making banana granola bars. So I'm going to do a homemade granola bar. I've been getting a lot of requests to make homemade breakfast cookies, granola bars, protein bars, that type of thing so you can control the ingredients and therefore you're controlling the points. So I'm going to do just that. And what is amazing about this granola bar recipe is these are no bake. So it makes it really easy, quick, easy to put together.  So let me show you what's in these bars. First you're going to need some rolled oats. Again, these are the organic rolled oats from the Thrive Market. Pumpkin seeds, cocoa or cacao powder, whatever you have on hand, dried cranberries. I'm going to be using these patience fruit and company. These are sweetened with apple juice. They have perfect ingredients. Super excited to try these. I also purchased these off of the Thrive Market. You'll need some maple syrup, nut butter of your choice, either two large bananas or three small bananas, some sunflower seeds, and last but not least lilies or any type of chocolate chip. So let's get started on these banana granola bars. So the first thing we're going to do is take our three bananas. I go ahead and just kind of squish them like I showed you in the oatmeal. In the rind here, peel, I guess I should say, of the banana. It just helps them smash up a bit better. So I'm going to go ahead and add my three bananas. And then I'm just going to take my fork and mash those up. Once you've mashed up your bananas, we're going to add in our wet ingredients, AKA our two tablespoons of maple syrup. I went ahead and weighed that out on my food scale. That's going to give you the most accurate measurement. And then my two tablespoons or 28 grams also weighed out on my food scale of the Trader Joe's organic peanut butter. It's just plain peanut butter, peanuts and salt. No added additional ingredients. So I'm going to go ahead and add that. And I'm going to give this just a quick mix here with my fork before we add in the dry ingredients. Oh, this looks so good, you guys, yum. All right, so I'm going to go ahead and add in my cacao powder. I have three teaspoons. You can do between two and four teaspoons of the cacao powder. I wanted these to be a little more chocolatey. Plus there is a lot of nutritional benefit in cacao powder. So I thought that that would be a little addition to my granola bars here. So added that cacao powder. Now we're ready to add the rest of our ingredients. So I have one cup of my organic rolled oats. I have 28 grams of Lily's chocolate chips. I just weighed those out on my food scale. I have one quarter cup of pumpkin seeds and one quarter cup of raw unsalted sunflower seeds. And then look at these cranberries. These are the patients once from Thrive, they're whole, which is amazing.  And then that way I will get a little bit more cranberry in my bars, because this isn't very much. This was weighed out on my food scale and is basically two tablespoons weight-wise of the whole cranberries. So next time I probably would buy the kind of cut one similar to a crazen, but this is going to just take a couple of seconds just to chop these up. So I'll get them chopped and then we're ready to mix together the rest of the bar ingredients. So cranberries are in, we're going to give this a mix. Once we add all these dry ingredients, we'll have a much stiffer consistency to our granola bars. And then we're going to add these to a pan and pop them into our freezer for about an hour or until they're frozen solid and then we'll cut them into bars. I can't wait, you guys. This looks so delicious, oh my goodness. So you could skip the cocoa or cacao powder if you didn't want a chocolate flavored bar, but I thought what goes better with bananas than chocolate. So let's get these in a pan and into the freezer. So I'm going to go ahead and spray my pan really good with some nonstick spray just so that my bars don't stick. This is just the chosen foods, avocado one has no flavor. And then I'm going to add in my granola bar mixture. Oh, you guys, I am really excited about these. And the points on these are really good, much lower than most granola bars. So that's exciting as well. And again, we were able to control our ingredients. We know exactly what is in here. I was thinking a nice addition to this, maybe a little bit of pink salt just to bring out the sweetness. The pink salt sometimes will really help bring out the sweetness, but I did not do that next time. I most certainly will. So I'm going to go ahead and get these spread out. We'll get this covered with some saran wrap and get this into the freezer for about an hour. And then once they are hardened, we'll go ahead and cut them into our bars. But these are going to be good size bars. And again, fantastic ingredients and even more fantastic smart points. All right, so I just pulled out the granola bars. I had one home. My gosh, these are amazing. They are so sweet. They're chocolatey. You can taste the banana. And then you get that little bit of sour or that punch from those cranberries. So good, you guys. So incredibly delicious. So this is the size of the granola bar. So this is the size of bar that I had. These are four smart points on both the blue and green plan, which you guys, most traditional granola bars are six to eight. So that's a fantastic deal. This is a good sized granola bar, clean ingredients. And it is only three points on the purple plan. So one of these big bars, three or four smart points depending on the plan that you're following. So I'll definitely be eating these throughout the week. They're amazing. Highly, highly recommend. So here are my snacks for the week. Again, I am going to be following the purple plan for the next five days, which we're amidst that right now. It's day one of me following the purple plan. So my snacks are geared a little more towards that, but I'll give you the points for all the plans. So first I have a belt bar. As always, I like to have these as a snack option. These are great on days that I work out or do Jazzercise. They give me that little pump of protein, fiber and fat. So they keep me full and satisfied and they taste absolutely amazing. So I pulled out a couple of different kinds. I have the peanut butter bar, which is a nut-based bar. So all of the nut-based belt bars are for smart points. With the exception of the coconut almond, it is three.  So I have these ones on the days that I'm a little extra hungry and need that little extra bit of protein because these have 20 grams of protein, seven fiber and seven fat. So for that extra point, you get quite a pump of protein and fat, which keeps you full. So I have those. And then on the days that maybe I'm not as hungry, these are the OG, the original belt bars. This one is double chocolate mousse. I love this one, especially warmed up in the microwave for a couple seconds. Amazing. So these actually have 15 grams of protein, seven fiber and four fat. So they have the same fiber, but five less grams of protein and three less grams of fat. But these ones are three smart points. So just depending on my mood, how much of a satiation I need, am I working out? What is my agenda for the day is determines the belt bar that I'll choose. I do have 10% off for belt bar. My code is here on the screen for you guys. If you are brand new to belt bar, you have a very special link just for you where you can get $10 off your first order, which is a killer deal. So if you've never ordered from belt bar or you have a different email address than you've used in the past, you can take advantage of the $10 off. Just click that special link down in the description box. So let me send bill bars. And because it's purple, I need popcorn. So I picked up these tiny, but mighty unpopped kernels heirloom popcorn. So I'll show these to you. They look a little bit different than your traditional popcorn kernel. What is awesome about these is they don't get stuck in your teeth because they don't have that shell of popcorn. I guess shell might not be the right word, but you guys know what I'm talking about. You always wanna make sure you pick up your popcorn non-GMO. Otherwise it is going to be sprayed with GMO. It's going to be a GMO corn crop and we don't necessarily want that. So I picked these up. So my plan is to pop this popcorn and add a little bit of nutritional yeast to it to give it that yummy cheesy popcorn. So excited. You guys will definitely see this in an upcoming video, but I grabbed some heirloom popcorn. And then I have been loving my smoothies, but you guys, I have found two absolutely amazing protein powders that I wanna share with you guys. We'll talk more about these in my video on the Purple Plan as well. But first is the Terra's Way grass-fed organic whey protein, 21 grams of protein in two scoops. It is two smart points for two scoops. And you guys, this protein powder is absolutely divine. It has a perfect consistency. It's not chunky at all. It gives you 21 grams of protein. It has absolutely phenomenal ingredients, like really, really good ingredients, really good ingredients. So I am excited about that. It's made with Stevia. I've been really liking this with fruit in my smoothie. Again, I'll show you a couple of fun recipes throughout that Purple Plan video, but I highly recommend Terra's Way if you're looking for a great vanilla-based protein powder that has a little less points than the less naked whey. I'll link this down below for you guys. Buy by mine at Thrive, because it is $6 a container less on Thrive than anywhere else. On Amazon, this is about $33 on Thrive. This is $24.99. So I will make sure that I link the Thrive link below for you guys. And there's also a link down there to Join Thrive if you aren't already. And you can save $6 just on this one product from there. Love this protein. And then, you guys, this is amazing as well. This is the Primal Kitchen Collagen Fuel. So this is Peanut Butter Collagen Peptide Drink Mix. So this is not a protein powder per se, but I love adding this to a smoothie.  So I love this. Again, you can have one scoop for two smart points. You're still getting 11 grams of protein, even though this isn't necessarily a protein powder. It has fab, U-less ingredients. You're getting that little kick of collagen. This is non-dairy, supports healthy hair, skin and nails, primal, paleo and keto-friendly. No gluten, grain, whey, or soy, which is amazing and no filler. So as Bobby on Flav City says, no filler, all thriller. So this stuff is amazing. I will link this down below for you as well. I can't wait to order several other flavors now that I know how great this is. So those are kind of my smoothie go-tos, some popcorn, of course, and some belt bars. So these are my snacks for the week. Thank you for joining me for another weekly My WW Meal Prep. Are you as excited about these recipes as I am because all of them look so good. We are talking whole, real, clean food, WW friendly on all plans, especially if you are following the Purple Plan, they're extremely low smart points. So again, I'm gonna incorporate these into this next week, which is my five days on the Purple Plan and I can't wait to report back with how it all goes. So definitely stay tuned for that. All of these recipes will be on my website. The link to my website is down in the description box. 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Hey guys, welcome back to our channel. My name is Andrea with Food and Mentory Adventures in Food. And I am here today with a really quick and easy recipe for slice and bake cookies. So I will make sure to link the recipe and the ingredients in the description box. So please make sure to check that out. But you are going to need oats, some salt, flour, an egg, sugar and vanilla. Sugar and vanilla. So let's get started. Okay, so we're gonna start off by creaming our butter and sugar and we are going to mix it until it's nice and light and fluffy. Now I'm going to add my vanilla and my egg. So everything is nice and combined. I'm gonna set this aside for a second and then I'm gonna mix up my dry ingredients. So in a separate bowl, I'm going to add my flour, my salt and my oats. And I'm just gonna mix it up. And since these are slice and bake cookies, it means you're not going to bake these immediately. You're going to wanna roll these up and I'm gonna show you how to do it. You're gonna wanna roll them up and then you're going to refrigerate them for at least a few hours or overnight. And I am going to refrigerate mine overnight. So I have everything all combined, my dry ingredients. And I'm just going to add my dry ingredients to my butter mixture. I'm just gonna pour it in, mix it up. And if you want to use your mixture, you can. So whatever is easier for you. So I just wanted to combine this a little bit before I pull my mixer back out.  And I'm just going to roll this up into a log. All right guys, so I have my mat here. I could not think of that word before, but I have my mat here and I have just pulled out my cookie dough and I'm going to form a log. Now, if you want to make one big log, you can. I think I'm going to split this up into two logs. And I'm just going to want to work to kind of get it together. And when you think about putting this in a log or making this into a log, think about the refrigerator cookie dough, like the Pillsbury or the Nestle's Toll House. That's kind of the size that you want your log to be. And this is a pretty easy dough to work with. It doesn't really stick to your fingers much, but you definitely want to refrigerate it. That's going to help the cookie stay together and help the cookie not spread so much. Plus it's going to allow all those flavors to come together. So I've got one log right here. Like I said, you can make this into a much bigger log, but I'm just going to make my dough into two logs. So I have a log here and let me work on the other log. Okay, so I have my two logs and they're about equal. So I'm going to wrap these up tightly in saran wrap. So here are my two logs. I am going to refrigerate my logs overnight. And you don't have to refrigerate them overnight if you don't want to, but you do need to refrigerate them for at least three hours. So after I've let them refrigerate overnight, I will come back and show you guys how these bake up. Okay guys, I'm back. I let my dough chill in my fridge overnight. I took them out and then I have had them resting on my cabinet for about 10 minutes or so. I've got my oven preheated to 350 degrees and that's my baby in the background. He's hanging out. They got my oven preheated to 350 degrees and all I'm going to do is thinly slice these cookies and I'm going to bake them for about 10 to 12 minutes or until they're golden brown. And as far as the thickness, I don't know, they're like that thin. I'm not great with measurements, but we'll start placing them. And because they're refrigerator cookies, they're not going to spread a whole lot. All right, so got these all cut up. I'm going to pop them in my oven. Again, I have my oven preheating to 350 degrees or preheated, I should say. It's already ready to go. I'm going to pop these in the oven for about 10 to 12 minutes or until they're golden brown. And I'll show you what they look like once they come out. Okay guys, so here's the finished product. This is the first batch of cookies that I took out of the oven. I did end up baking them for 12 minutes. And let me show you with the bottom of them what they look like on the bottom, nice and golden brown. So 12 minutes. So this is the first batch. The second batch is cooling and I have another batch in the oven. Howard is going to break open a cookie so you can see what it looks like on the inside. There it is. Let me back up a little bit. There it is.  So I hope you guys enjoyed this video. If you did, please make sure to give us a thumbs up. And if you haven't subscribed to our channel, I certainly hope you'll do so. See you guys next time.


The 2022 annual Southeastern Kentucky Chamber Awards night is September 27th, for tickets call<PHONE_NUMBER>. You can also watch live on the free Mountain Top TV app. The Pikeville Fire Department will be hosting its second annual Firefighter Ball Friday, October 7th at the Overlook Events Center. The ball will feature a cash bar, dinner, dancing, and all proceeds will go to the Fallen Firefighters Memorial. So the Firefighters Memorial will actually be next to our station three on Hamlet Boulevard and it's going to be constructed once we've obtained all the funds for that through fundraising and it's going to be very well constructed, it's going to actually be all the names of the firefighters that were killed in line of duty will be on there. The ball is $50 per person or $400 per table. The ball is also offering sponsorship packages starting at $1,000. All proceeds will go to the Fallen Firefighters Memorial which will honor Fallen Firefighters in Pike County. We welcome anybody, it is a formal event so dress a tire only and you can actually purchase tickets either by calling station one here and phone number<PHONE_NUMBER> or you can actually stop by City Hall there at the utilities office. The ball will kick off with a cocktail hour at 6pm Friday, October 7th. For more information on the Firefighters Ball, go to Pikeville Fire Department on Facebook. For Mountain Top News, I'm Brianna Robinson.