Hello, Dugan Badweryer, Zuyashita Ranch here on the Shine River Zoo Reservation. When did I need to know I had a problem and needed a drought plan? I think it was in 2017 when we was kind of going through a dry spell. And I was in an executive link meeting in Montana and one of the people running that there had a drought plan and shared it with us and it just made so much sense. So I went and developed my own when I got home. Incorporated into, I was still leasing some cows out at that time, incorporated it into my contracts with people I was leasing with. And then when I started filling all my land up with my own cattle, I had created a ABC herd within that so I know what class was going to go when I didn't meet my trigger points, my trigger dates. So it was 2017 when I knew I needed that drought plan. And last year, I was the first time I really had to use it. I was down in number of cows. So I had some room to lease out some cows and I told a young guy that I'd lease his cows out. And of course, I had my drought plan in the contract and all the trigger points, we couldn't hit the rainfall and I, every time I had a trigger point, I says, well, you're going to have to leave half your herd or whatever the drought plan said. I think it was a quarter, then went to half, then it went to all of them. He didn't quite understand because he seen I had the grass, but that's not the point. I just kind of used my ground and we didn't have any water. So last year was the first year I ever had to use my drought plan and I was thankful for it. And I can show right now that my grass is pretty good in this drought, but it would have been terribly worse if I had brought all them cows in. So those, so that was when I knew I needed a drought plan. I wish I had it years before when we went through droughts, but I'm glad I have it now. How does the D'Azurio-Shichir Ranch rank its resources? I think I'm in a little different position in most ranches, not the most, but I have a tribal lease with the Shine University tribe that is, you know, the Bureau of Inventive Affairs is kind of sets my stocking rate, but I kind of maneuver my holistic management within that and still achieve what I want to do and not be in violation of BI rules, which in my opinion are very antiquated and need to be changed. And if they could see what I'm doing it would, but how do I rank resources? I think number one is family. I have found that out in the last few years. Family is your number one resource, you know, if you don't have your family, if you don't have the backing of anything on that then you're doomed to fail. Land is number two and grass and grass management is number three.  Your equipment and everything else is last on my opinion.  So those are the how I rank the resources on the Ziyushicha Ranch with family being number one and I've changed my ranch in the last few years to make it more accommodating so my girls will want to continue on what I'm doing. So Nugent how important is planning your annual grazing rotation and maybe when do you do that? Well I started in the last couple of years. I want my grazing plan done by January 1. That way I kind of have a plan for the year. Have I ever followed through with that? No I've had to change it throughout but I have a plan. I kind of know where I want to go and it just deviates, you know, depending on the weather. But January 1 I usually, and I wish I had it here but it's so big, I got a grazing chart and a map and I lay out my paddocks that I want and so by January 1 I want that map done and my grazing plan as much filled out as possible because then it just relieves so much stress because I can put it on there. This is when I typically brand and I can have it on my map. You know, this is the dates that my daughter's high school rodeo and I'm going to be branding, calving. I have all them on my chart, you know, or if I got a big South Dakota Grasslands grazing school I'm going to go to. I can put that down there. So I know all these things ahead of time that when I reach this point I'm like I'm going to be at the grazing school for four or five days. I need to change the plan. I need to make my pasture a little bigger than what I had planned for this time. So having a plan by January 1 is very important for me. It's something you just have to do. You have to do it and it just relieves so much stress when you know where you're going, you know, because a lot of guys don't know where they're going at this time of year. Well, I think I have grass in this pasture and each year I try not to start in the same place. I try to start in a different pasture. It might be one pasture over or it might be five pastures over. Last two years it's always been one or two pastures over, but I never try to start in the same spot. Just to give the grass a different, hitting it different times because, you know, now I'm trying to incorporate, trying to get rid of some of my cool season grasses that I don't want. So that's going to be implemented from here on out. I'm going to try to do that because through this drought I've learned to adapt and my herd's going to change. So I can be real adaptive with this new herd where I want them to start. And knowing where my Kentucky bluegrass is or my brome or whatever is, I can hit that harder in the spring. So that's going to really help me knowing from here on out. And then so having a plan by January one is very, very important. Dougan, you mentioned A, B, and C, or one, two, and three.  Those are the genetic ones that you've really worked hard to keep or build. You know, B is close. They're the younger cows that are coming up, but haven't proven themselves. How should a guy start if he's never done something like that? First off is creating that class. I think creating your different classes of your animals and even then that's even hard for guys to do because everybody's in love with their animals. Everybody's, and it took me a long time to build this herd and yeah, and I understand that. I was that way too. Man, I'm just, man, I can't get rid of these cows. They're so good. But the deal is, is create that class. Here's my best cows. Okay. Here's my next set of best cows, and here's my other ones that this fall I was probably going to get rid of anyways, you know, because it's so make room for these younger ones. So if you do that and you have these classes, then you can feel a little more comfortable and say, all right, well, class C, yeah, they're great, but yeah, they got a goal because I just can't feed them. I can't afford to feed them. You know, I was going to get rid of them in many ways or they're going to eventually go down the road. Anyways, they're just going to have to maybe do it a year or two sooner. So I think that's something that they need to do. And it's hard. It's going to be hard for a lot of guys because they fall in love with their animals and a lot of people have great hurts. Don't get me wrong. But the deal is, is the one big thing that I learned is, is you got to have a profit. Which has got to be profitable. And you can't be a hobby farmer. It can't be anything else because if you don't look at being profitable first, you're never, you're never going to get through. You're just always going to be struggling and through a drought, it's going to show. So that's the thing is everybody's got to look at it. All right. If I got rid of these animals, yeah, it's not going to hit me, hit me that hard. I can still make my profits with these other animals. And then it might open your eyes up to new avenues. If I get rid of see herd and I found out, hey, I've made a little money off of see herd one next year, I'm not going to buy such. Maybe I buy another see herd and make money on that again because they're going to be a lower devalued animal where I don't got to buy back the most expensive. I don't got to buy back $2,000 heifer or young cow or I can go buy a devalued animal, run her for the summer and get rid of both of them and make, make a profit.  So that it might open your eyes up to a new opportunity for the ranch that's going to make you some money. And that way it'll allow you resilience in within your herd. You're not in love with these animals anyways, they're just kind of a disposable herd anyway. So if we run into another drought, that's your first animal to go. And so then, then it can ease your mind a lot easier. So I think, I think the deal is, is you just got to, you got to create you, within your herd, you got to have A, B and C herd and C is or whatever it is, one, two or three and three is your disposable one. And you just got to get comfortable with that. And again, ranching of profit as just drove the dismay, run your numbers, know your numbers, know what you need to do. And it'll make you a lot more comfortable. We live this agricultural lifestyle. We live where we work, but it's still a business. And sometimes that gets lost on us because we're in it 24-7, 365. And so it's good to hear that approach for you. What's the lasting value of having this grazing and drought plan? It's the lasting value of having this grazing and drought plan. The lasting value is, is that I know that my, my pastures are going to be healthy and productive for years to come. So having this grazing plan, drought plan, I know that I am not going to be hurting my, my pastures with it. That I'm going to be benefiting them. And you know, a guy once told me and I met him and he was talking cows. And he says, I don't see myself as a, as a cowman anymore. I see myself as a grass farmer. And that really stuck to me. And having these plans, I want to be the best grass farmer I can be. And how I'm going to harvest that is through an animal. And so that really stuck with me. And having these plans in place is only going to benefit that. You know, having plans, having these drought plans, grazing plans, knowing your, your tonnage per acre can benefit you. You're, you're on down the line. If you want to, if you get your pastures to where your current hurting, you can diversify and do other things with it. And that's where I'm hoping to get my pastures is, man, here's something else I can do because my grass and my pastures are so much better. So that is something that I think is just going to be a big benefit to this ranch down the road. Do you continue managing in this way because just like degrading land takes time healing it does too? Yes. Yeah. This is, this is, I'm just in the infancy stage of this. And I know just visiting with guys who've done it for 20, 30 years, they're still feel like they're an infancy phase because they're seeing so many more benefits year after year. You know, I want to see this for my girls when they take it over that they just continue on with it and see even more benefit. You know, so I just think managing your grass properly is something that's going to just make your ranch, it can make your break you. You know, so I don't want it to break me. I want it to make my ranch. So after ranching for profit, I got the tools that they sent me home with to run my numbers and to get my projections done. And before I went there, when I would go to the sale barn, I was always hoping and nervous and hoping for a good day. You know, nervous, I was going to make my payments. After I went to ranch for profit and I had my projections done, that relieved a lot of stress on me because I kind of knew where I needed to be, what my numbers were, and running my numbers. So when I sat in the sale barn that fall, I was never so relaxed in my life sitting in there. Kind of knew where I had to be. If they weren't there, I kind of knew my projections. I knew what I, what everything I needed to do. And so that was a very, very relaxed full situation. I was probably the most relaxed I've ever been. And the other thing that taught me was to do a profit target.  So if it's 100,000, if it's 50,000. So that's, that's our profit target. And my profit target recently changed because I had a living situation change, but it's changed through every year. My profit target, it doesn't stay the same every year.  Have I met it yet? No, I haven't. I'm still in that process of trying to, trying to get there. But I think through the drought, the biggest thing ranchers need to do is they need to run their numbers on their cattle. And know what, know how they're going to manage through this and just be able to meet your obligations. You might not have a profit. I know I don't have very much of a profit target schedule for this year because of the drought. So running your numbers, being comfortable, and knowing that you can make your obligations, be able to meet family living, and doing all that. So that's going to probably help a lot of ranchers when they're going through this drought and running your numbers, running scenarios. That was the one thing is when I got to tools from Rancher Profite, it was almost intoxicating because when I came home, I was just running numbers and running scenarios and what can I do this? Can I do this? Wow, you know, and so then I got a lot more comfortable and that also really opened my eyes to, man, I couldn't do this and change my operation this way and I can do this and not just be a conventional rancher or just cow calf, what if I went and diversified into a short-term position with short-term cattle? Will I make more money that way? Random numbers and it seems like that's a really good opportunity. So those are some of the things we can do and I think with this drought that really gives ranchers if they can run their numbers and they don't only have to be through ranching for profit, it's just run your numbers. Know your numbers, know what you got to meet to make it and like you said, if you create an A, B and C herd, if I get rid of C, I know I can still make my obligations to the bank, make a living and then that's enough this year. If I get rid of C and D herd because I just don't have enough grass and water, this is what it's going to do and then you know, well, maybe I got to do something a little different to get that extra income. But running your numbers is going to be very helpful and it might relieve a lot of stress. There was a guy in my EL group and he got out and I don't think he'll mind me saying it, but JD Stengelen out of Wolf Point, he says facts are a great currency for buy-in and when you run your numbers and those are facts, those are be honest with your numbers, don't lie about your numbers, you got to be honest. Those are a great currency for everybody who's part of the ranch to buy into the change we got to make, so JD had a great saying there and I live by that, that's a great saying. So I went to School and Ranch for Profit in 2016 and after that, Dave Pratt, owner at that time and Alan Crockett had asked me to be part of Executive Link, it's the next step after you take the school and you're part of a board of ranchers that dive into each other's ranch and look for issues that can be fixable or however and help you with your problems you're having. I think that has changed my ranch. From the time I took that to today, my ranch ain't the same, it doesn't even look even similar to when I first went in 2016 to what it is now to all the things I was doing and doing wrong. I went from a mindset of I can't do that to how can I do that? And it was, that was the biggest paradigm shift for me was just being a mindset of how can I do that? Just like the drought plan, I can't do that because of this, no, how can I do that? I need to do that, so how can I develop the drought plan? How can I do ABC herd? How can I do any of this? And I've went through a lot of ups and downs in the through the years and my board, my Executive Link board has really helped me through the process of not failing. So the Ranching for Profit Executive Link is a huge benefit to my ranch and it's changed it. It's changed immensely, so. So what benefits are you seeing in your pastures from this extended rest? I mean, you're toeing the line of at least a year before you return with livestock. Yep. Since I started this, I've noticed that when I started it, just that recovery time in a pasture that I normally used to custom graze and abuse, given at that rest, I started to see some of the keystone species I always wanted, the big blue stem, not so much a buffalo grass taken over but even some Western wheat coming back into the hard pan areas that were being abused. So giving it that rest and that recovery has allowed a lot more of my native species to take over that we're there, but we're just being hammered and hit and abused every year, year after year. And given it that amount of time to recover, I see the species I want back in my pastures. They were always there. They were just getting abused every year, never giving a chance to see what they can do. Delitter, having a lot more litter, and that's even beneficial in some of the hard pans areas that I have, just having a litter and some of the areas I don't hit so hard anymore and being able to cover some of that hard pan up and give it some of the nutrients it needs to change from hard pan to productive pasture.  Yeah, and in the drought, I normally aim for that 355 to 360 days and I might even extend it depending on the drought. I'm even thinking of extending them these in this drought just to give it that extra recovery time because even just giving it that rest, if we don't get any moisture, given it that same amount of rest, we might not have the recovery that we need. It's great that it's resting, but the recovery is not probably gonna happen. So I might even extend that out further, hoping like we all ranchers do is hope that we get the moisture to get that recovery we need. Yes. So you're able to maybe even more numerous paddocks. Yeah, because I've really drastically cut my herd this last couple of years because last year it was the drought and I kind of knew it. And then even this year, I didn't retain any heifers, I didn't do any of that. So my herd's a lot smaller and I'm gonna move a lot faster and that's implemented in my grazing plan. I just, my map looks really crazy because there's a lot more little paddocks in there. And the only caveat to that is water. And I'm having some issues with water because some of my pastures I'm still only able to do with stock dams. But I just recently purchased a pump that I can pump out of the dams that can keep me from going in there, but I can still pump away from the dam to some paddocks that will help. So that's the only thing is with the caveat with all these little pastures is making sure you have adequate water to do that. How valuable are your personal and business relationships in a time like this when stress is high because there's so much uncertainty with, is it gonna rain? My, say that again. How valuable are personal and business relationships in a time like this? Oh, they're extremely important.  So I think your family and your friends and even coworkers and agencies, the NRCS, just whoever is gonna help support you on what you wanna do is important. Your business, very important.  And I would do that through your numbers and let your banker know, you know, these are some of the changes that are gonna be coming.  So being in touch with all the people you do business with is very important, I think so. But yeah, I think it is something you need to do so you don't get so bogged down and stressed out. Reach out to everybody that's gonna be doing business with your ranch so that when the time comes and it's not in April and you're going to your banker, I can't, you know, something's gotta happen. You know, you're not surprising him. And so those things are really important through any kind of disaster you're going through, you know. Some ranches will use drought to enhance their ability to weather the next one by making investments in water. What role do water developments play on this ranch? Water development has in the last few years has kind of been one of my number one priorities and it's not because of drought. It's because it's gonna allow me to hit all my goals I want with Regenerative Ag and let me be a lot more diverse, a lot more. It's not gonna restrict me on how I do my Regenerative Practices. So I was just in with Dave Ziskat at the NRCS in Zibach County and that's one thing we're gonna really implement this year is the one big issue with me is I got the Moro River that runs right down the middle of me. I got rural water on one side, but to trench it under the river it's gonna be. So we're gonna look at developing that part of it to even enhance my practices with water development. A lot of guys are gonna use that to maintain the herd that they have through this drought. I think that's a recipe for disaster depending on if they're still conventional ranching. If they are doing some sort of intensive rotation it probably could work, but that's the thing is is they just need to to do some inventory on their grasses to see and that's the big thing is water is one of the most important things I think in either a drought situation or anything to get you to enhance your Regenerative Practices. So. It's a tool to better manage. It is. It is. You're not stuck to there. Yes, yes. So yeah, and it's gonna allow you to be more flexible with your paddocks and able to do things. Like I said, if something comes up I need to be in this pasture a little longer and I can move my water tanks.  You've talked some about moving water and the smaller paddocks. So there's clearly a temporary component of infrastructure on the place. Talk a little bit about that. What's that look like for you? Well, it's overground pipe. So that's what I done. I went to Pat Gupto's in 2016 or 17 and he showed me how you can move your paddocks by dragging around overground pipe and be a lot more flexible. So that's the ranch's goal from here on out is to have not so much underground. We'll have a lot more overground and being able to be a lot more flexible and just have a central point where we're gonna be dragging off of and a hydrant or whatever it needs to be to do that. So when I done my last deal with the NRCS and put some pipeline in, I purposely put hydrants all along for that purpose knowing I can have hit this area that I normally never hit because it's too far away from my water.   Yes. In places that, you've served this, but it still didn't get you all the way there. So that's definitely a tool. Yes. But it requires your time and management. It does. It does require my time and management. I think that's one thing is when you do these regenerative practice, people are gonna understand is it's, some of it's a little more labor intensive and time intensive, but the benefits you get out of it are just immense. They might not be there in a few years. They might not be as labor intensive or as time intensive once you really master it. So you talk about taking surface water out of the pond, dug out or a dam and putting it into a tank. What value does that provide you? Well, the first value is that I'm not having my animals drinking in a dam that they're pissed in and you know what around, but it gives me the flexibility to move my cattle into these smaller paddocks and not have everything in not so much, I don't try to do a wagon wheel, but a wagon wheel around the dams to where that's the central point. This allows me to pump it and move my tanks to different locations where my pastures are. And that way, those are the points. So I can put my tank in an area that's for me to be a hard pen that needs a lot of hoof impact. And then that will give me some benefit by having that hoof impact in that area and then moving and then giving that a lot of time to rest. But you know, my stock dams are, they got some water in it, but they're not great. So then I don't want a chance to lose anything by bogging down any of that. And allowing me to have these tanks out, I got a chicken feeder style tank that I got, gives my calves a chance to water also out of that. And so that I'm not the benefit there that the calves in, the cows are getting fairly good water, you know, it's not the greatest cause still out of stock dam and a drought, but they're not urinating and everything in it. So. So what minimum amount of surface protection or grass residue, litter, whatever you wanna call it, do you try to aim for after grazing? After grazing, before I went to the Grasslands Coalition, everything was visual, everything I had learned up to that point was kind of visual. Now you need litter in order for your grasses to recover and to help it to get your goals you want. After I went to the grazing school, I started doing ponds per acre. And that has kind of really changed around as you guys seen in my pasture walk last year of some of the quick turnaround things I had in my pastures with just leaving enough residue. Before I done all this, I didn't have enough herd that I was, you know, custom grazing. And I was just trying to get as many animals in there and I wasn't really leaving any residue.  So right now I'm just trying to strive for, I don't have a tonnage, I try to leave, I didn't know, but I try to leave 1200 pounds of a tonnage left after I grazed it. This year I'm probably gonna increase that because it's so dry, I'm probably gonna try to leave 1500 even. I don't even know what, you know, at least 1500 pounds or tons per acre on the ground this year to just try to help my, when we do get rain so that I can recover a lot faster. So in the past it was visual, just seeing the litter was good enough now, doing the clippings and everything else. And the other thing I've incorporated is I do a custom blend mineral and I do a lot of clippings and send it in. And it kind of tells me what my lacking in nutrition and minerals and that's really helped. So I noticed where I started implementing a lot of my grazing, the mineral nutrition as the deficiency has gone down with the better management that I've done. You know, so those are some of the things I do. Yes, yes. So do you have a target for a minimum amount of rest before you would graze a pasture? I do, I typically tried, because our rainfall is so minimal here, I think we get 17 inches. I try to target 355 to 60 days of recovery in a normal year. Now in this drought plan, I don't think I've ever hit a drought this severe. I mean, me personally. So that's probably gonna move more days into this. Now I don't know exactly how yet until I start once the grass comes and I can go do my tonnages and know. But as of today, about 355 to 360 days, I want rest on whatever I just grazed and to give it that recovery time. Now, if I wasn't in the Bureau system, it might change because I'm kind of limited on a lot of things. If I wasn't in the Bureau system, it would probably wouldn't be probably as long, maybe it still will be, but I would probably have more animals impacting the ground that I currently have, but I would probably keep the rest days or the recovery days the same. So. So we've talked about A, B and C herds, Dugan. Well, how do you know when to make decisions? Well, through my drought plan that I created, I have trigger dates on it. You know, and it goes back to, I have a May trigger date that, if I don't get such amount of rain on this day, that it triggers these activities that I have planned in there.  If it's my herd, I really got to start, then it triggers, maybe I need to look at these classes of animals that I'm going to get rid of. April's got, I think I got two trigger dates in April. If I don't get certain amount of rain in these days, then this happens, A, B and C herd. C herds going to go or if I'm custom grazing, 50% of it's going to can't come. And then I think in the second trigger date is if I'm custom grazing, you can't come at all. Or if it's me, then for sure I am selling, have C herd and possibly looking at other options. And last year, like I said, as the first year, I actually had to implement my drought plan. This year I have implemented way earlier because I knew I wasn't going to meet them trigger dates. So my herd is way down. I don't think I can get rid of any more animals without meeting my obligations. So I'm there. So now these trigger dates, I'm probably going to have to go back and look at it and say, all right, what else am I going to have to do? So I think my drought plan is going to have to be amended this year because, and I probably should do that is, now I know I'm down as far as I can go with my class of animals and still meet my obligations. What else do I need to do? Okay, so my drought plan has so many days. Well, man, I can't do, maybe my grazing has got to change or something else has got to change. So that's something that I got to look at because I've already destocked because of the drought to a point where I know, these are the animals I can meet my obligations with. Now, what else do I got to do? So that's something that's going to be evolving with me and this year is probably the year to do it now that I've kind of followed my drought plan and I'm destocked to where I can't probably destock anymore without risk, visiting with the banker. So now it's probably going to evolve. What next? A lot of folks might consider that residue or litter as wasted grass. What benefits do you see in terms of building resilience in your soil to bounce back when drought breaks? Well, I think now I really think it's a big, big benefactor just learning what I've learned in the last few years is it's going to help recover and maintain and not get any worse. So when we do get rain, it's going to just bounce back that much faster. Steve Kenyon in Canada, and I love his quote, he doesn't manage for any resource but water and leaving that litter on the ground is, that's what he says, he manages to retain water. So that is one big benefit. If you leave that wasted grass that people say or any of that, it's going to allow your water retention to be that much better when we do get rain. And so that it can recover a lot faster. It has the bugs in it and all the other things it needs to recover. And it's not having to start from a bare ground and take so much longer to get where it needs to get. People that were out of grass last summer, it's pretty dry so far this spring except in the far Northwest that just got snow. Folks are looking in the mirror and seeing what am I going to do? They're back into a corner out of options and out of grass. What first steps should they take or what advice do you have for them? I think the first step they need to do is they need to run their numbers under ranch, understanding what their obligations are, what they need to meet, and then going back and looking at if they're a cow-calf operation, doing an inventory on our cattle, running an ABC herd, even how deep you want to go and seeing what's liquidable to manage through this. And a lot of guys have a hard time doing that but once you run your numbers and you're more comfortable with it and you can see that the benefits of having these classes of animals and getting rid of them isn't going to be the end of me because I know where I'm at with my numbers. So I think the biggest thing they need to do is know where they're at with the numbers and when I mean their numbers, their economic financial, even their livestock numbers, their grass inventory, there's a lot into this but if you're going to make a big change which guys really need to do in the drought in order to survive, you need to run those numbers and know where you're at in order to make a change that you're comfortable with. You know, because most guys will say, well, in the years past I done in this, this, and this and they're going to try to feed their way through a drought again or they're going to try to do something and make it but knowing their numbers and being comfortable with them might say, you know, if I sell class C herd, we'll be okay. And here's what we can do with the proceeds from that and make us through, get our cash flow on it or saving it and getting it into a different herd, getting it into a different class of animal that's easily liquidable too.  Do I really need them to have 400 head of cows to make it or can, if my grass is talented, if my grass is telling me I can only run 280 this year, what do I got to do to get that 280 and still survive? Well, we might not be able to go on this vacation or that vacation or we might not be able to do this but knowing your numbers and knowing what your obligations are and being comfortable being able to meet those is one thing they need to do. So folks watching these videos with you, you can probably notice this flip chart on the door. I wondered if you might tell us a little bit about what's on here. Yeah, this is a action items that through my ranching profit and executive link, every time we have a board meeting you're left, you leave there with action items that you got to do and the board helps you come up with some of these. So some of the things that we come up with, I just went through some personal deals and big changes in the ranch. So one of the big thing my board's thought was, is I need to develop my own mission and vision for myself because the ranch already has a mission and vision but what's Dugan's mission and vision also within that ranch through the big changes that's come through the ranch and personally. The next was is a couple of years ago, I went through some depression through some ranch deals. I had a, and so developed a physical and mental health regimen, talked to one of my best friends about being an accountability partner. I've done that, I've developed that and set my 22 regenerative health goals. So every year I do this, but they see that my regenerative health goals are very important to my ranch. And I didn't have my new goals set for this year. I have my grazing plan and everything else, but they said, what else goals do you wanna hit? So I'm developing them and then they give a date when you wanna do it and who's supposed to do it. So that's what this is. It's just an action item that the ranch has to go home with and get completed before the next meeting and the next meeting is July 8th through the 20th. And then we have conference calls in between there just to check up with each other. So that's what this is. Strategic personal and business relationships are helping you keep moving forward and not be bogged down by the day to day. Yeah, yeah. And that's the biggest thing through Executive Link is they help you see what the ranch or the rancher needs to do in order to be successful. So, and that's what these are. And these over here are Importance and Urgency and that's a ranching for profit kind of deal. So those are some of the things that my board came up with that I need to do before the meeting of July 18th and 20th. And then after every meeting, we have a new one that you gotta put up somewhere where you can see it. Don't bring it home and put it in the file. You gotta put it up so you see it every day and make sure you're hitting it. Yep, written rules.


This morning I want to come to the conclusion of this series that most of you thought that they will never end about rhythm or revival. They're like, Vlad got in a series and he's going to preach it till the coming of Jesus Christ. Any message he has he'll just label as the rhythm of revival part 28. And so originally I was put in my heart last year for these messages about the rhythm, about the momentum. And so about healing, how when we walk we receive healing, when we know the truth we receive freedom. How when we come to Jesus and grow in Jesus we receive freedom from anxiety and stress. And how when we walk with our spouse we have a process in which we see our love being revived. And then the last message is what I want to share in today. And so last Sunday when I was preparing I had so much stuff for the single people that I wanted to make a message just for the singles. And I will do that sometime later. But for now I'm going to leave the singles alone. Pastor Martin had a fantastic message a few weeks ago on do's and don'ts of dating. Which will be pretty much the same thing that I would have shared. And so I have a lot of other messages on YouTube. So today I want to bring the series and I believe probably it's one of the most important messages that you will hear in your life today. The problem happens with many of us is that we begin many things and then we don't bring them into completion. We start many things but we don't bring them to the finish line. We create resolutions that they don't last very long. Many of us set up goals that they don't go anywhere. And there are different reasons for that. Sometimes there are spiritual, sometimes there are very practical reasons why many goals and many things we set in our life do not become a reality. And when we acquire experiences in which we fail to reach our goals, in which we fail to reach our desired dreams, we begin to develop within us a faith that we are doomed to fail. It becomes a stronghold. And we actually after that begin to live a life in automatic and we no longer dream, we no longer aim for anything and our life is no longer living, it's just existing. And today I want to help to break that in our life and help to encourage those dreams that have died and those who maybe have stopped dreaming or believing because of so many disappointments and so many times you started and you never finished. I myself struggled before with finishing things. I would make a promise to God that I will do this and two months later I will forget about it. I would make a promise to myself that I will read this or fast this many days and I wouldn't finish it. And Jesus is a great example of that because when he was dying on the cross and things were painful, you don't see Jesus screaming, I quit. He shouted, it is finished. And then he give up the ghost. You have to come to the point where even when it's hard, you don't scream, I quit. But you shout, I finished it. Even if it was hard, even if it wasn't easy, even if it was costing you something, you have to develop within you a mindset of the finisher, not just a starter. Because if you start many things, you don't finish them. After a while you stop starting things. You will just let life be as it is. You get married, you need to finish that. That means still death do us part. You start a reading Bible reading plan for a year, go through that. Even when you fall, even when you slack off, when you start commitment to God, you got to go till the end like Apostle Paul says, I kept the faith, I finished that race. I have finished what God called me to do. Next thing that happens is you develop faith and you develop experience and a habit and a character and a habit within you. That you're not just a starter, but you are also a finisher. Amen? Typically we go and I mentioned this once and it's worth repeating.  Everything starts with a desire. It starts with a desire or with a dream. Desire is something that you want. For example, you find yourself in debt and then you say, I want to be free out of credit card debt. You find yourself overweight and you say, you know what? I want to be, I want to lose weight. You maybe find yourself today addicted to certain thing and you have a desire. You say, I want to no longer smoke. I want to read the Bible once in a year. I want to develop a lifestyle of fasting. I want to change my eating habits. I want to learn God's voice and actually hear God's voice. I want to. I want to is a very powerful stage that we all have to start with. Sometimes you have to understand is that God will not deliver people. Derek Prince says this. He says God delivers those who are desperate. The problem with many people why they cannot experience freedom from bad habits in their life is because they don't want to and their want is not big enough. Their parents want them to be free. Their friends want them to be free. Their pastor priest wants them to be free except them. They don't want to be free. What do you do when you find yourself in an area that you know you should be free from this? You know you should change in this area but you don't have a desire. I usually encourage people with this. Do you want to want to? When I meet with somebody who's addicted to alcohol or find himself in a very bad habits and I find out they have no desire to be free whatsoever. I ask them the question do you want to have a desire? And if they can start from there, God already can do a miracle. You start with a desire. Desire has to be clear. Desire has to be a clear cut objective. It cannot be vague. It cannot be just I just want to be more spiritual. Whatever that's supposed to mean. I just want to be closer to God. How do you measure that? You have to be very clear in what you want. When you look at this year, what do you want this year? What do you want for your family this year? What do you want for your finances this year? I remember last year I just turned 30 came from Ukraine and I gained substantial amount of weight. I didn't realize how it gets on you. I just kind of grew with it and my pastor gave my wife an advice. He said your husband help your husband. He needs to lose some weight. That hurts when your own pastor doesn't see you as beautiful. I stepped on the scale and I measured my weight according to my height and everything. And I realized I am two pounds away from being overweight. And so then I got a clear cut goal. Very clear of how much pounds I want to lose. It was very clear. It was not just a desire. I want to be this. It was a clear cut goal of what I wanted. The Bible says faith is substance of things. Faith is not substance of I want everything of things. Specific clear cut. Blind Bertie Meyers came to Jesus and said Jesus have mercy on me. Jesus says what do you want? Mercy. He says what do you want? Oh I want to see. He said okay we can work with that. And many of us that's exactly what we do with God. We say God bless me. And God says what does that mean? Well you know Lord. He says I do but do you know what you want? God is not asking you so that he can get no. God knows your heart. God wants you to know what you want. That's why he asked Solomon what do you want? He said Daniel you are a man of desire. What do you want? For example I want very clearly. I don't want the whole world to be saved. That's a desire that God has. My desire is I want to see 1000 souls saved. That's measurable and that is a concrete clear goal. I want to see 1000 souls being healed. 1000 bodies being healed this year. That's what I want. I want to see 30 people in our internship this year. I want to see a movement of hundreds of kids during this summer from the Yokey Bear. That's what I want. I want to see teenagers preaching once a month in our youth service. And becoming young men and women of God. That's what I want. I want RCD when it's going to be released. A race to deliver to begin to impact the Christian world. That's what I want. I want and it's specific clear cut goals. And this is where it starts with everything. Your faith cannot grow if you don't know what you want. Most of us have been convinced that our wants are wrong. I want to convince you that your wants are weak. God wants a desire that is strong within you. A burning desire. Do you want to be set free from smoking?  Do you want to be lose weight, for example? Do you want to see your family come to Jesus Christ? What do you want? This is where you have to start with. After you figure out what you want, you go to step number two is you decide. You make a decision. You say, I will. I will. Decision is very powerful because God will honor decision. The problem with many of us why we don't like to make decisions is because we are so worried about the details and the complications that making this decision will bring into our life. What will happen? If I choose to read the Bible, where will I have the time?  And we get so worked up about the details the decision will bring, realizing when you make a decision, God releases grace to deal with details. God won't give you the grace to deal with details until you make up your mind, I will do that. When Daniel went to the Babylonian kingdom and Daniel made a decision, I will not eat of the foods offered to idols. Well, he could have gotten killed for that decision, but Daniel led to worries about the details come after the decision and it's interesting God gave him wisdom on how to present his plan of not eating those foods and not only God gave him wisdom, God gave him favor and he got fatter from eating good foods, not skinnier, that was in old days, that was actually good. It's interesting everybody was trying to get lighter in the Old Testament and bigger and seems like everything is opposite. Trends change, that's for free on the side. But the point is that when he makes a decision, God works out the details. When you make a decision, God will work out the details. When you make a decision that I'm going to pursue this. You know, like the decision that we made to go to a Toyota center. You have no idea how many times during the week I get panic attacks from Toyota center. Seeing that how many people registered for a conference right now, even this morning when I would sit in my chair and turn on the music and close my eyes and I imagine Toyota center and literally I have fears and nobody will come. That you won't even come. Valentine's banquet yesterday, you know a lot of our people didn't come and I was like Toyota center is going to be duplication of the Valentine's banquet. And so guess what happened? But we made a decision and because we made a decision, you're going to have to go through the details, work them out and God will come through for them. When I made a decision last year and when I came from the Ukraine that that's it, in this month I'm going to lose 10 pounds. What am I going to do? Am I going to go starve myself to death? But see right away you get ideas on how you're going to go about it. I said I'm going to run every few days. I'm going to stop eating after seven. I will drink water every day and I will cut my portions. Small little things that God will give you wisdom but He won't give you the wisdom until you make up your mind on what you're going to do. God is not going to make a decision for you. You have to make a decision because somebody say a man. I remember fellowshiping with Anna and Mike yesterday after the banquet and Anna came and gave her life to the Lord. Pastor Ilya was preaching one of these Sundays and Anna came and she gives her life to the Lord, surrenders her life to Jesus and then me and Lana met with Anna afterwards and find out she has a boyfriend that she graciously lives with and he wants to move out of town for a job and she makes a decision right there and then she says, I'm not moving out of town because I'm going to stay in this church so I can get grounded.  She said, you know what? Whatever be, but I'm not leaving this town because I want to be rooted in God. It's interesting that that boyfriend that she had that was leaving out of town because of a job, he starts to come in few weeks, he gives his life to Jesus. He makes a decision not to move out of town and that job moved from that place to this town and everything got worked out. Make a decision. Somebody said decision. When you make a decision, details work themselves out.  You're like, what? I have to give up this. I'll have to give up that. That means I'll have to speak in tongues. That means that I'll have to raise my hands and you worry about the details. Let the details be. Make a decision and you will find the grace to work out the details in Jesus' name. The third step happens when you make a decision and this is the painful part. What we're going to talk about today is that the feelings that accompanied you when you made a decision will last there for few days, sometimes weeks. And after that, people typically hid what said God in the leadership guru calls it the dip or this dry spell or this wilderness where you have to no longer rely on, I want to do this. You have to say, I must do this. It means your feelings, what you decided to do are gone. You're looking at that activity that you said you promised that I'm going to tithe every month and then first week was exciting. You get good feelings. The second week was fine. And the third week, you're like, I'm not even going to church today. I'm not tithing. Why tithing? I could buy so much with that. And then you're looking at your other friends. They're like, they're not tithing and they're just fine. And so, and guess what you make a decision.  What point from tithing? What's the point of going to church? People don't even like me there. What's the point of depriving myself from those foods?  If it's God's will for me to die, I'm going to die. Jim, who cares about Jim? And then you're looking at the date night with your spouse.  We're just going to get a TV dinners and watch our TV show. And then you begin to drop the towel because the feelings you had when you made a decision disappeared. And you're not the only one. It's not because you're crazy. It's not because you don't care. It's not because you're not spiritual.  When it came to actually dying in the garden, Bible gives us exclusive look at his prayer. He said, Father, not what I want. Indicates, I don't want to do this. Jesus in heaven said, Father, I want to do this. Came down on earth, spent 33 years with us, the crazy people. He said, Father, don't want to do this.  They're crazy. Judas is nuts. Peter is crazy. Everybody crazy. Father, I don't want to do this. You will come to a time where what you've decided to do, you're going to say like Jesus, Father, don't want to do this. But not what I want. What I must. If you don't come to that point and if you just simply throw the towel and says, oh, I don't want to, so I quit. No, no, no, no, no. You're not crazy.  If you lost the want, switch to a second wind, second gear. I must. I have to do this. I don't want to do this. I don't feel like doing this. The world is breaking against me. I have to do this. I have to take my family to church on Sunday morning. I have to fast. I have to give. I have to witness. I have to believe and dream for 1000 souls to be saved this year. I have to. Everything is sad and it says, this is not going to happen. You're crazy. What do you think? I mean, people don't even want to be a part of this. I know I must be about my father's business. I must. When that kicks in, you're operating no longer on emotion. You're operating on some spiritual power that is coming from the Holy Ghost. Somebody say amen.  Where inside, you begin to delight in what you used to endure.  The Bible says Jesus, he endured the cross for the joy that was said before him. You begin to enjoy. You know that time in fasting, first day of fasting, you're excited. Toward the evening, you're like, that is the dumbest idea. Whoever fasts, I'm sure Pastor Vlad is not fasting right now. And then the next day you recognize everyone else that is spiritual in the church. They ain't fasting because they're posting pictures.  I'm not doing this. This is not from God. I'm like, I'm mad. I was normal before I was fasting and now I'm crazy. And when you get through that little crazy moment, that tension, and we all experience in everything we make a decision, you experience this beautiful feeling when the light comes in. When you now love doing what you dreaded, what you hated, what you didn't like it. You're like, that's not me. I'll never like it. You begin to enjoy that. And then comes the most beautiful point is you begin to see the difference in your life because of that decision. You begin to see your life change. You begin to step on a scale and the numbers are different. You begin to read the Bible and you were reading the Bible reading plan. And for weeks you're falling asleep reading it. But now it's reading you. Things stand out from the scriptures.  You begin to notice beautiful thing in the face of the other person. You begin to sense changes. You begin to notice people are getting healed. You were always praying for that. But now you're not just praying for people. You're seeing the results. You begin to notice things are shifting and things are changing in your finances. That debt that it seems so huge you're noticing one more month. And baby, we're out of debt completely. You begin to notice a change in your life. See God doesn't throw the change right after you make a desire. God doesn't throw that otherwise everyone will be changed. The change is a process. Because in all of this process something develops within you that is important to maintain the change you receive. The reason why God takes us through this of breaking points and breaking periods is because God isn't interested in giving you something you do not know how to maintain. And when you go through that things in you will die. Things in you will rise again. And through that you will be able to be equipped to maintain the very blessing God brings through this process. The most beautiful part, it's not where it ends. It's the fact that you have destiny. Meaning you leave a legacy for your children. Your ceiling becomes their floor. Now they only see prosperity. They see good decisions. They don't know what it's like to borrow money because you show them how to sacrifice money. They don't know how to see how people fight because you show love in relationship. They don't know what it's like not to read the Bible. To them it's normal to see both parents reading the Bible. To them it's normal. We have time during the month where we abstain from food completely. Why? Because we dedicate ourselves to God. They see that as a normal. They don't have to even fight for it. It's already injected as a generational blessing. That's why God told to Abraham. He says what I'm teaching you it's not just for you. It's for your children and your grandchildren. So you will pass that on to generations yet unborn. But I want to talk about the point that really kills all of us. And that's point number three. It's when we make a decision. Or we made a promise to God. We made a promise to one another. And then afterwards we hit this season where the feelings have faded away. And on the opposite we feel so convinced we should give that up. Or maybe we've been doing it for some time and there is no sign of changing. Things are actually only getting worse. And you feel like if you would just quit things will get better. There's a picture of, you guys probably saw the picture of two people digging a tunnel in under the ground and in that picture one person quits right before having the breakthrough. And the other person keeps plowing. That's us in January. And that's us in February when it comes to fitness. For many of us this is a beautiful picture. I want to teach you something this morning. When you discipline yourself. When you believe. When you have that dream. When you have that goal. Put like a stamp, post a stamp on the letter. It sticks to the letter until that letter comes to its destination. If somebody rips off the postage stamp from the letter the letter gets lost. There are people in this room you're lost. And it's not because you're in sin. It's because the postage stamp means God's stamp on your life. God's desire for you. God's dream for you. God's goal for you. You allow circumstances. Your bad habits to rip that out of the envelope of your destiny. And today you're just cruising around. You're not reaching no longer your destiny. You're circling around and you're not going to arrive on accident until the Holy Spirit in this service puts that stamp postage again on your letter and says listen. Stick to this until it arrives at the desired destination. But what if my life will never change?  And nothing will happen. But things are only getting worse Vlad. Joseph had a moment where things were getting bad, really bad, really bad, really bad and then they got so bad that it seems like it can't get worse than this. And Joseph kept doing the right thing. He kept doing the right thing. He kept doing the right thing and he kept doing the right thing. He translates the dreams for other people until one night and there came a tipping point in the spiritual world where the Pharaoh gets a dream. And everything was positioned and Joseph gets invited and see Joseph had small little breakthroughs but he would have a one step forward, three steps backwards and that's how his life was always for years, for decades it's been like this. But this time he steps into the Pharaoh's core to translate the dreams and he doesn't just take a step forward and then takes three steps backwards. He takes a step forward, another step forward, another step forward and from that point on Joseph never went back to his past. I believe in spiritual world there is tipping points where you have been faithful, you have been faithful, you prayed, you prayed, you saw little change but nothing dramatic and there comes a tipping point where things shift and once they shift they never ever go back. Hallelujah. It's Moses in Egypt. He's giving one plague to Pharaoh and Pharaoh budges a little bit, gives another plague and Pharaoh doesn't respond. A third plague, a fourth plague, a fifth plague and it seems like there is nothing that can move this Pharaoh and another plague and another plague and it seems like oh my god these plagues aren't working and God tells Pharaoh Moses, he tells Moses first he says after this plague he will let you go. There comes a plague, there comes a tipping point, a breaking point. When you reach that it seems like all of these little things they had no meaning whatsoever. They didn't do anything, you knew it was right, you knew God was behind it, you knew what God wanted you to do and there comes the plague number 10 and in that plague Pharaoh will plead with you to leave and things shift and you never ever go back to Egypt. But see if you leave Egypt on the plague number 8 because you said this is pointless, this is not going to happen, you know what I've been doing this, you know what this is not working, if you drop this whole process you will leave before you break through. See a boiling point in water is when the heat with the same temperature keeps boiling water, boiling water, boiling water and then that water evaporates.  Ask the widow who came to unjust judge and she told him please defend me, please defend me and the judge wouldn't budge, wouldn't budge, wouldn't budge she came that one more time she came it was like another time but in the spiritual world it wasn't another time it was the breaking point what the judge says I will help you I will help you I want to encourage people today in this room there is a breaking point where your life drastically changes it doesn't just happen when you expect it that's why you can't give up because the time you thought it will take for you to get to that point has expired because the enough oil you had to reach the bridegroom you notice the bridegroom isn't coming on time you have to wait not until your time you've set in your heart expires but until the bridegroom comes don't leave Saul when seven days passed leave only when Samuel comes disciples were told wait for the Holy Spirit and as they waited one day, second day, third day and next thing that happens is on the day 10 the Holy Spirit came changes happen their life was never the same your life will change Mardukai was a man who things were so bad for him there was this anti-Semitism operating in Babylon against him he was so such a big enemy and Haman wanted to kill him Haman already created a huge place where he's going to hang Mardukai Mardukai was approaching his death but see when you live your life right before God and things don't work out there is a God who sits on a throne he's the maker of heaven and the earth and he holds the universe in the palm of his hand and he orders seasons and he shifts times times are in his hand your enemy doesn't have a grip on your life even if it feels like God is sovereign and in that night God gives a sleepless night to a king and when kings would have a sleepless night they would read him a chronicles of the history it's like a phone book this is another way to keep put this king back to sleep and as they were reading the chronicles this was just another thing to put him back to sleep and they stumbled upon an event where Mardukai saved his life and the king who wasn't asleep said what was done for Mardukai see the enemy already plotted his funeral but a man lived obedient and obedient and obedient and obedient to God until came a tipping point and next morning this Mardukai he wasn't hanged he was written on a mule and people bowed before him that enemy of his was executed and Mardukai was promoted and Mardukai was honored and never again Mardukai went back to be humiliated when God orders the change of your seasons it will not come sometimes when you expect it but it will come when you were struggling with finances struggling with finances and struggling with finances and you did what was right and you may say but what else can I do hang in there because God who holds the seasons in his time he will shift the seasons and when they shift your life will change amen when we were praying for salvation of people for many many years fasting spreading flyers and people said that people won't get saved in a Russian church at the time it was more Russian than now people will not come to a church that doesn't speak well English interesting part is that there is a God in heaven and he shifts seasons I remember on one Thursday the youth service where a guy named Chad he came to the youth service and he was the first person that got saved and remember we baptized him today Chad serves God in the local church here he is married he has children and God greatly impacted his life but that tipping point that happened on our youth service brought something inside of our spirit that said people will be saved in our church and from that point on we became mad crazy passionate this is possible this is what's going to happen and even when we had seasons where maybe somebody wasn't getting saved we already experienced a tipping point for which we're not going back this year we're going to experience another tipping point where we're going to see 1000 souls come to know the Lord it will build a faith in us that we didn't have before everything is impossible to God I remember when about 4 years ago a gentleman passed to pray for me so God will use me to heal people and after I came back home I decided to stop praying for the sick every single service the first service you know I expected after the first service when I prayed for the sick because I felt the anointing people will respond and say I got healed nothing happened second month nothing happened to the point where I remember one Sunday I was so shy to pray for the sick I was like there is no sick people and if they are it is not the Lord's will to heal them they're not going to get healed and just to go through the motion because I made a promise to God I said I'm just going to pray for the sick again nothing happened just like I expected until I went to Seattle it was a GC conference one small conference in a very small room and I did my thing which I promised to God I'm going to pray for the sick I prayed for the sick I didn't even ask for testimonies because I was convinced there was none months later a lady with her husband comes to our prayer line and as her husband begins to share how they're coming for their son to receive prayer he says by the way we were at this conference in this little upper room in Seattle and my wife had a scheduled doctor's appointment to examine her shoulder and to probably operate on her shoulder and when you were there you said for people to pray for their body parts that were hurting and when she did that she felt heat going through her body and she is here today it's been two months she never went back to the doctor for that she is completely healed this is the lady this was the tipping point for me from that point on I realized God is going to use me to heal people even when we had months what I didn't see testimonies but that tipping point I in my mind recognized my life is no longer a life where healings don't happen period, things shifted and they even happened where last week was in California start praying for the viewers and God gave me just a picture of what's going to happen and a lady was supposed to come today from Spokane but something happened where she received complete healing over the live stream people start coming right after that service even in the studio testifying that God healed them and every time I pray I see God heals people because a season shifted it wasn't anything particular it wasn't any special prayer it's just when you do the right thing you boil the water till the point where the water turns into vapor and your season changes that's why I want to encourage you maybe today you are like Moses keeping your hands up and your hands are tired maybe your faith is tired maybe even this message provokes you because you are like, I already gave up and Lazarus stinks you want to raise him up I'm coming like Erin and her I want to lift your hands I want to hold your hands so that your hand will see complete victory over the Amalek in your life God has a change of seasons God has a change of seasons in your finances God has a change of seasons in your health God has a change of seasons in your emotional life in your spiritual life some of you you just gave up too soon you quit too early you jumped out of the ladder and the ladder is going nowhere right now and you're thinking you're just cruising through life you are mad at yourself because you know there is more to life than what you're doing today I want to bring hope inside of you today through the Holy Spirit and tell you rise up and tell you you can do it through the grace of God if you quit something that you know God called you to keep doing pick that up today because there is great reward in your faith don't quit too early don't give up too soon in Jesus name in the conclusion the first point that I wanted you to make how to maintain in this season your environment is very important meaning when you go through that and it's very hard protect your environment when you protect your environment your environment will protect your faith but creating an environment during the time when you're believing for something from God is more important than actually your faith because your environment will guard your faith when your faith is at its weakest environment is church environment is at home put some podcasts put some messages put some spiritual food around you when your faith is on life support make sure you feed that faith your environment bananas cannot grow in Alaska for one reason because of environment there are certain things cannot survive and many times when our faith hits the weakest and you're literally it's going on its last limp what could help you get through that is if you force yourself to be in an environment that sustains your faith instead of ruins it amen the second thing is you have to keep your focus in the midst of distractions the way Elisha received the anointing from Elijah actually he was receiving his spirit means he wanted to receive what was inside of Elijah and Elijah gave him a challenge he says when you see me taken you will have what you ask for meaning if you want to have a different spirit inside if you want to be a different man Elisha that's really hard but I'm giving you a challenge when you see me taken how hard is it to see somebody being taken I mean we watched a taken movie right it's not very hard to see somebody being taken except there's problem they're walking together and the chariot of fire comes in between them now when the chariot walks in between you and the chariot of fire you get your eyes off the prize which is Elijah and you start watching a flaming exciting chariot and that was the temptation I saw that today during prayer during the leader during morning prayer how many people's eyes people just stop praying that was the distraction that means have moments throughout the day in your life that doesn't mean you can have to be focused 24-7 only on your goal that's not possible you can have to be focused on other things but focus on your goal when you spend time with God focus on Jesus when you spend time with God during that time when you have the time with the Lord that wants to do through you during that time focus throughout the day you will be distracted with other things but during your time with the Lord focus on your dream little laser focus successful man is an average man focus Jesus says narrow way leads to life meaning when you focus your life when you spend time with him you revive those dreams and they become alive throughout the day how I do that practically is in my time with the Lord I try to have music really administers to my emotion I close my eyes and I imagine all of those 7 things this year I'm believing for I imagine them and I create a live image I try to create a live image of people walking into the Toyota center during the race to deliver conference and lifting their hands I create a live image of that room being completely packed with 30 kids I create a live image of kids running around playing, laughing during the summer in the gym I create a live image of Zaki Eric, Angela and others rising up and speaking words of healing I create a live image of the Holy Spirit moving and creating miracles in people's lives and I create sometimes it takes 2-3 minutes I keep that image alive there it quickens my emotions I want to pray for something else when you do that every few times a week something inside of you changes your spirit changes because you were focused on that keep hitting the ground until you break through don't quit when you get tired the way Elisha transferred his mental to a king is he gave him a test he says if you keep hitting you are going to win but he didn't tell him when to stop and the king stopped at 3 times and Elisha got mad and he says if you would have hit to 5 or 6 you would have gotten complete victory meaning your life would drastically change you stopped too early don't stop when you get tired stop when you win because a tipping point happens in your life it will happen if you don't give up how many watched Super Bowl last Sunday father I thank you for the spiritual church amen how many of you are praying Sikha I mean even if you're a patriot you just hate patriots but secretly you were hurting for them when they were suffering it was never happened in a football game before when the team was so behind in points but there came a point in that game where a a point switched when they got their interception and something you could see in their eyes something inside of them rose up and not only they beat the other team but they set the record if they could do it because of cloth full of air you can do it with your life with the power of the Holy Spirit can somebody say amen I want us to believe for miracles today I want us to pray for miracles today something that two weeks ago when I went for my prayer time I felt in my heart to start praying for bizarre miracles in our church unexplainable things like missing stuff to begin to reappear again supernatural loss of weight supernatural growth of hair supernatural dental work by the Holy Spirit where God will cause money to appear in your account for no reason if he could do it in the mouth of the fish he can do it in the Giza checkers account for God to supernaturally begin to take away the debts you may say that just can't happen with the God who has access to everything he can begin to shift things and I believe today we are going to take time to pray for that in Jesus name God is going to be healing people who have asthma, bronchitis or shortness of breath people either who are watching life or even here we are going to agree that the Holy Spirit will do miracles in this place why? because we are His children why? because we are people of faith why? because the spirit of the living God who raised Christ from the dead lives inside of you and He lives inside of me because somebody say amen I believe somebody here today you gave up and you came to the service for no reason but even during this time right now God supernatural will lift your weak hands that have been weakened and you will receive complete victory over the Amalek in your life in Jesus name


Just leaving the Meg 2. If you thought three Megalodons would be three times the fun, you'd be wrong. I'd rather be eaten by a shark than have to sit through this film again. It was not good. It was for some reason almost two hours long. The chore to sit through, the effects were cartoonish, which would be fine if it was having fun, but it's not that fun. It's another one of those films that thinks it has to overcomplicate the plot. Just give me Megalodons eating people. It's not that deep.


So, do you know about the secret discord goal? I do know about the secret discord goal. The secret discord goal.  No, it's so good. It should be an option. If you use a third-party launcher, you can just pick it. Ooh. Ooh. John! Also, I know what you're like. I will never be... I don't either. I just pretend. Hi, everyone. Hi, everyone. It's ComCom. It's been a while. But you're still our community comments. That's what we call it. ComCom. That's an awesome name. That's wet. Okay. We're going to restart this out. Ricky. Okay. Welcome back to community comments. ComCom. I respect you enough to say all the syllables. Not going to stay. It sticks. I've been doing this for years. He's the editor. What about Unity? Unityminst.  Did anyone... Did anyone hear me? Unityminst. Unityminst. Unityminst. It's mine is ComCom. Unityminst. All right. Let's reach to the comments. All right. We've been making some videos. We've made some videos. All right. From altered egos and from asked serpent. Love and girls and demons. And girls and demons and love. And love and girls. And demons and girls. I just want to love. And demons. And girls. Anyway. So did y'all ever find the belts? I can't remember how the session went. The belts? It was like, you've got all these belts inside. Because y'all were all dressed up like K-pop stars. Right. I thought you were always wearing the belts. Yeah, you were always wearing the belts. I thought the belts were inside. Because I don't know. Anyway. The belts are always inside of you, girl. The real belts are the belts we developed. Right. For you. And love and demons. Love, girl. Y'all's two characters are my favorite two guest characters so far. Copyright strike. No, no, no. Content that he's going to get us. Yeah, I know. I haven't seen altered egos, so I can't answer this one. Oh, you didn't watch it. I didn't watch it. Me and Matlock played K-pop stars. It was great. Demon hunting K-pop stars. From Grace Huntsman. Hi, Grace Huntsman. Hi, Grace Huntsman. This was great. And I loved the random resurfacing of the sandbar. Will Rachel's drawing be featured somewhere at some point? Yes. I think it's actually on Instagram already. And I commented that below that comment. The sandbar was the bar that y'all came through in this episode. So fun fact, when I was preparing for the alter egos, because I appeared before it like a year and a half ago. Right. I just threw in every door monster reference. Good plan. And like all these different random things. Some of them are no longer relevant. Oh. Like one of them refers to the unfinished state of a fable three experience. Oh no. That finished. It did. Wow. When the owners of the bar found out that we mentioned them in a podcast that no one listened to. They sent us a shirt. A couple shirts. And so Kyle is one and I have one. And I actually have it in my cart. We used to email them kind of regularly actually. They are still on Twitter. They're doing well with themselves during COVID. And they have, you can distance order drinks from them. Nice. And pull up and get them.  From flamethrower productions. We are playing Candyland. I am dead. That's incorrect. You cannot die in Candyland. Although granny nut houses strats or whatever make you think you're dead.  That is the most devoid of a game game that's ever existed. I actually thrive off the board game art. There is clean thrusting. Can you believe what that's underrated? Mouse trap. No. Mouse trap. Yes. You know why I like it? Because you get cheese. Has anybody ever played mouse trap? Okay. That's actually, it sounds like you invented that game. I've only built the board. Nobody's ever played mouse trap. Nobody's ever played it. They've only ever built the board. And it's a cute little room billboard. Yeah. It involves an old man diving into an empty tank of water. In order to catch a mouse. I don't know the mouse trap lore. What is the mouse trap lore?  Kicks the bucket. Ian, what's yours? The next comment. From analysis paralysis still. From PC player 96. There's only 96 of you? I thought there would be more. Yeah. I was just pointing. I love how you guys made it like he was actually procrastinating while shooting the skit. He asked for his line. Ask the person holding the camera if they wanted to play instead of Ian. And even kept talking after he should have stopped on a script. If this just isn't a video of what goes on behind the scenes when Kyle is trying to get his friends to act. I don't know what it is. And then Kyle pops out of a pipe. Hope all Israeli traveling Mario confirmed. Ha, you're wrong. Kyle wasn't there. There is zero Kyle effort in that video. That's true. Also, there was like five minutes of post-punchline gags of us actually playing Candyland. I won. I think you lose, don't you? I think I storm off somehow. Actually, this is the script. I wrote an alternate script, but we didn't end up using it. So are you saying there are divergent world lines with regard to the script? There are. We Steins gate this script. No, no, no, no. Which world line was it? And are we still on it? In the one world line, I win. In the one world line, you do win. In the one world line, I come and I rip the board and I slap Ricky in the face with it for talking over. Candyland. Wow, okay. Fun fact. I'm not mad. I'm sorry. That Candyland, that copy of Candyland, which we spent $5 to do our monster money on, is now happily entertaining five and six year olds in City of Alaska. From the Stellaris video and from Omega 666, Alpha 666, I think the line, why don't we accept that we all have done some accidental war crimes, basically explains all paradox games. I don't know if my war crimes are accidental, because I don't know what I'm doing in paradox games. I am so impressed with anybody who knows how to play paradox games because I just, I think they're, they look super cool, but I just, I can't wrap my head around enough bricks to smash my way through the, the tutorials and things. If you, like AOE is the tip of my, like that's, that's the top. Is AOE paradox? Is it? No. AOE is not paradox, but like when it's a strategy game, that's as far as I can go. Oh. I play a lot of, I play a lot of paradox games. I like how deep they go. I think war crimes are pretty easy to do in there. What is 4X? It's exploration, exploration and exploit, exterminate. Hey. You got there. Yeah. Exterminate. Sam Owen commented, ah, Stellaris, pioneers of the intergalactic Zoom meeting.  Skype. Skype for business. You know what sucks? Skype for business. Yeah. I never use Skype for business. Google now has the meats. Google has meats. I think, like RBS. I'm pretty sure the game developers for Star Citizen actually still use Skype, because when they do their calling all devs, you hear like the little Skype doodoo. Also, because if they switch to a new, a new calling interface, that would take another six years of development just to get everybody used to it. No. The call noise for Skype. This is jam. This is by Lord Destructor. Coderizing an entire grove of family trees is probably the best euphemism for whirly-dirly woohoo murder spin I have ever heard. That's been so much better than that. That's so good. You made me cackle. It's great. Have you ever had anybody actually take whirlwind attack? No. Why not? Because I don't play Pathfinder.  I saw that. I was making a fighter-esque character. I will say, though, that this line struck a sore spot with me. Why is that? Because at one point in time, as a DM, somebody attacked somebody with a flaming blade with a crit. And I said the infamous words, you cauterize them in half, wanting to explain that you have sliced the person down the middle and there's no blood because it's all been burned, right? My players thought cauterize in half was the stupidest thing I'd ever said. I got roasted for about 10 minutes about how dumb cauterized in half was. And now, every time anybody crits anything, they go, does it cauterize in half? And I go, yeah, it cauterizes in half. It sounds like your players are little s***. I'm from Michael Nagel. I love the pun. It's tempo in dry delivery. When it comes to it, this is solid informative content. Keep it up. Awesome. This is what I got my degree to do. I'm so glad. We've tried informative shows in the past, like Counterintelligence. And they just, what's Counterintelligence informative? Yeah! It's like, hey!   Did you see my episode about sandwich law? Someday, I'm going to buy the rights to Counterintelligence to inform them for like a dollar. And I'm going to make it, like, earn like 65 and I've already retired and I'm going to bring it back. And he's going to be like, this is the coolest thing ever.  And I'm like, I should have done this when I was 12. And then my life will only be regrets. But you'll have to be posting it on the new social media with like several accents. I will not. And that's why it won't get as big as I wanted to. Or you make four-bit second videos with like seven different songs playing in the background of million filters. You think in the future, all social media will be only vowels because we've already done the no vowels thing to death? Yes. This is from? This is from Lockdown Gridlock. Lockdown Gridlock. A great video. A great video. Great video. Great video. Great video. Great video. From Justin Exile. Mmm, I don't like the assumption it's DM's job to schedule a game. DM's are already doing so much. I gotta say this, I don't, we get this a lot of times. That's like, that's like, that should be like the base. Like before you're doing so much, you should be scheduling a meeting. I think it's interesting because we get this comment a lot. A lot of the people were really offended by it. I'm just, I'm curious, what do y'all do? I think maybe they're Paladin? They're Paladin? They're Paladin schedules the next game? I don't expect my other players to have everybody's phone number or anything. I'm the one who has all the phone numbers. So I do all the texting. I guess some people are talking about like using like Google Formers or things but I still, somebody still has to actually collect that data and I don't know why it wouldn't be the DM. So anyway, I'm interested to see what y'all do do because I improve my situation of not getting my, like, and then I won't have to make staffers in here go do it. Is there any kind of division of labor than any DM's institute? Like one person's in charge of scheduling the game. One person's in charge of making three NPCs with no narrative context. When it's usually the DM's like the most experienced at everyone else's noobs. It's not like how I always thought I went. I'm just like, I couldn't be totally wrong about it. I was just really surprised by how many people didn't do it this way. Yeah, I far with the DM. I wouldn't trust my players to schedule the game. I already don't trust them even to bring snacks. I don't even trust them to play the game. I don't trust them to play the game. Your ears bring snacks? Well, if we have live meetings, of course not online. They do bring digital. They do bring digital chips. I guess whenever we play the game, you gotta bring the funniest. You gotta bring the funniest in the game. You gotta bring the funniest in the game. My, my, my love, funniest. My rule is DM never has to bring his own snacks. The Green Dino says, as a teacher, I feel personally attacked by this sketch. That's the email, by the way. For the record, I am... Too bad we don't know two teachers. It's like, I can't do it. I'm a teacher. That's why I wrote the line that way. Also, I'm a teacher. Wait, this is very much laughing at people who say... Although, so I originally had like a bit where I just like stare at the camera and just... That got cut on the... That's on the kind of room floor for some reasons. Probably for good reasons. It's my face after all. I don't think the shot worked. I don't know. I was holding the camera so that's why I don't think it worked. Oh, alright. Let's all make the disapproving face at the camera. It was probably just me. Quick question on this email. What? I've always interpreted it as facing towards the right. Like the eyes are squeezed shut and pointing to the right. But are they... Is it that when you squeeze the sight, your brows stick out? Is it pointing to the left or to the right? I think it's just side-eye. Which way? Side-eye to the left or to the right? Okay. I think it's like, you know how when you're suspicious of something, you're like, I smell something strange. That's what you like. My mom and sister send me these terrible, terrifying emojis that are actual, like, photo scans of their face on the other emoji person. I hate that. That's fun. That's terrifying. I like it. Anyways, that was about teachers. It was. And those were our videos and those were the comments on the videos. If you want to be featured in community comments, leave a comment and... We'll read it. Next time I'm probably going to take some comments from the super special Patreon part of our free Discord. Join our free Discord. Watch us on Twitch. Subscribe. Subscribe. Give us that Twitch Prime sub. You ain't using it. You can find our Twitch schedule here. Our subreddit also there. And our new free Discord server also pinned to the top of our subreddit. Just come look at it. It's cool. Yeah, I have our streams every Thursday. Yeah. Cool stuff. 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This looks pretty normal, people walking. But if we stop to examine what we're witnessing, this is amazing. And a little bit weird. Most terrestrial mammals walk on four legs, which makes sense. It's more stable, it's faster, and more efficient. And yet, we humans have evolved to walk on two legs. And through a set of anatomical adaptations, we've made it work. A balance between stability and mobility, between efficiency and performance. These competing forces have shaped the anatomy of our entire musculoskeletal system. All of these adaptations, together with our brains and the use of our hands, have set us on the path to not only survive on this planet, but thrive in all climates and environments. So why did this transition to bipedal gait happen? It turns out we needed our hands to feed ourselves, rather than use them for locomotion. But that's another story. Today, let's have a look at the anatomy of walking and standing. Let's see how the conflict between mobility and stability, between performance and efficiency, has been resolved. When we stand, remarkably little energy is required to maintain an upright position, even on two relatively spindly legs. And when we walk, our bodies move smoothly through space, with little up and down or side to side motion. So, how do we efficiently distribute our body's weight to our lower limbs? Well, first we need to stabilize our center of gravity, regardless of where, how, or if we're even moving. In humans, the body's center of gravity is in the pelvis, immediately anterior to the second sacral vertebra, right here. It's centered over our feet, and much of the anatomy of the lower limb helps to maintain it there. Curvatures in the vertebral column center the weight of our upper body and transmit it through the pelvis to our thigh. The femur, however, is angled to bring the knees closer to the midline, under the center of gravity, and over the feet. If we bend our hips and knees, our muscles are working to carry the weight of the body. We can't do this for long. Now, when we stand upright like this, we can do this for hours. Well, maybe not today. To make standing easy, our joints lock into place, which transfers the work away from muscles and onto our ligaments and bones. Standing is energy efficient and mainly passive. Let's see what happens when the joints unlock and we begin to walk. When we walk, the body's center of gravity barely changes. This is indicated by the line drawn by the marker. In fact, our center of gravity only moves about 5 centimeters up and down. Here stability wins. So how do joints and muscles collaborate to minimize fluctuations and maximize efficiency? It starts with the pelvis. As the swing leg moves forward, the center of gravity moves upward over the standing leg. To counter this upward movement, the pelvis simply tilts downward towards the swing leg. Abductor muscles in the standing leg limit this downward movement and stabilize the drop. Let's have a look at these abductors in dissection. This is a dissection of the gluteal region behind the hip joint. To see the major abductors, we need to reflect gluteus maximus. Here is gluteus medius and when I reflect that, you can see gluteus minimus. Both of these abductors of the hip joint run from the lateral aspect of the pelvis to the greater trochanter of the femur and control downward movement of the pelvis. We stabilize the pelvis with these muscles. It's a way to maintain mobility when we walk. As we step, the swing leg moves forward and that side of the pelvis rotates forward with it while the pelvis associated with the stance leg stays behind. This rotation on the swing leg side effectively lengthens our stride and helps to prevent excessive drop in the center of gravity. We achieve this rotation through the forward momentum of the swing leg along with back and abdominal muscles. A somewhat surprising feature of walking is that the knee of the stance limb is not fully extended and does not lock as the body moves over it. It stays slightly flexed. This keeps our movement fluid and also keeps the center of gravity low and the body more stable. Now let's have a look at the large flexors and extensors of the knee. Here in the anterior compartment is the quadriceps. The tendon of this muscle reaches over the joint and extends the knee. Here in the posterior compartment are the hamstrings. Together, they flex the knee. During each step, the knee of the swing leg is brought close to the midline so that the foot is planted in front of the other foot. This limits lateral deflection in the center of gravity during walking. Large adductor muscles in the thigh are actually responsible for moving the knee closer to the midline. Let's take a closer look at these muscles. This is the medial compartment of the thigh. It contains the adductors which bring the knee closer to the midline. Everything we've talked about till now has served to stabilize our center of gravity and keep it near the midline. But if we left it at that, our feet would also point inwards. And we're not walking to the midline. We want to move forward. So how do we keep our gait pointed forwards? We need to introduce some lateral rotation to balance things out. Lateral rotation in the hip joint keeps the swing foot pointed directly forward counteracting the inward rotation of the pelvis. Let's see how this works. This is the gluteal region on one side of the body. I'm going to reflect the large gluteus maximus so that we can see the small rotators deep to the muscle. Here they are. These keep our stance balanced and the entire limb oriented so that the foot faces forward. Now that the center of gravity is stable and the foot is oriented forward, we're ready to put our foot down. First contact is with the heel. Gravity is on our side. And honestly, we just fall onto our foot. A controlled fall that we'll have to stabilize. As the foot hits the ground, both the knee and the ankle joints need to be stabilized. Cruciate and other ligaments, together with the mighty quadriceps muscle, prevent the knee from lunging forward too much. The ankle is more of a true hinge joint and is restricted in its mobility by a set of strong ligaments. It's still the smallest and least stable of the 3 meter joints in the lower limb. It doesn't lock when we stand like the knee and hip joint do. And its decreased mobility when walking makes it vulnerable to injury. After the heel hits the ground, weight is transferred onto the sole of the foot. This lower limb is now our stance leg. Next, the heel lifts off the ground, followed by the toes. This movement requires powerful muscles in the posterior compartment of the leg. Together, this is the forward propulsion of what once again becomes the swing leg. Here is the posterior compartment of the leg. The biggest muscles are the gastrocnemius here and soleus here. Their function is to lift the heel off the ground and begin to propel the body forward. Underneath these more superficial muscles are others. Their tendons pass into the foot where they attach. These muscles help with the controlled roll off of the foot and transition the stance leg to being the swing leg, lifting it off the ground. This incredible cycle allows us to walk with ease and fluidity wherever the road may take us.