So, I would like to thank citizens against nuclear bombers in Vermont, and I would like to thank the Monastic Academy for the preservation of life on Earth for cosponsoring our demonstration for peace. Well, if those who meditated for the full 24 hours would you kindly raise your hands and just ask the group to please look out for those folks, share our love for your sacrifice. There were many times in the last 24 hours that I was able to get up and move or do something to meet a physical need of mine, and I watched my friends sit. I think it's hard to imagine just how difficult that is. In Citizens Against Nuclear Bombers in Vermont, I want to extend my gratitude to James Ellers, our campaign director. I would also like to honor the contributions of Ben Cohen, who is one of the co-founders of Ben and Jerry's, who has really been a strong advocate for peace and social justice. And I would like to honor Roseanne Greco, retired Air Force colonel, who has been the brains and the analytical voice and the ethical voice of this movement. And I would also like to thank Jimmy Lees, who has done some outstanding moral and legal writing that has really helped to galvanize many people. I would also like to thank the Senate Government Operations Committee for holding a hearing, for our resolution banning the basing of nuclear weapons anywhere in the state of Vermont. HR7 and SR5, please call the Sergeant at Arms Office or stop by and visit their open till about 4.15. And please tell them to give Representative Stevens the message that we would like a House Committee hearing in the House Committee for Housing and Military Affairs. Our voice deserves to be heard. I'm very happy to see all of you here today. It was a beautiful 24 hours of sacrifice and expression of compassion for this beautiful planet and to come out of it to see your faces is truly miraculous. I don't have much of a voice right now. I haven't had anything to drink for two days. But I hope all of you can hear me and all of you appreciate those who did this ceremony for the benefit of life on earth. One might wonder why would we sit through the hot sun the freezing night without food or water or rest or any breaks, any walking, any leaving for any reason, is that right now we're facing an insanity, an evil, a violence that threatens life on this planet. And we need to find a way in ourselves and in community to face that insanity, that evil, that violence. And so we come here today to meet it with sanity, with honesty, with clarity, to meet it with love and goodness and care, to meet it with truth and peace. So we embody, we commit to embodying peace in order to provide an alternative to war. At this time, for many reasons, the most important one being that most people deny it, we're closer to the devastation of life on earth than ever before. And yet at least now today, we're standing here in peace and love, meeting each other in friendship.  Thank you, Soryu. Now, I'd like to invite Richard Ziplinski to speak from Veterans for Peace. Thank you, Jennifer. And thank you all for being here. I'd just like to say a few words as to why sitting in meditation is so important and maybe add something to what was just said. If we took a poll of all the people on earth today, or maybe it has been done, and asked the question whether you're for war or for peace, and I think the answer would be quite obvious. No one's really for war. Everybody wants peace. So then the question arises, why isn't there peace? Well, some of the answers can be found through sitting in meditation. I've done it for maybe 25 years, and we find out how our mind operates, what's happening in the mind, and what gets in the way of peace, the greed, hatred, delusion, or confusion. We have it in our minds. Things are in our minds and they manifest in the world if we don't recognize them. If we continue to be aware through meditation, we see those things in our mind, and we don't spread them out into the world. We see them in ourselves. It gets replaced with love and wisdom, and we can act effectively, more effectively, in the actions we take into the world. So I want to thank everybody who was involved in this meditation, especially the ones who spent so much time here without moving, eating, or drinking. It is a tremendous demonstration of what we should be doing, looking at our minds and fostering peace that way. With Veterans for Peace, we try to do it out in the world, and I work with our group to foster it in ourselves too. And if I can put a plug for Veterans for Peace, a week from this Saturday, we're having a meeting at Spirit in Nature in Ripton, Vermont, and we're inviting everyone to a peace picnic and conversations about fostering peace in the world, sort of a gathering of organizations that work for peace, so we can have a larger force in that direction. So thank you very much and continue the work. I had one more gratitude to share, and you may have one, but I wanted to say thank you so much to Robin Lloyd for attending today. Because of your long-term peace activism, you have helped to create a foundation for our movement without which we would not be here. And I just want to thank you for your many indispensable contributions to peace. Thank you, Robin. I would be remiss if someone didn't step to the microphone to offer our gratitude to Jennifer Decker. As long as we have hope, we have breath, as long as we have breath, we have hope. And with people like you out in the world, Jennifer, I have hope. So as previously mentioned, the doomsday clock that measures the threat of nuclear war and ensuing nuclear annihilation of life on Earth is closer to midnight than ever before. Now, today, we see who has the courage to stand up for peace, to sit up all night for peace. Some would have us believe that the sound of a jet taking off is the sound of freedom, yet freedom depends upon peace. As Roseanne Greco, the retired Air Force Colonel who is calling our attention to the threat we face, has said, in fact, our voices are the real sound of freedom, not the engine noise of a nuclear bomber. The voice of the people is the real sound of freedom. We're here today to use our voices and our practice to say no to nuclear weapons proliferation disguised as jobs and prosperity. We do not support or accept nuclear weapons in our state, our country, or our world. We, the people, ask our elected leaders to stand for peace, not for endless for-profit wars. Throughout history, states have stood for their rights with regard to housing weapons systems. It's time for Vermont to do the same. We love our congressional delegation, but we cannot allow loyalty to their position to lead us in a foolhardy direction to base a nuclear weapons delivery system in a civilian neighborhood. Like a nuclear arms race, this is madness. We encourage our congressional delegation to set aside this mistake in progress and explore alternate missions such as cyber security that will create a foundation of peace through investment in intelligence and the skills and talents of the younger generation. Cyber war is the real threat to our security. Nuclear weapons have never been a solution, not now and not ever. Vermont Youth, many of whom marched down State Street yesterday and provided energizing music for our meditators. It was an extension of the Mind the Music program, I would say. Deserve courageous elders who will stand up for the types of jobs that bring peace and prosperity, not threats of nuclear winter. Today, we stand with many veterans who rightfully question whether this particular project, the F-35, has any value for national security. In fact, it makes us less secure. Hampered by design flaws, the F-35 is a weapon system that is in the hands of one pilot on one bomber plane. This has never happened before. This is completely unprecedented and this is unacceptable to us. There is a new and dangerous arms race accelerating as we speak here today and this is unacceptable. Vermonters want no part in this. We want climate change legislation, not weapons based in civilian neighborhoods that are untested and toxic to our communities when they crash. Do those who serve in the Vermont Air Guard know that these planes have been questioned and rejected by members of the Air Force? If not, why have they not been told?  Do we really want to risk a nuclear war? As a woman who has helped raise Vermont kids for the last 14 years, I want safe working conditions for those who choose a career with the Air Guard. I want them to learn in school our history that the State Guard services are for the state, not for endless foreign wars. I want them to learn and remember that important history. The State Guards are for the protection of the state and recent events have eroded this distinction. In whose interest is this erosion of our rights as a state? We believe that we are stewards of the fragile balance of life. Nuclear winter, climate destruction, starvation, and mass migration from war is not the direction that we choose. We choose to stand for peace. We choose to stand for a military responsible to the people that hears our voices and knows that our voices are the real sound of freedom. We choose the truth that freedom is free. We honor our veterans and we respect their service. We are veterans. We are civilians. We stand together with the knowledge that in the military we do not go along with orders that are unjust and destructive to our way of life. We ask our military forces to stand with us. We say no to the basing of nuclear weapons delivery vehicles and their inherent risks. Vermont will be a target in nuclear war as well as a place from which nuclear war could be launched if the F-35 rolls into Vermont this fall. Nuclear war will end civilization around the globe. Please support HR 7 and SR 5, our resolution banning the basing of nuclear weapons everywhere in Vermont. Please call the State House at 828-2228 and ask Representative Stevens to grant us a hearing. Thank you to veterans and service members present here with us and far away. We do not accept any narrative that would divide us from you. Some of the headlines say that we are targeting you. In fact, I am your granddaughter. I am your friend and I am here to serve and protect you from a mission that does not serve any of us. Hear our voices, the voice of the people.  We stay up all night to honor those who are aware of the cost of the presence of nuclear weapons in our world today. We stand for the protection of our life, liberty, and property guaranteed by the Constitution that will not be taken from us without due process. One representative said to us, this issue is too political. Perhaps meaning that he is unsure how it will affect his future electability. I say to him, you will lose more votes when one of these planes crashes or God forbid mistakenly ignites a global nuclear war. Ending life on the planet and showing a weakness in our democracy from which we would not recover. Please, I say to our legislature, show the courage that is owed to our common humanity in this moment. In the 1980s, Vermont town stood for a nuclear freeze. Vermont helped to give rise to the movement that resulted in the end of the Cold War. Vermont can do this again. Stand with citizens against nuclear bombers in Vermont. The beginning of the end of nuclear war is in Vermont. Thank you very much. So as a closing, what I would like to do is to invite anyone who would like to speak a word into the center, a word that comes up for you if you think about this event. I'd like to give everyone a moment to think about what that word might be and offer people in an open manner to voice that when you feel led in this moment to share whatever those words might be. Inspiration. Imagine. Support. Generosity. Care. Solidarity. Generations. Intention. Awakening. Children. Innovation. Love. For James, the owner of the toy, water. Forgiveness. Spirit. Awareness. I invite one or two more shares. Thankfulness. Much gratitude to everyone. If you'd like to come and meditate with us, we have a Sunday sit in Burlington. Every Sunday from five to seven at the Quaker Meeting House on North Prospect. It would be wonderful to spend more time with all of you. You're all welcome and you can also come and visit our retreat center in Lowell, Vermont. Thank you again so much for making this event a success. Thank you. Regardless of the outcome of the resolutions, this doesn't end with those. Just because two planes arrive this fall doesn't mean this ends. So for those of you that don't have the opportunity to connect with us one-on-one in person, do not lose hope if things don't turn out the way that you would like for them to turn out. Report it on the news or through the rumor mills. This does not end when this legislature goes home. We're just beginning. Thank you. Well done. And don't forget to leave your contact info. Thanks.


So, Neelam talked about policy, I will talk about governance, the challenges of governance and this is basically a challenge of centralized imagination of policy and what are the, what are those challenges and you know how can we overcome it. So, our understanding is that you know this centralized governance actually poses problems. So, we have some case studies with illustrate that those governance in practice and then kind of come to our understanding you know how participate the governance can actually overcome it. So, this is the structural representation, we will talk about the present governance structure, the present funding of sanitation, how it encourages centralized imagination. Then the limitations of governance we will illustrate through two case studies and then we will tell you talk about you know how our alternate paradigm can work. So, this is the kind of you know policy and governance architecture of intense sanitation sector. So, one is you know we have the ministry of urban housing and poverty alleviation. So, that is more of the kind of slum development you know marginalized sections you know.  And the third one is ministry of environment and forest and climate change which actually looks at a entirely different thing of environmental regulations environmental protection, but they have a huge influence in sanitation sector because they are against you know kind of influence coming into the water bodies and things like that. So, they also have a major influence in urban development. So, these are the three major ministries that we have let us see what is under them. So, under these two we have this state slum development goal we have meditation boards projects concerning poor and slums that comes under M O U H P A A and then M O U D has state boards like the Kerala water authority or the Bangalore water and sewerage board you know. So, then those come under here and then the public works department sometimes kind of work with them and the big projects. So, it is basically implementation of big water supply and sewerage projects are coming under them. And then when you come here there is a central pollution control board which is supposed to be the kind of you know central agency for pollution control and under them there are state pollution control boards as Neelam was mentioning they are they have you know kind of mandate, but we see that you know they are with toothless also. So, we will understand why it is. So, one of the things that we saw is that you know it is their imagination is pollution controlled by policing you know can we go and kind of you know issue orders and you know and we had a case study of the LAP office they have four engineers environmental engineers and then they have to kind of regulate something like 1000 units like from a floor mill to big industries you know. So, what they do is that you know every I think every two years or so they have to renew their license. How can anybody kind of you know go and physically inspect 1000 units and do that you know. So, they have to kind of issue those licenses otherwise added to that then this house boards also which are also regulated by them. So, it is a you know. So, it is very difficult for them to police and do that and that is why we we we talk about participate in the governance where social regulation can also come. How can citizens kind of participate in analyzing what is pollution in kind of you know helping them to kind of generate data and helping them regulate that also you know. So, that is why this shift has to come. Another major thing that happened in the 90s is the constitutional amendment for decentralization. They have heard about panchayat rajin nagar palika according to 74th amendment of the constitution many of the powers have come to urban local body. So, that is the major shift that has happened here, but the problem is that you know they do not have capacity and in a state like Kerala you know in 1996 almost 40 percent of the budget was transferred to this three entire institutions and nagar palika institutions which now reduced to 28 percent or so because of the centralization that is happening. But in other states we do not know how much of that has happened and despite this no devolution of staff has happened to ULPs. So, we have this big water boards like Kerala water authority or Bangalore water and sewerage board which have a lot of engineers you know like we have some like 5000 engineers now, but if you go to a municipality there will be a few engineers. So, that devolution will not happen because it is a it is a crime to be you know kind of engineer of Kerala water authority or PWD and not a municipality or panchayat. So, people actually will not go there to kind of work there because you have big infrastructure we are doing in the other one and you know. So, devolution becomes a major problem. So, these institutions are completely underserved and undercapacitated I think that is one of the major problem and that is one of the things that we are trying to fill in also can be crowdsourced capacity is the question that we are asking in this project also. There are fragmented institutions if you come to Kerala the sewerage projects are done by Kerala water authority and sometimes it is done by municipalities also they are under the capacity. So, it will go to that I will tell you you know what is the kind of fragmentation that is happening. Then we have two missions one is Sujutta mission and then that the other one is that is clean Kerala mission the other one is higher than the mission that is green Kerala mission which is actually done by this government. So, these four structures actually work in sanitation. So, as Neelam was mentioning the national urban sanitation policy wanted one institutional home for sanitation, but when it is four we do not know how it happens. So, it is there is a fragmented decision making structure in there and then I told you about the decentralization the state governments and the public utilities does not feel that municipalities are capacitated they have to give them back the funds. So, there are there is a problem and then financing if you see the these are actually kind of you know big committee reports and partly it is kind of World Bank and ADB kind of understanding also. Then water boats recover only 30 to 35 percent of the total operation and management you know expenditure that is needed and not a single Indian city of any class or size recover the full O and M charges and leading to suboptimal functioning of STPs. I am not going into the debate, but you know this this whole what we call as the neoliberal turn in policy where everything the markets have to take care you know that perspective actually sees every activity should be profitable, but what is applied to a level can attain that sanitation has to be a public it is very difficult for markets to work in sanitation. So, these are one of the public goods that the state should provide because if you have a good sanitation if there is no wastewater and no pollution it actually saves public health and even private expenditure on health care. So, these are public goods that has to be taken care by the state also. So, we cannot completely kind of you know tell that you know you have to recover your full O and operation management and things like that that is a debate we do not get it, but please take take take in mind that this has to be a public good also whatever private pollution control and you know things like that. Then let us look at the allocations allocations by by by by big you know government funding we see that you know there is this big programs like the Avalar Nehru urban renewal mission which actually then gives funding for actually big infrastructure like centralized wastewater management infrastructure. Smaller cities constituting 30% of the urban population they will not kind of get much funds then slums are constituting 17.2% of the urban population and these cities and these sections of population are systematically marginalized from these kinds of allocations and so larger share per city goes to bigger cities and metropolitan cities. So, I think the 5 major cities get 70% this year. So, the 5 major cities in India get 70% of the allocations of the area you know it is actually in a way justified also because they cannot actually think about participation or decentralization or anything and that is the need why you know smaller cities like this have to and smaller cities and we have 7000 you know kind of towns in India including census towns and all. So, if you make a model for this 1 lakh 2 lakh kind of cities it is going to give a kind of representation of 80% or 90% of the cities, but all policies all thinking all research in urban studies is going to these big cities. So, that is why we are we have brought you to here I did bring you to Bombay because Bombay can survive on its own because big researchers it is you know many other things to kind of say let us come to small cities and kind of try to understand what is happening there and then yeah one of the major other things is that you know big projects have time cost overruns that you already know that means one it takes if you if you plan for 5 years it may take 10 to 15 years to come that is a time overrun cost overruns is that you know your your first estimate will be 100 crores and at the end it will become 250 crores. So, you know these all we say let us look at what illustration 2 illustrations of that that is what I am trying to do you know the central assistance for example increased from 3700 crores in 2005 to 43000 crores in 2011 it is partly because there were a lot of central government you know foreign funded central government programs like Javala Nehruv and Renewal Mission and all. Second there is this NBG goals in this million development goals which actually gave a lot of trust to sanitation you know public health and etc. So, all this actually brought in a lot of allocations into the sector. So, the imagination of this also has increased. So, we have a big commission called you know a high power export company it is chaired by Mrs. Ishajej Alawariya who is a very famous economist and then they calculated that you need something like 31 lakh crores for capital investment and 8.17 lakh crores of operation man-penn expenses to make Indian cities clean. So, that was out to be 13,329 capital costs and 840 annual operation maintenance costs. Can we afford India we have 1.4 billion per capita is 13,000 that they are asking and that is also because of this big centralized imagination that is working in their minds and she is very active in this she actually goes to this big NB funded projects in some cities you know like Udaipur and you know and then actually writes in newspapers how well the city has actually managed this and all, but the imagination is this. So, that is one second then we calculated the estimation. So, the average cost of a sewage project and the JLNURM is 3.33 crores 1 MLB that is 1 million liters per day if you want a project if the even the capital cost is something like 3.33 crores per MLB. Running cost for 20 years is 8.10 lakh crores. So, when I was the coordinator of the policy group of the inter IIT consortium who looked at the Ganga basin management plan. So, 7 old 7 IITs came together and we had 7 groups we worked. So, policy group I coordinated. So, just looking at this allocation we calculated just for class 1 and 2 cities the per day effluent is 11,000 MLB sewage that is coming out and we found that we need 57,000 crores just for the capital investments for Ganga basin alone and that is also for class 1 and 2 cities. So, I want you to kind of just think about whether this is a feasible option this kind of centralized imagination. So, that is all calculations now let us come to a specific project because case studies are very good. You know case study is a microcosm which actually gives you indication of the macrocosm.  So, case study actually gives you a good picture of what is happening. So, this is a study that we did from 2007 to 11. 2006 to 11 wherever we were part of a South Asian from big South Asian project where 4 South Asian universities came together and did kind of research together. So, we had 20 PSDs and 150 MDECs that came out of the project. So, what we decided was that you know we will kind of you know cross supervised PSDs also. So, this is the PSD that I supervised and when we started this project in 2007 there was a there is a proposal for a cigarette treatment plant in Kandy city in Sri Lanka. So, we just kind of just diagnose that proposal and after 4 years when the project was over in 2011 still the project has not started, but the budget has increased and then it is still not started and the proposal amount is still going up. So, one is you know the we were very it is like actually it is comparable to Alapie. We are 160,000 population in Kandy and Kandy as many of you know is a very cultural capital of Sri Lanka because you are the Buddha's youth capital then. So, you are the Mahavali river and the Mahavali lake both are very precious for the Buddhists all over the world. So, Jai Ka there is a Japan Japan International Cooperation Agency they came out with this proposal that you know they will find this. So, it is a population of 160,000 water consumption is 25,000 cubic meters per day and 80% of this is released into Kandy lake and Mahavali river. Proposal for a centralized STP the estimate was 3 billion in 1998 and when we start and in 2011 when we was finishing we have 18 billion and so that was something like you know in 13 years another 7 years is gone then 83% of this has to come as a stock loan from Japan. So, what is the technology choice that they have? The technology choice is that you know you can have different levels of purification. So, if it is just disinfection it will be like cost will be 0.5 to 1.5 you know cubic meters you know rupees per cubic meter. Also treatment full treatment advanced treatment it becomes 75 to 100 the cost of treatment will be something like 150,000. So, the point is they chose the highest level of technology because that is the for a lender it is very good as the scale of the loan goes up it is good for the lender. So, from foreign post of the loan for construction contracts engineering services almost 50% goes back to the lenders huge benefits of selling the black box of technology for the plant and pumping station. The technology is not kind of you know it comes as a black box it is not explained what it is. So, that your expertise also can come along with that and then huge benefits then the operational maintenance more than 40% of the oil and costs for chemicals repair maintenance 90% goes back to dollars annually. So, it is a very dependent kind of a technology where chemicals in the oil have to come from there. Consultancy we found that it is a very inflated you know consultancy expertise that is being charged in the project which will come in the next project also. And then what are the burden to the borrowers when you look at the burden the laying of sewer lines repair of roads and you know kind of ensuring power supply all this comes into the garment and candy is like any of our city narrow roads and you know not planned it is all half hazard roads and things like that. You know normally in the original imagination of a European industrial city it is a very planned city. So, sewer lines water lines all this can be planned. So, here that is a problem then includes the low income settlements which is actually comes to 40% in the case of candy that is the responsibility of the garment because the project funds does not take care of that and 10% of the capital cost is oil and cost that is kind of 11 million per month that is also the responsibility of the garment and this all works out to be 410 per month even water supply we will not kind of look at that. So, my student work on this aspect actually you know what is the kind of you know a tariff that should be then fixed for this and then it found that you know it is a politically feasible then the garment has to subsidize that also. Then we found that you know there is a overpriced foreign expertise that is going to manage the project and we have a you know like Nehru you know they also have you know kind of tall leaders at the time and it was all kind of you know you are all trying from 50s and 60s to develop this public sector you know we are all our own expertise about design implementation everything but you know this so there is a lack of institution relations to expertise in this project that means whatever engineers that we have they will not have much to do these kinds of big projects coming. Then continuous import of materials and expertise dependence on the donors and then the most curious thing is that the end of the pipe solution you actually bring all the pollution in candy to one point. So and then there should be continuous you know running of this whole machinery and Sri Lanka is like us where we have 8 to 10 hours of power cut maybe and in that case the pollution in the Mahabalya river increases 700 percent because otherwise it is going to different streams and you know groundwater and wetlands and things like that now you centralize that into candy river into Mahabalya river which actually is so whatever you kind of originally imagine is going in the opposite direction. So this is the problem with the end of the pipe solution that I was telling yesterday where you centralize everything together now let us come to Trivandrum so after this we had the Ganga BSN project where I looked at many of the kind of UP, Bihar class 1 and class 2 cities same kind of story and then I found that in my own city Trivandrum there was something happening from 2014-15 you know an STPK so we did a case study of that there is also an interesting transition you know from now so this is a city which actually got water supply in 1931 the earlier cities you know like one of the first eight cities which got water supply during the British period and then there was a there is a sewerage farm also like in 1930 when water supply came sewerage farm also came so all the all the waste water used to come to a farm where they used to kind of grow fodder there and then 1947 public health engineering department or the public works department began PhD in 1971 and this is also Neelam's thesis has very well brought that out you know how the kind of imagination of sanitation changed by the government of India over a period of time so in 1970s 1950s-70s it was all public health and slowly by 1980s it became water resources development and infrastructure building after 1990s so it became an infrastructure sector which has to get loan and infrastructure estimate and the earlier one was more social and public health so that shift also is one of the major shifts that happened in policy 82 water resources department 84 it was turned into Kerala Water and Base Water Authority and then in 1986 Kerala Water Authority that means you know from government to para state so they can attract more loans with one world bank loan it became a budget agency so they can attract a lot of foreign funding I told you about this and 8 MLD sewage farm was there so it was actually sustainable utilization of the base water of the city where fodder was made and the entire you know kind of modern needs of the cattle population was met by by this one people used to come there collect the fodder and give it to and even Kerala University farm was being kind of fed through this one and in but slowly the system deteriorated also because the supply increased so by 2009 the government of Kerala went for a ADB loan and they generally are a loan so when those loans come in you what you say is that you know you ring fence that funding you build a fence over that funding that that fund will never be utilized for anything any other purpose because otherwise it goes into the kind of black hole of the government machinery so to avoid that what you do is you ring fence and you make a SPV special purpose vehicle which will actually be done only for this purpose so this SPV was called KSUDP Kerala State Urban Development Project so they were responsible for this and then we just looked at you know ADB loan was the amount of the loan was 9954 million rupees which is 79% of this and the state government share was you know 20% of that that is 2691 and the municipal companies like to give 11% that is 1580 million dollars that means you know 30% of the government funding alone is a huge cost JNNU is much worse even the 20% of the loans come to more than 43000 million rupees to get something like 172 1.72 million I don't know the numbers you can kind of look at that but the point is that you know this is a huge amount and this is a huge amount so if our government is actually spending it is there a better way to kind of spend it that is the question that we can ask the new governance structure the government of India which gets the JNNU RM loan it comes to the local self-government department of the government of Kerala and then it comes to municipal corporation because according to decentralization municipal corporation is the loan agency for sanitation ADB loan also it's like that and both this come to a project management unit that is KSUDP and then there is a technical support unit which is set up by one Japanese company and an American company so these two companies came together and they were the technical unit where you know you had engineers from those and then there is something called the project implementation unit which actually so this was in two corporations and three panchayas so each one of them will have a project implementation unit and then you can something called the design service unit we found you know then we found that you know this is actually the who are here you can have any any kind of imagine who will be here these are retired engineers of Kerala water authority because you know they know how the system works isn't it they are the best people you know for the last 30 years and they made a complete parallel structure with this and Kerala water authority which has all the expertise is completely marginalized from this the whole thing and the retired engineers are happy because they get a pension and they get some kind of small and they have recruited you know kind of young engineers also to kind of run around so then what could be the problem here the municipality doesn't know what's happening and they are supposed to be responsible for this so let's see what is that so this is the fragmented governance the water and sanitation services is shared by municipal corporation KWA and SPB because KWA still has to be there because they are the technical provider and urban local body owns the whole infrastructure and SPB coordinates design and implementation and then they have a company it's a Turkey contractor who will know the operation maintenance for the first 5 years and you know in the first 5 years nothing dramatic happens after that they will leave we found that you know the KSUDP actually maintains their accounts and all well but it's not popular second you know the number of remissions with average 50% in budget have happened in the project then there is another interesting thing called minimum commitment of the loan so if you have a 100 crore loan in the first year you should be spending 20% second year you should be spending 30% 40% ratio may vary but there is a minimum commitment that you should be doing that if you don't do that you invite a penalty so you have to quickly spend it so you will spend it on something you understand so there is a spending spree and these are blocked projects also so you have to spend something otherwise you will invite a penalty that's another major these are clauses that people don't know penalty is you know you will have to pay some money they will take away some money like 50 crore will be taken as penalty from the next loan you know one of my research associates actually spend in KSCDP in wrong time you know kind of reading the small print that is there that's when we identified all this and she posed as an intern otherwise they would not get it so this is one example of the timeline you know so March 2008 the detailed project report was prepared June the technical financial bids to ADB was done so September it was re-tended and December the tender note was 545 you know kind of billion and then when so in 3 months when it was awarded there was a more than 50% hike in and this people doesn't know you know actually up to this people will know the tender note will be kept at all and this happens under that even this can happen in Kerala water authority telling that it's only because of a foreign fund project that is happening but here the it's in a much more higher scale why you need an SPB is because you don't need to follow the procedures of the government system in which you can be caught at some point of time here this is all kind of you know understood and silently kind of you know so only you know this both called everybody loves a good drought is it known to be sila so I found that everybody loves a good project who are involved in this they will all get benefited even the engineers in Kerala water authority are not complaining because you know they finally have to sign the design and all are done by the consultants but the signing is done by them then you know what happens so earlier they had to design and you know they had to do all that and curious thing is that you know the Kerala water authority MD is no longer you know it was an engineer all the time then it became IAS now it is IAA days some AGs will come there because big things are happening are accounting big foreign fund projects are happening so you need so one of my students work is that you know how public water utility how the engineering you know how the engineers are losing and how it is kind of becoming you know more kind of accountant oriented and things like that so this is the institutionalization and that's why engineering education has to quickly improve and you know kind of answer to these these demands from below also because the design content is all gone so that's why we in this you know we are trying to kind of make them design the civil engineers so this is one thing here we have 107 MLD 107 milliliters per day capacity project but your sewer capacity is only 30% it has hardly improved 3-4% and this was done by the Maharaja in 1936 so after this big project the sewer capacity has increased only 3-4 so only the plant is there and this other one so we thought why it is then we found that you know one what I told about the candy system our roads are not you know then but in every kilometer because this is by gravitation so in one kilometer you will get into a head of something like one meter or more than that then you need to pump it so that means you need 20 cents of land every kilometer as pumping station which then where do you get in you know our kinds of cities so this is the major challenge we are not ideologically against centralization or anything there are huge practical challenges in you know in alopee you would not get a head at all because it is a plain thing so you need much more kind of a pumping so pumping is not only energy but it is also land so this is not the huge constraints of the railway system and then in JNNU we are very strangely no allocation for land for buying land so where do you get that land then so you have very high you know impressive detailed project reports cannot be implemented this is another curious thing you know it is the pre-fondance of consultancy we found that this is the percentage of consultancy over a period of time so in the first year itself 84% is pendant consultancy the Japanese will come and take away the consultancy in the first year itself then it is your engineers who can that is why we then need retired engineers to kind of come and design the whole thing so you know like the candy case you have a very interesting technology dependence it is a whole thing we thought that in the 50s and 60s we thought that this technology transfer is creating dependence we thought it is a whole debate it is very new through the funding through the neoliberal funding that is happening now so that is the first thing second is there is a 0% interest rates in Japan you know that so even a soft loan invites something like 2% for the state government then you have a central government there who is a money lender who gets a profit in that so at the end of the day it is not a soft loan for government of India or to the state government central government gets 2% I think how much the state government will get it for but for the Japanese government it is actually the machinery or as a country it is the kind of their own machinery that is coming their own expertise that is coming it is very great wonderful you can kind of run like a bullet but the point is everything comes from there your bogies, your rail tracks everything is constricted there and it is only kind of put here so you just look at the kind of flow of money 1880 Dada Bhai Navarroji wrote about drain theory how the British developed us what we are paying for the railways what is the kind of drain that is happening do we think that we are independent now so I think this is where we have to really think on our own kind of feet which most of us do not have a shoe also we think that we think on our own shoes 90% does not have shoes also in this country so we have to really think about what is actually important for us so this is it so the first thing on average it becomes something like 18% is the kind of foreign element of the consistency that is happening so this is the kind of observations that we have one there is a financial crisis for the KWA which we have to really think about why and then lack of planning and foresight urbanization, growing population so there is no kind of physical imagination of the next 20 years or something how we should move for our own public quality of living so it is not any foreign process problem it is our own problem that we are not kind of thinking with foresight second is thus if you invite soft loans with unequal and opaque terms then we have global standards of infrastructure like the SLB the service level benchmarks where all the population have to be connected through sewers very good London has done that, Paris has done that Trivandrum should do it so that is the global imagination of that needs to be de-skilling of Kerala Water Authority engineers plans done mostly through retired personnel international consultancy bulk of the consultancy so the context, our context has challenges in accommodating global models all of you agree this global imagination our context has a problem in accepting that can we think about what our context is and then plan that is the challenge that we have to kind of ask how to bring models to context or conceive models that suit the context that is the question that we are asking these are some suggestions like how to bring in transparency accountability and participation and governance how to bring in more ownership by the staff staff unions, is there a process to kind of do that being analytical input through the academia how much can engineering education you know kind of feed into practice and how much can the academia learn from practice so can there be a synergy that is being brought up so that we have contextual education also that as you are out of your engineering college you can plan the infrastructure also from here so you do not need to have foreign consultants coming and once this Jehruvin engineers are retired we have a big vacuum there de-institutionalization and that is when they can come and take over because big technologies can be handled only by them is it so in Kochamamba for example in Argentina in many Latin American countries this has happened many French companies have come and they took over but the problem is that too much of hike and so people have reacted also so so need to change curriculum from academic side and openness from you know kind of body they have a new grid of engineers who can practice the art of engineering beyond the science of engineering how to talk with people how to design from below you know those kinds of things then dialogue with universities incorporate these into character so those are the things so my last slide we can kind of recoup all these things this course and then infrastructure this course which actually is very global which comes to international financial institutions and this come become their vision documents this comes to government of India and then this also become funding conditionalities and this and then we have old state public utilities which are kind of bypassed because the funds have to come to urban local bodies through the international financial institutions also need that because they don't need to deal with the big state the big public utility where they are engineers so if that is not there then it can happen through SPVs that's where the SPVs so national water policy also will reflect all this and then you have you know water engineers speed level bureaucrats here who are actually bypassed what happens is that you have an expert provider that is the big consultants who directly comes to the local body you understood this there is a global discourse that global discourse gives us global finance and the global finance gives us global consultants they bypass the central government in the municipality who doesn't have any capacity so since there is no capacity there is a parallel body that's being made that means these government institutions get de-institutionalized de-capacity and so the point is now urban local bodies are they need to plan assessment, technology selection institutional options, implementation monitoring and regulation all these have to be done by the urban local body so the challenge that we are posing from this project is that can academic institutions be knowledge providers and local NGOs and residence associations and all can this realm work with these people to help them kind of get into this so local actions how can local actions be there so when you choose this actually there is no model for that how do you do it so that's our protocol and it's an evolving protocol so it's very important that you know so this exercise is very important to kind of refine that protocol thank you


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The first thing that I want to mention, and if you take your notes, write this down. The pursuit of God prepares you for what God is planning for your life. The Bible says that Saul was rejected by God and God chose David as the king. But God didn't play lottery in choosing David. God didn't just simply say, mini, mini, money. Oh, David. Yeah, right there. David. The Bible makes it clear. There was a prerequisite. There was something that qualified David to be God's chosen servant. Now, today, God is not choosing kings over Israel. Most of us, when I'm talking about our calling, God wants you not to be the one who is only called.  Somebody say chosen. Not chosen, frozen, but chosen and on fire. Chosen and called by God. Many people are called. Many of us don't get chosen. There is a prerequisite that distinguishes us from the mass, from the herd, from the crowd. And God makes a testimony about David. You heard testimonies today during the baptism when people gave testimonies of God. God saved me. God healed me. God delivered me. There is a time when God gives testimony of you. The Bible says, the Lord testified of David. What kind of testimony do you think God will give about you? Well, I know the testimony he gave about David. He said this about David. This man, David, is a man after my heart. Our testimonies go like this. I was in darkness. Now I'm in the light. I was addicted to drugs. Now I'm set free. I was sick and now I'm healed. I was blind. Now I see. God's testimony goes slightly different. This person is different than others. Why? Because their generation seeks after things he seeks after me. As David was seeking after God, something as a teenager distinguished him from the rest of the people. God took notice of that and his pursuit of God started to prepare him for what God was planning for him. Ministry is an overflow of our pursuit of God. Ministry is not an overflow of our gifts, skills, and talents. Ministry is not an overflow of our abilities, education, connections, or, well, I'm connected to pastor. Well, I'm connected to one of the main families in the church. Therefore, I am in ministry. You can be in ministry position like that, but God's calling on your life is never connected to your family connections or even other things that's connected to your pursuit of him. Can somebody say a man? God seeks those that go after him. The scripture clearly states in Hebrews chapter 11 verse 6 that God rewards those that diligently pursue him. What made David different is that David was after God. When I find people who are discouraged, disappointed, I'm tired from serving. I don't want to serve ministry anymore. I'm burned out, church hurt, I'll never do it again. Why? I've tried it, underappreciated, over-criticized, too much demand, too much pressure. You look at those people's personal life and you will find something very common denominator between all of them. It's not that the church hurt them, the ministry burned them out. The root system was too shallow and the weight of their responsibilities overwhelmed them. Not because responsibilities were heavy, because roots were short. We live in tri-cities and we are cursed with wind. We get a lot of it and dust that the wind creates. Winds get so strong in tri-cities, they topple trees. And one of the things that wind exposes is how shallow the root system of the trees in tri-cities. When the wind comes through and the trees topple, the trees turn over and you see this beautiful big tree. You drive by every single day and you find out that the root system was mile wide and just few feet deep. And that's why they stood well when everything was well. But when things didn't go well and as things always don't go well, the trees toppled. They were churned over and they fell. What kept David grounded in serving God all his life, and the Bible says he served God in his generation. Through drama, trauma, abuse, criticism, attacks, misunderstood, falsely accused.  All of that stuff, you don't see David becoming bitter, angry, mad, suing and all of this stuff. You see, David has a testimony from God, a man after my heart. Being on fire for Jesus is the only protection, guarantee we have, to not let anything we go through in ministry completely consume us. When you've done ministry for a long time, you know how things are ran. Especially if you've done things on the stage, up close with leaders and pastors, it's kind of like this. If you know how the sausage is made, you don't eat sausage. I meet people sometimes who've been in the ministry for a long time and they tell me they're like, I know how this stuff works and that's why I'm no longer in ministry. I said, I understand you, but I also know one thing about you, you don't know God. I count everything as rubbish to know Him. What separated David from every other man is that David wasn't a professional. He was passionate pursuer of God. Being professional is not what God is looking. God is looking for lovers, pursuers and those who are after Him, He will give them whatever is necessary to accomplish their purpose. It was Emma Church that built the ark and professionals built Titanic. God is looking for people in the pursuit after Him. If all you have is just bad experience with serving church burned out, I don't want to condemn guilt trip or discredit the validity of your painful experience. What I want to tell you, there is a furnace harder than any breakup or hurt and that furnace is the liquid love of God. When it burns you on the inside, you become unstoppable. And God wants people who are in ministry not just to be good in ministry but to be good in prayer, good in pursuit after Him, good in fasting, good in seeking after Him. Why? Because that qualifies them for growing in ministry. Can someone say amen? The second thing that I would like to highlight and that is this. God gives power to meet the demands of service. I want you to notice this in 1 Samuel chapter 16. And the Bible says in verse 13 and verse 14. Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the midst of his brothers. And the spirit of the Lord came upon David from that day forward. So Samuel arose and went to Rama verse 14. But the spirit of the Lord departed from Saul and a distressing spirit from the Lord troubled him. I find it interesting that in every time God calls a man or a woman in the Bible, he doesn't send them to college. He sends them anointing. College is important, university is important, skills are important. Being able to communicate, play instruments is important. Organize, structure and manage things is very important. God used many times very smart people like Moses and like Apostle Paul. They helped to write things. Moses helped to structure a bunch of slaves into a nation. But one common thread that runs from the beginning to the end is every person God calls, He gives them power. Why does He give them power? Because the task God calls us to do without power is not going to be accomplished. Think of this, you have a way of cutting a tree with scissors or power tools. If you take your scissors and you come to a tree and you say, well, it cuts paper. Trees are kind of paper. I'm going to cut the tree with scissors. You take these scissors, you will be there till the coming of Antichrist and the second coming of Christ. The tree won't fall. You need power tools to accomplish a task. Now for a paper, scissors are enough. To cut the tree, scissors are insufficient. The kind of calling God has for us, now some of you may say, well, I'm just greeting, I'm leading a small group, I don't need a lot of power. Everything that has to do with assaulting the gates of hell, risking people from the kingdom of darkness to kingdom of light, discipling your children in a woke brainwashed culture that does not know what man is and what a woman is and is trying to put men in women's bathrooms. In a culture that calls abortion a choice. In a culture that is completely messed up in their foolishness when it comes to morality and all this relativism in this culture, you need not scissors to disciple your children, you need power tools. And God promises power. Teenager, I think someone said about 15 years of age, God calls a teenager at the age of about 15, 15, 16, and he gives him power. What we call anointing, to accomplish a task. Stress in life comes from three main sources. It comes from the demands of service. It comes from the deception of sin and the demise of Satan. When we serve, the Bible says Jesus says power left him. We can experience depletion, we can experience emptiness because we feel empty because we lose that fuel when we serve. When we commit sin, we lose power. The Bible says that Samson felt power leave him, not because he was serving, it's because he was sinning. We can also lose power when demonic attacks happen to us. The Bible says the distressing spirit came upon Saul and he was weak after that. When it comes to ministry or serving in God's house, serving God's purposes in your life, there are four problems that come with it. The first one is the pressure from the position. The second one is the pain from people. The third one is the pushback from the devil and the fourth one is the problems from within. Let me just quickly go through this. Pressure from our position. You don't have to be a pastor, but just being in the position of being a parent, there is a pressure that's involved with that. You have to provide, you have to think about everything. Your kids are not even thinking about it. For those of you who have a business, you have employees under your care. Your employees go to sleep, you're thinking about when the next contract will come. You're making sure the LNI is not on your case. You're making sure everybody wears all that they need to wear. Literally, there is pressure no one understands until somebody had employees to manage.  There is a pressure that comes with it and it stresses you out. People say, well, don't worry about it. That is the dumbest thing you can tell somebody who has a position that carries pressure. After the pressure from the position comes pain from people. The position itself has pressure. But then if you have anything to do with people, people don't add pressure, they add pain. Now, they're also the source of greatest pleasure in this world and they're the source of the deepest pains you'll ever experience in your life. They're people you work with, they're people who work for you, they're people you work for and they're people that are around you. I'll testify concerning church. Being in the church, you know, when I was younger, I wished one day to be the lead pastor of Hungary Jen, so I can make all the decisions. And one day our pastor was gone to Ukraine for about one month and I was just a youth pastor, I was so excited. Finally I can be the boy, the man. No, not the boy, I didn't want to be the boy, I wanted to be the man. And we had a situation where in one week we had two or three deacons decided to attack me about what we need to change in the church and I didn't know what to do, I didn't know who to say yes to and I was like, just wait for the pastor, they're like, well, you're the guy now, you make the decision. In those three days I was praying to God that God sends the pastor back that week and I was convinced I will never be a pastor again. I was like, why do I want this pressure? Now they're all criticizing me, they're all expecting me to make those decisions. That Sunday a girl that comes to our church for prayer line decides to manifest during the prayer.  Where's the real pastor? I'm not supposed to be doing this. I felt like sons of Scewa for a moment. Thankfully we delivered her and after that week I was like, I'm tired! And we still had three more weeks to go. When the pastor came back I was grateful. I said, God, the dream I had, scratch it. You know what I was thinking about? I want to stay under somebody else's covering. I don't want to take the hits, I don't want to be criticized, I don't want to be responsible. I don't want the spotlight because the spotlight carries heat. I only thought about the spotlight. I didn't know you had to also endure the pressure from the heat that comes with it. And when I tasted that as a teenager I learned something. With great position comes even greater responsibility. Responsibility nobody knows until it lands on your shoulders. The pressure that comes with it. The people's hurt. That one comment, it could be 20 compliments and that one comment gets under your skin and you're thinking about it in the shower. For three days you're preparing a sermon. How next Sunday?  Matthew Barnett said you want to be a bridge to a dying world. You have to be ready to be walked upon. We all pray, Lord, make me a servant and then people treat us like servants. God, this church just doesn't love people. Well, we ask God to make us like servants. What do you think servants get treated like royalties? No. And that hurts because that's rejection. That is hurt. That is somebody leaving. That is somebody saying this. That is somebody not understanding. That is somebody expecting you to be their Jesus Messiah 24-7 available and that carries hurt. The third thing, if you think you're done with people, then if people are okay, position seems to be okay, then the devil comes out of nowhere, starts attacking you.  I'm already serving. I already have a lot of pressure. I'm already hurting from some of the people that are attacking me and now the devil comes like, well, I'm not done with you and throws few punches. And if you think that's not enough, you also are flawed human being who have desires, cravings, passions, they need to be crucified and those things begin to surface. All these four come at once and it's a recipe for disaster. Now what God does is this. God doesn't come and say, oh, it's so bad. People are hurting you. Let me go change the people. God doesn't come and say, oh, it's so hard to be a pastor.  We'll just not make anybody a pastor. Oh, it's so hard to be a father. Well, you know what? Go and not be a father. Oh, it's so hard to be in this position. Let me just relieve the stress from this position. God doesn't reduce the pressure, the pain, the pushback, and even the problems. What he comes is he says, let me give you power to meet the demands of pressure. Let me give you power to meet the pushback against the devil. Let me give you power to deal with the hurt that can come from people. Let me give you power to deal with your personal demons and your personal problems, because God doesn't make us pitiful. He makes us powerful. God is in building whips. He's building warriors. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me, gives me power.  When the devil comes like a flood, the spirit of God doesn't run. He comes against him with power.  Doing serving without relationship with God and to receive that fresh deposit of power regularly, you will get overwhelmed. The problem is not the ministry is hard. You're weak for the ministry. Unless God, that's why God gave David not a university course on how to kill giants. The devil says he poured his spirit on the teenager and said, now you're powerful. Go to the lions. Go to the bears.   If you feel overwhelmed, if you feel burned out, if you feel tired from the responsibilities of life, from the pressure of your position, from the pushback you experienced from the enemy, I want to tell you something. You are not weird. It's normal. That's why God's remedy is power. Those who wait upon the Lord shall... I can't hear you. Interesting, the Bible doesn't say those who wait upon the Lord, he removes their pressure. What most of us think is if I wait on God, he'll get rid of my husband. If I wait on God, he will cause the people that cause me suffering to just disappear. Sometimes, sometimes, God doesn't remove the things that stress you out. He simply renews the strength that you walk on those things others drown in. Peter was drowning in the sea Jesus was walking upon. That whatever is over your head is under his feet. And when you get into his presence, when God releases power, it's not that those things don't hurt anymore.  You know, in our ministry, we value the relationship with the Holy Spirit. Because what the kind of ministry we do, guys, this is not a social club. We're not here to sing kumbaya two songs and say a happy pat message and just go live better. A kid that's slicing the wrists, they don't need just a positive affirming message. They need power. A person that is seeing nightmares, they don't need just a song. They need a spirit. People need something they can take from darkness to light. Something that can give them purpose. When mama maybe wasn't there, daddy wasn't there. Take all those demons out of that person and put a purpose inside of that person and my friend, that is not done. Through our human efforts it requires power. That's why God told his disciples, Jesus said to them don't leave Jerusalem until you receive power. We need that in the ministry. Under no circumstances should you discredit yourself even if you're doing sound. You're doing video. You're helping with counseling for the prayer line. You're helping with the administration work and maybe you get overwhelmed and you get depleted. Please understand. The ministry you're involved in is unlike construction. It's unlike the other work that you do outside.  There is going to be pushback. And God is not going to reduce that pushback. He's just going to simply elevate you so much that you punch, punch, punch, punch and the devil would wish he never started the fight. Because of the power the Holy Spirit gives to us. Can somebody say amen? God's appointing requires God's anointing. God is interested in renewing our strength not just removing the stress that comes from the demands of service. There is an anointing that's inside of us that every Christian has access to. We call it the inner anointing and the outer anointing. The inner anointing is for you in you. The outer anointing is upon you for others. Inner anointing affects your walk. The outer anointing affects our work. Inner anointing steals you. You get into his presence and there is a stillness that happens. Outer anointing stirs you. You go, you want to go, let's go. You know, it's like Jehu. He just wants to go, wow! And it's not hype. It's that holy fervency that hits you. Inner anointing teaches you. Outer anointing, actually you teach others. Inner anointing cannot be transferred but the outer anointing is transferred. Inner anointing produces spiritual fruit. Our anointing activates spiritual power. When we don't grieve the Holy Spirit we cultivate that inner anointing. But when we don't quench the spirit we release that outer anointing. All of us have access to God's power. This anointing that comes upon us but it's accessed or it's released simply means a visitation that you have from God or an impartation that you receive from a person that God uses. Let me give you an example. In the Bible we see Moses has a visitation from God and he receives power. Joshua receives impartation from Moses and he walks in power. We see Elijah most likely received a visitation from God. We don't know where he came from. We don't know how he got the power but we see that Elijah receives impartation from Elijah and he operates in power. We see the same thing with disciples of Jesus. They receive that impartation on the day of Pentecost. Fire, tongues everything comes out but in a Samaria, city of Samaria they lay hands on the other people and other people receive that power. Apostle Paul receives a visitation from God on the road to Damascus but he lays hands on Timothy and Timothy receives impartation from Paul. What does that mean? God has supernatural visitation with some people and they immediately receive power. Their life changes afterwards.  God allows that on purpose so that the rest of the people can receive the access we already have that in our spirit, in the Holy Spirit but it gets activated when we allow other people to pray for us through the laying on of the hands through prophetic words and then that visitation that they experience activates something in our own life that we now begin to walk in the same dimension of power that those people walked and why because these special encounters with God are meant to be shared with the rest of the body so that we live in dependence on each other, we live interdependent on every one of us. In our church we believe in the doctrine of laying on of the hands the Bible says to lay hands on the sick and they will recover the Bible says that Jacob laid hands on his sons and imported a blessing the Bible says priests would lay hands on an animal and transfer sin upon that animal. The Bible says Jesus laid hands on his disciples and he blessed them and released them the Bible says they laid hands on Apostle Paul and upon other disciples and released them into the missionary work. When we lay hands on the people, if you are walking out of God, you can impart God's gifts through laying on of hands. The Bible teaches that. That's how Timothy received the gifts. So those of you who are like, man I don't feel like I had those special encounters I want to receive that power please understand, that's why we are in this church so that we all can when the wave rises, when the tide rises all ships rise.  Why? Because that anointing that some receive from visitation is meant to be shared with the rest of us. When we had men and women of God come to our church many times we had to pray for us. I would go to Ukraine, to Africa to different parts and one of the things that we would ask is that anointing that they carry that they impart on our life because we believe in not only visitation but impartation. Can somebody say amen? Now I do want to mention something about impartation because you can receive a lot of impartation and do nothing with it. Impartation does not work if you don't. Let me say that again. People come up and this happens all the time you have to pray for me. Give me your anointing. Okay. Then this happens all the time. Let me go to Ilya. Ilya, give me also the anointing. Rickard. So by the time they are done they collected 7 mentals. This one particular person I went to a different conference next week and I saw them doing exactly the same thing to every pastor. And all they have been doing is collecting mentals. Imagine getting 27 coats but you don't wear one. You have to then when you receive the impartation you got to work it. That's why God spoke to Saul when he received the impartation. Samuel said this. When these signs come to pass he says do what the occasion demands. Meaning you got to do something. You got to give it an outlet. Power connected to your house. Plug something in. Because you can have so much power if you don't plug anything in it won't work. So you got to plug something in. That means find a bear. Find a lion. Find somebody to pray for. Find somebody to minister to. Begin to flow by faith and exercise your faith because anointing won't work if you don't work. Many people receive more mentals than to exercise them. And then they keep looking for this glorious ministry opportunity. God's anointing on your life is not only so you can just simply collect more anointing and collect more anointing. Paul tells Timothy do not quench the gift of God inside of you. Fan the flame. Meaning work it what you received. Work what you got because then it will increase. It's like a muscle. Everybody has it covered with layers of fat. And if you exercise it, it will grow. If you exercise it, it will increase. So is with the anointing of God. It will increase as you exercise it. You don't need a stage to exercise that anointing. All you need is some human being. It could be a child in the nursery, in the kid's zone that you minister to them. You love on them. You pray for them. It could be your co-worker. It could be somebody online. It could be your children. You lay hands on them when they are sick and the anointing starts to flow. Can somebody say amen? Anointing will not flow if we simply receive the mentals, receive the anointing and never do anything with it. Number three, David receives anointing and the Bible says that David after that starts to move in this anointing slowly. He was about 15 years of age when Samuel anointed him. But David became a king over one tribe at the age of 30. Then at the age of 37 he became the king of all Israel.  Quick success grows your ego. God after 15 when he anointed him did not put him on the throne.  God promises a lot trust a little. It's the way the Lord operates. At 15 he says you're going to be the king. And then only at 37 he becomes a king of the all 12 tribes. Why does God do that? Why does God almost like tease you? At 14 you go to a conference the prophet says you're going to touch the world.   You still have to go through all of that stuff. Why does God allow that? There are a few things I want to highlight. One, when God anoints us, men do not appoint us right away. Men don't respond the same way God does. Your parents won't respond the same way God does. God can come to you in a dream and says you're the great apostle to the nation. Mom will wake up and says go clean your room.  And she will say you say that one more time.  How can you put a great apostle in a timeout? Mom is like well you'll see how it will be very simple. David gets anointed. You know what his father does to him? Sends him back to the sheep. It's almost like his dad said, well that was great. Awesome. David, back to the sheep. Did you just hear? I'm a king. Yeah. Anyway back to the sheep. David kills Goliath. You would think this would be a good moment. Change the status on Facebook. Lose the sheep. And simply say I'm available. Where's the university where they train kings? I'm ready. The Bible says David occasionally would go back to the sheep again and again. Why? Because just because God anointed you. Men will not appoint you. For a long time. Oh, because those men they're not sensitive to God. No, it's because you're not mature. It's nothing to do with men being bad. It's the God allows the process where he wants to develop you. Why? Because character grows when you have too much anointing and very little opportunity. Much potential. But nobody's trusting you with the position that matches your potential in the church. They're disrespecting. They don't know how. PhD. But do you have PhD in patience? But do you have PhD in serving and being small in your own eyes? Oh, that's just not fair. They're not letting me have the position that I have anointing for. They don't understand I can heal the sick. I can prophesy. But can you also mature and disciple children? No, I don't like children. That's not my calling. Well, great. David went back to the sheep. Back to the sheep. And he didn't walk with his chip on the shoulder. They don't know how much I pray. They don't know how much I fast. They don't know Samuel poured anointing on me. That's not fair. The church is not sensitive. No discernment whatsoever in this church. No discernment whatsoever by the pastor. David didn't have that chip on the shoulder. If you're too big for the sheep, you're too small for the throne. If you're too big to serve on the parking lot, you're too small to be used by God in the supernatural. God tests us and God molds our character for us. That we don't become celebrities, but we are servants in God's kingdom. That we become big in our own head, we become humble and we don't use our serving as a stepping stone. If you don't serve another man's vision, nobody will give you yours. David gets this anointing. He ends up serving a king that really sat on his chair. It was David's position and David is serving that man. David is guarding that man. You don't see David prayerfully considering. He said, Lord, give him a heart attack.  Lord, kill that man. Lord, take him to heaven faster. Lord, he really wants to be over there with you because he's sitting on my place. Saul, do you know that this is my place? No, David is guarding and when Saul died David cried, not giggled. He didn't have a glee on his face. He had tears on his face. Why? Because he genuinely believed in serving another man's vision for a long time and not constantly reminding him, hey, so when is my transition? When you honor the anointing and others, God will increase it in you. And David had to do that for a long time, for years upon years, walking in that humility.  In fact, you were pastors in your previous season or previous place that you came in. Some of you come to Hungary, Jen, and you're educated, you're skilled and you can serve in so many capacities but today what you are doing and I'm just going to speak boldly is you think of yourself too high. So what you're doing is you're sitting and you're not participating in anything. Somebody comes to you, the pastor of God comes to you and recognizes how great of a man or a woman of God you are and asks you to do something. I want to ask you that in our house every hand is on the deck. We all serve God's purpose and I want to ask you to please get out from the bleachers and jump in the game. I want to ask you, if you came and you sat already for four months three months, I want to invite you to serve God's purpose in this church. If God planted you here, I want you to flourish here for the glory of God. God isn't looking for spectators He is looking for sons that serve. Stop having this thing like the prodigal son. Give me what is mine. Do what prodigal son did when he came back and he says here I am. Make me one of your servants. Lord, I'm here to serve. Lord, where can I find a place to serve? Not where can I find something that matches my anointing. But where can I find something where there is a need and let me serve? And as you begin to serve, you begin to notice you meet other people and God starts promoting you and be given more opportunities. The grace of God starts flowing in your life. I want to invite you.  Through that God is developing your character. Through that God is developing the anointing in your life and he will use you for his glory. In the process I knew that I was anointed by God to be a pastor and I had to learn Photoshop. I had to learn Dreamweaver. I had to learn Final Cut Pro. I had to learn YouTube and how to cut videos and upload them to YouTube. Until this day learning ProPresenter a little bit today. Why? Because at the end of the day I'm not walking around with just a big head. I want to have a big heart that believes in serving God's house. And we are here servants, not celebrities. Church doesn't exist for me. I exist to serve its cause and its purpose for the glory of God. Can somebody say amen? And then on God's time God promotes when he chooses to promote. And if tomorrow he chooses not to and we need to step back into the background it is what it is. We will serve in the background. Why? Because ultimately we serve the king not the spotlight. Can somebody say amen? That's why you see at our church you see the team is constantly being elevated. You see the team constantly being preferred. You see the team giving opportunities. Why? Because our church is not about a belly button. When everything is about one man everything is through him by him for him and that. No, our church is about the mission of Jesus Christ. We all have our hand in the deck and we're growing together so we have a skin in that game. Can somebody say amen?  David finally succeeded David finally became the king. He was amazing as a king until one day. David in his success lost sight of what it means to be significant in God's eyes. And the Bible makes it clear when it was a time for kings to go to battle. David decided to you know I fought a lot already. I deserve a break. Let the young bloods go and slay giants. I'm gonna stay home and I'm gonna Netflix and chill. I mean I'm just gonna chill. I'm just gonna hang out. I'm just gonna you know I think my time is over to fight but I find it interesting the Bible says when it was time for kings to go to battle David was a king. He wasn't anointed to sleep day and night. He was anointed to slay. And the Scripture says David finds himself in a battle with his eyes. He fought Goliath's giants and won. Now he's facing a battle and he can't win. He sees a woman and I was in Jerusalem in the city of David so they gave us the place where David's palace was at and you can pretty much see down the mountain. You could see the houses and the Bathsheba didn't have shower curtains and one thing led to another. David finds himself committing sin. David isn't the only one. This temptation exists within every person who has this feeling I arrived and you stop doing God's purpose and you get distracted with pleasure, popularity or some other P word that just distracts you and takes you down the drain and we see this happening with pastors, we see this happening with leaders, with businessmen.  A few weeks ago when I went to the mountain for a few days before the conference to pray and this verse hit me like tons of bricks David after he served his own generation by the will of God you know after David repented of his sin he made it his goal not to serve success he was already successful but to use his success to serve God in his generation and this is my vow and I pray that you will make that as well Lord I don't want to serve my agenda I want to serve you in my generation when I arrive in people's minds when I arrive in my own mind and get blown away God you're so faithful you blessed me with so much to understand that in that stage of my life this is where I have to serve God in my generation be passionate for God in my generation be passionate for my purpose in my generation more people saved for Jesus more people healed by Jesus more people delivered by Jesus more churches planted by Jesus why because it's no longer about reaching my goal it's about reaching God's goal for my generation serving God in my generation may this be our motto serving God in our generation we're not trying to serve our generation because that is a fallacy if we say well I'm just trying to serve my generation then you will run over your family symbolically speaking because you will do whatever it takes to reach as many people for Jesus as possible that's not what the Bible says in here the original translation says this God served God in his generation that means sometimes you're in the spotlight serving God in your generation sometimes you're in the wilderness serving God in your generation sometimes you are behind the scenes serving God in your generation and sometimes you're like my great-grandfather you were in jail for five years serving God in your generation sometimes you're reaching millions of people on YouTube and sometimes like my friend he's passed it right now and ten people from his church in Vietnam for preaching the gospel and he's serving God in his generation so when we stand before God God is not going to ask how many people you reached he will say how passionately did you serve me in your generation because to the previous generation I gave them Smith Wigginsworth I gave them Bunyan I gave them these pastors like Martin Luther John Calvin I gave them all these pastors Catherine Kuhlman but to your generation I gave them you the Bible says here to them, to Israel he gave David nation of Israel didn't belong to David David belonged to the nation of Israel our generation doesn't belong to us we belong to our generation and then in our generation we serve God's purpose in our schools in our cities and in our colleges that every moment of your life is dedicated to this whether you are a young person right now and you have more passion than you have more than outlet or you're an older person passion is a little bit lower but you got a lot of money you got a lot of wisdom and you have more time I want to ask that each and every one of us we evaluate our life whether you're a businessman or not in our generation for the glory of God race to deliver is our way of serving God in our generation last verse I'm going to read and that is Deuteronomy chapter 28 and I don't think I gave this verse to the team in the back so if they can find it that would be good if not I'm going to read it because, now this is more negative because you did not serve God you're God with joy and gladness of heart for the abundance of everything therefore you will serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you in hunger and thirst and nakedness and in need of everything now this is not to scare anybody into serving God but if that is the method that works for some of us let me use that I regularly go to this verse when things are good when there's blessing everywhere when this year has been one of the craziest best years of my life seeing the blessing of God in the way that that has just never happened before it's easy to get complacent it's easy to develop entitlement it's easy to say well I arrived I don't need to burn I don't need to fast as much I don't need to present I don't need to give I don't need to stretch myself as much we don't even have room at the church let's just plateau until we get into a new building let's just relax I'm all for rest but the chillaxing part where you withdraw from your purpose is a dangerous place because God says when you don't serve me in abundance of everything there is someone who's waiting for you in the place of chillaxing to rob your prosperity rob your gifts David experienced that when he didn't serve God and his purpose and his generation and found himself in a chillaxing complacent I've done a lot already I'm retired I'm good just living my life like that he found himself in a battle God never meant him to fight and he lost that battle I'm not against retirement I'm not against rest but I do believe God gave you breath and you owe your life and my life every day to serve him we have to remove this idea I believe in God, I just don't serve him you can't believe in God and not serve him demons believe like that and they're demons and they're still going to hell this idea that I just believe in God and that's it, leave me alone until Christianity is over sitting on a fence halfway in the world and halfway in God is over and like our teenagers like to say the devil owns the fence we got to jump off the fence and either we serve the devil fully or we serve God fully but this whole thing in between casual mediocre complacent I'm just tired, just don't have time, just too busy that doesn't exist for us anymore we are a church that loves passionately we pursue God and radically serve his cause in our generation amen God wants to use us I want to say thank you from the bottom of my heart to every person that's been serving I want to ask every person that is serving at Hungry Gen life will only get harder that's why you got to spend your time on your knees I want to invite you to prayer every Wednesday in fact every day but specifically every Wednesday I want to invite you to take time to spend time with Jesus every day every day don't use your gift as your crutch get on your knees before Jesus and receive the power that you need to burn on fire for Jesus while you are in ministry for watching this sermon if this was a blessing to you would you let me know in the comments below what stood out to you from this message what are you taking home with you from this message also if you enjoy these messages would you help us and hit thumbs up to this video and subscribe to our channel and hit new videos every single week delivered to you on your youtube app if you go to HungryGen.com forward slash sermons you'll actually be able to download the transcript the notes and the quotes of this sermon and the rest of all of our sermons free of charge until next time


Hi and how are you all today? My name is Priyanka. The question to be discussed is an organization selected 2400 families at random and surveyed them to determine a relationship between the income level and the number of vehicles in a family. The information gathered is listed in the table below. Now this is the table in which the monthly income are written like this and the vehicle per family 0, 1, 2 and above 2 are mentioned with respect to the income group. What we need to do is suppose a family is chosen, find the probability that the family chosen is earning rupees 10,000 to 13,000 per month and owning exactly two vehicles, earning rupees 16,000 or more per month and owning exactly one vehicle, earning less than 7,000 per month and does not own any vehicle, earning 13,000 to 16,000 per month and owning more than two vehicles and owning not more than one vehicle. Now for these five parts I need to mention the probability for each and every case but proceeding on with the solution we should be well versed with the formula that will help us in doing so. Probability of finding any event or finding the probability of any event is equal to number of possible outcomes divided by total number of outcomes. Now the knowledge of this formula is the key idea to this question. Let us proceed on with the solution. Now for the first part I need to mention that the family chosen is earning rupees 10,000 to 13,000 per month so earning rupees 10,000 to 13,000 per month exactly vehicles. So I need to find out the probability of it. Now total number of the number which comes out here will be taken from the table above. Now here between 10,000 to 13,000 and having two vehicles give you the number as 29. So the answer over here is 29. Total number of families we are talking about are 2400 right. So our required probability 29 divided by that is number of possible outcomes divided by the total number of outcomes that is 2400. Since this cannot further simplify the answer becomes 29 by 2400 and this is the answer to our first part. Now for the second part we need to tell earning rupees 16,000 or more per month and owning exactly one vehicle. So let us find out the number from above table. So here 16,000 or more and owning one vehicle so the number corresponding to 16,000 or more income group is 579. So here it is 579. We know that total number of families is fixed to be 2400. So the required probability is equal to 579 divided by 2400 and this is our required answer to the second part. Now the third part is earning less than 7,000 per month and does not own any vehicle. Now let us refer to the table again and it is less than 7,000 owning no vehicle. So the answer is 10. So the number of families which are earning less than 7,000 per month and does not own any vehicle. Again total number of families is as 2400. So the required probability is equal to 10 divided by 2400. The answer comes out to be 1 by 240. So this is the required answer to the third. The fourth part says earning rupees 13,000 to 16,000 per month and owning more than two vehicles. So looking at the table given to us are 25 such families and we know the total number of families are 2400. So the required probability is equal to 25 over 2400 that is further equal to 1 by 96 and this is the answer to the fourth part. Proceeding on with the fifth part here we need to find out the probability of the number of families not more than 1 vehicle. Right now here it will be equal to what? It will be equal to families owning zero vehicle or that is no vehicle plus families owning one vehicle. Right that will be equal to the sum of all the families owning no vehicle and one vehicle that is 10 plus 0 plus 1 plus 2 plus 1 that is the number of families owning no vehicle plus the number of families owning one vehicle and that is 160 plus 305 plus 535 plus 469 plus 579 that is equal to 14 plus 2148 that is 2162. So here the required probability is equal to that is over here sorry 2048 and here it is 2062. So a required probability is 2062 divided by 2400 and on simplifying it out we have 1031 divided by 1200. This is the required answer to the fifth and final part. Hope you enjoy have a good day and bye for now.