 Can you check in the lobby make sure everybody's out from the lobby? Alexandra, could you check from the common area over there and from the gym? Let people grab their coffee and finish it as they walk through the sanctuary As long as Leo's not watching they can take their coffee Are any more people in the foyer and in the gym still? If so, we can just mosey on in this way All right guys, so we're gonna go ahead and get started So for those of you who might be wondering what in the world we're doing right now We're gonna take some time and we're going to do a forum Basically a lot of people have questions about you know ministry or vision and we as a church We want to share any knowledge that we may have with all of you guys because ultimately the plan and the goal of Jesus Christ is for all of us as Christians to go and do the work of God Not just one ministry, but it's for all of us So for those of you guys who have come from out of town from different states from different cities Wherever you came from we want to share whatever Knowledge has helped us because knowledge is power and So we want to share that with you guys during this afternoon So we just want to take a little bit of your time and do a kind of a Q&A like a question and answer So during this time we're gonna be answering your guys's questions about certain topics We have seven topics that we picked out that have been the most common questions That people have asked us from different ministries or within our own church even so we're gonna be doing something a little different We did the same thing in our last conference Pretty soon on this screen. You're gonna see a telephone number that's gonna be excuse me That's like way old school. I met a cell phone number that is gonna be up there But you guys can text in your questions So say during this time we're gonna be talking about certain topics and you have a question You're like I'm just dying to know the answer to this you can actually text in your question to the number That's gonna be on this screen and we're gonna be able to answer that question for you We'll get it up here answer your questions And then hopefully you guys believe this place with a lot more knowledge and a lot more insight so they can go and Take this back to your own ministry or for people in our home group to in our ministry to your own home groups and stuff so we hope that you guys are gonna be really blessed by this and So we're gonna go ahead and get started here in just a minute All right, so the first topic you guys that we want to talk about with you guys is the topic of Devotions, you know, we know as Christians that we should read our Bible We should pray but we want to share with you guys maybe some practical ways to Commit our lives to God to have a relationship with the Holy Spirit and Martin who just walked away. Oh There we go So Martin if you could just maybe answer some questions on what is a practical way to have a relationship with God? And what can people do to develop their relationship with God? First of all, we want to start off with why why relationship with the Holy Spirit is important because as Christians without the Holy Spirit We we cannot do what we do so you have to understand the it is very important that You can do a Christian life and that would just become a religion But if you develop a relationship with the Holy Spirit, that's when it becomes reality That's when you become a true follower of Christ So it's really important that you realize that and first thing they should get through your mind Is that you need to make a conscious decision that you'll make a decision to stay with the Holy Spirit forever? Because he made a decision to never leave you So that's that's the first thing you have to make the conscious decision if I feel it or I don't feel it If I'm doing good or if I'm doing bad I'm staying committed to the Holy Spirit and there's no turning back if everything's good I'm following the Holy Spirit. If everything is bad. I'm still sticking with the Holy Spirit. There is no ifs or buts I'm with the Holy Spirit forever and what are some practical ways to develop the relation with the Holy Spirit in our church We we practice a lot with morning prayers Morning time is one of the best times to give It's your first time It's your best time to give it to Holy Spirit that when you wake up your mind is clean Your body is energetic that you can give that time to the Holy Spirit that when you wake up in the morning a little bit earlier than everybody else spent some time in reading God's Word and praying and That's that's how you develop your relationship with the Holy Spirit on constant basis make that choice that every day of the week I'm gonna wake up. I might start off with five minutes of prayer You know just a chapter or reading and then slowly as years go by you build that relationship with the Holy Spirit But you have to make it consistent Not like when I feel it or I don't feel it on a regular basis that you spend time with the Holy Spirit and grow in him So quick question is you know, you mentioned to be consistent But what maybe what are some practical ways to stay consistent and maintain that healthy relationship with the Holy Spirit? Maybe what are some things that you have done in your personal life that has helped you to be able to stay consistent and to? You know fight the struggle maybe that some of us might have especially in the mornings to be able to get up and Maintain that prayer. I think I think it's a choice. I think it's a choice sometimes You you if you make a choice to look if I get ten hours of sleep or if I get two hours of sleep I'm still getting up and I'm still gonna spend the time with the Holy Spirit because if you start basing on If I feel good or if I feel bad if I feel tired or this or that that there won't be ever a consistency You have to make a conscious choice to look doesn't matter what's happening I'm gonna spend time with the Holy Spirit that that you become it becomes like a habit that the moment You don't spend with the Holy Spirit the time in the morning with the Holy Spirit that it's like a coffee that you don't have And you begin to have headaches things are not going right so that has to be conscious choice because for me many times what happened when I I said okay if I get ten hours of sleep I'm gonna spend time with the Holy Spirit sometimes doesn't work out Sometimes you get two hours of sleep and that ten hours you get of sleep You wake up more tired and the two hours you may you get of sleep And then you get up in that conscious choice that I'm still spending time with the Holy Spirit You have so much energy, so you should be just a conscious choice I'm gonna spend time with the Holy Spirit doesn't matter what so So really fast you guys before we continue and as we're gonna get the phone number on this screen I actually have the phone number right now So I want you guys to pull out your phones right now I want you to lift your phone up and then I want you to put it in front of you So right now you guys I'm gonna give you guys the phone number so you can type it into your phone So that you can have it ready to go so that you guys can start Ascending in your questions that you might have so if you guys are ready. Are you guys ready for the phone number? You're ready Okay, it's five zero three Say with me five zero three nine zero eight Four four three six five zero three nine zero eight four four three six You guys got it Got it. Okay, so Be free right now to text in your questions We want to be able to answer any questions that you guys may have so if you have questions about the topic that we just discussed Please feel free to send them in even if we move on to other topics and a question comes to your mind about a previous topic Please send it in we're gonna answer anything that comes in so remember five zero three nine zero eight forty four thirty six Okay, so moving on you guys to our next topic We're gonna actually move on to the topic of mentorship That's something that in our church that we really value is the idea of mentorship and so Bryson if you could just maybe give us Give us a quick brief of what mentorship is What does that look like? How can we be mentors and who should we be mentored by how do we choose a mentor? I think that mentorship well, we know is when one person mentors another It's when one person speaks life and speaks Future into somebody one thing. I know in our church that we've really come to define mentorship That that Some haven't that person that you speak to that you're accountable to that knows The details of your life, you know, you can come to church every Sunday or Wednesday or whatever time you guys have your services But there's only a certain amount of growth that happens In those times it's it's it's when it's when you're on your own and you have that person speaking your life That that the things you learn in church the things the the messages that you learn are actually applied to your life Because you know how sometimes it's so easy to comment like amen amen amen and then you live a completely different life But to have a mentor in your life that says hey, you know what you know, you're kind of struggling in that area Let's let's bring that part of your life up, you know, I guess I guess for me The best way for me to describe mentorship is you know a personal experience, you know, I know for me with my mentor I Would not be where I am today. I mean whatever that whatever merit that has but I would not be where I am today Without my mentor speaking into my life constantly Every day every day my mentor speaking into my life always saying something always, you know Encourage me always correcting me, which is very important to be corrected Mentorship there's a there's actually power and correction. Nobody nobody likes to be corrected But if you allow yourself to be corrected, I some I feel like that has more power than than being encouraged Because you're only as strong as your weakest point and if you have somebody that can speak into your life at your weakest point Then you'll just see your whole life Just in general just come up and raise up to the call and the destiny that you that you want to see for your personal life So we actually had a few questions come in one of the questions is someone in the audience How they said what if you don't have a good mentor? I Think that if you don't have a good mentor, I mean be on the search look for somebody Make sure that the person that you end up Having mentor you let make sure that they are someone that is Further along in their relationship with God than you that someone someone who's a little bit further along than you that That you have some something that you can you really learn from you know if you want to be You know you probably heard the saying you want to be a giant killer hang out with giant killers You know surround yourself with people that are going to to take you where you want to go And then we have another question So how do you respond when someone you mentor is not telling you the whole truth about their situation? You're saying as someone that you your mentoring and then they don't tell the whole truth. Yes. Well, the thing is is that I think that and That situation you have to you have to be it's a sensitive situation because it say there's something that That they're not opening up with you about They're not ready to open up to you yet if someone doesn't want help you can't help them necessarily Not to say that there isn't a certain amount of like push that you can do you know as a mentor whoever this you know Ever sent this question. There's a certain amount of push you can Kind of you know nudge but also make sure that I would say That that you are You're also conscious of your boundaries that you help somebody at their level you start where they're at you You know if they're not ready to receive what you have to say to them today Then figure out what they can receive and start where they're at and help them along that journey because all of us You know all of us started out you know stubborn Yeah, there's a question about What about if your mentor does something ungodly and unright? And it's a very very very important question a lot of times what we mean by saying ungodly and unright is something that offended us Now just because it's offenses that doesn't actually mean it's ungodly and it's unright or hurts our feelings So we have to differentiate between what is ungodly and what is something that hurt us or offended us Or they said something in a harshness or or in that but the most important part is that we never go into Gossip mode but we go into prayer mode begin to cover them and and if you find something that being immoral You can go to your pastor you can go and tell them But this is not that doesn't necessarily mean that you need to go find a new mentor because if you're looking for a mr. Perfect, you're gonna have to die and get yourself on Gabriel or Michael from the heavenlies because the mentors on this earth are not gonna be perfect Also, I want to add on when Brittany asked about how do you choose your mentor? Where do you look for one if you have troubles finding on? I know us as a church our pastor pushes us that to connect connect ourselves with ministries and the podcast and the videos Where God moves so if you are want to be challenged in a spiritual area and to grow in certain area Look for people in the world who God uses for us many of us as we see we look up to prophet TV Joshua from Nigeria we lock we look up to David David Dr. From Korea Vladimir and John from Ukraine So we surround ourselves with so many mentors who who God uses this day We can see that every day the Holy Spirit moves to them and that's where we Build us of learn read their books listen to the podcast watch their services And that's also how we grow and also with our own pastor Okay, so I just wanted to add to the question that somebody asked about You know what if that person doesn't want to open up to you The most important part is prayer. You have to be praying for whoever you're mentoring If you're not praying for the people that are in your home group or your small group Whatever you may call it then you're not gonna see change in their life You can you can be their friend all you want you can you know be the best bud right there on their side But if you're not praying for them then things in the spiritual realm And their lives are not being broken off you have to first win the battle in prayer And then you'll see a breakthrough And and whoever you're mentoring you'll see it in their life So right now you guys the next topic that we're gonna discuss is evangelism So we talked about our devotions with God. We talked about mentorship So these things are really personal things for our own spiritual growth But now as the Bible said Matthew 28 19 to go out into the world and make disciples of all nations So we want to talk about our responsibility as Christians so Sylvia Can you please show with us maybe some of your advice that you have for people who are here? What evangelism is what are some practical ways that we can share the gospel with people? Well evangelism is Really, it's just sharing what God has done in your life sharing the good news So which is a tool to help make disciples because that's what God has commanded us to do So you use that as a tool to obey what God has sent us to do to take that task To take that duty and go out and share the good news Some of the practical ways well Martin shared earlier the six different ways that you can go out and evangelize as he mentioned For himself. He said certain certain ways to evangelize didn't necessarily fit him So the way I take and I always see evangelism is just in two different ways. I see it as Going out being cellist and an advocate so being just an advocate of God and advocate of the good news So many of us here can relate and can say, you know what there's certain things in our lives that we we know work in our lives That maybe it's an item a product a brand or something that you really like and you go out and share that with people You say, you know what this product really works. You should go try it It's the same way with the word of God. It's the same way with evangelism you take That's you take that word of God you take what God has done in your life and you become the advocate You go out and share it many of us think evangelism is going door-to-door and sharing the word of God Or just going up to a stranger and sharing the word of God and that's not necessarily evangelist what evangelism is on its own. It's just simply going out going out and Just sharing the good news and many of us always believe that what or think of ourselves that we're shy I'm not a people person. I don't have friends. I don't know who I can evangelize to it's just the same way you can Go out and advocate for something you do the same with the word of God One of the things that works and I've done that challenges me to go out and share the word And I give this as a tip sort of what Luis challenged us to do go out and meet people Set a goal to meet people well for me I had a roommate who she always was stubborn and Had a hard time meeting people so I challenged her and I challenged myself every day You know what a simple smile you don't have to use words and you don't have to have an interaction or conversation with people smile Share a smile a conversation will probably start share a compliment and a conversation will start So that's simply a way where people will ask, you know Why did you smile at me or you know? I've seen you around the halls and you're always smiling so you can always share the word through that So my biggest things is just take it as a being cellist just being a cellist advocate to the word of God You know the traditional way of evangelism is and Martin a little bit mentioned in the morning if you go to our flicker If you go to our flicker account For pictures you will see that we have a lot of older pictures And we've done a lot of things where we would go on the streets typical Russian evangelism go in the streets with these beautiful signs and put them about Distance away from a vehicle honk if you like Jesus You know it wasn't raining when Noah was building the ark kind of like all of those Life-threatening no no Jesus no peace no Jesus no peace and so and it was awesome And then people stop on the red light we throw in flyers into their windows Go in the parks we did on Wednesday one Wednesday with its six services in the row in the park 400 people showed up and a lot of people actually even got saved how many people came to church zero We flooded our schools and with flyers We were used to be very huge on flyers every month We made some new flyers and spread the flyers Ukraine and Ukraine flyers work, but in in here If you can meet the phone somebody lost their phone And they bring brother here. I think it's my family's Because it's my family's picture on top of it and stuff so But the issue is that all of these ways all of these events they are good But they are not many times for the local church people who have jobs Who go to gyms who go to college? This is not the most effective way Sometimes what we do is we have these things we used to do them called witnessing nights Means like we pray for a little bit then we all get charged up and we remind ourselves that people died for Jesus in the Colosseums let's go die for Jesus in the mall and So we used to do that We would kind of like remind ourselves that people got eaten by lions, you know And what are you afraid of that drunken? You're afraid of that police officer. What are you afraid? You know, we would pump ourselves up. Yeah, let's do it And so at 12 o'clock we would go to the mall or at 12 o'clock We would go to the movie theater people coming out of the clubs We would come with our leather jackets, you know with this Russian thick accent and try to interrogate them saying, you know Do you believe in Jesus, you know, they're like no leave me alone Do you know you can go to hell if you're gonna die tonight. They're like, well you try to kill me No, what I meant to say if you die tonight And so we start creating conflicts and next thing that happened is that people wouldn't budge what we found to be most effective Like our church if you notice that we don't do Evangelistic nights in a sense. We don't like even after this session typical like powerful conferences Like let's go everybody into the city and invite strangers Like this is awesome. But if you look at the churches who do that many times Let's just go a spontaneously invite people you don't see flow of new people every service That's not how people come People don't come because you approach them in the mall when they're going shopping and you told them about your church Most people you won't come to somebody's church like that They won't usually come the best way to do that is to use the leverage of influence. You already have So if you have a leverage with influence with people like your barista people in the gym people at the college people At different places you already know these people and so when you just begin to use that leverage and that influence then Let's everybody welcome them since you're looking at them anyway See you guys And so use the leverage that you already have instead of just going out and doing certain evangelism so I want to add to that we actually what we do is We we have like if you saw the video how not to invite people to church That's one of our evangelistic tool We make funny videos and we share with people conversations get started you get the phone number and that's how you become their friends And you invite them sometimes when we have a soccer game instead of inviting people to church first We invite them to soccer game you get to know them and once they become your friend Then you invite them to church so it's much harder for them to say no because you became their friends We also have barbecue's whatever birthdays, whatever we do use that as an evangelistic tool So right away that we're going out This last week we had a barbecue. I said in our home. We said, okay guys The people that you want to bring to church bring them to the barbecue first bring them to the barbecue Get them together with all the people from church. They get to them then from then on you bring them to church So then once they become your friend, they're more comfortable with you they can come to church from that So we have to live a lifestyle of evangelism not just when it comes to church Hey come to my church come to my church. No make them your friends, you know invite them to whatever you do You go to the gym. Hey, let's go to the gym after you gym you bench and they can't walk after that you bring to church so yeah So one of the other questions that was sent in was what if you have a lifelong friend somebody that you've been Trying to bring to church for a long time And they managed to come up with every single excuse in the book of why they can't come They say they're gonna come and then they don't show up, you know So and the question was is, you know, do you just kind of drop them like flies or do you keep on trying? And so this one I'm gonna answer myself because I had a similar situation where This girl that I was trying to invite for it was like seven or eight months And I worked with her and I was just would share with her testimonies of things that God was doing healings I was even crazy enough to show her deliverances And she was really intrigued by it and I would invite her almost every single Wednesday And she was like no, I can't know I can't and then she would say yes I want to come and then on on Tuesday she wants to come she wants to come and then Wednesday Oh, I got to clean my house, you know And I just remember like thinking man, this is a real struggle but I just really had a burden on my heart for her because I had known her for a while we work together and Then that's when I really realized that evangelism starts in your prayer closet that before you You know go out and try to invite people to church It really begins in your prayer to pray for people to pray for souls to have that burden and passion For for people and you know, that's why we pray for it here every single service during our the times We pray in the middle of the service and at the end because it really begins there When you pray you have that confidence that you're gonna invite people and they're gonna come and so I didn't drop her I wasn't like cool. She said no to me 17 times, so I'm not gonna invite her again I kind of just let it go and I just continued to love on her I just continued to show her, you know that I cared for her regardless of whether she came to church or not and Eventually one day we got to talking and I was like, oh, yeah Hey, it was a Tuesday night and it just like hit me like I'm gonna invite her to church It's been like three months since I've invited her. I was like you should come and she's like Yeah, I'm gonna come and I was like whoa and she came and this was in April of this year April 8th I remember because it literally changed my own life She came gave her life to Jesus Christ that night brought her sister last night and her sister got saved So you can never drop people just continue to pray for them because you never know when your prayer is You're gonna see the answer to your prayer. So that's my answer to that question I guess a quick thing that I could insert is that I know a lot of us We pray for salvation of people and pray we pray for revival and it's always so general like we pray for revival But the kind of prayer she's talking about is a very specific a very individual where you Not sure it's what we practice is that we have five to seven people a prayer list that we pray It's a specific people. It's specific names It's usually the people that we're trying to meet or we are meeting people that we're talking with people that we're inviting sometimes most of the time we know the problems and we pray them out because there's a danger of Doing one or the other there's danger There is a one side where you always pray pray pray pray and you never apply any practical Steps you don't become friends with them You're not really interested in them and their problems in their situation any time you talk to them It's always about God and church and they're annoyed about it And so there is not there is not a practical side a friendship side The companionship side and then there's other danger where we you only invite invite invite invite and Hang out and all you do is just waste your time And never achieve anything at the end because it's twofold. It's a spiritual and practical side and very Very specific prayer not just general very specific prayer pray for a specific person There's specific needs if they usually you start talking them to begin to open up and they'll tell you Yeah, I want to come to church But I you know this holding me down or I'm ashamed of this or I've done these things and I don't feel like I'm good enough to come to church or this or that or or many many different things or I like things like I You know, I live with my boyfriend and I know I'm not supposed to do that And so I'm ashamed to come to church so you begin to pray about Specific things then and so you see specific answers and like Britney said then when a person gets saved You're like wow, you know because you see a specific answer not just guns and revival and you know It's it's a it's a very general very broad term a broad prayer And it's not doesn't really build your faith unlike very specific prayers and lastly to close out this topic There's one more question. What if you know, you don't feel comfortable inviting people to your church Maybe because it's a language barrier or maybe you just feel like there's you know Spiritually it's just not where you feel like it should be and you're embarrassed or afraid to invite those people to church Such kind of what I did Well, just sort of the evangelism thing is or the biggest thing is have empathy for people So when you put yourself in their situation and you still love on them So you always want to love people and then also add that empathy on people So not just sit there and invite invite invite or sit there and tell them what God's doing in your life And all the great things you also want to let them have that opportunity To open up sort of like with the mentor you kind of want to give people that opportunity they'll open up on their own so Being afraid to inviting on because of I mean there is no Just like we've been talking about last night if people are not exposed to it They're not gonna know what's offered to them So just don't give up on them and invite them. You never know what God's gonna do in their lives Don't be ashamed be unashamed. Well, if your church if in your church For example, you can't invite people. You're not comfortable. You're not alone a Lot of people the churches they go to they don't feel comfortable Inviting their friends to those services be very honest with you three years ago. I admitted to our team There are on a Wednesday night. I say that if I'm gonna meet a friend or meet get a person I would be very weirded if I invited them to our service because I will feel bad for them and When I I just said that I caught myself like wait, and I'm the youth pastor. I created this mess I Am responsible and I remember I told myself I want to create a service What I am not ashamed to invite someone even if they are brand new Know nothing about God that they will be that I know in my heart I am excited and I know if they come they will get touched and they will get blessed now The second question comes up. Maybe like well if that's what you guys are creating you show in deliverance videos and everything See like I know non-Christian people. This actually is good for them For them. This is the first sign the church is not boring because the idea of church is it's boring if we create a church That's boring like what Ilya showed yesterday the clips and I know maybe some people said you're like, oh my goodness You know my new friend that's coming. Well, you your new friend was like I'll finally somebody's addressing issues that I'm struggling with actually actually actually one time when we had a Deliverance like that one kid saw it on the video or something went to his school And that we had like 20 to 30 kids showing up just because they they heard there's gonna be a demon manifestation in church I'm not even Joe is serious story. We had the most people come just because of that little video They said guys, let's go. There's gonna be demon cast out and like everybody came So we're like that's that's the real thing with a Buddhist guy This week or is it last week who came first time to our prayer line two weeks ago and He had an exposure with the church from a broken Buddhist family And so and I thought he will leave like run from the church when he will see because one after another Deliverance started to happen. It was some radical ones. I came to him afterwards and I said, hey, so, you know What you think and he's like man, this is provocative. This is I opener I meet with him and I know they're like next time that he will be at a service And I'm hoping it's gonna be tonight that he will gives his life to Jesus because that actually does not push people away It draws people in what pushes people away is when our services have clicks The service ends everybody runs into their clique. Nobody comes up and approaches new people What pushes people away is too much christianese on this stage What do we talk like the of theologians and prop professors and not use the modern language What pushes people away is when we talk about what's happening on Mars and Venus Not instead of what's talking about what's going on in the house What pushes people away is the fact that people don't feel loved and acceptance And so if in your church, for example, honestly, you can't invite people ask the question What are you doing to create something better? Because if you go to another church where people are doing something better and you have with that kind of attitude I feel bad for the church that you're going to with that kind of attitude because you can ruin that and if Truly you've done everything that you can you know what send out people send them to another church Send them to some other church get flyers from the other church I have people we have a tour of Slavic churches in tri-cities and people who go there Unfortunately, they can't invite people there. I remember one particular guy said I invited a person there who was who was black And he said they came in and he said the whole church looked at him like he had a plague Because another caller in that church they've never seen another caller in the church It was only russians an American person or a spanish person will walk in there was like what happened Why is he here? What's going on? Are we in trouble? One of our leaders got called the Muhammad Yeah, one of our leaders went and this is not to disrespect. This is just a church. That's built for Christians. It's a quarium It's for catching the it's it's a quarium. It's not a fish. It's not for fishing people And so it's completely fine It's good for them and those churches usually don't last very long because it's just close for themselves People can't bring non-believers and this particular guy he said when I brought my friend there He says after that I stopped inviting people there and after a while. I stopped going there myself And so we have to always either invite them to some other church But in reality what I was mentioning is that I have some guys from the other church who go there and But they sent their friends their co-workers to our church Sometimes I'll meet them they send a text was like hey this and this and this guy will be there He comes in he will come and get saved and he's like so where's that guy? I was like he's nowhere to be found but I am the new guy and so and then and then they connected Yesterday during the service we showed the clip of deliverance, you know, it's pretty radical But the funny thing is yesterday at this man that got saved Brandon that approached his first time and actually His brother Andre crazy hair Andre. Yeah Cool here. He invited him. He but what what started with him is that they went he went bow shooting and That guy was both shooting there And they went searching for the bows and then I started talking then they invited a when hazel next time Let's go together. They went together and this time around he's here He got saved yesterday and so I you know I always want to ask people because you know yesterday was a was a pretty straightforward Not blurring any lines when it comes to spiritual world and then that's his first time and he know what he said He's like, you know, I was I've been around the churches and I've been he's like you guys have this hype and energy But after I saw that video, I saw that you guys are for reals And I'm like, okay, and so and he started opening up about how He hears voices and he can totally relate to that. God has been delivered He said, you know what, you know, I'm not ready to open up completely yet But I will and I think I'll need I'll need that and so that even know what it's called So, you know, that's that's the kind of reality we really live in and many times I know in the beginning when our pastor started showing deliverances. I was really maybe Kind of like, oh, why would people think, you know, I'm not sure but when you start digging into people's lives You begin to think that they live in that kind of reality. They're not amused by demons They know what they are and and evil spirits and all kinds of stuff We have to create services that offends the religious and helps the lost If you will help the lost you will offend the religious if you like the religious you will offend the lost So you choose who do you want to please? And so and our pastor always teaches us to He has a deep gift on offending the religious and it kind of falls on us And so for us it was always always helping the lost always helping us our first church conference It was in the city church. I still remember it like yesterday I guess remember I think it was it Slavic or Chico somebody came and right in the middle of the service pastor played a Bob Larson Deliverance video. I almost fainted. I was like you kidding me this whole exorcism of 15 minutes parents were hiding their kids And stuff and pastor just kept saying it and you know And I was like because it offends us who grew up in a typical, you know I want to hear a sermon and get out and I want to live my own complacent life I don't want to do anything about God and we are not we don't want to be like that the people who come to church Who've done drugs they do not want religion they want something radical to die for if you don't give them They don't want to do that and stuff So we have to always aim on helping the people not necessarily playing to the religious tunes that people give us So I think this really will is a nice segue into our next topic and it's about deliverance So probably a lot of you are wondering, you know, what is deliverance, you know Why is it important and so Ilya if you can just share with us a little bit of your knowledge And I shared a word on last night But can you just explain like a little bit more practically what deliverance is could do Christians need deliverance and that kind of stuff Well first thing I want to start this is that like Pastor Vlad said if The church needs to be about helping the lost There is no way you can help the loss without running into the issue of deliverance This is actually the first thing you're gonna run into after people's salvation or even before people's salvation You cannot help you cannot truly help a person unless you deliver them You cannot we've seen in our life in our church when we started There's this like a wave of revival and salvation's broke out in 2006 and 7 we had people save getting saved Every single service like we have now But the difference between then and now that we had was that people would get saved They would stay in church for three six eight nine months a year And they would not stay in church and we did not understand why and we tried all kinds of systems of Home groups of peeping keeping people discipling and all those have great a place in the church And they need to be and we have we do have that now, but one thing we lacked and did not understand fully we started Dambling into the pastor begin to expose us as you've heard you know begin to show us the Accessors exorcism Bob Larson all this stuff, but we were really immature and young we didn't really understand the problems that people really face and Problems the struggles that people do and we thought it was offensive So we kind of kept it if we did do it it was somewhere hidden in the back room pastor always wanted to do in the front Of people we're like no no let's let's hide it in the room somewhere But not until we I think personally all of All of us most of our team went through deliverance ourselves and begin to understand the part of Deliverance then we begin to understand what people really need and what's different about now than then is that when people get saved Next thing they do is get baptized or sometimes even before baptism they go through our prayer lines They know about demons the know about curses. They're very well educated in all the two things they know right away about relationship with the Holy Spirit and they know about curses and demons and influence and We right away tell people we don't blur, you know colors with black and white You've sinned sinned opens the door for devil that means you need to be delivered That's it salvation doesn't make you save the salvation doesn't make you delivered Salvation it secures your eternity with God and spirit of God lives in your spirit by your soul and your body needs to be Still delivered and your mind needs to be renewed by the word of God So what is deliverance deliverance deliverance is a process Exorcism is an event. So many times when we see people manifest and demons come out or demon manifest That's an exorcism and exorcism can happen. I want a spirit of God comes and in a person a person Manifest and gets delivered That sometimes people get at that moment they get completely instantly free a lot of times deliverance is a process and the process includes first of all getting the demon out breaking influences breaking a generational curse breaking those words spoken over you either by you or by somebody else and then comes the part of mentorship and This discipleship and renewing our mind renewing our mind because Satan enters through sin But stays through strongholds So there are strongholds in our mind that he built what is a stronghold a house that Satan built Bible Jesus said that Satan came in the house. He dwells in the house and When he was cast out he returned back to the house not being occupied the house was still there So that house that Satan occupied needed to be Need to be occupied or need to be destroyed if it was a negative mindset if it's a person always for example comes From a family of constant divorce and then and then they have a curse over the life on relationships They need to renew their mind begin to Learn about the word of God what God's word says about them So even though maybe they receive deliverance and the curse over them was broken But unless they submit themselves under mentorship and unless they submit themselves under the word of God they will they will not maintain their deliverance and They fall into the category that Jesus said that it would be better that they would have not delivered in the first place Because then a demon comes back with seven times worse. So there is there is one time in event and then there is a process of Mentorship and a process of of going deeper in the word of God going deeper in the relationship of Holy Spirit I Organized groups to go to scone to Prophet Ibi Joshua for already three years And so I scan I go through question years And I I see people the why the reason why they're going the problems a lot of times I talk with them personally on the phone there and I see people go and receive deliverance And what I've noticed over three years is that if people just go for a single their mind is only focused I'm gonna go there in a single and my deliverance is a single point It's just one event a lot of times those people They either don't get delivered because God knows they won't be able to maintain it or if they get delivered They lose it quickly a quick example a man from Florida young men Was HIV positive HIV one positive. He was begging to go to for us to take him to scone Eventually he went to scone when he was getting delivered the demon confessed that He gave him HIV and all that deliverance took about 30 minutes. He got delivered. He went home Two three months later send us three different medical reports from three different doctors three different labs that he's HIV negative He has no more HIV. Okay, so Behind HIV it's a demonic disease And so what happens I told them right away. I said you need to find a pastor You need to find a church you need to become you need to be go under the mentorship of the pastor in a church You need to begin to start serving at the church You just start reading the Bible and you to develop a relationship with the Holy Spirit I gave him the books to read and all this stuff. I really connected with that young man six months went by or A year went by he applied again and I get again see an application says HIV positive one again I'm like so I right away when I saw the application a column is a hey Is this a mistake is that maybe something happened? He's like no I got it I was like what happened. He's like well, I was good for six months after my deliverance I was trying to look find a church, but no church was right for me I told him just find a church and commit to it, but he didn't do it And so what what happened is he wasn't going to church then friends invited him to a party So he first time refused second time said, okay, I'm gonna go. I'm not gonna drink. I'm not gonna do drugs I'm not gonna do I'm not gonna sleep around he went there But then again went then start doing a little bit of drinking a little bit of drugs And start sleeping around and picked up HIV once again and so for That's what happened when a person has a Deliverance as a single event, but not as a process is not not as a walkthrough So and sometimes when people get freed from from an evil spirit, they immediately feel invincible Invincible they feel like I know even some of our guys who went to scorn and they got freed and like it was public It was loud. It was crazy and they came back and they had this thing about them like I am above temptation and Usually almost almost every single one of them fell and after they fell that now they got disappointed I didn't get free and we usually had to mend to them and say listen Your deliverance does not put you and make you an angel You're still gonna be a human who needs to pick up your cross deny your flesh submit your life and have same Restrictions that you had before but what deliverance does is it untyes your hands to fight? When you were bound your hands were tied when you are free you're not simply now don't need to fight You just now have something to fight with your own hands. And so another thing is if you can mention the question Okay, so someone who's actually watching live stream right now They said if there's a generational curse of alcoholism can a child be delivered anyone from the panel There is generational curses of alcoholism or everybody in the family is an alcoholic or dies in alcoholism And and that curse needs to be broken Breaking of the curses is is to renounce them to break them But the following part of that is is to begin to change our mind because when the curse comes within a person The way it operates and thrives in the person is by developing certain pattern of thoughts within the person Even if the curse gets broken, but the pattern of those thoughts still continue The person will will easily drive back or fall back into those things many times when actually a person gets freed From a certain curse the rest of the family immediately get I remember I think one lady here that was freed and her daughter Who was an excruciating pain in the other state right away phone her that she was completely free And but sometimes those children will also need specific prayer It's true, you know even we've seen in our own prayer lines There was a young girl ten years old who came here and Because of a generational curse over her family She had had issues her whole life ten years old and still wetting the bed, you know And this this evil spirit made her stubborn and it entered through a generational curse. She's ten years old It's not like she could do hardly anything, you know to to earn or deserve that quote quote, you know Even like when we went to Columbia, there was a boy who was six or seven years old You know as the man of God was coming around and laying hands on people six-year-old boy crawling around on the ground Because of a spirit of tiger that was manifesting through him. So can kids be delivered? Absolutely One question that we want to Address as well, and I'm sure that a lot of people are probably wondering this is kind of Christian be delivered Or does do Christians need deliverance? And I think I will take a little stab at this question, you know, Jesus came to a woman came up to Jesus who had a daughter who was demon possessed and she said Jesus can you deliver my daughter and he said no the bread is for the children and She said well even the dogs, you know, there it's not for the dogs It's for the children said well even the dogs eat the scraps from the children's table and Jesus says something very important. He said the bread is for The children so Jesus actually came to bring this healing deliverance all the stuff for the children of God It's not necessarily for people who don't know God It's it's for us, and I have my own personal experience with this, you know I started coming to this church. I got saved when I was 16 years old so almost 10 years ago and You know, I was living the Christian life I guess you could say I wasn't really doing anything bad, you know I was a leader in church. I was speaking but you know about four years ago when we got introduced to the ministry of Prophet TV Joshua, you know, and I went there myself It was after the second time that I began to realize like hey, there's something not quite right in my life There's something that's operating that I have all these issues in certain areas That I just can't overcome and so after my second time I just went through this really really deep inward process of a figuring out, you know Why is this continually going wrong? And there was something that one person said to me that the man of God had said to them that until you understand the depth of the Darkness that you've been living in it's better that you don't get delivered yet until you understand and It hit me. I mean those words were like exactly what I needed to hear And so from that point on I began to ask God, you know, what what is holding me back? What is this and I'm telling you I asked that question. I was receiving answers I began to remember all these things that happened when I was a child things that I had literally made myself to forget and Just remembering back to it. So finally after about six months. I went back to Africa and that's when I received my, you know, full Deliverance like how Ilya said in that moment the exorcism that event that thing that was coming out But it started with the process it started from the beginning a process of realizing that, you know If there's something in my life that I can't just change naturally then there's probably something behind it that I can't control and so Then that's when I began to seek after my answer and realize that like hey I'm a Christian and I love Jesus But I need this just as much as anybody else and I can tell you that my life has never been the same sense Many people are afraid when it comes to deliverance because it's true that as a Christian We're possessed by the Holy Spirit. Our spirit is filled with the Holy Spirit, but we also have a soul That's why you can see a Christian come in suicide a Christian. How many Christians watch pornography? That's and people say how can a demon and the Holy Spirit live together. Let's answer a more simple question How can pornography and Holy Spirit live together? How can depression and the Holy Spirit live together? Somehow they do God lives Satan is on earth Satan was in heaven. That was completely fine and stuff Well darkness, you know will be killed by light as you have to understand It's not the presence of the Holy Spirit in your spirit that casts out the enemy It's how you surrender to the Holy Spirit and it's not the presence of flesh that makes you sinful Everybody has a flesh, but not everybody lives in sin because those who surrender to the flesh They will live in in their sin our spirit is sealed by Jesus But our soul it could come under torments It could come under torments of the enemy on the lives of the enemy could come under reflection And it's in our soul that many times we need freedom. We need a submission We need a renewal of our mind where we can experience certification of God and so So this is kind of the and another thing is the freedom not always comes by a person Casts, you know vomiting or falling sometimes, you know, people feel like something lifted of them sometimes people feel like through Yawning or through actually their breath and other people it just literally they just know that they know that you know They just stand on the fact that I pray that prayer I've renounced those things and I'll receive it by faith and if you make that decision like the woman with issue of blood When I touch the hem of his garment, I am healed, you know When I receive that prayer you make that decision God honors that decision and so is Satan So we made out of three parts spirit soul and body our spirit like pastor That says belongs to God, but our soul and our body can come under affliction of the enemy many times when we pray for Exorcism and a people manifest and demon would say even in what which part of the body They are in the hand and the stomach in the eyes and things like that So we have to discern and know the difference and so yeah Okay, guys, so pretty intense topic. So we're gonna go ahead and switch to a more lighter more practical topic so right now we're gonna talk on the issue of Money career finances because in the end of the day, we're not just a spirit. We're also a body We live here on earth and we have you know earthly things that we need to take care of so now as we want to just ask you Some questions, you know, and maybe you can give us some practical advice about money giving tithing Career, maybe you can just elaborate a little bit on how that works into our lives as Christians Well, first of all, we are Christian. We represent Christ We represent God and God's nature is always to give even the famous Versus in the Bible for God's so love that he gave his son You know, I really would start questioning your Christianity if you only always Stingy you always clinging to the last penny you never give your time your Your money your you know help you always selfish, you know devil is always to campaign To kill still destroy so if you notice in your life there, you always, you know You hold on you never give a prey to God that he will you know reveal himself and That he will change you into more to be like Christ like and not tidying and giving is the Number one thing that Christians should be living, you know through giving and through tight tight is 10% What you make goes to God, you know in our church. It's like a discipline. We don't really You know preach a lot about about it. Just we do 10% we make goes to God By giving 10% what we do is we allow God to have a full control over our money. See you can live on 100% that Don't do not have God's protection God's blessing But I rather live on 90 and know that God has his blessing his protection, you know And if you cannot survive on 90 I pretty much can guarantee you're not gonna survive on 100 So I rather live on a 90 and knowing that God's God my finances in his hand, so so maybe you can answer this question I know that there's a lot of people have questions in all of the Christianity this whole prosperity issue Is it okay for Christians to make a lot of money to be like filthy rich? Yeah, you know, I believe I believe in prosperity, but I believe in prosperity with purpose I mean you gotta come and ask yourself what what's the reason, you know It's it's fine to have a good, you know good life drive nice card wear nice clothes But I think at the end of the day is what's the motive behind, you know as a Christians We hear to serve to love on people either you Use people and love money or you use money to love people and I think the Determines either you give or you take, you know as a Christian you have to give and Lastly now, so how can we as Christians figure out like what's the right career for us? You know something I know a lot of us Maybe we have the question of what kind of career should I have that's not gonna prevent me maybe from my ministry goals From things that I want to do in church. I know for a lot of people in our church That's a really big struggle of what should I do and how will I know what's the right career for me? Well, honestly, there's no right answer I mean as long as you don't like go shipping or drug dealing or blood spilling spilling, you know Because anywhere you go either you doctor nurse school teacher, you can always minister, you know There's no such a thing. Oh, I have to be on staff and in church you pursue my ministry. No, it's the wrong answer Everywhere you go. Are you in a coffee shop? Are you a construction worker? We can always Do ministry and be a Christian, you know light is Always has to shine everywhere, you know, so Will also and when it comes to career you have to there's usually three quick three questions one How much does it pay? Do you like it and is it legal and so how much does it pay playing video games? My might be legal, but it's not gonna pay you a lot, you know Do you like it and just because usually people measure their career based on if they like it? When people come up to me usually and they ask special our youth and they say well I really like being a counselor and I was okay meet at least five counselors who have a job and talk to them and also Statistics about counseling and stuff. I'm like, do you want you know when you go? Actually, you study a little bit more about that career and find out how stressful the job is You would change your mind a particular person is my sister who wanted to be a counselor after she met two counselors She came to me sick. Thank you. Jesus. I am rescued. I'm not gonna be a counselor I don't want to hear people's problems every day all day for the rest of my life and stuff So you have to kind of do this study now I'll mention a little bit about tiding it is true that a lot of people say well Jesus never mentioned tiding He actually did he talked about not to forsake these things the things the Pharisees were doing but to focus more on main things Everywhere Jesus was People didn't give 10% we saw people giving half of their income Some people gave all of their income and when the revival broke out in the first Apostolic Church No, they didn't give tiding. They gave a hundred percent So if you want to bring Jesus times, I'm not sure you do. I always tell our people We are growing into Jesus times by starting with 10% and if 10% gives you a stroke Then your heart needs to slowly begin to change and as you begin to have a new heart with 10% goes to 20% With 20% goes to 40 50 most of our team The 10% is long gone. And so most of them are on 20% and Increasing this is not about and I know somebody asked the question right now is you know I give religiously if you give 10% first it will hurt After a year or two, it's normal. You adjusted your life You live on 90% and you recognize you actually have extra money. That's where you bump it up You have to understand that it's not about how much you give it's how much Sacrifices in your giving for some people they can give 20% and not feel sacrifice at all as you increase in your sacrifice You will see the blessing of God. There was particular girl who got saved and her fiancee he was not a Christian and she just got saved and they live together and so she decides to the next week She decides to give without his permission. She just decides to begin to tide She had so little money that she didn't have enough money to live off if she would start giving It was only like $56. I think her tide was and so she started to bring to God and And that month she wouldn't have enough money for groceries And she was driving she was mad at God. She was going to her work and she said God I should have not given this, you know, I fell into a trap and they lied to me They manipulated to me and this will not work and But God just gave her peace in the car She got into her office Her boss calls her in and she just got a job there and he says hey We're gonna give you a raise. He told her the amount of the race. She got a raise for a whole dollar That week's paycheck The same amount of money that she gave came back in And now it comes in every single month more and what that did to her is to strengthen her faith that God Will never fail her and she can never out give God now when I met her and I told her It doesn't always happen like that I don't give because I get something back though it almost always happens But I give because I want to grow in God and because it is what God did and it is something that we also have to do one guy who got saved first night and The next week he makes a decision to start giving and within two three weeks same thing. He started having doubts He's like man, I'm giving like 500 dollars a month I could buy a new car and he worked at the BMW dealership So he's like I could get myself a new beamer, you know and pay 500 dollars for it And uh at the end of that week his boss calls him in and says, you know, I want to give you a little bonus And so he's like, yeah for sure He thought maybe it was gonna be like a few hundred bucks or a thousand and they gave him 85 thousand dollar car And stuff. So does it happen to everyone like that? No, but some people get it better amen Some people get jits Um, there's one thing about that when we when you talk about finances You know, it's a extra finances is a very sensitive subject, but um When it comes to people but with us We are Person get saved and it's right away. That's something that we teach him we tell him because you have to understand if you don't teach people to give Tithe giving sacrificial giving we haven't even got to that part, but uh, let's just stick with tide for now You are actually robbing people of blessing of God You robbing people of their personal faith with God And so we that's why we ride away even when people get saved and we begin to mentorship Immediately after, you know, we one of the mentorship questions that we asked them is that have you start tidying or are you tidying? And we encourage them to do that and we encourage them to see God's faithfulness in that their faith I've seen People's faith especially new believers Their faith grow through the area of tidying more than through anything else more than through even sometimes seeing deliverance and healings here By seeing personally how God touched their finances and it's for new believers It's almost a hundred percent every single time God just just does a special miracle for them to show them Hey, you can trust me with this So don't be afraid but you have to be convinced yourself You have to live it yourself you have to see God's faithfulness in your own life In order for you to have boldness to see to talk to people about that All right, so we're gonna go to our next topic right now And it is the topic of romantic relationships. So Mariana, maybe you could share with us some practical ways You know actually Really, maybe you could just tell us about romantic relationships. How do we know we found the right person? And how can we you know keep our relationship godly? There goes there's a lot that can come into this subject But I think a big one is that anytime a girl would come to me and say hey, so there's this guy I asked them number one thing is are they christian and if they say no, then I start questioning them But uh, the thing is is that they have to be in the same faith. Absolutely And two is you have to always put yourself and position yourself under authority mentorship Because there's two big decisions that you make in your life that one is your relationship with jesus christ and number two who you're going to marry And who you're going to marry is going to make a big factor of your happiness or your depression And that is very true So we have to anytime you're interested go under submission under authority people that are more wiser than you That no more have more experience have a little bit more miles on you They may know just a little bit more go through a different angle and may tell you about that person that you're interested in Say, you know what just hang in there. You know trust that they want the best for you um another thing is vision I got married uh at a very young age and uh when i'm 19 and now i'm 27 And I want to tell you one thing is that I am not the same person that I was at 19 years old So if I was to marry based off of my interest of saying oh me and him like music so done I like him. We're gonna marry. We have a lot things in common It's not going to work because things is is that today I like the color pink But tomorrow I will like orange and so you have to understand is that your interest will always fall out and your likes and dislikes Will always change so you have to have a good foundation and that is vision What is your vision? What is your purpose if you have faith in god? Then you have to have a strong vision in god in the kingdom of god So that man or that woman has to have a strong strong vision in uh The kingdom of god and what you want to do your purpose another one is um how to maintain purity in your relationship I don't be in the dark That is my absolute thing is that if you want to have a pure relationship Keep everything in the light. I mean when you hang out keep it in the light When your mentor asks you questions you be vulnerable and tell them everything in the light Anytime there's any type of darkness in your life Satan has access to that and he will remove every single blessing in your marriage So if you're dating right now if you're dating expose it right now Expose that to your mentor and say you know what I have something to confess to you It might be hard. It might be embarrassing But if you want to be blessed do it because I want to let you know is that if you want god to rule your marriage Or satan And if it's in darkness if you're entering into marriage In darkness you're entering it with satan But if you're entering in light that means you're entering with god and blessing and protection so light um That's one thing is is that how you hang out with surround yourself with uh people when you're hanging out mentorship And foremost is when purity when you strive for purity You need to strive in your relationship with the holy spirit because that's the only way you can stay pure Because we are all humans here. We can all fall into that temptation And the only way to be strong is if you are in a strong relationship with the holy spirit So I want to ask the panel really quickly someone from who's watching online has a question kind of a long similar Similar line about relationships in general. They said my question is I feel lonely But I feel afraid to ask god for friends. Does god want me to be alone and lonely Since I gave my life to christ my friendships don't last I struggle with that. So what can I do? Loneliness is a very big thing that I talk to girls about you have to be okay with being single You have to be okay with being happy with your oneself For foremost if you cannot be alone by yourself or enjoying in your relationship with holy spirit It's loneliness talks about a void. There's a void inside and there's something wrong You have to ask holy spirit to fill that emptiness to ask Why do I constantly feel lonely if you are in a I've heard people that they can feel lonely Even if they're in the midst or in a group of people even if they're in a relationship I've even in moment in my life I was married and we were together all the time and there was some moments where you can feel lonely And you could be in the same room and with a person So that loneliness is a personal issue a personal void that has to be fixed and god absolutely Wants to fix that issue. So when you go into a relationship, you have to be happy with your oneself Because if you don't enter that way, you're just going to make that person miserable the way you are All right, so uh, hopefully you guys got some good information on relationships Feel free to text in more questions if you have any later But we're going to move to our next topic right now And this is going to be an interesting one. This topic is about health and fitness and maintaining a healthy lifestyle As a christian and you know You may think that this might be a silly subject, but it's actually absolutely relevant in our lives. So lilia, can you Tell us what is the importance of a healthy lifestyle as a christian? And what are some practical ways that we can maintain our health and you know as different people different body types different lifestyles How can we um stay healthy? Amen, um, this is a big topic. Um, our church takes this topic very seriously And every single time we have a home group when we do a report There's a question how many times you exercise this week And even this morning got a snapchat half of our worship team was at 5 a.m. In the morning at the gym working out And when we have morning prayer at five such a struggle to come But we can go to gym Jesus and mercy We can open for article right now Where's mr. Ochoa anyways The bible says a lot about um and we might think like that it is not spiritual It is very spiritual because Jesus and god they address so many times in the bible that your Body is a temple of a holy spirit and so let me read this to you Um, do you not know that your body is a temple of the holy spirit within whom you have from god? You are not your own for you are bought with the price. So glorify god in your body Let me give you a negative side of this If anyone destroys the temple god's temple god would destroy him for god's temple is holy And you are that temple and so our body is a temple of the holy spirit and we have to take care of it A lot of people say that healthy food or healthy Living is expensive. Yes, it is. But have you ever been to a doctor's office? It's way more expensive You pay for your food today or you're gonna pay doctor's office in 10 or 5 years and you'll be You'll be regretting it and so you start today eating, you know healthy exercising and so and a lot of times It's not supposed to be 4 hour at the gym. It's not like that A lot of times that 80 of your fitness is done in the kitchen and only 20 of your Fitness is done in the gym One thing big revelation to me came is to realize that my body is not a junk Is not a garbage can is not a trash can So I need to stop feeding it and treating it like like it is a lot of people they um eat healthy But they also taking all the calories in drinking like stop drinking pop start drinking water Our body is 90 percent of water not 90 percent of pop or juices or smoothies whatever you're taking in and so it's kind of like One main thing for us to take care of our body is because god has a calling for your life And when you get to the point god begins to use your life God is on the move in your life But your body is falling apart and you can't keep up with what god wants to do in your life You can't meet with people because you don't have energy You can't even enjoy your kids because you you maybe you still be like 40 or whatever 30 But your body is like in 70s or 80s because you have not taken care of god You have not taken care of your body a car will only drive for so far until it's going to start falling apart You need to start you know taking care of it keep maintaining it and it's easier to maintain it Then you know go for so long and fix it go for so long and fix it And so many sicknesses that people acquire because they don't eat right food They don't eat breakfast. They don't drink water and all of them And see when you started when for example right now within within our church It has become a culture where I've noticed people get saved they start tithing and they either start getting gym memberships And it's becoming like there's home groups and it becomes actually an outreach section I know quite a few people who are our home group leaders today who got witnessed to in the gym And who got invited from the gym. That's why most of our video funny videos are in the gym We have people working there because movie theaters coffee shops and local gyms are the three main sections And parks where people socialize gyms are no longer about working out It's about socializing You see all the guys flexing over there and stuff. And so I personally go all of our leaders here We go many times we go in there's 20 people. They're all of our people Well, they actually now play our own song that we wrote at the local golf gym And stuff because one of the guys works there So I remember I think Bryson was working out and he snapchatted He's like it's so weird that the song I wrote is playing while I'm working out at the local gym And stuff and so but we need to we need to prioritize people who say that I don't have enough time You are in charge of your time if you don't exercise If you don't go into the places where the people are at and you constantly if you have that fitness fit body But it doesn't necessarily mean that you are healthy because you're skinny And our last question to kind of wrap this whole thing up What is more important mental health or physical health mental health? because um This is why um when you are sick in your mind your body is going to catch up with it Your body your brain is like a circuit switch Whatever you tell your body um your mind your body will follow And so first like it is important to be physically fit But in your mind are you defeated? Are you your mind is what attracts what you want in your life? And so you want to be healthy you want to be fit you begin to Fix your mind first because you can be all fit But you can be so insecure never liking your body never accepting you know yourself And so like your body will follow whatever your mind is Somebody mentioned that the scripture that was mentioned refers to sexual immorality not to diet. You're 100% correct But the scripture underlines a principle That our bodies this is not just about sexual immorality It gives us a principle that our bodies are not our own meaning things like cigarettes things like alcohol Things like tattoos all of these Shady subjects that people a lot of questions even wrote in today about tattoos and everything we have to constantly remember These gray subjects that when you see your body as his body Then you have to ask a question not what you want is would jesus wear this Would jesus have this would jesus carry this much weight Would jesus look like this would jesus put this in because you're taking it's kind of like forcing jesus to drink this Or some people you know, I think uh that we've one guy received deliverance from drinking energy drinks From smoking and energy drinks. He would drink to those are four drinks Three drinks a day, you know and no the bible doesn't say about energy drinks and people say well Bible doesn't say about this and this and that yeah, but the bible gives us a principle that our body Is the holy spirits temple and we have to use the brains that we have left To figure the rest of things out. Would you do that to the holy spirit? Would you pump that into your body and people sometimes ask me like you know, bible doesn't talk about smoking You know, if I smoke, you know, um, and I usually tell people this that if you smoke you'll go to heaven faster Then if you're suffering with cancer, don't ask god to heal you Don't go to the doctor you brought that cancer if you're suffering and you're in pain screaming Remember you paid for it And so but we always do we ignore our health and then we cry ourselves to sleep because most of the sicknesses that people come with A lot of the sicknesses we ourselves allow that we don't control our appetites We don't control instead of going fasting. We're going constantly feasting At the rest of the world is dying because there's nothing to eat We are dying because too much to eat And stuff and so and all of these sicknesses that come with it Our pastor is going to close the panel. So let's give him a round of applause. He's going to share something Thank you very much shortly what I want to say a one a one subject Have to find healthy church Or Is how important that's person who prophesied in your life I came to america 15 years ago with my teenagers boys They are here and vladimir here And For I knew for them really important Who will prophesy in their life? What church they will have because Who will prophesy in your life speak on you That who will be who you will be I remember vladimir when when he came With us in america is really love self esteem because of his eye And we we were we were I I want to start church and But nobody with me just kids And I asked god for for two persons youth pastor and worship worship leader But I had just two And one of them was vladimir and another was Ilya And my family a little bit play on because they in russia Went to music school But concerning vladimir. He was really ashamed himself And because his eye How you call it? I'll I'll is always falling And he was ashamed to stay He he he I I lay I lay okay, sorry And I start to prophesy I start to prophesy in his life. Hey Such a person It's needed me Because because we have great goal On head of us. We have to accomplish so much And I appreciate person with one eye Because when you shoot in your in your in your Target usually usually people close one eye and using just one And I said you are perfect fit You don't you don't need to try close one eye. It's closed already And And and it's so important who will prophesy in your life Have to find good healthy Solid church. It's so important These kids that the result result of prophesy And not only life on a stage But their their life The master the master is private life is built finances healthy every relationship everything brother and sisters We are living today where to find really good church not easy But we are living in the time in the time of internet and tv Try to Accumulate as much as possible Write healthy good prophecies in your life This connect yourself Where is pessimism? Negativity Surround yourself With mentors who will constantly Support your spirit within your your your your mind will be always stirred You will follow In direction Of prophecy who will prophesy in your life From ukraine from ukraine I I call my family a big family 18 kids We are relatives and I ask My relatives Give me your kids I will I will prophesy in their life. They will be great people Because difference because because there is no difference between Bumps under bridge and press and president and up in the palace Physically there is no difference Difference who prophesy who teach them who prophesy in their lives One prophecy made President another prophecy make the homeless That's so important when we event you today To find good church so important that's critically important And if you Cannot find anyway connect the local church church anyway But we are living in such a time when to find Encouragement and prophecy on internet and different pastors leaders ministry. It's possible Thank you All right guys, so We're gonna just take time to just pray really quickly for These things that we talked about and that god will really help us to Put these practical things into practice in our own lives and how We can grow and develop from here So if you guys could just zoom in favor and bow your heads and we're just gonna pray Holy spirit, we thank you for this time that we've had together We thank you god that you are teaching us day by day The lord you give us your word to teach us how to live out your ways And we ask you god that you will help us to walk in your light The lord that we can walk practically Spiritually mentally physically before you lord Jesus in these areas of our devotion with you that we would go stronger with you god Lord, I pray that for those of us who need deliverance that you would lead us on that path in that process And that you would help us god to live our lives in a way that pleases you So we pray that you will bless this information that we learned god and really use it in our personal lives Lord, we pray that you will bless the rest of this day in Jesus mighty name And right now we want to welcome Katrina. She's gonna share Just kidding so