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Most wonderful show is keeping up with the Joneses.
Welcome to episode 162 of keeping up with Joneses.
With this week we're talking about how to steward the prophetic words of your life.
We're answering questions on married life, church and fivefold ministry.
And most importantly, a snake update.
But first, AJ Jones, how the heck are you?
I'm doing pretty good.
How are you doing?
I am doing good.
It's been an interesting week.
It has.
because for the first two days of the week, you were sick.
Like a dog.

Like a dog.
Like a dog.
So everything in moderation.
Yes, and we each got our turn.
So that's all that really matters.
And it's totally thrown us because last week,
we recorded it on Friday instead of a Sunday.
Yeah.
Because the Sunday was going to be crazy.
Yeah.
So it's been 10 days, which feels really long.
Right.
And in the midst of that, we've been away.
Yep.
So let's recap the week.
OK.
So Sunday, Michelle spoke at church actually.
She did.
And she did an amazing job.
Really great message.
I'll put a link in the show notes.
And then Sunday night, you spoke at the blind.
That's right.
It's our church run by our friends, Alex and Henry Cooley.
If you haven't listened to their podcast, I'll link to that as well in the show notes.
Great church.
Love that church.
Got to speak there Sunday afternoon and Sunday night.
So that involved me pulling my influencer for a solid.
Seven hours.
Got there at three.
You didn't leave till about 10.
Yes.
Yes. And we did in the midst of all of that manage to go to Desanos.
So that's all that, you know, really matters.
Yeah, my message was fueled by Desanos.
Filled by Desanos.
Yeah, I think part of the reason we decided to record early was actually
because my cousins were coming in town for the weekend.
Right. So it was a great weekend in that I got lots of quality time
with my cousins and they got to see our snake.
So do you want to jump ahead and just just make update?
The snake update is that the snake did definitely die.
Paul went out on Saturday and put a stick underneath its head
and like lifted its head up sort of, you know,
up a couple feet and then pulled the stick away
and it just flopped against the tree.
- Paul being your cousin's aforementioned.
- Yes, the aforementioned cousin.
And so we decided it was most definitely dead,
although I still didn't want to get very close to it.

Is that how you want to play this?
Because the truth would be that neither of us wanted to touch it.
The truth would be I turn in a little girl and just squealed at the thought of touching it.
Right.
And then we forgot to put it because I got sick and life got busy and then Wednesday
rolled around.
And Kate mentioned that soon,
Vultures might arrive to visit the snake and then we would have to figure out how to get rid of vultures.
And so which below I was fine with that.
We did what brave people do, didn't we, baby?
We called our neighbor.
Yeah.
Miss Deirdre who got blessed or came over armed with two plastic bags, some like gloves
and some sort of strange tool for picking things out of trees.
Well, I think it's for picking up litter off the grounds.
You don't have to bend down.
Oh, and she just used that.
But the snake had decomposed so badly.
It was coming off in pieces.

Oh, so gross.
So gross.
And she was just like, "That's happy as could be."
I don't know that she was really enjoying it,
but she was lovely and she took care of it.
She was calm.
Yeah, she was calm.
I was grossed.
I was so grossed out.
I was never happier to shed my masculinity in that moment.
I'm like, "You know what? You knock yourself out.
I'll configure your Wi-Fi router.
You just remove snakes from a tree."
Yeah, we'd probably need to see if they have any technical needs
that you can take care of this week.
I'm going to go over and break stuff in their house.
And then fix it.
Just appear the hero because at this point,
We're so in debt to the number of things.
It's ridiculous, the amount of things
that we've done around our house.
Yeah, it's unquantifiable.
So the snake is dead. Yeah.
It is dead and gone now.
And then so rewind that Monday you got sick.
I got sick.
Which means I got to speak at M&A.
You did. I was supposed to speak.
And I got to teach on dreams again.
Yeah.
I'm loving this.
For those of you who weren't at M&A,
I've been studying dreams and scripture.
I've read every dream and every interpretation
in scripture. And my gosh, the amount of revelation the Holy Spirit showed me, I'm just loving it.
So I'm loving dreams at the moment.
I love how thorough you are in seeking understanding when the Lord is
knocking on your heart about something.
Well, I just think the Lord is so good. He always gives me a promise like, hey, if you'll do this,
I'll do this. And I'm like, yes, I'd be very interested in what you have to offer.
Right.
And plus it's a fascinating topic. So I love it.
For sure.
So that was Monday.
That was Monday.
Then Tuesday I went back to speak at the Belong.
You did tonight. Stay in bed.
like yeah, moaning.
And then Wednesday you convinced yourself you were better.
And I said, don't come in.
You're going to get me sick.
No, I had quarantined myself.
I was living upstairs.
No, you weren't though.
You came down and used my bathroom and shower in the same room as I was in.
So, you know, you think that's what did it.
I think so.
I think it was your lack of self control and wanting to be in my bathroom.
But what if you need to tell yourself, be born and play girl.
Yeah, whatever. Thankfully, the kids didn't get it. So that's very good. And yeah, and then
Thursday, we left our kids in capable hands and headed off to do the small group leaders retreat
for the School of Supernatural Life, which is starting in a few weeks.
This is where we take away all our new leaders or some returning leaders off to the Smoky Mountains
for taking away for a weekend and teach them how to lead and do a bunch of training. And I say we,
but this week I got sick.
So I actually contemplated looking up Uber to see how much it was to get driven back to Franklin
because we were the loudest cabin I've ever been in. It was so loud. And it wasn't loud
because of the people. No. Because we've been away with similar sized groups before.
This was a cabin with zero insulation. No sound insulation whatsoever.
Every hinge, every bed spring, every door.
-Creeked. -Made a noise.
Yeah. Adam and Anna had the bedroom above us,
and I kept thinking, like, if they got up in the night to go the bathroom,
that somebody was walking through our bedroom.
So I kept waking up like, "Ah!"
You know, and then I'm like, "Oh, it's them above us."
You know, and it's just because we could literally see the light on
in their room through the boards above our head.
Yeah.
It was just like, "Oh, my God."
The ceiling was literally the floor.
There was no concept of a subfloor or sound installation or it was so noisy.
So loud.
And every time you drill over in bed, you'd be like, "Okay, guys, I'm just rolling over in bed.
I'm not doing anything else."
There's nothing else going on here because it was so loud.
Oh, good Lord.
Yeah.
So I was sick.
How was it?
I didn't see any of the weekend.
I mean, wow, we have an amazing team.
Who was my stand-in for the speaking?
I was.
Oh, so they got the better half.
Yes, they got the better half.
Yes, so I just did your sessions and then of course you know Shannon and Matt teach some of it and then Sarah Pape makes us all look good.
So it's a great team.
It was easy enough to let you rest.
And the scenery was amazing.
Beautiful.
Like this is when I like nature from the inside of an air conditioned cabin.
Well, you did go out on the porch to fly the drone.
I know, but it was super cool.
It was hardly any humidity.
Yeah, it was beautiful.
And it was gorgeous at night.
Yeah.
And I got up early one morning to try and get the sunrises before I got sick, but I didn't do a good job.
I don't think we were facing the right way for the sunrise.
No word of a lie.
We certainly got a good sunset.
No word of a lie.
I had to Google what direction the sun rises in.
And I'm sure like this is common knowledge.
And then I had to pull up the compass on my phone to work at which we East is.
Okay.
But you know it always rises in the East and all the sets and all that.
It always does.
Is that the same in Australia?
Or does it get reversed?
Well, that's an excellent question. I really think about that.
Don't think about it. Just Google it. Oh, all right.
Okay. This is what Google says. "In the southern hemisphere, the sun still rises in the east and
sets on the west. This is because the movement of the sun in the sky is caused by the earth's
rotation and the northern and southern hemisphere are obviously rotating in the same direction."
Yes. That would make sense. Yeah, but you didn't know it.
Well, I was wondering, because I know it's because of the way the earth rotates, why it would be any
different. But then they're all, I mean, I'm thinking about like the toilets flush different
ways down there and whatever. Maybe I'm missing something.
All right. Yeah. I'm glad we have that sorted out. I can sleep now.
Well, now I don't feel so bad for having a Google, you know, what direction it rises over here.
I do know what's when it rises and sets in the country I live in without Google.
I'm pretty sure nobody ever told me that.
Yeah, so it was a great, it was a great weekend.
We got to float down the river, which of course you didn't get to do because you were in bed.
Nope.

So that was lovely as well.
Did Hunter deal with that?
He said he doesn't deal with dead animals.
If it was alive, he would have taken care of it.
But because it was already disintegrating, it was avoided.
What else happened?
Um, all the eclipse.
Yeah, the eclipse.
You didn't get to see it because you were sick.
No.
I mean, I went out on my friend step and saw what I could see from our house.
But we weren't in the path.
No, we were like a couple miles off the path.
So I didn't see total darkness.
It got dark, but not like total darkness.
Did you see the video I filmed?
By the way, I posted it on Instagram.
Yeah, I saw it.
It was pretty dark where we were.
It looked dark.
We were in the path of total...
Total...
...totally.
Was it total?
As that what they said?
Total...
...totally.
It was so weird because as it was fading out,
Like it took a long time to fade out.
I was like, this is taking way longer than I was anticipating.
But when it actually gets to the point where it's just about to reach totality,
it totally looks like a weird Instagram filter has now affected all of life.
Yeah, like a greeny kind of color.
Yeah.
And then it went pitch black.
All the streetlights came on.
The cicadas.
Is that cicadas?
Is that what they're called?
Well, probably it's crickets.
Crickets.
It's probably not cicadas.
They started doing their thing and it was so weird.
and for two minutes were in till darkness and then very first.
Yeah.
So I had all of that, the weird green filter and all that, just not the total darkness.
You missed that, baby.
It was amazing.
I was sad about that.
You know what else happened?
That was almost as big as the eclipse.
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All right shall we talk about our main topic let's talk about main topic baby so our main topic is stewarding the prophetic words over your life as in so you got a prophetic word.
Now what right right what do I do with it now that I have it so we have a couple of suggestions for you maybe a little a little less of things to do with your prophetic words not necessarily any order.
Yes, but at some point probably do all of these things.
All right.
The first thing that we would suggest when you get a prophetic word, doesn't matter who it's from is you want to test the word you want to weigh the word.
In the New Testament, we're told to do both of those things.
For example, in first Thessalonians 5.20 says, do not treat prophecies with contempt. That's a good one.
But test all things, hold fast to what is good. Basically, any New Testament prophet or anybody who's prophesying,
It's really, really clear that they know in part, they see in part, and so they prophesy
in part.
What that means is part of the word is going to be really, really good, and part of the
word is possible.
They've made a mistake depending on the maturity of person, depending on the gifting level.
No profit is a hundred percent accurate.

The most obvious test is to filter and sift the word through scripture.
Yes.
prophetic word that says, "You know what, the Lord really says that you are to divorce
your wife and marry a younger model."
That's not the Lord speaking because it's really clear in Scripture what he feels about
that.
So you can know that's not the Lord.
Right.
So if there's kind of weird stuff in there, if there's not Scripture stuff, throw it out.
But let's say it is Scripture.
Let's say it's really, really good.
What would weighing and testing look like in that scenario?
Well, I think it looks like a couple of different things.
I think it looks like inviting people into your journey with you to help you weigh and
test it.

Let your leaders hear it, get your friends in and pray through it.
And you get to have a sense of, does this feel like the Lord?
Is this, what is it?
- Maddy's bringing me chocolate.
- Excuse me, my wife is just getting chocolate
handle liver to her while I'll just sit and watch.
I'll get my own back.
There's some lemon sorbet in the freezer.

Hey baby, what have you got there?
- Chocolate.

- Yeah, these are extreme days.
These are extreme days they call for extreme measures.
I, uh, we're going to go back to eating healthy tomorrow.
And so I was like, through a crash into the wind, I really want some honeycomb covered
in dark chocolate.
And I happened to know that my neighbor bought some because she sent me a picture
of it two days ago.
So I just texted her and said, Hey, are you home?
Can I have some chocolate?
So she sent one of her sweet children up with a, uh, an offering, a chocolate offering.
One last great hurrah.
Do you want to hear how crunchy it is?
Yeah, sure.
I mean, it's fantastic.
OK, that's going to be gross for anybody listening to that tomorrow.
So OK, I'll do the talking in your microphone.
All right.
So the first thing you've done in is you've weighed the word.
You've tested the word.
So the second thing, and not a lot of people realize this, but most new
Testament prophetic words are invitations from the Lord.
Yeah, absolutely.
They're not declarations like this is going to happen.
some of them are, but the vast majority of them are invitations.
- They're, "Hey, do you wanna?"
- So at some point, it's the Lord saying,
"You've been asking me what do you have for my life?
"This is me showing, now I need a response."
So it's good to actually say yes.
- Yes, yeah, and I think,
you know, that was one of the things
that I spoke on a few weeks ago is,
I think there's even stages of your yes sometimes,
you know, where there's sort of a--
- A begrudging, yes.
- Begrudging or reluctant, yes.
And then sometimes there's a resigned yes.
But hopefully eventually we get to an excited yes, where it's a wholehearted thing.
Right.
Um, but that's what he's looking for.
Is that wholehearted?
Yes.
All right.
Third thing, baby.

Well, it's still got someone on the outside, but it's all good.
Um, the third thing is that prophetic words really are a diving board
into a pool of prayer.
So the, the deal is you want to keep them before you and then just pray them
back to the Lord, you know, let them fuel your journey with the Lord.
Um, there's a great example of this in scripture in 2 Samuel seven.
This is one of my favorite passages of scripture.
Yeah.
It's amazing.
Basically, Nathan comes in and gives David the best prophetic word ever.
Right.
And then look at what David does.
Yeah.
David turns around a couple of verses later and he actually speaks the
prophetic word back to the Lord.
I love it.
Yeah.
It's like he receives it from the Lord.
It's mind blowing.
And then it says, like in verse 18,
he goes in and sits before the Lord
and just reads the word straight back to him.
I've done that so many times.
I've taken the prophetic words that Lord's given
and I've just said, Lord, you said,
not like in a challenging way,
but like just reminding the Lord
and reminding myself really of the words
that the Lord's spoken.
- It's kind of like using your words
to fight the good fight, isn't it?
- Right.
- It's just like, okay, actually.
And especially when, you know, there are seasons
where you have a word that is, seems so contrary,
or so much better than actually what you're living in
at the moment.
Well, let the hope rise up in you
and fight a good fight with that word.
Partner your hope and your faith
towards God actually telling you the truth.
Yeah, so quite fun.
All right, give me number four.
Number four, believe it or not,
most prophetic words take a while to come to fruition.
right. And whereby a while you mean a lot longer than you or I would think or want.
Right. Well, we're a fast food generation, right? So we want everything fast. And we're
annoyed if we have to wait for any length of time.  And two weeks later,
they're like, well, hasn't happened yet.
What year did we first meet David Wagner?
Oh, um...
Well, what year was MJ born in?
And then take...
2012.
Was... Oh, wow.
So we went David in 2011.
Yeah.
Right.
So the first time we meet David Wagner,
actually, it wasn't the first time we met him.
He spoke Sunday morning.
We said hello.
And then that night he was speaking at Iris National now,
Legacy National.
And he was ministering there and we went to hear him.
We didn't know him really at all.
Like I said, we'd met him that morning.
and he was prophesying up a storm.
At 10, 30, we need to get home to get, you don't release our babysitters.
And so we just try to sneak out the meeting.
Right.
And he stops us and he just says, "Allen, AJ."
And he gives us this huge prophetic word.
But in the prophetic word, he says, "The Lord's given you Iceland."
Yeah.
"The Lord is going to take you back to travel.
I see you going all over the world.
I hear you saying to yourselves, 'Can we go to Europe for the weekend?'
And the Lord says, 'Yes, you can.'
Now, I get that word, 2011.
Yep.
I came home that night and I did a research on all the frequent flyer programs based on
America's, we'd stop traveling.
Yeah.
So I did all my research on, should I be with United?
Should I be with American Airlines?
Should I be with Delta?
I made sure my passport was up to date and I had it written, not because I thought the
next morning I want to start traveling the nations, but part of me wanted to show the
Lord, Lord, I'm taking this seriously.
I'm saying absolutely yes.
Yeah, you're partnering your faith with action and saying, I'm going to prepare my life
to be ready so that when the go time comes, I'm ready to go.
I don't have to get the stuff ready.
I should have been getting ready already.
And then for the next four or five years, we didn't travel anywhere.
That's right.
When did we go to Iceland?
Actually, we went last summer, so 2016.
So 2016, so five years past.
Five years.
We go to Iceland for the weekend.
For the weekend.
And we say to each other, can you believe we're going to Europe for the weekend?
And we remember David's word over us.
So I mean, all that all our prophecies would come a passing within five years.
My point was that night when I went home to get everything ready and, you know, we
weren't bought luggage.
Do you remember that?
I went and bought new luggage.
You did too.
My little to me.
Oh, yeah, you did.
Yeah.
So when got luggage, I researched the global visa entry program or if that's called, you know, I, I just
researched everything because I was like, Oh, I want to take this.
And I knew not to think this, this is a tomorrow word, but at the same time, you
You know, the word hasn't come to pass.
I mean, it has in a par.
I'm not down with David's prophetic pedigree by any stretch.
I'm just saying, it always takes way longer
than you think it will.
- Yeah.
And you can't get discouraged about that
because you actually do want God's timing for things
'cause that's when it's gonna be best.
- Right.
If the spirit of prophecy is the testament of Jesus,
remember that Jesus himself in Revelation says,
"Look, I'm coming soon."

So there you go.
Number five.
- Yep.

And the reason that the Lord does that is he's so kind.
He knows this season is coming,
and he knows if you didn't have a prophetic word
to hang on to it, you'd be like,
what the heck, Lord, what just happened?
- Right.
- Does that make sense?
- Yeah.
- So you get the prophetic word,
and then it seems like the exact opposite happens,
And you're like, gosh, I guess the prophet missed it.
No, it's the kindness of the Lord.
Hold on to that word to get you through the season.
It looks like the opposite.
Because when you get out on the other end,
you'll be thankful you had the word.
- Yeah, I mean, I've honestly used lots of prophetic words
over the years that have been given to me
as a lifeline in a dark season.
- Because the season looked like the opposite
of what your word was. - As the opposite.
- Isn't that so funny? - Isn't that so funny?
- Did you think the prophet had got it wrong?
- I did.
You know, at different times I really did.
because it's easy to get discouraged.
But yeah, I mean, I would have this sort of reoccurring
visual of just sort of hanging on to God
and just keep pushing towards the end of the tunnel
kind of thing.
So yeah.
- It was funny because I was teaching at the belonging
this week and I was teaching on the whole thing
of you've got to believe God.
You've got to actually say yes to what he's saying.
You've got to agree with him.
And I was talking about how many years ago
I lived in Scotland, I was a school teacher.
all of the prophetic words that the Lord would give me in private. Many of them have come to pass,
but they seemed unimaginable when the Lord would speak to me. I'm a school teacher. The most
pressing thing in my life was a PTA meeting. And yet the Lord would be saying, "I'm going to send
you to the nations. You're going to see deaf ears open. You're going to teach people to hear
my voice all over the world." And I was like, "Lord, how is that ever going to happen?"
And then within three, four, five years,
exactly what the Lord had prophesied had come to pass.
Now, I can't imagine my life without prophecy.
- Right.
I can't do that.
- I wouldn't want it.
- No.
All right, number six is take the doors
that lead towards your prophetic words.
So in obedience, respond to doors that are opening
that seem to align with your prophetic words.
- Right.
- But that doesn't mean force them open.
That means in obedience, when they open,
you start to walk through.
Right, because we've done that in our life.
We've seen that in the lives of the people we lead.
They get a prophetic word.

I see a great anointing of worship on you.
And then they're frustrated that next week the pastor
hasn't made them the worship pastor.
- Right, but there's other opportunities
that are given to them, hey, you could help
with worship for the kids or you could help
with worship for this small group or whatever,
but because it doesn't look like the grandiose-ness
yet of the word, they don't see the baby stages
of the word and the opportunity there.
I mean, my example that was I felt like the Lord said I was going to be a teacher.
I didn't know how that was going to work.
You know, I wasn't a public speaker.
I didn't like children.
I didn't really like humans.
And yeah, in the midst of that, just shortly after receiving that word, I got asked by
my church, "Would you be a speaker at a youth camp?"
And again, I was like, "No, like, what?"
I don't like youth.
No.
You know, no.
And then I was just thinking, "Well, actually, the only prophetic words I've got are
Be you know i want you to be a teacher so that while try right and that was you know that was my first ministry get ever is that the one where you dressed up like an angel yeah that that was that season yeah dressed up like an angel i need to find that video.
It's a great thing double oh heaven.
Double oh heaven yeah license to fill that's what i should start calling you hate double oh heaven.
Yeah, you should.
So yeah, the road to destiny is marked by many steps of obscurity.
It is indeed.
All right.
Seventh and final thing.
Go for it.
You've got to understand that your prophetic words are easier to understand in hindsight
than they are in foresight because if you try to guess what they mean inevitably, you're
going to miss it.
So you, you know, the classic example, classic biblical example is Abraham with Isaac and
the Lord's going to give me a son. Oh my gosh, it's taking forever. He obviously just
meant sleep with my wife's handmaiden. Let me help him. Totally. So I think about the
prophetic words that we've received. Like I remember the word that got us here, all our
words talked to us about church planting and pestering. Right. Right. Now those were the
words that got us to move to Nashville. Since we've moved to Nashville, we have not
church planted. Nope. We have not planned any church. Nope. But that language got us here.
Yes. So is the word wrong? No, because like we planted emanate, we've planted eso asal.
And the church we came to was a church plant.
But what I mean is like if the Lord had been more specific, I mean, the amazing thing about
the Lord is he loves to speak in vagueness so we can explore possibilities. Right.
If you think about like a pastoring, would you say that we're pastors today?
I know. No, in the eyes of the church, though, that we would be considered pastors, but
we didn't have the revelation of the fivefold until two years ago.
So almost 10 years ago when the Lord started speaking to about this, he had to use the language
that was familiar to us. So the word, "Hey, you guys are church planners and your pastors,
help us arrive here where we have planted stuff and we have helped pastor." But what we tend to do
is certainly within the confines of that word, but is different from that word.
Right.
And you'll find too that your word isn't probably finished yet.
Right.
Often the Lord gives us a portion of a word to help us move in the right direction.

So in his kindness, he leads us with language that we understand and opens doors to start to nudge us towards actually what he has for us.
So it's very cool.
All right.
Anything else you want to add on stewarding your prophetic words?
I don't, I don't think so.
I think, I think the main thing is just keep saying yes to God.
Right.
You know, that because it is an invitation and it remains an invitation that you keep saying yes.
And as you go to deeper levels of sometimes the exact same prophetic word, just keep saying yes.
I think also the most practical thing I'd encourage anybody to listen to this is get your
prophetic words out, re-listen to them, type them out so you can read them. Because you can read
fast and you can listen.  And that alone is one of the best steps you can have
and stepping into your destiny.
- Yeah, or highlight and circle things
that appear in more than one word.
- Right.
- You know, start to pay attention to,
wow, I heard that, you know, two years ago
and again there and again there
and start to talk to the Lord about those things.
You know, okay God, you keep saying this,
can we talk about that?
What do you, you know, how do I prepare for that?
- All right, you look like you're ready
for some listeners questions.
- I'm so ready for a listener question.
- What's interesting is all three questions this week,
We're all sent in anonymously.
- Does that mean we're scaring people now?
- No, I mean, it will kind of make sense
when you read them, but I was like,
"Oh, this is interesting."
All right, this first one, now listen, I apologize.
This is a longish question, but it's such a good question.
I'm gonna start, I'm gonna read a bit,
we'll answer a bit of it, read a bit more,
answer a bit of it, but I think it's gonna be super helpful.
All right, this is the question from
anonymous listener number one.
Dear Alan and AJ, my question is about being part
the local church body in a small town. Part of the context is that my wife and I are
having very serious marriage problems and my wife has resisted any marriage help beside
her parents. My wife is a believer but does not want to go to a local church, though I
really do. Her parents who live in our town like the idea of being part of a local church
but seem to find something wrong with most churches they have visited over the years
and feel they are all too religious among other things. Let me just stop there.

Yeah, there's no perfect churches.
You're not going to find one that doesn't have stuff that you could criticize or focus
on negatively.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
And not doing something against a clear direction of Scripture doesn't actually make you more
spiritual.
Right.
So, okay, we continue.
There are a couple of churches within a two-hour drive of a similar to Grace Center, but that's
not feasible for us.
And I don't think they would like that church anyway.
There are a couple of local churches I'd like to check out that they're not nearly
as holy, spiritual, or prophetic, etc.
But they are active in the community and they love Jesus the best I can tell.
Recently, I tried to bring up the subject again when my wife and I were together with
her family and said how much I'd like to go to a local church, even if it's not perfect
and just be part of the solution, as opposed to just avoiding it, to get involved and serve
where we can.
Her mum told me I was wrong in this thought that most churches in our town are not following
the Lord and would be unhealthy to attend and that until we get our marriage right,
we can't really plug in anywhere even in a good church because we would be hypocrites.
I disagree.
I'm just going to leave a really long pause here because that's got to be one of the
most insane statements I've ever read.
I'm shocked by that.
Right, because I'm totally shocked by that.
The notion that you can't go to church until your marriage is right is crazy.
How are you supposed to get your marriage right if you're not getting input?
That's like waiting till you feel better before you go to a hospital.
Wow.
I forget who it was.
I should have looked up the quote, but there's a brilliant quote by a really wise old man
who said this church used to be a lifeboat rescuing the perishing, but has become a cruise ship
attracting the promising.
So I can see where you might come up with this weird twisted thing that, you know,
if I'm going to church where every shiny and happy, I need to be shiny and happy,
but that's really not the reason you go to church.
Well, and hopefully you're not choosing to go to a shiny happy church,
but you're actually choosing to go to a church where you could potentially get
some healing. Right. Well, the point is you go to church out of obedience to Jesus
is teaching. Right. Because if we all stayed away from church until we were to send
free, we'd never go to church. Right.
So with all due respect to your mother-in-law, she's absolutely incorrect about that.
Yeah.
So let's keep reading.
Anonymous writes, "My options are to stay compliant or to visit some churches on my own,
though this would be seen as being defined of my wife and her parents, who also claim
spiritual authority over us both.
I recently read the boundaries in marriage book, but I'm struggling with how to apply it right now."
OK, this is my second great pause.
Because there are so many things wrong with that sentence.
First off, your parents don't have spiritual authority over you guys.
But that's totally backwards.

Right.
So all the way through scripture says, for this reason, a man should leave his
mother and father and be united with his wife and they should become one flesh,
I.e. one operating unit.
So it sounds like either you or her haven't left.
Yeah.
And you didn't do the leaving or the leaving.
Yeah, well, hopefully you've done the cleaving part, but you haven't done the leaving part.
So, when you say, "Hey, we're having marriage difficulties," and I don't know what they
are, I would imagine just that dynamic right there would be feeding some of your marriage
difficulties for sure.
Yeah.
Any comment, Aja, Joey?
Yeah, I just totally agree with what you're saying, babe.
I don't think, like, I think it's wonderful to have parents that are believers that can
give you input, but not parents that direct to you or control you. Does that make sense?
Right.
So, in particular, when it seems like what we're talking about is you're wanting to go to church,
and they're not seeming to want you or your wife to go to church, it's not like they're
directing you in a way that would be scripturally sound.
Right.
So yeah, I just, I mean, just the thought of like, wow, okay, so this is, yeah, boundaries are so
necessary in marriage. Right. They're so necessary. Everybody wants to have an opinion or have a say
if you let them. Right. But you kind of can't if you're going to have a healthy marriage.
One of the factors in the health of our marriage would be that we have upheld boundaries. Yes.
that both of us it's not like i think there's a misconception that people think cuz i teach on boundaries i'm the boundary person in our marriage right but heck no i mean and here's the difficulty it sounds like you sir.
Are spotting some of these problems but it sounds like perhaps your wife isn't that's unfair cuz i heard from your wife right but for example it is my job to protect our marriage from my side of the family and it's a job to protect our marriage from her side of the family right.
and we're in agreement about that yeah and so.
Here's a difficulty if you agree with us but your wife doesn't it's difficult to see how you can actually set up the boundaries unless you're in in one accord and probably one of the reasons you're not in one accord is she hasn't left.
Her parents authority and her parents are asserting authority over you guys which is a whole web of and maybe her parents parents did that to them so they all think it's normal right yeah.
So have them listen to this podcast accidentally and have fun with that anyway that it continues any thoughts for those of us who only have a small church to attend but would love to attend a place like grace and if it were closer,
though it may be far from perfect and doesn't have the same level of resources or prophetic etc as grace or somewhere like battle and any thoughts on my situation.
I don't want to make things worse in my marriage, but it feels very one-sided and controlling for my wife to be so against me even visiting a church,
and there could be many good reasons to go with or without her.
I mean, I think just as an aside, I'm wondering if maybe your wife and your wife's parents have been really hurt at a church,
and maybe that's more what's going on than anything else.
I'm just wondering if there's some level of pain associated with church, so the risk for them
just feels like it's way too much. So it's just easier to say, well, that's not a good church.
Oh, and that's not a good church. I think your situation is, it's really difficult.
Yeah, we're really sorry. But it sounds very, very hard. I think you touched on this earlier,
babe, where you said no church is perfect. There really aren't perfect churches.
but for me like we're blessed we go to an amazing church like we love grace center.
It's an absolute joy to be there we absolutely love it and grace and isn't perfect there's things that we staff would love to do differently there's stuff that there's lots of room to grow for sure yeah,
but when picking a church for the bare minimum you want a church that loves Jesus,
Preaches the gospel teaches the word.
Yeah.
Right.
Those three things are non-negotiable.
Everything else is preferential.
Right.
So the vast majority of my Christian life has not been spent in a church like Grey Center.
It was spent in a small local church with none of the propheticness, none of the Holy Spiritness,
but they were all churches that loved Jesus, preached the gospel, taught the word of God.
in you found community there and you grew.
You know, I'm the man I am because of the church I went to.
Right.
Like the, the, the foundation of everything I have is because of the churches I was raised in and I'm super grateful for them.
Did I want to leave when I found out more about the charismatic churches and these didn't seem open to sure?
Did the Lord say stay put?
Yeah.
Am I glad?
Yeah.
I've got some of the longest long lasting friendships in my life because of my, my church I'm bringing.
So my encouragement is Scripture is so clear about believers attending church.
So if you can find a church that meets those three things, then you really need to be there.
It's a biblical instruction. It's an expectation Jesus had. We've covered this a lot in episode 65,
episode 142, and probably in every other episode because we're huge believers of the local church.
Yes.
I was talking to Matt on the way home in the car as we're driving home from our
smoke when they're training. And I was saying, do you remember when I've
teach you on finances and tithing? And I think I had a dream and in the dream,
the Holy Spirit said, stop asking me to rebuke a devourer, you keep feeding.
Right. And it's that whole thing of, it's funny how people will ask God to bless them financially,
but won't obey what he said in order to achieve the blessing. Right. Right. So we are disobedient
and we don't factor our disobedience in, we just ask for more blessing.
Right.
We'd rather more blessing than have to be obedient.
Well, it's funny because in this is another situation of that, you've got believers all over the world
asking God to bless them without them having to be obedient.
So we ask God for a great church, for example, but we don't go to any church.
I'm like, be obedient, first go to a church and then ask for a blessing on that church.
It's like, hey, God, I'd really like to be obedient, but I won't be obedient until you give me my preferences.
Right.
That's mental.
Yeah.
So, yeah, I mean, I spent the vast majority of my Christian life in a church that didn't
meet my preferences, but it was good for me.
So what are you doing in your situation?
Bro, your situation is so convoluted.
Yeah, there's a lot going on there.
It would be foolish of us to just jump in and expect to have answers, but a few thoughts
for you.
Sounds like your wife and you are going to need to set some boundaries with your parents in law,
which could be interesting because your wife might quite like the way it's set up.
So explore that with a wisdom.
Or maybe she doesn't. Maybe she just doesn't know it can be set up differently.
Right.
Next thing is you guys really need to be part of a local church.
Yeah.

Because you'll be blessed for that and good fruit will come from that for sure.
And then number three, I guess I'm preaching to the choir here.
You're going to need some help in your marriage.
And it's not going to be helpful to come from your parents in law.
Because if it was your marriage, it would be better than it currently is.

I mean, I don't care how healthy they are or how healthy your marriage is.
That's probably never going to be a good scenario.
That's a very strong reaction.
Well, yeah, I can't.
You wouldn't want to land on typing to talking to you about sex or finances?
No, why?
So strange.
Yes, you did.
Yeah, you absolutely did.
So there's not a lot of help that you can get for yourself.
God doesn't design us to thrive in isolation.
We're designed to be in community.
So we're, I hope that's helpful.
Probably all the stuff you already knew that you needed to be doing.
So hopefully hearing a confirmation that would be helpful.
All right.
I've got a question for you, AJ, are you ready?
Okay. This is another question from another anonymous person. Okay.
In regards to the fivefold ministry in figuring out direction,
as what I like to think is being a mature Christian, how would you respond to church leaders
encouraging people to step out of their comfort zones versus leadership trying to push a square
peg into a round hole?  I think what this question is
asking is what are you doing in a situation where your leaders are giving you opportunities
that don't necessarily fit your gift mix or you don't feel like this is what you're
called to?
So I guess honestly in that situation, I think if your leaders are offering you to try something
in there or they're just saying, "Hey, could you help us out with this?"
I don't think it has to be your calling to help out your leader and actually just go,
"Yeah, you know what?
I can help with that or I can try with that."
I, in Toronto, I served in so many different areas that I wouldn't have said or my calling,
but because they asked me to, and there was a need there, I was happy to help because
that's the church that I go to.
And really, honestly, I didn't even think I was called to speak or to minister, but I
only ended up doing it because John made me.
Right.
in your current life, you didn't think you could do what you're so clearly
to do. Right. So I would say, yeah, try it. What, I mean, how could it, how it's not gonna hurt.
There we go. Right. So you'll learn things about yourself. You may learn that you don't like it.
You may learn that you do like it. You may learn that it's part of whatever you're called to. But
I always think, you know, if you have healthy leaders that are offering something to you and
and saying, "Hey, would you try this?
I think this might be something that you're called to."
Or even if they're just saying, "Hey, we need help."
I would say try it.
I think I don't think you can lose in that situation.
- Very good. - Yeah.
- Okay, I agree.
All right, our third and final question.
- Yes.
- Again, it's about fivefold.
- Oh dear.
- Why'd you say, "Oh dear."
- Well, because you're the guy that knows about the fivefold.
- Oh, sure, I'm the fivefold guy.
- You're the fivefold guy.
- Right.
Go on and ask me the question.
- Okay, so it says, "I listened to your podcast
and it's been incredibly encouraging.
My question relates to your sermon series from a few weeks ago in the five-fold ministry.
My wife and I recently became elders in our local church and we co-lead it with other
couples.
It's clear that the gifts you talked about are evident in their lives and while I can
see some of the gift of prophecy in my life in particular, I don't think it's my primary
one.
believe that my primary gifting is administration, management and organization.
And I wondered how that fitted with your description of fivefold ministry.
You hinted at the gifts of administration in one of your talks, but didn't elaborate.
Thanks for any advice and guidance you can give.
All right.
Well, briefly, the fivefold, I think, is like the spokes of a wheel or like the hub of the
wheel.
I think there's clearly more gifts mentioned in the scripture than just the five gifts
of Apostle Prophet Pastor Teacher Evangelist.
Right.
So in 1 Corinthians 12, for example, Paul writes when he's talking about the order, he says,
"First are apostles, second are prophets, third are teachers."
And then he goes on, "And evangelists and pastors aren't even mentioned on that list."
So it's not that pastors and evangelists aren't important, they're just not mentioned on this
list, but the other gifts that are mentioned would be those who do miracles, those who
of the gift of healing, those who can help others, those who have the gift of leadership,
those who speak in unknown languages.
Well I'm reading there from the New Living Translation.
If you look at it in the NASB says God's appointed in the church, first apostle, second
prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gift of healings, helps, administrations,
various kinds of tongues.
So it's clear like there's a huge scope of gifts within the church.
You don't need to be one of the five.
the big five that's mentioned in the five-fold ministry
to have a place in the life of the church, for sure.
And the other thing is you tend to grow
into an understanding of your gifts.
Like, clearly one of the strongest gifts
of my life is that of the teaching gift.
Well, I didn't know that originally.
It took other people to tell me,
hey, when you teach, I learn.
Like there's something on your life that when you teach,
I find it really easy to follow that.
Well, I didn't walk in and go, "Hey, guys, I'm kind of a big deal here.
I'm kind of a teacher.
It's not the way it worked.
Like, I just practiced things and then people began to tell me what it was.
So, no, you don't have to have one of the five.
You can have any of the myriad of gifts lifted in Scripture, including some that aren't even listed.
But for example, you mentioned there that you think or you would identify that you have a strong gift
administration or organization or oversight. That's a genuine gift. There's people in our ministry
that the Holy Spirit has anointed them in this area. Daniel Halson, who's talked about, who
worked with us for years, still works with us. She's our chief administrator at Gray Center.
I mean, there is an anointing of the Holy Spirit on her to administrate. She can do it with ease,
is order, there is structure, her being connected to Jeff as an apostle is just the best version
of her gift in operation. And so you may find that that's your gift, but honestly, part of
Christian life is walking out and seeing what you are. I think we've dabbled in a lot of them in
our lives. I can think of times where the most dominant gift in my life was evangelism.
Yeah, more so than teaching. And so, you know, it's, it's not that it's ebbs and flows, but I,
I think the Holy Spirit will work in you, whatever's needed in that season. And then eventually,
people begin to look at you and call it out. Church leadership begins to recognize what it is.
And before you know it, you recognize, oh, I'm moving in one of these gifts. So,
I don't know if that's helpful. I think, see where your gifts take you. Like, you know, my big
journey in life is like how do I know from a profit or how do I know from a
puzzle or how do I know from an evangelist.
My advice is just see where does your gift take you?
Yeah.
Keep prophesying and others will tell you to.
Right.
Yeah.
And see how far your gift takes you.
Yeah.
Good, baby.
All right.
To wrap up, if you would like to fill out that listener survey for us for a
chance to win $100, go ahead and head over to alanaj.com/survey and fill out the
survey there.
If you would like to ask us a question like these three anonymous people did this week,
head over to allen and AJ.com/ask. Fill in your question. We'll do our best to answering
on air.
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We pray you have an incredible week stewarding your prophecies brilliantly and that you enjoy
the favor and the grace of God and we'll be with you this time next week.


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Definition: A group of people party in a parking area, usually before a concert or sports event
Explication: Tailgating, or a tailgate party, is a social event that occurs around the open tailgate or trunk of a vehicle. Activities at a tailgate party include eating grilled food and snacks, drinking beverages (especially alcoholic beverages), listening to music, and playing games (especially lawn games such as cornhole, horseshoes, etc.). Tailgating typically occurs in the parking lot of a sporting event or music concert, and usually occurs prior to and during the event itself. Typical beverages consumed include beer and mixed alcoholic drinks. Popular food consists of standard picnic staples, including grilled meat such as hamburgers and hotdogs, cold salads (potato salad, macaroni salad, and coleslaw) and snacks such as potato chips and pretzels. Tailgating is especially popular prior to professional football games, but also occurs prior to other sporting events and music concerts.


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Is there a way to create a caching table, some sort of a materialized view, such that upon selecting from that table, its data is validated/invalidated?
Hint: yes.
But to elaborate the point: say I have some table data_table. Can I rewrite all my queries which access data_table to read from some autocache_data_table, but have nothing changed in the query itself? No caveats, no additional WHEREs, and still have that autocache_data_table provide with the correct data, dynamically updated by some rule of our choice?
And: no crontab, no event scheduler, and no funny triggers on data_table? In such way that invalidation/revalidation occurs upon SELECT?
Well, yes.
This post is long, but I suggest you read it through to understand the mechanism, it will be worthwhile.
Background
The following derives from my long research on how to provide better, faster and safer access to INFORMATION_SCHEMA tables. It is however not limited to this exact scenario, and in this post I provide with a simple, general purpose example. I'll have more to share about INFORMATION_SCHEMA specific solutions shortly.
I was looking for a server side solution which would not require query changes, apart from directing the query to other tables. Solution has to be supported by all standard MySQL installs; so: no plugins, no special rebuilds.
Sample data
I'll explain by walking through the solution. Let's begin with some sample table:
CREATE TABLE sample_data ( id INT UNSIGNED NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY, dt DATETIME, msg VARCHAR(128) CHARSET ascii ); INSERT INTO sample_data VALUES (1, NOW(), 'sample txt'); INSERT INTO sample_data VALUES (2, NOW(), 'sample txt'); INSERT INTO sample_data VALUES (3, NOW(), 'sample txt'); SELECT * FROM sample_data; +----+---------------------+------------+ | id | dt | msg | +----+---------------------+------------+ | 1 | 2011-11-24 11:01:30 | sample txt | | 2 | 2011-11-24 11:01:30 | sample txt | | 3 | 2011-11-24 11:01:30 | sample txt | +----+---------------------+------------+
In this simplistic example, I wish to create a construct which looks exactly like sample_data, but which caches data according to some heuristic. It will, in fact, cache the entire content of sample_data.
That much is not a problem: just create another table to cache the data:
CREATE TABLE cache_sample_data LIKE sample_data;
The big question is: how do you make the table invalidate itself while SELECTing from it?
Here's the deal. I'll ask for your patience while I draw the outline, and start with failed solutions. By the end, everything will work.
Failed attempt: purge rows from the table even while reading it
My idea is to create a stored function which purges the cache_sample_data table, then fills in with fresh data, according to some heuristic. Something like this:
DELIMITER $$ CREATE FUNCTION `revalidate_cache_sample_data`() RETURNS tinyint unsigned MODIFIES SQL DATA DETERMINISTIC SQL SECURITY INVOKER BEGIN if(rand() > 0.1) then return 0; -- simplistic heuristic end if; DELETE FROM cache_sample_data; INSERT INTO cache_sample_data SELECT * FROM sample_data; RETURN 0; END $$ DELIMITER ;
So the function uses some heuristic. It's a funny RAND() in our case; you will want to check up on time stamps, or some flags, what have you. But this is not the important part here, and I want to keep the focus on the main logic.
Upon deciding the table needs refreshing, the function purges all rows, then copies everything from sample_data. Sounds fair enough?
Let's try and invoke it. Just write some query by hand:
mysql> SELECT revalidate_cache_sample_data(); +--------------------------------+ | revalidate_cache_sample_data() | +--------------------------------+ | 0 | +--------------------------------+ mysql> SELECT revalidate_cache_sample_data(); +--------------------------------+ | revalidate_cache_sample_data() | +--------------------------------+ | 0 | +--------------------------------+ mysql> SELECT revalidate_cache_sample_data(); +--------------------------------+ | revalidate_cache_sample_data() | +--------------------------------+ | 1 | +--------------------------------+
First two invocations - nothing. The third one indicated a revalidation of cache data. Let's verify:
mysql> SELECT * FROM cache_sample_data; +----+---------------------+------------+ | id | dt | msg | +----+---------------------+------------+ | 1 | 2011-11-24 11:01:30 | sample txt | | 2 | 2011-11-24 11:01:30 | sample txt | | 3 | 2011-11-24 11:01:30 | sample txt | +----+---------------------+------------+
OK, seems like the function works.
We now gather some courage, and try combining calling to this function even while SELECTing from the cache table, like this:
SELECT cache_sample_data.* FROM cache_sample_data, (SELECT revalidate_cache_sample_data()) AS select_revalidate ; +----+---------------------+------------+ | id | dt | msg | +----+---------------------+------------+ | 1 | 2011-11-24 11:01:30 | sample txt | | 2 | 2011-11-24 11:01:30 | sample txt | | 3 | 2011-11-24 11:01:30 | sample txt | +----+---------------------+------------+
To explain what happens in the above query, consider its programmatic nature: we create a derived table, populated by the function's result. That means the function is invoked in order to generate the derived table. The derived table itself must be materialized before the query begins execution, and so it is that we first invoke the function, then make the SELECT.
Don't open the champagne yet. While the above paragraph is correct, we are deceived: in this last invocation, the function did not attempt a revalidation. The RAND() function just didn't provide with the right value.
Let's try again:
SELECT cache_sample_data.* FROM cache_sample_data, (SELECT revalidate_cache_sample_data()) AS select_revalidate ; ERROR 1442 (HY000): Can't update table 'cache_sample_data' in stored function/trigger because it is already used by statement which invoked this stored function/trigger.
Aha! Bad news. The MySQL manual says on Restrictions on Stored Programs:
A stored function or trigger cannot modify a table that is already being used (for reading or writing) by the statement that invoked the function or trigger.
Anyone to the rescue?
I was quite upset. Can we not make this work? At sorrow times like these, one reflects back on words of wiser people. What would Roland Bouman say on this?
Oh, yes; he would say: "we can use a FEDERATED table which connect onto itself, thus bypass the above restriction".
Unfortunately, FEDERATED is by default disabled nowadays; I cannot rely on its existence. Besides, to use FEDERATED one has to fill in passwords and stuff. Definitely not an out-of-the-box solution in this case.
Few more days gone by. Decided the problem cannot be solved. And then it hit me.
MyISAM to the rescue
MyISAM? Really?
Yes, and not only MyISAM, but also its cousin: it's long abandoned cousin, forgotten once views and partitions came into MySQL. MERGE.
MERGE reflects the data contained within MyISAM tables. Perhaps the most common use for MERGE is to work out partitioned-like table of records, with MyISAM table-per month, and an overlooking MERGE table dynamically adding and removing tables from its view.
But I intend for MERGE a different use: just be an identical reflection of cache_sample_data.
So we must work out the following:
ALTER TABLE cache_sample_data ENGINE=MyISAM; CREATE TABLE cache_sample_data_wrapper LIKE cache_sample_data; ALTER TABLE cache_sample_data_wrapper ENGINE=MERGE UNION=(cache_sample_data);
I just want to verify the new table is setup correctly:
mysql> SELECT * FROM cache_sample_data_wrapper; +----+---------------------+------------+ | id | dt | msg | +----+---------------------+------------+ | 1 | 2011-11-24 11:01:30 | sample txt | | 2 | 2011-11-24 11:01:30 | sample txt | | 3 | 2011-11-24 11:01:30 | sample txt | +----+---------------------+------------+
Seems fine.
So the next step is what makes the difference: the two tables are not the same. One relies on the other, but they are distinct. Our function DELETEs from and INSERTs to cached_sample_data, but it does not affect, nor lock, cache_sample_data_wrapper.
We now rewrite our query to read:
SELECT cache_sample_data_wrapper.* FROM cache_sample_data_wrapper, (SELECT revalidate_cache_sample_data()) AS select_revalidate ;
This query is perfectly valid. It works. To illustrate, I do:
-- Try this a few times till RAND() is lucky: TRUNCATE cache_sample_data; SELECT cache_sample_data_wrapper.* FROM cache_sample_data_wrapper, (SELECT revalidate_cache_sample_data()) AS select_revalidate ; +----+---------------------+------------+ | id | dt | msg | +----+---------------------+------------+ | 1 | 2011-11-24 11:01:30 | sample txt | | 2 | 2011-11-24 11:01:30 | sample txt | | 3 | 2011-11-24 11:01:30 | sample txt | +----+---------------------+------------+
Whoa! Where did all this data come from? Didn't we just TRUNCATE the table?
The query worked. The function re-populated cache_sample_data.
The final touch
Isn't the above query just beautiful? I suppose not many will share my opinion. What happened to my declaration that "the original query need not be changed, apart from querying a different table"?
Yes, indeed. It's now time for the final touch. There's nothing amazing in this step, but we all know the way it is packaged is what makes the sale. We will now use views. We use two of them since a view must not contain a subquery in the FROM clause. Here goes:
CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW revalidate_cache_sample_data_view AS SELECT revalidate_cache_sample_data() ; CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW autocache_sample_data AS SELECT cache_sample_data_wrapper.* FROM cache_sample_data_wrapper, revalidate_cache_sample_data_view ;
And finally, we can make a very simple query like this:
SELECT * FROM autocache_sample_data;
--
-- Magic in work now!
--
+----+---------------------+------------+
| id | dt | msg |
+----+---------------------+------------+
| 1 | 2011-11-24 11:01:30 | sample txt |
| 2 | 2011-11-24 11:01:30 | sample txt |
| 3 | 2011-11-24 11:01:30 | sample txt |
+----+---------------------+------------+
Much as we would query the original sample_data table.
Summary
So what have we got? A stored routine, a MyISAM table, a MERGE table and two views. Quite a lot of constructs just to cache a table! But a beautiful cache access: plain old SQL queries. The flow looks like this:
Our cache table is a MyISAM table. It can get corrupted, which is bad. But not completely bad: it's nothing more than a cache; we can throw away its entire data, and revalidate. We can actually ask the function to revalidate (say, pass a parameter).
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The audio technology developed in this project and video technology allows the call of a web server about a plug-in in the browser, that is: without installing additional software. In this way the greatest possible flexibility is reached in the learning process. Participants of lectures or continuing education arrangements are thereby able
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Quick overview of what the MutationObserver class is and how to use it.
The command line has has a ton of useful applications and utilities that can make data manipulation and scripting easy and fun. I present a short list of the ones I use often here.
Before digging into a larger project of transitioning an old BASH script of mine to Ruby, I wanted to get familiar with Nokogiri. This constitutes a short primer on how to consume XML sitemaps and get at the good stuff.
[STILL UNWRITTEN] This is what I'm planning to write about for my next blog post. It will be an introduction to how Ruby and Ruby objects allocate, manage and clear memory. Discussion of the concept of a Garbage Collector will be included. In perfect world, I'll draw a chart.


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Marging, border and padding are referring to space between elements. both have to do with white space around an element. Once we understand the difference between margin and padding we'll be able to make better design decisions. Padding is the space that’s inside the element between the element and the border. Padding goes around all four sides of the content and you can target and change the padding for each side with CSS. Margin is the space between the border and next element. The space outside the border between it and the other elements is the margin. Just like padding, it's possible to target all four sides of an element to change it's margin. The easiest way to understand the difference between margin and padding is through an image. The image below demonstrates what each part of something like a paragraph element looks like.
The image above is also referred to as the box model. The box model is used when dealing with CSS. It's important to understand how the box model works so you can understand how width and height of your elements work. When you set the width and height of an element, it's just for the content area. You'll probably have to do some math to make sure your elements are lining up correctly because of the margin and padding. Something important to note that can get confusing is that the padding and margin will still be a part of your element even if you don't include a border. In the image below there is to blocks of content with no added border. You can see how the margin and padding are still valid.


As I write this I am coming down from one of the most intensely wonderful highs I think I've ever experienced.
To put it plainly, I had my apartment to myself this weekend. I was scrounging around the internet (CL) for a random weed hookup but ended up meeting someone who said they had Tina to share. For those not in the know, Tina is often referred to as 'glass.'
The first time I encountered it was actually about 6 years ago in Seattle, when I was about 23. I was hardcore into the clubbing scene and was a regular E partier. One fateful trip to Seattle to meet up with good friends led me to Tina. We started our weekend with E, and as the night wore on, my friend suggested we bump it up with glass. Always open to new suggestions we tried it. We actually snorted it. To skip ahead a little: after having smoked it tonight, I much prefer snorting it instead. Hard to decsribe. I just think it's more fun, like doing coke, almost nostalgic.
But I digress...
Almost immediately after snorting the stuff we all felt like we'd just woken up from a long, peaceful night's sleep. That said, we partied on until the sun came up, ended up in a spa, and ultimately didn't get to sleep until some 50 hours after we started to party with E. Of course, in between we dabbled with some K. It was a night with the alphabet.
So...back to tonight...
As I said, I found a guy who was willing to share some Tina. When I told him about my limited experience, that I'd never actually smoked it before, he comfortingly said he'd 'teach' me. Yes, this is getting corny but, really, it was that innocent. By the way, I totally went out on a limb and hooked up with someone I had never met. Be advised that this is not the smartest thing to do. However, we chatted online for a long time and so had developed a rapport.  For all I knew he could have been an axe murderer or had me smoke crack or something laced with acid or something.
 It did, and by the time my new friend showed up I wasn't drunk but very well buzzed. I was relaxed enough and ready. Mind you the guy I met up with was this young asian and had a VERY thick accent. It was all quite funny, he knew exactly what I was saying, having lived in the states for 17 years, but his accent was so thick that I constantly had to ask him to repeat himself. Anyway, I digress again...(mind you I am coming down, yet still QUITE high). It was funny as hell!
After a few minutes of friendly, although confusing, banter he whipped out his little, clear glass pipe. Again, I'd never smoked it and seeing the pipe gave me the immediate and yucky (no offense to those out there who smoke it) association with drugs like crack, etc., which, I guess, is what kept me from it for so long.  Anyway, he loaded his pipe and started it up. He toked, I toked, a few times he shotgunned me. As I started to get high the feeling of his lips against my was intense. I am gay but kissing has never been all that for me. It was an odd experience to find myself enjoying something I wouldn't normally enjoy, but I guess that's the point!? Go figure.
So, we must have smoked a rock or two by which time I was really starting to feel it. The high is very different from it's sister, coke. It was very slow to start up and the peak lasted for at least two hours. I am still WAY high and the last time I took a hit was an hour and a half ago.
Ok, this is started to get really long so I will try to get to the point!
The high, in general, is much like E. The euphoria, body high, etc. It was surprisingly different from coke, too. Coke gets me high REALLY hard and fast, probably from snorting it, but Tina was so nice and very gradual. It let me feel at ease and not sort of out of control. My friend told me that it was very expensive and from a very reputable source in San Francisco.
Another thing about Tina, it makes me really horny. My friend who came didn't come for sex but we soon found ourselves rubbing each others arm, talking (I get talky on Tina like on E or Coke) and soon we progressed to an all out make out session. Totally not something I was after but everything felt so amazing -- it just felt like the natural next step.
To spare this from turning into a detailed porn log, we had an AWESOME time. To make things even more intense, we huffed poppers every so often as well. As anyone who's tried Tina will tell you: an erection is impossible. The poppers almost provided a distraction of sorts and allowed things to, well, engorge. It also provided an AMAZING kick to the Tina high. Tonight was the first time I'd every really, seriously tried poppers, too. I did once before a few years ago but all it did was give me a massive headache. This stuff, however, at $30 a bottle was SO intense. No headache at all.
I guess some might chastise me for combining stuff but it was there, I felt comfortable, and so I went with the flow. Enough said. Besides, I was kind of remeniscing about my time in Seattle years back. =)
Anyway, we smoked a bit more, another rock or two (and when I say 'rock' I am referring to something about the size of a large grain of sand, or a very very small pebble. He had what he said was about $100 worth and it was in a little baggie about one inch square (for those curious enough about that sort of thing).
Ok, long story short (yes I know I said that earlier...just roll with me here), the high was amazing, almost trippy. The music we were playing was intense like on E, everything felt incredible, and when, after almost two hours and one VERY sore arm later, we both managed to 'finish'. I thought my head was going to explode, no pun intended. As we came down a little, we smoked a few ciggies, had a LOT of water, and sort of fell into one of those cool conversations one finds themselves in when coming down on E. I still couldn't understand a damn thing he was saying but there were moments of lucidity and we got along smashingly.
A word of advice: don't drink a lot of beer beforehand as I did. I've been drinking water for an hour but I still feel very dehydrated. Rightly so, there was an wet outline of our bodies on the sofa.
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In this module we will show you some examples how to customize a policy.
With Azure AD B2C, you get nearly full control of the HTML and CSS content that’s presented to users. See this article how to use a custom HTML template
Language customization in Azure AD B2C allows your user flow to accommodate different languages to suit your customer needs. Microsoft provides the translations for 36 languages, but you can also provide your own translations for any language. Even if your experience is provided for only a single language, you can customize any text on the pages.
Localization includes two parts:
To add claims to the page, see the next section. To remove a claim - TBD
The starter pack policy comes with a set of claims (or attributes), such as display name, first name, last name and email address. You may want to extend the user profile and manage more information about the user. For example if you may like the user profile to contain following information: Country of residence, city name, preferred language etc.
To do so, you first need to declare the claim. If the claim is not a built-in one (such as city
, mobile
, and title
), the name of the claim must start with extension_
. Add the claim to each of the following technical profiles:
| Technical profile | Action | Element | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| AAD-UserReadUsingObjectId | Read | OutputClaim | Read the data for local account |
| AAD-UserReadUsingAlternativeSecurityId-NoError | Read | OutputClaim | Read the data for social account |
| LocalAccountSignUpWithLogonEmail | Collect | OutputClaim | Collect the data from user during sign-up with local account |
| SelfAsserted-Social | Collect | OutputClaim | Collect the data from user during first time sign-in with social account |
| SelfAsserted-ProfileUpdate | Collect | InputClaim and OutputClaim | Collect the data from user during edit profile. In this technical profile you need to set the input claims as well, so Azure AD B2C will prefilled the claims and present them to the user. |
| AAD-UserWriteUsingLogonEmail | Write | PersistedClaim | Persist the data during sign-up with local account |
| AAD-UserWriteUsingAlternativeSecurityId | Write | PersistedClaim | Persist the data, during first time sign-in with social account |
| AAD-UserWriteProfileUsingObjectId | Write | PersistedClaim | Persist the data, during profile editing |
| Relying party | Return | OutputClaim | Set the claims to be return to your relying party application. |
You can configure Azure AD B2C to allow users to sign-in to your application with credentials from an external identity provider, such as Facebook, Microsoft account, Google, Twitter, or any identity provider that supports OAuth1, OAuth2, OpenID Connect, SAML, and Ws-Fed protocols.
On the sign-up or sign-in page, Azure AD B2C presents a list of external identity providers a user can choose to sign-in with. Once the user clicks on one of the external identity providers, the user is taken (redirected) to the selected identity to complete the sign-in. After the user has successfully signed-in, the user is returned back to Azure AD B2C. Azure AD B2C creates the new social account into the directory, or reads an existing external account profile from the directory and returns the id token to the application.
Adding external identity providers to your policy varies based on the protocol used, whether it’s OAuth1, OAuth2, OpenID Connect, SAML or WS-Fed. In most cases, this involves following steps:


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Third International Workshop on Energy Efficient Scalable Data Mining and Machine Learning
Co-located with ECML PKDD 2020
September 14, 2020 - Ghent, Belgium
COVID-19 News: The workshop will follow ECML-PKDD's recommendations regarding having a virtual or physical event. In case of an online event, we will make sure to create an adequate virtual space for all presentations, keynotes, and Q&A.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Google
This workshop aims to bring together people from different areas and backgrounds in data mining and machine learning that have a common interest in energy efficiency, sustainability, and edge computing.
For the past years, the main concern in machine learning had been to create highly accurate models, without considering the high computational requirements involved. This has lead to a scenario where most of the machine learning prediction is done in the cloud, incurring in security concerns and increased latency.
However, there is an increasing trend in machine learning which focuses on building models that are able to run in the edge. For instance, Google has released the first speech recognition model running directly on the device, improving latency and reducing energy consumed by the network connectivity. Another example is TensorFlowLite, a powerful tool to deploy models on mobile and IoT devices.
The goal with this workshop is to promote green machine learning even further, by creating a half-day workshop where researchers in different machine learning and data mining areas can bring together their ideas, present them in front of a heterogeneous crowd, and have interesting debates on how to advance machine learning into a more scalable future. This edition includes also applications of machine learning in areas re- lated to environmental data science and climate change, to address the needs of a more sustainable machine learning from a broader perspective.
We accept original work, already completed, or in progress. Position papers are also considered.
Accepted papers will be published in ECML-PKDD 2020 Workshop proceedings.
Key Dates
- Paper submission deadline:
June 9, 2020Tuesday, June 23, 2020 - Paper acceptance notification: Monday, July 20, 2020
- Paper camera-ready deadline: Monday, August 3, 2020
- Workshop date: Monday, September 14, 2020 (preliminary)
Workshop Chairs
- Eva García-Martín, Ekkono Solutions
- Albert Bifet, Telecom-ParisTech
- Crefeda Faviola Rodrigues, Arm
- Heitor Murilo Gomes, University of Waikato
Steering Committee
- Ricardo Baeza-Yates, NTENT and Universitat Pompeu Fabra
- Christian Nordahl, Blekinge Institute of Technology
- Håkan Grahn, Blekinge Institute of Technology
- Rikard König, Ekkono Solutions
- Henrik Linusson, Ekkono Solutions
- Ivar Simonsson, Ekkono Solutions


Chushingura (1962, Hiroshi Inagaki)
"Chushingura" is an epic tale, based on a historic event, set in the late feudal period of Japan: A young lord, Asano (Yuzo Kayama), follows his consience and a new law and refuses to pay tribute to an elder lord, Kira (Chūsha Ichikawa). Kira has achieved his position through graft -- he is, in reality, a cowardly, greedy womanizer. When Kira realizes that Asano won't enrich his coffers, he hatches a plan to humiliate him. Kira arranges for Asano to be host to some imperial envoys in the Shogun's palace in Edo. Asano is as inexperienced as he is incorruptable, and Kira witholds essential details of protocol, taunting Asano and implying that whatever tribute Asano had withheld would be a pittance compared to what it would now cost him to employ Kira's assistance. Finally, Asano is goaded beyond his limit, draws his sword and attempts to slay Kira in the palace.
Drawing one's weapon inside the Shogun's palace is a capital offense, and Asano is compelled to commit hara kiri.  Led by Lord Oishi (Koshiro Matsumoto), the clan chamberlain, 60 of the clan secretly plot revenge against Kira. Along the way, a number of interesting side stories and digressions are set up, all of which come together at the film's climax.
The film is beautifully photographed in Tohoscope (a wide screen CinemaScope/Panavision clone), and unfolds meditatively, evoking early 18th century Japanese scenery and customs in lush detail. The ethic of the film is very, very Japanese with its emphasis on honor and Bushido, the code of the Samurai. Kira is more of a villian for being cowardly than for being greedy. Anyone with an interest in Japanese history and culture will eat this film up.
The score, written by Akira Ifukube, is on the whole a delightful and effective bit of east-meets-west cinema music, although the use of what sounds like a Hammond organ in full Leslie mode as punctuation brought flashbacks of 1950's televison soap operas.
The only shortcoming is at the very end, in the climatic battle between Oishi's followers and Kira's bodyguards. The fight scene suffers from the same lack of realism as so many Hollywood shootouts from the 40's and 50's -- the Good Guys cut up a larger force of Bad Guys without losing a single man, and the Bad Guys drop without shedding a drop of blood. I'm sure that, in reality, such a battle would have been nothing short of a bloodbath. Not that I'm complaining, really, since I don't get off on explicit scenes of bloodhshed. It's just that the violence in the early parts of the film were handled so carefully and so obliquely (the shot of Asano's suicide dissolves out before the fatal plunge of the daggar), I found the final fight scene jarringly unrealistic in the context of the rest of the film.
The version of "Chushingura" that I saw was from Image's DVD. It is just short of 4 hours long, and in two parts. I believe this is the way the film was originally shown in Japan. The DVD itself is somewhat lackluster and suffers from some authoring problems: The image is less crisp than of what DVD is capable, and a number of encoding artifacts appear in the image. Perhaps since this film comes so close to maxing out a single side of a DVD, some bandwith compromises were made to avoid having to cut a 2-sided disc. The English subtitles are burned into the video and could not be switched off; thankfully, they're outside of the image itself. Properly done, this DVD should have had selectable subtitles. I would have preferred it to have been dubbed as well. As deep as is my love for things Japanese, I'm afraid that my love for the Japanese language shall forever go unrequited.
Essay copyright (C) 1999 David M. Arnold. All rights reserved.
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