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Sunday Jan 14, 2024
Sunday Jan 14, 2024
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How to be a man on Tuesday nights 7pm HillSpring Church Meat with Meat. Burgers and Bible.
Picking up my lunch at the drive through… that’ll be 14.37. I looked at the kid handed him a $20 and said 5.63… a few seconds go by and the kid goes hey thats the exact change… wow pretty good. I smiled and said ‘yea I took a pretty advanced math class in college”. He nodded and said ‘yeah, you can tell”.
Your competition is not out there… your only competition is you.
This generation is so divided down the line… half hate America, life is unfair, lazy, want everything handed to them…
The other half is wanting to make a name for themselves, but might lack direction or have a plan.
Proverbs 14:23 : "All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty."
You will be a success simply by working hard in a world of co-horts who are too busy playing the blame game.
While everyone is taking about how hard it is, how others have a unfair advantage… look, I’m old and white so everyone thinks I have it easy… I have written 14 books… they all were hard work. I have started 89 different businesses… they all took sacrifice and were hard work.
John 15 - whoever abides in me… what is this saying to the young man who wants to succeed? Get rid of distractions. Focus on your job… but on how God wants to use you outside your job. What do I mean…. If you work hard 8 hours a day but kill 6 hours a day watching tv, video games, drinking, playing softball… etc… you are distracted from being all you can be. Cut out the distractions and if you are a welder, than work outside your job to be the smartest well rounded, biblically minded, fit welder there is.
Colossians 3:23-24 : "Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward.
What ever you do… Hey what job should I do? Anything you can. Get a job in the trades… chances are you will get trained on site, you will have no college debt, you will immediately have men who will mentor you and you will most likely make between 30-60 dollars… AND most trade jobs you can do side work. My son is a tile guy. He loves it. He works by himself, he puts on his iPod, he needs minimal tools and feels a sense of self fulfillment every day seeing most of his jobs finished within 8 -12 hours. He has already connected with a few other men to do side jobs. Whatever you do…. Make it your best and you will get noticed and move forward.
Matthew 24 The talents…
28 So take the talent from him and give it to him who has the ten talents. 29 For to everyone who has will more be given, and he will have an abundance. But from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away.
If you work hard, and if you are someone who uses his job not just for money but to make God look good… you work to glorify him… you tithe, you share Christ at work, you give to those in need… God will take your talents and give you more.
Look this year I have been asked to fill 2 positions with other companies… one in firearms and protection and the other with a company that works hand in hand with fortune 500 companies…. How did I get these offers? Honestly, I served both of the CEO for years… I truly trained them in speaking, I coached them in life skills, and I was there to help make them better as men… I poured into them, solely for the reason to make them more like Jesus… and in turn they both offered me incredible positions for work on the side….
Finally… have more than two streams of income. Right now I have income coming in from 6 different books. I have incommode coming in from coaching people in life skills, I have income coming in for training people in my gym, I have income coming in from speaking around the country… and I have my Job…
Again how do I get so much done? I only do things I am gifted at and I don’t like to waste time and I built my schedule around systems. YOU CAN DO THE SAME!
Wednesday Jan 10, 2024
Wednesday Jan 10, 2024
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The David Alliance
How to make 2024 a better launch… a better life.
Honesty
Delete
Systems
Risk
Keep Jesus #1
MAKE A LIST, CHECK IT TWICE…
List all your friends
List all your goals
List all your dreams
List all your accomplishments
List all your family
List all your assets
List all your toys
List all your problems
List all your issues
List all your hurts, pains and disappointments
List everything… list it all…. And burn it.
Nothing else matters - only Jesus matters. His word, his work, his commands, his mission his life. Standing before him. His eternity, his judgement, his love, his forgiveness…
Tuesday Jan 09, 2024
Tuesday Jan 09, 2024
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Michigan wins the title… smoked Washington… I loved hearing Jim Harbaugh give God credit, talk about listening to the leading of the Holy Spirit…
You might doubt his integrity… but as Jesus said If they are for me… they are for me!
How to make 2024 a better launch… a better life.
Honesty
Delete
Systems
Risk
Keep Jesus #1
In 2012 Dollar shave club risked it… started by Michael Dubin… he bought a huge inventory of razors… and wanted to sell them on line… as a subscription… stupid, risky and now a company that sold for 1Billion… Risk… are you up for it!
The greatest pastors, evangelists, soul winners.. you name it. They all practiced risk. They all took chances on trusting the word of God- and when things did not turn the way they had hoped… they kept trusting and risking.
We call it faith… true, but we still need to take that step of faith which is where the risk comes in.
Why Risk?
One of the best reasons is you find your tribe. You quickly find out who you are connected to in your walk and in your calling.
Have you ever been around someone and just been bored by them? They seem like they want to live a safe, stale life… and you just don’t want to … When someone takes risks and I hear about it, I know that is a person I want to do life with.
They prayed for someone to be healed out in public.
They shared the gospel, they sacrificed money or time or both. They risked starting a ministry or business… Now I want to do life with that person. They understand what makes for a beautiful life.
Secondly Risk is the greatest and fastest door to growth in any area, but especially in your spiritual walk. When Christ says take up your cross daily, its not just seen as a sacrifice, but also a call to risk. To be like Christ, to take up your cross is to live a life of risk. We learn from mistakes… mistakes come from risk. When we choose his will over ours we must take risks. Our will- likes comfort, ease, and the dependable. For far too long too many Christians following that example have produced weak imatiated followers of Christ.
Risk is living on the edge… I like what Kurt Vonnegut Jr. said.
RISK
i WANT TO STAY AS CLOSE TO THE EDGE AS I CAN WITHOUT GOING OVER OUT ON THE EDGE YOU SEE ALL KINDS OF THINGS YOU CANT SEE FROM THE CENTER. kURT VONNEGUT JR.
Life is about experiences, memories and stories. Risk gives you a mountain of great experiences, memories and stories. I can’t tell you how many times I was faced with risk…and I would tell myself “either way, its going to be a great story”.
I was with our youth group years ago up in Minnesota by Jay Cook state park. There was a bridge there about 90 feet off the water… rapids actually. And some young guys where jumping and some were just watching. I had to do it… When I climbed up over the ledge to jump a young kid about 20 said “you are not hesitating for a second”. I replied no, the sooner I jump the sooner I can tell the story!
Finally…
Remember Jesus rewarded the risk takers not the rule keepers. Rule keepers don’t learn much of anything new, they don’t have stories to tell and they will never grow abundantly in their walk of faith.
A calm sea does not produce a skilled sailor.
Here is the best advice I can give you. Risk, faith, guts… whatever you want to call it… its simply a muscle that needs to be exercise to build. So start with smaller risks, build the muscle and go from there! You don’t start out on bench with 500 pounds… you also don’t start out by raising the dead… but at least start.
Friday Jan 05, 2024
Friday Jan 05, 2024
The David Alliance
How to make 2024 a better launch… a better life.
Honesty
Delete
Systems
Risk
Keep Jesus #1
Systems….
What are my daily systems… well first I rewrite my systems every year.
This year I have some really exciting things happening and some opportunities ahead of me. I will be helping create, run and promote a security class for churches nationwide… can’t say much yet, but its exciting. I also have just recently accepted a position with another major company speaking to churches… it is a secular company but wants me to come in and help develop some strategies for churches along dealing with generations etc…
So I always have a lot going on. I am also getting ready to launch my own app that I have been working on for about 3 years and of course I own a personal gym, I pastor a church that is growing and of course I am a husband, father and grandpa.
What you have to do is realize first that systems are always under critique. I am always tweaking my routine and my calendar or lets just call it what it is. Systems.
So what are my systems in place.
First here are the hard and fast systems that will not change.
Every Monday I hang out with my wife in bed for a few hours. We talk, we pray, we laugh, we goof off…
Mondays are not days off, but rather prep days. I use Mondays to reflect the past week, and plan the current week. Mondays are my cardio day, so I go into the gym mid morning for cardio. Monday days are prep, prayer and run errands. Monday nights are supper with the family. Monday nights are family time from 5-8 then I read and study.
Tuesdays: up at 5am. Early morning training people. Mid morning is writing, recording. Mid day is counseling, I read and pray from 1-3 then I got the gym. Supper at 5:30. Nights are studying reading and its usually on things out side of church.
Wednesday morning hang out with my wife till 8. Then I go to a coffee shop and write for 3 hours. Just about to finish my 13 book. Then to church. I read, pray. Office work, study for my sermon. Record my podcast. Work out 3-5. Skip supper, train clients from 5:30- 7:30. Night time from 8-11 is working on other jobs and projects.
Thursday morning up at 5. Training people till 9. Sermon all day long. Prayer at 1-3. Work out from 3-5. Supper at 5:30. 8-11 work on projects… maybe Bidjones, maybe the gun workshop, maybe the speaking engagements….
Friday up at 5am. Train people till 8. Friday is sermon prep. Read and pray from 1-3, Work out from 3-5. 5:30 Date night.
Saturday morning up early, train clients till 10am. Sermon prep, read and pray. Use Saturday for family, personal time or just catch up. Saturday night, study.
Sunday up at 4am. Train clients from 5-7am… yes on a Sunday. From 7:45 till 2 is church work. Work out 3—5 on Sunday. Sunday night hang with the family and do nothing.
In all of these systems I am constantly reading, constantly listening to books on my phone, Always listening to great podcasts.
Right now these systems work. Last year I was reading and praying from 4:30am till 6. But my kids moved in with us… so it was not a good system. So I changed.
Goals are great, but build systems in place and fit the goals into the systems. If you focus on goals only… you will sacrifice the natural rhythm that will give you the greatest productivity and speed to your end in mind.
*think of it this way… systems create who you are… goals only create what you are about.
Systems are lifestyles, goals are life lessons.
As James Clear says in his book Atomic Habits… great book by the way. You don to rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.
One system I have talked about and you would miss it in my weekly systems.. but I read a book a week. But the system I use makes it simple. I take a book divide it by 7 for the days of the week. Then I divide that number by three. A book of 200 pages divided by 7 is 29 pages. Then divide that by 3 is 9.5. So If basically if I read 9 pages at breakfast, lunch and supper I kill a book in a week. And the kicker is that these 9 pages are front and back so it is really just 4 pages… front and back.
Systems take time to build, but the save you years in the long run.
Thursday Jan 04, 2024
Thursday Jan 04, 2024
The David Alliance
How to make 2024 a better launch… a better life.
Honesty
Delete
Systems
Risk
Keep Jesus #1
Delete or eliminate in all areas of your life before you add.
You probably know the story made famous in Steven Coveys book First thing first. If you haven’t I will wrap it up quickly. A professor puts a huge jar on his desk and fills it with
Big rocks, gravel, sand and water…
Put what is most important in first.
But before some of us do that we must first dump out the sand, gravel and water.
Making the most of your year, and absolutely launching into the stratosphere for your life is usually more about deleting and eliminating things from our life… way before we add things.
I would delete goals that are not passions.
I would delete friends that do not promote your goals and ideals.
I would delete habits and routines that stall or stagnate your pursuit of better things.
I would delete books, music, movies, websites and the like that do not promote or energize your towards your goals.
I would delete what I allow myself to listen to… who I listen to.
Delete access to your productive time… I have quit feeling like I need to be available 24/7 for everyone.
Most of us know the Pareto principle. It states that 20% of our action is what produces the 80% of production. The key is to find out what is making the biggest difference in your life… and delete the other 80% of your action to make room for more of what is creating the greatest outcome.
So did Jesus practice the Pareto principle? He sure did.
He had the multitudes, he had the 120 disciples, he had 70 disciples, he had 12 disciples, he had 3 disciples, and he had one disciple.
When necessary Jesus eliminated certain people from his presence to produce the results he wanted.
We are pretty quick to ask people to make time for us, to make room for us and yet we don’t make time for ourselves. Eliminate and concentrate to launch into 2024.
Wednesday Jan 03, 2024
Wednesday Jan 03, 2024
The David Alliance
How to make 2024 a better launch… a better life.
Honesty
Delete
Systems
Risk
Keep Jesus #1
Back to honesty.
If you can’t be honest with yourself and take cues from yourself, and deal with feedback from yourself… you won’t be able to take feedback or criticism from anyone.
What else does the person who is honest do?
They ask themselves continually “what would the best version of me do? What would the best version of me say? How would the best version of me respond?
Finally ask yourself honestly “am I falling back into bad habits?”
How do you become honest with yourself?
Get in touch with your emotions and your outcome.
How do you feel about your life?
How do you feel about your actions?
How do you feel about your potential?
And then ask yourself how do you grade the outcomes of your choices, systems and habits?
This year I had a come to Jesus moment. I realized I was spending much more time in front of the TV than what I had realized. First I asked why? Well my son and daughter in law moved into my basement. My office is way in back of my office. So I have quit going down there at night to give them privacy… So I would try to work at my kitchen table… but I would end up working at my computer in front of the tv. NOT GOOD.
So how did I take that honesty and plug it in. Well I chose to get up even earlier… like 4:30. And put in more office time then. I can’t be int their way and at night I am so tired by 8/9 o’clock I don’t want to watch TV. Will it work to my advantage? Not sure, but I will HONESTLY check my lifestyle and outcomes to see if its the best option.
Tuesday Jan 02, 2024
Wednesday Dec 20, 2023
Wednesday Dec 20, 2023
When will Jesus be coming back? Well we don’t have the actual date, but we do know the time… you might think that doesn’t make sense but it will when I read you this out of Matthew 24. Again, we won’t know when but we will know the time.
Matthew 24 3 As Jesus was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately. “Tell us,” they said, “when will this happen, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?”
4 Jesus answered: “Watch out that no one deceives you. 5 For many will come in my name, claiming, ‘I am the Messiah,’ and will deceive many. 6 You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. 7 Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. 8 All these are the beginning of birth pains.
9 “Then you will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of me. 10 At that time many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate each other, 11 and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people. 12 Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold, 13 but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved. 14 And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.
15 “So when you see standing in the holy place ‘the abomination that causes desolation,’[a] spoken of through the prophet Daniel—let the reader understand—
The signs are everywhere. Record amount of weather actions around the world. Wars, rumors of wars… every day… not just country against country, but wars within nations regarding morals, governments, powers, money…
Many claiming to have the answer… politicians, kings, presidents, monarchs, business moguls…
Famines, floods, faithlessness,
People will slowly grow cold to the gospel, evil will become attractive….
And Jesus says don’t be deceived
GK = Lead, swoon you to sway away slowly…
lead aside from the rigid way.
There is only one way - Jesus. Following scripture. And if you don’t follow that you will be led astray… you will grow cold.
So what is one to do? Stay hot. Stay next to Jesus. How do you stay hot for Jesus… and not for teacher… Sorry I’m a Van Halen fan…
Most would guess I am going to say Read your bible, pray, go to church, go to bible studies, stay accountable. Etc…
And thats all good, but let me give you two quick easy and effective ways to stay HOT
truth is the best way to stay hot is simply obedience.
Obeying Gods voice in you when he speaks to you… that means what you see and read in scripture you obey. That means what you hear him tell you to do, you do. It is obedience on all fronts. You obey your authorities, you obey your spouse, you obey your pastor, you obey scripture and his inner voice speaking to you. And secondly is measure your success.
Hey people don’t like to be measured when it comes to their Christianity or their walk- it seems like works or like like you are bragging about how well you did… but the truth be told - the best way to achieve better behavior is to reward current good behavior.
And in fact… it is what God does… You remember the parable of the talents… right the guy who did good, got rewarded with more… This is simply measuring your success.
So how many of your prayers have been answered? How many people have you witnessed to, how many have accepted Christ? How much have you given above and beyond your tithe of 10% of your income? How have you treated your spouse compared to last year? How much scripture have you memorized?
YOU SAY… sounds like works.
I SAY… sounds like measured success… and when I do that I get a pretty good measure of wether or not I am getting colder or bolder for Jesus.
Think about it!
Tuesday Dec 19, 2023
Tuesday Dec 19, 2023
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What do you need in your body right now? Pete Cabrera gave me an insight and I have chewed on it for a few weeks now…
He said A woman can create a human in her own body. She gets pregnant and she grows a human…
Quick question… what in your body do you need new again?
Sometimes we think it is hard for God to do a miracle in us… but what if we just simply needed to believe he could grow something new in us like a mother does. Right?
A woman has everything in her to grow a baby. She needs no education, no money, no special privilege, no special diet, no doctor, no medicine, no weather pattern has to line up, she does not need to read any books or go to a class… she needs nothing… her body can do it all on her own… She can make a life. In that life is a person with healthy bones, tissue, hearing, fingers, ligaments, tendons, muscles, vertebra etc… so if her body can produce all new body parts so can mine… but what she does need is the seed from a man. What I need to create healing in my body, new organs, tissue, muscles, tendons, hearing, discs, etc… is the seed of Gods word going into me.
What I need to grow super natural finances in my life, to grow supernatural anointing in my life, power, miracles, signs and wonders, what I need for wisdom beyond measure… I just need the seed, and I need it to fall on to good ground.
4 And when a great multitude had gathered, and they had come to Him from every city, He spoke by a parable: 5 “A sower went out to sow his seed. And as he sowed, some fell by the wayside; and it was trampled down, and the birds of the air devoured it. 6 Some fell on rock; and as soon as it sprang up, it withered away because it lacked moisture. 7 And some fell among thorns, and the thorns sprang up with it and choked it. 8 But others fell on good ground, sprang up, and yielded [e]a crop a hundredfold.” When He had said these things He cried, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear!”
The Purpose of Parables
9 Then His disciples asked Him, saying, “What does this parable mean?”
10 And He said, “To you it has been given to know the [f]mysteries of the kingdom of God, but to the rest it is given in parables, that
‘Seeing they may not see,
And hearing they may not understand.’
The Parable of the Sower Explained
11 “Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God. 1
I started making a practice of listening to the words on God and reading the word of God with the faith that it is the seed going into my body to bring forth healing. That it is the seed to bring forth financial blessing in my body, that it is the seed to bring about supernatural wisdom for my business. It falls on good ground… how do I know it is good ground? Because it falls on ground that is expecting… expecting it to grow, to multiply and to bare a harvest.
Monday Dec 18, 2023
Monday Dec 18, 2023
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5 There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the division of Abijah. His wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth. 6 And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless. 7 But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and they were both well advanced in years.
8 So it was, that while he was serving as priest before God in the order of his division, 9 according to the custom of the priesthood, his lot fell to burn incense when he went into the temple of the Lord. 10 And the whole multitude of the people was praying outside at the hour of incense. 11 Then an angel of the Lord appeared to him, standing on the right side of the altar of incense. 12 And when Zacharias saw him, he was troubled, and fear fell upon him.
13 But the angel said to him, “Do not be afraid, Zacharias, for your prayer is heard; and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John. 14 And you will have joy and gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth. 15 For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink. He will also be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb. 16 And he will turn many of the children of Israel to the Lord their God. 17 He will also go before Him in the spirit and power of Elijah, ‘to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,’ and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.”
18 And Zacharias said to the angel, “How shall I know this? For I am an old man, and my wife is well advanced in years.”
19 And the angel answered and said to him, “I am Gabriel, who stands in the presence of God, and was sent to speak to you and bring you these glad tidings. 20 But behold, you will be mute and not able to speak until the day these things take place, because you did not believe my words which will be fulfilled in their own time.”
21 And the people waited for Zacharias, and marveled that he lingered so long in the temple. 22 But when he came out, he could not speak to them; and they perceived that he had seen a vision in the temple, for he beckoned to them and remained speechless.
What is the longest you have ever had to wait for something?
Wait in line for a Sony Walkman
Waited for a guitar 7 months
Waited a year to marry my wife - to the day BTW.
Waited 5 years trying to have kids
There are things I am still waiting for…
Wheres God…? 400 years of silence…
400 years of silence.. God has not spoken to one prophet, one person one Pharisee or one Sadducee.
But when he does talks to a priest… old man…
And it seems as if God waited for the world to fall a part… like as if - lets wait for the world to start on fire before we hand out squirt guns.
What do you need before God brings you the best news ever?
What do you need in order to have your world changed?
Silence….
Maybe its that simple… in silence he is preparing you. Watching you… Are you faithful.
Zacharias gets the once in a lifetime job to burn incense in the temple in the Holy place just outside of the Holy of Holies. They take hot coals from the brazen altar and he then pours incense on the coals just outside of the curtain separating the holy of holies. The incense was for two reasons…
- One to cover up the smell of death… or a lack of life.
Let your prayers fill the void *fill the time - Jesus thanked God for 5 loaves and 2 fish… he was praying and giving thanks over the void.
- Secondly to illustrate the prayers going up to heaven like the lingering smoke from the incense. May your prayers be like sweet smelling incense before the Lord.
Zacharias is here… having lived a life of faithfulness in the midst of no children-no life. His prayers have long since stopped for kids… he is old now. But God heard them.
And times are dark… much like today. Its hard to live for God, much like today.
And who does God speak to? An elderly couple who have been faithful in spite of not having the desires of their hearts met and being looked down upon by society for not having the desires of their hearts met. (Not having kids many times was seen as a curse from God for sin in your life).
But when he speaks… When he does show up to the faithful…
He not only gives Zacharias a chance to be in the Holy place, but he gives him a word… not just a word, but a son.. not just a son but the greatest prophet up until Christ. He will set the stage!
Incense was made out of trees. You would cut it and the gum would flow out… you would than capture this, dry it and burn it for the sweet smell.
Zach stays faithful. Faithful beyond unanswered and unplanned things in life.
Zach has to wait… those that wait upon the Lord renew their strength.
Paul waited 13 years before he started his ministry.
Daniel waited 28 days for answered prayer
David waited 15 years before he became King
Moses waited 40 years to get to the promise land
I am 58 years in the waiting of Christ coming back…
**Zacharias has to wait a week before he can go home and tell his wife… and he is dumb and deaf.
HOW DOES ONE TELL HIS WIFE IN HER 70’S THAT HE IS GOING TO GET HER PREGNANT - WITH NO WORDS.
Zach continues on with his priestly duties: (1 Peter 2:9 We are all priests under the new covenant) we draw near to God, we distinguish what is right and wrong, we live as an example to the people, we work in the temple,
Zach Gets the word but not the answer and still doubts.
In the original Greek it does not read as much doubt into his response as much as he is asking for a sign. I believe you, but what sign can you give me. The angels response is literally earth shattering for all of us.
- Heres your sign - Because God said so!!!
I don’t need a sign when I have Gods word.
Zacharias gets rebuked and muted.
He is struck deaf and dumb.
Was this a punishment - possibly? But I also think it was a Godly reminder that he was invaded by the presence of God and given a word from heaven. Not being able to speak or hear anything to the contrary was confirmation that this was not just bad pizza, but a real encounter with God. And now he is all the more unable to speak doubt or hear doubt… maybe that is a lesson for us. When we encounter a word from God, an experience from God… he mutes our inner voice of doubt.
MAY WE PRAY WHEN WE HEAR FROM GOD - He mutes the world to our ears and mutes our tongue to confess otherwise.