The Way Church Podcast

The word of the Lord is found in the book of St. Luke. St. Luke, chapter number 16.
I'll be reading out of the new international version of God's Holy word, Luke 16, and we'll read a few verses in your hearing. It's all right that we read the Bible in church. We'll start at verse one, Luke 16 and verse one. Give me one second. I want to make sure.
Jesus told his disciples, there was a rich man whose manager was accused of wasting his possessions. So he called him in and asked him, what is this I hear about you give an account of your management because you cannot be manager any longer? Verse 3. The manager said to himself, what shall I do now? My master is taking away my job.
I am not strong enough to dig and I'm ashamed to beg. Verse 4. I know what I'll do so that when I lose my job here, people will welcome me into their houses. Verse five, he says, so he called in each one of his master's debtors. He asked the first one, how much do you owe my master?
Verse 6. 900 gallons of olive oil, he replied. The manager told him, take your bill, sit down quickly and make it 450. Verse 7. Then he asked the second, how much do you owe?
A thousand bushels of wheat, he replied. He told him, take your bill and make it 800. Verse 8. The master commended the dishonest manager because he acted shrewdly, for the people of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own kind than are the people. The light.
Verse 9. I tell you, use worldly wealth to gain friends for yourself, so that when it is gone, you will be welcome into eternal dwellings. Verse 10. Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much. And whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much.
So if you have not been trustworthy in handling worldly wealth, who will trust you with true riches?
I'm gonna stop right there.
Family. I wish that you would look over at the person next to you as you take your seats and just tell them, mind your business.
That was kind of therapeutic for some people. Look at somebody else and tell them, mind your business.
Mind your business.
Family. Today we are starting a brand new series that I'm entitling, Balanced. Somebody say balance?
Jenna Kingsford said, balance is not something you find, it is something you create. We're talking in this series about creating balance in our finances. But before we dive into money, we have to first talk about balance itself. Because balance isn't just about Money. It is about life.
Balance is what keeps a plane in the air, a tightrope walker from falling. It's what keeps a car from spinning out of control. And if balance is important in those areas, how much more important is it in our finances? Think about it. When something is out of balance, it doesn't always collapse immediately, but given enough time, it always falls.
A plane can be slightly off course for a while, but if the pilot never corrects it, it will end up miles away from its destination. That's how financial imbalance works. It doesn't always cause problems right away, but if it's left unchecked, it will lead to strain and stress and spiritual struggle. See family this morning. Balance requires three key things.
Balance requires one. A reference point. Somebody say a reference point? Yeah, you need a focal point to stay steady. If I were to ask you to balance on one foot, instinctively, we would hold our arms out and we would look straight ahead because that is a proper balancing point or point of reference to balance.
None of us would stand. Stand on one foot and look at our hands because we would lose our balance. Balance requires a singular focus, but it also requires a constant correction, small, intentional adjustments to keep you on track. If I were to ask you to walk a narrow plank, you would have constant adjustments, constant tweaking, to make sure that your stake steps were in the right position and that you could keep your balance. Balance also requires a clear objective.
You have to know what you are aiming for in keeping balance. Anytime you are balancing something, you have to answer the question, what am I trying to do? Whether it is a pole in the air or staying on a plank, balance allows you to remain where you want to be. Not only that, but balance also allows you to progress where you want to end up. I were to take this stick and try to balance it on my hand, I would have to have a focal point of this stick.
The moment I look away, the stick will fall. If I'm not doing a constant tweaking or adjustments of the stick, it will fall. If I don't know exactly what I want to do trying to balance this stick, it will fall. The same is true for our finances. The problem is that when we get out of balance physically, we fall immediately, or some someone will fall immediately and we correct it right away.
But when we get out of balance financially, nothing happens immediately, so we ignore it. That's why so many people struggle, because financial imbalance follows the law of harvest. But here is the truth. You will always reap later and greater than when you sow the farmer that sows and the one that does not sow have the same results. In the beginning, they both have nothing.
But as time progresses, you will see the one who sowed and the one that did not sow. And I don't know, maybe it's just me, Bishop, but it seems that nowadays people don't like the church to talk much about finances. Don't talk about money. Talk to me about getting healed. Talk to me about fixing my relationships.
Talk to me about God blessing me with a better job and a new house and a new car. But don't talk about money. Because they have associated the church talking about money with manipulation and greed and guilt rather than biblical stewardship. Many have seen churches misuse funds and pressure people to give or preach prosperity without accountability. And some people just feel convicted about their own use of finances and how they handle them, so they'd rather avoid the subject altogether.
But the truth of the matter is Jesus told talked more about money than about heaven and hell combined. He talked more about money than heaven and hell combined. But he taught us this not to take away from us, but to teach us how to manage what God has entrusted in our lives.
But many people have developed what is called a reactional theology. What did I say? Reactional theology where money is concerned in the church, it's called a reactional theology, meaning that when people develop a belief that is in reaction to something that is opposed to. To the scripture, in other words, they develop a reaction to something that happened rather than a objective view of scripture. So there are people who have beliefs about power, and it is in reaction to someone that abused power.
Are you listening to me? So they go from one extreme to another extreme. So when it comes to this subject of abundance, that is what happened. Because there was an iteration of people, not everybody, an iteration of people, something called the prosperity gospel. It wasn't prosperity theology in and of itself, but it was an iteration of it, a stream of thought.
In other words, you treat God like a genie and you go to him when you want something, Name it and claim it, grab it and blab it, call it and haul it. And God wants everybody rich when with cars, cash and clothes. And it was laced with the spirit of greed and materialism. So here is what a lot of people in the body did. They went all the way to the other side.
And instead of the prosperity gospel, they went to a poverty gospel. And they ignore everything that the Bible has to say about abundance. They ignore everything of what the Bible says on how God tangibly uses People to be generous. In other words, they avoid everything that the Bible says that certain people are called to be generous and how God commands a good man to leave an inheritance to his children's children. They ignore everything that the Bible says, that if a man does not take care of his own house, then he is worse than an infidel.
And they got these reactions and stances and it's almost like this pseudo elitism. In other words, it's like, oh no, I'm more spiritual than you because none of that matters to me. And I'm like, no, that's pride. That is a spirit of pride. Because everybody in this church wants money and needs money and wants more money.
Who are you kidding? So the spirit of mammon or greed, that's a spirit of the world. And the poverty theology is agnosticism. In other words, it's a spirit of the world as well. Look up gnosticism and you'll understand what I'm talking about.
It is a Greco Roman ideology and philosophy that comes from a culture of polytheism, many gods. So they take this idea that I don't need prosperity, I don't need abundance. And so they will sit on you and they will look at you and say, God is not talking to me, but God is talking to every person in this church. And this is why Jesus talks more about money than he talked about heaven and hell combined. Because listen to me, how you handle money is a reflection of how you handle life.
So as I open this series up this morning, I want you to see financial balance not as a money issue, but as a spiritual discipline. A spiritual discipline. One that determines your fear, freedom, one that determines your peace, one that will determine your ability to walk in everything that God has for your life. If you're ready, say I'm ready. This passage in Luke chapter number 16 is one of those passages that make you take a double take.
Jesus tells the story about a dishonest manager, a man who finesses his way out of a financial crisis and then he commends his shrewdness.
If you're not careful, you will walk away after reading this and think that Jesus is co signing corruption. But that is not what is happening here. Jesus is showing us that worldly people understand how to work the system for their advantage and kingdom. People often struggle to maximize what is already in their hands. In other words, the issue isn't money, the issue is management.
The problem is not a lack of provision, it is a lack of perspective. God is not looking at how much you have. He is looking at how well do you handle how much you have been given. So the question that we have to ask and answer our to ourselves today is are you spiritually smart with what you have been given? The text shows us that we, in order for us to have kingdom balance, that we must understand.
Number one, stewardship over ownership. Stewards. Stewardship over ownership. Tell somebody next to you, God has given you a business. God's given you a business.
Jesus begins by telling us about a manager. Not an owner, a manager. Somebody say, I'm just a manager. He says, there was a rich man whose manager was accused of wasting his possession. That word manager in the Greek means steward or overseer, the the one who is in charge over another's affair.
The translation of that Greek definition is you don't own it, but you're responsible for it.
See, this is the first thing that we have to make a shift in our mindset about. Because if we are going to live with kingdom balance, we have to settle the fact of I don't own anything, that I am simply a steward of what God has given me. Psalm 24:1 says, the earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof, the world and they that dwell all in it. In other words, every resource that you have, every gift, every opportunity, every influence that you have, it all belongs to to God. I know we like to think that we all of that and that we have done so many things, but everything belongs to God.
Yes, your paycheck belongs to God. Your investments belongs to God. Your assets belongs to God. Everything belongs to God.
You're just managing his business. But here's the problem. Problem. We act like owners instead of managers. And when you think that you are an owner instead of a manager, then you will do what it is that you want to do with what God has entrusted in your hand.
When you think that you are an owner, you think it's my prerogative and I can do what I want to do with it. But when you understand that you are a steward, you handle what God has given you according to the instructions to the one that has given it to you. God's place resources in your hands. He's watching to see if you are going to waste it or if you're going to steward it. Well, see, once you settle this, that I'm a steward and not an owner, it takes the pressure off of you.
Because I'm not depending on me. I got to depend on him. Because after all, it's his stuff, it's not mine. I'm just Supposed to manage it well. And if I manage it well, then I report to him.
I did my part, now you got to do your part. The reason why some people have such a struggle and they don't see their face being manifested. It's because you're trying to control everything yourself. But when you lose yourself and say, God, I'm going to trust you with everything, because I'm just the manager. I'm not the owner.
I'm to you, I'm going to give this problem to you, my child to you, this relationship to you, my job to you. I'm just a manager. I'm not the owner. Watch it, family. The second thing that the text teaches us to have kingdom balance is that we have to use wisdom over wastefulness.
Wisdom over wastefulness. Watch it. The manager in the story is about to lose his position because he mismanaged what was given to him. Here's the reality. When you don't manage well, you will mismanage yourself out of your next level that God has for you.
When you don't handle what it is that God has for you well, then you will mismanage yourself. And so many people are wondering why this person is excelling and that person is excelling. And I'm not able to get this. And I had this on my vision board and I declared that I was going to do this and I was going to do that. But when you don't manage well, you will mismanage yourself out of the next level.
This man got fired not because he lacked access. He had resources at his disposal. He got fired because he was wasteful. And this is the part where some of us have been frustrated with God because we are asking for for increase, but we have not mastered management.
We want God to bless our finances, but we don't manage what we already have. We want God to give us bigger opportunities, but we don't maximize the ones that we already have. We want deeper relationships, but we are not stewarding the ones that we have already well. And Jesus is saying, how you handle what you have now determines what you'll have next. Which helps us to realize that we only have two management options.
We can be wasteful or we can be faithful.
We only have two options. Option one, you can be wasteful. This manager was reported and accused of wasting his boss's possession. That word waste in the Greek means to scatter, to mismanage, to squander. It's the same Greek word that is used in Luke chapter number 15 and verse 13.
We're familiar with the story of the prodigal son. And that son said, I want all of my possession. And the Bible says that the younger son got together all that he had and set off in a distant country. And their skin squandered his wealth in wild living. The King James says, riotous living.
And the prodigal son was not just wasteful, he was reckless with what he had. He spent everything he had with no thought about the future. Some of us are squandering what God has given us. We aren't intentional. We don't have a plan.
And here's what I have found out, is that when you don't tell your money where to go, when you don't tell your money where to go, it will leave you without permission. Your money will do whatever it wants to do when you don't tell it what to do. Look at somebody and say, don't be wasteful. Watch it. You can be wasteful or you can be fair, faithful.
Whoever Luke 16 and 10 says can be trusted with very little, can also be trusted with much. If you can't manage little, why is God going to trust you with more?
You want increase, but do you lack discipline? You want overflow, but do you lack order in your life?
You want blessings, but do you lack a budget? God does not bless financial chaos. He blesses stewardship. Somebody say stewardship. Say it again.
Say stewardship. Jesus is making it clear. How you manage your money determines what God can trust you with. And faithfulness is not just tithing.
It's about how you handle everything that God gives you. How you do anything is how you do everything.
We see that all through scripture. David killed a lion and a bear before he took Goliath out. Joseph ran Potiphar's house before he ruled the nation. Esther served in the palace before she saved a people. God will always trust you with the little things and see what you're going to do with the little things.
If you want better, how are you doing with the little things? Yeah, I want to take care of this. No, I'm not doing all that to show you. I want to show God I'm a good manager. I can take care.
And this is why God will bless some people. Because he said, I can trust you with a little. And then I know I can trust you with much. If you cannot handle little, you won't handle much. But here's the hack.
If you want the hack, wave at me. Here's the hack. Stewardship is what opens the door to the supernatural. When you steward what God has Given you? Well, it opens the door to the supernatural.
And here's what's crazy in the text. Because Jesus said, even dishonest people are more strategic with money than some believers. Because watch me. Wisdom works in every arena. Tell somebody.
Wisdom works in every arena. Look at. Look at Luke 3 and 6. The manager, knowing that he's about to lose his job, makes strategic moves to secure his future.
Now, Jesus is not saying, go out and be shady. I got to put that out there. Because sometimes people hear what you not saying. So let me make it clear. Jesus is not saying that go out and be shady.
God is anti exploitation. God is anti manipulation. God is anti being dishonest. He is saying, be strategic with your spiritual life as the world is with their financial life. Have you ever noticed that people of the world will invest and sacrifice and strategize for what they want?
They'll study trends, they will leverage relationships. They'll put in hours. They will position themselves for success. And yet people that are a part of the kingdom will sit back and hope that blessings fall out the sky. No preparation, no discipline.
Y'all ain't saying nothing in this sanctified church, but it's all right. No strategy. Why is it that the world is more intentional about temporary success and the Kingdom? People that are in the Kingdom are not as intentional about eternal impact that we have been called to make.
If people outside of the Kingdom are working the system, why aren't we working our faith?
Why are we investing in our spiritual growth? Why aren't we leveraging our gifts for Kingdom expansion? Why aren't we making moves that honor God with our time and with our talent and with our treasure? Why aren't we moving and advancing the Kingdom? Jesus is saying to us here, watch how the world is strategic.
Learn from their strategy, but don't compromise your integrity. I can learn from you, but when it compromises my integrity, that's where I draw the line. Yeah, I can work this job, but I'm not going to cheat and I'm not going to steal and I'm not going to leverage and abuse people to get elevated. I'm not going to do all of that. I'm not going to go around and talk about people so that somebody can promote me.
He said, learn from their strategy.
Are y'all getting this? But do not compromise your integrity. Watch this, because in the parable, here's where the plot twists that teaches us how to have Kingdom balance. He says, number three, you have to use influence over ignorance.
You can't just claim Well, I don't know. If you a part of this church, you gonna know because I'm gonna teach you. I told somebody earlier this week that came to see me. I said, yo, we got the. We got the dance, we got the emotion, we got the feel good.
But we gotta get this word and start living this word. Because what will happen is when we don't live the Word. What'll happen is when we get outside of the four walls, we. We will forget what we have been taught and we will act like our old creature because we have not gotten the Word. So many people want to feel good.
And there's nothing wrong with a good shout and a dance. I love all of that. But I also got to have something that's going to help me when the organ and the musician's not playing. I got to have something to help me when I'm by myself. I got to hide this word in my heart so I don't sin against him.
I gotta make sure that I have something that can sustain me. Oh, y'all. Y'all not clapping as bad as I'm shouting as much as I'm preaching.
I cannot claim ignorance. I have to use influence. When the manager realizes he's about to lose his job. You about to lose your job. You about to lose your job.
I wonder. That's what the people were singing, cuz somebody went and reported him.
Sorry, that was from somewhere else. He gets strategic. Don't act like y'all ain't never heard that. If the musician was on the music and, and the drummer, I would have had them to play the beat. But no, we gonna get.
He calls his bosses debtors and he makes a deal that will secure his future. Jesus is exposing here that Kingdom people often fail to leverage the resources for kingdom impact.
Who is around you that can help you to get to the next level that God has for you?
Sometimes your prayer is answered by the relationships that God puts in your life.
See, this is not about money. It's about how you use what you have to advance what God is doing in the earth. Jesus is not asking if you have money. He's asking, can money have you?
That's why he ends the parable in verse 13 and he says, no one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You will love God. You cannot love God and money. God is not anti money.
He is anti misplace allegiance.
Money is not just a resource, it is a rival in your life. Because either you control money or money is going to control you. Money is a wonderful tool, but it's a terrible master.
Some people think that the enemy's biggest attack in your. Please hear this. Please do not miss this. Some. Some people think that the enemy's biggest attack in your life is to steal your money.
He doesn't have to steal your money. In fact, he's not really after your money. He's after your mindset. Because if he can control your mind, then you'll let money control you.
I don't know about that. Pastor. Yeah. If your joy is attached to your bank account, then money is your master. If your identity is shaped by what you drive and what you wear, and you can't go unless you got something new, money is your master.
If your security is tied to how many zeros you have, money is your master. But when God is your master, then you have money with a mission. Everything I have belongs to God. When God tells me to bless, I bless. When he tells me to release, I release.
Your resources will become a tool for kingdom work. When God blessings become a bridge for other people, you realize it's not all about me. It's about somebody else. And you don't have to call my name. You don't have to.
I don't even have to be. Let it be known that I did what I did because I'm obeying God. And every time I obey God, without fail, God will bless. God work of my hands.
When God is your master, your finances become fuel for your purpose. The enemy doesn't want you broke. The enemy wants you bound. But I declare over this house that there's some people that's going to be free. They're going to be free.
Because money will not be our master, but God will be our master. We will manage well. We will, steward well. We will obey what God has given us because we understand kingdom balance.
When you manage your money God's way way, you'll never be mastered by it. See, here's the root of the issue and I'm done. Here's the root of the issue. Thank you, Bishop. The root of the issue is financial imbalance.
Financial imbalance equals spiritual imbalance. I'mma say that again. Financial imbalance equals spiritual imbalance. See, when you have an imbalance, you want more and more and more. And you don't believe that God can take care of you.
And Jesus said it this way. In Matthew 6:21, he says, for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also your bank statement. Is your spiritual report card.
Your bank statement is your spiritual report card. Are you being blessed by this?
Financial imbalance is dangerous in the life of a believer. It's dangerous in the life of the believer. And here I wrote down some reasons why it's dangerous. Number one, they're gonna put it on the screen. Number one, it creates unnecessary stress.
You ever had anybody. Have you ever seen anybody that was stressed out about money? I'm not gonna ask you to raise your hand if you have ever been stressed out about money. I know I have.
Financial imbalance causes unnecessary stress. Some of us don't have money problems. We have management problems.
You make enough. God provided you with the job. He gave you the job to steward. You make enough. But financial imbalance causes unnecessary stress.
If you make $100,000 a year or $50,000 a year, $25,000 a year. If you make 100,000 but spend 120,000, you don't have a money issue. You have a management issue.
Your income not the issue. Imbalance is the issue.
Financial imbalances is dangerous because it warps your value system.
Parents and their money habits teach the children that are watching them what to value.
You teach those that are in your life what to value. And the question you have to ask is, am I raising them with a kingdom mindset or an entitlement mindset? Because when I value the kingdom, those that are watching me will value the kingdom. But if I only value what I put on, what I wear and who I impress, then I teach those that are watching me how to be entitled.
Somebody say it's a dangerous game.
Number three, financial imbalance is dangerous because it distorts relationships. We've all heard. We've all heard of the statistic that over 51% of marriages end in divorce. And the number one reason, statistically, check it out. The number one reason is because of the fight of money.
But catch this. The issue is not a lack of resources. The issue is divided. Divided agendas. In other words, one person wants to save and the one other person wants to spend.
One person wants a bigger house and the other person wants a new boat. Because they have their priorities that are not aligned. They end up fighting and end up in divorce.
Number four, it's dangerous. Somebody say it's a dangerous game. It's a dangerous game because it steals your peace. You can have money and have anxiety at the same time. There's a lot of people that have a lot of money, but they are still full of anxiety.
As a matter of fact, there are People that are wealthy, that are in a institution because they don't have peace even though they have money. Because peace is not about your balance sheet. It is about your spiritual alignment. Until you have the peace of God, you will not have peace with God.
I gotta have peace with God so I can have the peace of God in every situation of your life. You won't have the peace of God unless you have peace with God. Unless you are connected with Him. Because when you are connected with him it doesn't matter how much money is in your bank account. But you'll still be able to say, yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I'll fear no evil.
Why am I not fearing? Because God is with me. God is walking with me. I can have shortage, but I still know that God is providing for me. I cannot have the peace of God unless I have peace with God.
But financial imbalance will cause you to chase after everything except for the one that can give you real peace. And this is why so many people blow everything they have. They at the casino every single week, hoping, wishing that I can get my. Let me stop. So you think I'm meddling.
Glory to God. Hallelujah. Somebody say it's a dangerous game.
Financial imbalance is a dangerous game because it makes it hard to give. See, when you are out of balance, it's easy to hoard but hard to give. When you are out of balance, you think everybody is trying to take from you. When God is really trying to get it to you. When you are out of balance, it hurts to be generous because money has your heart instead of God.
When God has your heart, you don't mind being generous. Because the one that gave me this will give me that.
Are y'all getting this?
God is saying, I want my body balanced. I want you to have kingdom balance and to have kingdom balance. You gotta mind your business. You gotta mind the business that God put you in to say, I'm going to focus on. I'm not going to live the life that somebody else is living.
I'm not going to keep up with this person and try to impress that person. I am going to do what God has called me to do.
So what do we do with this? Here's our next move. You got to shift your mindset. Shift your mindset and realize I don't own anything, that I'm just a steward.
Shift your mindset. I don't care. Education, family, background, I don't care. Resource, I don't care. It all belongs to God.
And until you shift your mindset, you won't have kingdom balance.
Secondly, you got to start managing well.
Faithfulness in little leads to increase. You got to start. Somebody say, start. Look at the person next to you and say, just start. Just start.
Start managing well. Because how many will admit I can put up both my hands that we have been wasteful in our lives, that if we had been better stewards on what God had given us with, we would be in a different place, we would be more generous, we would be able to do some of the things that God wants us to do.
But you gotta start.
I dare you. For the next seven days, spy on your own money. Spy on your money, Track every dime that you spend. I guarantee you, if you. For the next seven days, spy on your own money and track every dollar, because you cannot correct what you will not track.
If you don't track it, you won't be able to correct.
I got to know, where is my money going? We went through the financial fast last month, and some of those thoughts that I had, oh, no, we're on a financial fast. Are still with me today.
There were things that I got and I was like, nah, I really don't need this. And I took it back because I want to manage what God has given given me. So you got to start managing well.
And then thirdly, you have to use your influence to impact.
Use it for impact. Resources are not just for you, they're for kingdom purposes.
Because when you manage what matters, then God will give you more of what matters. When you manage what matters. I'm talking about your time, your resources, your talents. When you manage what matters, God will give you more of what matters.
I know the reason why God blesses me the way that he blesses me is because of how I manage what matters. A lot of people wouldn't do what I'm doing day in and day out. And I don't do it complaining. I do it because I understand my assignment. I don't compare myself to anybody else because I'm clear on my assignment.
And this is why God blesses the way that he blesses.
When you manage what matters, he will give you more of what matters. Family, I shared with you today. And trust me, I'm not looking for anything. I don't want anything from you. I want something for you.
I struggled. I said, God, you sure you want me to tackle this now? And he's like, yeah, mm. Now. Right now, Right now, I want you to trust God with your money so that you can experience his faithfulness.
Experience his fullness. In your life. I want you to be free. Free to give and free to go where God wants you to go and to be free from the debt of stress.
I want you to be secure and stewardship brings stability.
I want you to be content because contentment is about not about what you have. Contentment is about who has your heart. Stand with me all over this building, just like this stick that I started with.
Your finances need a reference point.
It needs a focus.
Your finances need constant correction.
Your finances need a definite purpose. What am I trying to do? Where am I trying to go? What are your financial goals?
Without it, we'll be financially imbalanced. Lift your hands. If you say, I want to make sure that I'm balanced financially. Lift your hands. I want to pray over you, Father, today.
Today we ask for your wisdom. Teach us to steward well. Teach us, oh God, to strategically think about how we manage our finances and help us to put you first in everything that we do. God, we pray today over thy people that you would teach us how to manage our resources and manage our time and manage our opportunity in a way that pleases you. We do not want to serve money.
We want to serve you in every area of our lives. Bless us, oh God, to become balanced, kingdom balanced, that we may be bound. Faithful stewards. Father, we thank you for it. In Jesus name.
Thank God and Amen. Somebody put your hands together.