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you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you ...serve people for years and years and then somebody comes along and says some slander and people are like immediately gonna believe it and I say, "Look, is that who you've known me to be all these years?" "Well, no." "Well then, you know, take me for who I've been." not for this new piece of information you've got that isn't even substantiated. So let's be careful, very careful and slow to believe evil reports about people. Alright, other comments, please come down. Well, verse 5 says, "So when we were coming to Macedonia, our flesh had no rest." Now get this. We were troubled on every side, without or fighting, and within or fierce. And so, Paul not only had turmoil in his circumstances, he had turmoil in his heart. That's a tough place to be in. And yet, under that pressure, you know, he talks about elsewhere, he's always being delivered to death. So the battlefield's tough, but God gave him relief both internally and externally. So praise the Lord for that. All right, we're just about out of time, but we have time for one more comment. Anybody else want to comment on the passage or anything that's been said? Go ahead. Pop Alpha. Pop Alpha, please go ahead. Pop Alpha, please go ahead. Pop Alpha, please go ahead. Pop Alpha, please go ahead. Pop Alpha, please go ahead. Pop Alpha, please go ahead. Pop Alpha, please go ahead. Oh, Max, yeah, that five and when Roger read it, it kind of jumped out at me. It seems like I'm brain dead this morning, so I apologize for that. When you're in pastoral ministry, there's times it just seems like you are getting bombarded, like you say, from slander. And just Satan works, and he pulls out all the stops. to destroy you. Because if he can take out the leadership of the church, he can take out the church. So we have to be aware of that and be mindful of that. So the flip side of that, Roger, is what I'd like to encourage everybody to do. around the table this morning to constantly be looking your pastor up in prayer and the leadership team. That is so important. And come alongside them and seek their vision Max, seek the vision and lay into the harness and assist them because they need all the help they can get because behind the scenes and every church family is confronted by Satan. The leadership team is sometimes getting their nose and chin bloodied from all different walks, all different directions. You have no idea. But I speak this from experience there, Max, and Southern MPA. Amen. Amen. Yeah, amen too. I second that, Roger. Yeah, Scott, really well said. And boy, pastors are at the tip of the spear, and Satan is just throwing his fiery darts at them like crazy. So say a word of encouragement to your pastor. Tell him that you're supporting him. You appreciate his ministry. and that you value his sacrifice in leading the church in the things of God. So, Scott, thanks for that exhortation. Hopefully everybody will take that up and just encourage your pastor and pray for him because he's just like Paul, you know, without our fightings and within our fears. And he always feels inadequate. He knows he's a sinner himself. He's trying to help other people overcome sin while he's struggling with his own sins. And that's a tough road to hoe. And that's why a lot of guys get out of the ministry, because it is so hard. So we need to pray that God will uphold and sustain his true ministers of the gospel. All right, we are out of time. It's time to go to prayer. Are there any final prayer requests before George leads us in prayer? Please come down with your request. All right, George, K2KJX, go ahead and close in prayer for us. Thank you, our Heavenly Father, for all the things that you do for us. Thank you for blessing us with this Bible study every day. and also for the Lord Jesus for coming down, paying our sin debt, and sealing us with your Spirit. Lord, I pray for Pete, W6NOX, his aunt Marianne has, I pray that she has an easy passing toward eternity. Wow, what a blessing to live to 98 and I think of my mother-in-law who's 95 and boy, What a blessing it is to live that long. I pray for Jeff, aka 6OK, that I'm thankful for his wife Patty's cataract surgery. Her next surgery is March 4th. And I pray that everything goes well and that she would have healing in her eyes. And I know she'll be blessed with the fact that she can see clearly. I pray for JR16LBT, I think I got that right, for his friend Gary, W6JLB. He's on immunotherapy, and I pray for his complete healing. for his, I think it's cancer. And I pray that you would heal him, you the great healer, our Father. And for KK7, TPO Carol, what a complicated issue. Her great-granddaughter, Alice, seven-year-old. They're confronted with a court date, and I'm not sure who is initiating the change of custody. I think it's the mom, but I pray what you think is the best thing for her, our father, that... you would make that issue to respond to your will and not our will. And I also pray for Alice's protection and her salvation. Seven-year-old, that's-- I've got lots of grandkids. And boy, that's an issue that they're so vulnerable at this point. I thank you for Will Kilmike Foxtrot and his wife for going down there into-- I think it was Louisiana. No power. That's a big issue, and we all depend on electricity for everything just about in our life. I thank you for his spiritual guidance and for this young lady, Rita. I'm not sure if she's still missing or is safely home, but I pray for her safety. her spiritual well-being and that she comes to know you, Lord, as her Lord and Savior. For Lee, AL7KG, thank you, Lord Jesus, for letting him check in today. I hear a lot of people saying, well, I haven't heard Lee in a long time, and I just thank you for him. Also from Will Kilo Mike by Foxtrot, I think it's his friend Gordon who's got some A-spheres. issues and I pray that I think he's in the hospital now and I pray for his well-being and also for if he knows you Lord that that's a great thing and he will trust in you and thank you for it for KB7XXN Kevin I pray for Kevin's voice and healing that I love hearing him And I love hearing about his insights about scriptures, and I pray that his voice will be healed. And I also pray for WV7NAX, Max, for his service in leading this Bible study. Boy, it's something to have to get up every single day and go through the roll call and have a lesson ready. And I just thank you for him, and I pray that you keep him strong and healthy and focused on you, Lord Jesus. I also pray for Steve, W6YSI, his daughter, Lisa Medina, who has upper back and neck pain. I pray that she gets some healing from you, Lord. And I think she has returned part-time work at the Crisis Pregnancy Center, which is such a needed thing. So many women are in this crisis, and we have one here in Kalispell, and it's a great opportunity for us to help them along their way. For Howie, AI6J, his sister Karen has had a bone marrow transplant on February 10th. And I pray for freedom from infection for the next 100 days. This is pretty serious. And as her bone marrow regrows. And I also pray for her salvation, that she will come to know you, Lord Jesus, as her Lord and Savior. For Will, Kilo Mike by Foxtrot, thank you for him coming back and doing the chaplain work. I'm sure he had lots of opportunities. Although Louisiana is pretty much a Bible-believing state, but I pray that the lasting effect of his ministry at Berita, that they got home and they were safe, Also that Keisha needs a liver transplant, and I pray for her salvation also. For Glenn, KJ7UMW, healing for he and his wife Vicki from chronic pain. Boy, as we get older, we sure do. feel the age coming on and pain and I just pray for that name would be healed Be in comfort and to focus more on you and your love for Jesus for Ed N6XO8 Ed, me, Ruth and her three children Macy Shari They have a malformation disease and also for proper management of her diabetes. Her brother, Mika, who is 5 years old, has heart valve malfunctioning and surgery in the future. And there's also a premature newborn baby with problems in his vision. and I just pray for this whole family. Lord, you know what they need. You know the healing that's required for them to function well as a family. And I also pray for... the mother Ruth who needs wisdom and strength and caring for these children and and also that Their father Thomas needs a job find him a job Lord. He's the provider the financial provider of the family and Give him a job that he can excel in For Elton KF 7 SIA. He has back pain. I pray for his back pain that you would relieve that pain and heal whatever is ailing him. For JRW6LVP, we did talk about him already and I bring him up in my prayers also that he would be healed. cure of that stage four cancer, if that's your will, our Heavenly Father. If not, then I pray that at least the immunotherapy would provide him some relief. For Mike, Whiskey 7 T.W.O., his nephew Dale had died. And I pray for Dale's mom, Barbara. She needs salvation. Open up her eyes, open up her heart that she may see you, Lord Jesus, for who you really are. And I pray for Dale's brother, Darrell, to fully recover from his heart surgery. I thank you so much, Lord, for this Bible study every day again. and for your goodness and mercy and grace to each one of us. What a blessing it is to check in. We don't get to see each other much, but to check in, hear each other's voice, and be comforted in you, Lord Jesus. And I pray all these things in your name. Amen. Amen, George. Thank you so much for that prayer. I really appreciate you bringing us to the throne of grace. well said. This is WB7MX, Net Control for the West Coast Bible Study. I want to thank all the stations who checked in this morning. I saw Dan in 6T&I there on the Half Moon Bay FDR. Dan, thank you for being there. We got you checked in. And also for the stations that stood by to give us a clear operating frequency. Thank you for your cooperation. We meet here seven days a week at 6:00 a.m. in order to read the scriptures, understand and then to pray for grace and mercy to be able to live out what we learned and for God to meet the needs of those that are in our circle of fellowship. I'll be returning this frequency now to regular amateur use. This is WB7MAX. I'll be clear and standing by. WB7AX, that's L. WB7AX, Roger, go ahead. Thank you. Thank you, Max. Yes, I thought that George's prayer was certainly appropriate as we... lift you up. And I remember hearing an Episcopal pastor who served the churches of Dayton, Washington, and Pomeroy, and he said... And it's right along with Scott's comment. The importance of praying for church leaders And the dimension of that is that a pastor that has multiple churches, as I had nearly all my life, this Episcopal priest said, well, when things are not going too well in Dayton, I can go to Pomeroy and be lifted up in Pomeroy. like in verse 6, be comforted. God comforts the depressed by having the pastor go to another church in his district. But the local leaders, as God was highlighting too... they don't have that privilege. So there is a significance of praying for the elders of a single church when things are not going well. I guess I just wouldn't have needed to have that impressed, but I'd like to stop for that. Prayers are needed for leaders of the single churches. They don't have the chance to go to another church often. Over. Yeah, copy that. That's interesting. I hadn't ever thought about that, Roger. You know, the old Methodist circuit riding preachers back in the pioneer days of America, right, they would ride horses from town to town having church on a circuit, right? And so, you know, boy, I've only ever pastored one church at a time in my ministry before. And the burden of doing two churches would be amazing. But you're right, there's benefits there, too, in that if one congregation is tearing you down, the next one would be lifting you up. And so that's interesting that there would be that encouragement in that circuit that you had of two or more churches. And some are going to be struggling and others are going to be doing better. And it gives you an opportunity to be lifted up when you go from place to place. Because, you know, if all you're seeing is what's going on in your own church, you know, you don't have the perspective on the larger work that God is doing. And I guess that's one reason why it's good to be involved in church. in pastor's conferences so that you can go and hear what's going on in other churches and be encouraged, even if things aren't going so well in your own church. Or if things are going well in your own church, you can encourage other pastors who are struggling in theirs. So, Roger, thanks for that. I had never thought of that, and what an encouragement it would be to have a couple of different congregations that you ministered in and got that broader appreciation for the different ways that God is working in different towns, in different situations. Back to you, Roger. Yeah, Father Hodgkins, he was a neat guy. Partly why we became quite acquainted with him, that there's a little tiny St. Peter's in Pomeroy. That's what it was called, St. Peter's. Probably the first structure that was still being used in Garfield County. from the pioneer days. And he said that, Roger, he said, "Things are not going too well in Dayton. I can come on up here and be refreshed." And that refreshment that Titus brought from the other churches. I mean, in a sense, here Paul's in jail. I, I, let's see, is he writing from imprisonment? No, he's not. Not in this letter. But at any rate, it was a neat, candid perspective. I'm glad he gave it to me, and you can tell that I've retained that, over. Yeah, well said Roger. Okay, anybody else want to jump in here with a comment, please come down to the call site. I just appreciate what you had to say there Roger. And I guess if you know, you know. Yeah, there's a dimension to that for sure. Yeah. And it's amazing in this letter, how candid Paul's emotional, mental state is. It is. And of course, it goes all the way to our Lord and Savior and His humanity that He suffered that horrible... when the sins were laid upon Him and He was so comforted by the angels, the heavenly being that came down against somebody too. So we have that great encouragement from our super encourager. I'll just give it to you, Scott. Over. Scott Cunningham: Yeah, you bet. You bet. Okay, well I need to slide down the fire pole. I don't know, there's days that my brain just doesn't work right, it seems like anymore, Roger. This morning it was, you know, I think it's, I don't know, I just need, I just need rest, Well, we'll see what tomorrow brings. And I really appreciated, like you Roger, I really appreciated George's prayer, because we've got to pinch ourselves every day that Pastor Max is here and the way he facilitates and flies the West Coast Bible Study plane, keeps everything up in the air is quite remarkable. It's not easily done and Max makes it look easy and I know the prep behind it is quite intense at times. So appreciate you Max. I've got to go clear roads. I'd better slide down the fire pole and everybody have a blessed day. And so many of you. Thanks. Thanks. Thanks. Thanks. Thanks. Alright, real good Scott. Thank you for that and you have a blessed day and be safe out there. I don't want you going down over the side of the hill. So, I had a nightmare about that last night. I was driving my van and of course I haven't owned this van for like 20 years, right? And I'm backing up and I back off the side of the road and down over the side of the hill and the van turns over a couple times. And we all get out, everybody's fine, and the van hasn't beat up too bad either. But I'm thinking to myself, how am I going to get this thing out of here? And then of course you wake up, right? So anyway, Scott, don't back over the side of one of those roads today. You hear that's an order. Alright, love you brother. A7MPA73, you have a great day, WB7MX. What a dream. Isn't that ridiculous? Right. Boy, you have one of those wonderful moments where you realize things are not true that you dream about, over. Yeah, 99% of my dreams I do not want to have come true. So I'll be glad when the day comes when we don't have to fool with those subconscious anxieties that come from who knows where. But anyway... Yep, glad to be awake for sure. All right, WB7MAX here looking for anybody else who wants to chat. Beck, Alpha Alpha 5 Yankee, you got our joke of the day. Sounds like Beck checked out. That's fine. Okay, anybody else want to chat? I wrote down something and I actually, I don't know, I can't remember when I wrote this down. It had to come from back. Do you want to hear it? Yeah, go ahead. What's the difference between a fish and a piano? Well, both have scales, yes. And then the bottom line here, can't tune a fish, over. You got two punchlines in there, Roger. They both have scales and you can't tune a fish. I love it. That's great. I hadn't heard that before, so thank you for that. Well, it had to be. It's on my ham radio sheet. Are we sure that Beck never passed that on to us? Yeah, I don't know. I've never heard it before, but then, you know, I was back in New Jersey for a while. Maybe that's when he did it. Pastor Max? I really didn't date this, and I can't remember writing it down, but it's got to be my writing. But I guess I didn't retain it. I guess the -- What did they say? The privilege of old age is to hear -- to hear it again for the first time, I guess is the phrase. To hear it again for the first time. Over. Copy that. As far as short-term memory goes, that's the way it goes for sure. So all right, Roger. Good. Thanks for the good laugh. All right. Pastor Max? Yeah, go ahead. Okay, yes Roger, I did give you the joke and I sent you the joke via text because I'm cooking. Okay, so you sent it to me or you sent it to Roger? No, I sent it to you. I don't have Roger's telephone number or email. Yeah, it hasn't showed up yet, so I don't see it on my phone. Did you send it to my email? I sent it to the phone. Maybe I sent it to somebody else by accident. I'm not really good with that stuff. What do you call a dinosaur that is sleeping? What do you call a dinosaur that is sleeping? Somniosaurus, I don't know what. Oh, that's a good one. It was called a Dinosnore. Dinosnore. That's good, Beck. Thank you for that. You guys have a blessed day. I'll talk to you for five, Yankee QRT. Oh, hey, Beck, my wife says it wound up on her phone. So, anyway, thanks for sending that. She just showed it to me. What do you call a dinosaur that is sleeping? A dinosaur. Yeah, good, got it. Okay, thanks for that. Have a good time cooking there. Don't burn the pancakes. And we'll talk to you tomorrow, Beck. Alpha Alpha 5 Yankee 7-3 WB7MAX. WB7MAX, W7UAR. Good morning. Good morning. How are you doing there, Mark? W7UAR. I think we had a double there, but Mark, go ahead and shout us up. How are you doing? Oh, doing good. Life is just busy, one of those stages, I guess. So I've been able to listen in occasionally through some of the chaos, and I'm going to be leaving here pretty soon to drop one of my kids off to school, but I heard the tail end of everything there and just hope you have a wonderful, wonderful day today. Well, Mark, thank you. It's so good to hear your voice. I know you're busy as a bee with your company and your family and all the obligations you have.