Good morning, how are you doing? Good morning, Max. Yeah, you're 5 over 9 here.
Real nice signal. Doing great over here. Getting ready to...
head out the door and do laundry, I try to drop on in. My day starts here a lot earlier than some, you know, me and Tom Yak here. Uh, 1:30 this morning, so I'll be wrapping my day up at about noon.
I got laundry to do. and more being a fisherman of men. And that's why I'm here, to hear how to do it.
W7RKD. Hey, man, very real good. Well, great signal this morning.
We've got your 5x7 here, so we've got a wonderful band today. really grateful for the conditions all right Bert w7r KD appreciate you being a fisher of men and we'll pray that God gives you providential opportunities to share the gospel so now kj7 kick you eight foot advert w7r KB to our prayer list the God would open doors of witness for him today Alright, any other check-ins please come now. WB7VZO.
Okay, roger. WB7VZO, you are not on frequency. Check your frequency there, roger.
Help us out. Yeah, how's this? This radio has been subjected to extreme temperatures.
Is this better or... Yeah, it's a little better. You're still a little bit off, but anyways, you listen to me in tune.
That will help you to know where your dial needs to be, so you just keep tuning up on my voice, and you should do a little better on your next transmission. Go ahead now there, Roger. Yeah, I think there's a lot of circuitry in here and it's maybe unstable right now.
I just turned it on not long ago. But yeah, thank you for the prayers coming up here. It's kind of smoky up here like a lot of places.
But anyway, we made it and we praise the Lord for that. Yeah, amen, Roger. Yeah, you're right on frequency now.
I've got you 5 by 5 over 9, 5 by 5 over 9. Good copy, good frequency. And yeah, the smoke is no fun up there.
Copy that. We can thank the Lord for a safe trip up there for you and your brother. And How are you going to be there, Roger?
We're leaving back to go back to Friday. I have a memorial service that I'm participating in on the weekend, so that pulls us back for sure. But I have a continuing prayer for Jacob Ralph.
I had a chance meeting with him. He was delivering wood. And he had missed his connection.
He was waiting patiently. He was needing the cash flow to sell the wood. And I said, "Well, can we pray?
Would that be all right?" And he said, "Yes." And found out his parents are people of faith and they were very, very kind. Anyway, Jacob, Jacob, I just hope, I just met him at a Safeway parking lot just outside the parking lot yesterday. Turn for him, over.
Copy that. We'll pray for Jacob's salvation. Appreciate you opening up a gospel conversation with him, and we'll pray for Jacob Rouse.
for his salvation. Is that a good copy there, Roger? Yeah, Ralph.
It's just like R-A-L-P-H. Over. Oh, copy that.
Thank you, Ralph. Jacob, R-A-L-P-H. Copy that.
Thank you. All right, we've got Roger, WB7VZL, checked in. We're praying for Jacob Ralph and his salvation.
Roger had a chance to share the gospel with him and pray with him. All right, Annette would like to acknowledge, let's see, do we have, I think we've got Peter here. I thought I saw him floating around out there.
Yeah, there he is. Peter, KJ7VA, good to see you there on the Utah SDR. All right, we've got Peter checked in.
And Peter says good morning to everyone, so good contact there. All right, Peter, KJ7VA, good morning to you, and he says good morning to everyone. All right, let's see, we've got Brian KJ7PWM checked in, got Phil checked in.
Let me just go through my SPRs one last time and then we'll be back with you. All right, okay, we are ready to go here with the West Coast Model Study. It is now 6:01.
and we're going to be in Psalm 29 today, so if you could all turn in your Bibles to Psalm 29, look that over, and be ready to talk about that passage. But before we do, we want to open our time in prayer, and so Jerry KG6J, if you could open in prayer for us today, sure appreciate that. Go ahead.
Roger, Pastor Mack, KG 16. What's our prayer? Father God, Lord, we come to your throne this morning to sit at your feet, and I ask that you would open our hearts, our minds, prepare us to receive your words, and that we would have understanding, and we find real-world application for those things that will come out today.
I ask that you also extend this to the silent multitude, those that are checked in, those that aren't in check-in, that you would do a work and... each one's heart as needed. And we ask for your strength, power, mercy, and grace to fulfill these things as you do the work in our hearts today.
I ask for the Holy Spirit to be upon that. He leads the study. and the Holy Spirit also to be upon those that share comments.
And we ask not all these things, and ask your Holy Son's name, Jesus. We pray. Amen.
Amen, Jerry. KG6J, thank you so much for that prayer. Really appreciate that.
All right, we are in Psalm 29. This psalm could be titled, The Voice of the Lord. It's interesting that no less than seven times is this phrase, the voice of the Lord, used in this psalm.
And the theme of this psalm is how the voice of the Lord is heard in creation, specifically in the natural events that occur in creation. So it talks about how the voice of the Lord is heard through thunder and lightning and floods and earthquakes and other natural events. They all give voice to the presence and the power and the glory of God as He orders them all, manages them all, and uses them for His purposes.
We saw in Psalm 19 and verse 1 that the heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament declares his handiwork. So we talked about the book of creation speaks to us as well as the book of Revelation speaks to us, which is, of course, the Bible. And so God speaks to us in creation.
The invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen. being understood by the things that are made. Of course, he speaks to us through the scriptures.
That's his special revelation. And he speaks to us through conscience. Our conscience, certainly informed by his law and the Spirit of God, uses our consciences to either justify us or correct us when we are wronged.
doing wrong or right. So anyway, the voice of the Lord is the theme of this psalm. And one of the things I want to point out is that when most folks talk about natural events, they talk of them as though they automatically happened by the so-called laws of nature without any intervention from God.
Well, nothing could be further from the truth The laws of nature are not self-defining, and the laws of nature are not self-existent. There are no independent natural forces at work in this universe. The so-called laws of nature are nothing more than a manifestation of the consistency of God...
in the way in which He controls the events of nature. And the apparent consistency and predictability of the laws of gravitation and electromagnetism and the nuclear forces are only consistent because the God who makes, controls and executes those laws is a consistent God. And so the laws of nature are just descriptions of how consistent God is in the way in which he manages natural events.
And so because he manages nature consistently, as a result it seems there are laws of behavior of math and matter and nature that can be counted on to work every time and predictions can be made based on them and so it is. But God can suspend or change these consistent patterns of behavior in nature any time he pleases. And that's, of course, why miracles can occur, such as Jesus walking on water.
In that instance, God simply changed the laws of nature at a certain time and place so that gravity and water density were altered for a while in a location as he saw fit so that Jesus could walk on the water, and indeed Peter could for a little bit. So my point is simply this. As we look at Psalm 29, it becomes apparent that there are no independent natural forces at work.
God controls every natural force and every natural event at every moment in time according to His will. and therefore every natural event is a revelation of the mind and the will and the voice of God. And so the psalmist recognizes this, and he expresses that recognition in this psalm, and that's why he talks about the voice of the Lord controlling all of these natural events.
And he mentions it seven times. Seven, of course, is the number of completions. My family was really young.
All five of us up on the Pacific Coast Trail one afternoon, the thunderstorm rolled in and boy, it really cut loose and I'll never forget Jonathan, our youngest. The voice of the Lord is powerful. The voice of the Lord is majestic.
The voice of the Lord breaks the cedars. Yes, the Lord breaks in pieces the cedars of an animal. He makes Lebanon skip like a calf and Sirion like a young wild hawk.
The voice of the Lord queues out flames of fire. The voice of the Lord shakes the wilderness. The Lord shakes the wilderness of Kadesh.
The voice of the Lord makes the deer to calve. and strips the forest bare and in his temple everything says glory the Lord sat as king at the flood yes the Lord sits as king forever the Lord will give strength to his people the Lord will bless his people Steve, thank you so much for that great reading. Really appreciate that.
All right. Any comments on Psalm 29, please come now to your call sign. Thank you.
8K6OK. Jeff, 8K6OK, go ahead. I think you're, David is just giving all glory to God, right?
I think that's what this sounds like, letting everybody know that God is the one. Over. Amen, and you really see that in the first two verses, don't you?
talk about a call to worship literally it says give unto the lord oh ye mighty give unto the lord glory and strength give unto the lord the glory due unto his name worship the lord in the beauty of holiness and so david is calling on us to worship god and then he not only gives a call to worship but then he talks about the cause that we're supposed to worship god and And he goes to this list of the voice of the Lord, right? But, you know, as we see things, Jeff, in life, it should immediately provoke us to worship God with reference to that thing for whatever it is that it reveals to us about God. You know, a lot of people think God is some distant person who's not actively managing our lives, our circumstances, the forces of nature, whatever else.
In fact, he's involved up to his ears in everything that we're doing and is supervising it all and is intimately controlling it all. And so... everything is a provocation for worship.
And, you know, when I came into the ham room this morning and turned the lights on, I said, thank you, Lord, for illuminating my room so I can see. And, you know, there's nothing for which it's inappropriate to praise the Lord and to acknowledge his control and blessing that he brings to us. through that event.
Back to you there, Joe. Yeah, Max, all we can say is amen to that. I mean, it's humbling when you start to think about all the bad attitudes that everybody has these days, including ourselves.
And who are we to even question that? I mean, you just read this, and this kind of lets you know, look it, guys, we're all on the bottom of the pile, right? The Lord's on the top.
He's got control over everything. We do need to praise Jesus for every single day we wake up. And I was thinking of Beck this morning.
I don't know if the car ever got fixed. It doesn't matter. But Beck's alive, over.
Yeah, amen, amen, and that's all that matters. So, yep, you're right, we are on the bottom of the heap and yet God cares for us, you know. The high and lofty one who inhabits eternity whose name is holy dwells with us who are of a humble and contrite spirit.
It's amazing that He who created the universe, and we saw that in Psalm 8, right? "Lord, when I consider the stars and the moon and the sun, the works of Your hand, what is man that You're mindful of him?" So the works of nature really dwarf the creation of man, and yet God has put us at the center of His concern and care. He's put us at the center of the universe.
and he has put us in a position where everything revolves around his redemptive work in our lives and it's not only a saving work but also his providing work and protecting work so lots lots to praise god for and we don't take anything for granted when it comes to the orderly function of nature and how God uses that to provide for not only our needs, but also our comforts and our pleasures. You know, my wife has these landscape gardens around the house, right? KB7, KTY.
And I go out and I just look at these flowers. And it's just like, you know, God, you didn't have to do that. Thank you for creating this point of beauty.
for me to look at and to enjoy and to see your glory in. And you just did that for my pleasure. Thank you for that.
All right, real good. Thank you for those comments, Jeff. Appreciate that.
All right, I wanted to go back to Steve's comment. You know, Steve talked about his little boy saying, is God mad at us? You know, God speaks through nature, Steve.
And yes, you know, when you look at the book of Revelation and you have the seven trumpet judgments and you have the seven vile judgments or bowl judgments, as the translation may vary there, the first four of those are all God's judgments on nature. We have judgments on the land, we have judgments on the sea, we have judgments on the inland waters. And we have judgments in the stellar heavens.
And so if you look at something like Hurricane Katrina, right, who wiped out New Orleans, you know, that was a judgment of God. And we need to recognize that God speaks through nature. And God also protects us in those cataclysms of nature.
um And so what your son was seeing there was a display of the power of God, and at the same time a display of the protection of God, because you guys didn't get hit with the lightning. God directed it elsewhere. Praise the Lord for that.
Steve, W6YSI, back to you. Yeah, well, a lot was going through my mind at the time because it was quite the experience. We were right underneath this thing.
All I wanted to do was get my family moving and get off the peak. But yeah, lots of things were going through my mind at that time. Thank you.
Yeah, hey, man, I was on Green Tea Reservoir once with my pontoon boat, you know, and it's got an upper deck that you dive off of. It's all aluminum, right? I mean, this thing is nothing but a lightning rod on a wet lake, right, which also attracts lightning.
And we're out there, and suddenly a big old thunderhead forms, and lightning starts flying, and I told all the kids, get on the boat. So we pulled up the anchor and zoomed over to the, to the dock as fast as we could. Of course, it was quite a ways away.
That's a big lake. And that boat doesn't go very fast. And I'm praying all the time, oh, Lord, keep the lightning off my boat.
And we did get to shore. And God protected us. But yes, being in the presence of lightning, when you are the lightning rod, That is something that brings out some further prayers.
All right, real good, Steve. Okay, any other comments from any other station on this song? Please come down.
AK-6 is okay with a quick story. Jeff, go ahead with your story. You know, yesterday our pastor from Elevation Church out in North Carolina, he told a really cool story yesterday, which I want to give you guys.
He was heading to Louisiana to preach, and his wife brought his little five-year-old son to his office to tell him goodbye before they left. And he said goodbye to his dad. Dad said goodbye, and the young man walked off with Mom.
And the kid came running back. and he couldn't see Louisiana. He said, "Daddy, I want to go to Weezy." And he said, "You want to go to Weezy?" And he said, "I'll get you a ticket." So we got him a ticket.
And they got to the TSA check-in and a quite aggressive TSA agent said, We're going to take your son through first and then you can come through in a minute, Dad. And he said, OK. He wasn't OK with it, but he said, OK.
They took the kid through the magnetometer and all of that. And then the kid kind of disappeared. And he said, where's my son?
And he said, you'll be there in a minute, sir. And he got more and more and more irritated. And after about five minutes, it took that long, three TSA agents came out, got in his face and said, "Listen, your kid's fine.
You'll get here when we get everything settled out." And he said, "No, I'm a dad and I'm also a pastor." But he said, I tell you what, he said, my voice was raised and I was getting really irritated. He said, I'm a dad before a pastor. I want my kid and I want him now.
And so a supervisor came out and told him, sir, we're sorry. We got it all resolved and let him right through. Got this kid.
He and his little five-year-old were walking through the airport to the gate. And he looked down at his kid and he said, were you scared? And the kid said, no, not at all.
He said, why were you not scared? And he said, I could hear you, Daddy, the whole time. Over.
Yeah, what a great illustration. You know, we don't need to be scared because God's voice is there all the time. And we see that voice seven times.
in this psalm what a great story and how well it fits with the fact that we can always hear the voice of our father even though visibly we can't see him we hear his voice in the scriptures we hear his voice in our heart and of course we hear his voice in nature what a great illustration thank you for that jeff all right other comments please come now YSI? YSI, go ahead. Yeah, I wanted to amplify this thought process we got going here in verse 5.
"The voice of the Lord breaks the cedars." Yes, the Lord breaks in pieces the cedars of Lebanon. Well, He breaks the cedars in Challenge, I know. Been up here 20-some years now, and during the winter, it's heavy snow and then a high wind.
And these cedars, when they break off, they sound like a shotgun going off in the middle of the night. That would be a 6YSI. Yeah, I copy that, Steve.
And if you've lived in the forest, you have seen and experienced that. So, yeah, you know, there is no tree, however strong, that can stand up against a hurricane force wind, you know, or a tornado. And so the picture here is of tremendous winds that are so powerful that the strongest trees, are broken like matchsticks.
And so God has these forces of nature that he controls, winds of overwhelming force that destroy the strongest objects. And, of course, that illustrates the power of God's voice. And so there's forces of nature that no one and nothing can stand up against.
And that's how powerful God is, and that's just the edge of his power, right? That's like his fingertip. Imagine when he moves his arms.
So Steve, great illustration and thanks for sharing that experience. Yeah, we had an ice storm and a wind storm here a couple of years ago. I probably lost 30 trees.
We had trees that were 15 inches in diameter snapped right in half in the middle of the tree. We're not talking about uprooted, right? We're talking about a tree, a Douglas fir, 15 inches in diameter about 40 feet up, just like somebody grabbed it that high up and just broke it in half.
through the top on the ground. So, yeah, that's God's power for sure. All right, other comments, please come down.
All right, well, you know, as we go through this list of the voice of the Lord, you know, what you see there in verse 3 is God's thunder and lightning. And we've already talked about that some. And, you know, if you've ever been in a thunderstorm, you know, you have the rain and you have the lightning.
And, you know, if it's nearby at all, you feel it just shake your body. And so that's where the power of majesty of God's voice is understood. Right.
as thunder rolls out. And then of course Steve already mentioned the wind in verses 5 and 6. And then in verse 7, the voice of the Lord is like lightning.
It says in verse 7, "The voice of the Lord divides the flames of the fire." and the idea there is forked lightning. You know, the wife and I in the springtime like to sit out on our deck and watch the lightning in the high country, and you see these just giant forks, you know, spreading out across the sky and striking the ground in multiple places. And, you know, you don't like that because it starts forest fires, but at the same time, the majesty of that is just...
absolutely amazing and then of course we've got earthquakes and Lord shakes the wilderness verse 8 so we've got all these illustrations in nature of lightning and thunder and wind and earthquake all of which are the voice of the Lord and we need to recognize them as that and stand in awe of God when we see those things, thank God that we've been delivered from them, and know that God controls them for the purposes that He has in His providence to achieve as He brings His natural forces to interact with people, either by way of judgment, as we read about in Revelation, and the trumpet judgments and the vial judgment, Or by way of protection. All right. Other comments on this passage?
Please come down. Mark, KJ7PVT. Go ahead.
It is a........................... The ... Yeah, Mark, great comment.
Mark was talking about the structure of the poem, that this is a poem, and Hebrew poetry doesn't focus on rhyming as much as it does on the way it presents and builds ideas. And so Mark was saying verses 1 and 2, we see the call to worship. In verses 3 to 9, we see the cause of worship, which is this crescendo that builds up in the description of the powers of nature and God's control over them.
And then we have the conclusion of worship in verses 10 and 11, where it says the Lord sits upon the flood. That's talking about Noah's flood and his control over that. And then the Lord sits as king forever.
And so here we've got God sitting on his throne, running and managing the events of nature, all the way from thunder to wind to lightning to earthquakes. And ultimately, even to the birth of animals, He causes the hinds to calve, verse 9, and discovers the forest and His temples as everyone speaks of His glory. And of course, the ultimate crescendo of His work in nature is His creation of man, who then worships Him.
And so here's God sitting as king on His throne, reigning and ruling over this whole symphony of events in the natural creation. And, of course, the conclusion of it, verse 11, the Lord will give strength to his people, the Lord will bless his people with peace. Isn't it good to know that the God that's managing these irresistible forces of nature is the God who cares for his people and blesses his people and gives his people peace in the midst of all of this terrifying forces of nature that we've been talking about here?
So Mark, great comment. Thank you for pointing out the structure of this psalm, the nature of Hebrew poetry. when the fact that it builds on itself and brings this crescendo of praise.
All right, any other comments? Please come down. Okay, we had a double there.
Jeff, AK6, okay, I got yours. I know there was another there, but Jeff, you go ahead first. Here's a comment here I just was reading.
This psalm portrays God as king forever. winning over the flood and chaos and granting peace and strength to his people. Well said, right?
Yeah, amen. That says it perfectly. That's exactly what's going on here.
And you know, when we see things we can't control, it gives us a tremendous amount of peace to know that God can control them. but it points out that God was not in the wind or the earthquake or the fire, but he did use it as a voice, but he's not in it. And this particular scripture was a huge help to me in stepping out of New Age belief a long time ago where they worshiped the creation rather than the creator.
And so that's all I had to add. Maxine has to Jerry, that is a great thought. Thank you so much for bringing that out.
And that is that we are not pantheons. Nature is not God, and God is not nature. Okay?
There is a clear distinction between God and nature. And so... God is transcendent that is he lives outside of nature he controls nature and you're right he's not in the wind he controls the wind he's not in the lightning or the thunder he controls the lightning and the thunder they are something separate from him and you're right that's one of the heresies of new age teaching and eastern religion teaching and that is it confuses the creation with the creator and it calls nature God and worships God as nature.
And so that's where all the pagan religions of nature worship come from. And it's important that we maintain that distinction between God and nature and not substitute the one for the other. And as you said, worship the creation rather than the creator.
So, Jerry, that's a really, really important theological point. I think something else that's relevant here, when we're talking about the forces of nature and the voice of the Lord, right now, Ed, in 6608, asked us to pray about forest fires, right, up there near Prineville. And...
You know, forest fires are one of those forces of nature that we don't have control over. I mean, when you've got a raging forest fire going under a strong wind, you just have to stand back. There's nothing, nothing you can do to stop that.
It's only after the wind dies down that you're able to maybe put a line around it or do something to control or contain it. And so what we have is the voice of the Lord. being seen in forest fires, just like in lightning and tornadoes and wind and all these other things that are listed in the passage.
So God speaks through forest fires about the foreshadowing of hell. When we see those flames and how irresistible and inescapable they are, All we can do is flee from them. And where do we flee?
We flee to Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior. He's the one who delivers us from the flames of hell and that condition that no one wants to be in if they're in their right mind. So anyway, good illustration there, Jerry.
Thank you for that. And I just wanted to add that issue of forest fires right in here with this list. of thunder and lightning and wind and earthquakes and the other things that are listed in the passage.
All right, the net would like to acknowledge Gene, K7GWR. Gene, I'm not sure if I checked you in before or not, but I'm checking you in again. You're double checked in, Gene.
How about that? K7GWR, thanks for being with us, brother. All right, any other comments on this passage, please check the comedown.
W7RKD. okay we've got a double there uh first uh bird w7rkd please go ahead yeah i just went listening and uh it reminded me of uh a king that we read in first kings 19 uh i believe it's 9 through 13. about the wind from the firm winds out of the mountains But anyhow, you just thought I'd put that out there, 1 Kings 19:13.
Okay, copy, 1 Kings 19:15. Let me turn there for a second and read that. And let's see, 1 Kings 19:15, yes, it says: "And the Lord said unto him, Go, return thy way to the wilderness of Damascus, and when thou comest, anoint Hazael to be king over Syria." Burt, come again with your comment.
You got kind of lost in the static there. Please try again. Yeah, yeah.
You got it right, first part. It's 1 Kings 19:9 through 13. Roger.
Yeah, copy that. Okay, yeah. This is the passage that Jerry KG6J also brought out.
So 1 Kings 19:9-15, thank you for that. Yep, and Elijah is witnessing the forces of nature, and he sees that God speaks through those forces of nature, but God is not those forces of nature. He speaks in that still, small voice.
We turn away from the book of nature to the book of special revelation, which is the Bible, which helps us then interpret what those portions of nature are all about. And, you know, we don't look for God in nature in the way that a lot of people do. A lot of people say, well, you know, nature is my church.
I go out in nature and I commune with God, and that's all the religion I need. Well, you know, they've got part of the truth. They just don't have all the truth.
And, you know, it is true that we see God's handiwork in the wind and the lightning and the earthquake. But it's also true that that's not how we have a relationship with God. We have a relationship with God through Jesus Christ.
Burt, thank you for that. All right, alongside Burt there was Mark, KJ7PVT. Mark, please go ahead with your comment.
Yeah, thank you for that, Mark. Thanks for sharing that experience. Mark was just sharing that he used to be a firefighter, and he would be sent out in the dark at night to fires.
And he and his partner would cut down trees that were standing that were on fire and casting sparks that would spread the fire. for deliverance from that wrath that's so exemplified in nature. All right, we are about out of time.
Is there any final comment that anybody wants to make? Please come down. WB7V0.
Roger, please go ahead. "But do not have God speak to us, or we will die." I know we don't have a lot of time to kind of, as they say, drill down into that dynamic, but this psalm really brought to mind that experience, that they would rather hear Moses Al is going to close in prayer for us. Are there any final prayer requests before we go to prayer?
Please come down with your prayer request. Alright Al, KJ7QQH, go ahead and close in prayer for us please. Thank you, Pastor Matt.
Good morning, everyone on the net. This is KJ7, Pete Blake, car of the Lord in prayer. Heavenly Father, we thank you for a great day in your presence.
We come before you humble and grateful for all of your many blessings. We thank you. just ask you would also recognize that many needs and be pleased to grant this 40-year grant.
We lift up our brother Roger that he leads up at PPL who's right now in his remote location in Colville, Washington. We pray for his safe travel to and from there and also for his ministry to Jacob Rouse. Pray for Jacob Rouse's salvation.
We also looked up for Brent Steve, Deputy Kwayasai as he traveled to and from Tuolumne County for their Searching a new house to move and also they would need all this. Especially for the radio station for UQPH. We looked at Keith.
He's a son, Frank, daughter-in-law, Rachel, who are traveling. And they're in Indiana right now at a kid's camp. We looked up Ed and picked up the link to his brother-in-law, Ed, who's recovering from arm ablation surgery.
And his wife, Nita, also sold their house. He asked he would lead them and guide them the uh, one of the qualified fire to them. And we also looked up the need for containment of all the fires and the wildfires in that area and everywhere.
So basically all the wildfires that you have to use to protect the firefighters and you know, the state-of-the-art fires and and protect all those who fall. We pray for Eric. Katie, you sounded me out.
I'm sorry. I need to leave a response from the art pacemaker service. We ask praise also for giving praise for the successful church camp at Triangle Lake.
For Mark, KJ70 PDT, his mother, a believer, is at the end of her life, who prays for a scheduled passing of the arms of Jesus. Also, the duck will keep on like five months from praying for his parvoin treatment and radiation that it will be effective in training and removing his prostate cancer. Gerald, a K7 GPO, for the healing of her lower back pain.
We also pray for her son, Chris, whose diabetes is controlled. so that he could have his back surgery on the 30th. He has an appointment with the surgeon tomorrow, and we pray that he gets the green light to go ahead with that surgery as planned.
For Bert, W7RKD, we join him in lifting up... WW17 Tom, who needs lifting up in prayer. She lost his life a few months ago.
Tom is recovering from major spine surgery and is confined to a wheelchair in serious need of daily assistance. We pray that that caretaker would be found and brought to him. And we also pray for his life that should be decided and that there would be open doors and witness for him today.
For Ben, Alphonse, my thank you. Pray for him to continue dealing with the resolution of his double visions. I'm extending from the, uh, the, uh, head-in-terfing, main-point.
Um, the framework for full restoration of hearing is right here. I'll go further deeper into healing from terminal cancer. See also, infinity of salvation.
through the medical treatment that he's received. For Cody, AI7TRF, for the healing of his father Roger from his colon cancer, for the healing of Dr. O'Gus, a believer from a severe head injury, his admission surgery was successful.
He gets praise for that, and the additional surgery to follow. We pray that those ongoing treatments with help with mental trauma, by the act of the team, reduce death, repeat death. and to release their also for Cody T.
Bowie who needs salvation. We lift up Keith W87RKR. We pray for Keith to trust God with the difficult circumstances that Keith is in and to make God's decision for Doggy.
We pray for Keith to have wisdom, patience, compassion, and twice-losses in that sense. - In promoting we call and we pray for also to ease and help the need. Jerry and I continue to praise her.
We ask that we all join together and pray for our son, John, his cancer treatment that's ongoing. I don't know if they're all neighbors, but it's on Lucas, who suddenly lost his hearing. I don't know.
He was considered for some treatment, but he was called to a hearing plan. I'm now in the point to consult with the insurance approval to move on, but we pray that that goes. We pray for a buyer to come to purchase.
cancer, great for protein. Your doc is W6RLJ. He was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a type of concussion that could cause cognitive kidney problems.
His multiple myeloma disease is fluctuating figures with chemotherapy. He's home now, doing much better. Praise there.
As he continues to receive ongoing chemo therapy. And to also lead the praise through these tablets. Let me know.
Let me know if you have a good speech. From that Lord, we thank you for your goodness, your mercy, your praise for each one of us. And we pray that you would help us guide us.
be with us all keep us focused on you and bring us back to all who are viewing the word and we also thank you for the gift of your son Jesus Christ through whom we pray all this Amen May Jesus have us in your QH back to you as an active neck control Alright Al, thank you so much for that WB7MAX here, neck control for the West Coast Bible Study. I want to thank you station that checked in this morning and also those who stood by to give us a clear operating frequency. Our West Coast Bible study meets here seven days a week at 6 a.m.
in order to read the scriptures, understand their meaning, message, and application to our lives, and then to pray for grace and mercy to be able to live out what we have 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 WB7MX. We'll be clear and standing by. 5 Yankee.
5 Yankee, go ahead. I got one of your favorites here, Pastor Max. All right.
Knock, knock. Who is there? A little old lady.
A little old lady who? Who? I didn't know you could yodel.
Yeah, that's good, Beck. That's good. Yeah.
I got one for you. Let me get this here. So, yeah, here we go.
Beck, this is for you, okay? What's the difference between a poorly dressed man on a unicycle and a well-dressed man on a bicycle? One has one wheel and the other has two.
The difference between a poorly dressed man on a unicycle and a well-dressed man on a bicycle, the difference between them is a tire. You're right. That's a good one.
Yeah, somebody passed that one on to me. Anyway, Beck, thanks for the joke. And yes, no, I can't yodel.
I've tried that. You've got to be... really have a unique set of vocal cords and throat to be able to do that, over.
Oh, Roger, well, I can yodel. I used to do it when I was younger, but I'm not the best. You know, there's just a couple of songs that I used to do a little yodeling to.
And you're right. You need to have... very precise trained vocal cords in order to hit those notes that are so far apart from one another in the different octaves it's a really a talent yeah copy that hey the net would like to acknowledge dave ke7wki dave see you there on the utah str don't know how long you've been there dave but we got you checked in to the West Coast Bible Study afterwards.
So, Dave, KE7WKI, thank you for being there. Appreciate you, brother. All right, any other comments on the discussion after the West Coast Bible Study at WB7MAX here?
Go ahead with your call time. I've had that happen a couple of times and the sound that goes with it. And I've also had a couple of trees fall for whatever reason and felt the thud.
They were that close and kind of a freaky feeling. Roger? Yeah, I copy that.
Well, you know, the night of that ice storm and wind storm, I was standing out on my deck and I'm listening, right? And it just sounded like there was literally a war going on out in my forest. You know, just boom, crash, pop, slam.
It's just, man, it's like a giant was striding through my forest just knocking things around. And the other thing, Beck, I used to work as a timber faller, made my living doing that. And you take a six-foot in diameter ponderosa pine or Douglas fir, and you drop that thing on the ground, brother, when that thing hits the ground, it just shakes.
It's like it's your own private little earthquake that you created. So, yeah, I understand the power of a tree going down. And it is just awe-inspiring and overwhelming.
And it's like, you know, you don't get in the way of those things because you're not able to even think about resisting them. Over. Yeah, Roger.
As soon as you hear that first crack, you cut the chainsaw out, pull it, and run. Copy that. Yeah.
I got killed for it. I was following a tree and my saw hung up in the cut and I stayed there an extra second jerking on my saw to get it out. And...
It hit a branch of another tree and I look up and there it is about 15 feet over my head. And I just pushed the saw one way and I went the other way and that thing fell between the saw and me. And if I hadn't moved two feet to the right I wouldn't be talking to you on the radio today.
Yeah, I know. Falling trees is a very dangerous thing. Did you ever have one twist on you?
Oh yeah, yeah, no, that happens. You know, when you're first starting out, you don't know as much as you should know. And so you learn in the school of hard knocks.
Yeah, you know, I've had trees do some very strange things that I never expected them to do. But, you know, you learn from those things, you learn, "Oh, okay, shouldn't have done that." And God was merciful, and I lived and did that for two years. Loved it, absolutely loved it.
It was one of the most enjoyable jobs I ever had, but boy, is it dangerous. Yeah, Roger that. And running choke is no game either.
Yeah, that's for sure. You can have stuff roll on you and it's always fun having to use a stick to poke under a log to get the choker in. Roger that.
Well, anyway, I gotta head out for Coos Bay so I gotta shower and all that other good stuff. You have a blessed day, Pastor Max. I'm glad you know how to yell a little.
Alright, yeah, great. Well, give Sandy a hug for us and we'll look forward to your report tomorrow. Alright, Vic.
Alpha Alpha 5 Yankee 7-3. At WB7MAX, I'll be clearing QRT. Roger.
Hug for Caffey 2. WB7MAX, Alpha 5 Yankee, QRT. Thank you.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
. The.. Thank you.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you.
========== ### Scripture Reading (KJV)
<blockquote> A Psalm of David. Give unto the Lord, O ye mighty, give unto the Lord glory and strength. Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name; worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness. The voice of the Lord is upon the waters: the God of glory thundereth: the Lord is upon many waters. The voice of the Lord is powerful; the voice of the Lord is full of majesty. The voice of the Lord breaketh the cedars; yea, the Lord breaketh the cedars of Lebanon. He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn. The voice of the Lord divideth the flames of fire. The voice of the Lord shaketh the wilderness; the Lord shaketh the wilderness of Kadesh. The voice of the Lord maketh the hinds to calve, and discovereth the forests: and in his temple doth every one speak of his glory. The Lord sitteth upon the flood; yea, the Lord sitteth as a king for ever. The Lord will give strength unto his people; the Lord will bless his people with peace. </blockquote>
### Study Summary
The study of Psalm 29, titled "The Voice of the Lord," centers on the powerful imagery of God's voice heard in the natural world. The passage describes the Lord's voice as a force that shapes and controls nature, from thunder and lightning to floods and earthquakes. This portrayal underscores the idea that every natural event is a manifestation of God's consistent and deliberate actions.
Participants discussed how the laws of nature are not self-existent but are expressions of God's will. Miracles, like Jesus walking on water, occur when God alters these consistent patterns. The group emphasized that every natural event is a revelation of God's mind and will, reinforcing the idea that God is not nature, but nature is a testament to His power and control.
Personal experiences shared by Steve and Jeff highlighted the protection and comfort found in God's presence during natural events like thunderstorms. These stories illustrated the practical application of the Psalm's message, showing how God's voice can be heard in the midst of natural phenomena.
Theological points were also discussed, distinguishing between pantheism and theism. The group agreed that while God's voice is heard in creation, our relationship with Him is through Jesus Christ, not through the creation itself. This distinction was important to avoid conflating the Creator with His creation.
The structure of Psalm 29 was noted for its call to worship in verses 1-2, a crescendo of descriptions of God's control over nature in verses 3-9, and a conclusion of worship in verses 10-11, emphasizing God's reign and blessings to His people. This structure was seen as a powerful call to worship and recognition of God's sovereignty.
The discussion also touched on the importance of recognizing God's presence in natural events, as seen in 1 Kings 19:9-13, where Elijah witnesses God's voice in nature. This reference further reinforced the idea that God's voice is heard in creation, but our relationship with Him is through Jesus Christ.
The study concluded with prayer requests for various situations, emphasizing the group's commitment to supporting each other through prayer. The closing prayer and remarks emphasized gratitude for participation and encouragement to continue the study.
The group meets daily for scripture reading, understanding, and application, fostering a community of faith and learning. ==========