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All right, the net would like to acknowledge Peter, KJ7BA. Good morning, Peter. See you there on the Utah SDR.

Good to have you with us. And Peter says good morning to everyone. So good contact there.

Peter, thank you for being there. Always appreciate your greeting. That way I know that you heard me and that's always an encouragement.

Alright, any other check-ins, please come now. KE7WKI Okay, I think I heard Tom, WW7T. Tom, is that you?

Give me a roger roger. That was WKI. Okay, negative.

Okay, thank you for the relay. Okay, that's Dave, KE7WKI. Good morning, Dave.

Had a little static there, wasn't sure of the call sign, but we got you now. How you doing, Dave? Go ahead.

Doing great. Good morning to everyone. Just waking up and no prayer request.

All right. Good to have you with us. No prayer request.

Copy that. That's Dave, KE7WKI. Dave, thanks for being there.

Appreciate the relay, whoever that was. Thank you for that. All right.

Any other check-ins? Please come now. And there's Brian, K7ZIP.

Good morning Brian, how are you doing? Copy that, copy that. How's your boy Jay doing?

Copy that, yep. I know he's got to start that in August sometime, right? Okay, real good.

All right, Brian, we got you checked in. Any prayer requests? Go ahead.

All right, thank you, sir. Appreciate you being there. All right, that's my good friend Brian, KA7ZIP.

All right, any other check-ins, please? Come now. All right, we're of course checking in our net logger, Eric, KD70S.

Appreciate you being there, Eric. All right, any other check-ins, please come down. I haven't heard from Carol K-A...

Let's see... Ha! KK7TPO.

Carol, KK7TPO, if you're there, try to key up for us. Let me see if I can hear you. Alright, not hearing anything from Carol.

Burt, W7RKD, are you there? Okay, I was listening on the Coeur d'Alene remote to see if I could pick those guys up because I wasn't hearing them here in Foster, Oregon. Anyway, all right, any other check-ins?

Please come now. Alright, it is 6 o'clock. It is time for us to get started with the West Coast Bible Study.

Appreciate all the stations that have checked in. I know there are those of you out there listening, I appreciate you being there as well. We value your fellowship a lot.

All right, we are in Psalm 44 today, Psalm 44, and we're going to be reading that in a minute. But before we do, we want to open our time together in prayer. And so, Ed, in 6XOH, if you could open a prayer for us today, I'd sure appreciate that.

Go ahead there, Ed. sure let us pray. Heavenly Father we ask that you bless our Bible study this morning.

That you'll send your Holy Spirit to each person here that's listening and partaking in the lesson this morning. I just ask Lord that you let our light shine. that others will see you in us, Lord, that we'll be that beacon on the hill that will draw people to us.

We can teach them your love for us. More than anything we can ever ask for, Lord. And we ask that you bring each one of us here a special blessing today.

Let's roll the call. See you with Pastor Mack. He leads us and brings us to bread and wine.

So, God, Lord, you will bless us and keep us in your arms. We'll be ready when you have to take us home. I pray in Jesus' name, amen.

Amen. Amen. Thank you so much for that prayer.

I really appreciate that. All right, we are in Psalm 44. Psalm 44 is a very interesting psalm because it deals with a problem.

that we all face. And that is that at times the ways of God are very puzzling to us. And part of this puzzlement of God's ways and dealings with us is the way he deals differently with us, differently than what we would expect.

We have apparently unexplainable changes in the way in which God deals with us. There are times when God brings blessing and success and victory and peace. And then even though as far as we know, nothing has changed in our walk with God or our worship of God, God will bring heartache and defeat and disappointment and difficulty into our life.

So here we are. We're faithful when we're being blessed, and even though we remain faithful, suddenly we start experiencing powerful disappointment. Now, we could understand this change if while we were faithful, we were blessed, and when we became disobedient, then we started experiencing defeat.

That would make sense to us. But to have both blessings and defeat while we're steadfast in our obedience and our walk and our worship of God, that is what's difficult to understand. So our faithfulness is consistent while God's dealings with us are not.

and how are we supposed to understand that? And that's the question that lies before us. We've seen this in churches.

A church may be faithful to God and to the truth and to God's worship, and they experience blessing and growth for many years and see lots of people saved. and increasing blessing, and then while remaining just as faithful to God and to the truth and to God's worship, the church might experience division and the church split, and there's tremendous difficulties and controversy, and there's a lot of rebellion and apostasy. And the question is, how do you explain that?

Well, the answer is, I don't know how you explain it. It's one of the mysteries of God's providence. Why does God do things the way he does?

That's only known to Him, and He has no obligation to explain Himself to us. So the point of this psalm is this: If things are going well while we're being faithful, we don't take the credit for that. And the responsibility for things going well belongs to God.

And if things are going badly while we're being faithful, we can't take the blame for that either. The responsibility for things going badly belongs to God. So all we can do is not become proud when things are going well and not become discouraged when things are going badly.

All we can do is just keep on being faithful, keep on doing the will of God, keep on serving God, no matter what happens in God's providential dealings with us. And so in our psalm, Psalm 44, Israel found herself in a similar situation. God has brought great victory and blessing to Israel in the past while she was faithful to Him.

But then while she's still faithful to Him and kept her covenant just as zealously as she did before, she experienced great defeats and humiliation at the hand of her enemies. But those defeats and that humiliation did not cause Israel to turn away from God in frustration and anger. She didn't throw up her hands and say, we've been faithful to God.

God's brought all this trouble to us. Let's just throw God away. That is not what they did.

Instead, what Israel did is redouble her humility and her prayers and her trust in God that he would once again restore the former blessings that had now been taken away for reasons that are completely unexplainable. And that's what we have to do as individuals and as a church. We're smitten with disappointment.

We just have to remain faithful to our covenant with God. We have to maintain our obedience. We redouble our service to God, and we're praying fervently for a return of the former blessing.

So here's the thing. Disappointment in the midst of us being faithful to God is no cause to get angry with God, all right? Rather, it's cause to pray more fervently to God that He would arise and redeem us for His mercy's sake.

We cannot explain God's dealings in our lives, but we can trust God's heart that whatever choices He makes in our lives, He does what is wise and He does what is best. And our job is to trust and obey and worship and pray. come what may that's the lesson of our passage so I'm gonna ask Jeff to read it and you'll see this progression here there's the recognition of Israel's blessing and then there's the lamentation of Israel's plight and and then there's the supplication for Israel's deliverance.

All right, Jeff, AK6OK, please read for us Psalm 44. Okay, Mac, very good morning to everybody. Let's read Psalm 44.

Verse 1, Oh God, we have heard it with our own ears. Our ancestors have told us of all you did in their day and days long ago. You drove out the pagan nations by your power and gave all the land to our ancestors.

You crushed their enemies and set our ancestors free. They did not conquer the land with their swords. It was not their own strong arm that gave them victory.

It was your right hand and strong arm and the blinding light from your face that helped for you love them. Verse 4. You are my king.

Oh, sorry about that. Let's start again with verse 4. You are my king and my God.

You command victories for Israel. Only by your power can we push back our enemies. Verse 4.

Only in your name can we trample our foes. I do not trust in my bow. I do not count on my sword to save me.

You are the one who gives us victory over our enemies. You disgrace those who hate us. O God, we give glory to you all day long and constantly praise your name.

But now you have tossed us aside in dishonor. You no longer lead our armies to battle. Verse 10.

You make us retreat from our enemies and allow those who hate us to plunder our land. You have butchered us like sheep and scattered us among the nations. You sold your precious people for a pittance, making nothing on the sale.

Verse 13, you let us mock, you let us, I'm sorry, you let our neighbors mock us. We are an object of scorn and derision to those around us. You have made us the butt of their jokes.

They shake their heads at us in scorn. We can't escape the constant humiliation. Shame is written across our faces.

All we hear are the taunts of our mockers. All we see are our vengeful enemies. Verse 17.

All this has happened, though we have not forgotten you. We have not violated your covenant. Our hearts have not deserted you.

We have not strayed from your path. Yet you have crushed us in the jackal's desert home. You have covered us with darkness and death.

If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread our hands in prayer to foreign gods, God, you surely would have known it, for he knows the secrets of every heart. but for your sake we are killed every day we are being slaughtered like sheep verse 23 wake up oh lord why do you sleep get up do not reject us forever why do you look the other way Why do you ignore our suffering and oppression? We collapse in the dust lying face down on the dirt Rise us help us Ransom us because of your unfailing love.

There you go Mac Thank you so much for that reading WP 7 in the exterior net control for the West Coast public study good reading Jeff Thank you for that before we proceed with our discussion. I with our kids and with new believers because what happens is history gives us perspective on the present, right? And so when we see how God has dealt in the past, we can look at our present and we can have some understandings.

of what's happening to us in light of how God has dealt in the past. So, yes, Deuteronomy 6-7, teach them to your children. And that's really important.

And so what were they teaching to their children? Well, God brought great victories. And so, you know, we employ the means of deliverance, but God is the one who uses those means to actually bring it to pass.

So, for example, we've got sick people on the net here, right? And they go to the doctor. The doctor is the means of healing, but the one who actually gets the credit for the healing is God.

Just like these people use their swords to fight their battles. Even though they used the means of warfare, God was the one who got the credit for the warfare that was achieved. Because we trust not in the means, but in the God who empowers and enables the means to be able to bring about the results that we've been praying for.

So, yeah, the whole idea of learning history, having humility with reference to the victories that have been achieved is an important part of getting perspective on the present and also giving glory to God for what he has done in the past. And then, of course, encourages us to continue to employ means and trust in the same God who brought us the victories in the past. Kevin, great comments.

Thank you for that. All right. Any other comments, please come in.

WB7VZL. Roger. WB7VZL.

Go ahead. Well, I appreciate the introduction very much and I had read this before and got kind of an insight by the way. I read it in the NLT and the NIV and the impression I had was Romans 8 And the incredible paradoxical mystery, in a sense, has been solved.

Not really solved, but it gives me understanding why Paul placed this psalm into His tremendous Romans 8. Nothing will separate us from the love of God, even in paradoxical situations. We must hang on to that.

I thank you for the introduction. It always... When I was reading Romans 8, it just always was a challenge to hit that quote Why would he put that there?

But I think that the Jewish people, with what they've been through, they have very much experienced the paradoxical question that we have in this psalm. It really, really answered a lot of questions. Verse 22 is the one that I'm referring to, where Paul in Romans 8:36 quotes this Psalm.

And then here we have at the very end of the Psalm, "Unfailing love, nothing can stop me." will ever separate us from the love of God. Unfeeling love. I just, I'll just comment.

That's enough, I guess, for now. This is WB7, I'm using L. Roger, great comment.

Before I respond, the net would like to acknowledge Carol, KK7TPO. Carol, see you there on the Utah FDR. Thanks for being there.

All right, that's Carol, KK7TPO. We got you checked in. All right, back to Roger's comment.

Roger, I really appreciate you bringing out the connections. because Romans chapter 8 and Psalm 44 really are very, very parallel with each other. In both of these situations, you've got the recognition that God is in a covenant relationship with his people.

God loves his people. His people are being faithful to him, and his people are being killed all the day long. And on the face of it, that seems contradictory.

But what God is saying to us is, look, don't judge my love by the providences that happen to you, and don't judge your faithfulness to me by the providences that happen to you. God is recognizing these people are faithful, and for reasons known only to him. He allows them to be killed.

And Roger, this really has come home to me when I read about the Christians in Nigeria that are being slaughtered by the Muslims. And in the last ten years, they've killed about 100,000 Christians in northern Nigeria. And I think, here's God's people.

You know, they're worshiping him, they're preaching his gospel, they're faithfully serving and God allows them to be killed all the day long. And the question is, well, what does that say about God's attitude towards them? Well, according to our passage here in Psalm 44, and according to Romans chapter 8, where it says, nothing can separate us from the love of Christ, we have to say what God is doing with his people here is he's blessing them by bringing them into heaven.

And they're actually better off dead than alive because they're in heaven and free from sin, whereas before they were on earth and struggling with adverse circumstances and enemies and their own flesh and the world and the devil. And so when God takes his saints home, that is an improvement of their situation. And so we can be grateful for that.

So, yeah, we need to interpret our circumstances and our adversities in light of what God says his attitude is toward us in his word and not in light of making conclusions. that if things are bad, God must hate us. If things are good, God must love us.

That's what Job's friends were doing. And we've seen from our study in Job that that's exactly the wrong way to interpret God's providence. God's love is consistent.

God's love is faithful. God is faithful to us. But he does allow ups and downs in our providential circumstances.

And when there's a down, remind yourself, nothing can separate me from God's love. Remind yourself, I've been faithful to him. And so therefore, whatever he's doing here, which I don't understand, he is going to work it together for my good and his glory.

And I'm going to rest on that perspective. and not go into some sort of an attack on God because I've been faithful to him and he's letting bad things happen to me. So, Roger, thank you for making that connection.

And Paul makes the exact same argument in Romans 9, pardon me, Romans 8, that the psalmist makes here in Psalm 44. All right, other comments, please come down. AK6OK.

Okay, I think we might have had a double there, but I got Jeff AK6OK. Jeff AK6OK, please go ahead. Yeah, you know, this is really an interesting song.

What came to mind? Isn't this a great way to pray? Lay the concerns you have out in front of God and ask him to come to your rescue.

Instead of just saying, God, I need this, I need that, I need you to perform in this way or that way. In this particular case, it's a request, but it's also telling you, here's the current situation we're in. And obviously God knows this, but I think this is for your benefit instead of God's, over.

Amen. And well said, Jeff. You know, God knows what needs we have even before he asks, but he still wants us to ask.

And so to rehearse your situation into the ears of God. and then ask Him for deliverance from that situation is a very biblical way to pray. It's the way we're instructed to pray, and there's an example of exactly that kind of prayer, as Jeff pointed out, in Psalm 44.

So yeah, spend some time explaining your situation to God, not because He's ignorant of it, but because this is the way prayer is directed to be offered. both in Matthew chapter 6, where he says, you know, don't use vain repetitions. Your Father knows what you have need of, but nevertheless, spread those needs out before him, and he will hear and he will answer.

So, yes, Jeff, spend time rehearsing your need, your situation, your situation, your anxieties before God, and then ask Him for deliverance. That is the biblical pattern of prayer. All right, there may have been another station on top of Jeff.

Other station, please come down. KAM5F. Okay, there is Brian, KA7ZIP.

Brian, go ahead. The University of Nebraska has long been a tradition for youth, and I know that with faculty and the priorities that we are in. I know that last year was a totally different feeling than today, and I know that it's still a good feeling to take it.

Thank you for your hard work throughout the semester, together with the energy and the the yeah Brian thank you for bringing that passage in and what a wonderful illustration it is of exactly what we're talking about God says I know what's going on in your life it's going to get worse. You're even going to get killed. But be faithful unto death.

And that's the key phrase. Thank you for bringing that out. And that's what we see in Psalm 44, is that even though things are going bad while they're being faithful to God, God is saying to them, in essence, You know keep on being faithful trust me even when I bring adversity Recognize that managing the adversities in your life is my business your business is to stay humble to stay faithful to keep trusting and Recognize that it's the crown of life that you're really living for not tremendous ease and comfort and in your present circumstances.

See, a lot of people are all focused on, what are my present circumstances? Are they all I want them to be? The believer says, I'm focused on the crown of life.

I'm focused on the future in heaven with God. And so whatever happens in this life, these are light afflictions. They're about for a moment.

They're managed by a good God who does things right and is working things together for my good. who's going to supply me with grace to get through them, is going to use them ultimately to make me like his son and bring me into heaven. What's not to like here?

And so thank you, Brian. That's a wonderful prayer. The church is smarter there in Revelation chapter 2.

And what an example of what we're talking about here today. All right. Is there another station that would like to talk?

Please come now. KM 5S. to them we can see okay we got a double there again well km5f you go first and then the god will get you will go ahead yeah it was mentioned that this is a good example of how to pray but i noticed in verse one uh he asked he tells god that uh he has heard with his ears.

So his ears are open and listening. But then we get down to verse 23, and then he says, wake up, O Lord, why do you sleep? It seems to me if you want God to listen to you at the start of the prayers, where you want him to wake up or open his ears, to listen, not at the end.

I found that kind of humor in the KM5F. Yeah, you know, it's interesting how this is structured. But basically, I think what he's doing here is he's saying, God, here's how you've dealt in the past.

And Lord, please listen up and deal this way in the present and in the future. So, yeah, typically a lot of these psalms open with, Lord, hear our cry. And then we have the request, right?

And here we have the request. And when the request is all over, we have, Lord, hear our cry. So, you know, it's appropriate to put it at the front of the prayer and at the back of the prayer and all throughout the prayer.

Will, thank you for pointing that out. All right, that brings us to Scott, KD7YQT. Scott, go ahead.

Hi, this is Scott, KD7YQT. Appreciate you having me take part. Yeah, virtually, you know, wake up, Lord, why are you sleeping?

Is it gone? You just played positive, you guys. He's omniscient.

He's all-powerful. And whenever I see something like that, I've gone through times in my life where it just feels like man is around. You pray, and nothing happens.

And whenever that happens to me, I think about the little things that God has done. Not only just the big things, but the little things. I recently bought a tool here about a year ago.

I was so thrilled. about that and I think, hey, would it have killed me if God said, no, that's God, you're going to have to buy yourself another one? No, I mean, yeah, he could have done that, but when I see his faithfulness in the little things and obviously the big things, it just really helps me get through these times where and like the heavens are braced because he is faithful and he will always be faithful It's just that, you know, sometimes we don't hear any reports.

Anyway, this is the Eastern Lights. That's the next. Scott, thank you so much for that comment.

Very well said. And I think you bring out an important point. Yes, there are times when the heavens are brass and God seems to not be listening.

And yet during those times we need to look around and see all the ways He's blessing us. You know, we've still got a roof over our head, we've still got food in our stomach, And you know, God even gives us little blessings like finding the Leatherman. By the way, Scott, I have an emotional relationship with my Leatherman too.

I think I've had it for 25 years now. It's the very first wave that ever came out. I lost that thing once and I was brokenhearted, but I found it.

Praise the Lord. So been there, done that, experienced what you're talking about. And yeah, those little blessings are constant and continuous, and we need to see God's hand in those, as well as we don't see God's hand answering prayers and the one or two big things that we're concerned with.

So it's not like God has abandoned us all around. It's like he's saying with reference to this one issue, no, I'm not going to give you what you're asking there, but I'm still going to give you all these other things. And so really, when we put the thing he's denying us, into perspective of all the things He is giving us.

It helps us to strengthen our faith and continue to trust and recognize that God's saying no for a reason. God does not afflict His people. He's not cruel.

His attitude is not, "Oh, let's see how miserable I can make them." No, in all of our afflictions, He's afflicted. And He feels what you're feeling when you don't have that answer to prayer. But He's doing it as a faithful Father and as a God who loves us and is withholding that thing because He knows that's what's best.

And we just have to trust Him for that, and we can, and we do. and we will continue to do so. Scott, great comment.

All right, other comments, please come now. ZXN. Okay, I think we had a double there, but I heard ZXN.

Go ahead, Kevin. Yeah, KB7, ZXN. Well, really excellent comments and observations in this text.

One of the key things, well, two key points here real quick. First is, you know, this has got a strong connection to Isaiah 53, where we see the Old Testament's version of teaching us about the cross. and here we see faithfulness the faithfulness of Israel and even pointing out that we've been faithful to the covenant Lord yet we are suffering this humiliation this disgrace and we don't even see why we would be suffering because it's even disgraceful for your name Lord but what we see here I think one of the key principles of this, and Roger pointed this out, Romans 8 really speaks to this.

It's not because they're not being faithful while they're suffering. It's their faithfulness. to God that is causing their suffering.

And Romans 8 speaks to this. Because we are faithful to the one that was humiliated and gave his life on the cross to procure our salvation, our faithfulness will bring suffering. As we know, there is suffering, there's tribulation in this world.

And we will suffer tribulation, but be of good cheer. He has overcome this world. Well, this is kind of the message and the principle behind this.

The suffering isn't because they're not faithful to God. The suffering is because they are faithful to God. And that's what is really revealed in Romans 8.

KB 7, is that acceptable? Yeah, Kevin, well said. It says in Timothy, all those who live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.

And it's precisely because they're being godly that they are suffering persecution. Look at our Lord Jesus. I mean, the perfect man never sins.

You know, one last thing that occurs to me here as well, when you pray, as this example points out, it's a form of worship for the Lord as well, in that you are trusting Him to assist you with your life and with what's going on in life, and that you trust enough in Him to tell Him about it over. Yeah, amen. And that's what is happening here is trust.

You know, Proverbs 3, 5, and 6, trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. I mean, the understanding here is that, hey, we're keeping God's covenant. We're being faithful to God's ways.

We're not going after other gods. We're doing the right thing here. we would expect then that God would be pleased with that and God would bless that.

Instead, it seems like that God is indifferent or that he's even bringing evil upon us while we're being faithful to him. And so that's where trust comes in. Thank you for pointing that out, is that we have to worship even in the midst of our pains.

and turn toward God and not turn away from God. All right, we are out of time. It is now, well, I guess we've got a minute left.

We've got time for another comment. Please come now. Any other comments?

Go ahead. I'll be at peace. Have a reason, Al.

Roger. Please go ahead. It seems like this psalm is brought out in Romans 8.

Thank you, Kevin, for highlighting that too. It seems like the other side of the coin... is Deuteronomy 28 through 30, the blessings and curses.

So, yeah, we can't just take the blessings and curses paradigm of 28 through 30, Deuteronomy 28 through 30, and parallel that with all life circumstances. So it seems like the other side of the coin is this psalm. Over.

Yeah, right. You know, the passage there that Roger's referring to is talking about Israel and her covenant. And God basically says, look, if you keep my covenant and you're faithful, you'll have all these blessings.

And if you violate my covenant and you go after other gods, you're going to have all these curse things. She said she feels healing for her lower back pain. For some of my friends who've had back surgery and then still in pain, they forget how to feed and cover.

Tom, WW7P. She went and told me. She said, "You said, 'March of God has prayed for peace, "to pass out, to the difficult circumstances "and to make God's decision regarding peace.'" "Praised for peace, to have wisdom and peace, "to have anything that's like wine and dementia." "Pencil-line had found that peace and they say also for these dogs here.

From the latest I've heard, running has been placed in this facility. The person who water parks in Europe in safety of the fire department is in the case of an NAD Sun Grant. The first thing I saw was a boy who prayed for his safety.

He didn't say what it was. He was a Chinese museum that purchased him a two-lion caliber and a photo of him in that cap. He was going to be so important.

He said he liked to see his pray for his life. That's the real deal. So we can join the meds.

Oh, 3G7. L-S-W-minus-F-A-C-E-L-E. 3G7.

And L-V-E-L-E. Lucas, he's so much like the game. He needs his strength and power.

Rick Fulton. He's the fellow person. Very familiar to come and see me.

Daryl, take your time. T.B.O. T.B.O.

T.B.O. T.B.O. who run going to therapy.

Pray to establish now that there will come some changes. Thank the Lord for goodness, mercy, grace to each one of us. And for the gift that we're going to receive.

Right. Lord, as we go through this day, help us to keep our focus on you. Please keep in mind that We ask all this in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord.

Amen. And this is WV7MX. Amen Jerry.

Thank you so much for the prayer. Really appreciate you bringing us to the throne of grace. This is Max, WV7MX, net control for the West Coast Bible Society.

I want to thank all the stations who checked in today and those who stood by. and a great group of people contributing. We really appreciate you being here with us, Ted.

Back to you. Oh, yeah. Yeah, it's been a big thing for us back here because, you know, it's kind of like, you know, tremendous benefits and uh the benefits to the soul in the heart and have that relationship with god you know my dad's first uh everybody had their candle totally dark and then they light the candles Yeah, I heard about Pugmo Rose, and, uh, you know, he looked at me, and he said, "Son, I wouldn't being with God in the new heavens and the new earth.

And this is just our journey, if you will, to the promised land. Remember, Israel got saved out of Egypt and baptized in the Red Sea, and then they had this walk, and they had their ups and downs. Wow, Scott, you're running barefoot.

You sound like you're running the amplifier that you're hoping to put on. No, not yet. I've got a 540-foot loose around the property here.

And when the tree came down, like Matt said, it broke my hand. It's open. It's locked down and then white-capped.

that loop and i know i know that he's dreaming about his loop as well i'd like to dream too i've got a power line that is kind of keeping me from doing a lot of experimentation that's uh too close for comfort for that So you feed the loop with a ladder line and then you take care of it. You run the ladder line into an antenna tuner. Is that what you're doing, Scott?

I'm going to make sure that you're in the local area and you're in the port. And so I can do my thing here. And that's what's going on down there.

And I think you saw the. Yeah, we did. But I still have to do this to be ready to do it.

But I'm glad that you're getting. I'm going to take your. Oh, yeah.

got my time for celebration for sure praising the lord for these good things well a wonderful barefoot signal from your location uh that's you max uh that's that kind of underlines your dream for a loop over yeah copy that appreciate that wb7 max here

========== ### Scripture Reading (KJV)

**Psalm 44:1-26**

1. We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old. 2. How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them, how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out. 3. For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them. 4. Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob. 5. Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us. 6. For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me. 7. But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us. 8. In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah. 9. But thou hast cast us off, and forsaken us, why wilt thou be so hard upon thy anointed? 10. Bring us out of trouble: for hid hast been our saviour. 11. Through thee will we do valiantly: for thou art LORD our God. 12. Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself. 13. So will not we go back from thee: quicken thou us, and we will call upon thy name. 14. LORD, arise, disappoint us not: and let the heathen know that thou art LORD, even thou only. 15. Why hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression? 16. For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth. 17. Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies' sake.

### Study Summary

The Bible study focused on Psalm 44, a psalm that reflects on the puzzling ways of God and the challenges faced by His people. The discussion centered on the idea that God's dealings can be confusing, but faithfulness to Him remains constant. The psalmist recounts the past blessings and victories of God, contrasting them with the current plight and supplication for deliverance.

The study highlighted the importance of teaching history to children and new believers to gain perspective on current situations. This historical context helps in understanding that God's past victories and current adversities are part of His plan. The group also discussed Romans 8:36, which quotes Psalm 44, emphasizing that nothing can separate us from God's love. This connection underscores the consistency of God's love and faithfulness, regardless of the adversities faced.

The structure of prayer in Psalm 44 was discussed, emphasizing the importance of laying out concerns before God. Trust in God's providence and faithfulness, even in difficult times, was a recurring theme. The group also explored the idea that faithfulness to God can lead to suffering, as seen in Isaiah 53. Despite suffering, God's love and faithfulness are not negated; trust and worship continue.

The study also touched on the blessings and curses paradigm found in Deuteronomy 28-30, noting its limitations in explaining all life circumstances. Psalm 44 provides a different perspective on God's dealings, emphasizing that faithfulness to God is paramount, regardless of the outcomes.

In conclusion, the group prayed for peace and wisdom, expressing thankfulness for God's goodness and grace. The study encouraged participants to maintain faith in difficult times by trusting in God's love and faithfulness, and continuing to worship and pray, recognizing that God's purposes are beyond human understanding. ==========