Faith and Prayer in Spiritual Warfare
2026-11-03 · 3.975 MHz · 0600 PST
The Bible reading
Psalm 125
Today's Reading (KJV): Psalm 125
1They that trust in the LORD shall be as mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever. 2As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from henceforth even for ever. 3For the rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous; lest the righteous put forth their hands unto iniquity. 4Do good, O LORD, unto those that be good, and to them that are upright in their hearts. 5As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: but peace shall be upon Israel.
The study focused on Psalm 125, a five-verse psalm that contrasts the stability of those who trust in the Lord with the temporary rule of the wicked. The net control identified the historical context as the events in Nehemiah chapters 4 and 6, where enemies like Sanballat and Tobiah attempted to stop the rebuilding of Jerusalem's walls through intimidation and infiltration. The psalm is presented as a response to such opposition, affirming that God protects His people and that the scepter of wickedness will not permanently rest upon the lot of the righteous.
Insights
- Faith does not require visible signs or 'lightning bolts' to confirm that prayers are heard; believers trust in Christ's answer in His time and way.
- God will not allow the oppression of the wicked to continue long enough to cause His people to abandon their faith or join the enemy to escape persecution.
- The metaphor of mountains surrounding Jerusalem illustrates that God surrounds His people with strength, making them secure against the power of men.
- Consistent prayer is crucial; the net control shared a practical tip of tying prayer time to daily habits like brushing teeth to maintain consistency.
- The removal of prayer and the Bible from schools is cited as a factor in the spiritual decline of the nation, highlighting the importance of maintaining a strong prayer life.
- Spiritual warfare requires hard work and diligence, as seen in Nehemiah's example where the people worked on the wall despite opposition.
Transcript
0:00you sounded good you had a good signal everything's good it seems like
0:06well praise the lord for that yeah the band seems to be working okay today and we're grateful for
0:10that all right joe ki6 this is wxp got you checked in uh any prayer requests there joe
0:16are you good to go good to go buddy thank you anyway all right real good real good okay any
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0:35okay that's a question okay that's a question go ahead did they change the password for the prayer list
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1:10okay let's see who else do we have here on our sdr seeing if anybody showed up snuck in here while
1:18i was busy doing something else uh nope no uh no no no new uh call signs on the sdrs all right any
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1:40all right we are in psalm 125 today for those of you who are uh uh unaware of where we're at with
1:58psalm 125 so if you could be reading that over a real short one only five verses but lots there to
2:04discuss okay so i got a message here from keith k7 neb all right oh this is terrible
2:16he says good morning this is keith k7 neb right he says good morning that was not a prayer request
2:22more of a sharing of a small crisis we're having because we ran out of cone of coffee here and it's
2:28going to be a week before we can secure some more we only order a hundred percent cone of coffee from
2:34the big island so this morning i'm having to drink tom hanks coffee which is clearly not the same thus
2:40the mini crisis no prayer requests have a great morning all keith uh our sympathies are with you
2:47brother you're down there suffering uh but we know you're going to make it through and persevere
2:53until the cone of coffee shows up all right that's our good brother keith k7 neb giving us a little
3:01humor this morning all right any other check-ins please come now wb7 visa now good morning nice band over
3:11uh good morning and it is a nice band roger good to have you with us how are you doing
3:16better than i deserve over i'll copy that that's the truth for all of us for sure
3:22all right roger we got you checked in no new prayer requests we're waiting on autumn's application
3:29that would be huge uh for a um a place other than us over oh okay so that's not a done deal yet she's
3:40still out to be approved is that it roger okay so let's uh pray for autumn that's roger wb sub diesel for
3:48autumn's uh uh um application to be approved for moving into a new place uh she's been living with
3:58roger and dalene off and on for a long time and uh that's a lot of stress for roger and dalene and so
4:04we're just praying that autumn will be able to get approved for a new place to live so thank you for
4:11that uh al kj7qqh copy all good copy thanks thank you al appreciate that al keeps up the prayer list for
4:20me as they come in and i appreciate that so much eric does the net logger and uh that's a big help to me
4:27as i look over that to double check that i've gotten everybody checked in and then brian kj7pwm does the
4:34um uh website and jeff ak6ok hooks me up with the remote in quarter lane and runs the net when i'm
4:41gone so i have lots of people helping me out here on this net want to recognize them and express
4:47appreciation to each of them for all that they do so thank you all and then we have folks that open
4:53and close in prayer and uh we've got um people that read scripture so this is a community effort
5:02and we want to recognize that i appreciate all of you that contribute uh all right i have a little
5:07announcement to make here and this is from daryl um wb7aot uh and as you know daryl wb7aot
5:17is net control for the midwest bible study and they meet at 4 a.m pacific time okay which would be 6 a.m their
5:27time um but if you're out here on the west coast if you're going to pick up the midwest bible study
5:34you'd have to be dialing that up at 4 a.m well they have a new frequency uh they moved the net to 3977
5:43that's 3977 and they're going to stay there for a while see how that goes uh one of the problems with
5:51having a net back east is there's lots of other people on the bands and they've been kind of having
5:57to fight with other nets um in the at the frequency they were at so uh they now seem to have found a
6:05hole uh in the 75 meter band and so they're going to be at 3977 so if you uh do check into that net
6:15that will be the frequency 3977 for the midwest bible study uh that's daryl wb7aot net control
6:23telling us that and i'm going to check in daryl wb7aot by way of text message this morning daryl we got
6:30you checked in and appreciate you updating us on your frequency change all right any other check-ins
6:36this morning please come now to call sign kb7zxn good morning all right we had a triple i picked up
6:46all of those people first of all we got kevin kb7zxn good morning kevin how are you doing and good
6:52morning and again i i also express my appreciation thanks for everyone that uh participates and helps
7:01that uh this net uh what a wonderful uh brethren we have here kb7zxn all right real good kevin and
7:10thank you for that and then we got sandy ws7 as may be and beck alfalfa five yanky good morning beck
7:16how are you guys doing well good morning we're doing pretty good but not as good as uh whoever it
7:22is that's waiting for the kuna coffee and the reason why is because we drink black ivory coffee
7:28which is a produce in thailand from arabica cherries that are eaten by elephants and our problem is
7:34from what i'm told the elephants constipated they gave them some laxatives but we don't know you know
7:41what we're waiting for oh yeah no comment there all right we got you guys checked in back thank you for
7:54that all right any other check-ins please come down my comment on that one was holy crap
8:06that was appropriate all right any other check-ins please come down only god knows
8:12okay uh i cut somebody off there uh i think that might have been jeff ak6 okay jeff did you have a
8:27comment go ahead yeah i said then that's gone completely out of control max good good tuesday morning
8:33yeah right out of control yep okay we're going to get back into the uh the realm of the rational
8:40here all right we got peter kj7ba good morning peter see you there on the utah sdr and good to have you
8:48with us um and appreciate you being there uh we've also got bruce kd0eqk bruce good morning good to have
8:56you with us as well appreciate you being there that's bruce kd0eqk all right uh who else do we have
9:04on my sdrs give me a second here
9:10all right the net like to acknowledge gene k7 gwr gene got you checked in appreciate you being there
9:26um all right i think we have everyone else um okay i'll be checking my sdrs um yeah peter says good
9:36morning to everyone so that's great all right we are ready to get started with the west coast bible
9:42study uh we are in psalm 125 before we get started we want to open in prayer and so ed in 6xoh if you
9:49could open a prayer for us today sure appreciate that go ahead brother all right let us all pray
9:55dear heavenly father we just come to you this morning we ask that you bless our bible study you know we all
10:03participate here in the study lord your words will touch each heart here lord we just know that
10:11uh there's power in in your words so we just ask lord that your holy spirit will descend upon each
10:18person here and open our hearts and our minds as we study your words lord i just ask that you bless
10:26pastor max as he leads out you know it's uh he does an important job for this uh bible study for us lord
10:35and we just ask that you bless him and watch over him and lord just ask too lord that you'll keep your uh
10:44you know hand upon our country or today we all go to the polls and just ask lord that you keep us a christian
10:52country and there's so much evil that uh satan's working against us and we just ask for your
11:00protection watch over us and bless us and again lord i just come to you and ask that we each that you'll
11:08know that we love you and that we all want to be ready when you come to take us home i pray in jesus name
11:15amen and success for each amen ed thank you so much for the prayer really appreciate that a lot all
11:21right we're in psalm 125 i want to give a little introduction to that before jeff reads it to us um
11:27you know faith and prayer are two of the great means that god has given us to fight spiritual battles
11:34with we exercise faith in the person of god in his wisdom his power and his goodness and we exercise
11:43faith in the promises of god their truthfulness their certainty and their fulfillment and then
11:49not only do we exercise faith we also exercise prayer uh prayer as the means to call upon and draw
11:57out the help of god for the trials that we experience and for the enemies that we face
12:04and so prayer that casts our anxieties on the lord and brings us peace from the lord
12:09and strength from the lord that's one of the major weapons we use to fight spiritual warfare with
12:16so the christian lives by these two great principles of prayer and faith they're the means by which we
12:24face and overcome all the obstacles that show up in our lives and through them we obtain not only peace
12:31but also triumph now faith and prayer are the two things that are being employed in psalm 125 uh that's
12:42before us today uh this psalm opens with an expression of faith that god will protect his people who trust in
12:50him and then this psalm closes with an expression of prayer that god will deliver his people who call upon
12:58them now the setting of this psalm and the events that occasioned it are probably those of nehemiah
13:06chapter 6 verses 1 to 14 now uh without reading that passage at the moment uh that's uh nehemiah you
13:15recall went back to the land to rebuild the wall and there were some some people in the land that were
13:21doing everything they could to discourage nehemiah from building the walls so there's these guys named
13:28sam ballot and tobiah and gisham and basically what they're doing is they're trying to uh distract
13:35nehemiah from the work they're trying to threaten him from being able to carry out the work and they're
13:40doing all they can to undermine and infiltrate um and destroy the work of god that's going on there
13:48uh well um they they were determined uh to uh stop the construction of the wall around jerusalem
13:59and sadly even among the jews there were certain traitors who were in league with the enemies of
14:05israel and uh even brought them into uh the city walls inside the city walls and and it seemed like
14:14the work might be uh subverted and stopped uh and that the wicked might prevail to rule over the
14:21righteous followers of of god but the author of this psalm stoutly resisted the idea that defeat was
14:28inevitable in fact he strongly believed that the godly would prevail while the wicked would be defeated
14:38and so the psalmist knew there was a god in heaven and that god would prevail over evil men
14:43and over their evil plans and so he believed that and uh and he prayed with reference to that and he
14:50did so with confidence so the psalmist here is strong in faith the psalmist is confident in prayer that god
14:57would bless his people and that god would defeat the workers of inequity who sought to undermine and
15:04defeat the work of god and so we need to have the same confidence today there are so many adversaries
15:11who oppose and undermine the work of god and who do all they can to stop the gospel from being
15:16believed the will of christ from being done and the kingdom of god from being built so what are we
15:22going to do are we going to look at our opposition and throw up our hands in despair no we're not going
15:28to do that we are going to strengthen our faith we're going to deepen our prayer and by those means
15:33we're going to triumph over the evil one uh whose works christ came to destroy and his evil people who
15:40are working at undermining the cause of the kingdom so what we want to do today is look at the example of
15:46the psalmist as to how to carry out spiritual warfare and how do we carry it out with faith in god's promises
15:54in person and prayer to god's throne of grace to draw out strength in the arm of god to protect and
16:03provide and defend and prosper his people all right that is a little introduction to our psalm and i'm
16:12going to ask just a case it's okay if he would read for us psalm 125 go ahead there jeff
16:17okay and good morning everybody let's start with verse one from the new king james version
16:26uh psalm 125 those who trust in the lord are like mount sion which cannot be moved but abides forever
16:37as the mountains surround jerusalem so the lord surrounds his people from this time forth and forever
16:44verse three for the scepter of wickedness shall not rest on the land out uh allotted to the righteous
16:54lest the righteous reach out their hands to iniquity to good oh lord to those who are good
17:02and to those who are upright in their hearts and verse five as for such as turn aside to their crooked
17:10ways the lord shall lead them away with the workers of iniquity peace be upon israel and there is the
17:19reading of psalm 25 aka i'm sorry 125 aka six okay all right jeff great reading thank you for that good
17:27job all right any comments on our psalm please come down with your call sign
17:31w6ysi uh steve w6ysi go ahead yeah i got uh just a very short uh verse from the reading this morning of uh
17:49Charles Spurgeon for november the third the very last statement of this morning uh a devotional it says this
18:01faith asks no signal from the skies to show that prayers accepted rise our priest is in his holy place
18:14and answers from the throne of grace amen w6ysi
18:22yeah that's exactly right steve and and that's the that's the part of faith faith uh doesn't require
18:27sight um you know we walk by faith and not by sight and so when we pray we're not looking for some
18:34lightning bolt to fall from heaven we pray in the confidence that christ heard and that christ is going
18:41to answer that prayer in his time and in his way uh as he sees fit to bring the maximum blessing into our
18:48lives and you know a lot of times when we pray we say oh god didn't answer the prayer god always answers
18:55the prayer he just answers it in a way that may not be um according to our desires uh but he always
19:04answers and he always answers in such a way as to maximize our blessing and his glory even though we
19:12might not have expected that uh that's how he would do that and that's how it worked out and that's where
19:19meekness comes in you know meekness says as we pray right lord not my will but thine be done and so
19:26yeah we lay out our requests and we should um and we do well uh when we do so and then we wait and see
19:34what god's going to do with that how he's going to answer uh in what way and in what time and then
19:40however he answers we um we say um you know god has done all things well and that's what faith is
19:48in prayer um you know a lot of people think oh prayer didn't work because i didn't get what i asked
19:53for uh well if god doesn't give you what you asked for he gives you something better than that because
20:00what you asked for wasn't good enough he had better uh plans for you to make you more like his son
20:07to uh uh equip you for ministry to uh teach you godly character uh and to bring uh maximum glory uh to his
20:16name so steve thanks for that uh appreciate that perspective all right any other comments please come
20:22now okay i think i heard that koi george if that's you go ahead appropriate verse for uh these times and
20:34especially for today verse four do good o lord unto those that be good and to them that are upright in their hearts k1 koi
20:45yeah and um what a great prayer you know what we have here in uh in verse uh four is um you know
20:54the the thomas recognizing that there's there's two categories of people here right um there are
20:59those who do good and those are the ones who are the believers because you know faith always produces
21:07good works and so um those that be good and those who do good are those who are good because they've
21:14been saved um and of course those are the folks that are upright in their hearts that is they're not
21:21living lives of deceit and destructive uh sinfulness they are people who are being faithful to uh to the
21:29lord and so um it's it's uh god deals differently with those who are are saved and who bring forth the
21:38fruits of salvation doing good and being upright versus how he deals with those in verse five those
21:45who turn aside to their crooked ways so there's two classes of people in this world and god deals
21:51differently with each of them and if we are those who have repented of our sins and are trusting in
21:57jesus as our savior then we may expect we may expect that god will do us good because romans 8 28 says
22:07that he works all things together for good to those who love the lord uh to those who are the called
22:13according to his purpose and so um when we pray that god would do us good uh we're praying according to
22:20that promise in romans 8 28 we're praying according to the example here in psalm 125 and verse four a
22:28great comment there uh george appreciate that all right any other comments please come now
22:35ak6 okay george uh jeff ak6 okay go ahead yeah i was reading another little commentary it's really
22:44interesting this is what's going on right now psalm 125 is about trusting the lord when wicked people
22:51hold power and are we not right in the middle of that mess those who trust him are like mount zion
22:58which stands firm and the lord's care for his people is like mountains around jerusalem um and then
23:04this song moves from trust to protection it then says that wicked rule will not rest forever on the
23:11land god allotted to the righteous it ends with prayer and judgment and peace and god's people
23:18may still suffer but wicked power cannot defeat what god has promised uh wow that's interesting
23:27yeah jeff that's a great summary of the entire psalm and you know uh when you start out there
23:32verse one right they that trust in the lord shall be as mount zion which cannot be removed but abides
23:39forever forever and there is the picture of stability the metaphor there is that of an immense
23:45mountain uh that can't be moved from its place and uh it stays there uh forever it's fixed and
23:52permanent and in the same way the person who trusts in the lord and has faith in the lord
23:58enjoys a fixed and permanent place in the grace of god the mercy of god the love of god and
24:05in the favor of god and so we can't be moved out of the place of god's acceptance and favor uh and
24:13so uh the believer remains the object of god's favor forever just like a mountain remains in its place
24:22of forever and nothing can separate us from his love so yeah we need to have that perspective that when
24:28the wicked rise up and when the wicked rule and when the wicked are threatening us with oppression
24:34and persecution um what do we have well we've got the lord to trust in and what that trust does
24:43is it makes us solid stable and secure and um we we lose our anxiety and we have the peace that passes
24:52all understanding so uh just as the mountains verse two are round about jerusalem so the lord
24:58is round about his people from henceforth and forever uh and so the idea there is that the mountains
25:06surrounded jerusalem and god surrounds his people uh with strength nobody's going to move those mountains
25:13out of the way to get to jerusalem is the idea and nobody's going to move god out of the way to get to
25:19us so we don't have any fear from the power of men when we have the power of god surrounding us and
25:26defending us and giving us that stability and that security um that he alone is able to provide great
25:34comment there jeff thank you for that all right any other comments please come now a7er uh a7er go ahead
25:42there jerry watching the news last night i ran is attacking israel again and i think first five is
25:51really apropos yeah verse five is apropos for sure uh jerry a7er said that iran's attacking israel again
26:01he saw that on the news and uh so yeah verse five uh as such as turn aside uh under their crooked ways
26:08the lord shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity but peace be upon israel so yeah you
26:13know um we stand with those who stand with god we stand against those who stand against god and that's
26:20how we align ourselves and identify ourselves so jerry thank you for bringing us that piece of news i was
26:26not aware of that uh but uh appreciate your contribution there all right any other comments please come now
26:33now
26:39wb7 visa now roger please go ahead
26:45uh i i really identify with your historic context with the reference to sam ballad and i'm looking at
26:58chapter four chapter four of nehemiah and this reference and all of them conspired together to
27:06come and fight against jerusalem and to cause a disturbance in it that kind of fits some of
27:14these references we're talking about in this song right yeah so and and they didn't just do that once
27:21they did it in chapter four they did in chapter six okay and eventually you know they wrote um to
27:28the king and um you know they just did everything they could to throw sand into the gears of the work
27:34of the kingdom of god and you know when that happens to us uh we need to not be discouraged we need to
27:41double down uh with even more prayer even more faith uh even more diligence and hard work because
27:50the work of god never goes forward without serious resistance from satan and from his people and so
27:59that's why paul says to timothy fight the good fight of faith and that's why he says to him endure
28:06hardness as a good soldier of jesus christ we're told elsewhere in ephesians 6 to put on the whole
28:13armor of god and uh paul says so fight i not as one that beats the air and so we have all these metaphor
28:23uh metaphorical statements in the scriptures about uh physical warfare that are brought into and applied to
28:31spiritual warfare and so um you know there's a battle here between the kingdom of light and the
28:37kingdom of darkness now we know who's going to prevail we know who has the power but we've got to
28:43stand up and fight and not grow discouraged and when you know the wicked seem to have um a little bit of
28:49victory um we don't just give up we've seen in some of our previous psalms where israel suffered some
28:56sort of a military defeat and then where they uh turned to god and and doubled down in prayer and
29:02said lord you know we've had to flee before the armies of of the enemy lord um remember your covenant
29:10promises to us and lord bring deliverance the next time we go to battle so that's how it goes it kind
29:17of goes back and forth uh and we just have to keep on fighting and not go weary and well doing
29:24because we know that in due time we will reap if we faint not and that's the thing is we can't be
29:30quitters we can't get part way through like the rocky ground soil in the thorny ground soil uh you
29:36remember that they seem to to to be believers until the heat of persecution came or the seduction of worldly
29:44uh enticements came and then they fell away but we have to with patience bring forth fruit
29:50uh and that takes time and perseverance hard work sometimes discouragement and disappointment
29:56but we never quit we never give up and we sure never change sides so that's what you see nehemiah
30:03doing that's what you see ezra doing and that's what constitutes you know a true leader of the people
30:09of god is they never quit they never give up they never give in and they never go back and they never
30:13compromise the truth uh for the sake of somehow gaining some temporal advantage uh so roger thank
30:20you uh for pointing out nehemiah four as well as nehemiah six all right any other comments please come out
30:27wb7 israel roger please go ahead uh your emphasis on the hard work of the spiritual disciplines and to the
30:43it specifically mentions that in verse six of nehemiah four and it's the key text of nehemiah
30:53uh for the phrases for the people had a mind to work the people of god had a uh they had a mind to work
31:08and that's what we're talking about you you do have to have the word of god and the spirit of god to have
31:15the mind to do the work of god amen well said and um that's why you know paul says uh count the elders
31:26uh worthy of the rule well worthy of double honor especially they who labor in the word and in
31:34doctrine so it's hard work to preach the word of god to teach it to witness to evangelize uh he says study
31:41to show thyself approved unto god a workman that needs not to be ashamed uh accurately handling the
31:48word of truth and elsewhere in colossians paul talks about the fact that he labored to the point of
31:54exhaustion uh in doing the work of god so satan's a hard worker his people are relentless uh in the hard
32:03work they do and uh we need to uh you know strengthen the feeble knees and lift up the hands that hang down
32:10uh and put aside our discouragement and get back there and get at it and work hard at the cause of the
32:18kingdom and not allow ourselves to be discouraged by the relentlessness and the uh tremendous energy
32:26and resources that the wicked put into uh their agenda in serving satan we need to work just as hard
32:34if not harder and be just as unrelenting uh so that we don't budge one inch on the truth of of the gospel
32:45and uh on on uh backing away from uh doing any kind of ministry you remember that in acts when uh peter and
32:54and john were preaching and and the uh the council told them to stop preaching and they said well should we
33:00obey god or men right they didn't back down one inch and they just kept on preaching and took the
33:06persecution and the heat uh knowing uh that god was greater than any civil authority or any uh false
33:16religion or any kind of a coalition of people that might be raised against them so yeah i love that
33:24verse roger uh nehemiah chapter four and verse six so built we the wall and all the wall was joined
33:31together under the half thereof for the people had a mind to work great comment roger thank you for that
33:40all right other comments please come out
33:41why is i uh steve why is i go ahead yeah i just wanted to share a verse i think it goes
33:53uh hand in hand with what we're hearing this morning uh from god's word romans 12 2
34:01it says and do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind that you may
34:13prove what the will of god is that which is good and acceptable and perfect that's what god is doing
34:19is uh for the true believer is that is that uh his mind is being transformed
34:26uh uh from that of the world and um we understand that it's the word of god
34:36that is transforming us and giving us strength and giving us courage and uh and helps us to stand
34:43upright and and then to be stable w6ysi yeah steve well said and you know when you look at that
34:51romans 12 2 be not conformed to the world um you know what that means is that we're different from
34:58them we stand against what they stand for uh we don't engage in the behaviors that they engage in
35:06and uh we're going to stand in contrast to that uh and of course that sets us up for conflict
35:14um and so i i think you know as i read that verse i think of psalm 1 verses 1 and 2
35:22blesses the man who walks not in the council of the ungodly or stands in the way of sinners
35:27or sits in the seat of the scornful that is he's not being conformed to this world verse 2 says but his
35:34delight is in the law of the lord and in his law doth he meditate day and night and so he's being
35:40transformed by the word of god to learn the will of god and he's reorganizing his thinking before he thought
35:50in the way of the ungodly and the scornful and the sinners and now he's thinking in the way of the
35:57scriptures and the lord jesus christ and the example and teaching of the apostles uh the instruction of
36:04the old testament and he's saying this is how i'm going to live and so when we talk about salvation
36:12we use the word conversion and the word convert means to turn from one thing to another
36:18it's kind of like the word repentance repentance is turning from sin and to god and conversion is
36:24turning from the old life to the new life it's turning from serving satan to serving god so yeah
36:31there's this big switch from the kingdom of darkness to the kingdom of light and i think
36:36romans 12 and verse 2 really captures that don't be conformed to the world be transformed by the
36:42renewing of your mind how do you renew your mind well by reading the word of god steve great comment
36:48thank you all right other comments please come now zxn kevin kb7 zxn please go ahead
36:54good morning again yeah great wonderful comments um you know uh looking at this it uh a couple of
37:07things stand out too and i think some comments been made sorry little uh has some distractions so this
37:14early but um um the the permanence though first of all as you know the psalm opens up here we see
37:22the the the steadfastness of those that turn to god and as they look at their geography around them
37:30and they look the permanence of mountain zion of jerusalem there in the mountain and as they look
37:35around they see mountains around them and the natural fortification that it provides there
37:41uh uh and just structurally uh by its geography and very nature but equating that to how much
37:51greater is uh about zion of god uh of the permanence of his uh strength and to those that would turn to him
38:02and then he immediately turns to and and i think your uh nehemiah uh example is probably uh accurate here
38:13based on the circumstance certainly fits and that we see that uh you know that he immediately points
38:20to the scepter of wickedness and but here's a principle i think that might be overlooked a little
38:27that is uh that made here and that uh this that god won't allow this for for only a certain period of
38:36time and the great concern here is as we have sometimes as as uh you know leaders of churches and
38:46what have you or our brethren is is the fact that the influence of that evil can have on other believers
38:54and we see there that uh you know in verse three and and there that that this wickedness that the
39:02influence would have to lead the hands to do uh support evil but yet god's not going to allow that
39:09uh only for a period of time and this is the confidence in the god that we serve is yes as we know uh there was
39:20some uh uh judgment brought upon israel uh and at jerusalem and judah and they were in exile and um but
39:31you know and and they're still going to have enemies against them and even some of the uh their own may
39:39have been corrupted by the wickedness but that's not going to stand uh turn to good and uh and the
39:47prayer again to turning to god to those that seek good and righteousness here and the faithfulness of god
39:55to be faithful in that and i think there's application for even us today we're not on mount zion but we can
40:03trust the one who reigns over mount zion ultimately and uh in his steadfastness and his purpose and he will
40:11let evil reign only so long kb7 to that extent yeah kevin thank you for that he will only let he will
40:19reign so long i really appreciate that emphasis in your comment you know in verse three of our psalm
40:27it says the rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous let the righteous put forth
40:35their hands to iniquity and the idea there is that the rod of the wicked is the oppressive rule of wicked
40:44men over the righteous and the promise is that the rule of the wicked will not remain uh for a long period
40:52of time over the righteous uh that is it will not rest there and the word rest means to settle down and remain
40:59upon now in nehemiah uh chapter four and chapter six persons of influence and authority were attempting to use their
41:08power to oppress the people of god and the people of god here are called collectively the lot of the
41:16righteous and of course the holy land was divided by lots that is by the casting of lots in the days of
41:23joshua and so the lot of the righteous then is just a metaphor for the promised land and the people of god
41:29in it and the promise there in uh verse three is that the rod which is the symbol of rule and authority
41:39uh of the wicked is not going to settle down and remain on the people of god and the reason for that
41:46is stated uh if the rule of the wicked over the righteous is allowed to remain uh and the unjust
41:53sufferings it imposes on them goes on and on and on without any remission
41:57then it could create pressure on the people of god to abandon their righteous stand join the
42:05oppressors in their wickedness in order to relieve themselves from the persecution they're constantly
42:11experiencing we see that argument in the book of hebrews right uh the the the the jews were putting
42:18pressure on the professing hebrew christians to go back to judaism and if they would just do that
42:24they would be relieved from the persecution um and so this has never been the case the point is god's
42:31not going to allow his people to be so oppressed by the rule of the wicked for so long that they wind
42:38up giving up and uh joining the wicked in their wickedness in order to escape oppression uh so uh the
42:46promise here is our troubles are not going to outlast our strength to endure them and that's what it says
42:50in the new testament right god will not allow us to be tested above that which we are able the will
42:56with the testing provide a way of escape that we may be able to bear it so we've got a wonderful promise
43:01there verse three is yeah sometimes we have bad leaders uh but god manages them in such a way that they
43:08never overcome the faith of his people and cause them to go apostate and to abandon uh the truth of god's
43:17words so yeah kevin it's good to know that god's in control of uh these wicked rulers he may allow
43:25them to rise up and rule for a time but he always takes them down and continues to deliver his people
43:31and his kingdom all right any other comments please come now okay i will km5s please go ahead yeah during
43:39the introduction you commented about faith and prayer i think as a nation we have fallen down on the prayer
43:46we allowed him to take prayer out of the school and uh i'd like to see in our prayer times in the you
43:53know at the uh entry in the morning that we uh pray for the prayer life of each other because if we
44:01could have a stable prayer life not allow interruptions we might be able to make a big difference in the
44:07world camp that is well well said that's why it says in first thessalonians 5 pray without ceasing
44:15and the idea there is don't let periods of prayerlessness occur in your life you know sometimes
44:23we'll pray pretty good right for four days we'll have a good prayer time and then something happens
44:29and we don't pray that day and then we get out of the habit and maybe two or three days go by and we
44:34don't pray we go oh man you know i gotta get back to my prayers and um so the idea there as you well
44:42said is that we need to have consistent prayer life and that's really what uh is going on here in verses
44:48four and five is they're praying and so i agree you know those disastrous decisions those three decisions
44:56and i think it was 1962 and 1963 where they took bible out of the schools they took prayer out of the
45:03schools and they took the ten commandments out of the schools and then they wonder why that next
45:08generation just turned into lawless uh and and godless people and so uh you know um then then
45:18then righteousness exalts a nation but sin is a reproach to many people uh the people who know
45:25their god will be strong and do exploits but the people who don't but will be crushed and destroyed so
45:30you're right will uh when we took uh or i should say when the supreme court that wicked body uh took
45:38prayer and bible reading and the ten commandments out of the schools uh they destroyed the spiritual
45:44future of the nation and then of course the churches at the same time were uh imbibing a lot of
45:52modernistic theology and abandoning the old paths wherein is the good way and compromising the truth
45:59and uh so the church is equally guilty along with the government of failing to uphold the truths of
46:06the word of god so thank you for that call that to be uh checking up on ourselves and our own prayer lives
46:14and to pray uh that we would be consistent in our prayer life i was just praying last night uh regarding that
46:22exact thing uh for myself uh lord my prayer life has been really inconsistent helped me to get back
46:29going and squirt away there so we all struggle with that and uh you know one of the things i found that
46:35really helps is tying my prayer time to something i already do um so i i i get up every day and i get
46:43dressed without fail uh every day i brush my teeth without fail every day i eat dinner without fail
46:51uh and so if you can take your your prayer time or your bible time and tie it to something
46:57do you already do without fail that helps keep you consistent in it i found that works for me
47:02all right we are out of time we need to stop here and go to prayer are there any final prayer requests
47:08before we uh close in prayer please come now with your call sign okay let's follow up
47:14km5f please go ahead yeah in luke 21 jesus tells us to watch therefore and pray always
47:20that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass
47:24and to stand before the son of man it's really hard to pray always but uh we get interrupted an awful
47:31lot in our prayer times km5s
47:33yeah well real good you said luke 21 do you have the verse there 21 36 all right look at luke 21 36
47:46that's a great passage thank you for reminding us of that passage um i've reflected on that one many
47:52times luke 21 36 you all look at that after the net okay all right any final prayer requests before we
47:59go to prayer please come now with your call sign zxn please go ahead yeah and thank you for the
48:07references and the emphasis on prayer um there's a uh a lady a colleague that i'm working with on a
48:14project but she's going in for surgery on cancer and uh one part of her body uh but she's also
48:23uh the possibility she might have throat cancer and uh and so they're going to explore that at the
48:31same time at another part of her body and uh her name is michelle and uh she she's in boise there but i
48:39just asked that she left her in prayer she lives alone she doesn't really have uh family from what i
48:45understand and uh not real she's been involved with the church for a long time but they're not real uh
48:52they're not real personal i guess so uh michelle uh is her name and just be in prayer for her she's
49:00going to surgery tomorrow and uh and not sure you know i think she's a little uneasy about the
49:06possibilities and outcome as you might have mentioned kb7 zedixson
49:10yeah kevin real good we've got that and uh we'll certainly pray about that all right any other
49:18prayer requests please come now
49:25all right well let's go to prayer
49:32excuse me there for a second um our kind and gracious heavenly father thank you so much for
49:37uh this passage that we studied today lord um we we trust in you and lord we know that trust in you
49:46brings stability in our lives father thank you uh as the hymn writer says faith is the victory uh and not
49:55faith as faith but faith in uh the lord jesus christ is the victory and so we do trust in jesus who is our
50:05lord who is our savior who is the enthroned god who is uh powerful uh and able to save and manage and
50:13build his kingdom and defeat his enemies and so we thank you that his power and strength and protection
50:21surrounds us and that um he is not going to allow the wicked to oppress us beyond that which we're able
50:28to bear um and so we just pray lord jesus that you would do us good um and that you would uh defeat
50:37uh those who turn aside and you would give us peace father thank you for this wonderful psalm the
50:43prayer it contains it is the prayer of our hearts lord we just want to pray today for michelle
50:50uh kevin kb7 zedekson mentioned to us just now uh who has cancer uh and uh she's alone and she's
50:59having surgery tomorrow lord i pray that um you would just surround michelle with your peace your
51:06presence um and father fill her with a sense of contentment knowing that you do all things well
51:14and that she's kind of along for the ride and you are managing uh the affairs of her life
51:20and that lord she can commit her cause and her future into your hands knowing that you are a kind
51:28and gracious and loving heavenly father who will manage the affairs in her life according to what is
51:35best for her and what will build her up most uh in her faith and walk with you father we just want
51:42to pray today for uh the voting that's going to take place uh lord we just ask that uh righteous
51:50uh candidates would be elected to office and the wicked uh would be defeated father you know that
51:56satan has his people who want to seize control of the civil government and we pray lord that they would
52:03all go down to defeat and lord we know that those that are running against them have their own sins
52:10and yet father uh they seem more aligned with your will and ways and so we pray father that those
52:17that would best represent you would be elected and those who are self-consciously fighting against you
52:25would be defeated father cause your people to come out and to vote and lord just supervise the future of
52:32our nation so that we are not under the rod of the wicked but father that we are under your uh kind
52:40and gracious and righteous scepter uh that you rule with over us father we just want to pray for the
52:48midwest bible study um in their new frequency 3977 father i pray that folks would find it that it would be a
52:56clearer frequency for them to operate on and that they would not have the interference that they suffer
53:02with now father we just pray for autumn to be approved for the new place that she's trying to
53:09get into to live lord i pray that that would work out really well and so that roger and galene would be
53:15able to have their home back lord thank you for the hospitality they've shown in the ministry they've
53:20extended to autumn lord we pray for her salvation and lord we pray that she would read her bible and
53:27that you would illuminate her mind father we just uh thank you so much for the privilege that i have to
53:34travel uh back to new jersey tomorrow uh to uh teach the seminary class there uh and i pray that you give
53:42me a safe journey i pray that you would bless the teaching uh lord that you might give me um skill and
53:49wisdom and presenting the material in the students father to have illumination and understanding of it
53:55father i just pray for jeff ak6 okay as he leads the bible study tomorrow lord may it go really well
54:01and father may um there be great edification here on the west coast bible study father i just want to
54:09pray for brenda david ki7 pwz his daughter is battling breast cancer and she's receiving chemotherapy
54:18treatment father father we just pray for her and for her uh healing and lord we pray uh for david's
54:26pain from bulging discs in his back and for that treatment to be uh effective father we just want
54:34to thank you for uh jim n7bke uh and uh for his ministry in the retirement home there lord we pray that
54:42you would stop the spread of the flu so that he could get back over there and share the gospel
54:47with those folks father we pray for steve w6ysi and his wife leslie's doctor appointment today father
54:54i pray there would be a clear diagnosis and treatment plan for her leg pain the lord give them wisdom and
55:00direction regarding their move to uh james town california uh and help all that to work out as it should
55:07father we just want to return thanks for jerry 80 70 r uh that his heart oblation procedure uh
55:15went really well yesterday and he feels much better so praise the lord uh father praise you for
55:23bringing about that uh steadying of the arrhythmia in jerry's heart father we just want to continue to
55:30pray for peter kt6tt dealing with flood damage in his house uh father we have the same thing here at
55:37my house and lord i pray that you would just cause a good restoration to be done and everything to be
55:44put back as it should be father we continue to pray for glenn kj7 umw and his wife vicki uh father that
55:51they would be able to sleep well and that you would heal them from the chronic pain that they have in
55:55their bodies father we pray for rob a kb7 cl and mark kj7 pvt both of whom who have unspoken prayer
56:04requests father we just ask that you would be pleased to meet those needs whatever they are
56:10father we pray for mike in 7g and d he's going elk hunting tomorrow he'll be gone for several days
56:16lord i pray for his safety in the back country i pray for his success and that you provide him with
56:23meat for his family father we continue to pray for al in six mot and for the health issues of he and
56:29his wife lord be pleased to meet those needs we ask and father we also pray for george k-i strike that
56:38k-1 k-o-y uh lord george lost his wife to pamela uh lost his wife pamela to cancer in july we just pray
56:46for comfort for george and his family and for all who are dealing with that cancer lord we pray
56:52for charles n-7-d-e-n his son trevor passed away from cancer on october 11th lord we just pray for
57:00comfort and peace for his family and lord we pray for dave ai7qq we thank you for his ministry in the
57:07prison and lord we pray for noah the young man he led to christ may noah continue to persevere in his
57:15walk with you and father may he turn away from that life of crime and continue in your word
57:20and uh in your will and with your people father we continue to pray for jerry kg6j as boss rochelle
57:28as she goes through chemo and radiation treatment on her neck cancer lord we pray for her healing
57:34lord we pray for jerry's physical therapy and the relief of his back plane and his balance issues
57:40father i just want to pray for back alfalfa five yankee and for the continued healing of his vision
57:48and lord for his move to his new house lord give him strength to be able to do that and i pray lord
57:54it would go exceptionally well and i pray that his landlord would treat him well father we pray for his
58:01neighbors who are struggling with health issues father we think of nancy we think of jan and we
58:08think of ken lord each of them have physical needs we pray that you would meet those needs as well
58:15father we pray for mike ki7rsb his wife liz is fighting for cancer lord i pray for her chemo to be
58:22effective and then lord will cam5f he continues to be on hormone treatments for the next year pray that
58:28they would be effective in removing his prostate cancer and lord we just pray for keisha's salvation
58:36father we ask that the bibles that are going out from jeff ak60k's warehouse would arrive into the
58:43hands of soldiers father who need them and who would read them and who would use them and be saved by
58:49them lord raise up chapels and chaplains as needed on the military basis father so that the spiritual
58:56needs of the soldiers could be met father we know that many of the chaplains are not saved and lord
59:02we pray that there would be a flood of new chaplains into the military who actually uh understand the
59:09gospel and believe it and can convey that message accurately and well to the soldiers lord continue to
59:16be with palm ww7t lord we pray that um he would get that electric wheelchair that he needs and father
59:24that his physical therapy would increase his mobility and reduce his pain father thank you that my
59:30pastor pastor jeff black was able to be in the pulpit again on sunday and lord i just pray that you
59:36would continue to heal him lord he's got a long way to go pray that you would bring him back to full
59:41health father we pray for uh cody's uncle doug lord thank you that he's making some progress just bless
59:49his rehabilitation and father may he be able to return back to life um uh as normal as possible
59:56given the severe injury that he had father we continue to pray for scott katie 7 yqt uh father
60:03in particular for his wife pam today who has severe headaches that arise from her lupus and lord i just
60:10pray that you'd be pleased to heal her of those headaches and lord i just ask that you would take them
60:17away just now so that she would no longer have that pounding pain uh that she is struggling with
60:25we continue to pray for his daughter kendra and for mike and their physical needs for healing
60:32from cancer and chronic health needs lord we pray for george k1koy his granddaughter caitlin is due to
60:41deliver his first great-grandson mid-november lord we pray for a safe delivery we pray for a healthy baby
60:49and lord we just pray that there would be smiles and blessings all around when you bring that baby into
60:55this world father we continue to pray for kevin kb7zxn and his respiratory issues pray for healing in
61:02his lungs and lord that the congestion would go away and that he would to be able to breathe freely and well
61:08lord we continue to pray for dave ai7qq's prison ministry in the idaho state correctional facility
61:15as a volunteer services coordinator and also for the services he conducts in the juvenile correctional
61:21facility in idaho lord we thank you for the salvation of noah and lord we just pray there would be others
61:27that would be saved through dave's ministry there among those youth father we pray for our brother keith
61:32wb7rkr his wife ronnie has alzheimer's and we pray that does not progress lord we know she's in a home
61:40now uh for memory care lord we just pray for wisdom and strength for keith and caring for her give him
61:48patience with the process and help him to redouble and renew his faith and trust in you lord i pray for
61:55his sister harriet's recovery from her stroke father we continue to pray for burt w7rkd and his wife
62:02danny who has multiple sclerosis we pray lord that you would keep that multiple sclerosis in remission
62:09in danny's life that it would not progress and now lord we just want to thank you for your goodness
62:15of mercy and grace to each one of us and for the gift of your son jesus christ in whose name we pray amen
62:22all right this is wb7mx net control for the west coast bible study i want to thank all the stations
62:27who checked in this morning as well as those who stood by to give us a clear operating frequency
62:33we meet here seven days a week at 6 a.m in order to read the scriptures understand their meaning
62:37message and application and then pray for grace and mercy to be able to live out what we learn and
62:43for god to meet the needs of those that are in our circle of fellowship i'll be returning the
62:48frequency now to regular amateur use this is wb7mx i'll be clear and standing by and i will be checking
62:54in uh ke7wki dave good morning see you there on the utah appreciate you being there all right any
63:01comments throw out your call sign be glad to chat after the net alpha alpha five yankee with this one
63:11inch joke right alpha alpha five yankee go ahead if you have me you want to share me once you share me
63:32i am gone boy that's a real riddle i don't know the answer to that anybody else want to throw out an
63:38answer go ahead money don't tell anyone it's a secret
63:57that's true
63:57secret secret okay that sounds good beck is that the correct answer a secret yes sir it is
64:14okay copy that yeah the band's starting to go to pieces on me there so i did hear some voices um but
64:20um yeah when you have me you want to share me once you share me i'm gone um yeah that's good all right
64:27thank you for that all right any other comments anybody wants to make up please come now with your
64:31call sign well one thing i noticed about a secret is some people just need help keeping it
64:39yeah well it's best not to share our secrets with those who don't have that capacity over