Worship and the Posture of the Heart
2026-11-12 · 3.975 MHz · 0600 PST
The Bible reading
Psalm 134
Today's Reading (KJV): Psalm 134
1Behold, bless ye the LORD, all ye servants of the LORD, which by night stand in the house of the LORD. 2Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and bless the LORD. 3The LORD that made heaven and earth bless thee out of Zion.
The study focused on Psalm 134, a short psalm described as dense and valuable, which calls the servants of the Lord to bless the Lord while standing in His house at night. The group discussed the meaning of the word "bless" in this context, defining it as speaking well of God, extolling His attributes, and expressing gratitude for His works.
A significant portion of the discussion centered on the physical posture of worship, specifically the command to "lift up your hands." Participants shared personal experiences regarding how body language, such as raising hands or crossing arms, reflects the inner disposition of the heart. The consensus was that while specific postures are not universally mandatory, they should align with one's spiritual state, and believers should not judge others based on their physical expressions of worship.
The study also highlighted the theme of night worship and preparation. It was noted that evening worship serves as a bookend to the day, preparing believers for the night watch and committing their souls to God. The group emphasized that worship is a universal obligation for all Christians, regardless of physical ability or cultural background, and that God looks at the heart rather than outward appearance.
Insights
- The psalm is described as a "diamond"—small in size but exceedingly dense and valuable in its message.
- There is a connection between body language and spiritual receptivity; open postures can communicate willingness to receive the Holy Spirit.
- Christian liberty applies to worship postures; believers should not look down on others for choosing different physical expressions of faith.
- The identity of the worshiper is central: they are "servants of the Lord," a title that should define one's primary self-introduction.
- Worship can be categorized into three areas: praising God for His creation, His providence, and His redemption.
- Evening worship acts as a spiritual bookend, allowing believers to confess sins and commit their souls to God before sleep.
Transcript
0:00All right.
0:00Well, good, Jim.
0:01I'm glad you had a great Veterans Day.
0:04And I know that Al KJ7QQH was out running around to a bunch of veterans events as well.
0:11And I really appreciate you guys and glad that you're with us.
0:14I'm glad you got some good sleep, Jim.
0:15That is wonderful news.
0:17Your voice has sounded great and you're sounding strong.
0:20All right.
0:21Any other check-ins on the West Coast follow-up study, please come down.
0:25KJ7 PWM.
0:27There's Brian, KJ7 PWM.
0:29Great signal this morning.
0:30Brian, how are you doing?
0:33Doing good this morning.
0:34So sorry all you guys are not feeling so well.
0:37But I'm feeling great.
0:39And no new prayer requests.
0:41Toppy that.
0:42Good to hear you're feeling good.
0:43No new prayer requests.
0:45And you'll be able to get out there and wrangle all the livestock
0:48and wrangle all those lines of code and all the things that you do.
0:54It amazes me how much you get done up there.
0:57High energy guy.
0:58Thank you for that, Brian.
0:59Appreciate you.
1:00All right.
1:01Any other check-ins this morning?
1:02Please come down.
1:05W7RKD.
1:06Checking in for my daily bread.
1:08And good morning, Bert.
1:10W7RKD.
1:10Our voice from Montana.
1:12How are things there?
1:14Well, foggy yesterday and foggy today.
1:17But otherwise, we just have our socks blessed off our feet as usual over here.
1:26And, well, she says her feet are cold.
1:29All right.
1:29I don't know what to do with it.
1:34Electric socks, maybe?
1:36You know, snowmobile socks.
1:37A couple battery packs.
1:39Danny will need a pair.
1:41We'll have to work on that.
1:42Many out.
1:43No, we're doing fine.
1:45And I hope everybody else is blessed or blessed even greater than we are here in Troy, Montana.
1:50Good to be here, Max.
1:51And I hope you have a wonderful day yourself.
1:54W7RKD, back to you.
1:56Yeah, copy that, Bert.
1:57Well, you know, the duty of a husband, when your wife's feet are cold, you've got to put them on your bare stomach.
2:02That'll warm them up.
2:06We've been around that bush a couple of times here at the donor household.
2:11Well, the trouble is, Bert, you're so blessed that your socks are blessed off.
2:15And that's why you guys got cold feet.
2:16We need less blessing so your socks stay on.
2:20And that way you'll have warm feet.
2:22How about that?
2:22Yeah, you've got to get them, what do they call them, knickers?
2:28Them little elastic things that the guys used to wear and clip onto the socks.
2:34And they'd clip onto the bottom of their shorts or whatever the heck it was.
2:38I don't know.
2:39Anyhow.
2:41Yeah, yeah.
2:42Something like that for JB Weldon to the...
2:46No, no, that would hurt.
2:50Yeah, all right.
2:51Well, we'll drop that metaphor there for now.
2:54But praise the Lord.
2:55I'm glad you're full of blessing.
2:56And that's great.
2:57And, Danny, I appreciate you, girl.
2:59I'm glad you're with us this morning.
3:01All right.
3:02Any other check-ins this morning?
3:03Please come down.
3:04Relay.
3:057 WKI.
3:07Okay.
3:07I'll take the relay in a second.
3:08We've got Dave.
3:09K-E-7 WKI.
3:11Good morning, Dave.
3:11How are you doing?
3:13Doing great.
3:14Just getting out of bed and turning on the radio.
3:17No prayer requests.
3:18I'll be there.
3:19Turning on the radio, got out of bed.
3:21Dave, good to have you with us.
3:22Relay, please come forward.
3:24KG6J.
3:25Carol's trying to get in.
3:26She doubled with Steve, Jim, and Brian, and then I didn't hear her anymore.
3:30See if you can hear her in the clear.
3:32Thank you for that, Jerry.
3:34KG6J.
3:35Carol, KK7TPO.
3:37Come back to me.
3:39Good morning, Pastor Matt from the Ness.
3:41Thank you, Jerry, for the relay.
3:44All of the road here, the trip to the Ness that we're traveling, John and Alice are traveling today.
3:53Okay.
3:54They're traveling today.
3:55All right.
3:56Well, good.
3:56I will get that prayer request updated.
4:00And, Jerry, thanks for the relay.
4:01And, Carol, I'm sorry that you got stepped on so much, but we do love you.
4:07We just sometimes key up at the same time.
4:10In any event.
4:11All right, Carol, I will get that prayer request adjusted here in one second.
4:16All right, that's Carol, KK7TPO, all checked in.
4:19Jerry, AE7ER, the number one prayer request on our list today, Carol, KK7TPO.
4:27Great-granddaughter Alice and her father, John, are traveling today, okay, to Maryland from Alaska.
4:37So we're praying for traveling mercies for that trip today.
4:41Jerry, AE7ER, copy?
4:44Yes, huh?
4:45Thank you, Jerry.
4:45I appreciate that.
4:46And, Al, thanks for updating that.
4:48Okay, Carol, we got you taken care of and covered at the Throne of Grace.
4:52All right, any other check-ins this morning?
4:54Please come down.
4:55Okay, V7, that I can't use it, Al.
4:58All right, I think we had another double there, but I did pick up Roger, WB7VZL.
5:02Good morning, Roger.
5:03How are you doing?
5:04Good morning.
5:05Yeah.
5:07Welcome to the wonderful passage we have.
5:10It's certainly short enough, but it's full of praise.
5:14Yes, it is.
5:16Yeah, it's like a diamond, right?
5:17It's small, but exceedingly dense and valuable, and throws out a turn of light.
5:25So, good for you.
5:26All right, Roger, we got you checked in.
5:27Other station that was in there with Roger, please come down.
5:30Good morning, KV7ZXN.
5:33All right, there is Kevin, KV7ZXN.
5:35Good morning, Kevin.
5:36How are you doing?
5:37Well, just about going to check on the coffee.
5:39Should be ready.
5:40I'm doing fine.
5:41Glad to be here.
5:42Hope everyone else is.
5:44And I was just thinking, boy, that's a long trip from Alaska to Maryland there.
5:48Yep, yep, that's quite the flight.
5:50Probably 2,500.
5:51Well, it's probably 3,000 miles from Alaska, yeah.
5:54So, about a six-hour flight, I'm guessing.
5:57So, anyway, quite the trip.
5:59Well, hopefully, they will have some good conversation there on the way over.
6:04All right, any other check-ins?
6:05Please come down.
6:11All right, and now we'd like to acknowledge Lee, AL7KG.
6:14Good morning, Lee.
6:15See you there on the Utah SDR.
6:17Good to have you with us.
6:18And glad to see your call site.
6:20It's been a couple days, but we got you checked in, Lee.
6:23That's Lee, AL7KG.
6:26All right, let me look over my SDRs here and see if there's anybody else.
6:32Let's see.
6:33Let's see.
6:48All right, and now we'd like to acknowledge Michael, N7QXH.
6:55Good morning, Michael.
6:56Good to have you with us.
6:57See you there on the Utah SDR.
7:00And glad to have you with us.
7:02That is Michael.
7:05Appreciate you being there.
7:06All right, any other check-ins?
7:08Please come down.
7:09All right.
7:18All right, I think we are caught up and we are ready to get started with our West Coast Bible study.
7:46We just had to take care of a couple of administrative affairs there for a second.
7:51Need to get some things popped back up here on my computer where they belong.
7:58And, yep, okay.
8:01Yep, we got, yeah, I think everybody's caught up.
8:04All right, I got the netlogger all squared away there.
8:07Okay, WB7MX here.
8:09We are looking at Psalm 134 today, and we're going to be examining that passage.
8:17So for those of you who checked in later, please turn to Psalm 134, look that over, and we'll be ready to discuss that in a minute.
8:25But before we get started with our Bible study, we want to open in prayer.
8:29And so, Ed, N7QXOH, if you could open in prayer for us today.
8:32Sure, appreciate that.
8:33Go ahead, Ed.
8:33Sure, let us pray.
8:36Dear Heavenly Father, we just come to you this morning.
8:38We ask that you bless our Bible study, that you send your Holy Spirit to each person here.
8:45Lord, I just ask that you give us wisdom and understanding as we study your words.
8:52And, Lord, I just ask a blessing on Pastor Max as he leads out.
8:55Give him wisdom and guidance as he leads us through this, uh, uh, Psalms of 134.
9:04I just ask that, you know, you give us each a blessing there for, for studying this.
9:11Watch over each person here today.
9:13Help them to be able to have a blessed day, Lord.
9:16That you walk with each one of us throughout the day and keep us safe.
9:21Watch over.
9:22Lord, I just ask that we're all ready when you come to take us home.
9:27Uh, guide us and direct us each day as we serve you.
9:31I ask these things in Jesus' name.
9:33Amen.
9:34N6XOH.
9:36Amen, Ed.
9:36Thank you so much for that prayer.
9:38I really appreciate that.
9:39All right.
9:39We are in Psalm 134.
9:42And Psalm 134 is about worship.
9:45Uh, the people of God love to worship the person of God.
9:50Worship runs in the veins of the regenerate soul.
9:54And it's the very lifeblood of his spiritual existence.
9:59And just as the body without blood would die, the believer without worship would die as well.
10:05And just as the life of the flesh is in the blood, so the life of the believer is in his worship of God.
10:11And so this is why the call to worship, such as we have in our psalm today, Psalm 134, is such a thrill to the heart of the believer.
10:20Uh, the call to worship is a call to which the mind delights and the heart thrills and the soul boils over with enthusiasm.
10:29Uh, the carnal folks get really excited when someone calls upon them to attend a party or to engage in some recreational activity or go to some game.
10:41But for the believer, the most exciting, thrilling, and satisfying thing he can be called to do is to worship the God he loves and in whom he delights.
10:52And so worship is something we do in order to bless God for all that he is and for all that he has done for us.
10:59We feel like we can never be thankful enough or say enough good things about the one who has redeemed us from hell and adopted us as his children.
11:10And so in this life, there is not enough time, there is not enough words, and there is not enough strength to give to God all the honor and praise and thanks that he deserves for all that he has done for us.
11:24And so, therefore, whenever we hear the call to worship, our heart just leaps up with eagerness to be about the delightful and endlessly satisfying task
11:53of giving worship to God.
11:56And so that's what our psalm is about.
11:58That's what it encourages us to do.
12:01And that's what we're going to do today as we look at this psalm.
12:06So that's a little introduction to Psalm 134 and what that is about.
12:11Will, Kiloike 5 Foxtrot, could you please read for us Psalm 134?
12:17KM 5F, thank you for letting me read it this morning.
12:20And the title I have, or the heading I have, I'll be reading out of the New King James and the King James
12:29because the wording is identical, but they're different headings.
12:32Praising of the Lord in his house at night is one heading, and greeting of night watchers is the other heading.
12:39Let's bow as we pray, or as we, sorry about that.
12:44Verse 1, Behold, bless ye the Lord, all ye servants of the Lord, which by night stand in the house of the Lord.
12:53Lift up your hands in the sanctuary and bless the Lord.
12:56The Lord that made heaven and earth, bless thee out of Zion.
13:00That brings us to the end of verse 3 in Psalm 134, KM 5F.
13:05All right, real good, Will, thank you for that reading, appreciate that.
13:10All right, any comments on Psalm 134?
13:12Please come down with your call sign.
13:18KM 5F.
13:19Will, go ahead.
13:21Well, since nobody has a comment, I thought I'd read it in another version.
13:25And the King James is read at the 12th grade reading level, so the message is at the 4th grade reading level.
13:35So let's get a little contrast here.
13:37Verse 1 in the message,
13:38Come, bless the Lord, all ye servants of God.
13:41You priests of God, post it to the night watch in God's shine.
13:46Lift your praising hands to the holy place and bless God.
13:50In turn, may God of the divine bless you, God who made heaven and earth.
13:54And it's a shame that we can't even get a low reading level into our skulls of the Bible, KM 5F.
14:01Yeah, Will, thanks for that.
14:02Appreciate that.
14:03Yep, sometimes reading in a different version helps with comprehension.
14:08And I'm glad that you went ahead and did that on this short psalm.
14:13All right, any comments on Psalm 134?
14:16Please come forward.
14:20WB 780.
14:22Roger, please go ahead.
14:24I have certainly felt the wonderful, wonderful receptivity of inverting our hands in worship.
14:42I normally don't do that, but there is a surrender to the posture of lifting up your hands in the sanctuary,
14:58a receptivity that the body communicates to the brain,
15:02and it shows willingness to receive the Holy Spirit, which is so prominently promised.
15:14I was just reading 1 Corinthians chapter 3 this morning,
15:18where the blessings of the Holy Spirit comes liberty and freedom.
15:23And there is definitely a body language connection with this expression, lift up your hands to the sanctuary.
15:36Over.
15:37Yeah.
15:38Roger, thank you for pointing that out.
15:41Verse 2, lift up your hands in the sanctuary and bless the Lord.
15:44You know, it's interesting.
15:47As you survey the Bible, you see lots and lots of different postures of the body in prayer.
15:55And you see lots and lots of different postures of the body in worship.
16:00And sometimes people are kneeling down with their face to the ground.
16:04Sometimes people are sitting.
16:07Sometimes people are standing.
16:09Sometimes people are lifting up their hands.
16:12Sometimes their hands are clasped together on their chest and their heads are bowed.
16:17So, you know, there is no one posture for worship.
16:23What is important is that the posture of our body actually reflects the disposition and the attitude of our heart.
16:32Because, you know, we're a soul-body unit.
16:35In other words, you know, we have a soul, which is our inner man,
16:39and then we have our bodies, which is our outer man.
16:41And there needs to be harmony between what we're doing inside and what we're doing outside.
16:47And so this is not a universal command that this is something we have to do every single time.
16:54But every different body posture reflects a different attitude of the heart.
17:02And so the lifting up of the hands to God is really a pointing to Him.
17:08It's open hands, empty hands, looking to receive blessing, but to come down from Him.
17:15You know, the Bible says every good and every perfect gift comes down from above, from the Father of lights,
17:22with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
17:24And so, you know, like when you need help, you know, you reach your hand out, right, for help to someone.
17:30And they'll grab your hand and they'll pull you up out of a pit or off the ground or whatever.
17:35And that's what this is.
17:37It's a lifting up of the hand to God, saying, God, I need your help.
17:41And I need to receive your blessings.
17:45Lord, pour those out to me.
17:46So, you know, it's important that we not just artificially engage in various body postures because other people are doing it.
17:56It needs to be something that's really connected with our own heart.
17:59And it's something that's flowing out of the disposition and attitude that we have.
18:05So, Roger, great comment.
18:06Thank you for pointing that out.
18:08Back to you there, Roger.
18:09Go ahead.
18:10Five Yankees.
18:14Yeah, I can pass.
18:15Go ahead, Beck.
18:17No, I'm just letting Pastor Max know that I wanted to comment on your comment.
18:22Go ahead, Roger.
18:26Oh, well, go ahead.
18:27Okay, well, you know, the lifting of hands is, I find that very interesting.
18:33And part of the reason why is the green race of the Lutheran Church.
18:37That's something that we never did.
18:38And for some reason, in my mind, I recall that it was frowned upon.
18:43But I'm reading this verse, and off to the side in the notes, part of what Pastor Max said is in this, and I want to read it.
18:52It's the lifting of hands is a long signified both praise and petition, symbolizing the trust that God would fill empty hands with his blessings.
19:01The palm depicts reciprocity, God's people blessing on Zion, and he blesses them from Zion, calling him maker of heaven and earth, underscores his authority, extends beyond one hill or one city.
19:15And then this is the part that's the crux.
19:18For us, the takeaway is to lift your hands to God, resting in the assurance that all blessings flow from him.
19:24I'll fall for five, Yankee.
19:26Fox, try to follow up.
19:28Yeah, Beck, thank you for reading that.
19:30Well said.
19:31I completely agree with that.
19:33You know, here's the deal, is that, you know, in some churches and some cultures, they are more physically expressive in their worship.
19:42And in other churches and other cultures, they are less physically expressive.
19:48And so when people don't lift their hands, that's okay.
19:53And when people do lift their hands, that's okay.
19:57And so it's not like a requirement, this isn't like a command that is universally applicable in every situation,
20:06because we see lots of other places where there is no lifting up of the hands.
20:11We see lots of places where there is.
20:13And so, yes, in the churches I've attended, historically, lifting up of the hands is something that isn't typically done.
20:23I'm not saying it's never done.
20:25There are certain people who do it, certain people who don't.
20:27And we need to understand that both choices are okay.
20:32For some people, they feel like it would be distracting to lift their hands.
20:37Other people feel like it's important to lift their hands.
20:41And we have to allow Christian liberty to people, you know, irrespective of the choice they make with reference to that,
20:52and not look down on anyone for whatever choice they make.
20:56And recognize that as each person worships God in their heart, that's going to be expressed differently in their bodily posture, and that's okay.
21:05But to say it's wrong to lift your hands is unbiblical.
21:11To say it's necessary to lift your hands, that's also unbiblical.
21:16So I think we need to understand the fact that each one will make a choice based on the disposition of their heart
21:24and the nature of their practice and culture of worship.
21:30All right.
21:31Any other comments?
21:31Please come out.
21:32Okay, we had a double there, and I heard a Whiskey Tango.
21:41Whiskey Tango, go ahead.
21:47Will's out there.
21:49Okay, yeah.
21:50All right.
21:51I did hear Will, KM-5F.
21:53Will, you go ahead, and then other station will pick you up.
21:57Will, KM-5F, go ahead.
21:58Yeah, kind of a follow-up to both Beck and Roger's comments.
22:05I was reading, when I read this, in verse 2, it says,
22:08Lift up your hands in the sanctuary and bless the Lord.
22:11So that's in the King James and New King James.
22:13And in the message, in verse 2, it says,
22:15Lift your praising hands to the holy place and bless the Lord.
22:18And Beck had mentioned in his reading about blessings.
22:21So it's two attitudes, both of praise and of blessing.
22:27KM-5F.
22:28Yeah, and it's important to understand that the word blessing means to speak well of.
22:32Okay?
22:33So when we bless the Lord, what we're doing is we're speaking well of him.
22:39We're extolling his attributes, his character, his works on our behalf.
22:46And you can see that in verse 3,
22:48The Lord that made heaven and earth, bless thee out of Zion.
22:52So a part of the praise is praise to God for his creative power and for his work in making us.
23:01All right.
23:02On top of Will was another station.
23:04Other station, please come forward.
23:06Whiskey, whiskey, silver and tango.
23:09Okay.
23:09There we are.
23:10That's Tom, WW7T.
23:12All right.
23:13Tom, go ahead, please.
23:15Yeah.
23:15Things are alert because the worship team at one point.
23:19When I was in the worship community, also, that, well, we're worshiping the Lord and lifting our hands from the Lord.
23:27Especially in leading the congregation to worship, and we have our hands lifted, and the body does.
23:32It aligns our whole body, our spine, to the Lord.
23:36It's the way our body is designed to be worshiped.
23:39And the more we do that, the more our body aligns to our Lord.
23:47That's the way he designed it.
23:48All right, Tom.
23:54Good comment there.
23:55Tom was saying that when we lift our hands to the Lord, it aligns our entire body towards the Lord and orients our spine and everything towards the Lord.
24:05So, Tom, WW7T, we got you checked in, and we thank you for that comment.
24:10Good comment.
24:11All right.
24:11Any other comments?
24:12Please come now.
24:16DOI.
24:17George, K1KY, go ahead.
24:19I used to attend a church that had evening lesters, which was one of the favorite services of mine,
24:26because lesters, of course, the evening prayers, they celebrate the end of the day.
24:30We give thanks for a successful day, but it's also the time that we prepare the watchman for the night.
24:36We have a lot of the night references all over the place.
24:38Back to Psalm 30 in Luke 12.
24:41Servants who wait and stay ready for their master, even if he comes in the second or third watch of the night.
24:48This is preparation for them to do their job.
24:51We've talked about the importance of watchmen many times here, and this is a perfect setting for that.
24:58K.O.Y.
24:58Yeah, George, great comment.
25:02And George is pointing out here that it says in verse 1,
25:07Behold, bless ye the Lord, all ye servants of the Lord.
25:10Now, here it is, which by night stand in the house of the Lord.
25:14Now, in the Jewish worship, they had morning sacrifices and they had evening sacrifices.
25:24And we see, for example, Anna, the prophetess in Luke chapter 2,
25:30it says that she served God with prayers and fastings day and night.
25:36So she was at the temple for the morning worship, and she was also at the temple for the evening worship.
25:43And this is the reason why our churches largely used to have both a morning and an evening service.
25:51All the years I was a pastor, for 34 years, we always had a morning service and an evening service.
25:57And I know a lot of churches have dropped the evening service.
26:00I think that's kind of sad.
26:02But nevertheless, what George is saying is that, you know, we have to, in the evening, be ready for the night watches.
26:13And so the soldiers who would watch all night long against the enemies,
26:21they started their time of service with worship to the Lord, too.
26:28They began in the evening with worship, and then they were ready.
26:32And George is pointing out that Jesus himself said,
26:35You know not when your master returns, you know.
26:38Is it going to be in the second watch or the third watch?
26:40And so the idea here is that, excuse me, our morning worship prepares us for the day,
26:49and our evening worship prepares us for the night.
26:52And so we worship the Lord.
26:54If we have a night shift of whatever responsibility, we start that with the worship of God.
27:01And if we have a day shift, whatever our responsibility is, we start that with the worship of God.
27:05And for me, starting the day with worship and then ending the day with worship was really important bookends,
27:13because now I'm going to sleep, right?
27:16And I just commit my soul and all that happened that day to the Lord.
27:19If there's any sins that I committed, I confess those in the evening
27:24and ask God to forgive those and to cleanse me and help me to be rested so I can serve him the next day.
27:32So this whole idea of worshiping God, both morning and night, is a prominent theme, actually, in the Scriptures.
27:42And so it's important for us to include that in our activity.
27:47George, thank you for pointing that out.
27:48Really appreciate that.
27:50All right.
27:50Other comments?
27:51Please come now.
27:53Five Yankees?
27:54Five Yankees.
27:54Go ahead.
27:55Can I go back to the hands?
27:57You can go back to anything you want.
27:59Go ahead.
27:59Okay, well, I'm very analytical, okay?
28:03And I'm sitting here thinking about it.
28:06When somebody sits and they have both feet on the floor, no leg crossed,
28:11and their hands on their thighs, I guess, that's part of your leg in between your hip and your knee,
28:18and just sitting their palms down there, and they're listening, they're listening contently,
28:24and they can have their hands folded and be the same.
28:26And it's also known that when people cross their arms, that means that they're kind of shutting you out or closing you out.
28:33So I'm thinking that raising your hands in the air to God to give your blessings from God is opening yourself up.
28:42What do you think of that?
28:45I think that's exactly correct.
28:48We can close ourselves off or we can open ourselves up.
28:52Body posture communicates.
28:54You know, people talk about body language, and we unconsciously read the body language of other people all the time.
29:03And so, yes, our body language needs to be saying what our heart is saying.
29:08And, you know, I mean, sometimes I'll fold my arms across my chest, not as an act of defiance or closing myself off,
29:16but because it just helps relax my upper body and gives my arms a different position to be in.
29:26Of course, crossing arms can be an act of defiance as well.
29:30So what I think is really important, Beck, is that we not judge other people based on their body posture in worship.
29:37We don't know what's going on in their hearts, and we don't know why they're adopting the posture that they are.
29:43And I think what we have to do is say, what should my body posture be, what best reflects and echoes my attitude towards God,
29:54and then adopt that and let others adopt whatever they want.
29:59But you're right, you know.
30:01Somebody who puts their hands behind their head is more open than somebody who has their arms crossed on their chest.
30:09And that's commonly understood, but I think we need to just mind what's going on with us and not worry about what's going on with others.
30:20Back to you there, Beck.
30:23Roger, well, I'm just glad that I'm here to be part of this today and read this,
30:28because the attitude of the raising of the hands in the air to God has changed.
30:34It's not what it used to be.
30:35I didn't realize that I was being corrupted.
30:40I don't know a different word to put in there.
30:43Anyway, it wasn't good, and this is good.
30:46I'm glad I'm here.
30:48God bless all of us.
30:49I'll find me in the back of the night.
30:52Yeah, amen.
30:53And, you know, any body posture can be hypocritical.
30:56Any body posture can be genuine.
30:58So, anyway, enough of that.
31:01All right, any other comments on our passage or on worship in general?
31:05Please come now if you call us.
31:14K-I-6-W-X-P.
31:17K-I-6-W-X-P.
31:18Joe, go ahead.
31:19I'm thinking the Lord wants you to be comfortable.
31:22There's a lot of people who can't raise their hands and things like that.
31:25Sorry I brought this back.
31:27But me, if I'm walking through the yard and having a conversation with the Lord, I'm looking up and smiling at him.
31:34Everybody's different.
31:34But I think what he wants is you to be comfortable.
31:37He knows what's going on.
31:38I think that's really well said, Joe, and I couldn't agree more.
31:43You know, there's people who can't raise their arms.
31:46There's people who can't stand up.
31:48You know, sometimes the pastor will say, you know, let's stand to sing the next hymn or whatever, which is great.
31:55But some people just aren't able to do that.
31:58And so they have to sit down, which is fine, too.
32:01And that just goes back to the issue of not judging other people based on whatever body posture they choose to adopt.
32:10And so here you are looking up while you're walking across the Lord.
32:13You are talking to the Lord.
32:14Other people would have their heads bowed.
32:17And both of those postures are perfectly fine.
32:20But you're right.
32:21If we're experiencing bodily pain or discomfort because we think we have to engage in some particular posture,
32:29that's really a distraction from worship, not an aid to it.
32:33So, Joe, great comment.
32:35Completely agree with that.
32:36All right.
32:37Any other comments?
32:38Please come down.
32:38Whiskey, whiskey, seven, tango.
32:40Comment.
32:41Whiskey, whiskey, seven, tango.
32:42Go ahead there.
32:43Well, you all know I'm in a wheelchair.
32:46I could walk at one time.
32:48At one time, I stood before the Lord and lifted my hands on the sign of it.
32:52On that note, I sit in a chair.
32:54And in my mind, I'm still standing in front of my Lord.
32:57Are you still my Lord?
32:58That's why I'm in my mind standing before Him.
33:01In my mind, I'm standing.
33:03So I can have control.
33:07Yeah, amen, Tom.
33:09I couldn't agree more.
33:11And, you know, that's the thing is that, you know, you used to be able to stand,
33:14and now you can't stand.
33:15You're in a wheelchair.
33:17But in your heart, you're still standing.
33:19And that's the thing is that God, you know, man looks on the outward appearance, right?
33:24But God looks on the heart.
33:25And He sees your heart, Tom.
33:28And He knows your desire to express, you know, worship, humility, submission, praise.
33:38And all of these things run through our minds at the same time.
33:43And so, Tom, I'm sorry for your disability, but I want you to know that God sees your heart.
33:51And He accepts what's in your heart, even if He can't do with your body what your heart would like to do at this stage in your life because of that disability.
34:01So, Tom, be encouraged.
34:02The Lord sees you still as standing because He knows that's what's in your heart.
34:09And you just have to be, you have to recognize that God recognizes what's going on there.
34:18All right, that is Tom, WW17.
34:21All right, any other comments?
34:23Please come down.
34:23Kevin, KB7, ZXN.
34:31Kevin, KB7, ZXN.
34:32Please go ahead.
34:35Well, I was just rejoiced in hearing.
34:40Oh, my computer is going crazy.
34:44You just hit it right on the head.
34:46And, you know, worship is a matter of the heart.
34:52And I was waiting for someone to mention that.
34:56And you did, Max.
34:57But that's exactly right.
35:01You know, we see some bowing and some flat with their face on the floor.
35:09Some hands raised.
35:11And some on different occasions and circumstance.
35:16But it always comes back to the heart.
35:18And we see throughout the Word of God, that's where His focus is.
35:24And I think this is a beautiful conclusion to the series of songs, of 15 psalms,
35:31of the last 15 psalms that we've looked at,
35:33that have been part of the tradition of the ascent to the feast here, to worship God.
35:41The 13 tribes coming together, ascending to Jerusalem to worship
35:48and offer sacrifice for the atonement of sins and to celebrate.
35:53And so, yes, thank you for that.
35:56I was waiting for that.
35:58And other wonderful comments as well regarding worship, I thought, also.
36:03But just a thought there.
36:05KB 7, is that example?
36:09Yeah, Kevin, thank you for that and reinforcing that point.
36:12Because it's really the central point is that, you know, Jesus said in John 4,
36:18the Father seeks people who worship Him in spirit and in truth.
36:24And the spirit there is the engagement of the inner man, of the heart.
36:27And then, of course, truth has to do with the objective teaching of the Word of God.
36:32And so our worship needs to be sincere and genuine.
36:36And it also needs to be accurate and truthful in terms of worshiping God as He's revealed in the Scripture.
36:48And, you know, that kind of brings us back to this word, bless.
36:51You know, it says in verse 1,
36:53And then verse 2,
36:59And so twice we're told to bless the Lord.
37:08And in this context, the word bless means to speak well of someone.
37:13It means to praise them.
37:14It means to thank them.
37:15And so what the psalmist is saying here is this.
37:19Give attention to speaking well of God.
37:23Give attention to offering Him praise and thanks.
37:26And you do that by recognizing and expressing the multitude of benefits that God has bestowed on you.
37:34And so we show Him gratitude for what He's given to us.
37:38And so we give honor to His nature that He has done the things that He's done for us.
37:46We give thanks to His works that brought those things to pass.
37:51And so we see, okay, God is who He is.
37:57And then God has done what He has done.
37:59And we praise Him for who He is.
38:01And we also praise Him for what He's done.
38:04And so the three great categories of worship of God are worshiping Him for His creation,
38:12worshiping Him for His providence, and worshiping Him for redemption.
38:17And so when you think of all the beauty and balance and intricacy and symmetry and variety of the creation,
38:25the immensity of the universe, the wonder of your body and the miracle of existence,
38:31you think of the forest, the seas, the mountains, the animals, the birds, the insects,
38:36the color, the texture, and the flavors that are in the creation,
38:40the laws of nature that create order and predictability in the universe,
38:44the blessings of sight and sound and taste and smell,
38:49the design and the complexity and the variety of living creatures,
38:53all of these things are grounds for praise.
38:57We praise God for His creative work.
39:00And that's what it says in verse 3 there,
39:02the Lord that made heaven and earth bless thee out of Zion.
39:06And so when we bless the Lord and worship Him, He blesses us right back.
39:11And then, of course, we bless the Lord for His providence,
39:16the way in which He manages affairs in our life and in the world, okay?
39:22And so He's given us food and clothing and shelter and health and relationships.
39:27He's given us a family.
39:29He's given us a spouse.
39:30He's given us children.
39:31He's given us a job.
39:33He's given us safety and protection.
39:35He's given us a wonderful country in which to live.
39:40He's flooded our lives with opportunities and given us an education and the job.
39:47So there's so many things in God's providence to bless Him for, to speak well of Him.
39:53Look at what God made.
39:55Look at how God manages it.
39:56And then, of course, the greatest thing is praising God for His redemption,
40:00that His electing love was set on you, and that His gospel was brought to you,
40:06and His Spirit called you and regenerated you,
40:08and His Son died for you and redeemed you from your sins.
40:13And so because of that, you have adoption.
40:16You have preservation.
40:17You have sanctification.
40:19You have glorification.
40:20You've got deliverance from hell.
40:22You've got entrance into heaven.
40:23You have eternal life.
40:24You have the scriptures, which reveal all those things to you.
40:27And every single one of those is ground for endless praise and speaking well of God.
40:34So there's lots to bless the Lord for in creation and in providence and in redemption.
40:42And so when the psalmist calls upon here for us to bless the Lord,
40:49you know, there is lots and lots that is involved in that word bless in terms of what we can do
40:56and the categories we can think of to give God praise for.
41:01All right.
41:02Other comments on our psalm?
41:03Please come down with your call sign.
41:05I'm KM5S.
41:15Hello, KM5S.
41:16Please go ahead.
41:17Yeah, I was just noting that I have a reference that pops up here.
41:22It says Psalms 135 verses 1 and 2, which basically is a repeat tomorrow of this psalm.
41:30So I thought I'd just point that out, KM5S.
41:34Yeah, well said.
41:35And we need to be reminded, you know, the scriptures do teach us the same things over and over again
41:40because we forget so easily and because we need to be reoriented after the world knocks us off balance
41:48and get back to the central things of life.
41:52So, yeah, Psalm 135 verse 1 and 2, praise ye the Lord, praise the name of the Lord, praise him, O ye servants of the Lord,
42:00ye that stand in the house of the Lord and the courts of the house of our God, verse 3, praise the Lord.
42:06So, yes, these are, we're getting into a bunch of psalms here to talk about the importance of praising the Lord.
42:14So we need to be reminded of that over and over and over again because, you know, it's interesting.
42:21The language is used here, Will.
42:24In Psalm 134 in verse 1, it says,
42:30Behold, bless you the Lord, here it is, all you servants of the Lord.
42:34And then Psalm 135 in verse 1, praise ye the Lord, O praise ye is the name of the Lord, praise him, O you servants of the Lord.
42:42So, twice we're told that we are servants of the Lord.
42:48And so, you know, it says in 1 Corinthians chapter 6 verses 19 and 20,
42:54You're not your own, you're bought with a price, therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit which are God's.
43:02And so we realize that he created us and then he purchased us.
43:06We belong to him and so we are his servants.
43:10And, you know, we need to see ourselves as that.
43:13You know, when somebody comes up to you and says, Will, who are you?
43:19You know, how are you going to answer that question?
43:21Well, a lot of people would talk about their career or whatever.
43:26But, you know, when Paul introduces himself in all of his letters, he says,
43:31Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ.
43:34Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ.
43:37And so when someone asks who you are, the proper response is, I'm a servant of Jesus Christ.
43:45Yes, I have a job.
43:46This is what I do to earn a living.
43:47And yes, I have a family.
43:49These are the people that I have a close personal relationship.
43:53But who am I?
43:54I am a sinner saved by grace.
43:57I am a servant of God.
44:00And so my whole life is dedicated to bringing him praise and worship and to doing his will and furthering his purposes,
44:07building his kingdom and bringing him glory.
44:11So I think it's good for us to focus in on this word servant because that's who we are.
44:18All right.
44:19Other comments, please come now.
44:20W-X-P.
44:35Go ahead there, Joe.
44:36Yeah, this is kind of like a nighttime psalm.
44:39You know, we used to pray before bed.
44:41They made sure of it when we were little.
44:43Yeah, it's kind of what it is, huh?
44:45That's exactly what it is.
44:47You bet it is.
44:48So it's a good thing to end the day with and to prepare your heart for sleep with reference to.
44:55Go ahead, Joe.
44:56Roger that.
44:56Thank you, Max.
44:58All right.
44:58Real good.
44:59You know, one of the things I think we need to see here in this psalm, in verse 1, it says,
45:04Behold, bless ye the Lord, all ye servants of the Lord.
45:09And so you notice the identity of those that are involved, they're servants of the Lord, but you also notice the universality of those who are involved.
45:19And that is everyone.
45:21In other words, no Christian is exempt from being involved in worshiping the Lord.
45:27It's a universal obligation.
45:30And so you see, for example, in the Old Testament where God says, you know, every single person is to come up three times a year in worship.
45:41No one was exempt, you know, unless they're, like, too sick to travel.
45:46And so this is the call to worship.
45:49The people who are to be involved, the servants of the Lord, and all of the servants of the Lord, no one is exempt from offering worship.
46:01So that's something that we need to recognize is a daily responsibility, as well as on the Lord's Day, is to offer worship to God.
46:10All right.
46:10Wow.
46:10We're out of time.
46:11We kind of lost track of the clock here.
46:13And I just want to say, notice the place of worship, okay, in the house of the Lord.
46:20It's fine to worship God at home.
46:22It's fine to worship God, you know, out in the woods.
46:25That's perfectly acceptable worship.
46:28But it's really important to show up in the house of the Lord and offer God praise there in a corporate context where the covenant communities gather together in bringing praise and worship to God.
46:40All right.
46:41Well, small psalm, big subject, lots to think about and chew on there.
46:47But it's time for us to go to prayer.
46:49Are there any final prayer requests before we go to prayer?
46:51Please come down with your call for me.
46:58All right, Jerry, AE7ER, go ahead and close in prayer for us.
47:03All right.
47:03Let's pray.
47:04Our Father in Heaven, Lord, we give you thanks for another day.
47:09We give you thanks for this event.
47:12As we begin today, we bring you Carol, KK7TPO.
47:17Great granddaughter, Alice, and her father, John, are traveling to Maryland from Alaska.
47:22Traveling today, and we ask for traveling mercy.
47:28We bring you Brian, AI7VIP.
47:33His wife's an MRI on her foot for us to help her diagnosis of her foot pain and treatment plan.
47:42Two, W7AS wife, Rebecca, family's mother-in-law suffering with edema in her leg.
47:48There's reduction of swelling.
47:51And she works as a caregiver.
47:54Lord, we bring you Roger, WB7VZL.
47:59Jerry had a second ablation procedure.
48:02Praise the Lord for a good outcome.
48:04Prayers for Autumn's successful launch into society.
48:09C, W6YSI Brownville.
48:12Oregon pastor Ben Rory passed away Saturday, November 7th.
48:17Pray for Gene Sanchez, who is a layman filling in for him in the pulpit.
48:23While Gene's own life story is also fighting cancer.
48:28Steve's wife, Leslie, had an appointment with a vascular surgeon December 2nd regarding her leg teeth.
48:37Father, we bring you Jubal and 7PPT.
48:40Safe travel.
48:41When his family returns from vacation.
48:44Keith and K7NEB, his son Brent and his wife Rachel, protecting a baby boy in Maine.
48:52Pray for safe delivery and a healthy baby.
48:56David, KI7TWZ.
48:58Dr. Brenda, battling breast cancer.
49:02She's receiving chemo treatments now.
49:04And for release of David's feet from a bulging disc in effect.
49:10And that treatment will be effective.
49:13Leslie, W6YSI.
49:16Leslie has a referral to a vascular surgeon for her leg being December 2nd.
49:22Pray for a proper diagnosis and treatment plan.
49:26Rob, WB7CL.
49:28Unspoken prayer request.
49:29Mike, Anson and G&B, safety qualities of L20.
49:36Al, Anson, can look at your prayers for health issues of Al and his wife.
49:43We bring you George, K1KOY.
49:46He lost his wife's family to cancer in July.
49:50We pray for comforts for George and his family.
49:53And for all who are dealing with cancer.
49:55His granddaughter, Caitlin, delivered her first, his first great-grandson, Monroe.
50:05He is in ICU with low blood sugar.
50:07Pray for his recovery.
50:10A big travel for the George is to visit his family for Thanksgiving.
50:15Charles, this is in the end.
50:17His son, Trevor, passed away from cancer October 11th.
50:21Lord, please give to this man and his family, peace and country.
50:27Jerry, KG6J.
50:29His boss, Rochelle, as she goes through chemo and radiation treatment on her neck.
50:36Cancers.
50:37Pray for the treatments to be effective.
50:39Praise Jerry.
50:40He's been approved for a more physical therapy session.
50:43Pray that he will continue to improve his back pain and relief
50:49and his balance.
50:53But Beck, A5Y, pray for continued healing of his vision from his head injury.
51:00Pray for success and remodeling of their new home.
51:03Their daughter, Nancy, needs healing from cancer.
51:06And she also needs salvation.
51:08Lord, please text this lady.
51:11Bring her to you.
51:13We give praise.
51:14Nancy is showing great improvement.
51:16Jan Bruckbart, diabetic, had some of her foot removed and is home now and improving.
51:24Her husband, Ken, is having arrhythmia issue.
51:29Lord, may they find the cause and give him release.
51:34Mike, K7RFB.
51:36Wife, Liz, fighting cancer.
51:37Pray for an effective chemo treatment.
51:41Well, KM5F.
51:42Pray for continuing hormone treatment.
51:46Pray for the next year.
51:47Pray treatments will be effective in restraining and removing his prostate cancer.
51:53Pray for the success of the new Bible study will be started attending.
51:59Lord, we bring you just AK-6-OK.
52:01We pray for the thousands of Bible things shipped to our troops.
52:06Please use the Bible to save and incentivize our soldiers.
52:10Tom, WW17.
52:14Tom is recovering from major spine surgery.
52:17He's in a wheelchair.
52:18I pray that physical therapy will provide relief from pain and impersonability.
52:24Pray he will be approved for an electric wheelchair and that needs will be met.
52:30Pastor Black.
52:31Hey, yes, Mr. Alton Clayton.
52:33We, Lord, we pray for healing and medical treatment he's receiving.
52:39Lord, please give this man relief from this.
52:44Cooney, K-I-7-T-R-F.
52:46Healing for Uncle Doug.
52:47The believer.
52:48From the center.
52:49Severe head injury.
52:51Pray for his ongoing treatment and recovery.
52:54Pray that he is showing good improvement.
52:56Scott, K-I-7-Y-Q-T.
52:59My son has severe lupus.
53:00Pray that it would go into remission.
53:04Pray for his daughter, Kendra, ongoing multiple chronic health needs.
53:08Pray for Mike, K-I-7-N.
53:11Let's page four cancer.
53:13We pray that K-I-7-T-R-F.
53:14Startup on September 26th will be a taxi.
53:20Jim, uncle, DKA, for opportunities to share the gospel.
53:25Lord, we pray for the salvation of all the children,
53:28grandchildren, and great-grandchildren.
53:32And those who are on the net.
53:33For God to work great from their heart.
53:35For their protection from the ways of the world.
53:38In attacks of Satan.
53:41Brian.
53:42K-I-7-T-W-N.
53:44Salvation of Mariah.
53:45Brian's secretary.
53:46Brian gave her a Bible to read.
53:48For Brian's son Avery and his girlfriend Zoe to get married and become saved.
53:53They are the parents of six-year-old Alex and newborn Alex.
53:57Zoe has been reading the Bible.
54:00Yeah.
54:01I think it's okay.
54:02Pray that the need for two new chapels to be built on Camp Pendleton.
54:07And for God to raise up those to manage them.
54:12Let that be met.
54:14K-I-7-Y-T-G.
54:16Scott.
54:16Not feeling well.
54:17Lord, we ask for improving health for Scott.
54:20We thank the Lord for your goodness, mercy, and grace to each one of us.
54:25And for the gift of his name, Jesus Christ.
54:29Again, Lord, as we go through this day, if we're traveling, give me traveling mercy.
54:34Keep us all well and safe with our focus on you.
54:38All the things we ask in Jesus' name.
54:41Amen.
54:42And this is 8-8-7-E-R.
54:45Amen, Jerry.
54:468-8-7-E-R.
54:47Thank you so much for that prayer.
54:48And I really appreciate you leading us to the throne of grace.
54:52This is WB7MAX, Net Control for the West Coast Bible Study.
54:55I want to thank all the stations who checked in this morning, as well as those who stood by to give us a clear operating frequency.
55:02We meet here seven days a week at 6 a.m.
55:04in order to read the scriptures, understand their meaning, message, and application to our lives.
55:10And then to pray for grace and mercy, to be able to live out what we have learned, and also for God to meet the needs of those that are in our circle of fellowship.
55:19I'll be returning the frequency now to regular amateur use.
55:23This is WB7MAX.
55:25I'll be clear and standing by.
55:28Whiskey or Whiskey 7 Tango, Max?
55:30Whiskey or Whiskey 7 Tango.
55:31Tom, please go ahead.
55:32I had a prayer request to add to my, one, things you're already praying for before.
55:38When I was at physical therapy, they told me, unless I get constant transportation, which is my physical therapy, I have a chance of losing my physical therapy.
55:48And I don't want to lose it.
55:50And I'm looking for a vehicle.
55:52Now I can, there's a gal with physical therapy.
55:55She can, she drives, got it in a Honda, starts to use one.
56:01And she takes her wheelchair into her vehicle, the ramp comes out, and puts her in there.
56:08And then she transfers into her driver's seat, and she drives herself where she needs to go.
56:13I need to get strong enough and also be able to learn to drive it.
56:17So I can go back to driving and get myself and my physical therapy on my doctor's appointment.
56:23Everybody lift that up and ask the Lord if he would help.
56:26I would appreciate that.
56:28Whiskey, Whiskey 7 Tango.
56:30Thank you.
56:31Copy that, Tom.
56:32Okay, so Tom, WB7T needs consistent transportation to his physical therapy appointments, or he's going to lose those for not showing up.
56:43His problem is having a vehicle that is suitable for him to get into, to be able to get to that situation.
56:52So Tom hopes to get back to driving himself.
56:56But right now he's depending on others to get him there.
57:00So, Tom, we will add your need for transportation to physical therapy to the prayer list, and that God would be pleased to meet that.
57:09Tom, thank you for sharing that.
57:11Back to you there, Tom.
57:12Go ahead.
57:12Thank you very much.
57:15And I'm lifting up Paul and Tony.
57:18They're going hunting to bring back an elk.
57:20And God will bless them with an elk or lethal good luck.
57:25And that, because I'm alone since yesterday and today, and they're supposed to be back tomorrow.
57:32So I'm trying to take care of myself.
57:34I'm asking.
57:35I'm trying to get through the rest of the day.
57:38And I try to get some police on that.
57:40So it's all right.
57:41Thank you, guys.
57:42That's my prayer and the prayer for us.
57:44Let's be with you, 7th Eagle.
57:47All right.
57:47Real good, Tom.
57:48Yeah.
57:48It's tough being by yourself without caregivers.
57:51When you're in the situation you're in, we pray that the Lord will protect you, sustain you, and meet your needs.
57:57All right.
57:57All right.
57:57All right.
57:57That's Tom.
57:58All right.
57:58All right.
58:00Any other comments anybody wants to make?
58:03Please, please put out your call for it.
58:04Five Yankee?
58:06Five Yankee.
58:06Go ahead.
58:08Hey, Tom.
58:08This is Beck, this is Beck, Alpha, Alpha, Five Yankee.
58:10Hey, I'm praying for you, and I want you to know when I was working for the Department of Motor Vehicles.
58:17We had a gentleman come in that was going to college at UC Davis.
58:22And I don't know what you call it, if he was a paraplegic or what, but all he could move was his head.
58:31And he used his chin to drive his wheelchair up the ramp into the van and then up into the driver's seat where you would normally have a seat.
58:43He sat in his wheelchair and then he would take his head and he would move the implement that moved his chair around to the side and bring his other implement that moved his van around next to him.
58:58And he literally drove his van with his chain forward for go fast, back for brake, left to turn left, right to turn right.
59:09So you can do it.
59:11And my thoughts are with you, guy.
59:13Alpha, Alpha, Five Yankee.
59:22Yeah, Beck, the problem is that costs lots of money to have a vehicle like that, and Tom is limited in his resources and kind of dependent on others to be able to do that with him and for him.
59:34So, yeah, the capability is there.
59:37The question is, is it about the funding and the finance is over?
59:41Roger, okay.
59:42I'll pray for that, too, then.
59:45Yeah, real good.
59:46Thank you for that.
59:47All right.
59:47Any other comments?
59:48Anybody wants to chat or talk, though, after the Bible study?
59:52Please come out here, Carlford.
59:55Yeah, let's hope he hits the lottery, because that's the vain sheet.
59:59No, no.
60:00We're talking lots of thousands of dollars.
60:05Yeah, copy that.
60:06All right.
60:06Any other comments?
60:08Please come out.
60:09KM-5F question.
60:11KM-5F, go ahead.
60:13Is Tom a vet?
60:15I don't know the answer to that question.
60:18Tom, WW7T, if you're still on the air, are you a veteran?
60:22Over.
60:23No.
60:24Well, I should be.
60:26When I was 16 years old, I took my oath to go on the Air Force to the office of the candidate school.
60:36And I was supposed to go on a week and a half before I got to leave.
60:40I got my legs severed.
60:41I was walking then, and God gave back these legs.
60:44And I was kind of like 21.
60:46And that.
60:47So they made me 4F.
60:48So I never got a medical discharge or anything else.
60:52But I did take my oath in the recruiting office with eight or nine other guys.
60:57And that's back in 1965 or 67.
61:02That's a long time.
61:02And so I have never done anything.
61:06My simple answer is I should get a hold of the Air Force and see if I can stop.
61:09But I haven't.
61:10I don't know if I have time, but I know who they're actually called to talk to.
61:14Everything I get told now is you aren't part of it until you actually go to basic.
61:21Yeah.
61:22That is true because you're part of the Air Force if you go to the Academy first.
61:28So I don't know where I am at now.
61:33I know I took my oath.
61:35And I honor my oath.
61:37And I honor all my brothers that fought in Korea, in Vietnam, and all the other places.
61:44We're in the world that we protect the world in our own country.
61:48But through what you said, I go back in that control.
61:50Thank you, Tom, for that.
61:54Will, KM5F, does that answer your question?
62:02I can't quite pull him out.
62:04I was just wondering.
62:05I think he's in Montana, right?
62:08Yeah, I'll copy that.
62:09You know, there's all kind of places.
62:11Like my daughter here in California gets around with motive care is what they call it.
62:16You would think Montana would have something like that.
62:20Yeah, they do have resources.
62:24And Tom's just trying to work his way through those.
62:27You know, he's having a tough time getting the kind of wheelchair he needs that can lift him up so he can get into his cupboards and give him the mobility that he requires.
62:37So I don't know if there's any resources available through the military.
62:42He did take his oath.
62:43He never received a discharge.
62:45So I guess.
62:48And even if he did, he would still have access to the medical care.
62:51So I'm not sure what the status there is.
62:54But in any event, Tom, we'll be praying for you, that God helps you work through all those issues and cares for you in the absence of your caregivers who are out hunting.
63:06And just pray that they are successful and return quickly.
63:11And that God meets your transportation needs for physical therapy.
63:14All right, WB7MAX here.
63:17Anybody else want to chat, please throw out your call sign.
63:20KB7ZXN.
63:21Kevin, KB7ZXN.
63:23Go ahead.
63:24Yeah, and we'll continue to pray as well.
63:26You know, several years ago, in fact, he just passed away a couple years ago.
63:31But there was a gentleman in our church, and I kind of knew from before, he's a miracle historian, and God can save anybody.
63:42And he would be probably, years ago, one of the least likely you'd expect to see in the church house.
63:49But God's grace is never ending.
63:53Anyway, his name was Joe.
63:55And he'd had multiple strokes and really struggled.
63:59He couldn't really get around with a walker.
64:01Though he'd really tried.
64:04But through his, I think, medical coordinator and doctors, and the church helped.
64:11We stepped in and kind of helped the process.
64:14I'm not sure exactly to what extent.
64:17But he was able to get one prescribed, a really nice electric chair.
64:23And so I pray that it comes through for you, Tom.
64:25I think you have the prescription.
64:26It's just a matter of fulfillment.
64:28I'm not sure what the holdup is there.
64:30But it should be possible.
64:32And I know for Joe, when he got that chair, holy cow, he was all over town.
64:37He'd be going, he'd be traveling miles every day.
64:41He'd be out to Best Buy across town or going to, you know, somewhere.
64:46And I'm not sure.
64:47I know.
64:47I need to take the back.
64:48I know.
64:48Do you?
64:49I know.
64:49I know.
64:49I know.
64:50I know.
64:50I know.
64:50I know.
64:51I know.
64:51I know.
64:51I know.
64:52But I know.
64:52I know.
64:52I know.