#but also - corinth is a little fascinating to him (VERY fascinating actually) and he actually respects people more when they-

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"Are you nervous?"

the moment rain started to pour down in gotham city (as was, unfortunately, a relatively common occurrence) was the same one that barton knew it was time to go. having to go home soaked was not something he wanted to do — though, in reality, that was a very inconsequential thing to worry about in comparison to how barton had just killed a person. the dollmaker had never claimed to be a good man, however... and what he valued certainly reflected this. so he finished meticulously cleaning up the crime scene he'd just created before climbing into the back of a taxi. and like nothing had ever happened, barton proceeded to his basement apartment in otisberg; a place he usually stayed at when he was trying to lay low.

but upon opening the door, he could immediately tell something was wrong because the mini wads of paper he'd placed underneath it? they appeared to have already been moved before barton ever entered it. ooh, barton was so going to rub this being useful in matilda's face whenever she came back from blüdhaven. (nicely). his daughter had told him a while ago that him putting these things underneath the door was just a 'product of his paranoia.' barton very subtly reached into one of his long black boots to take out the knife he usually kept in there out. there was no one he could think of that would be out for him, but upon flicking the lights on in the living room, it suddenly all made sense.

the corinthian was standing right in front of barton. he unsteadily jumped back as a result, while a long groan left his lips, ❝ putain (fuck)... for god's sake, what is everyone's obsession with showing up out of nowhere?! it doesn't make you cool — all it does is piss me off, ❞ the dollmaker ran a hand down his face before circling around the other with his knife pointed towards him. now that he was a good distance away from the corinthian, barton hung up his coat, but still kept an eye on the figure all the while. an incredulous chuckle left his mouth, the silver of his blade glinting in the light, ❝ 'am i nervous?' you startled me, but that's not at all the same thing. ❞ he narrowed his eyes at him and lowered his knife. ❝ why are you here, hmm? ❞

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Brickclub 1.5.3-1.5.5 (but mostly “Vague Glimmerings on the Horizon”

I didn’t have anything to say that hadn’t been said about either of the last two chapters. I know originality is not the point of this readalong and I’m trying to get better at posting even when I have nothing new to add. So let’s talk about Javert!

First, though, let’s detour and talk about Valjean, who embodies the bishop’s ideal mayor from all the way back in 1.1.3: “He ended disagreements, prevented lawsuits, reconciled enemies. Everyone recognized his authority as judge.” Earlier in the same paragraph, we are told “there came a time around 1821 when the words ‘monsieur le maire’ were uttered at Montreuil-sur-mer with almost the same expression as the words ‘Monseigneur l’évêque’ had been uttered at Digne in 1815.” And yet he seems to have had as little moral influence as the bishop—despite all his homespun wisdom about nettles, and all the people flocking to M-s-m to consult him, there are very few people following his example, and those few, like the sanctimonious deputy, are doing so out of ambition and competition.

And then we meet the one man who has still resisted this “contagion of respect” that had infected the whole area: Enter Javert.

We get a great physical description, and also a kind of puzzling one, about having the air of authority without baseness—given what else we know about Javert, how does he escape the baseness? He is a CRIME BABY, A BABY MADE OF CRIME (thank you Mellow, that will never stop being funny). Baseness is what he’s got to work with.

Aaaand we get a ton of furry imagery, more than with any other character. He’s called a tiger, once—possibly the only negative cat reference in the book—but for the most part, he’s associated with canids: mastiff, fox-man, dog-man, and, most notably and chillingly, the dog son of a wolf, who if not killed by its mother will grow up to eat the rest of her young.

I’m really fascinated this time through by just how much of the language used about Javert in his introduction is going to be echoed in other characters. Even this image of the dog-child-of-a-wolf will be used again—by Éponine, of herself, in the standoff outside the Rue Plumet house. There was a good conversation about Javert and Éponine’s parallels on the Discord recently—including the fact that they switch deaths; Javert gets the self-drowning foreshadowed for Éponine and she gets shot at the barricade as he was supposed to.

I’m going to keep coming back to that, and to the idea that Javert’s story, or his fate, has gone wrong—has been derailed* long before he is, or allows himself to become, aware of it. And almost from Javert’s first page, he and Éponine are yoked by this image of a story that went wrong even before birth: the dog son of a wolf, permanently shut out from its own society, at odds with its parent, locked in a death struggle with its siblings.

That metaphor makes a fascinating frame for Éponine’s zero-sum game with Cosette—and for the idea we were talking about, about how a loving foster family would certainly have shared her fortune. Javert, we are told, “Would have arrested his father for escaping from prison and denounced his mother for contravening the terms of her release from jail”—but he only does this metaphorically, by proxy. Éponine will very literally turn on her own parents to guard society in the form of Cosette and her happiness.  

(*Oh, and look, the derailment imagery is here too: “He had introduced a straight line into what is most tortuous in the world.”)

The other character the language of his introduction evokes is Enjolras, for whom he will be set up as an actual opponent. Javert “is a spy as other men are priests.” Enjolras, of course, is the other character who gets the priest imagery, starting in 3.4.1 with his “priest of the ideal” and his variously translated “pontifical et guerier” nature.

In the same paragraph, we are told that Javert had “an understanding of the police like the Spartans’ understanding of Sparta”; in “How Jean Can Become Champ,” we get Spartan and priest juxtaposed and the juxtaposition called out: “this bizarre composite of Roman, Spartan, monk, and corporal, this spy who could not lie, this virgin snitch. ”

Enjolras is also the other character (with a couple exceptions, which I’ll come back to) who gets the Spartan references. Moving from Donougher to Rose, which I have in a searchable ebook: “Enjolras, we know, had something of the Spartan and the Puritan” in 4.12.3; and in 5.1.17, “Enjolras gravely ruled over [the barricade] in the attitude of a young Spartan dedicating his naked blade to the dark genius Epidotas.”

Given (a) the Corinthe and (b) everything, classical references are another thing that are almost always significant in this book. And aside from a few uses of lowercase ‘spartan’ to mean ‘spare’ or ‘frugal,’ there are a few other references to Sparta, all quite late in the book:

5.1.2, talking of real and fictional insurgents: “They were in the early hours of that spartan day of June 6 when, in the Saint-Merry barricade, Jeanne, surrounded by insurgents wanting bread, answered all the combatants clamouring for “Something to eat!” with, “What for? It’s three o’clock. At four, we’ll be dead.”

5.1.12, talking of the National Guard: “ Blood was lyrically shed for the good of the cash register; and the shop, that vast diminutive of the homeland, was defended with Spartan gusto.”

5.1.20, insurgents again, doomed ones this time: “They are but few; they have a whole army arrayed against them; but they are defending right, the law of nature, justice, truth, the sovereignty of each man over himself, from which no abdication is possible; and, if need be, they will die like the three hundred Spartans. It is not Don Quixote they have in mind, but Leonidas. And they forge ahead and, once they are committed, there is no going back, so they rush headlong, hoping for an unheard-of victory—complete revolution, unbridled progress, the betterment of the human race, universal deliverance; and, if the worst comes to the worst, Thermopylae.”

And then, 5.2.1, “The Intestine of Leviathan,” on our first introduction to the book’s real main character or at least its most important metaphor: "For we must flatter no one and nothing, not even a great people; wherever nothing is lacking, ignominy sits next to sublimeness; and if Paris contains Athens, the city of light, Tyre, the city of power, Sparta, the city of virtue, Nineveh, the city of wonder, it also contains Lutetia, the city of slime.”

To be Spartan, then, is not only to be virtuous, but to defend virtue—however constructed, even the bourgeois virtue of the National Guard—with one’s own life.

Other Observations: “A good social education can always elicit from any soul whatsoever the usefulness it contains.” Well that’s a damning comment on the dirtbag students.

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08/14/2020 DAB Transcript

Nehemiah 8:1-9:21, 1 Corinthians 9:1-18, Psalms 33:12-22, Proverbs 21:11-12

Today is the 14th day of August welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I’m Brian it is great to be here with you today as we approach the landing on another week and…and move forward…move forward into the weekend and will start another spark…sparkly shiny new week and we’ll just keep going with this rhythm day after day, step-by-step around the Global Campfire. And, so, the next step leads us back into this book that we have been reading all week, Nehemiah. We’re reading from the English Standard Version this week and we’ll read Nehemiah 8 verse 1 through 9 verse 21 today.

Commentary:

Okay. So, in our reading in first Corinthians today we can see that Paul is being questioned about money basically. We can deduce this because of his response. He's responding to some things that have been said to him, and he's exasperated by like saying, “why…why…why shouldn't I earn my living from the gospel? This is my job. Like this is what I do. This is with the other apostles do. This is what is even provided for in the Mosaic law. Like, I’m…as basically I’m a member of the clergy. This is like a full-time gig. I'm traveling all over the place. I'm running for my life half the time. I should at least maybe be able to eat food”, right? Like, so he’s kind of coming back at what they're saying and there's probably an undercurrent here because in a number of Paul's letters we will see him talk about a collection, a collection for the poor Jerusalem church. And in some cases, he’ll even be like, “when I get there make sure you have the money ready.” So, there's probably an undercurrent going on that connects itself to the Jerusalem Council itself. And we read about the Jerusalem Council in the book of Acts. And at that counsel that's where a very, very pivotal decision was to be made and the essential question at that counsel was “who gets to be in? Who gets to be in the church? Who gets to be a believer in Jesus?” Because as we've already talked about a number of times and we will talk more as…as we continue our journey through the Bible, the Hebrew believers felt that Jesus was a Hebrew rabbi and that His message was a Hebrew message in a Hebrew context and so if you wanted to follow Him you needed to essentially become Hebrew, convert to Judaism and then follow Jesus. But the Gentiles, on the other hand, were still receiving the Holy Spirit. And, so, it was as if God has made this decision, which is what they looked at and what they understood and what they decided – “God is the one giving out his Holy Spirit and we can't argue with what God is doing. And, so, we have to...even though it bends our minds…we’re gonna have to get on board with what God is doing.” But not everybody could do that. And it seems that the Bible goes to great lengths to tell us that the mother church, the Jerusalem church was a poor church of poor people. And, so, it seems maybe that because Paul didn't frequent Jerusalem that often, because there wasn't kind of constant dialogue going on, that Paul had at least alluded to the fact that as he continued to share the gospel among the Gentiles and plant the churches among the Gentiles, that he would not forget the Jerusalem church, that he would not forget that this is kind of the “where it started”, and that these people needed help to be strong. He explicitly says this in some of his letters. So, we can get into conjecture here and go like, “okay. The church at Corinth, maybe there on board with this collection, but also like paying Paul and there’s all this money being asked for and this is a new church and these are…this is a cosmopolitan urban area with educated people and who are gonna ask questions.” And, so, we see some of the different entanglements, like just some of the stuff going on in the early church. And it’s so fascinating. It's so fascinating because, I kinda grew up thinking that everything was…Jesus ascended back to the Father and those early days of the church, they were just magnificent. And yes, they were magnificent but they are full of the same kinds of struggles that we can continue to struggle with today, in one form or another and that's…in one way that's encouraging. In another way it's like, shouldn't we be doing better? Like, shouldn't we…we’ve had 2000 years of practice, why do we keep following the same circle? Like, why do we keep doing the same things over and over? They keep yielding the same results. Why don't we fully live into what is described in the New Testament as our identity as children of the most-high God? And it shows us that, yeah, they had work to do then and we have work to do now. But we’re not alone. This has been an ongoing struggle.

Prayer:

Father we invite You to that. The thing is, what we’re asking for is that we could overcome some of these things, that they wouldn't only ever be struggles, that we would actually overcome some of these things in our lives as we become completely and fully aware of who we are in You. We know who we are without You and we are a colossal mess. We can fool ourselves into the thinking we’re the greatest thing that that was ever born. But the truth is when we have to look in the mirror for real and examine our lives, we are a colossal mess. The only thing that ties it together is You because we were created this way. We will only ever be a mess when we try to navigate anything without You, and we’re ashamed to confess that we try to navigate a lot of things without You. And it's helpful to know like we’re not the only ones, that this has been going on a long time, but we would like to step forward. And…and it seems as if You would like that too, very, very much. That You have been so patient, that You have been so kind, that You have been so loving, that You have Fathered us. But maybe it's now time to grow up a little. And, so, come Holy Spirit into these long struggles of our lives and show us how to live into a new way, a way that puts some of this stuff behind us. We pray this in the precious name of Jesus our Lord. Amen.

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Community Prayer and Praise:

Well hello DABbers I was just listening to the prayer requests today and I heard from Louise from the states and she was asking for prayer for her son Peter who she said his birthday was August 10th and he’s 24 and he’s away from the Lord. I could hear the pain in your voice Louise. It’s a special day for me because it’s my birthday, August 10th is my birthday and definitely not 24 but I just wanted to say a quick prayer for Peter. Father, I just pray right now wherever Peter is in this world that You would send Your Spirit Father in a unique way through Your body Father, someone that he knows, someone that he doesn’t know Lord just I pray that You would get a hold of this Young man and that You would change his heart, draw him to You. And I just pray for protection on him Father that You would speak life to him. I pray against any death, any demonic forces, any drugs, anything like that Father. I just pray that he would…that it would just fall to the wayside and that Your Spirit would be very clear and that You would draw him back to You and to his family and that it would be a redemptive story in Jesus’ name. Amen. Today my theme is these are a few of my favorite things and I am thankful for the daily by the on my 55th birthday. Thank You Lord for life. Thank You for Your word thank You for Your joy and thank You for this family.

Greetings everyone this is Olivia Zara from London England today is the 10th of August. This is not my first time calling in, but I would definitely say that I’m quite new when it comes to the Daily Audio Bible app. I just joined this year but enjoying participating and sending in prayers when can. What rang new to me today I would say is listening to Ms. Louise from the states concerning her son Peter who is turning 24. Happy birthday Peter! Never know, you can be listening to the Daily Audio Bible app as well, but I was tremendously moved, I don’t know why, I’m not a mother myself yet but I guess because me, I’m 26 and I know what it’s like to witness running away from the Lord as well as myself at times running away from the purpose that God has given my life. And please join me in prayer. So, Lord I place Your beloved son Peter into Your precious and merciful loving hands. Lord You know him by name and by nature of whatever reason he’s running away from Your glorious Spirit I ask in Jesus’ name that he takes heart to find rest and lay down his burden on to You completely. Lord I thank You for his loving mother. Reward her trust in You and guide her son into Your eternal kingdom. May Your supernatural power bring a new testimony into her life over Your faithfulness in Jesus’ name. Amen. God bless you everyone. By.

Hey family it’s Jesse from Washington I need some prayers for one of my employees. Last night…I mean…today when she came in and she looked pretty upset and I didn’t want to ask her in front of everybody but when we were alone she told me that right outside her kids window last night her three-year-old’s window there was a young African American…African American kid was stabbed to death like literally like 10 feet outside their window and he and his wife have four kids. And, so, just prayer for my employee, his name is Yami and it’s her and her husband and her three-year-old and they couldn’t sleep at all last night. I…I can’t believe she even came in to work. She’s just been such a blessing to our family and to our business. But just prayers that Yami and her family can get some sleep, prayers…I don’t know how your mind would be set at ease after something like that but just prayers that they don’t stress out too much or worry too much about the situation. Only God can do that, obviously. And then prayers for that young family, for those kids, and for the mother, all their family. I can’t even imagine what they’re going through. So, just cover them with your prayer’s family. And, yeah, thanks family. Bye.

Hey Daily Audio Bible family this is Dan in Arizona. I have not called in for some time now. I just wanted to pray for our world and just the many things that are going on, the many things at play in the world. And we know that these things are supposed to happen. We know that the enemy is at work behind the scenes here, but He that is in us is greater than He that is in the world. And I am so thankful and grateful to have Jesus in my heart and know that Jesus is in control no matter what is going on in this world. And I’m praying for peace for myself. I’ve had some battles with anxiety lately and I’m just starting to really come out of it and realizing that it’s because I’ve been trying to hold onto those things and do everything on my own and world put the…literally put the world’s problems on my shoulders. And I’m praying for those of you who share that battle of just putting your world or bills and payments and…and other responsibilities plus the news that is going on constantly 24/7. And, you know what? Jesus says hey take my burden it’s light. And I’m praying for you out there specifically who are going through this battle, I’m praying that you would take on the burden of Jesus because it is light, and His yoke is easy and His burden is light. I love you all family. Be blessed.

Good morning DABbers this is Running Desperately to Jesus. I come to you all with a heavy heart. I’m still struggling with my fornication, I would just be transparent, fornication. I don’t know why that is. This is so hard for me. God has given me many ways out and yet I seem to still keep going back. I don’t know what’s going on with that. It’s…it’s…it’s a battle, I feel it’s a battle within me, my spirit and my flesh are warring so hard. The other thing is is I just want to let everyone know that prayed me during the time I had my grandson, I’m gonna take full responsibility and am sure that I sabotaged this through my stress, through my desire to be in the home by myself, my desire to not have to go through parenting again. Some things were done by another relative where he has been not returned and I feel relief in a sense. I’m not stressed about it but I feel I am at odds with two things that have had such a major impact on my life and that was my grandson coming to live with me, that relationship God knows my desire to have a relationship with him, but in the capacity of grandmother and then this man that I have been physically with and having a hard time with me just walking away. Those are two things that seem to have just turned my world upside down since this COVID thing has caused me to be at home just go to work and come home and nothing in between. So, I’m asking for prayer again. This is Running Desperately to Jesus.

Dear Esther from Flushing Queens now in Orlando Florida I just…I heard you say that you don’t think you have a deep faith and yet you said that you have faith but you just don’t want to be shaken to the core. And sister, I don’t know but I think that faith that knows all the facts, that looks at the reality, that feels all the feelings and yet says, “Lord let it be done unto me, yet though he slay me I will trust in Him”, that’s faith. Faith, I don’t believe is ever going to be a situation where everything’s going great. In fact, that’s when faith seems to wander off, is when everything’s going great. So, it sounds to me like you’re rockin’ it in the faith. And I love your prayers. I want you I I’m gonna pray for you. Father God I thank you for my sister Esther. I think you father God for the beautiful name that you gave her. She’s one of my favorite characters in the Bible in fact she’s a queen. And I thank you Lord that you are fulfilling your purpose for her in her life right now and you’re bringing her through the valley and your setting tables before her in the presence of our enemies. And father God you are going to look for comp overflow and goodness and mercy follow her wherever she goes because she has a heart that trusts in you and follows up to you. Bless her Lord God. Let’s perceive the truth about herself as you see her Lord. She is your treasured possession and I thank you father God for all the blessings of all my dear sisters and brothers in Christ on the DAB. In Jesus name. Treasured possession.

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08/28/2019 DAB Transcript

Job 28:1-30:31, 2 Corinthians 2:12-17, Psalms 42:1-11, Proverbs 22:7

Today is the 28th day of August. I am Brian. It is a pleasure and a joy to be here with you as we reach the middle of the week of the last week of the month and, yeah, just a couple days from the family reunion. So, exciting time around here. It's exciting to be here with you today as we take the next step forward in the Scriptures. And that will lead us back out into the book of Job in the Old Testament and back into Paul’s letter to the church in Corinth that we call second Corinthians. We’re reading from the New International Version this week. Job 28 through 30 today.

Commentary:

Okay. So, in Paul's letter to the Corinthians today he says something kinda interesting, unique actually. He says, “thanks be to God who always leads us as captives in Christ's triumphal procession and uses us to spread the aroma of the knowledge of Him everywhere.” “The aroma of the knowledge of Him” is fascinating. So, like, think…think of a couple months from now, at least those of you in the United States, think of, you know, late November and Thanksgiving time and autumn and think of the aroma of that season, right? You can put your finger on it right away. Its…its Thanksgiving dinner. Its…its all those candles that have that very very specific autumn kind of smell. The leaves begin to fall. It gets wetter and you smell people burning the leaves at night. There's an aroma, right? Ans as soon as that holiday ends, then the aroma changes, right, to like peppermint and fur…like Christmas tree smells, right, because there’s an aroma around that season. In fact, I mean, we don't always pay attention to what it is that we’re smelling but when we walk into a room, even if it doesn't register with us consciously, if that room smells fragrant then we’ll respond to it because the aroma changes the atmosphere. And Paul says that God uses us to spread the aroma of the knowledge of Him everywhere. So, what do you smell like? It's an odd question, but what do your words smell like? And I'm not like thinking they smell like minty breath or bad breath. I mean, are your words bringing the aroma of Christ and changing the atmosphere? Or like, what about the choices that you make, like the actions that you're gonna do today, the things that you're gonna do, are they changing the atmosphere with the aroma of Christ? Right? Because we can walk into a room and not register… we can just register, “oh that smells good. Oh…” it might take a while, “Oh that’s cookies. Are you baking cookies? I'd like”, you know, “I’d like a cookie.” It's not always immediately noticeable but the longer that you linger the more that you become aware. That's what an aroma does, and God is using us to produce the aroma of Christ in the world. So, is that what's going on around you or are you repellent? Like, literally do you suck the air out of the room and replace it with an atmosphere that people want to get away from. Because if God can use us to spread the aroma of the knowledge of Christ, well then we can certainly in our own strength to do just the opposite. And this will all happen by the way that we choose to live our lives today - in our thoughts and in our words and in our deeds. And it’s easy enough to say, “well it's hard to…it's hard to know the impact that you're having” but not if you're paying attention. Have you ever been like stressed out and, you know, anxiety is just kinda churning in your belly and you’re not really sure exactly how to make a rational decision and things are not going well but you get around somebody who’s calm and they begin to talk you through it and they begin to peel back the layers with you and you're not alone in this and…and they stay calm and the change the atmosphere and you leave there…maybe everything…maybe nothing has changed at all except for you experienced the aroma of Christ and you responded to it.

If we’ll Just listen to what the sons of Kora had to say today in the Psalms, we’ll know…we’ll know the posture that we need to have to change the atmosphere wherever we go. The Psalm says, “as the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God?” If that's our hearts posture, then we will definitely be bringing the aroma of Christ and the awareness of the knowledge of God into all situatio,ns.

Prayer:

And, so, Holy Spirit, we invite You into that. It's kind of a new category. We don't necessarily think of the way that we’re changing the atmosphere. It’s just not put in terms that we would normally think of. Yet here it is in the Bible. And, so, this gives us a great opportunity to think about it in those terms, that when we walk into a room, we’re carrying something with us and it's either going to be compelling or repelling. May it be the aroma of Christ. Holy Spirit, come and help us understand that we carry within us that kind of power to, change the atmosphere of a room, of a situation, anything that You might send us into. Come Holy Spirit we pray. In the name of Jesus, we ask. Amen.

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Community Prayer and Praise:

Hey family how you doing? It’s the Prodigal calling with a jampacked call request for prayer. First of all, for me. I hate to be sound self, but I really need your prayers. I have indeed lost everything and what make this worse or complicated is the incredible pain I live with every day. My back is broken for the third time and I can’t do anything about it. I’m just trying to manage. I need my shoulder replaced desperately. The pain is so severe, and I can’t even move it and then of course I had to move because I lost my place and the first day of moving, I got serious __ so it feels like I like step on a __ every time I take a step. Forget about the neck and everything, I’ve got a deal with those but Lord please family I need your players, I need just lifting up. And it’s __ we’re reading Job again. I get it more and more every year since I’ve been doing Job with Brian for what 14 years or so. So, anyway, there’s that. Well…a few more. My son Jake, he’s really trying hard. He just needs your prayers to get over the hump this time and get on his path. He’s a good kid, he really is. And for my good friend Julie who is going through a break down and is just trying to find her way out of the darkness and into the light. I pray for her every day and it just seems like she has no more options. And lastly for Cecelia, a very good friend of mine who’s been trying to come home but is so sick they’ve hospitalized her in a London and just seem to make things work and just hit financially as well as health wise and its a double whammy. So, with that, I pray for all of you every day. I listen to all of you every day and I pray that God will shed light into our lives, and he would put us in the spot He wants us, on the path He wants us to be. Thank you all again for your prayers. God bless you and make it a great day. Take care. God bless.

Good morning family and God bless you. It’s Gustavo. It’s very unique that I’m just finding this feature on the app that I can submit an encouragement and prayer request right from the app. So, I just want to tell you that I’ve been so blessed over some years now, since 2014 in being part of this community and a silent one many times. I have enjoyed also to pray for your needs and also one or two times I got the prayer of the team, which is amazing. I want to also use the time to use a shout out to __. That’s’ one of several persons that prayed for me. I hope that you’re hearing this brother, you’re still my prayers. I hope to hear you soon. God bless you all and keep up the excellent work. The Lord is coming, and we need to do His work, we need to gather the flock, we need to call those that are __. So, be not discouraged, be encouraged, be assured that the Lord is on our side. God bless you. Gustavo from Warez.

Hi this is Jesse from Washington. It’s like 1:30 in the morning on Friday. I’ve got to go back into our business and fix a mistake and I’m gonna be up all night again. Just listening to I think it was the July 12th. Terry the Trucker, you called in and you’re talking about seasons and my last days or weeks or months or lifetime, we don’t know why, sometimes God tells you and sometimes He doesn’t. It could last a lifetime. He may not tell us why, but it may be for someone else to see and say, “look what a good and faithful servant that person was.” And man, you put it so perfectly man. I’m like in tears. I’m not upset that I have to go in because I have God with me, and I know this part of what we signed up for and it’s just…it’s so nice to not be where I was a few years ago mentally but to hear that and to know that Gods here with me. And, you know, where trying to buy our own building commercial building. You know, we’re trying to sell our house, we’re getting married. We just sent out wedding invitations. So, the devils really…really turning up the heat on us man and Terry said it so perfect man. God bless you. That was…that was so awesome. And Lee, I’m like a month and ½ behind. I’ll call in another time when I’m not a mess and explain how I, you know, use the Daily Prayer in my routine every day. I’ve been thinking about it every day. It’s just…oh it’s just crazy man. Our daughter just had tonsil adenoids removed and she’s a handful as it is. She’s four so…and we’ve got the business and we’re just losing…people are just quitting and going to school. And, so, it’s been crazy man, and this is really holding me together. You can’t tell I’m being held together because I’m a mess now, but I love you guys all. I really love this resource, these tools. So, I love you all. Thank you.

Hi, my name is Samantha and I’m calling from Florida and I have been listening for a while, but I’ve never called, and I’ve heard you were listening. And I would like to ask for prayer for a friend named Billy. Billy was diagnosed with liver cancer and the doctor says he may not have long. Thank God he’s been placed on hospice so he does have some care but that is really scary. He is obviously pretty depressed and anxious. So, I would like to reach out to all of you and ask you to please pray for Billy. Please pray for his liver, for his health, for his emotional well-being. Even though the doctors say he may not have long, I don’t believe that. I know God can change that at any time and I believe God will if it’s not Billy’s time. And if it is Billy’s time just pray that he will go with our Father and that he will be comforted with the peace that passes all understanding no matter how it goes and no matter what the outcome is. Sometimes I have to remember that. I can’t base my faith on a specific outcome. And thank you Brian, because I heard that from you. Anyway, thank you so much. I pray for all of you and I know that you’ll all pray for Billy and I believe whatever God wills is what will happen. Thank you, God that you place your will on us because without you nothing would be worth it. Thank you. Bye.

Hi everybody my name is Bobby from California. This the first time I’m calling and I’m calling in response to a woman named Lisa from Missouri. And you were calling in Lisa about your son Adam who was struggling in life. And I just felt compelled and I don’t know if I just said, this is the first time I’ve called. I felt compelled to call in response to you because my son, he went through the same struggle and my son committed…my son attempted suicide one time. He’s okay now and he’s doing much better. It was just kind of an adolescent thing it wasn’t even a deep depression situation. He was just disillusioned with life at the time. But Lisa I want you to know that I…when he was hospitalized for week…and, you know, he learned and grew from it. And that’s my story, but…you know…I felt I felt connected with you when you called because, you know, we share the same thing. So, I just want to let you know that I am praying for your son Adam and I will continue to pray for your son Adam. And, you know, God holds us all in the palm of His hand and sometimes we don’t know what’s going on here. And even though we seek to…you know…there’s something in just having faith in God and knowing that God sees even the smallest bird fall from the sky and He sees her son Adam. And I love you. I love everybody here and I hope you all a blessed day. Thanks.