Mother, they're very interested in Oakland and San Francisco and the earthquake and fire and the things that you always tell Joy and everybody about when you were a young girl. And she was telling me this morning, so we date this, have you dated this already? Today's February 12, 1987, we're at 1233 Derby Street in Berkeley and we're talking to Ella Fister, who was born Ella Marie Spanigel in San Francisco on the 2nd of June, 1889. I have to stop. I think I'm already on the Sunday morning. Early on the Sunday morning. Okay. And we talk a lot, we've had a lot of fun with this and she's always telling Joy something special, but she does have some interesting stories. All right, Mama, you remember what you were saying just a little bit. What do you remember about Oakland, especially, and then the earthquake? Well, I remember, but I remember about Oakland, my father was a baker and he worked all night long and it was, and then the afternoon he would bake cake for the bakery, but Tuesday and Thursday, those were his days off. And he went out into the fresh air and that helped keep him healthy and wise. I remember my father taking me to Oakland and what I was particularly interested in was a bakery over there. I looked in that window and looked and they made all kinds of different bakers than we did in San Francisco and that was very interesting to me. Oakland was just a one horse town, men would drive around in wagons. It was just a little tiny wagon and one horse and they would drive it and most of the time they'd have a bale of hay on the back of their wagons. They went to town to buy the hay for their horse and that's what I remember. It was a very small town. It was large but at the same time it was a country town. How did you get there? Well, we took the Mission Street car and we rode to the ferry building and then we took the ferry boat to Oakland and then we took the train, the 7th Street train and I think we got off at 7th Street and we bonded around there. That was the heart of Oakland. What was that? Now Broadway, San Pablo, do you remember? Well, I do remember San Pablo. I remember Oakland, yeah, and there used to be quite a drive-in store there. I kind of forgot its name. Was it Withhorn Swann? The Withhorn Swann was in existence. O'Connor Moffat? They drove way down, I think down 5th Street and Broadway somewhere like that. What about O'Connor Moffat? Do you remember that? No, that was not in Oakland. Did you have yolkskin? Uh-huh. This store was gradually taken all by the Emporium and it was run by the Emporium in Oakland. Well, it would be Capwell, Sullivan and Furth. Furth, yeah. That may be it. That was the main store. The main store then. That was the name. And Capwell was a ribbon and lace store when it opened, wasn't it? They sold dry goods. They sold ribbons, lace, patterns, crochet work, embroidery. That's it. Now, let me think what you said. Capwell's in Oakland, Disney? Yes. Uh-huh. Wasn't that called the lace company or they sold laces and ribbons when they first opened? Uh-huh. That I don't remember because I was quite young then. Now was this before the earthquake? You used to come over when you were a little girl? Yeah, my father was a baker and he had to have fresh air. So he would go outside on the boat and get all that fresh air on the outside of the boat. And we'd take the train and we always got off at 7th Street, I think it was, and Broadway and walked all around there and looked at all the bakeries. That's what we did. She told me once there were wagons, just a small wagon driven by one man and I think one horse and they went all over Oakland and they delivered hay and stuff like that. That's what I remember. Oakland was just a small town. This was before the fire because she was almost 17 when the fire, earthquake and fire happened. Yes, this was before the fire. Okay. What do you remember about, do you remember the earthquake? Oh, very well, that was the earthquake yesterday. Yes, the earthquake happened about 18 minutes after 5 in the morning. Most people were asleep, which was a good thing. They were in bed, otherwise we would have had a lot of casualties. The first thing I remember about the earthquake was my mother. She was sitting up in bed praying to all her favorite saints to save her because she thought the house was going to collapse. And when I heard that, I jumped out of my bed and ran to the front of the house, out of the front window and I could open up the window and I looked down and I looked at the corner across the street and I saw a brick building that was just 6 months ago collapse, one wall and then the other went down and then shortly after that the wooden structure, which was an old thing, went flat on the ground also. And people who escaped those houses ran out stock-naked. There wasn't a stitch of clothing on them and they were screaming up the street, screaming at the top of their voice. And across the street from us was Coley's bakery and I remember all the bakers came out from their cello workshop and were on the sidewalk. I was in the window, I could see all that. And... What was the address of the bakery? It was 125, 7 and then later changed to 149, 7th Street. And the name of the bakery was Columbia Bakery. And your father's name? My father's name was the Eberhardt, E-B-E-R-A-T-R-G, just like a pencil, Eberhardt and Booth. That was Eberhardt Christopher? A Christopher Eberhardt span Nagle S-P-A-N and then Nagle L-A-G-E-D spelled with E-L. That's the German spelling. Did the fire start soon after that? The fire. I left that machine now. Those two houses collapsed. And in one of the houses that collapsed was a little restaurant. And he evidently had been up early and started his coal and wood fire and was getting coffee ready for his early morning trade. And it was since that that spot where that little restaurant was that the fire first appeared. And my father sent a young man and he told him to run all the way to 6th Street to get a fireman. And a young man did and he returned with the fireman. And I stood right at the hydrant when the fireman coupled the hose and was going to, what do you call it, douse the fire with water. And not a drop of water came and he uncoupled the hose and said there is no water. And just then I saw three drops of water splashed to the sidewalk. And that was all the water we saw. The main pipe from south San Francisco into San Francisco had broken out in the mission. And all the water that had been in San Francisco ran into the bay. And here was a city on fire and not a drop of water to put out the fire. Do you remember when they ordered the militia ordered the flowing up of buildings to stop the fire? Wait, I didn't quite get the question. Do you remember when the militia ordered certain buildings to be blown up to stop the fire? Oh, yes. That was common. Block after block was blown up. But that didn't stop it. The fire leaked. One block after the other. Just one block after the other. Until it came to Vanness Avenue. And Vanness Avenue was at the parade street. It was twice as big as any ordinary street. It was wide, you see, because they held all the parades and maneuvers on Vanness Avenue. And we all thought that would stop the fire Vanness Avenue. Well, it did, but there was one portion of it where the fire leaked over the avenue and stopped burning the northern part of the city. But they succeeded in getting that out. Did you leave your home? Did you have to leave where you were living and go somewhere else during the fire? We left our home about, I would say, half past... Half past five, quarter to six in the morning. The fire was at the corner. Just a few houses away from us. And we had to get out. Did you go by wagon? Now, wait a minute. My mother told us to go out to my chum's house. And I said, oh, that's an imposition of my sister, that I and her two sisters, putting it into their home and I wouldn't do it. But she did. She went there and we weren't there. And then my father had to go and find us. Well, he found us on 8th Street. The fire had stopped at 8th Street. And so he hired a wagon and we got into it. And he got into it. And they drove this way up to Bernal Heights to where my mother was at her home. As her friends were. And then we had a sweep on the floor. Of course, you know, we were five people. She hadn't five beds. But my mother, her son, was happened to be in Oakland. It was Easter vacation when the fire happened. He was over in Oakland to friends of his. And my mother got his bed. She was the lucky one. But we slept on the floor and it was very, very hard. My father, I guess, got tired of sleeping on the floor. And he went over to Oakland. I think by that time they let people from Oakland go to San Francisco. And first, nobody could go into San Francisco after the earthquake. They stopped all ferry boats and all trains. No one could come in. But people could go out. They could. Oh yes, they could go out. What did he do in Oakland then? My father, as I say, he walked a great deal. He looked at all, he went over there, you know, kind of the ferry trips and all that. And we just walked around. No, no, we're talking about after the earthquake, mother. Yes, I know what I said. All right, we walked around. My father took us over there. When you bought, you rented a house, didn't you? Yeah. My father looked around over there and he found a brand new house. No one had ever lived in it. And I think the rent was $65. And my mother saw it and then she said, wait, I'm going to the furniture store first. And she showed her, her bank book, and she had $4,000 in cash. And she told the furniture store that just as soon as the bank opened up, she would pay them. Well, they saw that she had money and they never had the furniture. So we moved into this vacant new house. And I had a double bed. My mother got me a beautiful birdseye maple bedroom set. My sister and I slept in the bed together. And I think my little sister had a cradle. And she slept in my same room also. And then my mother bought a double bed for her and my father. And we had a bureau. Each had a bureau in our room and chairs. And then we had tables for the kitchen and the stove. Tell us about what happened just after you saw all these things out of the earthquake, the window, out of the window at the time of the earthquake, Mother. Remember you said you went down and you could not get out of the door. I went to the window and I told you my mother was sitting up in bed praying to all the saints, her favorite saints, to save her. And then you said that she thought the house was going to collapse. And I got up and put on my suit, two of them stopping. And I guess a wrapper, we used to call them wrappers. It was a robe I put over my mic down. And I went out and looked in the window. And I looked across the street and I saw this brand new building, just six months old, one wall and then the other. And then it collapsed. And next to it was a wooden building. And then that collapsed. And the women who escaped out of that house were stock-naked. And they ran in the street, stock-naked, screaming their lungs out. What did you do for them? And I said to myself, well, mine wasn't bad at all. This I'm going to go downstairs. That's what I thought. So I went downstairs, our steps were still standing. And I wanted to get out into the sidewalk to my father's bakery. But every door in the whole community was stuck. Everybody was a prisoner in their own home. No door was open. So my husband, my father was a strong man. And he came and with all his strength, he lifted the door up and it caught in the latch and it opened up. And I was about the first on the street. And the first ones to greet me were these three-naked women. And you know what they asked me. They asked me for clothing. And I went in to my mother's wardrobe and got her very best clothes. I got three woolen skirts and three woolen jackets. And I came out and they put all the skirts over their nakedness. They were stout-fated as the jackets. And the last thing I saw, they were walking up Seventh Street. Barefooted, of course. But they had saved their lives. Now, then after that... Well, tell what you saw. You got your father's axe. You've told us so many times that people were trapped. Oh, yes. People were trapped in the swollen building. And I went over there to see what was the matter. And I heard the workingman say, if we only had an axe, we could get some of these people out. And I was right there, just a 16-year-old kid, and I typed up, I'll get you an axe. And I ran home and got my father's axe. It was too heavy for me to carry, but I began to drag it. And they saw me coming with it, and then they took it away from me. And I'm glad to say they chucked away enough timber to free people.  I had that satisfaction. It saved a lot of people's lives. I don't know how many, but I guess I never did it. The axe did it. Mother, tell about the people who dropped the baby from the window to somebody else. Yeah. Right opposite us was an old-fashioned house with bay windows. And there was a father who had an infant in his hand. And there was a man in the street. And he called to the man in the street. And he said, he's going to drop the baby into his arms. And I yelled over to him, don't do it. The earthquake is over. He looked up at me, but he did it anyhow. And I'm glad to say the man in the street caught the infant in his arms, dropped them a high second-story window. And did you know if the people got out? I never did hear the end of that story. Did you know if they got out? Oh, yes. I think they did. I think they chucked out the doors or something like that. Those doors in those days were half glass and half wood. I think they got in. But every door was stuck. Every door. Nobody could get in or out of their house. We just jammed. But then there was an earthquake, another one, an aftershock about, I think it was a half hour later or maybe a little longer. And that earthquake adjusted the locks, and the people could get out of their homes. That's insane. Now, and the corner below us was on fire already, and we knew we had to get out of there. You have told me, Mother, that the houses went off their foundations. Oh, yes, some of the houses did go off their foundations. I don't think ours did. My mother said there was new construction right next to us, and she said that new construction sort of held us up, though she did expect for the house to collapse. Now, after you moved to Oakland and you moved into this new house, then did you go back to San Francisco to see later the building, the rebuilding? Well, my father was a baker. We have a bakery. But he's never had a vacation. Oh, I guess in 50 years he kept baking every night. And this is the first time he was ready. I said they'd call back. It's all right. We'll just go past that. It's all right. Go ahead. Yes. Well, we were talking. She was asking if you'd gone back. They moved back to San Francisco after a few months. Wait a moment now. How long did you stay out in Fruitvale? Wait a minute. Oh, I'll tell you what we did. After the fire, my mother said to me, go to my chum's house and I'll meet you there. And I was 16 and I had my two little sisters with me. And I said, oh, what an imposition to go at the barge into my chum pool. You told us about my house. My mother didn't think so. We stayed downtown. And my mother, in the meanwhile, had gone up to my chum's home, way out of Bernal Heights. And we were in there. So my father said, I'll go and look for the children. And he found us on 8th Street. The fire had burned to 8th Street. And if we had just a little water, we could have put it out there. But there was no water. And in one section of 8th Street, it jumped across the street. And then from 8th Street to 20th, it burned. Every house went. Do you remember telling you, I remember you're telling me, Mother, about the sound that the city hall made when it fell. Oh, yes. Yes, when the city hall collapsed. It was a big stone building.  It collapsed. And it made a tremendous sound. Yes, that sound belongs to the earthquake. Of collapsing buildings. That's right. That belongs to the earthquake story. The sound of the collapsing buildings made. How did the earthquake sound when you first heard it in your bed at five o'clock in the morning? I didn't hear any sound at all. But a great shaking, it took me a week. And the first thing I heard was my mother praying aloud to save him. She thought, sure, the house was going to fall down. And I got up and put on my stuffies and shoes and a robe over my night down. And I ran through the window. I could open it up. Everything was fine. And I looked across the street and I saw this three-story brick building just newly built six months ago collapsed like a car in the house. Mrs. Fister? Yes. Did San Francisco look like to you at 15, before the earthquake? Yes, I can tell you about San Francisco looked like. San Francisco was a city of wooden houses. Very few brick houses were there. And at the time of the earthquake all the brick houses collapsed. And if you wanted to say swear word after the earthquake say brick house. Because that went flat. And people in those brick houses, they were killed. But the people in the wooden houses were. And we saw the fire coming. And my father sent a young man to 6th Street. We lived on 7th Street for a fireman. To tell him to come quick. And the fireman came. And I stood right by the hydrogen where they would get the water. You know, to cover the hose to put the fire out. And three drops of water dropped out. The main supply of water into San Francisco had broken. The pipe was broken. And all the water that was to go to San Francisco ran into the bay. And here we were a city on fire. And another drop of water to put it out. Mother, I'm going to give you something else to hold here. Here you are. All right. Remember, you were telling about going to the bank and about going down to the, getting chili tamales, tamales, before, for supper sometime. Oh yeah. Tell us about that. Oh. Well, we lived down 7th Street. My father had a bakery. And we lived in the flat above the bakery.  I slept in the front bedroom. It was a power, but my mother said never mind. He said the air was so much better in the front than in the back where we get the smell of the baked goods. So at the time of the earthquake, I ran to the front. And I saw the collapsing of the building. And at the meantime, I saw three naked women. Stop naked, not one stitch of them running up 7th Street, screaming at the top of their voice. And I said, oh, it's that bad. I'm going down. And I went down. Everything stood. But once I wanted to get out of my father's store, I could not. The door was jammed. So at that time, my father came running into the front from the bakery, in the back of the bakery where he worked. And he was strong. And he gave the door a lift. And it caught. And I could get out. And the first thing who came to me were the three naked women begging me for clothes. So I went back to my mother's wardrobe. And I got her very best clothes. And I gave each of them a bullet skirt and each a jacket to cover up their nakedness. And the last I saw of them was they walked up 7th Street there for them. But at least they were covered. That's great. Now tell me about before the earthquake. And what school did you go to? Did you walk to your school? Oh, sure. What school was it? I went to the Humboldt School. At first I went to the stocking. And then I went to the Humboldt. And then I went to Adams. And then I went to Paula Techniqueye. Did you have to take a street car or a horse car to get there? No. No, we didn't. We had to walk. You could walk. We could walk. All right, fine.  Oh, yeah, my mother would send me to bank with the gold. And I haven't put the gold in the bank for her to deposit it. She always had to get gold, huh? How old were you then? Oh, about 14. All right, fine. Now tell me about the clothes that you wore. Remember you said you always went to school with a, with a woolen skirt and a flower.  We didn't have sweaters in those days. They weren't invented. So I had on a woolen dress. And to protect my dress, my mother made it sort of a chemical apron made out of stripes. And I put that over the dress. And that's how I went to school. We didn't wear any coat or anything. We just, that's the way he went. And then when we came home from school in the afternoon, we had to change our clothes.  And I'm looking over there. So we changed our clothes when we came home from school. Did you wear lots of panty coats and things like that? Well, I'll tell you about what we did. My mother always made our panties and she made them out of the quill. You know, it's fuzzy on one side and smooth on the other. She made our pants out of that. And let's see. And we always wore a woolen panty coat. And that was enough to go to school. It was a style there when all the girls wore red flannel panty coats. And I had a red flannel panty coat. And I didn't like it. We had some rich girls in my class. And they wore white flannel panty coats with lovely embroidery on it. And I wanted that too. But I didn't get it. What kind of a hat did you wear? We wore a hat. And it was either Tim with margarites or ribbon. And a sash hanged out in back. And at the end of the sash was sewn a fringe. And that hanged down.  And then she made crisps. She didn't know how to make curls, but she made crisps. And she made about eight or ten blue tiny braids. And braided it after washing the hair. And then Sunday morning, she would unbraise those braids. And then rub the comb gently through them. And we'd have very brazy hair. Did you have special Sunday clothes? Oh, yes. Oh, yes, we did. On Sunday, we wore a petticoast made of bright embroidered flannel. Then a flannel was given to us. Definitely as a birthday gift. It's the yardage, and then it was made up. But it had all about two feet of embroidery on it. You know, all of them are machinery, of course. It was machine embroidery. Very nice. And did your mother buy that to put on the petticoats at a store? No, the manufacturer put that in. Only bought the yardage already embroidered. What about your shoes and stockings? Well, we have. My mother, she brought satin sister with the icy cold. And she'd put woolen stockings on us. All of my sister Tilly had a fit. She couldn't take it. And every time she had to put her a stocking, there would be a big hassle. Was it because of the wool or because of the mending in it? No, it was wool. She didn't like the wool. But that didn't stop my mother from having a red woolen stocking. What were the shoes like? How did they fasten? We had button shoes. High button shoes? Yeah, high button shoes. Now, my mother had to pay five dollars for her shoes. And we thought that was a terrible lot. Were the women in those days able to be in business? Did any of them go out to work in offices? Well, women in business, yes, next to us, a couple houses down, was a Jewish family. And they had a stationary store. And they had four children. And the woman runs the stationary store. And I remember one instance of the woman. They gave tickets. And if you get twenty-five tickets, you've got ten cents worth of goods, you know, free. That's what they did. And I remember one woman came to buy something. And this Jewish woman charged a five cents more. I don't know if she said, I won't pay that. That's too much. She started touching the price. And then the woman who owned the store said, well, all right. And I was right there when she flashed nine tickets in front of her. So she's given them food, except for nothing. Oh, I never forgot that. And then she said, I'm making more than ten cents purchase. I'll get another ticket. And the woman said, no. All of them was quite an argument. How did, did you have a dressmaker to make the clothes or did your mother make the clothes? Well, my mother made quite a bit, but we also had a dressmaker. And she was a very good one. My mother bought nice material and a dressmaker told her get the kidding. And at the time of the earthquake when I was sixteen, I had a very nice, I had two suits of clothes, a best one and then another one, another tailored suit that I wore to high school. You have told me that after the earthquake, when you came back to San Francisco, you went back to school. You wanted to go back to school. But there was, what was the reason why you couldn't? But you came back to San Francisco. The schools had opened, but they were way out opposite the Golden Gate Park, too far to walk from Bannas Avenue. And the morning I was all ready to go to school again, to high school when, when there was a car strike. And the common says, we were going to win this strike even if the streets had the blood red with blood. So I wasn't going to take a streetcar with a mentoc like that, way out there. So I went and walked down a few blocks and there was a millinery school and I went to it and I learned a little millinery. But I told them I was going to work as a milliner and I got a job as a milliner, but they wouldn't let you do anything. They let you line a hat and that's all.  So I quit. I quit. And I thought to myself, if you wanted to be a milliner, you should have an ant or a big cistern or something like that to teach you. Because a milliner is an opportunity to teach you. Okay, now there was one, the ladies would like to hear about your experiences in Golden Gate Park and I also want you to tell them about the wooden sidewalks and the buttons, all the buttons you played. All right. Now I'll tell you about the wooden sidewalks. There wasn't a cement sidewalk in the city of San Francisco. Everything was wooden planks. And people kept dropping coins on the sidewalk and they drove down the cracks. But the landlord was not obliged to open up the sidewalk unless the people lost the dollar. Then he was obliged to open up the sidewalk that they could get their dollar back. And so whenever a sidewalk was to be repaired, we watched and as soon as the workman had lifted the plank, about a half a dozen kids jumped into the opening and went scrouching around in the sand. And we were never disappointed. We always came up with some coin because if a person dropped the coin it was lost.  But at last it wasn't in the same position as the slot it was opposite and it would drop to the floor again. I don't think we succeeded in getting one coin up. They all dropped back. But if there was a repair being made all of you could see the kids.


Hey guys, it's Nate, AKA the Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel, lads. We only have one more day until Team of the Season drops in FIFA 22, and it is a big day today. I wanna take you through the brand new Team of the Season rewards that we're expecting to see. There's a lot of questions on how it's gonna work, so we don't know all the answers yet since it's not in the game, but we do know that Team of the Season cards will be included in Redpix and in the Team of the Week packs, which is what everybody looks forward to during this time of the year inside of Tots in FIFA, grinding for those rewards in the weekend league. So, again, we're looking forward to the Season Update today, which will give us a lot more information and insight on how those rewards are gonna work and what ranks you're gonna have to achieve to get some certain packs. But there's a lot of different player picks and there's two different Team of the Week packs that have been leaked to be added in through these rewards. So we're gonna take a look at those packs today and theorize a little bit how those might be added in. We also have a lot more leaks for the AirDivisi and Community Team of the Season squads. The cards look pretty wild. The AirDivisi cards actually look insane. So I wanna take you through even more leaks that we have for what we're gonna see tomorrow inside of Team of the Season. And I wanna take a look, of course, at the market and the content that EA dropped yesterday that they actually haven't dropped yet, right? NoNedVetSBC is in the game. EA tweeted yesterday at the content drop that there was an issue. They still haven't resolved the issue because we didn't get any SBCs yesterday. There's a Silver Star in Ketia that's supposed to be an objective that is not here as well. So a bit confusing on what's going on there. A lot of EA mistakes from yesterday and that might even turn over into today on Thursday because usually there are some mistakes, I think, around the new season resetting. That's happened before in the past. So we'll take a look at that. And of course, there are more fantasy foot upgrades to look at today and market movements. The market's honestly pretty stagnant at the moment. But I have invested a lot of coins in the cards, as you can see, just because I think that this market's gonna do really, really well this weekend and we'll talk a little bit more about that in this video today as well. So if you're excited for brand new Tots rewards, a new season and Team of the Season all in one, hit the thumbs up on the video today and of course, subscribe if you're new. We're gonna dive in and talk about these rewards straight away and here they are, right? These were the leaks from yesterday. A foot share of tweeted out the red picks and the Tots packs that will be included just like Team of the Week packs in rewards. There's five different player picks that will be added during Team of the Season. And if you think about it, the Community Tots is the main league and the Air Divisie is like the secondary league, right? That's how these player picks work. The way that I'm reading this and thinking about it, it seems like it's gonna work the exact same as it did last year and in previous FIFA's where the lower rated ranks of a weekend league will get less picks and it will be Community and Air Divisie but you won't be guaranteed to get any Community cards from the player pick and there's a max rating on it. But once you hit a certain rank in weekend league, you're gonna have what they call Community Tots player picks where you will be guaranteed at least one of the main league Tots cards in your red player picks for the choices of the options that you have. So I know that it looks a bit different because it doesn't say anything about Air Divisie but I would be very surprised if EA did not include the secondary league in all of the player picks and just make these just like last year where it's guaranteed that you'll get one of the main league Tots cards because there's some sick cards in Air Divisie and especially since these have a max rating on them, the way this looks, it looks really, really similar to last year. I'm just curious to see how they split it up and this is what I'm the most honestly excited about seeing today is how they split it up between the ranks. The real reward start at rank seven, rank six is giving you your first team of the week pack inside of the champions finals. So I'm curious to see how EA mix this up. I don't know if they're gonna change the reward structure where you get a certain number of points. I think that's gonna stay the same. I'm curious just to see how they spread out like what rank do you get the one of three Community Tots and the one that's not captain rating. If we have to play all the way to rank five to get an uncapped Community Tots player pick, that might be a bit harder than some people were hoping for. So we'll see, right? Again, there's a lot up in the air and we're gonna figure all this out in actually a couple of hours when this finishes. Now also inside of this we have the team of the week packs or the Tots packs as they change to and there's two different ones. There are one that contains three Tots Community slash Air Divisie. I'm assuming that this is similar to what you have on the lower level rewards. Down here during the red picks and then one that says contains three Tots Community and I would assume that that would just include the main league. So just Community Tots cards and then one that would include Air Divisie, the lower league and the main league of Community. So that's a very interesting. Again, it all boils down to how they end up putting those rewards into the game today which we should be able to see after they update the season with rivals and milestone rewards. Big, big update today with all of this stuff gonna be added to the game. So that's the biggest point of interest but the number one and the bottom line thing is is that we have Tots rewards. That's the most important thing. So speaking of Tots, just like yesterday we're gonna look through some leaks and there are some incredible cards starting off with this Graven birch. I'm not gonna spend too much time looking through all these cards but I wanna fly through them and show all of these cards to you guys. This is probably the most hyped card that has been leaked so far. This 95 rated Graven birch is unbelievable. His Future Stars card was already so good but look at this card. It's almost nine Golden Gang, right? From nine Golden's previous Tots cards in earlier years all 90 stats, he's close. 88 defense is the only one that doesn't have. So many people are gonna be excited for this Graven birch card. Rolling up a bit more, we have a Carrasco that is gonna be in Community team in season. Pretty solid upgrade there from his headliner which is only other special. Not too bad there for Carrasco. La Porte is catching some people's eyes. I mean he does look like a really solid card. Not super insane. I know he just had the showdown that did get upgraded. This one's definitely better than that. That's gonna be a nice center back depending on how the pay split pays out for La Porte. Now scrolling up a bit more, we have Timber. I'm telling you guys, Air Debussy team this season. It looks unbelievable. It looks cracked. 90 paced, 90 defense, 93 physical. Probably won't have the five star skills like the foot birthday did but that's gonna be a very popular card. Mazuray as a right back as well.  Graven birch, Timber, Mazuray gonna be a triangle that a lot of people would like to try out in their teams. That just looks like fun is what that looks like, man. Pure fun trying out those three cards. So hopefully that's not too expensive. Now scrolling up a little bit more, Community Tots leaks continue with Serge Nabri. The pay split here is really bad. I think he has like 99 acceleration and like 83 sprints feet or something like that. Nabri, I know, I really hope that they fixed the pay split with this card. Doesn't have too many specials this year. He has a headliner as well. Hopefully we see ourselves a nice Nabri upgrade. Maybe some skills in weak foot, you know, upgrades kind of combined inside of this. Again, another cracked out Air Debussy card with Cochu, 90 paced, 93 dribble. This guy's got a five star weak foot as well. Unbelievable item in the midfield for your Air Debussy teams. That's just, I mean, after his play of the month a couple of weeks ago or maybe a month ago, everybody had their eyes looking at this card because he looks really, really good. Air Debussy fans are loving life with how these cards look. Now, let's keep going a little bit. Here's a little bit of a leak from something that was maybe unexpected. Everyone will receive a 85 plus times two as a pack reward for entering the game during team the season. So kind of how we got like a 50 K pack for free last week for Todd's warmup series. Sounds like we're getting an 85 times two tomorrow on Friday, kind of for that same thing. Continuing the community Todd's leaks, we have ourselves a Zaha, which to me, I think this might be a bit of an L, no cap. 89 shooting, 85 passing, 96 dribbling, 97 paced. I think we could have done a little bit better here at EA Sports. It's nice to have a Zaha. I would have hoped for a little bit better stats. That's how most of the community Todd's cards look if I'm being completely honest. Here's Todebo, another French center back. Another card that just looks okay, right? He doesn't look that insane, but he does look okay. These all needed to be in the 90s for me if I was gonna get excited for a card like this. But it is another French center back and it is a nice card for Todebo. So there's gonna be the Tots, Todebo that we will get tomorrow. Moving up a little bit more, Conor Cody, he's in. He's won. He is one as part of the defense for community team in season. 77 paced, gonna be a pretty cheap, almost fodder card, I would presume. But he is a center back in the Premier League, so people will be excited about that. Doesn't look super usable though. And as we move up for the last couple air-to-vizzy cards, I mean, look at these air-to-vizzy cards, man. They just look cracked. 93 paced, 89 dribble, 87 defense, 87 physical, 85 passing. That's not like unbelievably cracked for Wigendall here, but pretty solid, I think. A nice left back with those Dutch links, of course. And then a nice green link on the left side. You have Gakpo, 95 paced, 90 shooting, 92 dribble. Another card that's probably not gonna be that expensive, but it's still a W. And those, as of right now, are all the leaks that we have. Of course, yesterday's biggest leak was absolutely, absolutely that Gravenberg card. But Nabri is good. He's solid. Laporte is good. Timber is pretty exciting as well. I feel like there's just more hype in general for the air-to-vizzy cards than there is for the community cards, just being completely honest. So let me know down in the comments what you guys think about those leaks, because yes, there are some nice cards in there, but it doesn't seem to be like anything super special. It just kind of seems like another promo with those boosts being plus threes, plus fours, except for some of the big boost on the team of the season card. So that's kind of something that, again, like I said, I think that's gonna help the market out this weekend. I think it's gonna provide some potential bigger prices and bigger price boosts and price rebounds from the low prices that we have had in the past couple of weeks with all the panic selling and stuff. I think it's gonna do the market well to have the cards be maybe not as hype. Still, people are gonna open packs. They try to pack all those team of season items, and I do think you're gonna see the market rebound very, very well, which is why I continue to buy out-of-pack special cards. You see me look on my transfer list all the time, and I only have 700,000 coins at the moment, because I'm looking through all these cards and looking for deals and looking for prices that are low and cards like this Lucas Hernandez, who was 250,000 coins yesterday for a slight bit, and now he's back down to 230 or a Van Dyke, who I've bought multiple times at 570 and sold at 630 already the past couple of days. When these cards go down, I'm looking for deals, looking for snipes, because I think especially after this weekend, the switch is gonna flip and these cards are gonna start to rebound. Salah is down a decent amount right there for the headliner, that's interesting. So continue to watch the out-of-packs market. Some cards have gone up and they're maybe out of reach, you guess you could say? Like this Ben Yetter was low 800s when I bought him earlier in the week, and now he's almost 900,000 coins. He's like 880, 890 right now, so he has already kind of gone up maybe too much in value, but continue to watch the market because I think there are gonna be prices you can buy into, and you'll see especially this weekend, people will have a lot more coins go out and those cards will probably go up as people buy teams and have those coins to do that over this weekend. So that's kind of, again, still I'm where I'm looking on the market right now. SBC fodder just for a quick check-in. I think there's just no surprises here. The high-rated stuff continues to just slowly fizzle down because it's not in demand. That's the problem, right? You look at 90-rated, like Harry Kane is 35,000 coins. Yes, last week it looked like a great opportunity to invest in these for one last rise before team of the season. But unfortunately, the icon pack that would have helped these guys go up never came. We got a prime icon player pick that was really cheap that only required low-rated golds. So this Harry Kane, 33,000 coins is the cheapest that these cards have been since early January, which is wild. They will rebound again, but it might not be for a bit and I would not still hold on to these cards. That's my thought process. With all the supply that is coming via the packs that will be opened tomorrow on Friday, I would not be holding on to these cards. I think they're gonna be lower on Friday. Even if it's like 30,000 coins for Harry Kane, it's a 5,000 coin difference. I think it's very possible that he could be there. 90-rated's could be 30K, especially with TOTS cards coming out. Those are more 90-rated's that are hitting the market. So just be careful with this high-rated fodder. The low-rated fodder is even down some as well, right? 85s were 10K, now they're 8,000 coins just because we've had more supply. They actually ran lightning rounds yesterday and we haven't had SBCs. Yesterday, of course, they forgot to drop content or it didn't work. So those fodder cards were not in demand for another sort of gamble SBC if they would have released one of those or another pack, like an 80, what was it? Like the 15 times 75 for League One, I think is the only one of those packs that we haven't seen yet. So we didn't get that yesterday, of course, and so that didn't allow fodder to rise. But I still think I would sell a lot of this stuff before the weekend because it's gonna get so supplied, it's gonna be crazy, the amount of supply that we see this weekend. So just be very careful with that fodder. And again, you can continue to look around the market, absolutely, on a lot of these cards and find prices that are low and be trading with those and invest a little bit for those. But then there also are other cards that are up that you probably should not be buying. Like this Team of the Year Messy is up over 100K. He's basically 1.9 mil. He was 1.7 lows for the past two weeks and now he's really starting to rebound back up as people are buying back their teams, right? This is what we've been kind of seeing all week with those types of cards. Now, like I mentioned the content yesterday, we were supposed to get a NetVet icon moments SBC and Nakedia Silver Stars, which this card looks decent for a silver. It's not even on the game though because EA have not fixed their issue and if you don't know what I'm talking about, let me find the tweet for you really fast. EA said that we are investigating an issue that is preventing additional foot content updates from being released. Further updates will be provided on this thread when available and there's not a single update on this thread at the moment. So hopefully that gets fixed today because if they can't fix that then we can't have any new content and that would be a big bummer right before a team this season, EA Sports. So chop, chop. And of course their money is on the line here with them fixing this for sure. So that's that. Now also today we're gonna get ourselves some more fantasy foot upgrades and there's some big ones today. I'm actually really excited for some of the upgrades today. Probably the favorite update people are expecting today is Jelson Martins getting himself a Cheeky Plus Two.  So that is something that a lot of people are very excited about is the upgrades that you're gonna see here for this card. Also one upgrade that I'm excited about for today is in my main squad, Alexandro is finally gonna get upgrades and he's getting a plus two because they won. So this Alexandro is finally gonna get a plus two. He still has one more upgrade pending so he could get another upgrade for his game that happens this weekend. He's got one game left in that but I would not be surprised if some of these fantasy foot cards like Alexandro, he was like 195K yesterday and he's starting to rise up a bit. People wake up on Thursdays after these cards get upgraded and they go out and they try these cards out because they're brand new upgrades, they're excited, people are hyped for them. So what I would say is keep an eye out for some of these cards as they continue to rise up. I do think you'll see a few of the fantasy foot cards rise up a little bit more. Now some of them might rise up but then go down. Like the Jelson Martins, the only thing I'm a little bit worried about with a card like that or maybe some of the other upgrades that we'll see today and this is the full list of upgrades that we will see. Again, a lot of these you can see here got plus three, all upgrades completed. Erickson was last week. You know, Tonali, Awar is gonna get a plus one today. St. Max is gonna get himself maxed out. Medina looks cracked, of course. Hinkapi, Vertongan, Syragoo, all gonna get maxed out today.  And finally, Sasoko is gonna get a plus one as well. So these are all of the upgrades and how the card should look. Rusillian's gonna get himself an upgrade as well. Finally, it's about time that he got one. The only cards that we have not gotten upgrades for are Atal, he's not getting any. He was injured. Odri Zola is got one game left potentially for a clean sheet and a win. We haven't got any upgrades for Donny Vaynebik. He's not getting any and we have no upgrades for Nani. If Nani plays in one more game, which I believe that next game is against Yuve, he will get a plus one. And if he somehow scores or assists and if they would win, then he would get a plus three. So Nani could still get a plus three.  These cards do look unbelievably cracked, but I still think, and I'm gonna put this out there, I still think that a lot of these cards are overpriced, especially once we get the team in season. I think Coutinho is way overpriced right now. Dembele, even though he's so unbelievably good, I think 4.6 mil is too good for some of the top tier cards that we're gonna see in the next few weeks of team in the season, including next week with Premier League. I'd still be very, very careful with the same Maxman. He's gonna go to a 95 today. I don't like the price at four million coins. I don't like the price still, I'll be honest, because I think this card is gonna be more expensive than any Tots card that will be released during the promo of team in season. I think it's gonna be more expensive than any Tots card. That will be released. So I think that's too expensive in my opinion. I know the stats on it are unbelievable, but I think that's gonna make it drop over time. So yeah, just be careful with these fantasy foot cards as a lot of them I do feel are a bit overpriced, so just be careful with that. That would be my words of wisdom, I guess you could say, for those cards on the game. And then today, on Thursday, what sort of content could we be getting? Well, it's gonna be a last effort, again, for EA Sports to try to drain some coins before the big promo tomorrow. I would be very surprised if they didn't drop some sort of gamble pack, SBC, and we're still waiting on the content from yesterday too. So if you haven't done the 81 times 11, which I'm gonna have to do this Bundesliga one, I gotta get this Serie A 81 times 11 done, the 85 plus times five AO, where is that at? That might be a part of content today. So we actually might have a lot of SBCs dropped because it's gonna be like two days of content at once today on Thursday, yesterday and today's content. So just be kind of careful with that. Maybe a last minute spike on some of your lower tier fodder, like 84s, 83s, 85s, maybe. If you wanna buy a few of those 84s, they could bounce back up a little bit for a quick flip because that could be potential.  So I've got 73 packs locked and loaded. That number is gonna get actually decently close to 100 once we get done with everything. And I know that maybe you guys are like rubber banding and division rivals and stuff like that. It's the last minute grind is on before the season resets. Now I'm not gonna end up getting all 90 wins. I was 74 out of 90, but I did get the reward upgrade for the elite division. I am gonna get a red pick tomorrow. So I'll open that up. That'll be fun, saving the packs of course. But that was nice to finally get back into elite and we'll get the reward upgrade in the really good packs. And again, there's gonna be a lot of packs given out tomorrow. I do think that some people will open those packs and that'll stock their clubs, but a lot of people are gonna be saving of course for what is going to be dropping tomorrow. And then they're gonna be opening those then or even later on. So that's kind of everything that's happening on this game right now. Yeah, it's just the waiting is almost over boys. I mean, literally tomorrow is team of the season. It's gonna be the start of a tremendous month and a half long experience on this game. I'm so excited. It's gonna be a blast. The content's gonna be rolling. The cards are gonna be great and I'm very, very excited for it. So if you're excited as well, make sure to thumbs up on this video, comment down below if you do have any questions and of course, subscribe if you are new. It has been Nate, The Foot Accountant. I will catch you guys later. Peace out.


SecDef Chuck Hagel hosted a conference of Asian leaders in Hawaii. He led the U.S. Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or ASEAN, on a tour of USS Anchorage. They addressed regional issues such as extreme weather events and disaster relief missions in the Pacific. SecDef emphasized the importance of relationships in the Asia Pacific. Today, we, this afternoon, have spent some time here on the USS Anchorage. We spent some time looking at the V-22, but also we focused on our military-to-military relationships and our joint exercises that we continue to strengthen and deepen and widen. And it's not just about military-to-military exercises, there's a purpose. It's security. It's stability. From the Defense Media Activity, I'm Petty Officer Tony Rosa.


This morning, I'm going to be looking at two particular passages of scripture, one in Jeremiah. So if you have a bookmark or something, or you want to put your finger in Jeremiah 33, and then the other is going to be in Matthew chapter 6. We're going to be looking today at the spiritual discipline of prayer. Now, if our Christian walk could be likened to a business, and we had a consultant come in and maybe who specialized in a particular field to evaluate our Christian walk. We may be surprised by the fact that we are now apprised that our Christian walk is lacking in a particular area, maybe running a deficit each month in prayer. There is great spiritual power that comes to the Christian, who spends time not only in reading the Bible, but in communicating with the Lord. Prayer. So let's just hop right in real quick to point number one, which is you call the Lord, and let's pray as we ask the Lord to bless the reading and study of his word. Father in heaven, we thank you so much for this place that we can call home, where Lord, we can come to a safe environment, safe Lord in the sense that we don't have to worry about false doctrines being taught, or a pastor sugar coating truths, Lord, or teaching certain messages that are only culturally acceptable. Lord, we thank you God that your word is living and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword. And so Lord, today I pray on this very familiar subject, the subject of prayer. I ask Lord that you would please just expound this subject. Lord, that you would give a greater desire to each of your children that are present today or are going to be watching this later, or are tuning in from some other place around the world. Lord, we pray that you would give us all, not only a greater desire, but Lord, the action to follow through on those desires to be men and women of prayer. And so Father, we ask that you would now add your blessing to the reading and to the study of your word, and we ask these things in Jesus' name, amen. Amen. In Jeremiah chapter 33, under this point number one, which I have entitled, You Call the Lord. Jeremiah 33 verse 3 says, the Lord speaking, call to me, and I will answer you and show you great and mighty things which you do not know. The very first thing that we read here in Jeremiah is the Lord telling his people to call. Yet prayer is a very, very, I would say, practiced by a very few amount of Christians on a regular basis as a spiritual discipline. Prayer is something that very few practice as a spiritual discipline. See, personal prayer time with the Lord should be as regular as you pray for your meals. Have you ever wondered, like, how did it just become a tradition that you just prayed for your food?  Lord bless this food, nourish it to our bodies. We pray things such as, and bless the hands that prepared it, or whatever it may be. See, thanking God for your food is a good thing. Asking Him to bless it, that is a good thing. Maybe you were raised in a home where you always said prayer before you ate your meal, and that was part of your life. Maybe you weren't raised to pray for your food, and maybe you don't do that currently, and I hope that you would do so starting today. But the point that I'm making is that the spiritual practice of prayer has to start somewhere. The life of being a prayer warrior always has an origin story.  And as habitual, traditional, and just part of your everyday life of saying prayers for your food is, so too you can have a powerful, personal, and intimate relationship with God through your time of prayer. But it all starts with calling the Lord. Calling out to the Lord. Praying. Nearly 400 times in the Bible, prayer is referenced. The very first time in the history of the Scriptures that prayer is mentioned, or this calling upon the name of the Lord is found in Genesis 4, 26, which says, then men began to call on the name of the Lord. Now if you live in California, you understand we got a whole lot of problems happening. We have a whole lot of things that are going awry. You know, it's not supposed to be the case that we hit rock bottom and then call upon the name of the Lord. Or we have no other options, nothing at our disposal, we're out of resources, so I guess we better pray. Prayer is something that we must do. I hope that today on this very familiar subject you might think, yeah, I know everything there is to know about prayer. I've been walking with the Lord a long time. Of course I know it's important to pray. Well, I hope that today you actually learn something that's new from the Scriptures and that the Lord reveals something to you in a new and fresh way. But we need to be a church that calls upon the name of the Lord. We need to be like those in Genesis 4 where men began to call on the name of the Lord. And this amazing book, Ian Bounds, is quoted as saying, what the church needs today is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or more novel methods, but men whom the Holy Ghost can use. Men of prayer, men mighty in prayer. End of quote. We need more men and women that are committed to praying. So let's get right into this, how to pray. Now, when you first become a Christian, maybe you're here today and maybe you're new to this whole thing called Christianity, you're new to the faith, quote, unquote. You know, there's a lot of things that you wonder about as a new Christian. You know, one of the things that is a very common occurrence is that you wonder if you will light on fire, if you come through the doors of a church. You get struck by lightning. Can't tell you how many people have said, you know what, I was really scared to go to church because I didn't know what was going to happen to me if I came into it. You know, you also wonder when you're new to the whole church thing is like, are church people weird? Well, let's just say there is weird in all walks of life and church isn't the exception to it either. But all joking aside, you wonder about a lot of things and spiritual things such as maybe let's say prayer or maybe for somebody that has been walking with the Lord for a long time might just take as well that's, yeah, everyone knows that. Everybody is supposed to know that. Well, I don't know that, you might say. One of the main things that people ask about or wonder about is how to pray. How do you actually pray? When you pray, do you have to pray in the Old King James English, you know, like thee thou, thee thy and thou and all this kind of thing? How long do you pray? What do you say? I mean, if you've ever asked that question, you are in great company, really good company because the disciples ask Jesus, would you teach us how to pray? Now what I believe we're going to go over today is going to absolutely revolutionize your prayer life. If you have one already and even if you do not, you are going to have such a solid foundation on which you can build your base of spiritual operations through your time in prayer. And so as I mentioned, Matthew 6, let's look at this passage commonly referred to as the Lord's Prayer, as you know it. Jesus says, in this manner therefore pray, our Father in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, or in our New King James Version, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us the stay our daily bread and forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors. Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever and ever. Now very simply, this prayer can be outlined as the following. And if you want to get a copy of this study afterwards or listen to the archive, you can go through this and you can see how it lines up very nicely. Seven sections. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. Lord be praised. Lord your will. Lord provide. Lord forgive. Lord guide. Lord protect. Lord be praised. Jesus is teaching his disciples some very important lessons when praying to the Lord. The very first lesson here is perspective. If you look at verse nine, it says, in this manner therefore pray, our Father in heaven. This perspective is a heavenly one and it views as, it views God as being above you in a world where man is elevated to God. This is the proper perspective for the Christian to have. God is above me. See the prideful person, the arrogant person or the self-confident person is so busy looking down upon others from his own elevated place that he never looks up to God. He doesn't lift up to acknowledge that there is something higher than him. Solomon wrote in Ecclesiastes chapter five verse two. He said, do not be rash with your mouth and let not your heart utter anything hastily before God. For God is in heaven and you on earth therefore let your words be few. You are a speck of dust on a speck of dust in the universe. God is in heaven and you are down on earth. So please understand that and when you pray to Almighty God whom the heavens of heavens cannot contain because he created all things and without him nothing was made that was made. And so we come to the Lord in humility. We come to the Lord as we humble ourselves before his might, his wisdom and his power. Listen to what second Chronicles chapter seven verse 14 says as God speaks, if my people are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land. The very first thing that God says that his people needed to do was to humble themselves. Humbling yourself is a very difficult thing to do because it's like, hey, I have my resources I have my ingenuity. I have my willpower. You know, I'm the one that can make it happen when going gets tough, the tough gets going and I'm tough and I'm going to get going and I have to do this, that and the other thing. I don't need to go to the Lord with that. I don't need to bother him. You know, I can handle this myself but this is exactly the opposite of what Jesus leads off with when instructing his disciples how to pray. You are on earth, your Father is in heaven. God told his people, as I read in 2 Chronicles humble yourself before me. That's the right perspective to have instead of coming to God, making demands of him or treating the Lord like he's a genie in a bottle. See, the very thing that helps our perspective before we even get into prayer is understanding who God is and who we are. Our Father who is in heaven. I am here on earth. And so we see in verse 9, our first section which is Lord be praised. Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Lord, you are the Almighty God. There is no one like you. Lord, you can do anything at any time with anyone. Lord, you can take something that was meant for evil and turn it into something good. You can take those dead ends and make a way in the sea for the people to pass through. Lord, you are God. With you, all things are possible. It's nothing, Lord, for you to provide, to forgive, to guide, to protect. Lord, I praise you. Thank you, Lord. Thank you that you're the God that I'm coming to, that I'm communicating with, that is hearing me pray. And worshiping the Lord and praising the Lord during your time of prayer is pleasing to the Lord. And it's also, might I say, very valuable in the sense that it is empowering to your spirit, especially when you're, especially when you're enduring times of trial or doubt. The last thing that you want to do when you are in a bad situation is praise the Lord. You might do so sarcastically. Oh, great. Thank you, Lord. That's amazing that this just happened. But when you're truly seeking the Lord, and you want to get into a time of powerful prayer, and I would even say this spiritual discipline is a Christian's guide to true spiritual power. This isn't just the surface level kind of thing. This is the real deal when it comes to having a prayer life. When you come to the Lord with prayer and praise, it empowers you spiritually. Because you can feel discouraged. Some of you may have even come into church today and you felt downcast. You felt depressed. You felt like, man, I don't have any hope. But when you begin to turn your attention away from your problems and onto Almighty God who is in heaven and you are on earth, you all of a sudden gain a right perspective. Wait, Lord, it's nothing for you. You can do anything at any time. Lord, why can't we just see this happen? Lord, we believe that you're capable of doing that. You're not limited by my limitations, Lord. And we shift our focus upon the Lord through our times of praise. And then what happens is our hearts align with His will for us in our situation. You know, lately I had been studying again the people of Israel being led out of Egypt by Moses. And you remember, He led them to the Red Sea, right? And there was a pillar of cloud during the day to cover them from the sun and then a pillar of night to lead the way in the evening where they should go. And the people followed Moses as they followed the Lord. And you know what I found so fascinating was that God led them to a dead end. Have you ever thought about that? Oh, we're just wandering and here we go. And, you know, following the Lord and then I get smack dab against the sea. And then all of a sudden the Egyptians say, hey, we won our possessions back. Let's go reclaim them. We should never have let them go. And now I'm at a dead end. With bad stuff on my side and an impossible task ahead of me, what do I do?  And there's no such thing as dead ends when it comes to the Lord. Because with man it's impossible, but with God all things are possible. And all of a sudden when I start praising God for who He is, all of a sudden I'm reminded that God can do anything. And then my perspective of prayer now changes from me feeling hopeless to like, Lord, my hope is in you. And really, Lord, I'm not even looking for the answer to prayer. I should be looking to receive just you, Lord. What do you have for me? And that leads right into our next section in verse 10, which is verse, as I mentioned in verse 9, Lord, be praised. And now verse 10, it's Lord, your will. So Jesus says, in this manner therefore pray, your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.  Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth even as it is in heaven. Now years ago, boy, 2004, and I may have shared this on a Wednesday night sometime back, but for those of you that weren't there for the chance to hear it, in 2004, I was hired at Calvary Chapel of Costa Mesa and Pastor Chuck, when he hired me, he sat me down in the front office and said, I want you to answer these phones. People are going to call in, they're going to ask for prayer. I want you to pray for them, write their names down on the prayer list so we can send it to the prayer team and just field any calls that come in. And so I said, yes, sir, and I did it and that was my first day. And I remember one call came in with this girl and she said, you know, I'm in this relationship, I'm dating this guy and I would like to ask you to please pray that we get married and that the Lord blesses our relationship and that, you know, we end up spending the rest of our life together. And so I said, okay, what's your name? I wrote her name down. I started praying, Lord, I pray that you would, you know, bless so-and-so and Lord, for this relationship that she's in with this guy, I just pray for your will to be done in their relationship. And she immediately interrupted me just as the words had come out of my mouth and she said these exact words, I did not pray for you. I didn't ask for you to pray for the Lord's will to be done. I prayed that we would get married. I asked you to pray that we would spend the rest of our life together. And I said, oh, I'm so sorry. And I said, Lord, I just pray for this relationship that you would please get this guy out of it as fast as you possibly can. No, I'm just kidding. I didn't really pray that. I just thought that.  So I could pray, Lord, your kingdom coming, your will be done in the Bealer family even as it is in heaven. In my life, even as it is in heaven. In your life, even as it is in heaven. In my particular area, in my city, Lord, in the city of Irvine, may your will be done even as it is in heaven. Because, see often, it's the case in our trial or situation that the Lord is desiring to do a work in us. This thing that's happening out here, the Lord desires to have something happen in here, inside. And it's through prayer that we wrestle or work through those very things that God is desiring to have worked into our lives.  Now, just to be transparent with you, over the last year or so, I had been going through a season where my faith had been tested. Really tested. And there were things that, you know, I had been working through okay, Lord, do I believe like what I say I believe? And Lord, this is happening with my family or this is happening with the church. Lord, I don't understand these things. I'm not seeing how this is going to work out. And I had had, you know, just at this time where I was really like, I could picture Jacob wrestling with the Lord. Like you're wrestling through these things. The whole time, having come through those situations, I could see that the Lord was allowing me in his grace to wrestle with these things because he wanted to touch me. He wanted something changed in me. He needed Garrett Bieler to know this. He needed me to understand who he is, how he works, what he does. And so when it says here, as Jesus is telling his disciples, this is how you pray, Lord, your will. Your will be done. I have to tell you that the complete surrender to God's will in a situation that you do not understand and then quite frankly that you do not like is one of the most difficult yet most amazing things that you will ever do as a follower of Jesus and that will take place through your time in prayer. The working through of the truths of God's word which are never failing. I feel like I can stand up here with such conviction knowing that it's just not, oh yeah, somebody else's story, but that I have my own story. I have my own story of God's faithfulness. And we pray, Lord, I know that you can do all things and that no purpose of yours can be withheld from you and thus I submit myself to that purpose. May your will be done.  There's no way this is God's will. How will the Lord allow this to happen to me? I'm his favorite. I'm speaking of myself, obviously, not you, because I'm his favorite. Lord, how are you going to work in this situation? How are you going to take care of it? That leads us to the very next thing where the Lord teaches his disciples. Lord, provide. Give us this day our daily bread, verse 11. And so here after establishing the proper perspective on the heavenly position of God and our earthly position, the holiness of the Lord and how worthy he is to be praised and the perfection of his will at work in us, we're encouraged to ask that our daily needs be met. And this covers the Lord's provision for his people, so he supplies all of our needs. And yes, there is a difference between needs and wants. We also know that there are times of surplus where things are growing and there are times of recession where things are shrinking and that is normal and that's what it means to have different seasons in life. But we know that in whatever state we're in, we can do all things through Christ who gives us strength, right? Philippians 4.13 and then in Philippians 4.19, Paul writes to the church and says, and my God shall supply all of your need according to his riches and glory by Christ Jesus. And so when we pray and we ask the Lord for his provision, it's a great reminder that all things come from him. All things. Even when you tithe and you give back to the Lord of your resources, the Lord gave you those resources to give back to him.  God doesn't care a single bit about your money. Honestly, he doesn't need your money. Money has no value to him. What does have value is your heart to obey what he commands and your heart to give back to him out of what he has given to you. And even when we do so, you take from his hand, Lord, thank you for giving this back, give it back to me and I give you what I got. No, actually, I take from your hand and I give back to you. Everything we have, we've received. The Lord has provided for us. In 1 Corinthians 4-7, Paul writes and says, for who makes you differ from another? And what do you have that you did not receive? Now, if you indeed did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it? So we pray, Lord, thank you in advance for what you're going to provide for me and for my family. In Psalm 37, verse 25, the psalmist says, I have been young and now I am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken nor his descendants begging bread. You know, the more kids you have, the more difficult life can be. It's true. Of course, you're blessed, but I remember as I mentioned being hired at Costa Mesa that many years ago, 2004. I remember my last meeting that I had with Pastor Chuck before he passed away. It was just over six years ago. And I said, Pastor Chuck, I was 24 and single when you hired me and I'm 33. I'm married. I have two kids and it's time for me to go plant a church. And now I'm nearly 40. I have three kids and then happy to announce that I have baby number four coming in mid-April. Four kids. And sometimes I think to myself, what have we done?  Her dad passed her. And he was actually good friends with the Rosalysus. The first time I met David and Marie was in Maui when I was in Bible college. It was the time of suffering for the Lord that I'll never forget. And I remember meeting them. And my father-in-law and mother-in-law were on that trip as well. And my wife's family are from the UK and had pastored Calvary chapels for a number of years. Currently, my two brother-in-laws are pastors at Calvary Chapel in Oxford, England. And just the rich heritage that, you know, I married into a big family. She has four older siblings, all brothers, so five, and then there was four in my family. And we always wanted to have a large family.  It'll be great. And then now we're just kind of thinking, well, if we live to tell our tale, it'll be great. And, you know, I have an 11-year-old son, Hudson. I have a nine-year-old daughter, Ava, my son, Harrison, just turned three last Sunday. And we got a third boy coming in April. Another boy, three boys. And I'm just thinking, you know, when I was younger, there were three of us Beeler brothers and we were into everything. And then now I'm going to have my own Beeler boys and I'm thinking again, the Beeler boy's right again. And then I'm like, oh, no.  What a good reminder that we can pray to the Lord and say, Lord, would you give us this day our daily bread? Would you provide for us? And then to hear the psalmist say, hey, I was young and now I'm old and I have never seen the righteous forsaken by the Lord. And when the Lord does bless us, which I think we often take for granted and we forget how blessed we are, we should receive it humbly. I mean, because if we were to honestly look at it and look at our sin and our failures, our mistakes, et cetera, and think how unworthy we are, we would be more than over the moon to realize that a God in heaven loved us and has forgiven us and has blessed us. Lord, thank you. And that forgiveness that we've received from the Lord, that forgiveness that we seek from God on a constant basis, it should be given to others in our lives as well. And next, we're going to see that asking for forgiveness of our sins is indirect connection to how we treat others with forgiveness, which is verse 12 in our section, Lord, forgive. And forgive us our debts and we forgive our debtors. Man, we want to be forgiven of our sins, but we struggle with forgiving other people their sins. Oh, Lord, have mercy. Lord, please forgive me. Your word says that I confess my sin. You're faithful and just to forgive me and cleanse me from all unrighteousness. Lord, hear me, cleanse me. Forgive me, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Jesus was very crystal clear and said in Matthew 6.15, If you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. Now, I know people today that simply cannot, will not forgive others that have offended them or wronged them. And they're Christians, professing Christ. And what I've seen in the church, I think it's a double portion of the attack from Satan where there's a wrong that is committed and then there is unforgiveness towards the person who committed the wrong. So both parties suffer. Both are victims of the attacks and deceptions of the devil. I mean, it's truly a lose-lose type of situation. What a great thing. Have a person act in his sinful humanity. Have him hurt somebody else and then have that person who's been hurt or wrong not forgive them and they're both destroyed. So do wrong, don't forgive, don't move on, don't heal. And all along, we think it has to do with the other person. It's all about them when it really has nothing to do with them. Well, they did this. Listen, God knows and he's going to take care of that. But your lack of forgiveness is nothing to do with that person. But we want to blame them because there needs to be a reason for why I am the way that I am now. Their fault. But Jesus in teaching his disciples how to pray tells them to ask their heavenly Father for forgiveness of their sins as they will forgive the sins of others against them. I really believe that unforgiveness is one of the greatest issues to plague Christians. Because when we do not forgive no matter how young or how old you are or where you're from or what you've experienced, when we as Christians do not forgive we are trapped in a period of time. You know what that time is. It's the time that it all happened.  Just like, back to it. Back to it. Back to it. Back to it. Is that annoying? Back to it. When you do not forgive others you're not free of the wrong committed to you. You're defined by it. When you do not forgive others you are not free of the wrong committed against you. You are defined by it. And then you start finding your identity in something that happened to you and you lose the identity that you're supposed to have in Christ. Jesus didn't just randomly throw this instruction in here about forgiveness. He said, ask the Lord to forgive you as you go out and forgive other people. And forgiveness happens through prayer as the Lord gives you his heart for others. Now listen. I know all about being wronged. I know all about having a chip on your shoulder having bitterness and anger and resentment. Things that happened as far back is high school days. It is through the healing work of the Lord through your time in prayer that allows you to be free from your problem not defined by it. And in verse 13 we see now our section Lord guide and Lord protect. And Jesus says pray to the Lord and do not lead us into temptation but deliver us from the evil one. Victory over temptation is prepared for and provided through prayer. Your time in prayer you stored up in advance. You pray in advance. In advance you are ready. It's like pre-season conditioning for the season. When I go through the trial it's not throw up a last ditch attempt to win the game. It's like I've already trained for this, prepared for this and I'm ready for it. I'm not going to go out on the day of my track meet and say oh I better get a couple laps and get my cardio up. No you train all year long for the meet and then you then you win because you're ready. At my church we call it being pre-prared. You pray in advance and when the spiritual temptations come you win. And if you've fallen into sin chances are you have fallen out of prayer simple as that. You've fallen out of your devotion with the Lord and you have fallen into the traps of the enemy. Now this is my personal opinion it may be different from others but I would rather pray in advance for the power of the Holy Spirit to work in my life and giving me victory over sin than having to pray for a pardon afterwards. I would rather pray for the power instead of the pardon. Now the pardon is available. Thank God by His grace that I can say Lord please pardon me please forgive me but I would rather be prepared in advance pray for the power in advance so when the temptation comes you crush it then they have to give into it and say Lord I'm sorry afterwards. So Lord guide Lord protect. In verse 13 again as we close the section it's Lord be praised so it opens up Lord be praised he closes with Lord be praised verse 13 for yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever Amen. And so again that simple outline Lord be praised Lord your will Lord provide Lord forgive Lord guide Lord protect Lord be praised and again back in Jeremiah 33 point number one was call call upon the Lord point number two and we'll close with this last point as the Lord answers. Jeremiah 33 says call to me and I will answer you and show you great and mighty things which you do not know so we need to call upon the Lord knowing that he will answer God desires to have time with you as you read his word as you communicate with him it gives the Lord the opportunity to impress his will his heart upon your heart your will your situation and so I would just like to give you a few things in closing that I believe will help you in becoming that man or woman of prayer number one is this choose a time choose a time the spiritual discipline of prayer is exactly that it's a discipline because you could agree with me and say yeah we need to pray more I definitely need to pray we could all pray more you could even say you know I want to pray more but if you never do it it doesn't matter what type of good attitude you have towards the idea of spending personal prayer time with the Lord you might be totally open to it but if you never follow through with it then what good does it do you that's why it's actions over attitudes a believer's guide to true spiritual prayer a spiritual discipline is actions we could even say it's this actions over attitudes spiritual disciplines are not attitudes they are practices they are decisions to act that you regularly make they are things that you do they are not things that you intend to do or wish to do or think you should do so choose a time that you can set aside for personal time with the Lord it could be the morning night it could be some time in between those times but the most important thing is just to start and you can't start unless you have a plan so my recommendation under this one thing choose a time is schedule an appointment with the Lord every day put it on your phone put it on your calendar set a reminder oh I'm meeting with the Lord at this time at three o'clock and I'm going to go pray and keep your appointments I mean each of you know your schedule you know how busy life can be but if you had an important meeting you put it on your calendar and you'd be early to it starting the day ending the day going through the day and prayer is a great thing turn off your phone you know occasionally I'll leave my phone at home and I'll go out and you know after I get over my separation anxiety I feel like I'm on vacation I mean some of you go like where's my phone I don't have my phone and then once you get over there you're like wow this is great this amen is right let me just scroll Instagram one more time let's see if anybody posted anything on food or whatever it might be I don't know so number one choose a time you can pray to the Lord anywhere so the choice is yours secondly choose a place so choose a time choose a place Jesus would often go to the garden or go up on a mountain or go somewhere quiet to pray Ruth my wife knows that I need a serious time of prayer there's two places that I go one is my car and the other is my closet well I'll turn my light off shut the door and I'll often just lay face down and I just pray and that's my literal prayer closet often I'll be driving in my car and volume off and it's just quiet in there you know how crazy it is I talked about having kids and all that you know how crazy life is cool it is to get into your car and shut the door and it's just this and I pray choose a place thirdly is when you pray expect to hear from the Lord God will speak to your heart and to your mind in Psalm 91 15 it says the Lord speaking he shall call upon me and I will answer him I will be with him in trouble I will deliver him and honor him see if you go into your time of prayer with an expectancy to receive from the Lord like you legitimately expect to pray and wait on the Lord and hear from him you will protect yourself from removing the spirituality from the spiritual discipline of prayer because if you take the spiritual discipline and remove spiritual and just have discipline and you just want to get it over as fast as you possibly can it'll be flipping and won't mean anything and you're like oh I got to do this like I'm doing time get my prayer done and I'm out now listen there are times for quick prayers there's a surprise quiz in school oh Lord please help me you know Nehemiah when he got called before the king and they asked him hey what's wrong Nehemiah he said a quick prayer oh Lord please help me and there are times to fire out those quick prayers but there needs to be a time where you pray until you pray yes that's what I meant to say that you pray until you pray because if you ever notice when you pray you know like all this oh you know did I take the laundry out what time is you know what's my dog doing you know the phone rings and you know you're praying for these things like Lord you know basic basic things Lord bless this food and give us a good night's sleep and you know thank you for not letting us get sick and you're like you're pushing through this like wall but then you pray and what happens is you push through whatever that is and I don't know if it's been defined and a lot of people can talk about what they think it may be but I just know that it's real and then you pray until you actually pray now you're in and all of a sudden the Holy Spirit is there and you're getting ministered to and things are getting impressed upon your heart and you're praying in ways that you've never prayed before so choose a time and choose a place expect to hear from the Lord and pray until you pray this is like the spiritual strength training and conditioning of your spiritual walk do you stop after one minute put my timer on one minute Lord I just pray I don't even know what else to pray for I pray for the five things that I have to pray for what does the Lord want you to do now listen our basic requests are important to the Lord but the entrance into the deep place of prayer considered incessory prayer it takes some time to get there we can be preoccupied with a lot of different things the prayer begins when you're still before the Lord so my recommendation to you would be do not allow distractions or a lack of endurance in prayer to hinder you from spending time in prayer I'm not good at praying listen you can pray on your knees you can pray bowing down on your face standing up eyes open driving your car but just pray you actually have to build up endurance in prayer like a runner builds up endurance to run a race you don't just start off running miles and miles and miles and miles and running 26 miles in a marathon you actually have to build up endurance to prayer and some of us our endurance is this goodness gracious spiritually you build it up just be quiet before the Lord just be quiet before the Lord expect to hear from Him the Holy Spirit has been given to you to make intercession and I believe that this is going to be the beginning of a change in your life and in the people people's lives that surround you I'm hoping today get this, get this teaching listen to it apply it to your life find your own time intercede push through make an appointment be regular, be committed and watch your spiritual life explode watch your, the power of the Holy Spirit just radiate out of your life watch your marriage change and your kids change and your workplace change and God knows California needs change we can do it through prayer and that's what's important so Jeremiah 33.3 will answer you and who's ready to see some great and mighty things which we do not know sign me up that's what I want