was praying about what the Lord would have us study together. He put on my heart to have us study the psalm. If you have your Bible, please open, if you will, to the book of Psalms to Psalm 107. I want to speak to you this morning on the theme of prayer because that is the thing that is most significant that we can do for our country more than anything else. I think that now, more than ever, we need to pray for the United States of America and we need to be reminded how God answers prayer. That's the title of this message. In fact, right above Psalm 107, you could just write that in there. God answers prayer because that's what this psalm, as we will see, is all about. In a great book about prayer, J.C. Ryle wrote, I have read the lives of many well-known Christians who have been on earth since Bible days. Some were rich, some were poor, some were learned, some were unlearned, some were of one denomination, some were of another. Some chose to use liturgy, some chose to use none. But one thing I see they all had in common is that they were all people of prayer. Prayer has obtained things that seemed impossible and out of reach. Prayer opened the Red Sea. Prayer brought water from the rock. Prayer brought bread from heaven. Prayer made the sun stand still. Prayer brought fire down on Elijah's sacrifice. Prayer overthrew the enemies of God. Prayer has healed the sick, opened blind eyes, unstopped deaf ears, raised the dead. And prayer has brought the conversion of countless lost souls. Therefore, above all else, pray, pray, pray for God answers prayer. How many today believe that God answers prayer? And the people of God, they understood that and they wanted to remind themselves of that and that is what Psalm 107 is all about. It's a Psalm about how God answers the prayers of his people no matter who they are, no matter where they are, no matter what's going on and their lives, God will answer the cries of his people. Now, the question comes, when was Psalm 107 written and what was Psalm 107 written about? Well, according to Jewish tradition, Psalm 107 was written at the very end of the Old Testament era. You remember that God's people had gone into captivity and then they had been released. 50,000 of them went back to the land of Israel to rebuild the temple. And as they were rebuilding the temple, someone, we don't know who, wrote this Psalm and they sang and they recited this Psalm. And as they were looking back at the whole history of the Old Testament, the one thing they knew more than anything is that God answers the prayers of his people. And so that's the theme of the Psalm. And that's what the Psalm is all about. And as you read through the Psalm, you find a repeated phrase four times. You find a phrase that has to do with prayer. If you happen to have a pen or a pencil, I would encourage you just to underline these phrases as we look at these four phrases about prayer. In verse six, then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble and he delivered them out of their distresses. Notice verse 13. Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble and he saved them out of their distresses. Verse 19, then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble and he saved them out of their distresses. Verse 28, then they cry out to the Lord in their trouble and he brings them out of their distresses. You get to the point, when you're in trouble, when you're in distress, when you're in trial, when you're in difficulty, What is it that we as the people of God are supposed to do? We're supposed to cry out to the Lord in prayer, knowing that God hears and answers our prayers. Now, it's interesting that this phrase, then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble, is mentioned four times. Because as you read through the Psalm, you find four illustrations, four pictures of the deliverance of God, how God answers prayer. It's as if you're transported to four different locations in which you see God hearing the cries of His people. As we'll see, when the Psalm opens, you're transported as we're out in the middle of the wilderness. And there are people there that are thirsty for water, they're hungry for food. In other words, they need the provision of God. And so what they do is they cry out to the Lord in prayer. And God provides for every single one of their needs. Then God answers, not only answers that prayer, but you're transported as we're into a dungeon, into a dark place. And there you find a person that's bound in chains and in darkness and they need to be delivered. They need to be set free. And so they cry out to God. And God hears that cry for freedom and deliverance. Well, God knows sooner as he answers the prayer out in the wilderness and in the dungeon, when you're transported as we're into a hospital or a sick room. And there you find a patient that's so sick, they're just about to die. And they cry out to the Lord in prayer.  Well, God not only answers the prayer in the hospital, then as it were, you're transported out into the middle of the ocean. And there you find some sailors, very experienced sailors who find themselves in the worst storm of their life. They're in such a terrible storm, they don't even know what to do as experienced sailors. And so what they do is they call out to the Lord to answer their prayer. And God speaks peace to the storm and brings them out into a place of calm. And so you find these four different places, four different ways that God hears and answers prayer. And it's a beautiful Psalm. As you read it through, we encourage you. Today, maybe tomorrow, maybe every day this week, just read through Psalm 107, read it over and over and over. And it will inspire you to pray and to seek the Lord and call out to God in prayer. But this beautiful Psalm about how God answers prayer begins with a brief introduction in verses one through three. Notice how this introduction begins the Psalm. O give thanks to the Lord for he is good. Can we read that phrase together loud? O give thanks to the Lord for he is good. The in the Hebrew, this phrase give thanks is in a repeated tense. In other words, continuously give thanks to the Lord. Give thanks to the Lord in the morning. Give thanks to the Lord when it's noontime. Give thanks to the Lord at night. Give thanks to the Lord on Monday and Tuesday and Wednesday and Thursday and Friday and Saturday and Sunday and then start it all over again. And give thanks to the Lord this week and next week and this month and next month. Always give thanks to the Lord. And why as the people of God, ought we to always give thanks to the Lord? We'll notice, underline it, for he is good. How many here today know that God is good and all the time God is good. He's good. We may not always understand all this happening in our lives, but we know that God is good and works all things together for good. Now, how do we know that God is good? We'll notice this next phrase for his mercy for his mercy endures forever. That little word of mercy, underline that word, means God's loving kindness. God's steadfast love. God's unending love. The book of Lamentation describes it so well in Lamentation 3, verse 22 to 23, where it says, the steadfast love of the Lord never ceases. His mercies never come to an end. They are new every morning. Great is thy faithfulness. Dear one, I'm here to tell you today the mercy of God is new to you today. It's newer than it was yesterday, and it will be new again tomorrow. O give thanks to the Lord for he is good and his mercy endures forever. And when you experience the goodness of God and the mercy of God and the unending love of God, what should you do about it? Well, verse 2 and verse 3, let the redeemed of the Lord say so, Whom He is redeemed from the hand of the enemy and gathered out of the lands from the east and the west and the north and the south as they're reciting, as they're reading, as they're singing this song at the rededication of the temple at the end of the Old Testament. They'd come from the north, the south, the east and the west. And the people of God, the called of God, I like how they're described here. They're described as the redeemed of the Lord. That word redeemed means the rescued of the Lord, the delivered of the Lord, the saved of the Lord. If you are here today and you know what Jesus Christ is your savior and your Lord, you're the redeemed of the Lord. You could say to somebody, I'm the redeemed of the Lord. They could say to you, I'm the redeemed of the Lord because he's delivered us and he's set us free. But he's not only set us free from sin, he's not only delivered us from the power of darkness. He saved us in all kinds of ways. And that we'll see is what the song is all about. It's not only pictures of our salvation, it's pictures of what God is doing in our life, in the present day, in the circumstances and situations of life that we face.  In verses four through nine, all of a sudden it's as if you're transported from the pages of scripture out in the middle of a desert, a barren, dry desert, and there you find some desperate people that need water, they need food. In other words, they need the provision of God. And notice what happens in what they do. In verses four through verse nine, they wandered in the wilderness in a desolate way. They found no city to dwell in. Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them. Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble. And they had delivered them out of their distresses. And he led them forth by the right way that he might go forth to a city as a dwelling place. Oh, oh, that men would give thanks to the Lord for his goodness and for his wonderful works to the children of men, for he satisfies the longing soul and he fills the hungry soul with goodness. And you see in these verses, this beautiful picture of the provision of God. This is a picture in many ways of our salvation because Jesus is the bread of life and Jesus is the water of life. Anyone who's come to saving faith in Jesus, they've experienced that and as the redeemed of the Lord, they need to say so. But not only that, we as believers, we as the people of God, not only experience the gift of salvation, we experience the provision of God in our everyday life. And this has been the heritage of the people of God from the Old Testament to the New Testament throughout history and even in our day. Now the Old Testament people of God as they're reading this part of the scripture, they couldn't help but think of the children of Israel out in the middle of the wilderness, right? You know what I'm talking about? Some 3 million people came out of Egypt and went into the wilderness. They were delivered from Egypt through 10 mighty plagues. The Red Sea opened and they went through, but then they found themselves out in the wilderness. They had no food, they had no water. Well, what did they do? They began to call out to the Lord. They began to look to the Lord and God brought water out of the rock. God brought bread down from heaven. God brought quail so they would have meat. Everything, every need they had, God supplied that need. And as I said, there's some 3 million of those people and it's an illustration for us to keep in mind. If God provided for the needs of all those millions of people out into the middle of the wilderness experience for them, then God will provide for you and God will provide for me. The New Testament people of God as they're reading this part of the Psalm, they couldn't help but think of the story of Jesus. In Matthew chapter 14, the feeding, it's called the feeding of the 5,000. Matthew 14 tells us there were 5,000 men with women and children, some 20,000 people. And Jesus takes five small loaves and two little fish and he multiplies them and feeds all of those thousands and thousands of people. You don't think that's a big deal. Go to McDonald's today, get a happy meal and try to feed 20,000 people. You'll find out fast, what an amazing miracle this was, what Jesus did. And it's an illustration of God's provision in your life and my life, that when we have some sort of need, God will provide that need. In Philippians 4 and verse 19, a verse I encourage every Christian to write down and memorize. The Bible says, and my God will supply all your needs according to his riches and glory by Christ Jesus. I like that. And my God will supply, not just that he can supply, not that he might supply sometimes. No, my God will supply all of your needs according to his riches and glory by Christ Jesus. This is what God's people have found out throughout all of human history. Time and time again, as there were needs, God's people would cry out to him and he would answer their prayer. Such was the case of a great man of God who lived in the 1800s. His name was George Mueller. He was a great man of faith, a great man of prayer, man of the word, and he founded all these orphanages in London. And they had to feed thousands and thousands of orphans and George Mueller had never let anyone know about his need. He would just pray and God would supply the need. It's interesting to me if you listen to the teachings of Pastor Chuck Smith, the person that probably has influenced his ministry more than anyone else in church history was George Mueller. Pastor Chuck believed as we believe that we're God guides, he supplies. And this is exactly the way that George Mueller lived. He would go to God in prayer and then let the Lord supply the needs. Well, George Mueller wrote a biography about his life and I like that biography so much. The title of the book says it all. It's a book called A Million and a Half Answers to Prayer. I like that. A million and a half answers to prayer. And in that book, he doesn't tell a million stories but he tells many, many stories about how God would answer prayer. I like one story about what happened one day. There was absolutely no food in the cupboards whatsoever and all the orphans were getting up and they were coming into the dining hall to eat breakfast. And one little girl said to him, Mr. Mueller, what's for breakfast today? And knowing they had nothing, he said, come my child and see what the Lord will provide for all of his children. And so they gathered around, they just began to pray, Lord, we thank you that you are so faithful, that you always have supplied with the needs of your people. We thank you for what you're gonna give us for breakfast today. And as he's praying along, all of a sudden there was a knock at the door. He went to the door and when he opened the door, there was the town baker.  Do you think you could use all of this bread that I baked? Oh, thank you so much, said Mr. Mueller. You are an answer to the prayers of God's people. So he distributed some bread to each one of the children and they were about ready to eat. When all of a sudden there was another knock at the door and he went to the door and he opened the door and it was the town milkman. And the town milkman said, you know what? He said, my milk cart just happened to break down right across the street from your orphanage. And all this milk's gonna spoil and go bad. Do you think you and the orphans could use all of this milk? Oh, yes, said Mr. Mueller. You're an answer to prayer. He and those children found out again and again, again. What Philippians 419 says, God will supply all of your needs according to his riches and glory by Christ Jesus. How many wanna put your hands together this morning and thank the Lord that God answers prayer. He answers the prayer provision for the needs of his people that when you have a lack, when you have a need, if you go to God, he will hear that prayer. Well, God not only answers the prayer for provision, God also answers the prayer for deliverance and freedom. The psalm transports you out in the middle of the wilderness and God not only answers that prayer out there in the wilderness, all of a sudden you're transported as it were into a dungeon, into a dark place. And there you find a person that's bound in chains. And they need to be delivered. They need to be set free. Look at what the psalm says in verse 10 through verse 16. Those who sat in darkness in the shadow of death bound in afflictions and irons because they rebelled against the word of the Lord. They despised the counsel of the most high. Therefore he brought down their heart with labor. They fell down and there was no one to help them. What did they do when they were under this heavy burden? And they were falling down. What did they do in the middle of their darkness and their bondage? They began to cry out to the Lord. Verse 13, then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble and he saved them out of their distresses. He brought them out of darkness in the shadow of death and he broke their chains in pieces. Oh, that man would give thanks to the Lord for his goodness and for his wonderful works to the children of men. For he has broken the gates of bronze and he has cut the bars of iron into. God not only answers the prayer for provision, here we see God answers the prayer for freedom and deliverance. What a beautiful picture this is of our salvation because before we came to saving faith in Jesus Christ we were bound by the devil. We were bound in sin, we were bound in darkness but Jesus spoke the word and delivered us and set us free from the power of sin and from the power of death. But he not only does that, he continues to do that in our lives and the lives of those that we know and love. He continues to bring deliverance and freedom. He continues to set the captive free when the captive needs to be set free. Now the people of God in the Old Testament as they're reading this part of the Psalm, they couldn't help but think of their own experience of just coming out of Babylon. You remember as the Old Testament ends for 70 long years, they were held captive in Babylon. They were led away from Israel and chains. Many of them did hard labor for years and years of their life but then according to the word of the Lord as spoken by Jeremiah, after 70 years they would be released from their captivity and that's exactly what happened and they were sent back to rebuild the temple and many of them who had been in those chains themselves they knew firsthand how our God is a saving God, a delivering God, a rescuing God, a God that brings freedom. Now the New Testament people of God as they're reading this part of the Psalm, they couldn't help but think of the amazing story of Jesus in Mark chapter five when he sets a man free, a demon possessed man from Gadara. In Mark chapter five the story is told of Jesus and the disciples that are going across the northern part of the Sea of Galilee, they land on the northeastern shore in a place called Gadara and there there is a man that is possessed, seriously possessed, possessed with many, many demons. He comes running out toward them and Jesus says, what is your name? And the man says, Legion for we are many. The Legion was 6,000 Roman soldiers. As we study the Bible we seek to take it literally and I find no good reason not to believe. This man was possessed with thousands and thousands of demons. The worst case of demon possession in the Bible, the worst case of demon possession we know of in history. And what happened? Jesus spoke the word and set that man free. Instantly in a moment he set that man free. Why? Because whom the sun sets free is free indeed. No matter how dark the situation, no matter how bound the person, Jesus can deliver and release that person. I like the words of the old hymn by Charles Wesley. Him called amazing love. In the third verse of that hymn called amazing love. He said, long my imprisoned spirit lay fast bound in sin and nature's night. Thy night diffused to quickening ray. The dungeon, I woke. The dungeon flamed with light. My chains fell off. My heart was free. I rose, went forth and followed the amazing love. How can it be that thou my God should's died for me? That's what happened in salvation for you and me. And that's the deliverance that Jesus can bring to you and me. And it can happen to anyone, to any person. I think of Ryan Rees, the son of Pastor Roy Rees. I believe Ryan has shared from here, from time to time for 19 years. He was out in the world, addicted to drugs and alcohol and sex and evil and darkness, completely bound in chains. And then in one moment, in one instant, God totally and completely set in free. And it just goes to show that whom the sun sets free is free indeed. How many want to put your hands together today? And thank the Lord that he's a God that can set people free. And if there's someone you know who's a prodigal, son or daughter, they're away from the Lord.   You keep praying for that person because God hears and answers prayer. He will get ahold of their heart. He will get ahold of their life.  God not only answers the prayer for provision and the prayer for freedom and deliverance, He answers the prayer for healing. Because in verses 17 to 22, we find a person that is sick.  And when they cry out to God, let's watch what happens is God hears and answers their prayer. In verse 17, fools because of their transgressions and because of their iniquities were afflicted, their soul abhorred all manner of food and they drew near to the gates of death. In other words, they're sick here.   What do you do when you're sick? What do you do when someone you love is sick?   What do they do in this circumstance and situation? Verse 2019 says, then they tried out to the Lord in their trouble and he saved them out of their distresses. He sent his word and he healed them and delivered them from their destructions. Oh, that men would give thanks to the Lord for his goodness and for his wonderful works to the children of men. Let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving and declare his works with rejoicing. Here we see how God answers this prayer for healing. And as he answers the prayer for healing, the psalmist says, oh, you should just praise the Lord for his answer to that prayer.   But Jesus not only healed us from our sin, Jesus can heal us from our sickness as well and that the people of God are seeing in the Old Testament and the New Testament and throughout history. Now the Old Testament people of God as they're reading this part of the scripture, they couldn't help but think of the dramatic story of what happened with one of their kings. His name was Hezekiah.  He's not gonna recover. So Isaiah goes and he gives this message to Hezekiah. Isaiah leaves the king's chamber and he starts to leave the palace and the Bible tells us that the king Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall and he began to pray. Lord, please heal my sickness. Lord, please don't let me die. God, please raise me up out of this bed of illness. And Isaiah who's making his way across the courtyard of the palace, all of a sudden the word of the Lord comes to him and says, turn around, go back. I have another message for Hezekiah. And so Isaiah, the prophet goes in and tells Hezekiah, the Lord says, he's gonna heal you. And that's exactly what happened at the word of the Lord. God healed Hezekiah and God's people, they would recall that to mind to know that God is a healing God. As you read the New Testament, Jesus healed over and over and over again all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease. As the New Testament people of God were reading this part of the song, they couldn't help but think of that amazing story of Jesus in Luke chapter seven who healed a Centurion's servant.  And so he sent messengers to Jesus who was in another city. And Jesus, when he heard the servant was about to die, he starts making his way toward the city. Well, the Centurion hears that Jesus is coming and he sent some more messengers. And they meet up with Jesus and the message from the Centurion was, you don't even need to come to my house. All you have to do is say the word and my servant will be healed. And so Jesus spoke the word and later when they went to the city they found out the instant Jesus spoke that word, that Centurion's servant was healed. Just as the Psalm says, he sent his word and he healed them. Why? Because our God is a healing God. Sometimes God doesn't heal for his own purposes and reasons. We understand that, but that doesn't stop us from praying for people because we know that God is all about healing in Exodus 15 and verse six, 26. God says, I am the Lord that healeth thee. In the Hebrew it reads, I am Jehovah. Rafa, that beautiful name of God. Healing is not just something that God can do or does, but healing is in God's very nature. He wants us to experience his wholeness. And so many of us in this room have experienced that healing touch of God in our lives. I think of my wife's grandmother years ago, we called her Granny. Granny was diagnosed with the terminal cancer and we just began to pray because we felt like the Lord had more for Granny to do. When it's time for you to go to heaven, it's time. And nothing's gonna stop you from going in the Lord's time in his way. But we just felt like there was more for Granny to do. And we really began to pray for her. And Granny was reading her Bible one day and all of a sudden her eyes fell on Psalm 118, verse 17. The words, I will live and not die and declare the wonderful works of God. I will live and not die and declare the wonderful works of God. And we began to pray. She believed that was a message from God to her and the Lord touched Granny and healed her. And to him be the glory for that. I think of what happened with Raul Reese years ago. He had problems with his appendix and he went into the hospital.  And that is that you have leukemia. And so Pastor Raul called Chuck Smith and Greg Lori and they went into the hospital. They just began to pray. And the next day they did tests, couldn't find the leukemia there. Why?  That prayer for healing is we gathered together today. I don't know what your circumstance or situation is. Maybe you've gone to the doctor and the report's not been a good one.  And I'm here to tell you today, God answers the prayer. I think of Dustin Harrison, the youth pastor here at the Calvary Chapel Chino Valley who had COVID and went into his lungs in pneumonia. But the Lord has raised him up and he's back. Why?  Our God hears and answers prayer and brings healing to his people. Well, God not only answers the prayer in the wilderness and God not only answers prayer in the dungeon and God not only answers prayer in the hospital, God answers prayer out in the middle of the ocean.  Because we see here in verse 23 to verse 32, some sailors, they're out in the middle of the ocean and these experienced sailors find themselves in the worst storm of their life, suddenly, unexpectedly and without warning. It comes upon them and they don't know what to do. Notice in verse 23, those who go down to the sea in ships who do business on great waters, they see the works of the Lord and his wonders in the deeps for he commands and he raises the stormy wind which lifts up the waves of the sea. They mount up to the heavens. They go down again to the depths. Their soul melts because of trouble. They reel to and fro and stager like a drunken man. They're at their wits end. Here you see these sailors, it's their business to be on the ocean. They know about waves and currents and winds and all those kinds of things but all of a sudden there's a storm that comes and I like how the Psalm describes the storm. You can almost feel it as you're reading it. You almost sort of feel seasick when you're reading. It goes up to the heavens and then it goes down and they stagger back and forth on the deck and it's there and notice, amazing. Their soul melts because of trouble.  They reel to and fro and notice verse 27. They are at their wits and they don't know what to do. I don't know if you've ever been at the place where your wits end, I've been at that place many times. You talk to this person, you talk to that person, you try this thing, you try that thing, you try the other thing and you get to the place where you're like, Lord, I just don't know what to do.  Then they cry out to the Lord in their trouble and he brings them out of their distresses. He calms the storm so that its waves are still and they are glad, then they are glad because they are quiet. So he guides them to their desired haven. Oh, oh, that men would give thanks to the Lord for his goodness and for his wonderful works to the children of men. Let them exalt him also in the assembly of the people and praise him in the company of the elders. Here you see these sailors in the worst storm of their life but when they cry out to the Lord, he rescues and delivers them and such is the case with you and me, such is the case that's always been with God's people. When you find yourself in this unexpected storm that comes upon you out of nowhere, what do you do? You call out to God. The Old Testament people of God as they're reading this part of the Psalm, they couldn't help but think, perhaps of Job.  He lost all of his possessions. He lost all of his children. His friends turned against him. His wife turned against him. He lost his health. He lost absolutely everything but he didn't lose his hope and his faith in God. As you read through the book of Job, you find those statements, those precious statements of hope where he says, I know my Redeemer lives. And in the end, I'm gonna stand on the earth. I know that God is in charge. That God is in control, whether I see it or whether I don't. You find that beautiful statement in Job 23 where he says, when he has tested me, I'm gonna come forth as gold. I know this is just refining my character and making me look to him more and as you read through the book of Job, you find out that at the very end, God has brought peace to the storm and given back Job everything that he lost and even more than what he lost. Why? Because when you're in a storm, God hears the prayer of a person who is at their wits end. The New Testament people of God, as they're reading this part of the Psalm, couldn't help but think of what many of you are thinking and that is the story of Jesus in Mark chapter four on the sea of Galilee. There he's with his disciples and all of a sudden they're overtaken by a terrible storm and Jesus is asleep in the back of the boat and they wake him up and they said, Master, don't you care that we perish? And Jesus gets up and he rebukes the wind in the waves and he says, peace, be still. And the Bible says there was an immediate calm and it's exactly what we see happening in this Psalm. The E E calm, verse 29, he calms the storm so that its waves are still and they are glad because they are quiet. What do you do when you find yourself in the worst storm of your life? You call out to God in prayer and you find that he is gonna bring peace to you in the middle of the storm. After the first service, we were meeting with people down front and praying and a young couple came up just asking for prayer and I didn't know who they were at all. Many of you who followed the news this last week heard the tragic, terrible story of a young man who murdered his parents over in Covina.  What do you do when you find yourself in the worst storm of your life? Your soul is melting within you.  I'll tell you what you do. You begin to call on the Lord in prayer. How many want to put your hands together today and thank God that he's a peace, be still God that in the middle of the storm he can bring a perfect calm to all that you're going through. Well, God not only answers prayer in the wilderness and the dungeon and the hospital and even out in the middle of the ocean. God not only answers the prayer for provision and deliverance and freedom and he answers the prayer for healing and he answers prayer in the middle of the storm and gives us peace when there is no peace. He gives us a peace that passes all understanding. God answers prayer anywhere. He can answer anybody's prayer and turn the situation around in just a moment. And that's, I believe, is what verse 33 to verse 42 is all about. There the psalmist just kind of goes off for a moment describing how God can turn something around in a moment. He says in verse 33, he turns rivers into wilderness and the water springs into dry ground. The fruitful land into barrenness for the wickedness of those who dwell in it pause there for a moment. This is exactly what had happened in the land of Israel because they had wandered far from God. There was a famine that had come to the land. The land had dried up. The land had become barren. This is what happens when a nation turns its back on God. We hear in the United States of America see that this nation founded on biblical principles. This nation that is supposed to be one nation under God. This nation that is supposed to be a nation in which we trust God. We've turned our back on God and we've experienced many of the consequences of it. But I'm here to tell you today that when you begin to pray, God can turn it all around in a moment. No matter how far a nation has gone, no matter what's happened, God can turn it around in just a moment. And that's what you see. Look at verse 35. He turns the wilderness into pools of water. He turns dry land into water springs. There he makes the hungry dwell that they may establish a city for a dwelling place. And so fields and plant vineyards that they may yield a fruitful harvest. He also blesses them and multiplies them greatly. He does not let their cattle decrease their possessions. He blesses their possessions when they are diminished and brought low through oppression and affliction. And sorrow, he pours contempt on princes and causes them to wander in the wilderness where there is no way. When there was ungodly rulers, God will take care of those ungodly rulers. He'll watch after his people. He'll look out for them. But those who are over them who are doing ungodly things who are not ruling in righteous kinds of ways according to the will and the purpose, the Lord will take care of them. We just need to pray and let God do his work and his will. That's what we need to do in our country in our state right now. So, but verse 41, he sets the poor. What does he do with his people? He sets them on high, far from affliction. And I like this. And he makes their families like a flock.  Because, listen, our God is a blessing God. And when you call out to him in prayer, he can turn it all around in a moment. So he says, the righteous see it and rejoice. Verse 42, and all iniquities stop, it's stop, it's mouth. When sin is ruling, God raises up a righteous standard and turns it around in a moment and the righteous rejoice. In other words, he's telling us here in this section that God can answer any prayer of any person in any circumstance, in any situation, and they might be in. That's why the Psalm ends in this beautiful way. Notice verse 43, this is so great. The Psalm ends by saying, whoever is wise will observe these things and they will understand the loving kindness of the Lord. Whoever is wise will observe these things. What things? That God hears and answers prayer. That when you're in the wilderness, when you're in the dungeon, when you're in the hospital, when you're in the storm, no matter what the circumstance or situation, a wise person understands that more things are accomplished by prayer than any other thing. A wise person understands what Pastor Chuck used to say, you can do more after you pray, but you can't do any more until you pray, until you go to the Lord and begin to seek his face and cry out to him. The wise, they understand these things and they observe these things and they understand the loving kindness of the Lord. This takes us back to the very first verse about the mercy of God. Those who experience the mercy of God, they need to express that to other people. Let the redeemed of the Lord say so. He says in verse two, we as the people of God, when God hears and answers our prayer, we need to share that with other people. We need to declare that with our mouth in the company of God's people, because God is a God who hears and answers prayer no matter what circumstance or situation that you might find yourself in. And here on this weekend of September 11th, as we reflect on that, what happened on that tragic day, listen, it's an illustration, a powerful illustration of God here, how God hears and answers prayer. There's a story, it's an amazing story about the last survivor of September 11th, 2001. Her name was Janelle McMillan, she lives in Brooklyn, and her story so dramatically illustrates what Psalm 107 is all about, that God hears and answers prayer. It's recorded in a great book, you can buy and read, a book by Jim Symbola called Breakthrough Prayer. Janelle writes the following, she says, the morning of September 11th, 2001 began for me like many others. I got to work a little after 8 a.m. and rode the elevator up to the 64th floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center where I worked. I was making small talk with a coworker when I heard a loud explosion. I had no idea that American Airlines Flight 11 had just slammed into the building. A few moments later, the building began swaying and rocking. Oh my God, I said to a coworker, this building is going down.  And as we headed down the stairway, we started counting the stairs 63, 62, 61, 60, 59, 58. And as we were heading down the stairs, we could see rescue workers and firefighters heading up the stairs. When we reached the 13th floor, all of a sudden the whole building just went boom. Everything went black. The building started to collapse. 110 floors were coming down on top of us, falling concrete and debris smashed me onto my knees and my mouth and eyes were filled with grit and dust.  There was nothing we could do. There is nowhere we could go. And we were being buried alive. And the sound of it was deafening. Then suddenly as it started, it stopped. And things got quiet, really quiet. My mind started racing. I thought of my husband and my children and my family, how I might never, ever see them again. So there, all alone, in the dark and buried under all that rubble, I began to pray. Oh God, help me. Lord, help me please.  Please let me live. Please let them find me. I prayed and I prayed and I prayed. The minutes seemed like hours and the hours seemed like days. But then I heard the sound of rescue workers above me. I began to cry out, help me, help me, help me. Finally, someone yelled back, hello? Hello, is somebody in there? Yes, I said, my name is Janelle. Please help me. By now I could see a bit of daylight coming through a crack. So I stuck my hand up through it. Can you see my hand I shouted? Someone grabbed ahold of it. Janelle, I've got you. You're gonna be all right. I began to worship the Lord and pray. Oh God, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. It had been 27 hours since the towers collapsed. And I, Janelle McMillan, was the last survivor to be pulled out of the wreckage that had once been the World Trade Center sat towers. I spent weeks in the hospital recovering. The doctors never said I'd never walk again, but I do. And I am living proof that God's help is only a prayer away. That whoever you are and wherever you are, that if you simply cry out to God, he will hear and answer your prayer. Dear ones, I've come with a simple message today. God answers prayer. God answers prayer. God answers prayer. No matter who you are and no matter what's going on in your life, the Lord answers prayer.


SPSB We're talking about rising. You know, Savara, you seem not to agree with every community's way of addressing things. Ah, kwende? Why is that? Ah, erika kwende. Bona kwende. I would like it to be 75% local content. Apana, not that. Eh? Ya, ya metua kontentu gani, ya metua riku metua ume itu hangu ma gani ya nilu cekeshe watu, misi ongedjua muziki, you don't know nothing about music, please na maza apapalimiko, isitu anise riku apa, bedenda But he say his artist don't understand the show business Ya, see some accent here, ya nilu kat Kenyan artist also we come from a very different kind of society Ya, ono jwa Kenyan wakona, I call it misplaced humility He he, which one is that?  I'm very warm welcome to STM buzz My good name is Miki Pinji And today I am hanging out with a star But before I introduce my star for today Make sure you subscribe to our YouTube channel Because I mean, why not?  Kangangari, ni me asili Sege maskio Thank you, thank you Hi you, Savara I'm good, how are you? I'm good Let me ask you According to you How do you feel this election period Has been like When is it to Apple? Oh man I'm just happy like Kenyans are peaceful It's been a close one And I just respect the fact that Kenyans are not peaceful I thought it would be chaos But Kenyans are many show otherwise So I'm just happy that my people are really peaceful Tuna sanga man Tuna taktapakaji My youth is not taktapakaji But I respect the rule of law And I appreciate the processes that are going on But I want attention Chibukati, chibukati, chibukati Are you to work attention? I know But we are happy that we are moving on Wakime, Rudimante That's all we want But thanks to everybody who is maintaining peace everywhere Thank you They said international media Kudinwa meboeka Tuwali Ulo nila jugush International media Oh yeah Trying to look for the smallest Of interpunakitu I'm so happy like We are not proving anybody anything I know I'm just happy like Afrika, Kenyans, Tuna You see mamboeitu Tuna so mamboeitu toziitu We don't need like international intervention All the time I know, right? I'm happy about that I'm happy our people are good Quite a good progress from Kenyans How are you maintaining peace? How are you now? Savara, let me ask you You were not doing music What would you be doing? I would either be a footballer Or a soccer player Or number nine I would go to Arsenal Arsenal is my team I love Arsenal Barcelona, Real But I would be maybe a doctor Or a caller Okay So do you feel like I know music is also a talent Because now you would still be doing Watch your talent at in But do you feel like football in Kenya Is that something you would advise To venture into? My kid right now I would because things have changed When I was a kid I played Maesta I played under 14 Under 15 Under 18 That's how I came to Norway How are you now? How are you? How are you? Yeah I love you I love you I love you Yeah Yeah Me too But That time it was really hard Because of the system Yeah I had a lot of experience I had a lot of experience In terms of sports Yeah And everything But finally I missed better Because There's Akina Wanyama There's Akina McDonald Marida There's other football Akina Ayub Khimbe Wanyomi Prou It's a career that's coming For sure Yeah So Saiine is also sustainable But the other time I was like But the kudos to Mr. O'Rero Amishinda MP Amishinda Kibera Kibera Now Uyo To put on in everything And that's when I got a coffee That's what I call class And Mr. O'Rero Kudos to him Because at the end of the day There's Akina Mariga Walsha Akina Wanyama So with Akina O'Lunga Akina O'Lunga is through O'Rero So I think Saiine It's even easier There's so many soccer academies Right You can go to the league You can go to the league You can go to the academy You can go to the academy So right now It's very lucrative So the internet Kautum totoaako Abroad So we went to the teaching system Exactly Very so very soon So this is an easier Kapta The other day I saw you at the airport Hey, na ongaliapa no nomanyala Mezika lafu unisawara Ay na ako pekeake Akuna wakumu bine Oma, oma, oma, oma, oma, oma Oma nyala Go Yo, haf impactiotik Like agalnazation Aha Nadu ako shindwa 100 meters I love it, it's crazy if you want me to do 100 liter. So what did you not do? No, I just did not... I did not play rugby. So I was just an all-rounder. I was just an all-rounder. It's crazy. There are so many athletes in this country, and we are known for the long stipple chase. Kudusla, Kinaizekil, Kemboi, you know. I watched it. But when it's 100 meters, it's not a joke. It's not? Printing. So what that guy has done has proven to a lot of the country and celebrate, as a creative. We come to, we come to the mechanical, we know when we DJ, we know something people can do. Something along to, yes. So we come to, let me, what's your name? I'm Tenda Memma Nenderzako. Yes. So I'm Tenda Memma. Amazing, and how was this, you know, just came to the airport, didn't know you were coming, and you were surprised? Uh-huh. That was his wife. Okay. His wife had organized, because I had done the song, his wife came to the airport, it's very nice, came to welcome, and I felt like, why not? Yes. Yeah, only hero, and I feel like those are the heroes that should be celebrated. Yeah.  Yes. Yeah. And there are a lot of amazing things. I have a blog, I have a blog, I have a blog, there are people on TikTok, there are a lot of great things. Okay. That's why I want to celebrate. Yes.  You call me? So when you say something, people relate, I feel like boys are celebrating. Oh my God. Yeah. 100 meters, me, I'm 100 meters, you're not a joke. Actually? Yeah, also, the man in savage and I had to celebrate, I had gone through with the prior. Monday. Jani, he really tried. Pakuna shanda, how? Actually. Laki ni, alifika, sindio? Okay. No man has kuwa paba. Kavisa. Kavisa. Now, you know, Savara working as a solo artist. I just want to know, how has the Jani been? Because, at a size, it's easier to think about getting away, because we would be having the rest. Oh, yeah. You know, how has that Jani been for you? It's amazing. It's a new thing also. You know, me, I never understood how to do solo. Okay. Because, all through, me, as a community, I don't know how to do it. So, I called how to do the government. Okay. It's been given to ambassadors, ambassadors. So, right now, I'm an ambassador, I'm an ambassador, I'm an ambassador, but the government is how to do it. Indeed. So, you know, you can do different countries. It's a different Jani. I think what I'm going to do is, yeah, but, you know, I realize, you learn, you live and learn. You learn how to grow. Every step is a step to grow, to jujua. Yes. Na, solo, Jani, I mean, if I can jujua even more. Okay. If I can go, I can be deep into who I am. So, for awareness. So, when you listen to my album, I realize, I can realize, I can describe. Aha. So, it's been amazing, because, I think, when you jujua easy, easy design, come up, come up to go solo. Really? Yeah. But what has been the most challenging thing to do? Challenging? Yeah. Energy. Okay. Energy.   Yeah. Okay. It's that. Wendy. Nobody has that, yeah. I mean, WE Gimuku ndangari. Yahi, ni, kat ni, kat ni. Nami, hi. Smith. Ni. Nami. Nami. Ni. Nami. Nami. Nami. Nami. Nami We remember energy must be based in a quality repoker on how to It's a different part, when you raise fee Ya, yu know when you lower then for example You adversely believe your seniors have signed to the restoransنا wro belqza ha作wa wd mixed and in which case to struggle Kwa mndipua mwantikumon ni ojtaka? Kwa mndipua kwa kufi nila?  Ngebi ya kona bagu. Imi na nafana ki job jipwa. You have chosen between. So also collecting a team. So all the artists out there who are solo. I will find everything pekeako. Kulem shaara pekeako. Isi, bitu. Kulem na rengi neba. Kusatenozebi, ibi believe, you are creative, you do best in being creative. But then when you come to running business. No, no, no. It's a different story, but also like it depends on where you want to school. Now your school is coming. I double up. Okay, but now when it comes, you need the time to now be creative. That's why I have my people up on Yoma. Yaaay. You have. Sayi mi kukwashu. Keshu sa aanda kukwashu. Aanda nafana everything. So teamwork. In community. In a communal kind of setting. That's beautiful. What is the most amazing thing about, you know, just being a group and something like that? The most amazing thing? Oh my God. There's no more. Everything is amazing. Everything is amazing. Everything is amazing. Everything is amazing. Yeah. Yeah, South East All has taken me everywhere. Man, South East All is everything. We feel like all over the world are visited. I don't know how many countries does that count. The countries that are not visited. So only respect that kind of entity. And then look at here. Morali wa kukwashu. After, if it's so easy when you are in government of an makuza bak. Yeah. I was you know the vibe you shared. What would you say to the people around you? You met in high school? I had a lot of friends. My brother Kwenibufuwa kwa. Wa ni a miandikuwa? Tabuta. Okay. Let's talk about savage level. Yess. Kwenikwa kldo miki kye savage level? Okay. Savage. Ehha Kwa kldo mi ki savara. Uhum Alo kwa sokande kika savage savage. Alo. Miki kuna kye tadechanisame tadejabi savage.  And kut.  Prani. Kwenikwa kika. Iki na kumitawek,poputuwek. Sanitazin kwa, Kwa na upehata. Fuku matiaende utibunia, Kwa ku через kupada meti, Upehawek, Kwa chegama Chegama na niha. Kwa ngejebana Nguye na numikati na wenda, Nde hula na Afrikan. Ndunia ovebo Upehawek Kwa kuhurua Ndumia niha. Ndunia aliyurian. Ndunia aliyo. Ndunia aliyo. Kwa kuhurua ...to be able to explain yourself and to be able to just to be a global human being. Being started with Kuzamboga in the best world part of it. Being started with the co-president in the best world part of it. The Kuzamaindi in the best world part of it. So many people out here who are missing and missing. So many people out here who are missing and missing. So being started with Kudinawu. And for this album I had to explain who I am. So many people out here who are missing and missing, the Kuzamaindi in the best world part of it. So many people out here who are missing and missing. The Kuzamaindi in the best world part of it. The Kuzamaindi in the best world part of it. And it was made in the N Mensite mechanism So minwa celebrate kwa maalban Ya, beautiful Now inside the album, Savara, I know you spoken about Of course happiness, love, self-awareness, anxiety Let's talk about anxiety I really want to know Is the price you pay?  They don't, and it's so far too Tuma kaila amant shubi Yuma ni misama amdya samant, always do all I can Umi tradition zetu zimitwambiani Mano umi afai kuh express emotion zake Ya Yama ladies manjim kuna machama Ladies are always so outspoken Probably Yata say haz manak analizu noma ma boefan Ane nana niliya besiako inaisha Kuli Bak chali, nana kut afronta something But the new age type of human being Is a human being who can call No liya Ina toka tu, ita tizem kai zi, nansi ta fili okwad Ya So anxiety is for people who are very anxious Especially the boy child man So for that meaning Shungenia wasi Letua umi gay I think we wanna put you a lot of stuff Yes We wanna put you a lot of stuff And your song will stick a lot to the man Shungenia Ipe leke pole pole Utena me kai zi Ya Mu lize tu Utsi oni kilez ma kui amana kia kui apana Yii Ata aki liya mi sawa Utsi liya ocha ulu kuna pegwa Ta Ocha kapa What is that What is that It's wrong That BF Ya So anxiety sticks to a lot of people When you look at social media right now And you look at so many things happening in the world Ya When you engage in all of them Mind up in aruka Akuna do Covid election So na umia So kwa namutui So Mu lize tu kukonesawa Don't be anxious And I think it's something we should speak about Ya Especially for guys So sure Ya ya ya That's a really good thing Especially for men Because I agree Men don't talk Ah Not just say it's easy to watch Kiki tu alafu asenia Ki wei wacha So sa Kiki tiakulia Vraze Hei hei hei Netemulia kwa say Ati Babu dile Shikele na feel emotional Ya So we na talka Let it out So anzaki is something that we should speak about So sure Mmm Mineskiza hi story Karibwa na nisa umaswa li Zangu Ti weingi an dani kwa bisakwa story Ya na puni kumdi about it Aha Mili ignorance Kenili What's happened exactly On a long story short Ya I was recording the album I mean kwa mani nilendika like 2 years ago But I was recording the album There's a former employee Graphic designer Ali Ali Zihang Oh okay Nani I had never taken time To know who he is Thank you Aha I want to take your pieces In a bongan and create your mangud Graphic Yes Alas nilis kumdi tudi asim Mika mbo yo Nizama Ali Zihang Ya Kudia wili mimi aset Mika na studio Aha When I'm in studio Na dali bokuandika na Nisa nga mbo nasi na vibe Kumbili kumdi Tani mbi tudi Okay Then I had to Remember Ika kubuka yo song Ika kubuka Nika Ika mbo series Ake nika mbo manje liya nikuwa So much trouble Aha But mili sili so guilty Tika fukuni Fuku na jua Nika fukuni Yeah Mili gani Tikmkwan nga pitu Kumbili Kumbili Kumbili Kumbili Sini Kumbili Mika gana Kumbili Tani Tani Mika Mika Kumbili Tani Tani Mika Risa Tani Nika Sini Tani Mika Nika Mika Nika Ya. So, anxiety is real. No matter. For sure.  So, what was it?  I've learnt to just put your art out there. Okay. It doesn't matter what platform, it doesn't matter what your studio is.   Ya, with the internet now, you can do a lot. So, what have learnt is just to be able to maintain your stakeholders and put your art out there. It's just that art ya kukwa studio. It's just that art ya kukwa heart. Makwa kichua. Write it. Put it out. There's someone who wants to be inspired by your art here. So, it means it's a lot about just putting out art. So, I'm recording a lot. I have more albums coming. This and Vagant of Savaro. Okay. We are waiting for that. We are waiting for that. Be on, be on, be on sana. And I'm thankful that the fans are really consuming my album in a very blend of Kaka. Ya, I see. Ya, your songs are bumping in the club. Zee, everywhere. Everywhere I ask, most of my songs seem to be mine. Okay. So, I'm going to be a fan. That's good to hear. Especially when you are a fan, when I relate naio on individual doses, not just vibes. Vives.  You know, Nandia, yo, I was in an emotional turmoil but the song Ballons just reminded me of how angry I am. Wow. Anzac, you can say, Nandia, and I swear, what went to Nandia, when I was 30 years old, I was suicidal, but Nandia, the song Anzac gave me hope because it was an artist's anxiety. Wow. That's when I realized that album is bigger than me. I created a monster. Wow. Yes. So, when that's what is happening when I relate to, wow, in God, I can experience it. Yes. So, I have a million investors, I can meet the people. I'm thankful, man. I say, Nandia, you can say, Nandia, you can say, Nandia, you can say, Nandia, you can say, Nandia, you can say, Nandia, you can say, Nandia, you can say, Nandia, you can say, Nandia, you can say, Nandia, you can say, Nandia, you can say, Nandia, you can say, Nandia, you can say, Nandia, you can say, Nandia, you can say, Nandia, you can say, Nandia, you can say, Nandia, you can say, Nandia, you can say, Nandia, you can say, Nandia, Because I do this accident. Really miss bless. Sana alafu piya, the fact that she didn't even know that she's one value. Mwupata ma Insta message. Nga bata jiyoko Instagram. Mwutua kufizi, South America. Ya. Nga nga babendo. Nga nga kuko island. Uko. Mwutana kufizi. Kile mabida. Kipanya jet. Wendy jet. Kutama jet. Mwutua kufizi. This is global domination. So, we are a lot of participation. And you know someone would think, ah, Savara has traveled the world and performed on big stages. So, that's not a big deal. Ah, ya pana. I don't think stages performing is a different thing. But when people just internalize their music, it's not going to be as it should be for sure. But when they respond and when it's not a cram lyrics, alafu ana quote. Yes. I'm telling you that is another level of funding. Ya ya ya. Ya ya ya. That's great. Unimatability. This I like. Ya. So, you need poor standard. I'm not scared. If you haven't seen this album, you need to do that. Because as you can see, it's relatable. It's beautiful. It sticks to your soul. Savage level. It's amazing. It's a savage level. It's everywhere. Spotify. Wappi. Apple music. Biza. YouTube. You can find it. It is stick to you. I want to put you on. This album. Ya. Let's talk about love, Tavara. Because I mean... I mean... Afarana blacha. Afarana pain. Love is a beautiful thing. I really want to know among all the ladies you met who interacted with over the years to decide if one is the girl, if the lady for me, why Yvonne, why her? For a long time I've been struggling Me like a okay No doors openin' Ya. The two left feet My rhythm wondering Left me wondering What's the music in my heart? And she came on time And I let her in When she first came And now we're proffering She gave her rhythm to my feet Dancing to her heartbeat She's the reason of my heart I want to count you in the best time You want to use a very particular I want to know more about you We only found normal possessions and we moved down We found loved persons, we found everything I want to make sure I give a good life I said to love fast food so she is just a person but I miss it I think it is a good idea No kai pata We love and kiss Wakawe... Nwathatid HYou take it up kubili Nekama she sending a message Savaara should put a ring on it I do not know if you saw that story When was that? Some time back last year Ah, Siziui Nikuwatui Ya, ease the bloggers take the cap savaara kuane not put in a ring on it Ri ngi kuani na put kuwa the blogger Ah kana Ya pa gupatapatapatatatatata nga kaya?  Kama buti teikuji wa chana nai wa chana... Feel of no... Soka pa pangamua. Do you believe in gender roles? Like there are things in the house that a woman is just... No, no, no, no, no, no, no. How come? You're not an African man? Because African men are out there. New pizza. I can wash my dishes. I can wash my clothes. Mamangwa liniwezii, mamangwa liniwezii. Yo, Maistan. Mamangwa liniwezii, maidi nene. Iki puwa nini ubongo ubongo. Keli uchutavaradi e pushena uongo. If anybody doubt you Maistan wa wuneshe tisogo. Mamangwa liniwezii, liniwezii. It's why she's got points kumaisya. Last month, another human being in the womb. Sesa li tumbo. Tumbo ya kwa jiziki. I think it's because of you. Ya ya, ya ya. I think I'm happy to have a stage where I'm above that. I'm going to compromise on a certain price. How much is your price? It's a tremendous heart to the stomach. Yes, partly. But I can say that I'm a falakia. Taka ma uta Ziwi tu kaka katiyakitirama stomach. Naka na itisi kiki intellectual, kama shona kibali. Ya. I think ya, imi na falakia. Nini stomach, liyo, lakitia. Dabaal, dabaal. Napia mi na expect kивikte same. Kwaiti. Muna pata. Toka ma mi, atu tukuna wei, nasuku challenge. Intellectually. Why, you say? Ya, wun pata. So mi na belibyi yostewe. It's a change of roles. It's not? Ya, mimi mimi kwa sosati mamangu na babangu wala kuna wala wana design. Mezona, hez season mamangu nandikiwa kufu. Yes. Next season babangu nandikiwa kufu. Ya, babangu wata gari na zapa kapu wana kwa samafuta. Ya. Atende npaka job. Apande maa 3. Namamangu wa chikyo gari na nao job. Yes. Kiku waya nga liya yuki tili kamati ikilawa. I feel like I want wako insecure. Kamu ko insecure kwa maisha yako. Muna mkia kiku ati una deti dei muwa na yasewo rima. Una daku deti dei wana na nobi dei wana anamoda niu wana daku deti dei. Una muwasa. Wanda yako na shida. Bili yu baggage, bili yu trauma, bili yu insecurity. Yes. It's projecting your insecurities on your partner actually. Nabi kusen, relax, bana isi maisha wacha upala, kula vibe.  He's a real man. Really, Savara? Yes.  Yes. Imaandi kwa api, nandu pa dimaandi kwa? Ijaandi kwa ukweli.  Ukweli. And then he starts, I won't take her. Kwa bai kwa, watwa bibili ya jamani kwa kuna maili. Imaandi kwa, say na mjitu kane. Naata, naata. Nani nandikiya bibili ya? Wana itwaja? Shiai juli zanali anikiya bibili ya. Shiai juli za. Tafakaria haia. So, listen ma, they were inspired by, you know? Ya, they were inspired by God, so they were spoken to through the roti. Wata li pwambi e? Nani na taka wekaiki tukwa online juzuri. The reason why this country is behind is because storytelling and religion itwaka from ages and centuries ago. Story ime kwa tuned, ime kwa twisted. Yoko apa una fall for false hope, una fall for false prophet. Brother, trust your God. Wata kwa wata bina nandami. So, okimandi asiai juli bibili ya, jini translate, kwa ni? I believe and I plan that. Actually, I believe in your Christian. I'm not even bashing. But when I see this country and I see how, what I'm a danganini, I cannot... False hope is being told every day. Iza jo, why and the layer? Imi si kwa apa kukulibaret. Yo ni shida ya? Ya, of course. Kaya and the layer. You know, even here there are some verses that are no longer in the Bible. They'll end up difficult layer. So, I'm imagining my kids ten years from now, what will they be reading? Something different from what I read. So bad ma, Imi kitakatu ku pata audience ya wasi maybe moshada mawati. Imi zini wan jini naji and the kumana bibili ya, kumal logic. Tafadani, kenia tini wajde? Nia. Nizioloji guys, tafara, what next? Where are we coming up? What are we expecting? More love and light. More music, more projects like... Imi nansiki maishana niki danganari. Ya, I'll be doing a lot of music. Naji wato... I think through my first album was I made this carabiner. Most people didn't know me this much. So I have a lot to tell in terms of storytelling and also business. Me na fani a lot of business also. But musically, I'll be doing albums that I'm gonna produce to. I'll be doing albums that I do today only. I'll be doing albums that I sing. Naji kia, kyi ongomak, I adjust to this and send to the hook. Okay. Then I featured Kiyomiyo, Mandi and Calligraph. So I'll be doing more first start. Nata kwa jatu wa tu most of these nawa kiki maju. Lafum na nangju mo nangoja kiki. Kiki fei na kudja. Aura leta kiki, tu sku ma mziki na kiki. Tu sku ma mziki na kiki. Yua, hina bibi tu mandi. The best thing about me, Yes. I mean I seek a ma platinum because my ganganya is in here for the millions and we get a common deal, I think we'll just keep doing something like that. I was told that we were going to get paid for the gig with a bumbum. Yes, that's what I'm saying. Really, I think if we just work together it's fine. Get a job! I'm joking hard. Na kwa? Kwa, kwa, kwa, kwa yo na kubiga. Na kubiga bara na kuggia, na kwa na kukirte na kili nenguewa meja... kwa na kikisei, kikisei. kwa na kikisei, kikisei. Shukakia na kikida sirena na kikisei. kwa na kikisei, kikisei. ya na kwa na kikisei, kikisei. Nawu kwi maikSurebookala kufiri na kikida tu. kwa na kikisei? kwa na kikisei, kikisei. kwa na kikizao na kikisha ni mat selligglea na wakili na kibili na kikisa. Iniya about what? Ioya, ana indos a certain client so ana me dress up kama den so ana host what is? One thing I like about Eric? Yes. He's very creative. He is? A lad. He had a very creative image. Nijingatwa konayo, alafu piya ane sota sota. Niju anamitupaka na na kwa media kusimabili a kuna do. Ana saya, my both private jet busy. Woto kuna do ase manji. Ata misi ga sayama? Lagi nimi kusimabili sadyo kwenitwa isimu? Kama presa lavmu, lavmu... Kama lavmu kimi presa kwa isimika. E? Awa content. O jongib isimu. Misawa to vasu sabara. Asante sana.  Yes, thank you man. You know just driving yourself and keeping yourself out there. Yes, I appreciate it guys. When sounded level is sick. And for everybody who's listening to the songs, for me nili, let the song inspire you. And you guys are doing a good job here. Thank you. In terms of like, you are, you are not much work for mordia, in terms of like, to share this opportunities, to raise the bar high manji. If you go to work, what you wanna shent in, you must kick it up. Yes. Kwanza, nani, kwanza kalibira fijon. O kuna batu nili kufichakwa angoma yango. But then nili pigiasimu sana ane ane dia. So I'm gonna please, please, please, I need to go yongoma. I need to go yongoma nimi kiyakwa mandi. Ati oji. Toka apa. Kaili yon ukweli, ukweli. Ay. I just mean like, spreading love. Yes. And kwenjoti in society. Kenya is a very beautiful country. Nime, nime, nime tembea. Tembea ukiwa kijana, the world is waiting on you. When you enter Uganda, waremboegi kama rwanda, tu dani isborana.  Yes. Nakidu kuna mtitu, akuna income, amekatu kwa apartment, waki, mtsili, mmhmm. Buruburu, mmhmm. Kile leshua, mmhmm. Kusumumali. Nia. Adiyanda turukana. Ukweli. Adiyanda samburu. Adiyanda olaitoktok. Aki, in those cases. Nia uki muwana kwa bayasa aki. You know your country. So this country is very beautiful. Kenya is one of the most amazing places in Kua. Yes. Enjoy. Kizi kubangaine, and I don't mean to compare. When you go across Africa, mmhmm. kundama laru, mmhmm. kundabandia. Adiyana. What in your poor? Aki. It is so sad. Apakiniutu nishi mensha poa, lakini, koditi simu, aki simu, ae, iti mensha fiti maje. Elevate your mind to have a level kisya even the main song. Mmhmm. My girl, you are such a flavor To show you man mind, never give up, never This is your time Try to do it better Yes I know, it is so annoying Aki kwanza kama, you clothed fashion on the road Menda Rwanda manze, Rwanda misafi Ya, I haven't been to Rwanda yet Kamu na fanyakazi kanyo, mga tumahongo Bribery, mga tumaliza Anyway, mi si kuapa, kufu change Mi ni kuapa kufu a good vibe Enjoy good music Spread love, be a happy human being Because people are going through it Ya, there is so much trauma in the world How did it become, it can speak everything It is not a true election Be a positive vibe to someone I'm not a bad person I'm not a bad person I'm not a bad person Kawa kawa, kumiskiya sa vara Kupiskiya Love level, enjoy life Thank you sa vara for coming to FPMBuzz Namu mendele ku subscribe apa chinu Angaliya po chinu, boneza ki do de Boneza, lafutu sa diusha maliza kuot Share this video Send a link to your friends They need to hear about anxiety They need to hear about you know how music is going on In this country from the very best You need to do that Share that to everybody I love you guys Alright guys, that was Savara Mujidi of Fautifall That was a very good conversation Make sure you get to listen to his album Asafit level


All right then, let's look at some applications of the anti-derivative process. We're gonna look at something which is commonly referred to as the initial value problem. Initial value problem. Cause what we're asked to do is we have to first find an anti-derivative, but what we've been doing before is we found the general anti-derivative. What we wanna do now is find a particular anti-derivative because what we know, we wanna find our function F. What we know about it is we have its derivative. We also know it goes through a specific point and that's what we mean by this initial value. So as sort of like an analogy here, we know how fast something's going and we know where it's located so therefore we can compute its distance function. Let's say I was trying to drive from Cedar City, Utah where I live to visit some relatives in Boise, Idaho which I do on occasion. And so my relatives give me a call and of course I wouldn't answer it cause I'm driving but maybe my wife answers the phone and they ask us or my wife will put it on speakerphone so we can all talk or something hands-free, totally safe there. But they ask us, oh, where are you? And we're like, oh yeah, we're driving 80 miles per hour. We'll be there soon. And it's like, okay, that's great, but where are you? We don't, knowing your speed is not enough to know when we're gonna get there. It's like, oh, we're in Salt Lake right now. It's like, okay, you're driving that speed in Salt Lake and I know Salt Lake speed limits not 80 miles per hour but it's Utah. If you're going 80 miles per hour, you're going slow. But anyways, if you know the speed and location then you could determine, oh, okay, you're gonna be here in like five hours. Okay, okay, that's good to know. So we could determine where you'll be if we know your speed and your location. So for this initial value problem to find f of x we first are gonna calculate the antiderivative of the derivative f prime of x. Well, we know what f prime of x is. It's this six x squared plus four, dx. And using the antiderivative power rule and other properties we've seen, the antiderivative will look like six x cubed, excuse me, the power goes up, divide by three plus four x plus a constant. Don't forget that constant there. If we simplify the fraction, three goes into six two times we get two x cubed plus four x plus c. This is equal to f of x. But this is the issue that my family member was having. If I don't know where you're located then I don't know how to finish this problem. And this is where the initial value comes into play. Because this initial value one one is on the graph that means that when x equals one the y-corner will be one. We have this relationship that f of one equals one. If we plug that into this equation right here we then see that f of one equals one but we can also plug in one for x. So we get two times one cubed plus four times one plus a constant. I'm gonna slide this up a little bit. If we simplify, well the left hand side's still one, the right hand side we get two plus four plus c. This will equal six plus c. And so let's subtract six from both sides here. We'll end up with that c equals negative five. And so that's then our function. f of x equals two x cubed plus four x minus five. And so we can determine the exact value of that plus c. And if we had forgotten the plus c we'd have the wrong function right now. Let's look at another example. So suppose a particle moves in a straight line has acceleration given by the acceleration function a of t equals six t plus four. We also know it's initial velocity. The velocity at time zero is negative six centimeters per second. We also know it's initial position. It's located at nine centimeters at the beginning of the problem. Let's find s of t. Well the position function, how is it related to velocity and acceleration? Well velocity is the derivative of position which means positions the anti-derivative velocity. And acceleration is the derivative of velocity which means velocity is the anti-derivative acceleration. And as acceleration is the second derivative of position that means position is the second anti-derivative of acceleration. So we're gonna start off by finding the velocity function. Let's do that first. So velocity is gonna equal the anti-derivative of acceleration which by the formula we're given the acceleration is six t plus four centimeters per second squared. We're gonna integrate that thing for which we're gonna get six t squared over two plus four t plus a constant. We see that the velocity is gonna equal because two goes into six three times three t squared plus four t plus c. We have that c again. What are we gonna do with c? Well like we did on the last example because we know the initial velocity we can plug that in for the velocity right here and we can solve for this constant. v of zero is equal to negative six. Well then we plug in zero for all the t values.  It's always generous when they give you zero there because the right hand side will simplify just to be c because of all the zeros there. So c is negative six and therefore our velocity function v of t will equal three t squared plus four t minus six. And now that we have the velocity function we can then look for position because position s of t will equal the integral of velocity. It's the anti-derivative of velocity. And so taking the anti-derivative of this three t squared plus four t minus six d t by the power rule we're gonna get three t cubed over three plus four t squared over two minus six t plus another constant a plus c there. I'm going to just use the same plus c as before even though we already had a plus c but again it's just a constant we have to figure out right now. And if you remember from what we saw above the initial position was s of zero equals nine centimeters. And so we set this equal to I guess I should simplify this thing a little bit first. The threes there cancel and then two goes into four two times. So we end up with a zero cubed plus two times zero squared minus six times zero plus c. And again because all those zeros the right hand side again becomes c so c is nine. And so to finish this thing we end up with our position function s of t it will equal t cubed plus two times t squared minus six times t plus nine. And this gives us our position function that if we know how long the particles been moving in t seconds then we'll know it's been moving s centimeters like here. And so we can use anti-derivatives to solve many physics problems, economics problems other examples we're not seeing right here but it is important that we know that plus c. The plus c is by forgetting it we're assuming the initial value is zero and when the initial value is not zero that can be a problem. So thanks for watching this video here today. Lecture 41 in our series about anti-derivatives. If you have been liking our videos and liking these calculus lectures so far please like them. Subscribe if you wanna see some more updates in the future if you wanna see more videos please post any comments. If you have any questions about any of the things you see here just post them in the comments below and I'll be glad to answer them in the future. I will see you next time, bye.


Hello everybody, welcome back to another AI video. In this one, I'm in the Photoshop beta. It just updated earlier a few hours ago, and there is a new feature. It's called generative expand. Let me show you what I'm talking about, and then I'm gonna show you multiple ways to use this tool. So here we go, I'm in Photoshop beta. First off, in order to access it, you need to hover over the crop tool, select the crop tool, and then watch this. When I do that, if I zoom in here, you're gonna see I'm hovering over something called generative expand. You can do a bunch of things. The first, and probably the most interesting one, of course, is I can just expand this image. So by just clicking on the edge and pulling it, you're gonna see here that I have the ability to expand it, and then it's gonna ask me what I'd like to generate. Two options. One, I can say, you know, in a restaurant, or I can put like, what would you like to be, in a restaurant, or I can just leave it blank. There's two options. So I'm gonna go ahead and click on this one. I'm gonna let it run its thing. I'm gonna come back when it's done, and then I'm gonna show you what it does when you put nothing in the prompt. All right, so I said my dog's in a restaurant. Look at that, it's given me a set of cups. You know what, that works for me. I'll click on this, he's sitting beside a plate, and that one's not so good. So I'm just clicking through the arrows here to select one. I like the cup one, so that would work, and then I have a new image. Let me show you some other options. All right, so another option is, let's say I wanted to do that again, but this time I'm just gonna go ahead and I'm gonna hold down the shift key, and you're gonna see here that I am expanding it proportionally. So it is expanding proportionally, but it's not going from all sides. If I hold down the alt key on a PC, option key on a Mac, it is now pulling it in an exact proportional. So it's either you can pull it one direction, or upwards and to the right, for example, in this case, or you can hold down the alt or option key, and you can do a fully perfect expansion. So these are the other two options. Now watch this, I'm just gonna let go, and you're gonna see here I've got all of this space on all of the different sizes. Now in the last one, I showed you how to do it if I was in a restaurant, let's say in the dog, my puppy, Kingston was in a restaurant. Now watch this, I'm gonna just click on generate with nothing in the prompt. I'm gonna come back when it's done, and I'm gonna show you how good this is. Look at that, that is fantastic.  Let's click through a few of the other options. That one's not so good. That one's not too bad, but the first one is very, very good. So this is a second way to use generative expand. Let's start from scratch, I'm gonna show you another way. All right, another option is to use it for multiple expansions. Let me show you what I'm talking about here. I'm gonna grab the crop tool, automatically you'll see generative expand has popped up. I'm gonna pull this down a little bit, let's say. But when I pull it down, I look at that, and I go, oh, you know, that's not quite right. I want it to go maybe another bit to this side. So you'll see here that I'm just sort of pulling and making multiple expansions. And if I hold shift key down, it constrains the proportions, but there you go. You can do multiple expansions with generative expand. Another option is you can do ratio or aspect ratio expansion. So in this one, I get, basically we've got a rectangle here, but if I start going up to the top here, you'll see here we have some options. We have ratio, we have width times height times resolution. We've got one to one aspect ratio, four, five, five, seven, 16, nine, et cetera, et cetera. I will show you 16, nine. Watch this, I'm just gonna click on that. And presto, it's selected a 16 by nine aspect ratio. Now if I pull on this, I can actually go ahead and expand out using 16 by nine. And because we can do multiple expansions, I'm gonna go ahead and do something like that. So we've got the, my dog in the image, but we've got all of this area around each side. I'm gonna go ahead and just click on generate. I'm not gonna add in any prompt. Watch what happens. I'll come back when it's done. It has done an excellent job. It's filled out these sides with some blank space there. We've got some, it's like he's in a nice big room there that wasn't there. Well it's there now. Looks great. If I click through some of the options, they're all quite good. Now I wanna show you how to go ahead and use it for patterns. Let's watch this. All right, for this demonstration, I've got this cool looking image here. And I wanna make this image into a background pattern, for example. So what I'm gonna do, of course I'm gonna go to the crop tool. And you'll see here that it's remembering that I was on ratio and I don't want that. So I'm just gonna go ahead and I'm gonna go ahead and clear all that. Let's go back to original ratio. So this is the original. Now watch this. I'm just gonna pull this down and I'm gonna go ahead and say this is the size. This is massive. Let's go with something a little smaller, something like that. And now I'm gonna go ahead and type in the word pattern. When I do that, we're gonna get some options. Watch this. I'll show you when I come back here. Look at that. It has done an amazing job turning that original image into a full pattern. Wow, look, I mean, that's, the first one's perfect. I mean, if there's another one, great. Hey, that looks good too. But absolutely awesome. Now let me show you one final way to use generative expand. All right, the last way I'm gonna show you is you can rotate an image and expand it as well. This is kind of cool. I'm gonna click, of course, I'm gonna click on the crop tool and then I'm gonna pull it just like I would normally do. But watch this. When I hover over to the right side here or any side on these corners, you're gonna see the double arrow. I'm now gonna go ahead and sort of turn this and look at that. I've kind of got this grid thing going on here and I can now, well, let's maybe move it over a bit. Now let's just leave it like that. I've rotated him and maybe now I'm gonna put something like, instead of just blank, I'll put in a tornado outside, something like that. Just maybe my dog's going into a tornado. I don't know, something silly like that. I'm gonna click generate, come back when it's done. Okay, so that got a little weird pretty quick here. Let's see what the other options are. Yeah, not so good. Okay, a little bit better, but you guys get the point. The point is, is you can rotate and expand out an image easily just using that tool. So those are all the different ways you can use generative expand. It's in the Photoshop beta. Hopefully it's in the full Photoshop release shortly. Thanks for watching.


It is really amazing what you can do with a few lines of shell scripting on Linux. It's one of the things I really love about Linux as an operating system is the fact that anytime I have a problem I can usually solve it with a simple shell script. And the other day I was browsing r slash Linux and I saw a fellow, he was sharing a shell script that he wrote called Stylish. And what this is, it's a really interesting shell script that changes your wallpaper. What it does is it goes to the internet and finds a random wallpaper and then sets that as your wallpaper. It uses, I think, unsplash as the default source for sourcing the wallpapers. But it can also source various subreddits where people post wallpapers and it'll just go and grab a random wallpaper and set it for you. And I thought it was such a neat little script I wanted to highlight it today on camera. So the name of this script is Stylish. Stylish spelled S-T-Y-L-I dot S-H. Extension is the standard extension for shell scripts. And what Stylish is, it's about a hundred lines of a shell script. And it uses, I think, for dependencies, F-E-H and PyWall. Those are two command line programs people use to set wallpapers. It also uses WGIT. WGIT is what it uses to go and grab the wallpapers and download it to your machine. WGIT is a command line download utility. To install Stylish, it's just three lines of a copy and paste in the terminal. First, you get clone, this repository, then you cd into the directory. And then you simply run the Stylish shell script. And there are various flags and options that you can use with Stylish here or some examples here on the GitHub. So let me go ahead and switch over to my desktop and I'm gonna go ahead and open a terminal here and let me zoom in. And I'm gonna cd into the Stylish directory because I've already cloned the repository. And if I did an LS, you would see that we have Stylish.sh right there. That is the shell script. So if I do a period slash and then Stylish, that will run the Stylish script. And you guys probably noticed in the background that my wallpaper changed. And that was with no flags or options there. So let me move this over here. And let me run the script one more time just to verify it's changing the wallpapers. I think by default it's grabbing them from unsplash, really nice wallpapers. I mean, these are really gorgeous wallpapers if I'm being honest. So if you wanted to use something other than unsplash as the source for grabbing the wallpapers, you could use Reddit. And the way you use Reddit is, let me go back into this directory here. If I did another LS, you would see there is a file called subreddits. If I open that file, you will see by default there are five names of subreddits in that file. You could edit this file, you could add subreddits, delete subreddits. They need to be to their own separate line. By default, we have wallpapers, earth porn, spaceporn, wallpaper, and pick as the subreddits. If I wanted to specify these, I think what I could do is run the Stylish command and then give it the dash r flag and then name of a subreddit. For example, maybe I wanted wallpaper dump as the subreddit to grab a wallpaper from. It looks like we got an error for that one. Let me just do dash r wallpaper and see if it works with that particular Reddit. Yeah, and that one worked just fine. Now, there are plenty of flags and options that you can give Stylish. If you wanted to play with the scaling as far as how you draw it on the screen or what monitors you want to set it on and things like that, you do have the options of doing like Stylish dash B, space BG dash scale for scaling the wallpaper to the screen. I think some of these flags are very similar to the flags that FEH has. There's also the dash P flag. If you do dash P that uses pi wall. What that does is it goes ahead and grabs that wallpaper from unsplash or whatever subreddit. It sets the wallpaper and then it runs pi wall to give you a terminal color scheme based on the wallpaper it set. Let me see if I can actually do that. So let me switch back over to the desktop. I'm going to close the Lackardy because I don't think a Lackardy is going to work with pi wall. We need something that uses the X resources file as far as a terminal color scheme. So let's open X term. I do have X term here. And once again, let's CD into Stylish and let's run the Stylish command again. Let's go ahead and grab it from the wallpaper subreddit. So we got a new wallpaper. Now let's run that same command except this time. Let's give it a dash P flag. Wall command not found so I don't have pi wall installed. Well, you know what? Let's install pi wall. Is it pi wall? I can't remember the name in arch. Pi wall dash yet. That would work. I don't want to review the package build. Let's just go ahead and install it.  I do apologize about that. It's asking for root password here to install. And now let me clear the screen here and run that last command with the dash P flag for Stylish. So it grabs us a new wallpaper and then it runs pi wall to set us a wallpaper based on this wallpaper. Wow. And that's great. So it grabbed this really pink and colorful wallpaper and then it created this really horrible terminal color scheme for us. That is rather cool. I kind of like that. And the great thing about these kinds of bash scripts and shell scripts, Python scripts, especially when they're short in length, is you can very easily go and read the script and figure out what it's doing. So what I could do is I could vim Stylish. If I could spell it correctly, Stylish. And if you know a little bit of shell scripting, you can figure out what this is doing. So link equals and then the link to unsplash to grab a random wallpaper. I think what this is, is if you don't change this variable elsewhere in the script, it's going to always grab a wallpaper from unsplash. Unless you give it a dash R flag, of course, for a subreddit, you can specify a subreddit to go grab a wallpaper from. And later on in the script, you can see some of the flags that you can do. Like we did dash P, which is pi wall here. A dash R is sub equals some kind of argument here. That's of course the subreddits. So that's what the R flag is. We also have flags B, S, H, W. I'm assuming H and W heighten width. So that is setting a size for the wallpaper. One neat thing is I notice we have the S flag for search. Let's actually try that because I actually did not think about that. So let's do Stylish dash S for search and then search for some search term, Linux. Let's find a Linux related wallpaper. I don't know what is going to go out and grab. Well, it grabbed, yeah, just a picture of some random board here, but not necessarily Linuxy, but close enough, let's run it again. See if we get something a little more Linuxy related, like some penguins or something. No, just a random picture of a location. Let's do Stylish dash S, nature. I really like that wallpaper. Wow, that is perfect. Very minimal as far as the colors, just a little bit of black and green. Actually works really nicely with my current color scheme. Yeah, so this script, again, it's a hundred lines of shell scripting, very easy to read, nothing earth-shattering as far as innovation or anything, but it's really nice. I really love it when people find a problem and solve it through the use of shell scripting. I really wanted to share it with you guys because I think I'm gonna use this. I think it's good enough. I'm gonna start using this myself. I may edit the code a little bit and play around with some things, maybe tweak it to my liking, but for now, yeah, I think this is probably the best wallpaper-setting utility I've seen, especially those of you that you stand-alone window managers and you're looking for something very easy to grab a wallpaper, what you could do in your window manager, your config, your i3 config, or openbox config, or in my case, my Xmonad config. I could actually set Stylish to run every time I log in. That way I always get a new wallpaper every time I log into my window manager, so yeah, I'm really glad I found this script. Now, before I go, I need to thank a few special people. I need to thank the producers of the show, Epsy Dallas Gabe, Lou Mitchell, Sandor Allen, Akami Archbishop, David Chuk, David the Other, David Dillon, Gregory Lewis, Oriann, Paul, Polytech Scott, Steven Smith, Wes, and Willie, these guys, they're the producers of this episode. Without these guys, this short little video about the Stylish script wouldn't have been possible. The show's also brought to you by each and every one of these ladies and gentlemen as well. All these names you're seeing on the screen right now. These are all my supporters over on Patreon because I don't have any corporate sponsors. I'm sponsored by you guys, the community. If you'd like to help me out, look for DistroTube over on Patreon. All right guys, peace.