1 Chronicles 16:37-18:17, Romans 2:1-24, Psalms 10:16-18, Proverbs 19:8-9
Today is the 14th day of July. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian. It is a pleasure. It’s awesome to be here with you turning the knob and opening the door and stepping through the threshold into a brand-new, shiny, sparkly week here in the middle of the summer or the middle of the winter depending on where you are in the world. No matter what the weather though, I’m glad that we can continue the rhythm of our lives day by day step-by-step as we interact with God’s Word and allow it to speak into our lives inform us, change us, direct us, guide us, lead us into all truth, which is the promise. And, so, with this brand-new week out in front of us we’ll read from the New Living Translation. And, of course, will be picking up where we left off. Today first Chronicles chapter 16 verse 37 through 18 verse 17.
Prayer:
Father, we thank You for Your word. And as we have spent the weekend and now kind of moving into this new week beginning the book of Romans we invite Your Holy Spirit to lead us, to guide us into all truth, to help us to understand how it is we came to believe what we believe and help us to see the argument Paul is laying out as we move through this letter. Yesterday we certainly read of all kinds of debauchery, all kinds of evil sins that people had fallen into because they simply ignored the fact that signs of Your love and guidance and presence are everywhere. And, so, we can read those words of condemnation, but we fail to ever get to chapter 2 where we are instructed to not judge because we’re all guilty. And, so, right out of the gate, we see that the apostle Paul has his sights aimed squarely at the religious infrastructure and obviously at the time of this writing he’s aimed at Judaism at the Jewish religious infrastructure in the same way that Jesus was. And yet, as we read this letter and apply it to our own Christian faith infrastructure, we see that there are plenty of things that we must pay attention to and that we must change. Come Holy Spirit lead us forward into all truth we pray. In the name of Jesus we ask. Amen.
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Community Prayer and Praise:
Hi beautiful family of God, I trust that all of you enjoyed your long walk on the 7th of July, Sunday. I was so privileged and blessed to be at __ for the July 4th weekend and just wanted to share a little experience I got to enjoy. While deep in the forest all you hear is the sound of birds chirping, all different sounds. And we got to see these beautiful royal blue woodpeckers picking at tree trunks and we also spotted lots of different birds sitting on the deck of our cabin. And it just reminded me of God’s constant love for us. And as they take flight from one branch to another __ absolutely not a care or fear or worry about this absolutely huge dense forest. It’s just so amazing how they balance on a tiny leaf or a little twig. And I thought to myself, how even if one of them has to fall to the ground Jesus sees them and He knows them and every move they make and how He watches over them. Same with us. He cares. As God cares for the birds of the air and the trees in the forest how much more valuable are we? And I can just imagine how God cares for us and watches over our every movement. So, something just to think about today and to encourage someone that, you know, lost all hope. Recently a lady called to say she’s lost all hope…
Hi neighbors it’s Lisa the Encourager I hope you all are having a wonderful day. I’m calling today because I was very excited to hear that Jesse and his wife are doing better in their marriage and I’m so happy for you and I’m so happy that you called and I’ll continue to pray for you Jesse, you and your wife. And I’m also praying, calling in today to pray for Tara and her ovarian cancer and I really wanted to devote my entire time to pray for Tara in that she’s facing this real life challenge with the ovarian cancer. So, let’s all go to the Lord together. Dear God I thank You so much for allowing me the opportunity to pray for Tara Lord and I just pray as if I were with her right now at this moment and I was able to lay my hands on her abdomen Lord and I just lay my hands in the way of being the hands and feet of Jesus and nothing more, nothing less God and that You will take this ovarian cancer from her and take it away and just let it not impact her life at all Lord. And I pray Lord God that You would just intervene and make this just…just a very small little thing in her life that doesn’t have to be her life or doesn’t have to impact her life or her daughter’s life in any way God. And I pray Lord Jesus that You will give her comfort in knowing that You are right there with her every step of the way and that she feels Your presence God through every decision, through every communication that she has with her daughter, with every communication she has with the doctors. And I pray God that You will just be with her holding her hand…
Hi, this is Valerie calling from south of Atlanta. I just wanted to call in and pray for the sweet lady who called in on the…I believe it’s the 9th…who sounded helpless and hopeless and looking for God’s will. Dear heavenly Father I just want to pray for this sweet lady Lord. I pray that You’ll just grant her an extra measure of peace Lord. I thank You that You gave her the confidence to call into the Daily Audio Bible and to express her deep longing to know Your will Lord and to open up herself to the rest of the believers so that we can all come to her aid Lord and lift her up in prayer in front of her throne. Lord I just again just pray that You will make Yourself known in a miraculous way to her Lord. I pray that You will reach down and wrap her in Your arms, and she’ll feel Your comfort as a tangible presence and know Lord that You hear her, You love her and You’re there for her. So many times, Lord we can’t understand why we’re going to things or see where to put the next step Lord but if we can just hold on a little longer and have trust and have faith we know Lord, we know that You are guiding our steps the same way Lord that You’re guiding Paul. Even though times seemed dim with him being in prison and everybody telling him don’t go to Jerusalem and he went anyway and God is using him in a miraculous way through this time of trial while he is being held captive just like our sister right now is being held captive by fear and doubt and unbelief and struggling. We pray Lord that You’ll just give her enough strength to make it through to the next day and then the next day and then the next day and then she’ll look back and know Lord that You were always in control. It’s in Your name we pray. Amen.
Hi Daily Audio Bible family, I am a new, I’ve only been listening for two months and I guess I’ll go by Zion Lion for now. This is hard for me to do because I’ve never asked anyone to pray for me before, but I’ve been reading the Scriptures and I know we are encouraged to share our hearts with our fellow believers and to pray for one another. Listening to all of you, especially Rebecca has given me the courage to ask for help from you brothers and sisters and confess my heart. I’m 32 years old and for my entire life I have been abused in my relationship with my parents. Because of the abuse I’ve had to estrange myself and one-year-old son for my parents. I’ve been estranged multiple times since I was the age of 19 but now it’s permanent. I have such a hard time with this Lord because I know You want us to love and forgive but I cannot put my son in danger or let him to be as abused as I was. I have so much anger and pain in my heart Lord and I don’t want it there. I want to be able to forgive my parents especially my mother. I also want to know Lord that it’s really okay from me to protect myself and my son and that I am not breaking a commandment or not being a child of Christ. I don’t want to feel guilty because even though they have hurt me Lord I know they too are hurt too, and I do feel sad for them. Please help me find peace and forgiveness and let go of this anger Lord and please help them. Lord I thank You. Thank you everyone for listening to me and for your prayers. This community is changing my life. I love you all. Blessings to each of you. Zion lion.