Numbers 4:1-5:31, Mark 12:18-37, Psalms 48:1-14, Proverbs 10:26
Today is the 5th day of March welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I am Brian it is wonderful to be here with you today as we round the corner on another week and head toward home. We’ve reading from the Amplified Bible this week, which…which is what we’ll continue to do through the end of the week, which is…like, which is officially tomorrow. So, let’s dive in. Numbers chapters 4 and 5 today.
Commentary:
Okay. So, let’s talk about the proverb as we conclude our week. I have a habit of a little swig of apple cider vinegar in the morning almost every day and that will wake you up in a hurry. I have also been around campfires where the wind has shifted and blown the smoke directly into my face and into my eyes and I have some challenges in that area and so can quickly become irritated. I’m sure I’m not the only one. According to the voice of wisdom found in the book of Proverbs those are examples for what it is like to have essentially a lazy employee, somebody that you are counting on to accomplish something, but they are lazy, and you send them to do this thing and they end up being like a swig of vinegar or smoke in the eyes. So, just imagine going to your pantry and getting whatever vinegar you have and, yeah, just unscrew the cap and take a nice big swig. What does that set off? It’s a sharp taste. It's…it’s irritating. Like it causes us to squint. We might involuntary… involuntary shake our heads back and forth like we bit a lemon or something. It’s not the kind reaction where you go like, “ah, that’s what I needed”, like a bowl of chicken soup when you’re not feeling well. It’s like the opposite of that or having smoke in your eyes is blowing in your face until your eyes are all red and watering and you’re trying to wash them out and the irritation won’t go away. That’s what it’s like to have an unconscientiously lazy person doing work for you. So, we should think about this. Certainly, as we just have but we should also think about this in terms of our own lives. What kind of worker are we? Like are we that person who is trying to show up because we have to pay the bills, but we hate the place that we work and so we’re doing everything conceivable to do as little as possible, just enough…just enough to keep us from losing that job or just completely distracted. Our minds are somewhere else almost all the time and we’re not conscientious and we’re not paying attention to the things that we’re getting paid to do. Basically, what needs to be done, needs to be done or it wouldn’t have been assigned. And or it needs to be done right or somebody else has to then go behind and do it right, if not, it's…it’s incomplete and it’s going to fall apart, whatever it is. So we can see why that would be like a swig of vinegar, smoke in the eyes. Is that who we are? Is that what we do in the name of Jesus every day that we get up and go to the office? If so, then, yeah, then we’re causing this reaction. It may be unspoken but it is being observed. We’re causing this acrid, bitter, pungent reaction. And, so, the deeper truth here with wisdom is that that’s not going to go anywhere. That is not a long-term strategy that will get us anywhere in life. And, so, as we move out of our work week today, go through the weekend and prepare for the next shiny sparkly new week maybe this is something to carry around and consider over the next couple of days. Are we causing those kinds of reactions in the places that we work in people that we interact with or are we on the receiving end of that and maybe it’s gone on long enough? Maybe it’s not going anywhere for anybody. Some things to think about.
Prayer:
Holy Spirit come. Come into those things. No matter what side of the coin we may consider this from it still does invite us forward into doing something about it. Like it’s an untenable situation. And, so, Holy Spirit, come lead us forward that we might reclaim lost time that can then be devoted to Your service in this world. Come Jesus we pray. In Your mighty name, we ask. Amen.
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Community Prayer and Praise:
Hey DAB family it’s Doctor John from Jordan New York calling in for our anonymous 29-year-old mom with postpartum depression and a 3-month-old. Dear, you are not alone and not just in the spiritual sense where we’re all around you and praying for you, but in the sense that this is something very common. You may not know this but I’m a family doctor and I deliver babies and so I do deal with postpartum depression unfortunately quite a bit. Part of this is a spiritual battle and that’s the part where you’ve got to understand what you’re fighting against so that you can fight back. And you need to fight back. So, Satan and his minions, his demons are going to come against you and they’re going to say you’re fat, you’re ugly, you’re stupid, you’re worthless, it’s useless, nobody loves you, no one cares about you, you might as well die. But you need to tell Satan and his demons to shut up and you do that in Jesus’ name. In Jesus name I command you to be silent. And that is how you get those voices out of your head that just keep hammering away making you hurt and making you feel worthless. Also finding a good Christian counselor can be very, very helpful. So, you’ve got this. Medication can be very helpful. I use that quite a bit. But prayer and fighting against Satan and the evil spirits that are trying to tear your down, that’s where you get over this. We love you. You’ve got this. Let us know how you’re doing. Peace and love. Doctor John from Jordan New York. Bye-bye.
Hello, my name is Lynn I really just found out about the Daily Audio Bible maybe in the last six months and I want to say I have enjoyed listening and hearing the prayers of the people praying for the requests that have been made. I am calling to leave a prayer request. It’s for myself, it’s for my daughter, her family. She has a really rocky marriage. I mean really rocky marriage and I try helping her with the kids as…as much as I can. I babysit them every day four children 8 years old and under geared. One is on the autism spectrum and the baby being one. And the…the relationship between my daughter and her husband is just…it’s just really, really heartbreaking. And I guess I’m calling because I would like to see God move on their behalf and…and also for myself because it’s hard for me to watch what’s going on daily to my grandchildren and what’s going on to my daughter because my…my…my son in law is not an attentive husband or is he an attentive father. And I’m not saying that all the blame is being pieced on him and I know that people can’t give what they don’t have but I’m just asking that, you know, that…that I would be prayed for, that my daughter would be prayed for, her children and my son in law as well for his salvation in particular. So, thank you so much Daily Audio Bible listeners and prayer warriors. And thank you to Brian and his family for allowing themselves to be used by God in this way. Thanks.
Hi this is Maria and I’m a follower of Jesus and I’ve listened to DAB the DAB for several years now. I just thank you so much Brian and family for doing all of this. I just love this community it’s been such a blessing in my life, and I thank you and I’m calling for the first time. I’ve made three recordings but I’m trying to get through a recording without crying. So, I just need prayer for my daughter who’s 26 her name is Taylor and about a year and a half ago she met a guy who groomed her and fed her drugs and started trafficking her and by the time we figured out what was going on she was knee deep in this darkness and we could not pull her out. She didn’t even want to get out. She's…so she’s completely in love with this pimp boyfriend and she’s working a massage parlor living in a hotel and the massage parlor is a prostitution ring. And I feel so hopeless. I need prayer for my daughter. I need her to come back to Jesus and…and I just…there’s a missionary team that…that’s decided to take on her case. They do go in after these girls and they’re gonna…his name is Andrew he’s getting a team together to go and get her out, to try to reach out to her and get her out of there. Please pray for his team and please pray for Taylor’s heart to be prepared. And I just thank you so much you guys. I love you so much and I pray for you. Whenever I listen to the prayers, I pray for you. My heart is always so tender towards you guys.
Hey DABbers, this is Micah in Awe in the Kansas City area. I just wanted to call and shed some light on conviction versus condemnation. One is from God one is from Satan. Biola from Maryland touched on this the other day and I caught a piece of it and I realized, like last night when I was trying to go to bed my thoughts were racing and I kept thinking about I was screwing up in different ways, that the sins that I’ve done lately popped into my mind. And I felt a feeling of hopelessness like it was in my tired state. Like now that I’m sober minded and awake I realize that it was condemnation from the enemy. It was Satan straight up in my ear telling me all the ways I’m a screw up and that I’m hopeless like all those parts of the Bible where God is putting His wrath on people and destroying people and that’s me now, you know, like that’s what I was thinking last night, like I’m under this wrath. Like, but now that I’m sober minded I realized that was from the enemy. And when I receive conviction from God it’s different, it’s a knowledge of the sin that I’ve done and it’s a way to renew myself from it, like to repent from it, to turn from it, to do…to apologize to whoever…to do better, right? But when it’s from Satan the condemnation then it’s a feeling of hopelessness, it’s a feeling of you…you’re a screw up, you can’t fix it, you’re under the wrath of God, you’re going to hell. That’s what kind of nation feels like, right? So, I want all of you to be able to pinpoint that when it happens to you so that you don’t fall victim to this. Know that you…you will receive conviction but that’s good, that’s good. That’s means God is watching you and He’s working with you. Condemnation, you don’t even need to listen to it. I love you guys. Hang in there.
Hello DAB family it’s Julie from southern Illinois longtime listener first time caller. I want to thank Adrian from Washington DC for her encouraging words and openly thanking God this morning. I’m so glad she’s made so much progress. I too want to thank God for all He has done for me in my life. But at present my husband of 20 years has asked me for a divorce and I’m lost but I know God has a plan, I trust God and I know I will come through this all the better. Please pray family that I continue to praise and thank God through this. Adrian, again thank you so very, very much. I’m lifting you up in my prayers. DAB family have a blessed day.
Good morning Daily Audio Bible community today is March the 3rd and my name is D calling from New York. I’m a first-time caller, three-year listener. I actively pray for everyone. I listen daily, just never ever called in. Today I’m calling for prayer requests as I was recently diagnosed with covid and so was my son. Thank God we’re both experiencing mild enough symptoms and I trust God that we are going to get through this just fine. So, the reason for my prayer request is for my husband who though still awaits his covid test result has begun to experience symptoms. They are a little bit more intense than my sons and I and so because he has underlying conditions that are likely to complicate things for him, I’m really hoping for your prayers. And I pray that God would strengthen his body and his immune system so that he’s able to fight this off and get through it fine. Thanks in advance for your prayers for all three of us but especially for my husband. Thank you.