Month: March 2021

Deuteronomy 3-4

Welcome to DABC Daily Audio Bible Chronological, it’s the 12th day of March and we are journeying through the Bible chronologically together. I’m Jill. It’s so wonderful to be on this journey with you. Truly is my joy to get up and read with you every single day. We started in the book of Deuteronomy yesterday, and it’s a little bit of a recap so far. So we’re gonna turn the page and see what the story brings, what the word of God speaks to us today, and what we can maybe even identify in our own stories, our own lives in the pages of the word of God. We’re reading Deuteronomy chapters three and four today, and we are in the New International version this week.

Commentary:

Our reading continues today with Moses reminding the Israelites of where they have been, where they are going, and to remember and my favorite part is when he reminded them of who God is today. I mean, just listen to the poetry in this line. Ask now about the former days long before your time from the day God created human beings on the Earth. Ask from one end of the heavens to the other, has anything so great as this ever happened, or has anything like it ever been heard of? Has any other people heard the voice of God speaking out of fire as you have and lived? Has any god ever tried to take for himself one nation out of another nation by testings, by signs and wonders, by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, or by great and awesome deeds like all the things the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your very eyes. You were shown these things so that you might know that the Lord is God, besides him there is no other. From heaven He made you hear his voice to discipline you. On Earth he showed you his great fire, and you heard his words from out of the fire. Because he loved your ancestors and chose their descendants after them he brought you out of Egypt by his presence and his great strength to drive out before you nations greater and stronger than you and to bring you into their land, to give it to you for your inheritance as it is today. Acknowledge and take to heart this day that the Lord is God in heaven above and on the earth below. There is no other. Keep his decrees and commands, which I am giving you today so that it may go well with you and your children after you, and that you may live long in the land. The Lord, your God gives you for all time.

Prayer:

Almighty God, there are not adequate words to describe you. So today we will just sit in the wonder and the all and reflect and remember on who you are, not what you’ve done, but who you are. And in my feeble attempt at trying to describe who you are and by saying God is and going on with a list of things, I today sit with the fact that God is period. God you are, you have always been and you will always be. And you are love and love is you. And there are days that I am blown away by who you are and today is just one of them. You are good, loving, kind and true, faithful and just, righteous, jealous for us. You are intimate and personal. You are right on time. You are enough. And you love us enough to create us in the image of you. Holy are you God. We reverence you right here in this moment right now. In the name of the father, and the son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen. 

Numbers 16:41-18:32, Mark 16:1-20, Psalms 55:1-23, Proverbs 11:7

Today is the 12^th day of March welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I am Brian it’s great to be here with you today as we continue our journey, the journey that leads us through the Bible in a year. And we’re well on our way in that journey. But there is so much out in front of us to experience and see. And, so, we have a grateful heart for the distance that we’ve traveled and the things we’ve learned so far. But we also have a grateful, an anticipation, a grateful anticipation, for all that is yet to…to be, all it is out in front of us. But we’re here. We’re right here right now. And, so, the next step forward is before us. We’ve been reading from the New International Version this week. Picking up from yesterday. Numbers chapter 16 verse 41 through 18 verse 32.

Prayer:

Father, we thank You for Your word. And as we bring to a close the second of the gospel narratives, the book of Mark, we thank You for the witness to Your life and to Your ministry and to Your personality and to Your posture. We’ve witnessed Your determination to bring the truth out into the open and that the false be eradicated. And yet we’re 2000 years in the future and we’re still in the same struggle. And, so, come Holy Spirit You have promised to lead us into all truth and yet so often we choose to veil ourselves in something false because we’re naked and ashamed and running because we’re afraid to be exposed. And so often that comes because we…we’re ashamed. And maybe for good reason. Maybe we have plenty of things that we’ve been involved in while bearing Your name that we shouldn’t have been involved in, and were they exposed we would be ashamed. But we’re here with open hands and open hearts saying remove these things from us, reveal these things to us, reorganize our lives, bring us back into complete alignment so that we are who we are supposed to be, and we have nothing to hide, we are true, we are true and righteous before You. Come Holy Spirit we pray. Make us more like Jesus, that we might be conformed to his likeness, that we would be Christ like, that we would be like Christ. Come Jesus we pray. In Your precious name, we ask. Amen.

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Community Prayer and Praise:

Hello, my dear DAB family this is Maria Missionary in Mexico. So, as you know we are here to be a service to the people the missionaries who work among the native indigenous people groups here. A lot of people ask, “why are you in Mexico? Isn’t it a reached country already?” You know what? Missions has evolved through the years and I think of the old days people just kind of thought that if they came spoke the national language to…to the native people, that they would understand, get saved, and that would be that but it just didn’t work out like that and a lot of the people have…have syncretism, which is they took Christianity just kind of what they understood of it which wasn’t a lot and mixed it with their native beliefs. And, so, for example in the Guataheal tribe they believe that the sun in the sky is god the moon is his wife and they had two children, they had Satan and Jesus and Satan is the older brother. They are the children of god and the rest of us in the world are the rest children are the devil. And their god only speaks Guataheal, he doesn’t speak Spanish or any other language. So, if you go to them and tell them we have a message for you from God in Spanish well you can imagine they automatically dismiss you because it doesn’t make sense to them culturally. So, that’s just a little bit of a taste of what missionaries that work among native groups face as they translate the Bible and love these people and help them with their physical needs and plant churches. So, please be praying. Please be praying for missionaries who do work among them, that they would have wisdom, and that…that hearts would be open to hear the truth. Also praise the Lord with us that there is a church now among the Guadaheal people, a young church and that there are missionaries from among them as well helping with the translation and one lady and her husband are reaching out to an entirely new tribe for her. So, that’s really exciting.

Hey neighbors it’s Lisa the Encourager. Today I want to reach out to Maria and her daughter Taylor. And I heard your story and it really gripped me. And I just can’t even imagine what your heart must be feeling every day thinking about your sweet Taylor that you gave birth to and you never dreamed that something so awful could happen to her. And I just pray tonight especially for Taylor and I just want you to know that my heart aches for you and I know that God is gonna be able to see this through for you and I am going to pray now. Dear God thank You for Maria and thank You for her being brave to call us this evening and tell us about Taylor and Taylor’s story Lord. And we know that You love Taylor so much and You do not want this for her life. And God thank You so much for the ministry of the men that are going to intervene in Taylor’s life and do their best to take her out of the horrible situation with somebody. And I pray God that that will be successful. I thank You so much for the bravery of those men and I just pray that they will be…and women…I pray that they will be able to convince Taylor to leave and that You will just break her heart and help her to give up and surrender to You Lord. And I just pray God that You will forgive her and help her to get her life back and lead her with the Holy Spirit back to You.

Hello DAB family this is Greg from Bothell. I…I’ve called before for…for my own prayer requests but today I just feel led to…to reach out and…and let some DABbers know that I'm…I’m listening to…to your requests and I want to just take the time to acknowledge you all. Just I’ve been behind a little bit and I’m going through the 5th of…of…of March and I listened to Lynn and her family, her grandchildren, her four grown children and her daughter and this unbeliever husband that’s inattentive. I just I’m going pray that Lord Jesus just will open his eyes and…and…and…and reveal himself to…to this this family and this father that…that…that he will take care of you and…and keep you in…in…in his loving arms. Maria follower of Jesus, daughter Taylor 26 that’s in this…this relationship with this man that’s pimped her out and she's…she’s involved in drugs and prostitution and this massage parlor and…and…and team Andrew that’s going in to rescue her. O Lord Jesus just…I just pray for Taylor and Maria and Andrew that You would…that You would be there in the midst this that You would come Lord. O my God Lord rescue Taylor and bring her home. O Lord Jesus and…and…and Julie in southern Illinois, your marriage, that God God…that God use you and He knows your heart and He knows your husband’s heart. And Lord I just pray that You rescue Julie in her desperation and her sadness. In her loneliness she says she’s lost…

Good morning DAB. Good morning DAB family it’s Nadene calling from East to Midwest praises to God. Woo…out of breath…I just lifted something, but anyway praises to God. This morning as I was listening to Brian March 9^th and listening to the prayer requests. There’s so much I could pray for. And add to all who had prayed for all the others…others who had asked for prayer I just want to say DAB family we are a strong bunch. I mean those who are going through things right now it’s so difficult. And, you know, of course I won’t make light of it, but we are winning. You are on a winning team. It’s a fixed fight and we’ve already won the fight. God is so good and I just love the fact that this DAB team is getting stronger and bolder and we are praying in faith and we are believing in faith and we’re gonna to win. We’re gonna win. So, let’s keep our eyes with eyes looked to eternity and from eternity because it’s just one big story, God’s story and we are blessed to be a part of it. It’s not an easy…not an easy journey. Once you become, you know, a follower of Jesus we have a target on our back and somehow, it’s an honor to know that the enemy feels that…feels that we are such a threat. Anyway, God bless you everybody and I just wanted to put my log in the fire. Nadene from East to Midwest. God bless.

Hello Daily Audio Bible community my name is Kelly from Boston Mass and I called in last fall. My husband and I have been separated for almost a year. It’ll be a year this month and I called in for prayers of reconciliation and restoration in healing. And we had our first grandchild that was due to arrive or did arrive on New Year’s Day. So, it was a beautiful way to start the 2021 year out. We celebrated our 32^nd wedding anniversary last Thursday night. Ironically, I was listening to Brian because it was his anniversary with DAB. And it was…it just breathed some life into me that there might be some light or some kind of shift in my husband’s heart for us to restore our marriage. I can feel little nudges from God here and there and I’m trying to pay attention to them. We have a long way to go but I just want prayers from all of you if you can that this 32 year marriage can be saved. We hadn’t seen each other in a couple of months, and we had very little communication, but it was probably one of the nicer anniversary dinners we’ve had in many years. So, again I’m just praying and hopeful that God will find our way…help us find our way back to each other and have a healing and happy second half to our marriage and a beautiful ending together with our first grandson born on New Year’s Day. I appreciate the prayers and I pray for you all on a daily basis. I love this app. Thank you.

Good morning family it is Wednesday March 10^th. Good morning good morning. I’m calling in a prayer request anonymously. Hence, I have gotten myself into a pickle. I have taken my eyes off Christ and put them on myself and what I want and what I desire and who I desire and how I can get what I want. And spoiler alert it’s a hot mess. O my goodness friends and family, turns out when you take your eyes off Christ and you focus only on yourself it’s harmful and sin is the result and sin damages relationships. And, so, I’m watching the fallout of all these relationships be harmed because I took my eyes off God and put them on myself. Friends, cautionary tale. If you would lift me up and just really help me put my eyes back on God and what He wants and the work He has for me and prayers for the healing of the relationships I’ve damaged through my sin. Thank you, friends and family. Peace to you.

Numbers 15:17-16:40, Mark 15:1-47, Psalms 54:1-7, Proverbs 11:5-6

Today is the 11^th day of March welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I am Brian it is always a great day when we get to get together like this, come around the Global Campfire, find our place, step out of whatever’s going on and just let the Scriptures speak. And, so, let’s let the Scriptures speak. We’re reading from the New International Version this week, picking up where we left off yesterday back into the book of numbers and just remembering what has happened. Spies have been sent into the land, the people have moved out, it’s time to go into the land, but a bad report comes back. And, so, they are disqualified and now an entire generation will spend the rest of their lives in the wilderness while their children grow up and then it will be their job to go into the promised land. And, so, we’ll turn into some areas now where we feel like we’re reviewing things - additional laws, a reaffirming of laws, a rehearing of laws. This is because we have a shifting of generations that is taking place. Numbers chapter 15 verse 17 through 16 verse 40.

Commentary:

Okay. So, in the book of Mark today, we covered the territory that includes the crucifixion of Jesus, His death, and before that brutal mistreatment and mockery. And this culminates with Jesus hanging from the cross having been crucified. So, He’s got nails affixing Him to beams where He’s hanging waiting for death to come and He cries out in a loud voice, “my God my God why, why, why have you forsaken me?” And, so, let's…let’s just work our way to that point by just looking back at the last days of Jesus. We…we remember Jesus, walking through Jericho and healing blind Bartimaeus while He’s on His way to Jerusalem. We…we…we know that Jesus knew what was going to happen because He kept telling His disciples what was going to happen. And, so, He heals blind Bartimaeus as He passes through Jerusalem knowing that He’s 18 miles away from His death, an uphill climb to Jerusalem. And as He is on that walk, we remember some of the disciples coming around Him arguing who’s the greatest and can they have a position with Him on the left and on the right. And we see Jesus loving and caring for them but understanding that what’s about to happen is beyond them. They really do expect the Messiah to cause a revolt and overthrow the corruption and overthrow the government. So, you…I mean…how could we put ourselves in the position of the Savior in that moment, but we can think about it, at least, we can consider it, at least, we can consider what it might be like if we knew that we were going to be dying. And none of us want to think about that, but if we knew that we were going to be dying in the next couple of days and our friends or family, they come around us asking for things, we might find that to be isolating, we might find that to be tremendously lonely. Like nobody actually does understand what we’re going through. We read the story of the Last Supper the Jesus had and we certainly know that this is where the Eucharist or communion originated and comes from, this tradition that we carry on until this day. But Jesus had this last meal, and that’s the thing. It was the Last Supper. It’s called that because of some huge theological meaning. It’s the last meal. It’s the last meal before the suffering and He’s having that meal with the one who is betraying Him to death. So, you have to wonder, like what is that like? Usually we find out we’re betrayed and it causes a big battle and there’s broken relationships and all that but He’s like sitting there enduring it, even inviting His betrayer to partake…take of the cup. We could say Jesus is enduring the betrayal. And anyone…and I think everyone in the sound of my voice at least understands the concept of betrayal, but many of us have been betrayed in some sort of way in our lives. And, so, we know the isolation in that and the depression in that, the uncertainty, sort of the shift of what we thought was real being tipped upside down. Jesus is enduring all of this. This is all part of the makeup of a fully human and fully God being upon the earth. We’ve followed Jesus into the garden of Gethsemane now a couple of times in Matthew and Mark and we see Him crying out to God very, very human prayer, very human prayer, “if there’s any way that we don’t have to do what we’re about to do that would be great. Like, is there any way the cup can pass? If there’s any way that I don’t have to do what I’m being sent to do, if it…if it can go away or if there’s some other way…but not my will but yours.” And, so, we’ve seen Jesus sweating it out. Like He’s in anguish in the garden of Gethsemane, anguish - a very human thing to experience. And then the time comes, and the mob shows up and the kiss of betrayal and the binding of the hands and freedom is taken. And Jesus, the Divine One made flash has lost His freedom and He’s willingly going. And then we go in before the high priest and all of the accusations. And let’s imagine that this is taking place at night and that it goes the deep, deep into the night until exhaustion sets in. And we know that when we’re being yelled at and we’re exhausted at the same time, the feelings, the emotions involved in that are so isolating and so confusing and so upside down. And Jesus is being falsely accused and He’s taking it. He’s not saying anything back. He’s listening. He’s taking everything that they’re trying to concoct against Him. They’re verbally abusing Him for hours. And some of us have experienced this in some sort of way or another. We…we get the concept if…if not like the whole thing if we don’t understand exactly what it’s like to be verbally abused. But for hours. But then…then they judge Him. He tells the truth about who He is and then they call Him a blasphemer and they start beating Him and blindfolding Him and tearing out His beard. We can read these things as if they don’t hurt, as if He doesn’t really feel them, somehow, He’s above it, somehow, He’s aloof, somehow, He’s not really enduring it, somehow, it’s not really what it appears to be. If they grabbed His whiskers and yanked, then it would hurt. If they spit upon Him which the Bible says that they did, it would drip off His nose, it would drip down into His beard. Like, let’s not make this what it’s not, let’s make it what it is. This is what He’s doing. This is what He’s going through. And like I said, we can’t really put ourselves in that position but we can imagine just briefly what the emotions might be inside of us if this is what we were enduring. And after being smacked around and beaten up then He’s given over to the Romans who…who professionally beat Him until He's…He’s a bloodied pulp gasping for breath trying to endure every frayed nerve that is screaming agony. And then He tries to carry this cross and He gets some help. But in the end, the cross gets to where it’s going, up on the hill of Golgotha where they strip Him, humiliate Him and nail Him to beams and hang Him to die. So, when we get to this moment where He’s like, “my God, why have you forsaken me?” Well, we can understand the path that brought Him to that moment just before His death. And I know. All my life I’ve heard the theological explanations for the “why have you forsaken me, my God, my God.” The thing is, it’s theological conjecture. It’s trying to solve a problem when it’s not inherently explained. So, it is what it is. We take it at the face value. We take the words at what they say that He hung from this cross and He cried out. It’s why, which is so human. I don't…I don’t even…I wouldn’t even know where to begin to count the times that I’ve said that to God over the course of my life and I know I’m not alone. It’s sort of the question we end up at with all the time, “like why is this happening?” So, I don’t think that God was confused about what was going on. I don’t think Jesus was confused but I think He was feeling the things that human beings feel because He chose to descend, to condescend Himself, to reduce Himself, to become one of us, to show us in person the way that we should go and to call out the truth and model life for us in person, experiencing what we experience in all points except for without sin. So, He would experience what any human being would experience, which brings us to the big point here. We’re looking at Jesus died on the cross and this is the second time we’ve crossed this territory in our readings for this year, but if we just simply look back over the last few days of Jesus life and the things that transpired, the things that He had to deal with physically, spiritually and emotionally we would realize that we really don’t have anything to hold onto when we are crying out to God that He doesn’t understand what we’re going through. Probably more accurately is that we can’t understand what He went through, but He certainly understands what we go through. And, so, the cross certainly means a lot of things to us, as believers in Jesus. It is pivotal, it is irreplaceable in the Christian faith and in our story, but one thing that it should tell us very clearly is that God does understand. So, my suggestion or word of advice, or whatever you want to call it is, that we just don’t go there anymore. It's…it’s not true. God understands all of it. He’s the only one that understands all of what you’ve been through, all that you’re going through, anything that you might go through, things that you’ve had to endure that have left scars, things that you desire that are just out of reach, brokenness that’s too painful really to even think about. This is the thing about this story. This is the thing about the gospel, is that Jesus came to rescue us eternally, but also, He came to identify with us personally. And when we kind of hurl these why questions - I don’t get it, You don’t understand - all of this stuff that gets built up and that we say or at least feel or think, it’s not true. And that only estranges us, that only puts up a wall between us and the only one who actually does get it. So, we’ve been in this season, a season known as Lent. We’re still in that season. It ends the Saturday before Easter, so April 2^nd I believe. This is the time, a season, an actual season to meditate upon and consider these things deeply, not just quickly, not just surface, but to actually take 40 days to contemplate and sit with them and meditate upon them and open ourselves completely to God in every conceivable way, maybe even fasting so that every time we have a craving that we can consider what we’re doing to remind us of what’s happening or opening ourselves fully to God so that He can rearrange us in any way that we need so that there’s nothing off-limits to Him because He does understand us and we do put our hope and faith in Him and Him alone utterly. So, this is a really good time then to look at what’s happening here and look at the humanity of Jesus and understand that he does understand what we’re going through and that we would be lying if we claimed that He didn’t. And, so, we should never put that between us and Him ever again because He does know.

Prayer:

Jesus, we confess. We have said it more times than we can count. We have come to You with misunderstandings. We have come with estrangement. We’re angry with You that You didn’t show up in the way we wanted You to, or You don’t understand what we’re going through or the depths of the blackness of what we’re facing, or that You just couldn’t possibly understand the depths of the human experience. And yet that’s not true. You do indeed understand the depths and blackness and darkness of the human experience. We just bore witness to it with what we read in the book of Mark today. You understand. And, so, we’re sorry that we’ve used that, that we’ve hurled that. Like when we face You hanging on a cross on our behalf and then we think of the insults that we’ve hurled or the accusations that we’ve leveled at You, that You couldn’t possibly understand what we’re going through, O it’s embarrassing, it’s humiliating. This is what we should feel, sorry. We should feel sorry. We should repent. We should turn and go the other way and never come this way again. And, so, this is our prayer, and this is our declaration. We will never accuse You of not understanding us, never again. It’s not true and it only divides us. It pulls us away from each other, where it’s only going to get more destructive in our lives. So, we’re clinging to You and we’re inviting You as we continue through this season of lament and repentance to show us, Holy Spirit come. What are the ways, what are the places inside of us that we’re still walling off, that we’re still withholding from You? We want to move through this season and give everything to You. Come Holy Spirit we pray. In the name of Jesus, we ask. Amen.

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Community Prayer and Praise:

Good morning DAB family God bless you all. Guinn from Texas you had called in for a father who has one son in jail and the other homeless and you also mentioned how you had a son who is in jail and you know he had experienced an…an encounter with the Lord and is saved although you lost him late along in a motorcycle accident. First of all, I’m sorry about your loss Guinn but I’m grateful that you got to know the Lord. And for father that you called in for I am praying for him. I am praying in the name of Jesus that both your sons are going to come to know the Lord in the name of Jesus. I am believing in the name of Jesus not only are they going to come to the Lord they are also going to be a witness to the Lord in the name of Jesus. That the one who’s incarcerated will be able to witness the gospel to others in the name of Jesus. And the one who is homeless will be returning home in the name of Jesus. Melissa from Alabama I am sorry for the loss of your friend your dentist doctor Kirby. I am believing and praying that his wife and kids are going to be comforted as well as you and all those who have survived him in the name of Jesus. Lynn newbie your daughter’s marriage rocky marriage that is and I am praying for her in the name of Jesus I am praying for all things that are not of God in that marriage to be bound in the name of Jesus I am believing for restoration in the name of Jesus I am believing for assistance with the four children. You know, especially the ones with the special needs I am believing in the name of Jesus. Maria first time caller long listener your daughter Taylor 26 years old I am binding that in the name of Jesus I am binding everything that is attacking and restraining her away from the Lord in the name of Jesus God bless you all. Esther…

Hello this is Michael Gene Elmore from way out West. We had a couple of praise reports. And first one is about my wife Terry…Terry Elmore she’s been working the last couple years in a Christian school as a teacher’s assistant for the preschool kids and it has just been wonderful. I mean it’s really just blessed her life and really been a great thing for her and for the kids that she get to teach these kids about Jesus teach them how to spell their name tie their shoes and do all this basic stuff and she just absolutely loves it. And another praise report is about my daughter. My oldest daughter Jessica has told me that she’s been listening to the Daily Audio Bible since the first of the year and she’s got a couple kids and stuff and I think they’re listening to the…I think they are listening to Zeke the kids are too. So, just really really an answer to many of my prayers and stuff. I’m also praying for all these people on here. I…I listen to all of the requests and some of ‘em just really touch my heart. I mean this lady that said that her husband she overheard that her husband’s leaving her and I’m praying for her and praying for him to come to his right mind and change his mind and repent. And all the people who are sick and so forth, I pray for em’ every day and and I love you people love this family, the Daily Audio Bible. Adios.

Hi family this is Biola from Maryland I hope you’re all doing well. Brian And Jill God bless you, God bless you for this powerful ministry that is a ministry to thousands around the world. Family when you do think of Daily Audio Bible and you throw your log into the campfire remember to give. This is very important for continuity. I want to pay for the young lady that called in dealing with postpartum depression. Doctor John from New York give you an excellent, excellent advice. Sister I want to direct you to 2 Corinthians 10:3-5 that tells you how to fight. Like doctor John said, every time those evil thoughts come to your head just take them captive like prisoners of war, pull them down in the name of Jesus. Hold them captive to the obedience of Christ. And right now, I come against every contrary voice that is disturbing you that is harassing you. I bind you foul spirits in the name of Jesus. Sister I want you to listen to doctor John’s advice, excellent advice. And I want to pray for Lynn. I want to pray for your daughter, her situation and your son in law. Father I pray that you will arrest this young man’s heart O God Lord, that You will arrest his heart for You, that You will break his heart, make it tender for You, let him come to know You. And I pray for deliverance oh God for Lynn’s daughter in this situation in the name of Jesus, that you will reconcile them, reconcile their marriage in Jesus’ name. Maria, I heard your heartbreaking prayer request. I pray for Taylor. O Father Lord I break the hold of the enemy over Taylor’s life in the name of Jesus. Father Lord of heaven I pray that You would deliver this Young lady, soften her heart for You, Holy Spirit pursue her diligently. Let Andrew and his team, let them be successful in the name of Jesus. And Lastly, Julie I’m praying for you in your situation that the Lord will step in and take…

Hi, my name is Amy I’m calling from Vancouver Canada and I am so grateful for this Daily Audio Bible. Brian I discovered it back in the fall and countless days of pure joy and that the scriptures have just come alive through your voice and through…through God in…in you. Thank you very much for that. Thank you to the community for your prayers for your encouragement for one another. I have realized that there is a family out there that is worldwide and just God’s Angels everywhere is incredible. I’ve had the opportunity to pray for so many and I thank you for that. I thank you for moving forward your prayer concerns. Today I bring you mine. I’ve been diagnosed finally, praise God, after waiting for three years to have diagnosis with a pelvic prolapse. I’ll spare you the details but it’s incredibly painful and there’s at least a two year wait list for surgery here in Canada, at least. And…and 34…and it’s really really painful. I’m off work and I want the joy of the Lord back in my step. I’m persevering, I’m continuing on. __  and…but I also pray for strength and determination too, to learn what he has for me in this season of my life so that one day I can __  and __ and encourage others as well in their own journey. Thank you so much for the prayers and the support and I…I really truly have come to love each and every one of you that I have had the opportunity to hear. Thank you so much. Wonderful…have a wonderful day. Bye bye.

Hello, DABbers this is Bianca calling from North Carolina it’s actually Sunday March 7^th at 9:07 PM __. I decided I would call in every 7^th of the month or at least try to. So, I was just calling really to say thank you to Brian and the Hardin family. I actually started to listen to DAB Kids with my son in the morning with Ezekiel and five and a half. He get really excited when Ezekiel reads by himself. And, so, that’s really awesome, those short little tidbits on the way dropping him off at school is really cool. And I’ve just been pondering a lot lately how Brian has been talking about having situations happen taking a pause and just observing for a moment before we respond. So, I just wanted to call and say that I am praying for that for myself. I definitely know that I can be quick tempered and quick to speak before I think and it’s something that I know that I’ve needed to work on but I haven’t truly invested the time and the thought into it in order to do it because it is a skill that can be learned if it is practiced. And, so, I’m just calling in today praying for that ability to take that pause before responding and try to respond from a place that’s in line with who I want to be versus who I am in that moment of frustration and inability and anger and sadness. And, so, I’m just asking for prayers for that. I’m praying for all of you as I listen through. There’s so many different things going on but just know that when your prayer is voiced and played it is heard and someone is praying for you. Thank you. I love you all and I hope you all have a wonderful week.

Hey DAB family this is David from Pennsylvania first-time caller just started listening back in January. Just wanted to call in and say thank you to all those people who have been sending in prayer and encouragement. I’m praying along with you guys and the encouragement just keeps lifting me up as I listen to them. So, thanks. I actually was touched by one caller who came in and was talking about how God still does the little things. It really hit me because in the past week I’ve been asking God, “hey can you show me something that…that you are still doing small things?” And he showed me at least three times in the past three days, “yeah I’m still doing small stuff.” So, thanks…thanks for just bringing that up again. Well…hoping to call in again soon. Bye.

Numbers 14:1-15:16, Mark 14:53-72, Psalms 53:1-6, Proverbs 11:4

Today is the 10^th day of March welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I’m Brian it is a joy and a privilege and an honor to be here with you today as we come in out of the cold and take our place around the Global…Global Campfire and just sit back find a comfortable place and know that this is a safe space for us to allow the Scriptures to speak. So, we’re reading from the New International Version this week, picking up where we left off yesterday. Numbers chapter 14 verse 1 through 15 verse 16. And just by way of reminder the children of Israel have left Mount Sinai and they have the law. They have their marching orders. They’re in formation. It’s time. It’s time for them to experience the fulfillment of the promise, the promised land, the land that has taken centuries…I mean it has taken centuries to bring them to this point. It’s time. So, they’ve sent some spies into the land to look things over. And we talked about that yesterday. They have returned and they’ve essentially said, “we can't…we can’t do it. It's…it’s a wonderful land but we can’t do it. There are giants there. The people are too strong for us. They’ll destroy us.” That’s where we find ourselves. This report has been given and now we find out what happens next. Numbers 14.

Commentary:

Okay. Let’s just work from Proverbs backward real quick. So, the Proverbs says that “riches, basically wealth, money on the day of wrath doesn’t really have value anymore.” The currency that we would need in that situation would be righteousness. So, it’s worthwhile to at least consider what it is we’re trying to store up and accumulate.

We move back into the book of Matthew and it’s very clear that we are moving back into the passion narrative of Jesus, who has been arrested and now tried and…and sentenced to die. I don’t want to be overdramatic. It’s just we only cover this territory here as we move through the Gospels. And it’s like we’ve heard the story so many times that we don’t really actually give it gravity. This is the most important story that ever was. And if there were a season of the year that has been a Christian tradition to enter into that story it would be what we’re doing now, observing the…the season of Lent and moving toward holy week and moving toward Good Friday and Easter. So, just pointing it out again. Don’t blow by it. Enter into it.

And then we move back into the book of Numbers and we see the repercussions of what the spies who came out of the promised land and reported back to the children of Israel, what happened. They came back and said, “it’s a beautiful land be we can’t take it” basically. Which discouraged the population, caused all kinds of problems, and then God gives them their instructions – “turn around and go back the way you came. Go back into the desert. Not a single adult person is going into this land.” The people had grumbled against Moses and against God by saying, “you know the…the people are too strong, God has let us out of slavery, has sustained us in the wilderness only to bring us to the threshold of this land to let us go into this land and be killed, and our wives taken, and our children taken as plunder.” That was destiny they had determined was going to happen to them. The sad thing is that those children who they thought were going to be plunder, they were supposed to grow up as the first free generation in the promised land. They were supposed to grow up there. They didn’t get to grow up there. God commanded the people into the wilderness and for 40 more years they’ll wander around the wilderness until this generation dies out and then it’s children the children who were supposed to grow up free, they’re going to have to grow up in the wilderness and then go do what their parents wouldn’t. I quote from the book of Numbers, and this is God speaking, “as for your children that you said would be taken as plunder, I will bring them into enjoy the land you have rejected. But as for you, your bodies will fall in this wilderness. your children will be shepherds here for 40 years, suffering for your unfaithfulness until the last year bodies lies in the wilderness.” So, it’s gonna be the second generation out of slavery that’d gonna take the promised land when it was time to go in. Here’s the thing. We don’t really get to leave the wilderness until we learn the lesson of the wilderness. And the wilderness teaches us there is no hope but God. We are utterly dependent upon God for the next breath and the next step forward. God had done everything to teach His people - drowning the Egyptian army in the sea, cloud by day fire by night, sustenance…food in the middle…in the middle of the wilderness. And I’ve been in that wilderness many times, that actual wilderness and its wilderness. The only hope of survival was to depend on God, which was the point, as He shaped them and formed them into a community. And they had been shaped and formed. It was time to go in and they never got to see it. This becomes the mirror into our lives when we realize how long we have wondered in the wilderness of our own lives to afraid to face the giants, to afraid to get out of it as we keep circling the wilderness getting more bitter and more angry that we can’t be delivered and that God’s keeping us down and that He’s holding us back when it is actually our fear and mistrust of Him and His timing. Because we can just decide, “I’m getting out of this wilderness. I don’t care.” And we just move forward and get wiped out. The next day the children of Israel decided they were willing to obey God after all and they got a bunch of people together to go into the promised land. And Moses told them God’s not going and you shouldn’t go either. And they just demanded their own way again and they got wiped out. We could look at all this and feel like it’s kinda harsh or maybe harsh judgment or whatever, but…but the thing is, until they learn these foundational truths as a people, they won’t…they’ll never survive. And until the foundational truths of our faith become bedrock in our lives and usually that happens in the wilderness seasons of life, until that happens, neither will we.

Prayer:

Father we invite You into this. We do not like the wilderness, we do not like endurance, we do not like hardship, we do not like challenge. We do acknowledge that those things make us strong and we can look back upon them and see that they were good for us. But in the midst of it, we can’t see anything else, but the pain. And sometimes it feels like we’ve just been wondering for so long. But maybe we’ve been wandering a lot longer than we need to or needed to. So, Holy Spirit come. Help us to learn, truly as bedrock our utter dependence upon You, so that when You determine that it is time to move out, we are ready and not questioning You. Come Holy Spirit we pray. In the name of Jesus, we ask. Amen.

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And that’s it for today. I’m Brian I love you and I’ll be waiting for you here tomorrow.

Community Prayer and Praise:

Hi this is Frances from Colorado. Hey, my sister from Nigeria what a simple but profound way of talking about God’s power. Thank you for sharing that. We all need to hear that. What God cannot do doesn’t exist. I needed to hear that, and I bet you many people on this platform needed to hear that as well today. So, thank you and welcome my sister from Nigeria. Bye.

Father God thank You for this new day. Thank You, Lord for all of the opportunities that are before us. And I pray Lord that You would give us what we need to face this day and that You would open our eyes to see those opportunities and that You’d be equipping us the best of You this day. Lord thank You for the week that has just gone. Thank You that You brought us through it. And I pray that we can find some rest on our days off, that we might be restored. And I pray that we would learn to better rest in You and to fix our eyes on You. Lord looking ahead to the summer, we lift up those outreach events that in a non covid world people would normally be planning and planning for. And I pray Lord that You would be inspiring teams and inspiring leaders and helping them think through the logistics and helping them to plan their summer outreach events or their holiday outreach events. Lord we don’t know what the summer is going to look like, whether these events can go forward as normal or whether they need to be adapted in some way or whether they’re all going to be virtual again. Whatever it looks like Lord we trust You to be at work and we trust You to be to just…just to be as You always are. Thank You, Lord. In Jesus’ name. Amen.

Hey Daily Audio Bible family this is Renzo from Maryland. I’m just hearing some of these prayer requests and I just really want to get down and pray for these people. Father God I just pray for Julie from southern Illinois for her and a husband’s relationship to be restored God. Whatever is going on just please just help the relationship to be restored and just please just help them to get closer and closer to you Lord in Jesus’ name we pray. Amen. And I just pray for Maria’s daughter Taylor to leave this abusive relationship with her boyfriend and for her mom to keep praying for her and for the people that are coming in that are trying to get out of there. Just please just help them to be led by God and just please for help Taylor’s mind to be open to see why…why she needs to leave this. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen. And I just pray for Ian and her daughter’s relationship with her husband to be restored and for her son in law salvation God. And I just please just pray for them just to get closer to you Lord. And I just please pray for T from New York. Prayers for her and her son to be free for Covid and prayers for her husband and severe symptoms Lord just please just completely heal him from that Lord. Just please completely heal him from that Lord. You’re a way maker and a miracle worker and you will heal him from this. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen. I’m praying for all of you guys. Love you guys. Jesus loves you too. God bless.

Hi DAB family my name is Leah and I’m calling outside of Detroit Michigan. Today is March 6^th and I am actually calling in response to what Brian talked about yesterday on March 5^th regarding workplaces and what type of person we are in in workplaces. Brian, I have to tell you that you are message was very spot on I guess with timing for me. I have been praying diligently that I can be changed in my work situation and that I can be utilized as a positive force for my work. Long story short I work in a government office and it is a very negative and downtrodden type of environment. And I’m not going to lie and say that I haven’t contributed to that on some level sometimes. But I have chosen through encouragement from my therapist and from DAB that I should try to be a positive person about it. So, I am asking for prayers that I can be used as an agent of change in my workplace and also that my coworkers will start to notice a difference in me and ask me about it. I love you all and I thank you for your prayers in advance. God bless.

You are everything that’s anything
and everything that’s anything is nothing without you
giving tender mercies every day made new
mold and shape this broken vessel according to your will
speak to my inner restlessness and tell it peace be still
hide me under the shadow of your wings while you mend my broken heart
fill me with your word and son while your spirit leads me to a brand new start
thank you father for not throwing me away for that’s truly what I deserve
but I’m fully committed now 100% and it’s only you that I will serve
I will lift my little light way up high and I let the whole world know
that for me there is no other way and I’m glad that it is so
for you or everything that’s anything
and everything that’s anything is nothing without you
full of tender mercies every day made new
mold and shape this broken vessel according to your will
speak to my inner restlessness and tell it peace be still
praises glory and honor forever to you are due
for giving us tender mercies for every day and made new

blindtony1016@gmail.com. I’d like to give a shout out to Michelle from LA and also to Sherlock and Kim Washington. Know you are both thought of often and prayed for daily and very much loved. And once again Brian and the Hardin family thank you for this wonderful podcast for God’s Holy Spirit to flow. Keep it flowin’ y'all. Alright. Bye-bye.

Lord thank You for Your mercy and Your grace. Thank You for Your forgiveness and Your love that You so freely lavished on us. Heavenly Father, God, You heard the cry of Your children. You know them by name Lord. You know the pain and You see each tear. Father, I pray and ask that You would put Your arms around them and comfort them O God. Remind them Lord that they are not alone, that You will never leave nor forsake them. Father God I pray that each person that is hurting Lord, thank You would just give them the strength that they need one day at a time. Do not fear for I am with you. Do not be dismayed for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you. I will uphold you with my righteous right hand. Thank You for these promises Lord. And we can…we know that God His promises are true and that we can come boldly before the throne of God and cast our burdens upon You because we know You care. Thank You for loving us. Love You Father. In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.

Numbers 11:24-13:33, Mark 14:22-52, Psalms 52:1-9, Proverbs 11:1-3

Today is the 9^th day of March welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I’m Brian it’s great to be here with you today…well…today and every day. It’s great to be here with you as we move forward on our journey through the Scriptures this year. So, let’s get into it. We’re reading from the New International Version this week and picking up where we left off yesterday in the book of Numbers. Today Numbers 11:24 through 13 verse 33.

Commentary:

Okay. So, in the book of numbers today we actually revisited a place that we have been to before. Might not have seemed like that but we have. It was several centuries ago in time, but we have been through this territory before. So, the children of Israel, obviously they were slaves in Egypt and we went through that whole story and we have seen God take them into the wilderness to reform them and reshape them. And, so, the law is given around Mount Sinai and then the children of Israel move away from Mount Sinai, like they…they get to leave in formation, as they’ve been instructed and go further into the wilderness. And we’ve seen them grumble and gripe and complain, but they’re finally in a staging area where spies have been chosen. And these are not just like, you know, flip a coin to see who gets to go in. These are ancestral family leaders chosen from among the tribes of Israel, so that each tribe has a representative, a respected representative. Again, not like they flip a coin for it. Like somebody who is known as a leader among their people and their sent in to explore the land, the land God had promised them, the land that they’re supposed to go live in. Like that’s what time it is. It’s time. They are free from slavery. They have received the law. They know how their community is supposed to be formed and now it’s time to go in. So, the spies are sent in so they can spy out land. Who’s there? What kind of food is there? What kind of soil is there? What kind of cities are there? And, so, the spies do go into the land and the spy it out and they end up at this place called the Valley of Eshkol. This is the place where they cut the grapes. Like this is the famous part where they carry on their shoulders the produce, the grapes back down and are able to demonstrate to the people, yes, this is indeed a land flowing with milk and honey. It’s more than that though. It’s not just the place where they cut down the grapes. Remember that guy Abraham? We met him. It seems like a long time ago, but it wasn’t that long ago. But in time it’s centuries ago from where we are now. Abraham’s wanderings through the land that God had promised his offspring and his wife Sarah dies and he needs to buy some land from the Hittites. He…he…he needs a place to bury Sarah. And, so, he’s able to buy this cave and this field. And this cave, this is the cave of Machpelah, it’s called in the Bible. And this cave is in a valley, the valley of Eshkol. And Abraham subsequently is buried there in the valley of Eshkol in the cave at Machpelah as well as a number of his offspring. The spies end up there where they can remember their origin story with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob. And obviously none of them had been in the land before, they just knew of the promise, they just knew of their ancestors. And, so, they’re able to go there. And this is near the city of Hebron, which is a very, very ancient city, even spoken of as an ancient city in the Bible. And it’s obviously still a city until today. But this cave Machpelah, this burial site of Abraham, this is still in existence today. So, the spies leave their, make their way back to the tribes, make their way back to the community of Israel, and they have these grapes and their able to say, “certainly this is a great land, but we can’t take it. There are giants there.” I don’t move too far ahead in the story because we’ll continue the story tomorrow and there are consequences because of this. But this is a good place to stop and ponder. Like this is a good place to pull over to the side of the road and we’re just gonna stay here pondering until we pick up our reading tomorrow because how many times have we felt the prompting and the promise of God moving us in a direction and we have all kinds of things that affirm that we are being moved and led in this direction. And, so, even wisely we explore moving in this direction only to find out that there will be obstacles moving in that direction, that there will be endurance, that there will be a challenge, that there will be hardship even, that there might even be giants in the land. And then we talk ourselves out of it. We can’t take this…it’s beautiful, it’s perfect, it’s the destiny, it's…it’s indeed where I would love to go but it can be done. There’s giants in the land and I look like a grasshopper. It’s great, but the obstacles are greater. This will have consequence for the children of Israel out in the wilderness, but it has consequence in our life as well. And considering the points at which we simply throw our hands up and surrendered to the giants in the land as opposed to the promise of God, certainly we can think about these things and wallow in guilt or shame or whatever, but that’s never the point. The point is, things could have been different and we can’t keep blaming God for things that we were to…that we were…we were too much of a coward to face down. Some things to think about today.

Prayer:

Holy Spirit come. Come into this. Begin as we continue this season where we’re moving towards Easter, but we’re really openhanded and openhearted even lamenting as we sit with…with the consequences of the choices that we have made. How often have we been a coward when we were to be courageous, strong and courageous? Help us to remember that You are the Sovereign one the Eternal one the Almighty one. And so often we’re afraid of things that aren’t You and have nothing to do with You other than that You are leading us. And we just look around and we determine that where You are leading us is not good and we are not capable when You’re simply revealing that we are because nothing is impossible with You. Come Holy Spirit we pray. In the name of Jesus, we ask. Amen.

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And that’s it for today. I’m Brian I love you and I’ll be waiting for you here tomorrow.

Community Prayer and Praise:

Morning this is March 5^th Longing to be God’s Delight in Pennsylvania. I wanted to thank the brother who called in I heard this morning to distinguish conviction and condemnation. Thank you that was wonderful. We so forget that conviction is the power of the Holy Spirit to move us forward towards hope and towards God and condemnation is Satan’s way of trying to drive us away from God and into stagnation and stuckness and darkness. But when our hearts condemn us God is greater than our hearts and He knows all things and will lift us up into His light. It is His kindness that leads us to repentance. So, thank you brother. I just wanted to say I’m praying for parents this morning. We’ve heard so many of the woman who called in with postpartum depression, the mother who’s happy that her son is in a state mental institution so he can get help for his addictions and mental issues, but for the mother whose daughter who has been seduced into drugs and prostitution essentially by a so-called boyfriend. Oh, how heartbreaking. Lord I pray for these parents. I pray for your light and for your hope and for the children to be convicted and saved, rescued from themselves, drawn back to you. And let the thunder clouds of deep dark dread that loom up overhead in our troubles would be broken by the power and glory of God and instead pour down blessings of His mercy on our heads. In Jesus’ name I pray these things. Donna in Pennsylvania.

Hi DAB family this is Tammy from the Adirondacks. I had called in last October I think it was. I had been diagnosed with ovarian cancer and my kids had been here helping. And praise God, praise report. I am in remission. But I’m still finding the emotions just so heavy. I don’t know if it’s the lack of hormones because I did a complete hysterectomy. I don’t know if it…I just don’t know what it is. There’s just been so much change and the kids aren’t coming to the house as much anymore now that back on my feet and taking care of my husband. And I’m looking for my joy. It is cold and it is just so hard. So, I’m just asking for prayers. I am so grateful and to be blessed and to serve such a wonderful God. He saved me. All the glory and honor as his. I didn’t even get sick with the chemo. I’m just…He’s a wonderful God, And I just type coming, these tears keep coming and I just need them to stop and I just…don’t know why. So, if you could just keep me in your prayers. I can’t remember all of your names, but I pray for you all. I was so happy to hear God’s Smile. You make me smile when I hear you and your kisses. So, please just keep me in your prayers DAB family. Thank you, Brian and Jill for what you’re doing because you are helping a lot of people. In God’s name. Thank you. God bless you all. Bye.

Hello DAB family this is God’s Grace for Japan. I come with what in my heart feels like a very urgent prayer request although I hesitate to say that knowing what some people are dealing with. This is actually though my…a dear friend of mine Kristen and her soul and she’s so close everyone. I’ve had the opportunity to really share my…my relationship with my savior with her with our Prince of the Kingdom and she's…I can…I’ve seen with her own face the…the falling in love and she feels it. And I know she’s closed but she has a lot of spiritual wounds and I know she’s reaching for him when I…she spoke to me one night out of the blue when I was spending the night with her expressing everything that she couldn’t believe about this Christian God and…and then I expressed to her who it was that I was with and she said to me with tears in her eyes, “I was afraid that you would say that”, meaning that I said to her the God that you desire is the one that I’m in love with. And she said, “I was afraid you would say that.” We spent the next three hours talking about Him, me telling her stories, and me…and you should have seen her eyes shining. And she’s so close but there’s still blocks there. There’s a desire there but there’s a lot of fear. I will be sending three days with her this coming week from Monday to early Wednesday. Please pray for sweet Kristin. Oh, my goodness I feel Him pulling her to Him and I know that her heart’s longing for Him but there’s a…there’s still blocks and there’s still fear and I just I don't…I’m not making a plan, I’m just trying to go in the Spirit. So, please I ask for everyone over…all over the world to pray…pray for sweet Kristen, that she will come to her Messiah her Prince. Thank you everybody. Love you. Bye.

Hi DAB family it’s James here from the UK calling in tonight for Marie and oh my goodness your story just it really broke my heart. You talked of your daughter and the fact that she has fallen into a group by…by virtue of a pimp who is…is using her and abusing her. And I don’t know why but tonight I‘m standing here under an incredible starlit sky and when I heard your call I just…I just stopped and I’m just looking up and I’m just asking God, please, I want so much for there to be a release of that Young lady, that precious daughter, Your daughter Jesus. I want justice to be done in this situation. I want truth to reign in her life. I want her to be able to see what is going on. And I pray for this man Andrew and for the team he’s putting together to try and break in. Lord in Your name Holy Spirit, in Your power You will have the victory, by one way or another You will have a victory. I pray a blessing on Marie I pray a strength, I pray a strengthening in her life that she would be able to stand firm at this time and have courage. I thank You for her, I thank You for her faith, I thank You for her daughter. Will You bring her home Jesus? Amen.

Happy birthday Brian, Jill, and China. My name is Sandy from Naples FL. I have been a member for three years now. Last December I sent an email for prayer for the first time because I was not committed, and I just want to say that all your prayers have just blessed me so much. I’ve been committed since I sent that prayer and God has blessed me and showed me many reasons why I have been trying to control things and what’s going on with my life and I can’t sure it’s too long, but I just wanted to say thank you. And those who hesitate to call in please call because people pray for you. They want to hear your prayers they want to help you and bless you. And we need each other. That’s what we’re here for. So, God bless you and thank you and happy birthday.

Hello Daily Audio Bible since God is the Great, I Am I want to be a reflection of that truth and say yes He is. So, this is Yes, He Is calling from the Cumberland plateau Tennessee. I’ve been following along about a year and been really consistent since January with listening and reading along and so thankful for this community, but I want to call in today and pray for Maria my sister in Christ who called in today with a very heavy burden for her daughter Taylor. Lord Jesus we lift Taylor up to You and we pray for her deliverance from captivity to drug addiction, prostitution Lord and this pimp who has captured her and we pray Father that You would bring to her mind remembrance of who she is in Jesus Christ. She is Your beloved child. And I pray for all deceiving lies, deceiving mouths to be stopped, to be shut, that her eyes and her ears and heart would be open to hear the truth of the Holy Spirit speaking to her about Your purpose for her life, Your great awesome love for her. I pray for the missionary team that’s going in to get her. I pray that You would make straight their path and give them a straight way to go in and I pray that You would prepare Taylors’s heart to be receptive, that she would understand that this is You reaching out to her and she would go. I pray You’d open the way of escape for her, and she would go. In the name of Jesus, I…I pray for this one. Thank you.