Month: July 2021

1 Chronicles 4:5-5:17, Acts 25:1-27, Psalm 5:1-12, Proverbs 18:19

Today is the 7th day of July, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I am Brian. It’s great to be here with you as we cross through the center of the week together and continue the journey forward, step-by-step, day by day may find ourselves in the middle of the week with this is the 7th day of the month so this is a full week into the month. Of course, today is the 7th day of July, so this is our own little family holiday that we have around here around the Global Campfire. This is the day of the Long Walk and so I’m sure I’m talking to many of you who are walking and I am very much looking forward to the same. Looking forward to seeing all of the different pictures and videos and posts that come in throughout the day. I love this time it let’s us, just little windows into each other’s lives and so enjoy your day walking with God, re-setting for the second half of the year. One of the ways we do that is step-by-step, day by day and so let’s dive in. We are reading from the English Standard Version this week, 1 Chronicles chapter 4 verse 5 through 5 verse 17 today. And just reminding us, we are moving through right now what is the famous part of the Bible, the famous genealogy part of the Bible and we talked about it. We’ve talked about how this is so they would not forget. So, that these people would be remembered and as we read through this portion of the Bible than that is exactly what’s happening there being remembered, so, 1 Chronicles chapter 4.

Commentary:

Okay, so this year we have a word ‘mend’ and as we come to this point in the book of Proverbs today’s it just gives us a very good opportunity to look at that. The Proverbs have a way of speaking a sentence that says a book worth of knowledge or wisdom. And today is, kind of like. A brother offended is more unyielding than a strong city and quarreling is like the bars of a castle. So, this starts out a brother offended. So, what is that a person who’s been offended whose carrying an offense and what is that? Well, I mean, offenses can come in a lot of different shapes. Big, small, wide, narrow they just seem to find a way to fit wherever they can fit in our lives and causes all kinds of grief, but typically they form because somehow, our territory likely has been disrespected. Boundaries have been crossed. We’ve been disrespected in some way and so we resent that and it’s that resentment that is this offense and when that happens, according to Proverbs here, a person is more unyielding than a strong city. So, in this context we’ll be talking about a walled city and if we just take our knowledge of some of the stories that we’ve read in the Bible, we have seen walled cities get attacked and we’ve seen how they get surrounded and then starved out because they can’t just, they can’t just come and break the walls down. So that’s what we become when we’re carrying an offense toward somebody. We are unyielding like a walled city, a strong city, and when we’ve been the offender and we’re trying to like, get past the walls, we use this analogy all the time. The walls have come up I can’t get through to him. I can’t get through to her. I can’t get past her walls and when we say that we’re simply saying that this proverb is very accurate. We get an offense, we put up the walls, we’re protecting ourselves, we’re withdrawing emotionally, we’re becoming aloof, we’re stepping back, these are kind of natural reactions, but if we stay inside that wall, if we stay inside that fortified city than we’re going to start starving. The offense isn’t going to get dealt with and so it’s going to rot. It’s going to boil itself down into the blackness of bitterness. Both parties at some point give up and kinda become silent and then kinda become enemies because things get replayed over and over and over in our minds, we just solidify our position and our need to be right and it becomes a mess, actually, it becomes more like an unyielding city. So, maybe we finally, there is a conversation and maybe it’s not done with humility and maybe the second part of the proverb comes true. Quarreling is like the bars of a castle. So, I mean what can we say about what we’re saying. We could say basically that carrying the resentment of an offense and then quarreling, this is a way to get locked out of a relationship altogether and interestingly enough, we probably should all already know this, you probably have all already experienced this whether we’ve ever read this Proverb before or not this Proverb is true because we’ve probably all lived it at some point or another. So, how could we seek the deeper wisdom here, like what would fix this because truly like in the sound of my voice right now some of you are in a walled city of offense and some of you are on the outside of the wall because you are the offender and you’re trying to get past the walls. This is always coming on so pretty hard for me to think that nobody knows what we’re talking about right now. So, if a brother offended is more unyielding than a strong city then perhaps the reverse applies if the offense makes the walls go up maybe be grace and repentance make the walls come down. If quarreling is like the bars of a castle, then maybe kindness, kind words, humility grace, maybe those are like the garden of the castle. This is kind of how wisdom works. There it is, there it is laid out in black and white before us. Here it is for us to read and understand and she has spoken to us at the crossroads. It’s just a matter of which way we’re going to go because we get to choose whether to listen or not but if we want mending and mending is actively getting involved and repairing. Sometimes that’s just resting and healing, but often if you want to mend something you might have to tear out what’s broken down and replace it with something that’s not. Like, if you want to mend a fence then you’re probably remove the broken pieces of wood and replace them with new ones, its work. It doesn’t just happen. So, if we have people in our lives that are like behind the walls in a strong city, cut off from us and we don’t want it to be that way, then we may have to be the agent of the mending, we may have to step into it with hat in hand, no matter what and just come with grace, come with the peace and calm of the Holy Spirit. Come not needing to be right, incredible things can happen. Walls can come down; relationships can be mended.

Prayer:

And Holy Spirit, we acknowledge that reconciliation it, this is the underpinning of the gospel story that You came even while we were Your enemies, and rescued us and reconciled us and in like fashion we need to be willing to do the same. So, come Holy Spirit, and lead us in this regard. We ask in Jesus’ name. Amen.

Announcements:

dailyaudiobible.com is home base. It’s the websites it’s where you find out what’s going on around here and really it’s the Long Walk, that’s what’s going on around here right now as we, all over the place, in one way or another, try to find moments or the whole day with God in nature somewhere beautiful, just drink it in to have that uninterrupted space to have a conversation that doesn’t, doesn’t have to have an objective, it’s just about us pouring out our hearts and having time to say everything we needed saying, conversations are reciprocal so giving space to feel the Spirit leading and guiding, directing us, comforting us. To feel our hearts opening as we relax, as we get out in nature and all of a sudden we find that there’s a lot going on in this world that we’re not paying attention to: the beauty of the leaves, the beauty of the birds and their song, and the little creatures going about their day enjoying their lives. We begin to understand there’s healing in this, the serenity brings a calm and the Lord is in it and leads us and so, yeah, enjoy that time. Enjoy that conversation, enjoy just regrouping, looking forward into the second half of the year. Looking back at the first half of the year, and making some choices about the trajectory, where were going and allowing the Holy Spirit to lead and direct us in those choices. So, yeah, enjoy that. I have mentioned for last couple of weeks about the resource called Heart: A Contemplative Journey that is a prayer, guided prayer and musical resource that you can get wherever you get your music, just like the iTunes store, like YouTube music, just search for Heart: A Contemplative Journey or search for my name and you’ll find it and that is a resource that really is a perfect accompaniment for a day like today because it begins to guide us, we would pray and open our emotions and open our heart. That’s why it’s called Heart: A Contemplative Journey, as it were opening ourselves to what we’ve been feeling and, in some cases, what we been stuffing down inside, but it still there we’re just trying to do everything we can to cover it over. In this case, were actually in a safe place in nature. Walking with God opening ourselves to his healing. So check that resource out. And also mentioning that we have a post at the Daily Audio Bible Facebook page so Facebook.com/dailyaudiobible.com is a post for the Long Walk today. So, wherever you may be in the world, walking with God, if you happen to take a picture or little video or whatever you can post that in the Long Walk post, and then we have this place we can all come to, look at the beauty of God’s creation all over the world today. And just interact, know that we were out there alone that we were not out there alone, our brothers and sisters were all over the world doing the same thing. So, we have that post ready, looking forward to that myself looking forward to that a little later this afternoon. Probably this evening but very much looking forward to it. So, check that out.

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1 Chronicles 2:18-4:4, Acts 24:1-27, Psalm 4:1-8, Proverbs 18:16-18

Today is the 6th day of July, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I’m Brian. It is awesome to be with you today around the Global Campfire as we just get situated and comfortable for our next step forward together in the Scriptures, and that will take us back into the Book of 1 Chronicles and just by way of reminder we began 1 Chronicles yesterday, we talked about that, we talked about this first part of 1 Chronicles being the famous genealogy section of the Bible and we’re reading through those names and were reading through them and giving them honor, understanding that this is the story of how we got here and these are the names of the people, each of them having their own life, their own laughter, their own tears, their own experience of life. Some of these names we can recognize because we’ve met these people and traveled through their stories. Some of them we don’t know much about but their part of, parts of families that are trying to be remembered and not forgotten because we’re reading well, Chronicles, we’re reading, reading a document from the time when people have been carried into exile and our writing things down to not forget. And so today 1 Chronicles chapter 2 verse 18 through 4 verse 4.

Commentary:

Okay so, in the book of Acts, we’re kinda moving at warp speed, day by day. So, as we’re reading through the story yesterday, we read of 40, more than 40 people, conspiring not to eat until they assassinate Paul in Jerusalem. And maybe we should even back up further. Paul on his way to Jerusalem was warned by everybody in his life, basically, not to go to Jerusalem, and Paul knew that he had a hardship in chains in front of them. And I remember that scene where he says you’re breaking my heart, all this crying, you’re breaking my heart, I have to obey God. And remember that scene where he’s talking to the leadership of the Ephesian church and he’s like “I know you will never see me again.” We went through all that, getting to Jerusalem, then Paul gets to Jerusalem and its mayhem. Right, so there’s a mob in the temple, he’s carried out by the Roman military, he’s questioned, he’s brought before the Hebrew High Council of the movers and shakers of administering the law and interpreting the law and shaping the culture. So, he comes before them and he as a Pharisee, he kind of knows the lay of the land here and so they become a divided counsel over Paul because he’s like I’m a Pharisee and I’m on trial because of because I believe in the resurrection of the dead which made all the other Pharisees go yup, we believe that to. There’s nothing wrong with this, Paul. And so, its Pharisee versus Sadducee kind of conflict and all of this is going on and then as for this group of 40 people get together to assassinate Paul and they have a plan to get Paul back before the Council and they’re going to kill them before he can ever get there. This is uncovered, it is reported, Paul is hastened out of Jerusalem under very heavy military guard, he is first taken to Antipatris which the ruins of Antipatris still exist today like there’s Roman roads going into the ruins of that city that still have chariot grooves in them. It’s a fascinating place to have walked on some of those streets and thought yup, Paul under arrest, avoiding assassination, came through here on his way to Caesarea Maritima which would have been the Roman capital of the region, very, very posh upscale Roman playground that also governed the region right on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. So, Paul gets there and it’s Felix, the Roman governor that questions Paul and there’s all these accusations coming against Paul and Paul’s defending himself and Felix understands this is a religious problem and so he’s kind of stalling a bit here and let’s just understand who we’re talking about Felix, the Roman governor held the same authority that Pontius Pilate, like he held the same position that Pontius Pilate held during Jesus’ lifetime and ministry. Felix was married to a Jewish woman. Her name is Drusilla and she was the daughter of King Herod Agrippa. This is some power we’re talking about here. According to the Book of Acts, Paul visited with him often sharing the good news of the gospel. So, Paul is sharing the gospel of Jesus, the story of Jesus with the Roman governor, the daughter of King Herod Agrippa, the Jewish high Council again and he’s doing this all under Roman, like nobody can do anything to him. I mean, obviously, somebody like Felix could thumbs down him and that would be the end of his life, but none of the Jewish people can get at Paul, the Romans are protecting him because he is a Roman citizen and he is able now to share in a peaceable way where you can’t be harmed, the good news of the gospel with all of the Jewish high Council and high-ranking Roman authorities. Like I said, when we started moving into this territory were Paul’s going back to Jerusalem, his influence only increases. All of the sudden he is speaking to people that he wouldn’t have had access to really under any circumstances he would have had a pretty hard time, like sending a letter to Felix and Caesarea Maritima saying hey, I’d love to, could we have coffee someday, I have some news to share with you. Like, but under these circumstances, Paul is able to share at length over multiple meetings, the story and we’ll continue to watch this happen as we move to the time of Paul’s incarceration.

Prayer:

So Father, we thank You for Your word and its many facets and the many ways that we can approach it and the many ways that Your Spirit uses it to guide and direct our steps, whether that be us understanding context, whether that be You speaking directly into our hearts words from the Scriptures that were written thousands of years ago that are so immediate in speaking so directly to us and so, we are grateful for Your work in our lives, Your kindness, Your patience with us, Your loving kindness, so we worship You with all of our hearts, we give ourselves to You and to Your service this day. We pray in Jesus’ name. Amen.

Announcements:

dailyauidobible.com is the website, its home base. It is indeed the way to find out what’s going on around here and I mean what we’ve been talking for the last week and ½ or so is, well couple weeks, is what’s coming up tomorrow on the 7th of July. It’s our own little Daily Audio Bible holiday we call the Long Walk and it’s a day that we will, all over the world’s all of us who can, will go somewhere beautiful backyard down the street to a park drive far away to a place that you find beautiful whatever you choose, go out and be in nature place where you don’t feel compelled to check your texts every other 30 seconds or social media every minute where you just go and allow nature to start speaking and healing. And it’s amazing to be out in it and just realize how much life there is that’s happening all around us that we’re rarely paying attention to, and go for a Long Walk with God, here as we move through the center of the year, recalibrate, re-group. Take the time to say everything that’s in our hearts that we just don’t have time to say and actually give space for quiet, listening to God, being with God. When you’re really in love with somebody yeah there’s plenty of things to talk about but you still communicating when you’re not talking, you’re still together and the peace of silence, just being contented with one another. All of this is part of the of the Long Walk each year. And it is a beautiful thing and so if you haven’t made plans, make plans for tomorrow. And obviously this is very solitary thing to go be alone with God, it’s a very solitary thing, but it’s something that we’re doing together at the same time all around the world also. So, we will put a post about the Long Walk on the Daily Audio Bible Facebook page tomorrow and wherever you go wherever it is, take a picture a little video or something and compose that with in the post for the for the Long Walk and all of a sudden you get to see windows into each other’s lives and the beauty of God’s creation all over the world and I love that. And so, that is tomorrow and I’ve also been mentioning a resource that is really perfect, perfect for the Long Walk and it is called Heart: A Contemplative Journey and it’s, it’s kind of a guided prayer and contemplative musical journey that just begins the conversation. It just opens our hearts to the different emotions that we feel and that we go through and that often we don’t invite God into we just kind of muscle it out or work through whatever but to just open ourselves to these things, inviting God into what we feel, and the emotions of our hearts is one way that we open ourselves to Him and surrender before Him and worship as we invite Him into our life. So, that resource can be found wherever you get your music so like the iTunes store, YouTube music, or wherever you get your music. Just search for my name Brian Hardin or search for Heart: A Contemplative Journey and you’ll find it and you can purchase it and download it and take it along with you on your Long Walk and it’s a wonderful way to start things so check that out.

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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.

Prayers and Encouragement:

Hi guys it’s Sparky. I just wanted to take a minute; I’ve never done it. Listening to the DAB for two years now and I’ve never done but I’d like to say thank you to Brian and the Hardin Family, how they’ve completely changed my perspective on the outlook of life and the way Brian preaches. We love your brother. As I told my wife at the end of every reading, he says I love you and I’ll see you tomorrow. I tell myself I love you too brother and I just wanted to thank him for making platform to where we can stop being so self-centered and see things through the other eyes of other people. The struggles that this life has and Brian you’re an amazing man and you’ve definitely changed mine and my family’s life and I just want to give you kudos for that and my family are on the DAB. Ya’ll are our family. Listening to Blind Tony and I don’t have Facebook and I don’t have the community on that but I hear ya’ll and I know you. And that’s due to Christ leading through Brian and you and Jill and your family I love you guys. Hope you have an awesome Fourth of July weekend and be blessed and go with God.

Little Sharie in Canada, this is your brother in Baltimore, Maryland. I heard your experience at church from the July 2nd podcast and I just wanna kind of lift you up in prayer because of the awkwardness, the awkward silences and it was kind of pulling away and I heard the anguish and hurt in your voice and I just pray that Lord Jesus that you’d give Sharie Your peace and Your kindness and Lord give her Your strength and Your love. Let her know that Your love is unconditional for her oh God according to Your will and purposes. God cause the people to be more sensitive to Your Holy Spirit as to being a loving community. Administer Your grace and Holy Spirit oh God and let the people know that You know all things and Your love for all things Lord Jesus. Lord Jesus we commit this and these things in Your hands in the name of Jesus. In the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen. Love you lil sis and we’ll keep you in prayer. Bye now.

Hi Daily Audio Bible this is Tanis I’m calling in from Cleveland Ohio. I’m requesting prayer for myself and my family. On June 11th we lost one of my sisters and it’s been very hard. I just saw her on June 10th we were having a great conversation and then I get the call on June 11th that she had been in a tragic car accident and she’s gone on to be with, to glory. And with my mom, we lost my mom last year April 14th so here we are again at this side of grief and it’s just weird, to say the least. I feel like me feelings are a bit; I don’t know which feelings to grab first you know because it’s just feels as though there are just so many things going on. I think grabbing a feeling means that I have to now face a reality again that I’ve lost someone significant in my life. So, I guess I’m in denial right at the moment actually, I know that I’m in denial because I’m stuck, I’m still stuck on our conversation on Thursday and then I’m also you know, concerned about my dad he lost his wife of 58 years and now a daughter. I’m asking you guys for prayer and comfort for my family. My sister had three beautiful children and five beautiful grandchildren. And they’re all adult children but you know I want them to know Jesus like I know Him or better than I know Him or however you can phrase that. So, please pray for our family and my other siblings, call them by name Pam, Guy, Jennifer, my name again is Tanis. Call our names and I thank you guys so much for all that you do. In Jesus name thank you. Amen. Bye bye.

Good morning DAB family it’s J from the Everglades. I think I need to change out my moniker and I may change every single time I call right now because things are changing and life is moving forward. Today I’m a rot a Rut Rocker, I rocked myself right out of a rut. No, the Holy Spirit helped guide me out of my rut. But that rut came from rubbing elbows with and being influenced by other people. And it was so amazing that the day that I was influenced from very professional people through an interview process, Brian read in June 28th 2 Kings chapter 13 verses 20 and 21, when a dead body was thrown on Elisha’s tomb and touched Elisha’s bones the man came to life and stood up on his feet and it is crazy and I thank You Lord Jesus that I was encouraged to go be rubbing elbows with people who influenced me for the best to stand up. I now have found new appreciation for my job I found new appreciation for the people I work with and I have new motivation to do a better job at what I’m already doing. I had to cast my net in order to get to that space. And then today I listened to Ben from PA ask for prayers for his wife who’s a stay-at-home mom with three kids and it just reminded me that sometimes we have to cast that net in order to know that we’re exactly where we are, need to be. Lord, thank You for that. I pray for Ben’s wife. In Jesus name. Amen.

Hi everybody, Susan from Canada, God’s Yellow Flower calling and I just wanted to give you an update on what’s going on in our life here. In exactly one week we’re leaving for Belville, a 1500-mile move. Things are going smoothly, God is putting things together, praise His holy name. Even the doctor from, that Keith will be seeing there has called us and wants to talk to us even before we move. So, my daughter and her husband have everything prepared and ready for our arrival, goodness, gracious, me. What a time this has been, busy, busy. But now things are done and its goodbye time for all my friends and family here in Winnipeg. It’s a tearful time for this week. And then next Saturday we’ll be flying out of Winnipeg and landing in Toronto and then a two-hour drive to Bellville. So, keep up in your prayers. I love you all. God Bless you, Bye.

1 Chronicles 1:1-2:17, Acts 23:11-35, Psalm 3:1-8, Proverbs 18:14-15

Today is the 5th day of July, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I am Brian it’s great to be here with you today around the Global Campfire together as we move further and further into the year and get all settled into this new month that we have. Big day of celebration around the United States yesterday. Of course, we were celebrating Jill’s birthday yesterday and so, yeah, we’re just kinda turning into this month and settling in, and as we do that, well, we’re reaching some new territory. It’ll be familiar territory but it’s new territory. So, yesterday we concluded the Book of 2 Kings which concluded the Books of Kings and in that final reading from 2 Kings we saw the Babylonians enter the land of Judah and eventually conquering it, displacing all of the Jews. This is where they get their name that they were from Judah and so they were called Jew’s and they were there they were taken into exile. This is actually massive and when we move through the territory in 2 Kings and then finished that book and it doesn’t seem apparent just how monumental what is happened actually is. So, we remember, right, that the Assyrians came and took the kingdom of Israel, the northern tribes the 10 northern tribes, they took them into exile and they disappeared. They were assimilated. Now, we have the kingdom of Judah, falling, falling to Babylon and now they have been carried off into exile so the promised land that we worked forward toward from the book of Genesis, basically until yesterday, is over. It’s the end. I mean, there will be remnant, a returns after exile yes, but it will never be this kind of independent nation like it was again in ancient times. Ancient Israel has come to an end.

Introduction to Chronicles:

And so, today we’re going to begin 1 Chronicles and of course there’s a 2 Chronicles and if we’ll remember these were all one text at one time and then were broken up, especially with the with the translation into the King James, that’s when a lot of these distinctions and breaking up of books and stuff happens but that’s the Middle Ages, that’s like 500/600 years ago. So, for the thousands of years before that these were one text from the time that they were written and it’s not really certain who, who collected these Chronicles, there are traditions like there’s a Jewish tradition that suggests the priest Ezra, who has a book in the Scriptures by his name was involved, and it’s not exactly clear specifically, ya know when and where these were chronicled, but it seems that about 4 ½ centuries before Christ’s time the first century and that is contemporary with Ezra and what will notice is that we’re covering a lot of the same territory. It will be familiar. Chronicles, both 1st and 2nd Chronicles look at this same history that we’ve been covering in Samuel and Kings. But it’s just from the perspective of the priestly view and these Chronicles were probably chronicled from exile during the exile, at least partly in an attempt to not forget who they were. Because empire building was the process of assimilating conquered people, we’ve talked about this a couple times how, you know, the nation will come in and conquer one another nation, and then carry off those conquered people into a different region of the empire and then relocate other conquered peoples in so that it’s just all mixed up, so that as the generations pass there’s, the identities are lost and so impart this is to not forget. So, as we begin Chronicles, we’ll be reading genealogies a little bit, lots and lots of different names and this is that part that’s kind of famous in the Bible because almost in a negative way like what was up with all these names and I certainly had those feelings early on in reading the Bible, but even being aware of them in my childhood, like who sits down to read page after page of names? And it really settled in, probably a decade ago for me, traveling into Africa, going into the into the country of Rwanda and experiencing the memorials from the genocide that happened in Rwanda. And I explain this most every year because this is the best way, I can make what were about to read meaningful to us. So, in Rwanda, I mean the genocide, it wasn’t like warfare, it was, but it was like with machetes and knives and stuff like that and a lot of people were killed by machetes. There was a lot of places, even churches where, like priests gave up their entire congregations to be killed off. It’s just a horrible, horrible story, but it’s also a remarkable story of redemption in the end. But yeah, these things happened, and in many places throughout the country, places were mass murder, basically, genocide happened they’re preserved and really preserved in a way where people are left where they died, like their skeletons all over in bones and bones and bones. But anyway, there’s a national museum about the genocide in Kigali in the capital city. And, you going there, super, it’s super sobering to say the least to see clothing that was worn when people died, blood stained or bones, skulls that have been, you know, you can see where the machete crushed their skull and they died and it’s just like, it’s really, really sobering to think of what humanity is capable of doing to each other. And, there is one darkened, dark quiet room you go and there’s pictures everywhere, wall-to-wall pictures of people who died in the genocide. And there’s a female voice, just very quietly saying the names of the people who were lost in the genocide. We need to understand that as we go into Chronicle’s exile is upon these people. They have been dragged from their homeland, the temple of the most high God has been burned to the ground. They have been carried away because it’s warfare, many, like there’s been rape and pillage and plunder and separation, people are being pulled away from other members of their family and sent to different places. No one knows if anybody’s ever going to see each other again. There are lingering questions about who’s still alive like, you can only imagine the kind of agony that these people would’ve been going through. And so, as we go into the genealogies, if we’ll remember that this is written from exile as an attempt to not forget who they are and to have a memorial to remember how things are connected but then it gives rich meaning. Actually, when I read this section now it’s a sobering reminder of what I experienced in Rwanda, but any of the Holocaust museums from World War II, similar to this, any kind of genocide memorial similar to this because as a people were trying to not forget what happened so that we don’t forget who we are, but also so that this doesn’t happen again. So, with that we move into some new territory. The book of 1 Chronicles chapter 1 verse 1 through 2 verse 17.

Prayer:

Father, we thank You for Your word and we thank You for bringing us into this new territory 2 Chronicles and as we move through these names help us Lord understand that every single name represents an entire life. People who laughed and cried and smiled and frowned. People who ate and drank, planted and harvested, enjoyed festivals and celebrations, endured the grief of loss. These are the names of the people who formed the story. The story that we’re reading the story that affects our lives until today and so, we thank You for allowing us to recite these names and we ask that they be meaningful to us and even as we continue to journey with the apostle Paul, under arrest and the chaos going on in Jerusalem. We recognize that Paul, all of the sudden, although in chains, is communicating with power, communicating with powerful people, he’s been able to under the protection of the Romans speak to the Jewish Council and yes, they wouldn’t hear and they want him dead but he’s able to tell the story and we will continue to observe this as we continue through the Book of Acts. So, Holy Spirit we invite You to plant the words of Scriptures deep into our lives. The soil of our hearts that we can see that You have been doing that because we have reaped a harvest, we are being transformed. This is changing us, so we invite You to continue the work of transformation. We ask this expectantly in the name of Jesus. Amen.

Announcements:

dailyaudiobible.com is home base, it’s the website, it’s where you find out what is going on around here and its day after tomorrow, what’s going on around here. The 7th of July is coming up and that is our own holiday here around the Global Campfire. We lovingly call it the Long Walk and it’s exactly that, a day that’s on our calendar each year in the center of the year. A day to be, not to do so much. A day to go out somewhere beautiful whether it’s a little walk down to a park or whether it’s a, you know, a long drive somewhere that’s beautiful and meaningful, somewhere lovely and we go there and go for a Long Walk. And, I mean, the best way to imagine it is, think, think of when you’ve been in love, when you fell in love. You do that all, all the time. Time standstill when you’re love and you’re on a Long Walk with somebody that you love and you’re just talking about your life and about your future together are just dreaming or thinking. The beautiful thing about going for a Long Walk with God is yeah, you can talk out loud if you want, be silent if you want. That’s what happens when you’re comfortable and comfortably in love right, it’s communicating with words and beyond words. It’s being together and when we’re out in nature and we realize not only does God love me, but he made all this. All of this life that’s bursting forth that I don’t even hardly pay attention to and it’s healing and it sets us up well to go into the second half of the year so that’s what we’ll be doing on 7th of July. It’s what we do every 7th of July so make plans for that. We will post a post on the Daily Audio Bible Facebook page for the Long Walk, 2021, and in that post, you can post your pictures or videos and all the sudden we have this place where we’ve gone on a Long Walk but that we can join in or appreciate. Go on a little mini holiday all around the world by looking through the little windows of each other’s cameras and it’s so it’s a solitary beautiful thing but it’s also a community event. So, that’s coming up on the 7th, on Wednesday. There is a resource that we have created that is really perfect for this kind of event, it’s called Heart: A Contemplative Journey and you can get that at the iTunes store or the Google play store wherever it is that you can buy music. Just search for my name or search for Heart: A Contemplative Journey and you should be able to find it and it is a really good companion for the Long Walk because it’s really good conversation starter. It’s really good to allow prayer to, through prayer to open up our emotions and our heart, which is why the projects called Heart, open our heart to God in the things that we’ve been feeling and then just to allow music to speak while we’re in nature and to contemplate, invite God into those emotions and that gets us going on the Long Walk. So, check out that resource, it’s available wherever you get your music.

If you want to partner with the Daily Audio Bible, you can do that at dailyaudiobible.com there is a link on the homepage and I thank you with all of my heart for your partnership. If what we do here, bringing God’s spoken word read fresh every day and offered to whoever will listen anywhere on this planet, whatever time it is, if that has made a difference in your life than thank you for being life-giving. So, there’s a link on the homepage. If you’re using the app, you can press the Give button in the upper right-hand corner or the mailing address is P.O. Box 1996 Springhill Tennessee 37174.

And as always if you have a prayer request or encouragement 877-942-4253 is the number to call or you can hit the Hotline button in the app which is the little red button up at the top.

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

Prayers and Encouragement:

Dear DAB family this is Russel from Superior. I’m calling cause I heard Little Sharie’s prayer about using her walker for the first time. And it really touched my heart because my mom started using her walker about 8 months ago because she has back problems. She had surgery and for the first time she’s at the casino with my step-dad and she’s away from me for the first time for two days. And I was just sitting there thinking about her and Little Sharie came on talking about her walker so I see you too Sharie. Ya know, it really touched my heart right now. Stay strong, I love you and I’m praying for you. God Bless.

Hi everyone, my name is Isaac and I am from Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. I’d like to give a little inspiration. Back in October of last year I spoke to one of my doctors about going off medication that had side effects of severe weight gain. Now, at this time I was 20lbs short of 300lbs. I’m happy to say now that as of right now that I am probably 75lbs down since October. With that being said, there’s more work to be done. I’m gonna trust Jesus because I’m tired of trying to live my own life the way I want to live it. So, what I’m asking is for prayer. Prayer for my anxiety, my depression. Right now, my anxiety is so strong that I can’t work and I want to work, I want to be a hard-working person. I’ve had doctors tell me my anxiety is too strong and that they can’t help me. And I don’t want to listen to that anymore cause I know that’s lies from the devil. Not only that but I’ve had a head twitch, turrets head twitch for the last 11 years and it’s just painful, it’s frustrating and it’s just, it wears me out. If you could pray for that, that’d be great. Not only that but could you please pray for my mom. She needs both of her knees replaced, she needs surgery on her spine done, she’s got something called sciatica and it’s not fun, she’s in constant pain. The nerve twinges are unbearable for her and it’s hard because somedays I just I can’t stand seeing her in pain especially when all she can do is cry into a pillow because it hurts so bad. I know that Jesus can help but I know He will. Would you please pray for me and my family? Thank you, guys. Bye.

Hello family, Drew from the Bay area. Listen, just wanted to call in a quick prayer for Travis from Alberta, Canada. Travis, I’m so excited for you being in the pastoral internship and learning all about how to teach others about God, that’s awesome. I just want pray for you. Heavenly Father, You are an awesome God, You are Holy, beyond perfection. You created everything in 6 days. Lord, the God of Isaac, Jacob and let’s not forget Abraham, Moses and David, Lord, although we are imperfect men You are with us and when you are with us Your power, Your love spills out all over the place. Lord, we thank You for the love story of Your word, we thank You for this ministry. We ask You to bless Travis and the ministry that You have before him. Lord, encourage him, take away any doubt, confusion, anxiety and help him to show others that Your word comes from You and that You encourage through people like Travis, You encourage others. So, we thank You for Travis, bless him. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.

Hello Daily Audio Bible family this is Nathan Basset from Bloomington, Illinois. Hopefully your day is truly going well. I have a prayer request. One week ago, today this, pretty much this very hour my step-son and his wife and their 7-month-old were involved in a very serious car accident. They hydroplaned on the highway going 70+ miles an hour and lost control, rolled the car multiple, multiple times and ended up going to the hospital. Seven-month-old, he actually was discharged a little bit after that, he was doing fine, no bumps, no scraps, no nothing. My step-son, he had some bumps and he’s still a little sore even a week later. My daughter-in-law actually fractured two vertebrae in her neck had surgery on Sunday and was released on Monday which kind of baffles me how that works. So yes, that’s my prayer request for healing, emotionally and medically. But here’s the other request that I have: my wife had a very good conversation with my daughter-in-law about Jesus on Sunday. She was asking questions of my wife about relationship and she was raised catholic, really hasn’t gone to church since her childhood probably. And she really was seeking a change of a heart. And so, this whole week we’ve been praying, praying for that, that they attend church. We’ve even invited them several times but that they see that Jesus really did protect them. And she even said when they were rolling over, she saw two big hands surrounding their child and my wife says that was God. that was God Allie. So, please pray for them. Embrace you …

Hello, my DAB family my name is Terrell Revenelle. I actually stumbled across this app a few days ago. I’m all things devotional, I love devotionals, lover of God, lover of Jesus, Holy Spirit and I was looking for a different type of devotional I already listen to several others and when I stumbled across this it blessed my soul immensely and then at the end when I was able to hear all the testimonials, the prayers, the prayer requests for different individuals, family, friends and also for the DAB family, that just lit up my soul. So, so I’m hear today just asking for you all to stand in agreement with me for my son who is 24 years old, my only son, his name is G and a couple years ago he woke up and he couldn’t walk. He had already been dealing with a bulging disc and he found out that he had seven bulging discs so just imagine, you know, how debilitating that was for him and his life. He’s newly married of two years. Him and his wife just moved to Fort Lauderdale, Florida. And he’s really just trying to get back in step. He’s not a 100%, he’s able to walk now. We’ve gone through spinal non-decompression therapy, we’re trying to avoid surgery at all costs but now the issue is more neurological and muscular having issues of weakness of muscle, weakness of limbs. He gets exhausted very quickly after doing just a little bit of activity. He was once very active, he played college basketball, weightlifting and all of these things, dancer, and all of these things and I know that this is spiritual warfare that God is drawing him closer to Him. So, the prayer is two-fold that his spirit is enlightened and that he’s totally healed in Jesus’ name. Thank you.

2 Kings 23:31-25:30, Acts 22:17-23:10, Psalm 2:1-12, Proverbs 18:13

Today is the 4th day of July, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I am Brian it’s great to be here with you today. It’s a big holiday in the United States, Independence Day, major holiday for us. But It’s, it’s also a major holiday in my life, today is Jill’s birthday. And so, all around the United States fireworks go off and we celebrate, at least around here, Jill’s birthday. And so, happy birthday, Jill, how my gosh this journey could not have existed without her so happy birthday to my darling wife. We are at the beginning of a brand-new week just launching into this shiny sparkly week before us. And this week we’ll read from the English Standard Version. Picking up with the story 2nd Kings chapter 23 verse 31 to 25, verse 30.

Prayer:

Father, we thank You for Your word. We thank You for this brand-new week. We thank You for this significant and special day as its Jill’s birthday. So, we are grateful for all that she represents in this community and always has. So, we ask Your blessings over her. And, as we move into this week, we invite Your Holy Spirit to lead and guide our steps. You and You alone are worthy of our praise and we give it with all of our hearts. Come Jesus we pray in your mighty name we ask. Amen.

Prayers and Encouragement:

Hey it’s Lucas Judy calling, I’m just feeling pretty ___ cause I lost my roofing job a long-time ago and I was unemployed for three months and I was just paying here for about a month and I got fired. I snapped at someone and I really shouldn’t have and I’m just feeling very, very lousy right now. Please pray for me. I really need it. Thank you.

Hi this is Victorious Soldier I’m just calling tonight to encourage someone. I wanted to pray for Benson, I wanted to pray for those who are going through and those who’ve been asking God for something and it seems like He’s not giving it. I just wanted to bring something laying on my heart about something that happened to me when I was four years old. This man came and asked me to clean his place and he told me he would give me some money. He lived next door to where my mom and I was living at and my family as a little girl. And so, I got my little broom and my mop and everything and went up there to clean and I went to, when I was cleaning up his place, he grabbed me and he tried to rape me, he tried to take my panties off and it scared me so bad. And I was trying to hit him with the broom but it scared me so bad that I lost my voice. And, I could just remember in myself I said Lord, if I just had my voice and I opened my mouth and I began, when I opened my mouth, I began to scream cause I could hear my cousins and everybody outside looking for me. And when I screamed, I opened my mouth and I screamed and it was like it just came from nowhere. And that’s how powerful the Lord is, He is so powerful that we just call on His name and right there it’s answered. It may not be manifested but it’s answered. And that’s the way I’ve always thought of God. And He may not come when we call Him because His ways are not our ways but He’s always on time. And I just wanted to encourage somebody today who are going through, sick in their body or who’s like daughter is going through her own way or some other children is going through, just call on the name of the Lord and trust Him. He is, He is truly faithful. That’s when I realized that God was in my life and I knew that God had a calling for me. And I just want somebody to be encouraged today. And I just wanted somebody to be encouraged and hold on to God and get answers to prayers like never before. And God, I give you the glory, honor and the praise.

Hello my DAB family this is Mark Street from Sydney, Australia. Just calling in today cause I heard God’s Yellow Flower calling in on the Community Prayer for this week asking for prayer for her move and for her daughter and for Keith and his new medical team so I just want to pray for God’s Yellow Flower who has always prayed so diligently for everybody else. Heavenly Father, we come to You as a community and we thank You for God’s Yellow Flower who always looks after Your loving, Your people here Lord, praying for them every day Lord. She asks now for a favor from You to Lord, that You would look down and bless their move over to her daughter’s place and Keith would also move to a new medical team well. And Lord, if it is in Your will please Lord, heal him completely from his cancer and stop the suffering within him. Lord, but of course, You know what is best for Keith and his family and that’s what we want. We want Your love for him but also show mercy and grace on God’s Yellow Flower and their whole family through these hard times as well. We ask this in Your name. Amen. Love you family.

Hey DAB family, this is Grace and we really need your prayers. My boyfriend and I are both battling very scary illnesses and I just put him in the back of an Uber by himself to the hospital, I’m way to sick to take him and I’ve never, never ever not taken him to the hospital myself. And he’s there all by himself. And I am really scared to be home alone and my helper is gone and I can’t get to the house in my wheelchair and it’s just a lot. If you could just pray for us that God would show up in really really obviously and unmissable ways today. He feels so far away and that I pray here around the clock and I just feel so alone. Please, please pray for us. Please pray for the doctors and the nurses. We need to find help for what I need so I can get into my house and get to my job and that kind of thing. Really appreciate your prayers and support. Thank you again. Bye.

2 Kings 22:3-23:30, Acts 21:37-22:16, Psalm 1:1-6, Proverbs 18:11-12

Today is the 3rd day of July, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I’m Brian it’s awesome to be here with you today. As we continue our journey through the next steps forward and right now the territory, we’re in is the month of July and the territory we’re in the Scriptures is 2nd Kings and Acts and so that’s where we will find ourselves situated today as we bring to a close another one of our weeks together. Tomorrow we’ll begin the first full week of the month of July. Today we’ll finish this kind of transition week are reading from the New International Version this week, 2nd Kings 22 verse 3 through 23 verse 30.

Prayer:

Father, we thank You for Your word. We love You Lord what a gift, what a gift it, it’s binding us together. It’s pulling us together in community as we day-by-day step-by-step move through it together and it’s not only doing that it’s transforming us from within. Transforming things that we, we have no power to change within ourselves and yet Your Holy Spirit keeps leading us on the pathways that lead us deeper so we are grateful. And as we embrace July, we invite Your Holy Spirit to move mightily among us. We asked this expectantly, and with anticipation in the name of Jesus our Savior. Amen.

Announcements:

dailyaudiobible.com is home base. It is the home of the Global Campfire that we sit around every day and enjoy the Scriptures washing into our lives in the little oasis that we create and that’s where home is. So be aware of that be aware of the Daily Audio Bible Shop. Be aware of the Community section where the Prayer Wall lives.

Be aware of what’s coming up in a couple of days. On the 7th this coming Wednesday, the 7th of July is our own little Daily Audio Bible Global Campfire holiday that we have had for goodness well over a decade, well over a decade now. So, man probably maybe 14, 14 years I’m not sure a long time a lot a Long Walks and that’s what we do on the 7th of July we recognize we’re in the center of the year recognize that were probably weary in a lot of areas and a lot of times we do is double down and get more busy to try to create space so that we can maybe feel at peace or get a grasp on where we’re headed or as an alternative we could just plan a day for that not to catch up on chores a day to just breathe and be and heal and restore and go out in nature and be restored and look around and appreciate how much life is happening in nature, the birds, the little critters, all the stuff that’s going on around us but we’re pretty much too busy to pay attention to and to go for a Long Walk. That’s what you do when you fall in love right you go for Long Walks. Doesn’t matter if it’s raining. Doesn’t matter if it’s cold, doesn’t matter, you go for a Long Walk hand-in-hand. Time stands still you’re in love and God is in love with you and would love to go for a Long Walk with you and with me with each of us. And what and how could that be? Because God is Almighty and our Father, who knows all. So, these things that were so confused about and we can’t find peace about, maybe we could. Maybe we just need to talk em out with somebody who loves us deeply. That’s the purpose of the Long Walk to sort of set ourselves up strong for the second half of the year. So that’s coming up this Wednesday, and it’s obviously it’s a private solitary thing to do to go for a walk with God. Consider life and where it’s headed. But it’s also something that we will be doing together all over the world and so we’ll put a post on the Daily Audio Bible Facebook page for the Long Walk and then you can post pictures in there from your Long Walk of little videos from you long walk. Share your story and when we come back from our Long Walks, we can go to that place and we get like a double dose, like a mini vacation all the way around the world as we look through the windows into each other’s lives and I love them very much. So, that’s a Long Walk and that’s coming up in a couple of days, mark that on your calendars.

If you want to partner with the Daily Audio Bible, you can do that at dailyaudiobible.com there is a link on the homepage and I thank you with all of my heart for your partnership. If using the Daily Audio Bible app you can press the Give button in the upper right hand corner or the mailing address is P.O. Box 1996 Springhill, Tennessee 37174.

And as always if you have a prayer request or encouragement you it the Hotline button in the app or you can dial 877-942-4253.

And I was gonna say that’s it for today but the other thing about the Long Walk is there’s a resource available that really is is perfect, it’s called Heart, a Contemplative Journey and you can get that where ever you get your music so like at the iTunes store or Google play, just search for my name or Heart a Contemplative Journey and that is really a wonderful conversation starter for the Long Walk to just kind of begin with prayer that opens our hearts opens us to the different emotions that we’ve been going through and feeling some of them we’ve been overwhelmed by, and some of them we’ve been suppressing but just open our hearts invite God, allow prayer and music to be a part of that story as we go on our Long Walk, so check that out.

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

Prayers and Encouragement:

Hey DABers this is Nick Florida today is Thursday, July 1st. This is my third or fourth time calling in, I’ve been listening to the Daily Audio Bible for over three years now and I just love this community. You guys are awesome. I was calling today to see if everyone could pray for my neighbor. Her name is Beth. She has two young kids ages seven and three and her husband is very supportive of her through the tough time they are going through right now. She has stage IV cancer and doctors say that she doesn’t have too much longer with the way things are progressing. And I just call and ask for all of you to pray for her to show that God is the great physician and he can heal her through the name of Jesus. I’m not sure she’s saved. I don’t think she is but I know with the help of your prayer and through Jesus she can be healed and I’d love to give the honor and glory to God through all of you, praying and show her that God can heal and she should turn to him for salvation as well. Please pray have faith believe it can be done. Thank you everybody have a good day.

Hello DABers this is a prayer for Billy in Montgomery who is going to be on a Kairos ministry walk. He is going to be giving a talk to the prisoners there who are attending the Kairos. He commented that he, he wants so, to have a very, very powerful message for them. But Billy, I want you to know that, you already know, it’s not, it’s not you that has to come up with this God is going to come up with that particular wonderful talk that day that they need to hear and He will use you through your presentation, through the love that you have for God’s people and definitely count on, on being in, held up the prayer that day and as I do my walk, my Long Walk will be thinking and praying for you and the prisoners there. God bless you. This is Artie from Arkansas. Amen.

Hello DAB community this is Bubba D and my prayer goes out to Ben from Pennsylvania. Father God I ask that You would encourage Ben’s wife, give her strength to endure this time of small children for several months two and four, all the girls. We ask You to bless them. Bless Ben’s wife Lord with wisdom, how to get her day to a place where she can have breaks and she would have the fellowship with fellow moms and just time away from the daughters and give Ben wisdom too so that he would provide for her those breaks in times of R&R. Thank you Lord, asking your Holy Spirit to infuse Ben’s wife’s energy give her everything that she needs right now, mostly that rest that peace, for you are the Prince of Peace, Jesus. Give her all that she needs right now in your name Jesus Christ we pray.

Hello DAB this is Rob from Ohio, I’ve been listening for about a year and ½ now. I’ve called him several times and been on the Prayer Wall. I suffer from long COVID, long haulers like calling and the reasoning I’m calling and today is not so much for me and asking prayers for me. But as I go through the Cleveland clinic and I see these doctors and I’m meet in these groups. I see more and more people like me struggling to get back to normal for get over COVID or get over the symptoms. I just asked today that you say a prayer for all the people out there suffering from what is pretty much been you know miserable the last year and ½ for me and I know I’ve talked to a lot of people that have experienced quite similar things for months and months so please, please I ask for the people that aren’t able to return to normal. I ask you to please pray for them. Pray for wisdom for the doctors pray that we find answers why COVID is so much harder on us. They have their theories but nothing, nothing set in stone. Thank you very much and God bless.