Ezra 7:1-8:20, 1 Corinthians 4:1-21, Psalms 30:1-12, Proverbs 20:28-30
Today is the 8th day of August welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I’m Brian it’s awesome to be here with you today because we’re here at the threshold. We’re throwing open the windows and the doors on this brand-new shiny sparkly week. We normally recognize that we’re beginning…beginning a new week because it’s a really awesome time to understand that it’s in front of us. It’s in the future and we can choose how we’re gonna live this week in advance no matter what might come our way, whether known or unexpected. We can center ourselves and root ourselves in our anchor, which is the Lord of Heaven’s armies. And one of the ways that we reorient ourselves to God is through the Scriptures. And, so, we’ve got a brand-new week, whole new set of territory to move through, lots of things to talk about and life to live together in community as we take the next step forward. And, so, let’s do that. We’ll read from the Christian Standard Bible this week and picking up where we left off yesterday. Ezra chapter 7 verse 1 through eight verse 20.
Prayer:
Father, we thank You for Your word and we thank You that we’ve walked through this threshold into a brand-new week. And we always pay attention to these new beginnings even though it’s just another week. It is a start. A similar start was found in the book of Psalms today. Weeping may last for the night, but joy comes in the morning. We always have the chance to begin anew with You and begin to take the next right steps forward as You lead and direct our lives. May we pay attention to Your leading. May we slow things down and not react to everything but to just take it all in and invite Your spirit to guide our steps. And we might live a peaceful and joyful week as we walk with You. Come Holy Spirit into all this we ask in the name of Jesus. Amen.
Community Prayer and Praise:
Good morning my lovely family it’s Susan from Canada __ calling and today I have a wonderful praise report. We were at the oncologist yesterday for my son Keith and he…he had had a CT scan on the 27th of July, and it shows no tumors in his lungs. He had seven of them and now there is none. There is some nodules, several, they said nodules but they’re only one to three millimeters in size. So, they’re not going to do anything about them right now and there is extensive lung damage from the radiation he had. But praise God, praise God they are all gone the tumor…the…any measurable type of tumor is just gone in the name of Jesus. I just thank you Lord Jesus. I can’t thank you enough. So, we’re…we are all unpacked in __ Belleville and Keith is off my worry list to a great degree. So, I am just gonna relax and enjoy the rest of the summer with my grandkids. I’m so happy. Thank you for your prayers one and all. And keep praying. Keep praying he’s still very weak and tired but just…awe…it’s just such a joyful time period and I just give God the praise and glory for this wonderful break where I can enjoy some time with family. Love you all and pray for you all. God bless.
Hey there DAB family it’s James the teacher in LA. I’m just having a…a moment here this morning. I want to let you guys know I pray with you whenever I hear the prayer requests every day. The lady who just called in on August 4th for her multiple myeloma, I am praying relief and restoration of health for you. For those of you who have experienced unimaginable losses, pain, exhaustion, depression, physical health, mental health it’s all really one. I…I pray for all of you, for restoration, for God’s touch and comfort. But I had a realization as I had…as I had been listening. Every one of us is suffering with something in this life. Every one of us is suffering with something in this life. And many of us are not suffering as badly as others of our brothers and sisters. Yes, we all suffer but we all should also be remembering to give thanks to God for all the things that we don’t suffer. And even when we do go through really terrible hardships, we continue to draw breath. We continue to have breath in our lungs if we’re on this earth with which we can praise God. And even if we can’t speak, we can praise God in our hearts. And I need to remember that every day. So, I praise God for life on this earth and life everlasting and the world after when we go to be with Him and when He will come to be with us. Amen. Hallelujah. I love you family.
Hi Daily Audio Bible and brothers and sisters my name is Eugene I’m 24 years old. I’m currently in Dallas TX but I’m just visiting family. I live in New York, and I just ask for your prayers. My life for the past five years has been pretty difficult ever since my dad passed away. And I’ve gotten closer to God and gotten stronger in my faith but I’m also having a problem with physical deformity in my torso which makes it hard to be around people. So, it’s been a lonely few years. And, so, yeah I would just ask for your prayer for healing in my body and just joy in my life and just to be able to be social with others and, yeah, not…not be so self-conscious. Yeah. thank you so much. God bless you.
Hi, I’m a first-time caller my name is Ann my parents gave me that name I go by Annie but I’m gonna be called Savior by Grace because that’s what the name means. I’m calling for the woman who has a daughter that has anorexia. I want you to know that I had anorexia when I was 13. I’m 53 now so this is 1981 and I was as tall as I am now at 5’6” and I got down to 78 pounds and I was hospitalized for five and a half weeks and my poor parents…my poor parents did not know what to do. A friend of mine said that it was the first time that she saw my dad cry and I’m one of four kids. And my dad was angry at me also. He poked me once in church and he say’s look what you’re doing to your mother because my mum was crying. But I had no idea…I had no idea what I was doing. So, there was a lot of prayer around me and I want you to know that I recovered. And I’m fine now, no eating disorders, nothing. So, I believe that God did heal me, and I will pray for your daughter too. And kids you know, we don’t know we do to my parents…our parents. So, I was really happy to hear you express that and it made me so sad for what I put my parents through so long ago. And prayer does work so let’s pray. Dear God please work this precious child see but she’s loved by You, and she can relax. She doesn’t have control every little thing in Jesus’ name. Amen.
Dear God, I lift up the little boy and his family who saved his sister but ended up drowning. What a precious little heart. Lord I pray the best for him. I pray Your will for him Lord. I pray that You will just come and help that family in whatever your divine plan is for him Lord. Please help him to thrive wherever he is. Thank You. Thank You Lord for this little boy who gave his…who gave himself to save his sister. What a sweet, sweet little boy. I also pray for the little one in hospice with cancer Lord. I pray for him and his family Lord. I pray for healing over these children. Lord, we know You love him…them and You know what’s best for them and You know where they’re going to be and happy and thrive and where they belong Lord. So, I just pray that you be with them and their families. And I pray for Gigi. I pray for peace for her. Help her to be able to rest and to take a break and help her to be OK with it. If anything…if COVID has taught us anything it’s been had a slow down and just stop and rest, and…and Lord I pray that she will just be able to take a rest and to put things aside and…and focus on her child and her family Lord. Amen.