Month: October 2021

Jeremiah 6:16-8:7, Colossians 2:8-23, Psalm 78:1-31, Proverbs 24:26

Today is the 6th day of October, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible, I am Brian, it is wonderful to be here with you today. As we continue our journey and settled into this 10th month of the year, as we continue our journey through the book of Jeremiah and the letter to the Colossians. We’re reading from the Common English Bible this week, Jeremiah chapter 6, verse 16 through 8 verse 7.

Commentary:

Okay so, we’re reading in the 2nd chapter of the letter to the Colossians in the New Testament. And, what Paul lays out today is our reality and in describing that reality he’s kind of coming against some other behaviors that have been taught, like this is what will lead you to righteousness. So, he says don’t let anybody judge you about eating or drinking, or about a festival, a new moon observance or sabbaths. These religious practices are only a shadow of what was coming. Don’t let anyone who wants to practice harsh self-denial and worship angels rob you of the prize. And so, what is the prize? The prize was described today. Literally, I can’t say it in another way that’s better, or teach it, like Paul teaches it out of this letter exactly as it’s intended to be received, so I simply want to reread about five verses while highlighting this is supposed to be the reality, we live in. This is supposed to be what normal looks like to us. And so, Paul says “See to it that nobody enslaves you with philosophy and foolish deception which conform to human traditions and the way the world thinks and acts rather than Christ. All the fullness of deity lives in Christ’s body. So, all the fullness of God lives in Christ’s body. And you have been filled by Him who is the head of every ruler and authority. In Him you were also circumcised with the circumcision not administered by human hands. The circumcision of Christ is realized in the stripping away of the whole self, dominated by sin. In other words, that was cut away and discarded, the self, dominated by sin. You were buried with Him through baptism and raised with Him through faith in the power of God who raised Him from the dead. When you were dead, because of the things you would done wrong and because your body wasn’t circumcised, God made you alive with Christ, and forgave all the things you had done wrong. He destroyed the record of the debt we owed with its requirements that worked against us. He canceled it by nailing it to the cross.” Oh, that is our reality. And it’s not like we have encountered these concepts in Paul’s writings, but here it is laid out concisely, we aren’t who we were. Things have changed. We have changed. In fact, so much so that who we were is well, dead, no longer existing. We have been resurrected into a new life. Again, this is kind of, I mean it’s a mind blowing, let’s not, let’s not take that off the table, its mind blowing. But it’s also essential Christian teaching, like 101. It’s the basic understanding. But man, if we could get the fundamentals, if we could get the basics down, because if we look at this and this is the reality, then why don’t we live like this is the reality? Like, that’s the question, right? If this is the reality and we’re now living in reality than what are we doing, besides living in a false reality that is considerably less then what the good news offers us? On one hand, we can make this really encouraging and bolster ourselves and rise up, and yeah, we’re going to do this, but on the other hand, this is not really just about us. This is how the world will know, this is how Earth’s people, who do not know Jesus will come to understand. We have been entrusted; we’re supposed to be living this reality. Anything less is just less.

Prayer:

And so, Holy Spirit, come into that. We confess that we have elected to live less, more of the time, then is easy to admit. The letter to the Colossians tells us that the fullness of God is in Christ, and we are filled by Christ who is the head of every ruler and authority, that’s hard to get our mind, it’s so big and so good, it’s hard to get our minds around. And yet we choose to ignore things like this when there, they change everything. You change everything and we just try to moderate that which essentially makes us live less than You’ve offered. And we don’t want to do that anymore and we need to not do that because we are the light of the world, a city on a hill, the salt of the earth. And so, come, Holy Spirit, not only let this message transform our own hearts and encourage us but give us a sense of purpose and understanding about why this reality has been offered to us in the first place. Come, Holy Spirit into this we ask You to lead and direct us and guide us. Lead us into all truth. We pray in the name of Jesus. 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.

Prayer and Encouragements:

Hey everybody, Tony the Narrator here. Just a big shout out to everybody just to let you know that I’m praying with you and for you. I love all of you but yeah. Quick prayer request if possibly; my Mum’s come down with COVID for the second time. She’s had both of the Oxford shots and she still come down with it and she’s got a cold at the same time and it’s really, she’s, she’s going through it, bless her, she’s going through the ringer. She actually got it in November 2019 before we all knew what it was. So yeah, it was, it was, she was one of the very early cases and she picked up a new version of it so, if I could just, please beg your prayers over my mum. I’ve already told her that your all praying because I know that I can trust you guys in DABC. I’ve told her that she’s got hundreds and hundreds of thousands of Christians around the globe praying over her right now because time is irrelevant when you’re speaking to the Lord and she also said to say thank you and she said all that’s lovely, which is very English thing, don’t worry.  And so, yeah, please hold my mom up in prayers she’s going through it and this is a really beautiful opportunity for me to be able to share the gospel with her and to let her know that actually she’s got a Jesus who is caring for her. So, guys, I love you so much. I’m going to be able to share the gospel with my mom because of you and I love all of you. You’re all mine.

Hello beautiful family this is Susan calling from Albuquerque. I just wanted to lift a couple people up in prayer. The first one: Mark the teacher in Australia, he called about his brother who’s been missing in the Outback for a couple months now and can’t imagine how, how worried you must be. I’m just kind of speechless. I can’t imagine. And the other is Bonnie from Virginia who has managed, who came here from another country and I’m assuming it’s from a culture that, where women are thought of as no less important than dogs. And I, you came over here and managed to escape from a very big abusive situation. Oh, my goodness, you are so courageous and I’m so grateful you are here, there is no accident you came here and we’re just all loving you and supporting you and I just wanted to say that and I’m so glad you called in. So, Father I wanted to lift up Mark and Bonnie today and we come together because Your family we love you very much and we love Your children and our brother and our sister. Please encourage Mark. Please help him find his brother-in-law. I know that they’re terribly worried and they need peace of mind, please comfort this family and help them find an answer very soon. And Bonnie, please continue her recovery from this abusive marriage. I’m all out of time now. Love you all.

Good morning my DAB family. This is Judy from Georgia. This message goes to Victoria Solider. Victoria, I’m so sorry my sister to hear about your brother passing. May God comfort and keep you in His care and comfort the rest of your family and give you the strength to get through this time of mourning. We’re all praying for you my dear. Have a great day everyone. God bless you all.

Good morning Daily Audio Listeners all around the world and here in the United States. This is Maurine from Alexandria. I want to call myself Dr. M, because that’s how many people refer to me. So anyway, I wanted to let you know that I am so grateful to all of you for your contributions, for your prayers and I want to say a quick prayer for everyone today, Sunday. For your healing, for your deliverance, for God’s peace and for God’s protection in your life. For all those who are suffering from COVID, I pray for God’s healing. For all those who have lost their loved ones, I pray for God’s comfort. For all those who are finding strength in the word of God, may you be strengthened in every area of your life. Father, thank You so much for my brothers and sisters all over the world. Thank You so much for this place where we can come together to pray and to study Your word. May Your divine presence strengthen, encourage, provide, protect and heal. In the name of Jesus, by the way, thank you for such a beautiful, beautiful time together daily. And we ask that your blessing continue on Brian and his family. Lord, we love You, we bless You, we worship You. In Jesus name. Amen.

Good morning everybody, it’s Susan from Canada, God’s Yellow Flower calling. I just want to lift up Victorious Solider in prayer today and her family, over the loss of her loved brother. Dear God, dear God, I am so thankful that her brother has been saved and is enjoying the benefits of his faith here on earth. I am joyful that his heart and soul and mind and body are with you, right at this time. But for those left behind God, it’s hard. And I pray Your arms of comfort about each and every one of them and that You would strengthen them and guide them and lead them through this hour of grief. I pray dear Lord that You would especially bless Victorious Soldier with leadership she needs in guiding this family through this terrible time. In Jesus name I pray. Amen.

Jeremiah 4:19-6:15, Colossians 1:18-2:7, Psalms 77:1-20, Proverbs 24:23-25

Today is the 5^th day of October, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I’m Brian it is wonderful to be here with you today just like it is wonderful to be here with you every day. We’re fortunate. We’re fortunate to have the Global Campfire. We’re fortunate to have this place to come to each and every day. And, so, I’m grateful. And let’s dive in. We are in the book of Jeremiah, kinda just getting moved into that. We are also in the book of…the book, but the letter to the Colossians, which we just began yesterday. So, we’re just getting into that so it’s kind of new territory for us. We’re reading from the Common English Bible this week. Jeremiah chapter 4 verse 19 through 6 verse 15 today.

Commentary:

Okay. So, there are days when we come to our reading from the Psalms that what we read is so raw, so honest, and we find that as a bit of a trademark in the Psalms. And we find that actually in music, right? We can find certainly pretentious music, sometimes that heart cry, or that person singing about heartbreak or some other thing that has happened and it just comes through because of the music, the feeling the emotion of the words is exponentially amped up, more on display. And, so, when we find music, a song, a lyric from the Psalms in the Bible saying what we feel, then we identify with it. And we may be…we may take a step back and go, “why is that in the Bible? The Bible’s supposed to be full of encouragement, all positivity.” But actually, the Bible is something that’s there to reach our hearts and to lead us to God. And honesty is a place to start. And, so, we see that in the 77^th psalm today that Asaph wrote. And he cries out in this Psalm with like…like a barrage of questions…maybe not a barrage…six questions in particular, but one after the other after the other. And if we pay attention to those questions, we find…we find ourselves in different seasons in our…in our lives having asked the same things. So, Asaph asks, “will my Lord reject me forever. Will He never be pleased again? Has His faithful love come to a complete end? Is His promise over for future generations? Has God forgotten how to be gracious? Has He angrily stopped up His compassion?” Those are some intensely honest questions. And maybe we haven’t used these exact words, but we’ve had these sentiments, we’ve had these thoughts, they’ve been in our hearts. Many of them we’ve spoken aloud and typically this is happening when we are not happy about something, right, when we have a crisis to deal with or we have to endure something or we’re suffering in some way. We usually don’t ask where has His…His compassion gone if everything is awesome and were having a great day. It’s usually when we’re in a season of challenge that these kinds of things begin to bubble up out of our heart. And it’s not like they weren’t there. They just emerge. They reveal themselves and all the sudden we check in with our own hearts and see that we’re not doing all that great. And at this point in the Psalm Asaph isn’t doing that great. So, he asks these six questions that we just asked or read ourselves. His response after those six questions is, “it’s my misfortune I thought that the strong hand of the most-high is different now.” That is so honest. That…that…that rings true. This is how he is actually experiencing life at the moment. And it…it’s so ancient. These words are thousands of years old and so relevant. And, so, we can see again, permission to be honest, it’s just what do we do once we reach that place…point…point that we stuffed things down inside enough till they kind of emerge, whether they blow up or they just seep out. What’s going on in our heart is going to seep out into our lives. So, what we do with it. Well…the first thing is to be honest about it. We’re seeing this modeled in the Bible, to be honest about it, but there are still choices to be made, because we can get really honest about how were feeling and we can cry tears and weep and plead and yell and spin around in circles and jump up and down and do whatever we need to do to release some of the energy, but we can get stuck there as if nothing will ever change and we can…we can turn toward bitterness and that will only make it worse. That will only lead us into further depths. It's…it’s as if Asaph caught himself and then gives another path. And, so, Asaph says, “I will remember the Lord’s deeds. Yes, I will remember your wondrous acts from times long past. I will meditate on all your works. I will ponder your deeds. God, your way is holiness. Who is as great a God as you, God? You are the God who works wonders. You have demonstrated your strength among all peoples.” So I don’t know that Asaph was a journal-er, but what he’s saying is he will remember what God has done and let that inform how he’s feeling now. And, so, often when we have kind of journaled our way through a year or through the Bible we’ll always have that so that when we can’t remember we have an epistle to ourselves, a letter to ourselves, essentially, that reminds us so that we might remember God’s faithfulness toward us, that yes, how we feel, what we’re enduring, what we’re facing, that’s real, it’s formidable, maybe it’s terrifying, maybe scary, maybe it brings anxiety. It’s life. It can be anything. The problem isn’t being honest about it, right, so that we fake, like it’s not happening, which is so really prevalent in our faith culture. It's…it’s not the honesty that’s an issue. It’s what we do with it. If we use our honesty to dig a pit that we might wallow in it, we can certainly do that and we’ll stay in the pit, we’ll be in the pit until we get out of the pit. What Asaph is modeling is recognizing through honesty that you are at a precipice in making a choice to remember, we’ve been this way before, suffered things before, endured things before, and scared before. God is faithful, and I will remember that. And, so, let’s take that into our day. I mean, that right there, I know…I know lots of you are going through stuff and need that today. And, so, thank God, I totally understand. And, so, let’s carry it today, that honesty is necessary and important, but it’s not the end. It’s the beginning. Let’s be honest, and then let’s remember that God is and has always been faithful.

Prayer:

Father, and we acknowledge that. You are always faithful. We have no examples of a time where You double-crossed anybody. You have always been true. You’ve always according to the Scriptures had a desire to be in fellowship to draw us to Yourself. We see this on every page of the Bible, Your relentless unwillingness to surrender us and Your continual willingness to pursue our hearts over the course of thousands of years and that hasn’t changed. You are faithful and we remember. And come Holy Spirit and bring to mind throughout the course of this day all kinds of time maybe we’ve forgotten that You’ve been faithful and have rescued us. This encourages us. This gives us confidence. This develops our faith. And, so come, we pray in Jesus’ name. Amen.

Commentary:

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And actually, let’s take a second to talk about that because a number of you, thousands of you have had some problems over the last several days, especially…specifically accessing the Daily Audio Bible through the app or through web. And I could probably sit here and talk for several hours…and I mean…probably hours just about what it’s like in the technology world and developing etc. etc. and the way in which it is a nonstop, constant…constant move forward. Just like we do at the Daily Audio Bible, a step forward together every day. But some of the stuff that’s happened in the last couple of days that have been frustrating have been frustrating to us too because it’s been beyond our control. Essentially, there…not to get too far in the weeds, but there’s a way that security is done on the Internet and encrypting things so that data can’t be intercepted or passed along, and we don’t have any of that kind of data at the Daily Audio Bible but we follow those protocols. And a major Internet security certificate issuer let their own certificate expire, which ended up affecting hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people, including stores that, you know, couldn’t do transactions, not just Internet stores, but store stores and the Daily Audio Bible was affected as well. So, we’ve done what we do whenever an issue like this arises or when we see something more widespread. We get together and start dissecting the problem and identifying and figuring out the solution. Sometimes a problem requires a long-term solution. And, so, we have to look long term and short term, but this is the nature of it. And, so, we have been working pretty feverishly to not be relying on those specific certificates or rather, getting them in our own control. And that will make us responsible for them, but it’ll also give us control over them so that if they expire it’s our fault. And, so, that is what we are in the process of doing and this should all straighten itself out. This particular issue, almost across the board has affected people who are android users who have an android type device and we were in contact and we were given the same information everybody else is being given, to be sure to advise anyone using an android device to make sure that their operating system is the most current because apparently there are some fixes for issues like this in the most current iteration of…of android. So, I’m passing that information along. And I’ll just say like even yesterday, places that are…places that have billions of users, like places way, way, way beyond the Daily Audio Bible like Facebook or Instagram, they were out yesterday or messenger our WhatsApp. They were out yesterday. Totally different issues, but issues. And they have an army of developers. So, just know, it can get crazy out there. And we are, in a way, aloof. Every…well…there’s a team that works on this every day at Daily Audio Bible. And also know that we have developed two different players. One is the Daily Audio Bible app, of course, but we also have an online player that you can access from the Daily Audio Bible website, at dailyaudiobible.com. We’ve built those two things separately so that we have at least inside of our community here a little bit of redundancy. So, know that if you are ever having an issue with the app just got to player.dailyaudiobible.com and you’ll have a player that is connected to the system and works the same as the app. And a widespread issue like the one we experienced over the weekend and into yesterday, that kinda stuff affects everything. It was affecting hundreds of thousands of people but we work really, really diligently to serve the community here and we always will. And we’re working on some…some longer-term projects that will invariably be incorporated over the next year to stabilize and help us serve even better. And, so, if you experience difficulties, pray for us. Pray for us. It’s so much more effective than hate mail. Pray for us as we pray for you every day. We’re in this together. Also know that we’re experiencing an uptick right now. And, so, I live in the central time zone here in the rolling hills of Tennessee. So, like 5AM to 11AM is when we’re geetin’ hammered. That’s when so many people are accessing the system. Beautiful. Love it. We’re increasing resources in that direction. But if you’re experience sluggishness, just wait. It’s that so many people are trying to access the same content that you are. So, be patient for like even a minute, which is…I know that’s pretty hard to do on the internet. We expect super high-speed super quick response. Boom boom boom I push the button and the thing happens. But sometimes when you have…when you push the button you are sending a message out that says to the server, I’m requesting this bit of information then the server computes and collects the information that you want and sends it back. And when a lot of people are asking for the same things at the same times then it cues up. So, just be patient for just a minute. Typically, everything can…can sort itself out. But anyway, I don’t want to get into the weeds here. Just pray for us as we pray for you as we continue to take the next step forward together because it is the deepest passion to bring the spoken word fresh every single day and brought to you excellently. When that has to happen seven days a week without fail invariably, sooner or later there are challenges. The team that works on all of this technology are also a part of who we are and listen to the Daily Audio Bible every day as well. So, pray for us. We’re in this together.

And, of course, as always if you have a prayer request or you have an encouragement you can hit the Hotline button in the app, which is the little red button up at the top or you can dial…you see the redundancy here…you can dial 877-942-4253.

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

Community Prayer and Praise:

Good morning my name is Z and I’d like to thank everyone in the DAB community for supporting each other. This is a beautiful beautiful forum. And the purpose of my call is to ask for prayer for myself as I undergo some challenges and uneasiness at work at present. I’m feeling unfulfilled, unappreciated and have been in my position for four years. It's…it pays the bills and I have a wonderful team of people under me, but my issue is leadership. I feel that it could be better and it’s frustrating at present to the point where I feel like I…I want to leave. I’m just hoping to find wisdom to make the right decision. I hope to…to get a sign from God as to what I should do in this situation. I can’t continue to be frustrated day in and day out in that environment in which I spend most of my…my day. So, I pray brothers and sisters, I ask for your prayer that I find the wisdom to make the right decision and get through this. Thank you.

Daily Audio Bible this…this prayer is for Alicia from Colorado who used to live in Montana. Alicia is blind and she just is recovering from COVID and she doesn’t have her sense of taste or smell back and she’s going through lots of fear and unsteadiness and…and lots of crying in depression and so understandable especially if you’re blind and…and…and, you know, and possibly alone. Father we lift up Alicia to you right now in the name of Jesus. We pray that you give her a hope and a faith that surpasses all this fear because opposite of fear…opposite of faith is fear. And Alicia the scripture says hope deferred makeith the heart sick but long and fulfilled is the tree of life. We pray that you will have this hope that you will get your…your taste back and the smell of food back so that you can eat and get your body strong again. Alicia, I…I know from just being here in Florida and the people that I know they still it takes months sometimes it takes up to 6 to 12 months to get…to get your taste and smell back. But we know God honor’s prayer and God is healing you and we claim that right now in the name of Jesus, that you will get it back quickly. So, we claim that right now. DABbers please agree with me in Jesus’ name for Alicia and we lift her up to you in Jesus’ name we pray that you give her the peace that’s surpasses all understanding and…and a vast amount of faith and we come against depression and we pray that you fill her up with your joy and your peace in Jesus’ name. Amen.

Hi this is Just as I am Sam in Northern California my first-time calling in. I started listening to Daily Audio Bible in 2019 and I’m totally hooked. I love how Brian just can make sense out of the Bible and put it in such understandable terms. So, thank you so much for that. And I would like to ask for prayer for myself. I’m having an MRI tomorrow. That’s on Friday. And I have chronic pain in my spine and back and I’m just praying that Jesus will light it up and…and show the doctors what’s going on. I’ve struggled with this pain for over 15 years, and we would like to get help and answers. So, I’d appreciate your prayers. And I’m praying for all of you as well. And it’s been a wonderful group and help in times of loneliness and I love you all. Thank you. God bless you.

Hello this is Ruth __. I’m calling to thank you Brian, Jill, China for devoting your life to this __. I have in my heart there was a call that came in last week with a mother who was talking about her children. She had many. I think she might have mentioned she had nine children. And they were molested by their father and the father has been put in jail. And I lift the children up to you Lord and their mother. I just…my heart breaks just knowing that they’ve gone through such horrible situation. I know that You can rectify this. I know that she can bring them back and make them whole, so they don’t spend their lives worrying about this all the time. Lord and I also I want to ask for prayer for my family. I have a daughter who’s stepped away from me for reasons I never understand, and I need to have her back again. I also have a grandson who is not doing well, and he has stepped away from the family. I lift them all up to You Lord. You can…You can heal this family and bring them back. I thank you. Thank you all I love each one of you and I try to remember to pray for you each and every day. Thank you.

Hey this is Jerry calling from Duluth Minnesota. So appreciated the words this morning of Brian Friday October the first…actually Saturday October the second. It’s a day 890 of my renewed journey in the Daily Audio Bible. Some of you have been here many years know me as Jerry the Paper Carrier from Duluth MN. Back in April 26^th of 2019 I renewed my commitment to the Daily Audio Bible. Now it’s been 890 days without a miss getting up early in the morning starting my day with the Daily Audio Bible. Appreciate your prayers through the years and wanted to particularly today pray for Brian…Byron sorry in Florida. You’ve been such a blessing to me over the many years. Pray for your wife who’s dealing with so many health issues and have for so many years. And Charlie from Houston who’s been wife has been dealing with lupus and now has found out that there is difficulty with the heart and lungs. And Byron thank you so much to for sharing that…that little story as far as the bus stop is concerned and for taking time even through really difficult times to look at the little things and remember what God has done for us. Also thank you Brian again for reminding us as far as the journal. I remember when you told the story of the black wing pen…pencil’s when your mom was had…was passing away. I’ve journaled now I’ve for many…many many months and years since…

Good morning, everybody I’m Ms. Jomiah God is Coming and I want to pray for Byron from Florida. I wanted to pray for his wife and that his wife becomes healthy, and that God is always helping you and He’ll be on your side no matter what. So, thank you Byron for sharing your story because that means a lot to people and thank you so much. So, as we pray in Jesus’ name Amen.

Jeremiah 2:31-4:18, Colossians 1:1-17, Psalm 76:1-12, Proverbs 24:21-22

Today is October 4th, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible, I am Brian, it is great to be here with you today, it’s great to be with you every day. But today is today and it’s great to be here with you today. As we come around the Global Campfire and let it all go, whatever that thing is that snagging at us that are those things, these pressures, these obligations and responsibilities. These fears, these uncertainties, we are allowed to carry them around as much as we want. That’s not necessarily a healthy thing to do and we are also given permission to not carry them around. But let’s at least give ourselves permission to not carry them around right now, like we’re around the Global Campfire now, we’re safe right now. And, what’s gonna happen now is we’re just going to read the Scriptures and let them wash into our lives and so often something that we need is there and so often when we leave this place, the things that we have to pick up and carry, they don’t have the same weight. Things shift and so let’s just let it all go as we move forward in our journey and take the next step forward. Which leads us back into the book of Jeremiah, which we just began yesterday. So, we’re just getting going in Jeremiah. When we get to the New Testament, we have new territory there as well. But first Jeremiah chapter 2, verse 31 through 4, verse 18.

Introduction to the Book of Colossians:

Okay, so we concluded the letter. Paul’s letter to the Philippians yesterday. Which brings us to the 12th book in the New Testament, which is another letter from the apostle Paul, this one to the Colossians and the Colossians were people who lived in the city of Colossae which was not a place unfamiliar to Paul. It’s about 100 miles from where he spent a lot of his time in Ephesus and Colossae is, I don’t know that it’s an archaeological ruins or site, at this point it’s been identified, but not really excavated. It sits in modern-day Turkey. But during Paul’s life, Colossae wasn’t an archaeological ruin at all. It was a bustling city and it had everything that you can imagine that bustling city in the Roman Empire would have, a lot of mingling of culture, a lot of mingling of philosophical ideas, a lot of mingling of spirituality and some of this mingling had made its way into the Colossian church. And so, Paul writes this letter as a response and similar to Ephesians and Philippians, Colossians is generally considered to be a prison epistle, so another letter that Paul wrote while he was awaiting trial before the emperor and the letter generally has two sections, to two themes. The first is a doctrinal issue. There had been people coming into the church and we’ve seen this before. This is a little different though, people would come into the church, they were fellowshipping in the church, but also teaching things like Angel worship, and some just other rituals that were not part of what Paul was teaching. And so, Paul addresses this in this letter by showing us once again this high, high Christology, this awareness that Christ is supreme over all creation, over all angelic beings, over everything. He writes in his letter that the universe, the very universe is created by and through Jesus and is…is sustained through the Lordship of Christ. And then Paul also addresses something we’ve seen before this, circumcised versus uncircumcised controversy that was dominant in the early church. We’ve seen it in other letters where people come in and I like no you got obey the Jewish customs, you’ve got to essentially become Jewish, then follow the Jewish Messiah, follow those customs, which Paul was very, very much against. We’ve had lots of conversations about that, in Colossians Paul is still against that teaching and so we’ll once again hear him make corrections and once again we have a letter that was sent to actual people in an actual congregation giving us insight into what was happening in their congregation. And since we have a collection of letters from Paul, we see the themes, the commonalities, the different things that the early churches were facing and for that matter, their distinctions and the different cities. But we get a really good glimpse at the struggles that were going on among our brothers and sisters that are our spiritual ancestors. And as we read these letters, we find that maybe context changes a little. The cities definitely change, the regions definitely change but the things that we find ourselves wrestling with, in dealing with, within ourselves and with…with in our fellowships, within our communities of faith, we still have this kind of stuff going on and so these letters, Colossians being the one that were about to read, serve as opportunities to be corrected, to find a path again, to get our NorthStar back and walk in a direction that is profitable for the kingdom of God. And so, we begin Colossians chapter 1 verses 1 through 17 today.

Prayer:

Father, we thank You for Your word. We thank You for this new territory into this letter to the Colossians that we are entering into, we ask that You lead and guide our hearts and we might understand what we need to understand, plant the seeds of the Scriptures in our lives. And may they yield the fruit of the Spirit, that we may have a bountiful harvest not only for our own hearts, may it spill out into our marriages and our families, may it spill over into our faith communities, may it spill out into this world that we may be that city on a hill, that we may be a light in the darkness, that we may illuminate the narrow path that leads to life. Come, Holy Spirit into all of this we pray. In the name of Jesus, we ask. Amen.

Announcements:

dailyaudiobible.com is home base and that’s the website, it’s where you can find out what’s going on around here, how to get connected around here, how to pray for one another. I mean there’s all kinds of resources in the Daily Audio Bible website. You can access all this using the Daily Audio Bible app as well. There is little drawer icon in the upper left-hand corner. So, things like the Daily Audio Bible Shop where there are resources for the journey that we find ourselves on. Now that we’re moving into the final quarter of the year there are a number of resources there in the Daily Audio Bible Shop. Also, the Community section, that is, that is how to get connected. The different social media channels that you can follow Daily Audio Bible on and that is that’s, if you taking the journey, that’s a good thing to do because that allows us to make announcements, etc. etc. and so check that out. The links are all in the Community section.

If you want to partner with the Daily Audio Bible you can do that at dailyaudiobible.com too. There is a link on the homepage or if you’re using the app, you can press the Give button in the upper right-hand corner or if you prefer the mail, the mailing address is P.O. Box 1996 Springhill, Tennessee 37174.

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

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

Prayer and Encouragements:

Hi, Daily Audio Bible family, this is God’s Life Speaker. I am calling on behalf of my son, Joshua, who you all have prayed for, for years now. He’s 21 and at graduate school and he has been in a state if not well for quite a while and last night I was talking to him and it just broke out into prayer with him and we just need whatever is taking him down, fighting for his soul, to go, to be cast as far as the east is from the west. Family, please let’s stand together for these mental health issues these young people are having in the name of Jesus. We ask that Your mighty hand come over Joshua and anyone that is in need of being delivered from this spiritual realm that is of darkness and they feel they’re in a pit and cannot come above. But You’re there and we love You Lord and you’re allowing this to go through Your hands. In the name of Jesus, we ask that You would deliver these people, bring them up, may they long to love You. May they overcome these things, may they be refined and may they be magnifying Your name. I ask it in Your son’s precious name. Amen.

Good morning DABer family this is the Burning Bush That Will Not Be Devoured for the Glory of our God and our King. I am calling for our sister Alyssa from Montana. Sister, I am praying for you. I prayed for you when I heard your prayer request and for those that didn’t hear, she is legally blind. She had COVID recently and lost her senses of taste and smell, and that is definitely hitting her a hard. My sister, I want you to know that I prayed for you and I believe that the same God who raised the dead can restore your senses. And so, Father God, I pray Oh Lord, that you restore her senses and…and give her just divine healing of her body that she will be whole, Father. And God, I thank You Oh Lord, because you love Alyssa and I pray that you just guide her as she awaits Your miracle. Thank You God for miracle after miracle in the name of Jesus I pray, Amen. We love you, my sister. May God bless and keep you and cause His face to shine upon you and give you peace and giver you your sense of smell and give you your sense of taste. God Bless, bye.

Hello there, DAB family. I love this community. Thank you so much. This is my first time. I just wanted to reach out to my Aussie friend there, in Canada. But my Aussie friend there that just requested prayer for his, I believe it’s his brother or friend. I know about mental illness. My mother had schizophrenia so, it is very difficult to have a loved one with this illness and just pray protection over him, bring him home Lord Jesus. Bring him to his place of peace, Lord and just comfort him right now, in his grief Oh Lord. The grief, can sometimes overwhelm but you have given us peace, so bring him to that place. Lord Jesus, and I also want to pray for the mom that reached out from Wyoming. I pray for wisdom and strength for your daughter to make the right decision. That she will just know from your wisdom as a mother, that she would listen to you and open her heart to take Godly advice. I pray Father that she will make the right decision. I also would love prayer for my…my daughter in Australia and my son, who are now not talking to me. They’re just going through, they’re adult children, they’re going through hard time with this pandemic. Just please pray that God would touch their hearts and they would come back to Him. Bless you all. I love you all.

Hello Daily Audio Bible family. This is Becky in Orlando and I would like for all of our Daily Audio Bible prayer warriors to come and circle around our new sister in the Daily Audio Bible family. Her name is Myra, she’s from New Jersey and I just met her in one of our hotels. Myra has been dealing with some horrible things that have happened to her where she just got attacked while she was in New Jersey. And she’s dealing now with PTSD. And if we could just pray for Myra. Anyway, I’ll start us off, Dear God, if you could please send the Blessed Comforter, the Holy Spirit, to tend to Myra, to give her comfort that only Jesus can give to her, to mend her wounds, both psychologically and spiritually. And, we know that this can be done because You are just the most amazing God and I pray that she listens to the Daily Audio Bible everyday and that it brings her comfort. And I pray that anybody else that’s listening to this would be able to get just the word that Jesus knows and God’s knows, the Holy Spirit knows all the plans that we have that He has for our lives. Sometimes the picture, we can’t see the big picture but He has such big plans and we don’t understand what His plans are for us at the time. So, please allow God’s plans to you know to unfold in her life and I pray that she just keeps on listening. So, Myra, from New Jersey, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible family and God Bless you, my sister. Alright, thanks Daily Audio Bible prayer warriors around the world. Alright, bye.

Hello, this is Nelly. I just want to let you all know that I’m praying for you all. And it’s such an encouragement to be part of this Community. I just pray that you also pray for me as I’m struggling with very dark and depressing thoughts. It’s been such a struggle. I haven’t been able to sleep. I’m just asking for prayer, thank you. I love you all.

Jeremiah 1:1-2:30, Philippians 4:1-23, Psalms 75:1-10, Proverbs 24:17-20

Today is October 3^rd welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I am Brian it’s great to be here with you today as we greet a shiny sparkly new week. And this is the first time we get to do this in the month of October, the first time we’re moving into a full week in this month. And we have other new beginnings. We’re beginning a brand-new book today. We concluded the book of Isaiah yesterday, which brings us to the book of Jeremiah.

Introduction to the book of Jeremiah:

And we’ll find Jeremiah to be very intriguing. It’s one of the major prophets. So, we’ll kind of camp out for a while as we move through it, but we’ll see that it has a different complexion than Isaiah. It’s written by a different person. And part of what’s compelling about Jeremiah is Jeremiah. He was a prophet. He was devoted to God, but he didn’t like everything he was instructed to do, and he felt alone and unheard, and that nobody was listening. And there were definitely times that he was frustrated and wanted to just kinda check out, just be released and not have to speak to people who aren’t listening, to just wash his hands of it. And he wasn’t like delusional or needy or whatever. It was true. Nobody was listening. Israel did turn her back on God. And, so, for a couple of decades Jeremiah is this lone voice, warning of where they’re going and that it’s not where they want to end up. And for these warnings he got into a lot of conflict and arguments and was imprisoned because it didn’t look like what he was saying was true. Things were going really well for the people. It was a prosperous time. And, so, Jeremiah with this message is just a disruptive message that brings doom and gloom in a prosperous time and that isn’t good for business. And, so, Jeremiah just finds himself kind of in conflict. Most of the time. And as we will discover, what Jeremiah warned about for a couple of decades eventually came to fruition. The Babylonian Empire invaded, and they conquered Jerusalem in 587. And at this time…this is…Solomon’s Temple is in Jerusalem and the Babylonians wipe it out, destroy it completely. And, so, let’s dive in. We’ll read from the Common English Bible this week. Jeremiah chapter 1 verse 1 through 2 verse 30 today.

Prayer:

Father, we thank you for your word. We thank you for this new territory that we are entering into today into the book of Jeremiah. We look forward to the new territory that we will enter into tomorrow as we move forward in the New Testament. We thank you for this brand-new week, this first full week of the 10^th month of the year of the final quarter of the year. We thank you for your faithfulness. We thank you for instructing and guiding us through your word every day. We thank you for your patience with us and your compassion toward us. And we invite you into everything that we do and say this week, all of the thoughts and intentions of our hearts. We invite your Holy Spirit, and we invite our spirits to be aware of your Holy Spirit that is always present to us, that we might walk in fellowship and friendship, but that we also submit ourselves to your authority and guidance. We pray this in the name of Jesus. Amen.

Community Prayer and Praise:

Hi this is Victoria Soldier just calling to pray for some of the DABbers and I just wanted to let everyone know something that…that happened to me today. My precious brother died, the one who had COVID and just continue to pray for him. He was staring and…and everything for…for quite a few days and he finally closed his dies today about 6:00 o'clock. I just thank God that he…he’s in his destination and knowing that. I want to pray for Sharon. Also, I want to pray for my brother who had said that he had lost everything. I wanted to pray for him and let him know that…that God has…has some of the plans that he…he needs to consult God on what is his next move because God says…David said I’m young and I’m old, but I’ve never seen the righteous forsaken or seen begging for bread. I’m going to ask God to open up doors for him and him to begin to see. And Tara from Texas, I want to also pray for…for Maggie. I want to pray for those who are…Treasured Possession. I want to pray for those who…those who are going through, those who lost their precious son, my sister who lost her precious father. And I’m going to pray for Lisa who is supposed to be having surgery and…and it was good to hear Drew from the Bay Area and my sweetheart of a friend Blind Tony. It’s always so good to hear from you Tony and…and all the people of God and God’s Smile, all of my precious, precious sisters and brothers. And congratulations Jill and Brian on being a grandmother in grandfather again. Gracious father I just lift you up. What a wonderful day. Today is such a wonderful day because you made this day, and you have everything that every one of our DABbers need. You have life and favor. You have healing, you have hope…

Hi, thank you Daily Audio Bible for being so wonderful. I’m so happy to listen to the Bible and listen to the people praying in God’s name, in Jesus’ name. I wanted to give a message for God’s Daisy, God’s Crown of Daisy. It really touched my heart when I heard you speaking about wanting to reconnect with your dad and how much you have been touched by the Daily Audio Bible by the Bible by the people praying and how only in one year you've…not even…you found energy and resilience to come back towards your father and your mother-in-law…oh…I mean your stepmom. God bless you and I will keep you in my prayers that everything will go smoothly during your meeting, that the Holy Spirit will take possession of your heart and your mouth so that you know what to say and not say and to just say a prayer that the whole space that you guys are in in their house or wherever you meet that it be filled up with God’s holy power and His love and His peace and to really touch them both whether they believe or not in Christ. I want to say also that it…it brought some tears to my eyes, joyful tears because I’ve been struggling with my relationship with my sister for over a year now. And she has decided to not talk to me or my mom or my dad. They are very, very sad. I’ve been praying for her every single day, and I felt if it was God’s wink when I…

Good morning beautiful sons and daughters of our one true Father. My…I’ve been given the name of God’s Glory. Although it’s hard to receive I still claim it here every day. But this is my first year listening through the DAB, this is my first time calling but I’m calling __ morning just to respond to Jonathan in Denver. Brother man you’ve been in my thoughts, hearts, and prayers since the first time I heard you called several months ago. So, it’s good to hear your voice and just let me tell you like how encouraging that first call was because the amount of strength and courage that it took to make the call. Here I am making my first call. So…so, thank you again for being here. And I know all too well what it’s like to be the prodigal son that ran away. But let me tell you brother this Father is waiting for you looking searching and he runs out to meet you. God…ah…thank you. Brother, we lift you up in your struggles God and just be with…be with him. And…and let me tell you brother I join in the feast that God is preparing for you as you return home. I know there’s not much time but Val in Vegas you bring me so much joy. Thank you, sister. I’m praying the peace of Christ over you. Just know that there is healing in the scars, and I know it’s hard but your loved, you are beautiful. And just stay strong. So, thank you.

Hey this is Linda from Southwest Florida and calling in because I just heard Jonathan from Denver for the second time since I started listening to the daily audio Bible back in springtime, I can’t remember exactly when. But Jonathan from Denver you broke my heart. You’re a young man with an addiction that you’re very ashamed of and I’ve…I’ve been praying for you. You’re on my physical written prayer list in my little home office and when I heard your voice today, I just was awestruck. And I want you to know that I’ve been praying for you. And I wish there was a way that we could speak to one another. I’m an old woman. I could probably be your grandmother. I could be your grandmother. You’re young. But I understand your addiction and I hear the agony in your voice, and it breaks my heart. The fact that you’re a young man and you’re seeking in the right area brings me joy. So, it’s a big contrast between how it breaks my heart and how it brings me joy at the same time that you are seeking help, you are seeking to be right with God, and you will be right with God, and you will find peace. I can promise you that you’ll man. I love you. I love your heart. You will find the peace that you need. Don’t ever give up looking for it. In Jesus name. Amen.

Dear DAB family I want to continue to ask you to pray for my little boy. He’s not really little. He’s a big guy. He’s 45 years old but he has COVID. My sister-in-law has COVID, and I’ve got five kids 14 and under and I ask you to pray for him because he has bad respiratory issues, he has a bad heart, he has a lot of weight to lose, and Jesus loves him so much. And I was just thinking about the other day when we were talking about fasting and praying and everything and how, you know, we’re not supposed to brag about and everything. And I remember when my brother was a little baby and how my granddaddy because when my brother was born, he was born with a collapsed lung and so I remember my granddad praying for him and so it just brought back memories and brings back memories now. And anyways please…please keep my brother Lucas and his family in your prayers. And I thank you guys. I’m praying for you guys all the time. I keep little yellow tabs in my Bible to remember to pray for you guys all the time. And I love you guys. And I’m really thankful for you. And this is Heather from California by the way. Sorry I didn’t mention that. But anyways take care and thank you. Thanks for praying for Lucas and his family. God really loves him. He’s very special. He’s a real special guy. And we know that Jesus loves everybody and…and…and Lucas is one of those that just been around the block. But anyways I better go because I’m running out of time. Thank you. Thank you. We love you guys. Bye.

Isaiah 66:1-24, Philippians 3:4-21, Psalm 74:1-23, Proverbs 24:15-16

Today is the 2nd day of October, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible, I’m Brian, it is wonderful to be here with you today as we continued to drag all of our stuff over from the last month and move in to this brand-new month that we have just begun. As we…as we navigate the final quarter of the year together. And today, we will conclude the book of Isaiah and we’ve been camped out in Isaiah for a while. It’s one of the longer books, we’ll conclude Isaiah today, we’re reading from the Christian Standard Bible Isaiah 66.

Prayer:

Father, we thank You for Your word. I thank You for bringing us through this week and into this new month and even today, we thank You for bringing us through the book of Isaiah and we look forward to moving forward tomorrow into the book of Jeremiah and all that it has in store for us. So, we are grateful. Even though we think about all that’s out in front of us. We are grateful to be here now, worshiping You, glorifying Your name, inviting awareness of Your Holy Spirit, that we might glorify You in our bodies and every motivation and every word spoken and everything that we do. Holy Spirit, come and lead us, help us to pay attention, help us to obey. Help us to follow where You are leading. We ask in the name of Jesus. Amen.

Announcements:

dailyaudiobible.com is home base. It’s the website, it’s where the Global Campfire burns, it’s how you find out what’s going on around here, so check it out and stay connected in any way that you can. Check out the Daily Audio Bible Shop while you’re there. There are a number of categories in the Daily Audio Bible Shop and we’ve kinda divided everything up into different categories, but these are all resources that have been created over the years and they are for the Community here around the Global Campfire and they are to take our journey deeper and wider to connect us even more to the Scriptures and to the way that they teach us how to live our lives and so, I mean not every single one of them, but for example the Daily Audio Bible Journal. We’ve fashioned that over time, picking the exact right paper to write with and the right size to be able to carry it around and so you may be like well, journaling isn’t gonna take my journey deeper and that may or may not be true, but when you write your journey down well, in my experiences, upon reflection. For example, if you journey your way through the Bible in a year. A lot of things are gonna happen in a year, in life that the Bible can certainly speak to and inform and help us to not react to, but a lot of things happen in a year of life and to be able to sort of chronicle some of that and then may be, take a couple of days at the end of the year, may be that space between Christmas and New Year’s, where we’re thinking about how we’re going to live a better life and make some significant changes in the coming year and get really reflective to just kind of look back over the year that God has brought you through, and to be able to see the way that the Scripture spoke and the way that you’re still here able to read this that you got through. Yeah, that takes the journey deeper. So, there are all kinds of ways to go about that but it’s part of the mission here to…to make it the journey of a lifetime because that’s what it is. So, check out the Daily Audio Bible Shop, you can do that on the web well, just the Shop link on the website or if you’re using the app, you can press the little drawer icon in the upper left-hand corner and you’ll find the Shop in there. So, check the resources out there.

If you want to partner with the Daily Audio Bible, that can be done at dailyaudiobible.com as well. There is a link on the homepage. And thank you, thank you so profoundly, we would not…we would not be here if we were not here together and it's…it’s just…it’s an awe-inspiring thing that we are in this together. So, there is 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, you can hit the Hotline button in the app, that’s the little red button at the top or you can dial 877-942-4253.

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

Prayer and Encouragements:

Good morning, it’s Eyes of a Dove here. If you guys are just waking up like I am and you’re getting ready to go to work join me in prayer this morning. Father God, good morning, thank You for waiting on the couch as we busy ourselves running back and forth with our clothing and brushing our teeth and getting our coffee and there You sit so eagerly waiting just to have a moment, thank You for loving us even when we make mistakes and we mess up and we do it on purpose knowing that we’re sinning. We do it with an intent of selfishness, pushing You aside and ignoring that we know that You’re there waiting for us, knowing that You’re always gonna be there waiting for us and taking our relationship with You for granted. Thank You for loving us through those things. We’re girded around like truth; we’re shot in the preparations of the gospel of peace. We put on the helmet of salvation which is Your mind, the mind of Christ. We put on the breastplate of righteousness, the sword of the Spirit, the shield of faith. Father, put a hedge of protection and a ring of fire around us Father, give us a legion of angels to protect us as we go, today. That no fiery dart that any coworker, any person shoots at our armor will penetrate our hearts and hurt us. But Father, that we would take that arrow and turn it around and make it love. Father, that they would be shocked by the love that we give. Maybe it’s the one that betrayed you at work that you hold bitterness towards. Maybe it’s time to go get them some coffee, just give them a surprise sandwich and tell them “I knew this was your favorite I just wanted to bless you today. I’m thankful to be your co-worker.” Help us to be like You Jesus, to be that example of You. I love You Lord. Amen.

Hello DAB family, this is Charlie from Houston. And I know my wife’s listening, Julie. Hi Julie. First, I’m a ten-year listener and first-time caller. I apologize for not calling before, I know I should have. It’s a pride not calling in as Brian has said we need others to help carry us through the hard times. Many times, over the past 10 years I’ve really needed that. So, before I get into my prayer request though I did want to just to say real quick how thankful I’ve been for so many people that have been so faithful over the years but particularly wanted to say thank you to Blind Tony and Victorious Soldier. You guys are amazing and just appreciate the love that you’ve shown this community over the years. I want to lift up my wife. She…we got some pretty difficult news last week. She’s had Lupus for many years and she’s got some…some things wrong with her heart and her lungs and some indications that there was some pretty severe, issues particularly with her heart. God has given us a verse, Judges 6:23 which says “peace, don’t be afraid you’re not going to die” but I also know we need to put the work in through prayer. And I know of no better group to do that then the DAB family, so I’m just asking you guys would pray for her, pray for the healing of her heart and of her lungs and I will keep you posted on the progress as we go along. Thanks.

Hey DAB family this is Byron out in Florida. I hope you all are doing well. We could use your prayers; my wife is back in the hospital. It seems she has some sort of internal infection and she’s gonna be there for a few days running a course of anti-biotics. But the Lord is still with us and I’ll tell you how I know. Rushing to get my kids to school and we’re running late and we’re gonna miss the bus. And that’s just gonna wreck the morning. And so, I’m sitting at the last red light and I’m like “Lord, I need a perfect two minutes, we’ve done everything that we can. I need you to carry us the rest of the way.” So, I drive and the trickiest part of getting to the bus stop is that you have to make a U-turn on a 6-lane road. And when I see the turn up there at the intersection there’s a semi-waiting to make to make the turn. I think, that’s it, we’re not gonna make it. And at the last moment I see the semi-about to inch up and I think maybe I can do this and sure enough the semi’s turning so slow that it blocks all three lanes of oncoming traffic and I get through that U-turn as quickly as if there were no cars there, even though there were a dozen. And we get there at the very last minute. And it was like the climax of the movie, I was like yes, yes did you see that, did you see what He did, He blocked the whole road. It was so awesome and I just praise Him for it. My wife is tired, she’s been sick for the better part of the decade and now we’re back to the hospital yet again. And she’s tired and we’re tired and I just need you guys to pray that God is gonna take us the rest of the way cause we don’t have much left that we can do. We know He’s there with us and we know that He will listen to your prayers. So, please keep us in your hearts. Love you guys.

Good morning my DAB family. It’s Joyful J in the Everglades. A voice you haven’t heard from in a while. I will say I do listen and I’m caught up on the daily postings, I am way far behind on the community prayers. But I just had to share. Sometimes Scripture not just steps on your toes but it will kick your behind. And today, in the reading in Proverbs, Proverbs 24:10 and I’m gonna…I don’t have it in front of me so I’m gonna butcher it a little but it said, if you do nothing in difficult times, your strength is a weakened. Oh, my goodness, in the last six months I find my job very difficult and I find myself wanting to run, wanting to quit. Throw up my hands, put my head in the sand. And that is not the way of Jesus Christ and of the Lord, God our savior. I love the Proverbs, very black and white and I need that and I needed that today. Thank you, Brian, thank you Jill, thank you all the behind-the-scenes people. I love you my DAB family. I love the prayers. I lift each and every one of you up when I hear those prayers and I'm…I am praying right now for the community in the community prayer the last one posted in July, so that’s how far behind I am but know, like a blanket, that never, that we’re never uncovered from, we are covered in prayer, no matter when we post. In Jesus name I pray. Amen.

Good morning, everybody it’s Susan from Canada, God’s Yellow Flower calling. And today I want to talk to Jonathan from Denver. Welcome back my son, welcome back. Kill the fattened calf, wear the ring and the robes of the son of God, you are back and we are rejoicing. And we will be praying for you Jonathan, continually to stand firm and to grow in the Lord every day and then you will be there for when we fall cause we all fall and we get up on the strength of the Lord and the help of fellow believers and we’re here for you. Just keep on going. Dear Lord Jesus, just be with Jonathan, pick him up, dust him off and walk with him through the miry clay. Dear Lord, help him not only to seek You but to forgive himself. As we all fall, we all sin and we all need Your grace. And I pray Lord God, that when I fall, he will be there to pick me up. In Jesus precious and Holy name, I pray. Amen.