Zechariah 4:1-5:11, Revelations 14:1-20, Psalm 142:1-7, Proverbs 30:21-23
Today is the 23rd day of December, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian, it is wonderful to be here with you today. Christmas eve, eve, can you believe it? How did we get here, but here we are and it’s wonderful to be around the Global Campfire with you on Christmas eve, eve as we continue our journey forward day-by-day, step-by-step which will include Christmas eve and Christmas day and so on and so forth, but it is a joy and an honor and a privilege to be here with you today as we move in deeply into the Christmas season and holiday. And we have sort of slowed our pace as far as moving through very, very rapidly moving through different books of…of the Scriptures. We’re camped out all the way through the Christmas holiday and right to the end of the year now, as we entered the book of Zechariah yesterday, which will take us up into the last couple of days of the year and we’ve been in the book of Revelation for a bit, which will take us to the last day of the year. So, let’s dive in for today. Zechariah chapters 4 and 5.
Prayer:
Father, we thank You for Your word, we thank You for another day, another step forward and these steps are leading us to a great celebration ultimately and eternally, but a great celebration is coming here in a couple of days upon the earth, joy to the world and we can sense that, we can we can feel that but we can also feel the tension that’s underneath that, not only from just preparing for festivities and trying to figure out how we’re gonna pay for it all of and all of the things that are just human in nature, but underneath it all, we can feel. Yes, we know what it feels like to have goodwill toward one another. We can feel the joy of Your arrival. But the tension that’s underneath it and the loneliness for many, that accompanies it can be really, really difficult. And so, we are grateful, we are grateful for even what we were given today as a gift from the Scriptures, from Psalms and so we pray these words out of the Scriptures because they are true. You are the one I called to, O eternal one. I said, Your the only safe place I know. You’re all I’ve got in this world and ultimately this is so true and yet You are all that we need, when we lose sight of that is when we start siphoning off each other for being validated or for finding an identity, but You are what we need. You are the one, You are this safe place. And so, praying again out of the Psalms, when my spirit buckled under the burdens I bear, You knew my way. And so, we rest in that, even as we take steps forward that lead us into the holiday season and through the holiday season and into the new year. We rest in the fact that You will not leave us and You are a safe place that we can run to. And so, Holy Spirit, we pray that this would come to mind, that we would remember this when we’re overwhelmed with some kind of an emotion, whether that be anger or whether that be depression or loneliness or hopelessness or anything. You are a safe place. You are a place of refuge and we run to You and we worship You and we find hope and comfort in You. And we pray these things in the name of Jesus. Amen.
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