Month: January 2022

Exodus 2:11-3:22, Matthew 17:10-27, Psalm 22:1-18, Proverbs 5:7-14

Today is the 26th day of January, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian. It is fantastic to be here with you today. I mean, every day, that’s true of every day. It’s wonderful to be around the Global Campfire together as we take the next step forward. We have been reading from the English Standard Version this week, which is what will continue to do. Yesterday, we finished our first book in the Bible which was the book of Genesis and then we began the book of Exodus. And so, we kind of talked about the territory that we were moving into and the fact that as we turn into Exodus, we’re moving forward a couple of centuries. All of the children of Israel, the original children of Israel, it’s a couple hundred years ago so they’ve all passed away. But they had children along the way and they have become as numerous as the sand on the seashore and now the Egyptians are afraid of them and have enslaved them. And all of those details are to lead us to be introduced to the next major leader or figure that we’ll be following with for quite a while, his name is Moses. Pharaoh had ordered that all male Hebrew children be thrown into the Nile River to drown. Moses was put in the Nile River in a basket. Pharaoh’s daughter found him, had mercy on him, hired his mother to nurse and raise him up and then when he was old enough, deliver him to her to be her son. The son of Pharaoh’s daughter. And so that’s how Moses, a Hebrew, is educated like of the Royal class and yet he is a Hebrew, which causes some dissonance in Moses heart and that’s where we pick up the story. Exodus chapter 2 verse 11 through 3 verse 22 today.

Commentary:

Okay, they’re several things in the Scripture reading today that we could talk about and some of them we will talk about as we continue forward. For example, in the gospel of Matthew today Jesus says something pretty profound “for truly I say to you, if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain move from here to there and it will move and nothing will be impossible for you”. So, obviously faith is something that we will talk about in many, many different ways as we move through the entirety of the Scriptures, but let’s just acknowledge that if what Jesus is saying is true, then faith, even a little bit is astoundingly powerful. I mean, a mustard seed is a tiny little seed, tiny, tiny little seed in the palm of your hand, it just doesn’t work in the same way that brute force works. Like, we can understand like I’m just going to go get this thing done. Whether we succeed or fail, we’re just gonna go take matters into our own hands, step in and give all of our strength at something. We can even pray thinking like, I’m praying in faith, I’m getting loud, I’m commanding the promises, I’m calling down heaven. This is gonna happen. But the reality of how this works is our faith is not in this thing being changed, our faith is in God. God in his sovereignty can do anything and our faith is in God.

Then we move into the book of Psalms for a quick second and there are words that begin the 22nd Psalm that should be familiar “my God my God why have you forsaken me.” If you’re familiar with Jesus story at all than you know that he’s quoting from this Psalm when he’s dying on the cross, which is a story that we will be encountering for the first time not too long from now.

Then we flip back into the book of Exodus and God introduces Himself to Moses and He introduces Himself by saying I am, who I am, which is profound in it of itself. It’s like to describe God using human terms is so woefully short of the mark. God often uses attributes about Himself to describe Himself in a way that human beings can understand and so often those attributes are what we know and so we kind of flesh out this picture of who God is, when the truth is we are created beings, we don’t know or have the capacity to fully comprehend what we’re talking about when we are talking about the most High God. So, Moses is like who am I supposed to say sent me, there gonna ask me, who sent me and God’s says, tell them I am that I am, I am sent you. And so, let’s just remember that a small amount of faith in the I am, who I am is one of the most tremendous forces available. It may take all of forever to begin to comprehend the beauty and magnitude and authority and sovereignty and power of this great I am but we are underway. Let’s not put ceilings on who God is, for we have much to learn. Thankfully, according to the Scriptures, I am, the God of all things wants to be known. So, we could spend this year and we could spend the rest of our lives trying to figure this out and put it on the spreadsheet and get into formulas about what God will and will not do and who he will and will not do it with. All we can realize that as we read the Scriptures, God will do what God will do. He is, who He is, there is no other, there is no one higher, there is no one more powerful, He bows to no one, He has created this all. So rather than trying to figure out His movements and who He’s going to do things with maybe we could just focus our efforts and our hearts affection upon knowing Him and allowing the rest to just fade and recede into the background.

Prayer:

And so, Father truly, truly at the heart of it all, we come here every day, certainly to learn from the Scriptures and to be taught and counseled on how to live and how to be in this world and often we’re majoring on the minor’s that You, the most indescribable, most powerful, most holy, most beautiful knows who we are is shockingly humbling and we repent and apologize for our arrogance. For the way that we try to portray You. Forgive us for the damage that we’ve done to ourselves and to others in the pursuit of controlling what You do and do not do as if we have a say. You are the most high, we humble ourselves before You, the Great, I am. And we, worship You 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:

Hello, Daily Audio Bible family, this is Richard the taxi driver. Who is today, a dump truck driver to pick up the snow. Because here in Connecticut we have snow and it reminds us how every day you know, we have to pick up some stuff in our life, getting a checkpoint. And the story of Joseph, oh my Gosh, how inspiring to my life because this guy, he doesn’t complain about anything. He gets human trafficking by his brothers then he, he gets going to prison because he wants to do the right thing, you never hear him complain or anything. Me, I’m complaining all the time, I complain my wife this, my wife that so much to learn you know. And even Jesus, all the way to the cross, you know, what did He do, on the cross he said Lord, Father forgive them for they do not know what they are doing. So, Lord, my prayer for us today, for me and myself is to give us this same, you know, the same understanding, patient and love you have towards our fellow man. And to forgive them because they don’t know what they’re doing. So, on that happy note, hallelujah Lord, bless my beautiful community with Your showers of blessings Lord and surround them with your arms of love. And, I love you everybody, have a great and blessed day in Jesus mighty name, Amen.

Hello Daily Audio Bible family this is Shining Star and I felt moved by God to call and just to tell Him, to tell you guys about how sweet and on time and completely there for us God’s love is. I have been going through, of all the difficult times in my life, I’ve been going through one of the most difficult times, literally the last three weeks, since the beginning of this year. And it’s been so confusing. And listening to the Daily Audio Bible and hearing Brian’s voice and hearing your voices has just kept me in the game. It’s kept my head where it needs to be and kept me looking at God. But specifically, the other night I had such a difficult night and I was called to do something I didn’t think I could do but I realize more and more everyday that it, God is holding me in His hand. He is kissing me with every difficult thing that has happened. I want you all to know that, I want you to know that God loves us. And that His love is so sweet and on time. Thank you guys, I love you all, I pray for you all.

Hello, this is Berry from London, United Kingdom. I’m a new listener to the Daily Audio Bible which I love so much. I just wanted to leave a prayer for Jane Ruth from Nebraska. Just heard your request for prayer and I just wanted to lift you up before the Lord. Heavenly Father, please be with Jane Ruth in Nebraska, she’s asks, she’s asking, she needs Your help, Your guidance, Your protection Lord. I ask of You to lead her, to help her to feel Your love, Your encouragement. Give her Your light whatever she’s going through Lord, help her to really know in her heart and in her mind that You are with her, You would never leave her, You will always give her the strength to deal with whatever is in her way. I know that You are a way maker and whatever she’s going through, You will make a way for her to escape. Bless her, guide her, protect her, help her to feel Your love. Jane Ruth, I just want you to know that I love you, I feel you, I pray that God will bring you through. This is my prayer for you in Jesus name. Amen.

This is from Junk to Treasure. I need a miracle. I need lifted up before the throne of grace from my DAB Family, please pray for me.

Good morning, my name is Tonya. I’m calling from Suffolk, Virginia. I want to say that I’m so glad that I was able to learn about this app from one of my previous coworkers. It has really been a blessing to me and to listen to others testimonies and the things that they are going through and trusting and believing in God and having that strong faith. It has allowed me to become closer with God and allowed me to be stronger in the word. I’ve been having faith for a long, long, long time. But I’ve just made a prayer to God that I will become closer to Him to become more connected starting this year. And once again I’m so glad and so thankful that I was able to come across this app in reference to one of my coworkers that she had placed it on Facebook. And I just continue to pray for others listening to the testimonies and once again the things that others are going through and I just thank God just even for allowing me to, to be able to listen and to tune in to what you guys are going through and know that God is a healer, God is a deliverer, God is a comforter. So, all that’s going through things I just continue to pray for you all and just know that you are not alone and God say that He will be there for you through the good and the bad. And I just thank the DAB family once again for your testimonies but like I said that allows me to become strong in the word and to become connected more to God. I pray that you guys have a wonderful day and once again I just want to thank you all.  

Genesis 50:1-Exodus 2:10, Matthew 16:13-17:9, Psalms 21:1-13, Proverbs 5:1-6

Today is the 25^th day of January welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I am Brian and it’s lovely as it always is to be here with you today as we move forward, taking the next step in the Scriptures. And today is a special day, kind of a milestone day because today we will be completing our first of 66 books. We will conclude the book of Genesis today and then move into the book of Exodus and when we get there we’ll talk about it and orient ourselves to the new territory that we’ll be heading into in the book of Exodus. But first, we’re reading from the English Standard Version this week. Genesis chapter 50.

Introduction to the book of Exodus:

Okay. So, that concludes the book of Genesis which brings us to the book of Exodus, the second book in the canon of Scripture. And, so, as we turn the page and begin this new book of Exodus, we need to understand that as we turned that page centuries past. We’re not entering into a new story. We’re entering into the same story centuries later. Joseph has been gone now for a long time. So, what he did centuries earlier to preserve life in Egypt has basically been forgotten. In fact, the children of Israel, Jacobs kids…well…we’re centuries in the future, so they have all lived their lives and passed away. But while they were living their lives, they had children and their children had children and they kept having children generation after generation after generation. So, now what started out as 70 people leaving Canaan for Egypt is now a massive population in Egypt, enough of a population to give the Egyptians pause. Like they could come up against us. And, so, the Hebrew people, Israel’s descendants, the children of Israel, the Hebrew people were enslaved in Egypt and things were on the decline. Things were not getting better. In fact, the king of Egypt, the Pharaoh of Egypt decided to enact some population control among the Hebrew people commanding that every Hebrew boy that was born be thrown alive into the Nile River where they would die and float away, but the girls could live. So, if you were at one point in your family genealogy free people with the promise of God over your life to have the land that was promised as well as progeny that were…would be as numerous as the sands on the seashore but now you are a slave in a foreign land, the land of Egypt, and at the command that if you have a boy he has to die, well then you can see there’s a dilemma. And they begin to cry out to God in their anguish. I mean, the Egyptians may have forgotten Joseph, but the Hebrew people know their story and they know this promise, even though it centuries later and it has not been fulfilled yet. They remember Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and Joseph. And very soon we will meet a baby boy that is supposed to be thrown into the Nile and is put into the water, but he doesn’t die in the water. He’s rescued and he grows to be a mighty leader in Israel, a leader that again is a rescuer, a redeemer, someone who is a great prophet among them. His name is Moses and we’ll be traveling a good stretch with Moses. And, so, we begin the book of Exodus chapter 1 verse 1 and we’ll read through chapter 2 verse 10 today.

Commentary:

Okay. So, we have talked about where were moving into in the book of Exodus and we have met Moses as we talked about a little bit ago.

Let’s look at Matthew for just a quick second because we’ve crossed sort of a climax point that happens in the synoptic Gospels that really is sort of…the narrative is leading us to this point. And we’ll talk about this in the future. But Jesus is on his way to Caesarea Philippi. It’s a pretty good, long, long walk. It’s a pagan place. And Jesus asks what people are saying about Him. And they tell Him what people are saying about Him and then He asks the poignant question. Probably the most poignant important question not only in the Gospels but in all of human life, “who do you say that I am?” And the answer to that question sets in motion a pathway, a full trajectory of life and the way that that life is conducted and lived. And it is worth continual consideration because our lives are saying something. We can say who we think we think Jesus is from our lips and that’s fine, but how we live our lives is truly our declaration of who we believe Jesus is. But the important question for us to consider is, what are we saying? “Who do you say that I am” was the question from Jesus. And that is a question to ponder. I know we have the right answers. I know we can say the right things, but it is still a question to ponder. Who are we saying that Jesus is in our thoughts? Who do we say Jesus is in our words? Who do we say that He is in our actions?

Prayer:

Jesus, we invite You into the…the question. You asked the question, and we must answer it. And, so, come Holy Spirit reveal our hearts and reveal to us what we are saying with our lives and lead us on a pathway that leads towards our sanctification and into the truth we pray in Jesus’ name. Amen.

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

Community Prayer and Praise:

Hi this is T from Colorado. I have a 5-year-old granddaughter that is in my home one day and her drug addict mom pulls her out the next day. She sobbed last night, and…and it doesn’t want to go back there. I’ve reached out to social services. I’ve prayed. I’m discouraged. God’s not listening to me. I just need help. I need to keep this child in my home. I need prayers. I’ve never done this before. So, I really don’t know what I’m supposed to do. But anyway, God bless you. And thank you…

Hi this is Verlin from Alberta and I just heard a prayer request from grandma on the 19^th who has COPD and bronchitis and I just want to pray for you right now. Lord Jesus, I just thank You for Your care and Your love and just the evidence that You’ve shown me in…in just personal things lately. But God I just pray for this lady. I pray that You would heal her and give her ability to glorify You with strength and whether You heal her fully or…or not I just pray God that that she would feel Your hands just lifting her up and baring her up and in her…in Your arms. I thank You in Jesus’ name. Amen.

This message is for Crystal. She called in today and it just reminded me of a story. I’m in a Men’s ministry and have been since 2008. But my name is Steve from Albertville AL. When I was living in Arizona studying to be a minister to men I come across this husband and wife and they gave their testimony. The wife started. She said her husband in his 60s left her for another woman, left the church, left everything but she was faithful, the wife was. And she set a place for his dinner every night at 6:00 o'clock. And then in the bed beside her, he was a commissioned man, and she laid his sword there. For 20 years this woman did this. And I’m not saying you have to go through this for 20 years. But she had faith that she prayed that God would restore everything. And one rainy night 20 years later there was a knock at the door. The wife said come on in suppers ready. And she's…he sat down and said I’m sorry. And she said it’s dinner time we’ll talk later. They they were still married when I left Arizona and he was in his mid-80s. But what I’m telling you sister is don’t lose faith. Don’t lose faith. Gather stories of encouragement. Gather everything you can to continue to pray for your husband and your children. Again, Steve Porter from Albertville AL. God bless you in Jesus’ name. Amen.

Good morning, everybody this is Madison from California. This is my first full year with the Daily Audio Bible. I was listening last year about halfway through. I’ve called in before. But this morning I really felt like I needed to share just a reflection I had. And actually, as I was listening to today’s Daily Audio Bible, today’s the 20^th of January, I felt like I got two confirmations to share. And, so, I actually wanted to say in advance that to the woman who has been separated from her husband, I think that this might be especially for you but I think it’s for everyone else too. I was reading an article last night about how important it is to read the Bible as a story about God and to read these stories trying to see what God’s character is like. And today as we were reading about Joseph and how God brought him into this situation where, you know, this really big national disaster in Egypt was going to happen God was actually being so merciful not just to Joseph but to pharaoh and to the people of Egypt. And I guess the takeaway I had from that is that God is so kind that even when terrible things happen He lets us know what’s going on and He invites us to trust Him through the process. And that’s something I’m really holding onto in this season. And I encourage you to hold onto it as well. So…

Hey DAB it’s Refined by the Fire in Ohio. I wanted to take a minute. Just happy new year first of all. And I’ve called in since the beginning of the year but man, January is flying by. And welcome anybody who’s just started listening and congrats to everybody who’s made it this far already. Just hang in there. Just one day at a time. Keep going. Aside from marriages ‘cause I am praying for you guys in your marriages, that’s just huge in my heart this year, the other thing that God put on my heart this morning was just teenage parents. And it’s really funny at this point in my life but I forget sometimes that that’s where I came from. So, I became a mom at 16. I was a junior in high school. And it is amazing to me just how God continued to hold my hand and carry me through the years. My daughter had special needs. And gosh if you had asked me to sign up for any of that I would have bailed in the first, you know, anything…thought of medical is not in my wheelhouse. But you know what? He is faithful and He is good and no matter what your choices He is always waiting to pick you up and carry you on. So, just cling to Him and lean into Him and remember how good God is always good. So, gotta run. Love you guys. Talk to you soon…

Genesis 48:1-49:33, Matthew 15:29-16:12, Psalm 20:1-9, Proverbs 4:20-27

Today is the 24th day of January, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian. It is great to be here with you today as we gather in our little safe oasis around the Global Campfire, set aside everything else and simply focus and relax as the word of God washes into our hearts and lives and gives us instruction counsel. So, we’re reading from the English Standard Version this week. We have been traveling first with Abraham right and then Isaac and then Jacob, whose name is Israel and that he had a bunch of kids, the children of Israel. Then we kind of zoomed in on one of those children of Israel, named Joseph and followed his path all the way to slavery in Egypt and his ascension to be second in power over the whole land. We’ve witnessed Joseph’s brothers come and finally you understand that the very person that they trafficked is second in command in Egypt and so they bow before him as he had dreamed long ago. And eventually they make it back to Canaan and tell Jacob or Israel, their father, that his son Joseph is still alive. Then we traveled with Jacob and the 70 of his household down to Egypt where they are reunited with Joseph. They have settled in the land of Goshen, in the land of Egypt and today we will say goodbye to Jacob, whose children are the children of Israel. A family that the Bible pays extraordinary attention to. Today, Genesis chapters 48 and 49.

Commentary:

Okay, our reading from the book of Proverbs today is very difficult to ignore and probably extraordinarily unwise to ignore, since this is the book of wisdom. But encapsulated in today’s reading is an entire posture for life and if wisdom truly is what we’re seeking then it gives us a gauge so, let’s just walk through it. My son, be attentive to my words. Incline your ear to my sayings, that’s pretty clear. Listen to me, let them not escape from your site, keep them within your heart. So, what wisdom speaks we should not lose track of it. We shouldn’t let it out of our site, we shouldn’t let it out of our heart. If we would do that it would be life to those who find them and healing to all their flash. Life and healing is something that we all want and that we all seek. And seeking wisdom is the path to what we seek and then we move on, and this is so important, keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life. So, everything about us flows from our hearts. Even Jesus was talking about this in the book of Matthew. It’s not what goes in your mouth that defiles you, it’s what comes out of your heart and through your mouth. And think about it, if you believe and have it accepted and received Jesus and believe that He is with in you, then where is He? In your heart. There is nothing more central in our lives above guarding our heart, the place where God dwells within you. And then we go on, put away from you crooked speech and put devious talk far from you, pretty self-explanatory. All of the nuance and spin that we bought on things in different situations to mask other things, that’s crooked speech and the way we can shade the truth or manipulate people with our words, that’s devious. Proverbs tells us to put it away from us. It’s not leading anywhere good and then moving forward, let your eyes look directly forward and your gaze be straight before you. So, basically if we’re driving a car, we need to stay in our lane right, and if we’re weaving all over the place, we’re either going to injure somebody or ourselves or we’re going to get pulled over and arrested but isn’t that generally how life works? If were moving in a direction, we’re moving toward something, we’re walking a straight path then we’re likely to get to where we’re going. If, what we mostly do is, try to figure out what we can get away with than our gaze isn’t straight before us, we’re not looking directly forward and as the Proverb continues it builds on that, ponder the path of your feet, which pay attention to where you’re going, that’s important. It’s important in a car and it’s important in life. The Proverb says then all your ways will be sure and then building on top of that, do not swerve to the right or the left, turn your foot away from evil. So, the Proverb isn’t breaking down categories of what you can and can’t do and what you can and can get away with and it still be okay. The Proverb is giving us the underlying wisdom that we can apply to all of the situations in our lives. So, we were looking at the fourth chapter of Proverbs today, the 20th through the 27th verse, and it would be worth revisiting maybe throughout the day, maybe throughout this week, it could change the complexion of what this week could look like. But this is wisdom and truth for life itself. And if we’ll but pay attention it could save us from so many train wrecks.

Prayer:

And so, Father, we thank You for Your word, yet again as we will do most every single day because we are grateful, we are grateful for the way that it touches all of the different parts of our hearts and our motives and our actions and our words. And we want to walk the narrow path that leads to light in a straight line, but there are things pulling us in every direction all the time and there’s no way to sort it out or cut through it without the power of your Holy Spirit. And so, Holy Spirit come and teach us to be wise and lead us deeper into Jesus, and lead us into the truth, we pray in Jesus name. Amen.

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dailyaudiobible.com that is home base, that is the website and its definitely where to find out what’s going on around here and how to get connected around here. If you’re using the Daily Audio Bible app, you can access all these things by pushing the drawer icon in the upper left-hand corner. And we were just talking about Proverbs and so importantly, that I just mention again Daily Audio Proverb, that is another channel here in the Daily Audio Bible family and that is like five minutes or less of an investment of time in any given day, but that five minutes or less day-by-day, step-by-step allows us to move through the entire book of Proverbs every month. So, we get to go through it 12 times in the year, that’s the wisdom that is found in the Scriptures poured into our lives and if we’re beginning to get the picture here, life, at least according to the Bible and according to the Savior Jesus, is an inside out thing, not an outside in thing. So, if wisdom is within us, it can certainly come out of us, especially when we need it and when do we not need wisdom. So, check out Daily Audio Proverb in addition to Daily Audio Bible, as we move through the entire Bible in a year.

If you want to partner with the Daily Audio Bible, thank you, humbly, deeply, profoundly, thank you for your partnership, we wouldn’t be here if we weren’t here together. So, there is a link on the homepage at dailyaudiobible.com. 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 ever prayer request or encouragement, you can hit the Hotline button in the app, that is 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:

Hey good morning, DAB family. This is Aussie Bear in Australia. It’s Wednesday, the 19th of January and it is 5:45 AM. I’ve just finished listening to the podcast from yesterday and the prayers at the end of that and the first three, the first three cabs off the rank, were from three brothers in Christ and I just felt really moved to pray for all three of them because they are three men who are really struggling and so I just wanted to pray for them. So, they are for Michael the Greatest Trucker and for Jesse, Jesse in New York and Eric in Tampa, Florida. So, heavenly Father, I just ask for Your blessing and Your love and grace and mercy to flow over these three men who are struggling. They all are struggling for different reasons and I just ask for You to carry them through the next few days and through these struggles that they’re facing. And Lord, I just also ask for Your blessing over the face that these men exuded so much courage to be able to get on and ask for prayer and to lay themselves out vulnerable before the DAB family with their struggles. I know for a lot of men, that’s a hard thing to do because there’s, there’s a stigma attached to being a bloke and you know, to not be vulnerable, to be strong all the time. And I mean, that’s such a façade and I just ask for You to honor the strength and the courage that these men showed in getting on here and asking for prayer. And I ask this in Jesus name.

Good morning, DAB family this is LaChula calling from the City of Angels. Today, is January 19 and today, a year ago is when I started listening to the Daily Audio Bible and haven’t stopped. I know many of you have completed the year on December 31st but today is my completion of the year. And I just want to thank God for the person that I am today is not the same person that I was on January 19th of 2021. I am beyond grateful to God, to my husband, who introduced me to the DAB and to the entire Hardin family who continue, Pastor Brian, to inspire and encourage and to speak from a place where the Holy Spirit dwells. I just thank the DAB Community, this Global Campfire has brought me through so many seasons with my family. I thank you and I just want to wish everyone a beautiful, blessed day. And I’m praying for you brothers and sisters. You inspire me by calling in and being courageous and transparent in speaking from a place where some people might say it’s brokenness, I say it’s vulnerability and that that we are Jesus hands and feet. And if we don’t pray for one another, then who will? I just thank you again DAB, you are amazing and have a great day. Bye.

Hi Daily Audio Bible fam, my name’s Mannie. This is my 5th year tuning in and unfortunately, I’ve never been able to stick to it for an entire year. I usually fall off the wagon by October. But this year is gonna be different. I’m making a commitment to stay consistent and to really soak in the word of God and to incorporate it into my life. I pray for everyone this year. I pray that this year is filled with peace and laughter and courage and love and happiness and humility and compassion for ourselves and others and for our friends and our family. I pray this year is a year of remarkable change, remarkable growth. That we may be more focused on our path to You Lord. And that we may be willing to learn and to be patient. Lord, continue to shower us all with Your grace, with Your mercy and Your love. Amen. Have a great year everyone. Have a wonderful, wonderful year.

Hello Daily Audio Bible family. This is Anne in Tyler, Texas and I wanted to let you know that I have been very intentional about sending a link through text and email and telling people I meet the blessing of Daily Audio Bible and I’m now on my 14th delightful year being blessed by this ministry effort. Thank you Hardin family and I’ve had the blessing already this year or receiving back a handful of people responding that they are listening new to Daily Audio Bible or they used to listen and now they’re coming back on board and so I wanted to encourage everyone to try to be intentional about sharing the link and telling people about it. Show them the app on your phone, say oh, it’s so easy to download in your app store, it’ll change your life and you’ll go through the whole Bible in a year, how often would you read that? It’s easy to listen. So, God is using the ministry and I’m so thankful for it and we can help evangelize the world by sharing an easy resource. So, go at it fellow community DABers in sharing this good news. Thanks, God bless you all. I love you and I love praying with you when you call in.

Hi, DAB family this is the Farmer’s Wife in chili upstate New York. I am calling for prayers for my husband and I just recently found out I’m carrying our first child. And it’s a lot to take in. We’re excited for this child, we’re both very nervous. And I have a history of struggling with depressing and my and am really working hard to combat that. And our financial situation is very strained. I have a very advanced degree but I haven’t been able to find work that brings joy which is difficult. And we’re just, it’s a new adventure, becoming parents for the first time. One that we are trying to leave our baggage behind and start anew. But it’s very overwhelming and I’m not to the point where I’m super excited yet although we both love this child. It’s just really overwhelming so we ask for your prayers.

Genesis 46:1-47:31, Matthew 15:1-28, Psalms 19:1-14, Proverbs 4:14-19

Today is the 23^rd day of January welcome to the Daily Audio Bible and welcome to a brand-new shiny sparkly week that we are entering into, a fresh start for us. No matter what was going on last week, this is this week and this week can be shaped and will be shaped by our thoughts, words and deeds, by what we do and by what we leave undone. And I have found no better resource for helping in making those choices than by immersing ourselves each and every day in the Scriptures. And, so, off we go into this brand-new week. We’ll read from the English Standard Version this week. And we’ll be picking up our story in the book of Genesis with the…with the story of Joseph, who is anticipating seeing his father for the first time since he was a young man, a teenager. And obviously Joseph who had thought his son was dead all of these years is anticipating seeing if his son is actually alive. And, so, let’s dive in. Genesis chapters 46 and 47.

Prayer:

Father, we thank You for Your word and with a heart full of gratitude, we thank You for the Scriptures, this tangible gift that we can hold in our hands and hold in our hearts, words that guide and direct and shape us, stories of people who have gone before us and how they navigated and where those pathways lead. It gives us a glimpse into the trajectory of our lives, and we are grateful. And we ask Holy Spirit that You would come and lead us. Lead us on the path that we should go. Lead us into all truth. We pray in Jesus’ name. Amen.

Community Prayer and Praise:

Dear Lord Jesus we come together around the campfire and pray for Amy in Phoenix AZ, a devoted mom of in an autistic 4-year-old son. I pray Lord for this little boy that soon, very soon he would be potty trained, and he would make some progress and that you would guard his little heart. And in the meantime, Lord I pray for every family member for his sibling or maybe there’s more than one sibling, for each one and for mom and dad for grandparents. I pray that anything that the enemy tries to use this in an evil way truths are known by your grace and favor Lord. Integrate great blessing for this family. Come Lord. Thank you that Amy reached out to ask us for prayer. And I pray for all moms and dads that you give them strength and courage in Jesus’ name. This is Candace from Oregon.

Hi Daily Audio Bible family I’m new to this family and just really love it and appreciate it and am calling quickly for…for two people that really touched my heart. One, the mother who called in and who had this spirit of suicide on them. And I just want to say that as a mother myself I…I…no one does anything perfectly no matter what you see on Facebook or Instagram, and we all make mistakes. But true children just need you and love you. And, so, I rebuke that spirit of suicide, I rebuke it, I…Father please take it take it from her and destroy it and I lose peace and love in your family. But I also wanted to pray or at least comment…sorry about…someone who called in from Vegas and who was…it was a praise report and it just made my day. It was so beautiful. It was a praise report for a job and a new boss, and it just made me realize how much our father must…must want that from all of us, right, all of us. And, so, I wanted to say thanks for that praise report because it made me realize that…that…that I need to be praising more, praising God. And finally, for myself I have an unusual name, so I’ll just go by Lawyer Lawyer in Chicago. And I have a very big case, filed a very big motion in court this morning. It’s more of a David and Goliath case and I’m the little David against a very big firm. And, so, just  thank you family if you happen to pray for me…

Hi, DABbers it’s Carla Jean from Nevada. I am…was planning on calling to thank everybody for praying for my daughter who was suicidal in October with postpartum depression. She is feeling much better now, has gotten into a therapy and has been on medications and she’s starting to really feel like her old self again. So, thank you for your prayers. And now the reason that I’m calling today on January 18^th is because this morning I received a text from my best friend’s husband Andy, and he told me that he was going to kill himself and then he went missing. And he was found by the state police, and he did in fact die by suicide today. I’m asking for your prayers for his wife Nicole. We’ve been friends for 44 years and Andy was just 50. We all went to high school together. They have two kids in their 20s and they just really need some prayers because I don’t know how this is gonna go. I’ll be flying to New Hampshire to be with them through this nightmare. I’m just praying that Andy finally found the peace that he’s been looking for all these years and that Jesus is holding him tight tonight. Thanks for your prayers. I love you all. Bye.

Hi this is Tammy from the Adirondacks calling in for…I just got done listening to the January 18^th podcast and I believe her name was Jessie and then there was an Eric I believe that called in, your dad’s in ICU and then there was a young woman that called in with health issues and it all just…you all just sound…faith…I guess it all just comes down to our faith and being new Christians and…and walking this path. And I’m just calling to encourage you. I too am a new Christian. There’s health issues and just a lot of similar…similarities. Don’t lose faith. Keep pushing and keep fighting the good fight. That’s what it’s about, is our endurance. God doesn’t make the bad things happen. God gives us the faith to get through every single day. It’s kind of like a test to just see if we can do it. And you can do it. You can. You can do all things through Christ who is your strength. Remember that. Remember when you feel like, oh I’ve sinned or oh I’ve gotten this wrong or oh this is happening to me, what did I do wrong. You didn’t do anything wrong. God is for us. He is good. He is worthy and He loves you. He formed you all in your mother’s womb and He knows every hair on your head. He’s counted them. He loves us. He is for us. We serve such a mighty God. Don’t give up on yourself because God won’t give up on you. And I’ll be praying for you brothers and sisters. Love you. God bless.

This is Biola from Maryland, I hope you are all doing well. Brian and Jill God bless you. God bless you China, Ezekiel, and the whole family. You know Daily Audio Bible has such a community of colorful folks and I listen to different prayer requests, and I comments, and I laugh I clap I pray. You know this is truly a community. Well, Remorseful Sinner I just want to let you know that once you’ve asked God for forgiveness, I pray that His power, you will sense His power in your life in the name of Jesus. That __ and power, you will sense it all over you in Jesus’ name. I want to thank God for you our sister from Texas, Dorothy. It’s six years young. God bless you, my sister. I was…I was laughing hard when I heard your…your call. God bless you. And then sister from Wyoming who will be going to celebrate her mom whose birthdays on February 5^th. Sister I just want to say let go. Ask God to help you to let go and forgive your mom, forgive everything from the past and let God just watch you have a great time with your mother. And I pray that God will continue to let her live her life in good health and the name of Jesus. Angela from Alabama I’m praying for you that God will give you wisdom even as you make decisions this year in the name of Jesus. And I also just want to lift up the sister who had called in and just asked God for help with her daughter Veronica and her own life in general. Lord I pray that You would touch Veronica, that she would have a great relationship with her mom and sister. I just want to pray that God will give you a sense of belonging and comfort even as it calms your heart in this season in the name of Jesus.

Genesis 44:1-45:28, Matthew 14:13-36, Psalm 18:37-50, Proverbs 4:11-13

Today is the 22nd day of January, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian. It is wonderful, it is an honor to be here with you today as we gather to take the next step forward through life, but through our adventure through the Scriptures. So, let’s get started. We have been following the story of Joseph and we’ll continue that story as we continue our way through the book of Genesis. Joseph has met with his brothers now, for the second time but this time they’ve brought his brother, Benjamin, his full-blooded brother Benjamin. He and Benjamin are the sons of Rachel and Jacob. And so, this has been a fairly overwhelming experience for Joseph. Although he’s kinda keeping that private. Today, Genesis chapters 44 and 45.

Commentary:

Okay so, in the book of Genesis the story of Joseph isn’t over yet and it leads us to the next important story, but at this point in the story where Joseph has revealed himself to his brothers there’s so much drama there. Can you imagine? It’s like Joseph has come back from the dead and by the time they get back to Canaan, which is how we end today and Jacob is told that his son Joseph is alive. So, the two sons that he had with Rachel are still living, it’s like a resurrection. But we saw the Joseph continued to press in and surface the issues with his brothers and in the process his brothers got the opportunity to experience helplessness and some of the terror that there brother Joseph would’ve felt as he was being dragged away into slavery. And it’s in today’s reading, that Joseph’s heart is fully revealed because we’ve been watching this story and pretty much none of the things that happen in this story all the way until he stands before Pharaoh, none of those things were fair or just are good are right. Joseph had every human right to be bitter and angry and upset and depressed and hopeless. He had every reason to become a shell of who he could have been which is one of the things that makes this story so compelling. He’s not raging at God, he’s holding on to God as his only hope and in today’s reading he reveals his perspective and I quote, “I am Joseph your brother whom you sold into slavery in Egypt, but don’t be upset and don’t be angry with yourselves for selling me to this place. It was God who sent me here ahead of you to preserve your lives, it was God who sent me here not you and He is the one who made me an advisor to Pharaoh.” So, if there is one thing, one thing that we can grasp here and carry forward with us, it would be the Joseph took the long view. There wasn’t a point at which he said my story is over, there’s no way out of this, it’s over for me. He kept his hope in God, realizing that the story is never over with God and in the end, he gave God all the glory for putting him in the position that he was in, understanding that God’s hand was in all of it. God was with him in all of it and the story would’ve been quite different if things didn’t happen in the way that they did. Which doesn’t mean we just turn a blind eye to injustice around us or the things that are coming against us, it’s the long view. The New Testament tells us that God works all things together for the good of those who love him, for that to be true we have to have the long view of things. There isn’t a point where our story is over. Although there are plenty of points in our story where we don’t know what’s going on. So, the choice is to give up and descend into hopelessness or trust that there is more going on than we know. And if we will cling to God, the story will unfold.

Prayer:

And so, Father, we thank You for preserving the story of Joseph for us because we need to remember this, we demand near instant gratification in nearly everything in life and often the challenges of our story are actually the most meaningful and promote growth and endurance and trust in us. So, Holy Spirit, come give us the long view. We pray in the name of Jesus, we ask. Amen.

Announcements:

dailyaudiobible.com that is home base, home of the Global Campfire, that’s where you find out what’s going on around here. If you’re using the app, which you can download from your app store for free, you can find out all the things that are at the web within the app by pushing the drawer icon in the upper left-hand corner. So, check out things like the Daily Audio Bible Shop, resources are there in a number of categories all aimed at the journey that we are taking together through the Bible in a year in Community and so, check that out. Also, the Community section, that is where different links to get connected on social media are or that is also the home of the Prayer Wall so we can always no matter what time of day or time zone or international dateline for that matter, no matter where we are, we can always have this place to reach out for prayer or reach back in prayer towards our brothers and sisters and that is the Prayer Wall and that can be found in the Community section.

If you want to partner with the Daily Audio Bible, thank you, thank you, thank you, humbly for your partnership. There is a link on the homepage at dailyaudiobible.com. 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 and share from anywhere in the world from there. 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 family, this is Sally in North Dakota. Say, I’m calling today to pray for Rosie. It’s great to be free in Jesus. Rosie, I heard your call and I just wanted to lift you up. You said you’ve lost several family members in the last three months and that you’re starting to feel sick almost and I’m sure, you know, just the whole emotional ride that you’ve been through. Heavenly Father, I thank You for Rosie, I thank You for her love for You. I thank You Lord that You are the great comforter. Father, I ask that You would allow Rosie’s heart to be at peace, that her emotions and her mind will be able to rest in You. We thank You Lord that You understand our grief and that You come alongside of us and You hold us and You remind us of our eternal hope that we have in You. And I thank You Father for just comforting Rosie, for being there for her. You are faithful to do that for us. Rosie, I love you and I will continue to lift you up in prayer. I’m glad you called in, bye for now.

This call is for Jesse. This is Transplanted Yankee from Alabama. Jesse, I heard your voice this morning and my heart went out to you. About 15 years ago my husband saw the down-turning economy and lost his business. He thought the Lord wanted him to be a Christian businessman. This was devastation. This was devastating to him as a man as a provider. There were times I would see him sitting outside staring and I’d think, Lord, preserve him, our three boys need their dad no matter what. It is hard for me to even recount today because the Lord took us through that time for a purpose. I am still not fully aware of what that purpose was but Jesse I do know this, we are more firm in our belief of the gospel of Jesus Christ and our purpose here on earth is not to collect things but our purpose here in life is to collect people for His kingdom. We grew as a family. It was the most devastating time with two boys graduating from High School and going to college, what would we do without that money. We circled the wagons, we laugh now and say shoot, we didn’t circle the wagons, we sold the wagons. We just dealt with the bare necessities and about 7 years later we have come out of that time. But I know this, God supplied our needs. He supplied a check for workmen’s comp because my husband had no claims. He supplied over abundance escrow account somewhere else. Time and time again, God supplied our needs and gave us a peace and I pray that for you.

This prayer is for Jesse and also for the truckdriver that lost his identity. Both men our struggling right now and I just want to pray Lord, that you cover them. Let Your presence be known and let Your healing begin on each of them. Father, I just pray that You just guide their paths and let them know that beyond a shadow of a doubt that the Lord is with the both of them. They just need to hang on and have faith and trust in the Lord for redemption and for His help. So, I lift up both of them today, each of them touched my heart today and I just wanna pray for each man out there. Be with them Father. In Jesus name we pray, Amen.

Hi, this is Jane Ruth in Nebraska. I really don’t know how to say this except that I’m feeling very unlike myself. Usually, I think the face that I show to the world looks fun and vivacious and happy go lucky, kind of the life of the party. But really, I just want to crawl in a hole and pull the hole in after myself and it’s, I mean, I’ve had a history of depression, I mean, diagnosed bipolar. I’ve got a long line of alphabet soup behind my name but you know, I have believed in the word of God and I continue to believe that God changes people through His word. You can read the Bible like any other book but no Bible, no book reads you like the Bible does. Anyway, I need to request prayer. I don’t even know how to ask for help; I don’t like to do it at all. But I just pray that God would help me to deal with what’s going on. JaneRuth322@gmail.com. Thank you, I love you.

Hi, this is Victorious Soldier just calling to pray for some of the DABers. I wanted to pray for Hailey, the first-time caller. I want to pray for Just James and encourage every morning but boyfriend’s daughter but I wanna pray for his wife and his daughter and her boyfriend. And the bible study in the incarceration. I wanna pray for that family. I wanna pray for Genene from Washington and Dave in Delaware supplying them with their protection. I wanna also pray for Patrick from Seattle, a request, his wife is going through the stress and the pain. I wanna pray for her. I wanna pray for Rosie also and her family. She had five deaths in her family and she’s going through mourning and I wanna pray for her. Gracious Father, I just life up Your people today, Lord. Oh Lord, You are a mighty and a wonderful God. Lord, I just ask You to have Your way. Lord, You have Your way in that families life. Lord, encourage that woman, You bring, You lift her up, You lift them up Father. You have Your way, Lord, even incarcerated, let them know that God is still with them. That God can give them joy in the midst of a bad time. Lord, You have Your way in the name of Jesus. You have Your way in the life of Your people. Lord, You have Your way. You open doors Lord, You bless them in a mighty and special way. Oh Father, thank You for Your Spirit and Your presence. Thank You for Your grace and Your mercy. Thank You for blessing Brian and all the people of God. Lord, continue to be a light and favor, continue Lord and work Your miracles. Continue to heal and deliver. In the name of Jesus. Come back to the Lord.