Month: February 2023

Leviticus 22:17-23:44, Mark 9:30-10:12, Psalms 44:1-8, Proverbs 10:19

Today is the 28^th day of February welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I am Brian it is fantastic to be here with you today as we reach the…the ending point of the second month of the year. So, when we get finished today, we will have completed two full months of the year. I am still finding that hard to believe but this is where we are and it’s wonderful to be here with you today around the Global Campfire. And our next step forward leads us back into the book of Leviticus. Today we’ll read chapter 22 verse 17 through 23 verse 44.

Commentary:

Okay. So, in the gospel of Mark today we have this really brief, really poignant exchange between John the apostle or disciple of Jesus and the Savior, Jesus. And John comes to Jesus and says, “teacher we saw someone driving out demons in your name and we told him to stop because he was not one of us.” So, it’s a brief exchange. Jesus responds. We’ll talk about that in the second. It’s a brief exchange, but it’s poignant because it’s in the Scriptures. And, so, we need to pay attention to it. But it’s poignant because what Jesus is addressing here is very much still with us today. As believers or followers or disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ we probably know other people who are also followers of Jesus, and we probably have some kind of community with those people, probably even a faith community, a church community. And, so, we can find what it is that sits well with us, or maybe the way that we were raised and so we kind of stick to that form and that model and build community around that. And that’s not a big deal. Like there are faith communities all over the world. That’s wonderful. We typically find ourselves in community with people that we understand and people who have common interests or common convictions or common beliefs. It just gets a little sideways in our spirituality when we begin to believe that our tribe, our community, we have…we have something that nobody else does, we have the complete truth. Our tribe is doing this the right way. Our leaders have a corner on the market here. We’re doing this the right way. And, so, then we look across the street or down the road or we look across town or we look across the country or the world and see that there are other ways of doing things and we don’t like that, and we don’t agree with that. And, so, we dismiss that. And by dismissing that we dismiss brothers and sisters who also are disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ, who have seen things from a different viewpoint than we have but we dismiss them as a less than because our tribe has the true. And, so, whether we realize it or not, we build walls around ourselves. And then when different ways of thinking or understanding or whatever, different things that happen inside of community actually get inside the community then it can split the community because we typically find ourselves in a battle to be right, not in a battle for redemption and reconciliation. So, in our lifetimes we’ve seen plenty of churches that split apart, we’ve seen denominations that have split apart and broken fellowship with each other over theological understandings. And that is like willful segregation from each other. Like are we one body or not? And, so, typically when there’s a group of people that need to be right, they think they’re the body. Everybody else’s needs to join in and everybody else needs to get on board because we…we can’t imagine that God would honor or use somebody or some group of people that don’t see it the way that we do, that don’t agree with…with what we think, that aren’t a part of us, that aren’t a part of our clan or group, which is what John is saying to Jesus. “Teacher, we saw someone driving out demons in your name and we told him to stop because he was not one of us.” And responding to this, Jesus hands us direction. Jesus responded to John by saying, “don’t stop him. No one who does a miracle in my name can in the next moment say anything bad about me. For whoever is not against us is for us. Truly I tell you, anyone who gives you even a cup of water in my name, because you belong to the Messiah, will certainly not lose their reward.” So, it just makes…it makes one wonder what the world might look like if just in this one area we who follow Christ espoused the teaching of Christ because here we are in the gospel of Mark and we still have Luke and John to go but we’re…we’re well underway now. We’ve been walking alongside Jesus in the New Testament since we began our journey this year. So, we’re far enough in that we’re getting a glimpse of who Jesus is and what He has to say. And if were paying attention so much of what He has to say boils down to how we are supposed to be taking care of each other. In fact, I quote from our reading in Mark today from the lips of Jesus. “Anyone who wants to be first must be the very last, and the servant of all.” Everyone is supposed to be taking care of everyone. And so often we find ourselves segregated into camps and we’ll take care of our own, but we wouldn’t even give a spiritual cup of water to anyone else. This isn’t how we are supposed to be. And we have a long-running history that goes all the way back to the New Testament of dealing with this right up until this very day. And the system isn’t going to change because it was never really supposed to be a system. And if we look back into the Gospels at the stories of Jesus that we are walking through, Jesus wasn’t trying to change the system either even though the system was so broken that it couldn’t see God right in front of their eyes, that it denied the work of God and attributed to the devil. Like Jesus didn’t come to change the system, He came to change the hearts of mankind, because when people’s hearts are changed systems change, which lands all of this right back in our own laps where it belongs. And we’re invited to think about how we may be withholding even a cup of water. And, so, may we take it to heart and consider today, and as we so often talk about, go through this day watching ourselves, watching what’s going on inside of us, watching what rises up within us and asking ourselves, is this…is this the way? Is this how it’s done? Is this how Jesus handles these kinds of situations? How do I be the servant in this situation, especially in this season of Lent, a season to repent, a season to reflect and examine the weightiness of our lives, both for righteousness and for everything less than righteousness, a time for us to consider.

Prayer:

Jesus, we invite You into that. We have the model that You gave us of Your life. And we read of it and we learn about it and sometimes we’ve heard it so many times we think we understand it and then we come back again and realize there’s so much more to learn. There’s so much more to be transformed within us. You have taken the penalty of sin away from us forever and ever and have made a way for us to live as we were intended, as we were created in this world with a posture of heart that looks out at…at Your children all over the earth. And then so often we just adopt the customs of our culture and throw a label of godliness on it when it’s not what You are showing us and not what You are teaching. And, so, maybe we need some time for reflection, and we invite Your Holy Spirit to lead us into all truth. And we pray this in Your name. Amen.

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Community Prayer and Praise:

Hi Daily Audio Bible this is Cynthia for from Virginia I’m calling to pray for all of the community that went down to Israel. Lord I’m praying that…and thanking You that they all got back safe and sound. And I also pray that You will help them Father God with their jet lag. Help them to get over that as quick as possible Father God Lord and let them spread the experience that they had to their family members Father God. I also come to You Lord praying for each and every member of this community Father God. You know each and every one of us Father God. You know what we’re going through, even those that don’t call in their prayers Father God. Lord, we ask that You heal Father God. Let Your healing powers go through. Heal cancer Father God. Heal all ailments, things that are going on in our lives. Heal our bodies Father God. Heal the addictions. Heal marriages Father God. Heal our children from God. Heal anything that just needs healing. You know what it is from God. I just thank You in advance and I just say Hallelujah Hallelujah. Thank You. I also want to please pray for my mom’s Father God. I’m trusting that God will heal these eyes, Lord. I have no vision but I want my total vision back and I know that God can do it and I’m just praying and thanking Him in advance and trusting Him and I just hope that we all will put on all our trust in Him because He is able and I thank you Lord in Jesus name I pray Amen.

Good morning good morning, DABbers this is Morningstar from Canada calling except I’m calling it from Mexico. We’re actually on a little vacation here in daring the sun and warm weather. But I wanted to call in today. I was struck especially not only by the readings this morning which I always enjoy but by Brian’s commentary and introduction to the season of lent. This is Ash Wednesday. And although I was, you know, as a follower of Christ all my life growing up in the church, I was very much aware of Easter and Good Friday but perhaps not as aware of the season of lent and what those days prior to Easter really mean for me personally as a follower of Christ. And, so, when Brian talked this morning about this being a season of repentance that really struck me. Holy Spirit really touched me with those words and challenged me. Often when I think of repentance, you know, we maybe think of the big things, the big sins and sort of give ourselves an excuse, a way out. But this morning as Brian spoke I was really touched by those words and recognize that perhaps this is a challenge to me about entering a season of repentance, repentance from perhaps things like attitudes or opinions or just laziness or maybe it’s just a complacency that so easily comes to each of us. And, so, I pray that for each of us, that we will enter this season of repentance and ask the Lord to really clean our hearts. Bless you all.

Good morning DAB family I’m calling in response to a prayer request that I heard as I was listening on the 22^nd of February. It was a lady. It was at the end of prayer. She called in saying that she was in the last few weeks of a pregnancy and that she had gestational diabetes and that her blood pressure was starting to rise, and she was kind of afraid that induction was going to happen and that she got overwhelmed because there was so much love to do. And I know how it feels sweet mama, that I have three kids of my own and I never felt ready for any of them but just know that whatever’s going to happen it’s going to be OK. And I know that’s cliché to say but let…let the Lord really, really guide you. Listen to His voice as you wait for your little one to arrive. Let Him just be your comfort and your strength and your peace. Even though it feels like you know everything around you is kind of chaotic in all these decisions that you may or may not have to make I pray that you just listen to His voice so clearly and that He will speak straight to you in your heart and that your delivery will be smoothly in the name of Jesus, no complications no issues. And that we speak to blood pressure that it has to go down in the name of Jesus, that it’s not going to affect your delivery and the rest of your pregnancy and that when baby is out there will be no more diabetes and your health will go straight back to normal because the Lord didn’t go to the cross and die for all that for nothing. So, Lord, I just thank You that right now that it is done, that we are going to hear an amazing report that she had her baby and everything went well and that You were right there in the delivery room with her. And I pray that You would just bring people to surround her as she’s delivering and calm her nerves Lord in these last few weeks, that You just bring people just to surround her. And we just thank You for doing it Jesus’ name.

Hi this is Sarah calling from Colorado. I’d like to pray for the young woman who called at the very end of the February 22^nd podcast. She has gestational diabetes. She's…she’s pregnant and she’s nearing the end of her pregnancy. She’s got the gestational diabetes. She’s got…she’s got the increase in her blood pressure and the doctor wants to induce her. She just is not ready for the baby yet. She has things left to do, things that she needs to get I believe. Lord I’m just asking that…I’m just asking for my brothers and sisters on the DAB to pray with me for her, just to pray that she would seek out the help of her church to ask for things that she needs so that the body of Christ can stand alongside her and provide her needs Lord. You are the great provider Lord and You work through Your people. And Lord I just ask that You make the end of this pregnancy joyful and that…and that everything…she will be safe, and her baby will be safe and that she gets all the things she needs by way of the body of Christ. Lord let this woman be…just enjoy the last days of her pregnancy and welcoming her new baby into the world Lord and that she can know that You have…You have stood alongside her, You have stood with her You have provided for her and…and that all will be very well. And I pray this in the precious name of Jesus. She didn’t leave her name. She didn’t say where she was. How I wish she knew she was…if she was around the corner from me, I would just help over with so many things Lord. Let…let the body of Christ do this for her. I pray this in Jesus’ precious name. Love you DAB family. Bye-bye.

Hi DAB family. Thank you for everyone who’s praying for marriages and for family. I want to do the same today but also wanna ask for some prayer for my marriage and my family. Last time I called I identified as Joseph in the Pit when Joseph was cast in the pit by his brothers, Genesis. Although God has been gracious and done amazing things since my last call, I still feel that I’m in prison and still a long way away from reaching what God wants to achieve in my life just as I believe and He’s doing in all of yours. Please pray for my marriage. I’ve reluctantly come to the conclusion that I’ve been suffering from a mild form of abuse and sometimes not so mild forms over the past 25 years just because of a wife who technically who can be described as a narcissist. Due to trauma and pain from her childhood tries to control things and every aspect of my and her life as a way of feeling secure rather than looking towards the Lord. I pray and I ask for you to pray that the Lord will intervene in her life and show her that He’s in control. So, please pray with me. There’s a deadline on the 1^st of April for unrealistic expectation of what I need to…I need to do and if it’s not met it will lead to separation. So, I pray for everyone who are going through difficult times in their marriage. I pray for the families in the DAB community. I pray Lord that you’re in control and I thank you for all the prayer support that we give one another in Jesus’ name. Amen.

Leviticus 20:22-22:16, Mark 9:1-29, Psalm 43:1-5, Proverbs 10:18

Today is the 27th day of February, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian and it is a joy to be here with you today, as we gather around the Global Campfire, take the next step forward together, and just enjoy the peace and serenity of the Global Campfire. This place that we come every day, that is a place of peace, a place for us to center ourselves in the Scriptures and allow the Holy Spirit to lead and guide us and sounds great to be here in this space with you today, to take the next step forward. And that will lead us back into the book of Leviticus. Today, we will read chapter 20 verse 22 through chapter 22 verse 16.

Commentary:

So, let’s just hang out t in Proverbs for a second. One sentence, whoever conceals hatred with lying lips and spreads slander is a fool. Let’s just think about that person that’s in our life, maybe at church, maybe at work, who knows where, that we just can’t stand. Just can’t. They say offensive things all the time. Maybe we’ve been offended, maybe they just something that’s not true about us. We just avoid them. But it’s not really just avoidance, we use, we strike back covertly. Maybe they said something at some point and it’s just stuck and we get still burning inside of us, we’re still mad about it. Everybody has experiences like this from time to time. It’s just how do we deal like, what do we do with that. Cause a lot of times when there’s an offense, it gets stuck inside of us. We keep thinking about it. We keep reliving the moment. We can find ourselves more angry later on than we ever were in the moment, we just keep replaying it over and over. So, anytime that person comes up in conversation or whatever, we’re pulled back into that and you don’t have anything good to say. And maybe just to kind of even the scales, at least in our own minds and hearts, we go to our friends and tell the whole story about that person, we gossip about them, tear them down. We call them into question, we call their character into question, we call their family and we call whatever we can into question. And you know we have to actually be in that person’s presence, and we just fake it, like there’s nothing wrong. Like that’s not, like just saying it, we know that’s not healthy, we just do these kinds of things. The Proverb says whoever conceals hatred with lying lips and spreads slander is a fool. What that one sentence does is force us to consider our thoughts, words and deeds toward this person. Does the gossip and slander about this person take any less energy than just going to the person, even if there isn’t reconciliation, to just call things into the light and move toward peace with one another. Like, is all of the covert things that we might do to even the scales and diminish this other person, take less energy and does it bring us more wholeness? And we might approach this person, who may be not responsive in any sort of way. And so, us just approaching them and holding out an olive branch and saying man we have gotten sideways, and I feel like we could actually work better together. Maybe that doesn’t work, maybe the person doesn’t want anything to do with you at this point. But moving in that direction is a better choice than being a liar and a fool. And I get it, people are complicated, we’re complicated, and things go sideways all of the time, and we have all kinds little offenses that we can deal with. But what if we didn’t though, what if we didn’t, what would life be like if we weren’t carrying all of that around. So, this Proverb can actually step right up to us, look us in the eyes and we may not like what it’s suggesting and now we have to think about all this stuff. But the Proverbs aren’t here for condemnation purposes, they’re here to cut through, to cut through the fog, to give clarity, to bring truth and now we have heard it. And now we should wrestle with it in our lives. We don’t have to listen to the wisdom of the Proverbs. We can ignore it. But what if we heeded it. So many of these times in the Bible steps right up to us and says something we have to ask ourselves, even if we don’t like the changes that it might suggest that we need to make inside of our hearts. Like, what’s the downside? That we may have to be more humble, that we might have to be more long-suffering in order to put what is broken back together and do the work of God in this world. Because the flipside is that we have to be more arrogant and more dishonest, that we have to make a fool of ourselves, according to the Proverbs. So, what’s the downside of paying attention to what Proverbs is saying and incorporating it into our lives and in our relationships. Because what the Proverbs is…is telling us is that our re-actions to things can make a fool out of us and a liar out of us. So, let’s give it some thought. Today we might even catch ourselves moving in that direction and maybe we stop ourselves because there’s no downside to putting what’s broken back together. This is the work of God.

Prayer:

And so, Father, we invite You into that interpersonal relationships at work, at church, at home everywhere we go. Everybody’s got their stuff, we all have our brokenness, we all have our stories and some of them have been very difficult stories indeed. So, we find ourselves reacting to all kinds of things, in all kinds of ways. You are inviting us through the voice of wisdom here, to take a beat. And if we do this, and we begin to do this repeatedly, like we don’t just react, we don’t just follow the old path, we take a moment and think about what is actually going on. Inviting Your Holy Spirit, so that we might humble ourselves, so that we might actually be Your ambassadors in this world. So much can change with such little repentances, with such little changes. So much of life can change with just a little changes. Help us to make these, show us how, help us to not react, may our reactions be to turn to You and seek You, as we move forward. We pray this in the precious name of Jesus who modeled this for us, so that we have a picture of what this looks like in the Gospels, make us like You, make us whole. We pray in Jesus name. Amen.

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Prayer and Encouragements:

Hello, this is Z1 praying for Junk to Treasure. We hear you sister. My grandma, God’s Chosen, wants me to pray for your requests. So, that’s what I’m here to do. Junk to Treasure, I am praying for God’s hand of support for Junk to, for you during these difficult situations. You are her refuge and strength, God, her present help in trouble. Hold her hand and do not let her fall. Life, here on earth, is filled with trials and tribulation. Let Your grace be upon her during the trials of anguish. 1 Peter 1 verse 3-4, 2 Corinthians verse 4 through 17. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that outweighs them all. An eternity with the Lord, we will know no longer have to fear hard times, because everything will be made perfect. I pray God gives you strength during this season, send plenty of help to help you grow closer to God and His Holy word. Amen. Don’t worry, we all hear you, we’re all praying for you. And when you are sad, we are sad in our hearts because we love you. You’re a part of our family and we’ve got your back. So, thank you for listening to this prayer and I hope this has lifted your spirits. And this is not of me, but it is of God and God will give you the strength you need to overcome these tough times. And He will bring these tough times to an end with His sword of justice. All in good time. God’s plan is for you. God has got a good plan for you. God knows where your life will go to. So, keep it up. Good work sister. We love you. Thank you. Bye.

Hi, everyone. I just wanted to quick, come on here and ask for prayer. Kind of reluctantly, I don’t know why. But I guess I’ve just been in this long season of discouragement. Just mental health diagnosis in the last three years, PTSD and bipolar and no very stable. I’ve been on long-term disability through my previous job. It’s been a year and a half now and that disability will be up in October. I thought it was gonna be a little longer. But, honestly, I have struggled my entire adult life to work full-time for you know, any, sustainable length of time. And I’m really, really anxious and nervous and just fearful and I know the enemy is the one trying to discourage me. I know the Holy Spirit’s giving me discernment about that. And I just have this sense that the Lord wants to use my story one day, that, you know, He wants to be glorified in this. That He’s got some kind of plan that’s way bigger me but I don’t understand right now. I’m just really anxious. I just feel like I’m up against impossible odds, right now, financially. Like, there’s always just enough. He’s so good, He always provides. I have so many blessings. I have a degree and I managed to get it and a career that I love, eventually, I hope. That I’ve been doing on and off before I got really unwell. And I just really need prayer. I know He’s building me up in this season, showing me the warrior I am in Him and building my trust with him. But my strength is just failing, every day, and the enemy is relentless. So, encouragement would really be appreciated and prayer.

Good morning, Daily Audio Bible Family. I’m calling in for prayers for my life. I’ve been wanting to set it down, but it has really been challenging because I’ve been in a relationship, but things are not working. I am thinking of moving on. It hurts that I would give in this much and nothing comes out of it. I do not know if it’s my perception towards marriage. Cause I haven’t had this pleasure of a family, you know. In Africa, when you’re both 30 and you have a good job, you, the pleasure of the family to see you settle down becomes really, really high. And I’ve not really been getting an easy with family. So, I want to use this Lent period to really focus on my relationship with God and while I’m doing that, I was the one, my Daily Audio Bible family to put me in their prayers. I would love to encounter someone who values me as much as I value her. Who would choose to compromise as much as I would choose to compromise or maybe less. I just want to be in a relationship with someone who understands me. Because I believe if that relationship is to last, we all have compromises that we should make. So, put me in your prayers as we go through it. And I’m hoping to come back here with a testimony. Probably sometime. Thank you Daily Audio Bible.

Morning, Good Afternoon, Good Evening, Daily Audio Bible Family. This is Matthew from the United Kingdom. Today is the 22nd of February 2023 and beginning of Lent. And this is the period when one would come and think about our life and repent of our sins. I sometimes pray for brothers and sisters whose problems are presented on this platform. Thank you Brian Hardin for all that you do, for this, for the Holy Spirit to flow in this platform. This morning, or whatever it is, whatever time it is, wherever you are, let us lift up our brother team. Before his throne of grace and mercy, and ask for more of his mercy in the life of team. Team, today is the day that begins repentance. Team has repented before you and for that ___, asking for restoration. For that, I stand with team, and ask you Lord, for restoration for team. Asking You, Lord, that You cleanse team from all unrighteousness, oh God. Lord, that You would restore team, full unto You and restore his ministry back to him. In the name of Jesus. Father, if we say have no sin, that the truth is not in us, for all of us have sinned and have fallen short of your glory. You said, if we confess our sins, that You are faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Hi DAB family, my name is Evelynn, I’m calling from Berlin. Good afternoon, yeah, about two months ago, I called for prayers for my mom, who was going through stage 4 breast cancer. Today, makes one month exactly that she passed. She went to be with the Lord. Yeah, it’s been hard, it’s been hard without her. Especially for my dad. I can hear the pain, I can see the pain in his eyes. First there girls, three girls, it’s, it’s, it’s just been hard. So, I’m calling for prayers that you stand in the gap, you pray alongside with us, as we get through this process of trying to figure things out. You know, and yeah, I’m also asking for prayers over my mind, over the spirit of fear, anxiety and worry. That’s, you know, having a family member go through such, is kind of hard. So, yeah, heavenly Father, I ask that You’d stand by everyone who is going through loss, who is going through a grieving process. I ask Lord Jesus, that You stand by us, that You support us, that we feel Your love, Your support, Your embrace around us during these trying times. In Jesus name. Amen. Thank you so much. Bye.

Leviticus 19:1-20:21, Mark 8:11-38, Psalms 42:1-11, Proverbs 10:17

Today is the 26^th day of February welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I am Brian it is great to be here with you as we greet a brand-new shiny sparkly week. And before this week is out we will…we will greet a brand-new shiny sparkly month. That is where we find ourselves in the year. I can’t believe we are already…well…let’s not get ahead of ourselves, but we are about to greet the third month of the year. Didn’t we just start this year it feels like? But here we are day by day step-by-step, the next step forward together. And that next step will lead us back into the book of Leviticus. We’ll read from the New International Version this week and today Leviticus chapter 19 verse 1 through 20 verse 21.

Prayer:

Father, we thank You for Your word. We thank You for this brand-new week, all shiny and sparkly and offered to us as a gift to live, have life, and enjoy fellowship with You and one another. We thank You for this week. We ask that You lead us on the steps that we need to take and on the choices that we need to make. And along with the psalmist we pray, as the deer pants for streams of water, our souls pant for You, our souls for You, the living God. It is Your presence that we seek every moment of this week that we might be awake, alert and aware that You are always with us, that You are always leading us, that we just need to pay attention. Ans, so, help us Holy Spirit to slow down and pay attention, to consultant wisdom, to allow Your Holy Spirit to lead us in the way that we should go. Come Holy Spirit into all of this we pray in the name of Jesus. Amen.

Community Prayer and Praise:

Hi, my Daily Audio Bible family this is Work in Progress. I have kind of an urgent prayer request for my daughter. My daughter over the last few years has really struggled with I guess mental illness and it’s led to some very dark paths for her including drug addiction, which she’s gone through treatment for, but her life has still been a mess and she’s destroyed it. And the other day about a week ago we got a call from her, and she had said…she had said that she had been raped. And…and we just got a call from our other daughter who…who said that she has spoke with her sister and she’s afraid that she’s being trafficked, which is kind of like the thing I was afraid the most would happen. And anyway, we can’t reach her, we don’t know where she’s at and I’m really afraid for her. You know growing up she…she loved God’s word. She used to listen to Daily Audio Bible. So, she has God’s word in her but she needs help and she needs healing, like real healing. So, if you would please pray for her. Pray for her safety. Pray she’s rescued from whatever she’s experiencing and also pray for justice for anybody that’s hurt her. Thank you, family.

Hello DAB this is Kay from Ohio I want to pray for Kevin who called in I think it was the 16^th or 17^th of February but he said he was just getting divorced from his wife three weeks ago and he’s just worried about his kids, his house, what is he gonna do from here on out. And Kevin I’m speaking from experience, it’s hard. It was hard. I didn’t know which way to turn. And I knew God, but never did I draw closer than I did at that time at the hardest time of my life. God drew me in, and I had no other choice but to trust Him and to do His holy, divine will. And He showed up. So, remain faithful and know that God has it all in His hands. God bless you.

Hey there dabbalamma family this is Dare Dreamer in Indianapolis just wanted to give you guys a little prayer encouragement. Gonna pray for three people hopefully if I can in my words few. First of all for the son of Tanya who…whose friend Melissa called in from Albertville on the December 5^th podcast. Just wanted to lift her friend’s son up and for the spouse who left him, just please and blessing over him. As a …yeah…as a  __ he took some hits and deals with mental health problems. And yeah, so many of our veterans have to keep fighting on in that way so it’s one of them in prayer. Lord I…actually I just want to also pray for…for Delta Echo Fox…Foxtrot. I can say that…down in Texas for his boss, may his boss find comfort and peace in you, yeah, God. And lastly for our lovely lovely sister Radiant Rachel who is so kind to pray in for us all the time. So, Lord cover all these people. Let them be blessed in You, let them receive You and abide in You and find everything in You that they need. I pray this all in your name. Amen.

Hey this goes out to From Junk to Treasure. This is Micah in Awe in the Kansas City MO area? Sister do you know who you are on the Lord? You’re so important to the Lord sister. I’ve heard you pray for so many. I’ve heard you bless so many and encourage so many. Satan doesn’t like it. He’s trying to mess with you. Remember who you are in the Lord and remember that life is full of valleys and mountains, springs, summers, falls, winter. You’re in a winter period. You’ll come out of it. Things will get better, and I know you know it. I know you believe, and nothing could take that from you. But I am gonna ask, Lord we ask for deliverance Lord. She’s looking around, she’s looking from which way her help will come. Lord ride into this situation like a mighty warrior. Destroy the enemy with a simple breath and laugh at her enemies Lord. Destroy anything that would cause a decrease of peace and joy in her life Lord. Just bring that peace back. We need our sister strong, blessing, and encouraging others lower like she was, and she still is. But we need her strong and we need her happy for that Lord. She’s a strong prayer warrior and You know it Lord. You know her faithfulness in Your kingdom, and we just ask for some peace in her life and deliverance for all the things that are going on. Her family Lord, let her family be blessed because of her, because of her love for You Lord. Let it…let it reach into her grandkid’s lives, her daughter’s lives. Just bring about peace in all the different ways. Send the angel armies to guide her family Lord and start bringing them into the truth of who You are, the grandsons, and just bless her Lord in Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.

Junk to Treasure this is God’s Life Speaker. I am going to talk, read, and pray through Nehemiah 4. Prayer through hard patches is what I call this chapter. The enemy will taunt us. Pray. The work will be hard and even discouraging. Pray. Verse seven says the breaches began to be closed and it angered the enemy. The enemy will heat up. Pray. Verse nine says but we prayed to our God and because of them we set up a guard against them day and night. Set up a guard and pray. Verse 13 is talking about exposed places to gather and keep your faith. It says then I stationed the men at the lowest parts of the space behind the wall, the exposed places. And I stationed the people and families. We’re your family. With their swords spears and bows. Pray. And in verse 14 it says do not be afraid of them. Remember the Lord who is great and awesome and fight for your brothers and your sons and your daughters and your wives and your houses. Rally up. And verse 20 it says our God will fight for us. God will carry on. All we need to do in verse 21, so we carried on the work with half of them holding spears through the dawn until the stars appear. Heavenly father the DAB family is gathering around from Junk to Treasure. In the name of Jesus, we come at her finances, we come at those relationships, we come at the things that are just knocking her down. Lord we ask in the name of Jesus that you lift her up above these things. Amen.

Leviticus 16:29-18:30, Mark 7:24-8:10, Psalm 41:1-13, Proverbs 10:15-16

Today is the 25th day of February, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian. It is fantastic to be here with you today, from the rolling hills of Tennessee. All gathered around the Global Campfire today, regardless of where we are on planet Earth. It is a joy; it is a privilege that we have this place that we can gather together like this. And so, wonderful, wonderful to be here with you today, as we take the next step forward. The next step leads us back into the book of Leviticus, and today we will read chapter 16 verse 29 through 18 verse 30.

Prayer:

Father, we thank You for Your word. We thank You for another week. We’ve been able to spend in Your word, we thank You for these transition days coming back from the land of the Bible that we are reading about in the Bible. Thank You for all of Your graciousness and kindness, Your patience, Your unstoppable love for us. And we ask that You lead us forward, on the narrow path that leads to life, lead us into all truth, lead us deeper into intimacy with You. 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 will be waiting for you here, tomorrow.

Prayer and Encouragements:

My DAB community, all of you who are faithful to pray, who called in, who do not call in that you still pray to all of our faithful men and women who are incarcerated that faithfully pray for our prayer request. I am asking you to lock shields with me and pray for my daughter Tricia. I cannot tell the situation because she has asked me not to, but she doesn’t want to live anymore. So, I’m asking for all of you to pound the floors of heaven, lift up your voices for my daughter, thank you so much.

Hi DAB, this message is for Neil in the North Georgia mountains. I also live in Georgia myself. And I heard your story and I wanted to pray for you and your wife and your family. I heard everything you said and it’s rather heartbreaking. But God is able, He’s able to restore the years that the locust that conquered in Eden, that’s what is promised in Joel. So, I just prayed for Neil and his wife, Lord, that You would convict her even now, Lord, that You would help her, oh God, heal from past wounds and hurts, oh God. Father, that she will find counseling, Godly counseling that will help her oh God, to be able to move forward from this hurt, Lord. Lord, I pray oh God, in the name of Jesus, that You would give Neil wisdom and how to pray and how to reach out to his wife, oh God. Lord, we believe that You’re a miracle working God, You’re able to restore. Father, we trust You oh God, to do the impossible. We pray for his family, for his children. Lord, I pray even now oh God, that every single person in that family will have an encounter, a true encounter with You and they will never be the same. Father, thank You for restoration. You’re a God of redemption and I just thank You for what You will do, Lord. I stand in faith with Neil, this morning, and I ask You God that You would intervene in that situation, that You would restore that marriage, that You will deliver this sister oh God, from oppression Lord. The Bible says in John 10:10 that the…that the thief has come to steal, kill and destroy. But You have come to give us life and give us life more abundantly. I pray for that abundant life for this family. In the name of Jesus. And I pray that the joy of the Lord will be Neil’s strength oh God, that You would fill him oh God, today, with the Holy Spirit. Father, that he can find joy and peace in You. In Jesus name. Amen.

Hey, Daily Audio Bible, this is Blood on the Beach. And this is my third time trying to do this so, hopefully third times a charm, right. Another Biblical number to choose. So, I’m just banking on number three here. I think the enemy doesn’t want this prayer request out there. But I’m just sitting here really grateful for these past, almost two solid years, reading through the Bible two times. I started mid-year, two years ago. And just blessed and to see how far my life has come and my walk has come to Jesus because of this community. So, thank you, Brian, and the community and your family, for everything. But I’m just desiring that for my husband, Colin. I know that he is a little more intermittent, maybe not so much, maybe Bible focused. A little more podcast or sermon or short devotional base, which are all great, but I just know, and I know all you community members, family out there know just how deep this goes. And how wonderful it is, and I want this for my husband. And I want to see what will happen as he digs in. If he is so willing. So, please be praying that he will download this app. That he will follow through when I suggest it. And that he just gets into a rhythm, that he stays with it, when it gets difficult. Because we all know it’s pretty hard there in the beginning. But oh, so sweet now, right. And I’m only about two years in, I know it’s just gonna keep getting sweeter. But I don’t want us to waste any more time. I want us to be listening and reading the Bible together, separately right now. And hopefully, one day, doing it together. So, please pray for my husband Colin and getting in the Bible.

Hello, my DAB family. This is Jamie in New Jersey, Standing on the Word of God. I humbly ask you to please pray with me. Dear Father in Heaven, thank You for another day. Thank You for the time You have given us on earth. Father, we pray You continue to pray You shape us and mold us into the men and women of God You want us to be. Help us to stay on Your paths. Help us to shine as Your lights in this world. Father, You know our struggles, and everything that comes against us, that tries to challenge our faith. We ask that You would remind us that if You are for us, nothing can stand against us. Remind us that nothing is impossible with You. Father, You know our hearts and all those things we are praying for. You know just where we need the miraculous to happen in our lives and those that we love. Give us the ability to endure and wait on Your perfect timing. Help us to see where You are already working, help us to recognize the miracles You have already made happen in our lives. Help us to remain faithful to You in our circumstances. Father, our lives are in Your hands. We want nothing but Your will for every aspect of our lives. And we trust in Your goodness, mercy and love. Give us manifestations of all that You have for us today. We pray in Jesus name. Amen. Thank you for praying along with me, my brothers and sisters. I love each and every one of you. Have a good night.

This is Julie and Chris from Texas. And we are calling in response to the call that came in maybe a few weeks back where a lady was asking for couples to call in and pray together. And our wedding day falls on the 19th of the month. So, we, Chris and I, have committed to call in the 19th of every month and pray together so, that is what we’re doing. Thank you for that challenge sister. Lord, we thank You for this community, we thank You for the blessing it is to all of us around the globe, Lord. And Lord, that You surround us with Your presence Lord, and so this community comes around each other, Lord, and we thank You for that example that You are and the blessing it is to us. We pray Your compassion be in our hearts for one another and that faithfulness and that goodness that You showed to us Lord, that it would be multiplied and work through us toward one another and that we would see, just an outpouring of Your Spirit, Lord. We thank You for Your faithfulness. Amen. We love you guys. Be blessed.

Leviticus 15:1-16:28, Mark 7:1-23, Psalms 40:11-17, Proverbs 10:13-14

Today is the 24^th day of February welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I am Brian it is great to be here with you today as we gather around the Global Campfire and move forward together, take the next step forward. And as is the custom every single day, we pick up where we left off so that we don’t miss anything, so that we read every verse and every book of the Bible. And, so, picking up where we left off leads us back into the book of Leviticus. Today, Leviticus chapter 15 verse 1 through 16 verse 28.

Commentary:

Okay. Let’s take a look at what Jesus is saying in the gospel of Mark. We encountered something similar to this in the Gospel of Matthew and we were able to talk a little bit about it, but let's…let’s dive back in because what Jesus is talking about is literally central to His teaching. I think I would dare say central to understanding what the gospel even is. And, so, Jesus is going around teaching what we read today all over the place because it is like foundational, a foundational understanding that we might believe. And what Jesus is saying is look, you can order your life in such a way that you look good or that you look like you’re a certain kind of person. You can get up every day and kind of put on the mask and go about your day pretending but there is a truth about who you are and it’s behind the exterior. It’s behind the presentation. It’s behind the personality. It is in your heart and your life flows from this place from within. You’re living in a world that tells you to just make the outside and look right, say the right things, look the right way, show up at the right places. But that’s not what’s going on here. The transformation happens from within. And when the transformation happens from within the and you don’t have to wear a mask because you realize that your sins are forgiven, and nothing is being held against you. You don’t have to be false. It’s not God, that’s inviting you to be false or hypocritical. It’s other people and the control that they get over you and the traditions and rituals that they make you participate in to make you think that this is ordered from the exterior. When the truth of who you are is from within. Like that is central to understanding not only the gospel but to understanding our humanity. The humanity that Jesus is teaching and describing springs from within and spills out. It’s not the other way around where we wear the mask and perfect the mask and look a certain way, hoping that someday that will seep in and become true of us. What’s true of us comes from within and spills out. And, so, ignoring our interior lives and not understanding the terrain of our hearts at all means we’re really disassociated with becoming fully human, the kind of person that Jesus is describing that is true inside and outside. And, so, I’m just gonna kinda quote this passage back from Jesus with all of that in mind, so that we can all kind of take this on board and begin to consider it because it’s something that needs constant vigilance and consideration. So, Jesus said, “all of you listen. All of you listen and try to understand. It’s not what goes into your body that defiles you. You are defiled by what comes from your heart. Can’t you see that the food you put into your body cannot defile you? Food doesn’t go into your heart, but only passes through the stomach and then goes into the sewer. It’s what comes from inside that defiles you. For from within, out of a person’s heart come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, envy, slander, pride, and foolishness. All these vile things come from within. They are what defile you.” And, so, once again we have this opportunity to examine what’s really going on inside of us. We have all…like wea are like a universe inside of ourselves and the amount of who we really are that is being revealed into the world is quite curated. But we have to live with ourselves, and we have to live inside of our own heads and we have to live inside of our own hearts each and every day. And, so, we face all kinds of things, some really really beautiful, some really really wonderful. Some parts of our lives have been transformed and we are not who we once were but that doesn’t mean there isn’t work to do. And that doesn’t mean that we don’t live in a world that is literally teaching us and counseling us on how to pretend, how to be fake, how to be a hypocrite when the truth of who we are will spill out, regardless. And, so, Jesus is counseling us to pay attention to what is within.

Prayer:

Father, we invite Your Holy Spirit into this. It’s not that we don’t think about these things. It’s not that we don’t sit on the couch and beat ourselves up over something that we said to somebody that started an argument and we caused problems again. It’s not like we don’t know that these things come from within. It’s that we’re very much not paying attention to where they start. And, so, we reflect back with regret on things that we’ve said or done that we probably shouldn’t have said or done, not realizing that this is coming from within us, from the broken places that are in us, from the places that we’ve not received healing and the poison is still there. And so often, it’s because we just aren’t even aware, not even paying attention. Come Holy Spirit, we open our hearts to You. All of it. All of the story of who we are and how we got here, all of the things we were wounded by, all the things we would rather forget, all the things that we need to remember, all the things that we rejoice in. It’s all a part of the story and we open it all to You asking that You come. Come great comforter, bring comfort to our souls. We reach and take Your hand as we walk through the terrain of our hearts, asking You to lead us to these places that…that need healing, that we might become whole and true. Come Holy Spirit into all of this we ask in the name of Jesus. Amen.

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If you want to partner with the Daily Audio Bible, thank you humbly. We wouldn’t be here at all if we weren’t in this together. And, so, thank you deeply. 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 PO Box 1996 Spring Hill 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 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.

Community Prayer and Praise:

Hi my DAB family this is Sabina from the Faroe Islands and just wanted to call in and pray for…this man may…several people have been praying for you, I think your name was Webster. And yeah, you were talking about not having faith and asking God for faith and so on. And yeah, I've…I know what you feel, probably not exactly what you feel but I’ve had a lot of those same thoughts and…and feelings and mostly thoughts about, yeah, do I have faith…enough faith and also do I have the right kind of faith and a lot of thoughts around that and struggling with it for many years. And it’s more peaceful now. It’s like I have the same kind of mindset but it’s more peaceful and I think it’s because God’s really spoke to me about letting go and just rest. And that’s not easy to do right away. It takes practice. But I…I feel like I’m supposed to say to you, and you can take this or not, but that God…God is asking you to rest. Please just rest in Me and stop trying so hard. And that he loves you just like you are like the logical person you are. That’s how we created you. So, when you want more faith and like just try to think OK I’m letting go I’m just resting…

Hey DAB this is Andrew from Washington to the lady that called in February 10^th talking about releasing those people who hurt her and forgiving them after she heard Brian’s commentary on Jesus. Thank you. Thank you very much for sharing that. That was beautiful. That was encouraging and it was a great reminder. And I did…I did the same thing that very moment that I heard you say it. So, thank you very much for sharing that with us. God bless.

Hallelujah! Hallelujah! This is Bridget be filled Bridget from New York City and I just listened to February 16^th’srecording and heard Kevin’s request which I’m gonna pray for but also for the woman after him and how she just was filled by the Spirit to forgive. Lord, we thank You God. Father just listening to that I just…I bless her this morning Lord. And Father in the same manner that she was just broken before You after hearing what happened to Your son and asked You for forgiveness, I pray that Kevin and his wife and his…his marriage God You would to make forgiveness be the center of it all Lord, that Father they would see each other from a place of forgiveness Lord, a place of love, a place of repentance, a place of servanthood, a place that You have created for them God. Lord, Your word says that we’re man…what You have put together that no man separatem, which includes us. We cannot separate what You have put together. So, I pray that forgiveness would abound greatly in this family this morning Lord, that Kevin’s family and his marriage would be saved and that it would be a testimony unto You even for his children and that his children would be able to share about how there in this most difficult time his mother, their mother and Father went through You came to the rescue God. We ask You Lord, touch this marriage and…and Father, we ask You to bring back that girl that’s sex trafficked in the name of Jesus. Amen.

Hello, my Daily Audio Bible family this is David Brown in Savannah GA and it’s been a long time since I’ve called in but today’s February 16^th. I’ve just got done listening to the…to the prayer request line and all and I heard Diane Olive Braun’s call from February 10^th. And…and Diane I’m right there with your sister. When I think of the sacrifice that was made for us for those…those of us that hated Him because I know that if I had been in Jerusalem when He was being tried, I would have been the one in the crowd screaming crucify Him. I know that and yet He loved me enough to suffer anyway and to be a sacrifice for my sin for all our sins. And…and Diane you’re just…I was…I was weeping with you. The tears were flowing as I listened to you and I just…I thank God so much for the salvation He gave us and how He suffered through it. And sometimes I don’t want to do the hard stuff. Sometimes if somethings a little difficult I don’t wanna do it but then I have to think about…about Jesus carrying His cross and I feel convicted. But thank you Diane for…for just reminding me of that and just for the tears that you shared with us. And I share mine with you. I love all my family and the Daily Audio Bible, and I hope to all…to see you all someday soon. I love you. David Brown in Savannah GA signing off. Bye.

Hello double DAB DABbers this is Trip Salina I wanted to pray for the lady that was from Haiti with the orphanage. I’m sorry I can’t remember your name, but your story was just pinpointing to my heart like how difficult and how the stuff that you go through but out of love to help those kids was so just amazing, that you’re the hands and the feet of Jesus truly. And, so, I pray Lord God may your will be done over this situation and for the people that were taken captive as hostages Lord God. I pray that you keep them safe Lord, keep them safe and them comfort in eating and not tormented Lord Jesus. And I pray that they come out with the ransom for them and that…if that’s the case and those finances be provided Lord God, I pray that you protect all of those children just to protect a shroud, surround them with your guardian angels Lord. Keep all of those kids safe and…and all of the other volunteers as well, all of the other people involved Lord God just keep them all safe. And I thank you. I thank you for your servants that are your hands and feet that go into crazy scary situations boldly with courage. God bless you. Amen.