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Judges 15:1-16:31, John 2:1-25, Psalms 103:1-22, Proverbs 14:17-19

Today is the 2^nd day of May welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I’m Brian it is a wonderful to be here with you today. How exciting is this? We’ve got a brand-new month here; we’re closing down another week together and what a journey we have been on the first four months of the year. The Bible has spoken much, much has happened in the world as is always happening and God has been faithful to guide and direct us through His word. So, we’re at the end of the week. We’ve been reading from the Common English Bible this week, which is what we’ll do today. And we began the story of the judge Samson yesterday. We’ll continue that story today. Judges chapters 15 and 16.

Prayer:

Father, we thank You for another week in Your word, another week to enjoy the fellowship of each other around the Global Campfire, but another week to hear from You as You speak to us throughout the earth. And as we end this week, we consider what we read in the Psalms today. We were instructed to bless You over and over, to bless the Lord. And yes, we do bless You, but may we press into that because normally we’re asking You to bless us with something. And what could we do? What could we give You that would bless You? We’re continually asking for things that we need or that we want. And yet the only thing that we really honestly can offer You, because everything was created by You….so, we can give You all of our money, we can give You all of our stuff, but it’s all Yours and we are just stewards of it. The only thing that we can freely give You is our hearts, ourselves. And that often doesn’t seem like it would be a blessing if we’re honest. We know the darkness that is within us. We know our struggles and we try to tamp them down and hide them and keep them, but You’re saying to give it all to You and this would be a blessing. And so, we wonder then why we’ve been holding out if we don’t need to hide anything from You and it blesses You that we give ourselves to You completely, then we give ourselves to You completely. And Holy Spirit we ask You to show us the places that are like resistant to that idea. What…what are the places that we’re not trusting You? Because that’s what comes up here when we think about giving ourselves completely to You. And, so, we look at those things. We look at things that are holding us back and we invite Your Holy Spirit into them, that as we move through this weekend, one by one we can break those chains, one by one we can release so that we are giving ourselves completely and wholly to You. And may this be a blessing to You we ask it in the name of Jesus. Amen.

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Community Prayer and Praise:

Hey DAB fam this message is for the young lady that spoke April 27^th right after Brian’s final word, timestamp 29:39. You read to us a note, I believe you created titled “what listening to the DAB has taught me.” I just want to tell you that that was one of the most beautiful synoptic proclamations about the Bible’s essence I may have ever heard. So, thank you for sharing. Kind of feels like a mantra now. So…and also real quick I just want to keep the flame going in encouraging everyone to continue to support the DAB financially. Many have called in to encourage this in the past. We all know it’s a true gem and it’s been so for me personally for about 12 years now. So, no matter how small or large the gift, let’s continue to honor all the work Brian, the Hardin family and his team are doing for the community. Everyone has a name here. So, I’ll go by the name of God Shall Add and that’s about it. Take care everyone. Okay.

Good morning DAB family this is Amazed by Grace in Massachusetts and I just wanted to thank everyone who makes the Daily Audio Bible possible by sharing and throwing a log of the fire but especially, of course, to Brian and all of his team that work so hard to bring this to us each day. Thank…thank You, God for Your word is alive and that is real and that makes a difference in our life. Thank You for our sister who gave us such a wonderful summary of what God’s word is to us and how great His love is for us. And this morning I want to lift up Ethan to You Lord and pray for Your peace in Ethan’s heart, how many of us like his dad are anxious. Lord all the things that we trust in, that we looked in daily to supply our needs have been taken away, jobs Lord and friends and activities and we need to just trust Your mercy and Your grace. And Lord we’re not good at that. We want to see we want to feel. And, so, I pray for grace for Ethan’s Father, his mother. Lord, give them wisdom Lord give them discernment as they look to You. I pray for Ethan. Lord remind him that You are the great and holy and mighty God and You are with him. And I pray Lord that he will meditate on the fact that You are his Shepherd and You will supply. Lord bless those hurting so deeply as their sisters who’ve called in lately. And Lord give wisdom and discernment as people wait upon You for jobs for provision. Thank You, so much great and holy and mighty God. We can trust You. Help us Lord to keep our focus and our eyes on You. And I praise You in Jesus’ powerful name.

Hello DAB family my name is Terry from Oregon and I have a prayer request. My son’s friend had a sister who just died recently and now he himself is in the hospital on a ventilator and struggling for his life. These are the only two children this mama has, and I just pray for him to recover. And I ask for your prayers because I know how powerful the prayers of this community are. I just want to thank you and thank Brian for this app. It is amazing. I listen every day and I pray with all of you as I hear them each day. And I thank you ahead of time.

Hi, my amazing DAB fam this is Kingdom Seeker Daniel from Chicago. I am calling for two DAB superstars and those DAB superstars are none other than 10-year-old Ethan and 10 ½-year-old Sarai. You guys are what makes Daily Audio Bible and Chronological worth it all. I am so encouraged by you guys. Ethan, lift up your head buddy. God is with you, God is with your dad, He’s gonna see your dad and your entire family through this time. I pray that God’s strength would rest upon your dad and that he would feel the joy of the Lord surrounding him as his strength. And I pray that God would encourage your heart concerning missing out on your buddies and hanging out with your friends. But you hang in there. But in the meantime, be encouraged to know that God’s got an amazing plan for you, young man. I’m so encouraged, and you give me hope concerning my 11-year-old grandson. So, thank you buddy for your heart of compassion. And Sarai, 10 ½-year-old Saria, oh my darling you are a sweetheart in the Lord. You call to encourage Mr. Brian and Miss China and they deserve that encouragement but so do you my dear. Thank you for your tender heart in the Lord and I pray that the Lord will continue to give you and Ethan a hunger and thirst to know Him more. Remember Him continue to remember the Lord your Creator in the days of your youth. God bless the both of you. You are precious, precious individuals in the Lord. I love you so much and I’m praying for you.

Hi everyone, it’s Margo from Liberia. I’ve been meaning to call in and thank you to Candace for that reminder that it’s time for me to check in with you guys. I’m doing pretty well. I’m so grateful for your prayers. Last time I phoned in I was feeling unsettled and a little bit fearful and I’ve noticed a major improvement in my…just my general mood and trusting in God. I still have moments of fear but mostly I’m finding this is a…a great lesson for me in just totally trusting God and…and serving others through this time, although I am really feeling a bit over at all but I’m guessing a lot of us are. So, I’m still volunteering at the hospital, still seeing a lot of really heartbreaking situations but the Lord is walking with me so sweetly. There’s a lot of fear here in this country. Liberia as a whole has a really bad case of PTSD after they had the Ebola crisis, which was only five years ago. So, a pandemic coming along has…has really caused them a fair bit of panic. So, we are just doing our best to educate people and reassure people. I think we’ve done a good job of preparing at the hospital. We’ve got our tent up and running and we’ve converted a ward to a respiratory ward. So, we’re…we’re all just really doing our best in difficult circumstances. But I want to thank you for your prayers. Do keep praying for myself and my husband and…and all the missionaries here, that the Lord would keep us in good health and good spirits. Love you guys so much. Bye for now.

Hi this is Victoria Soldier just wanted to say happy anniversary to…to Ben and China. Happy anniversary. Happy happy happy happy happy anniversary. Lord bless them with many many more in the name of Jesus. Lord you have your way. Lord I wanted to talk to…wanted to also pray for the woman in distress. I wanted to also pray for the lady who was talking about us Christians not coming together and praying. Lord we need to learn how to be obedient. The Bible said obedient is better than sacrifice. Lord there’s so many great things about being obedient. If we just be obedient and do what __ say __the authority be done and let his will be done. God said He will supply all our needs. Lord I want to also pray for that precious little boy who called about his dad being sick. I wanted to pray for those who are in distress, those who are worried and those who…who need…need…need help Lord those who have strongholds. Lord You have Your way. Precious Father we praise You and we magnify You. We thank You Lord for Your marvelous work. We thank You Lord for having Your way. You heal in this coronavirus Lord. You let the…let the…all the went…if my people which I call by my name shall humble themselves and pray and seek Your face and turn from their wicked ways then will You Lord forgive their sin, then will You forgive their…heal the land and forgive their sin. Lord we thank You Lord for Your miracle working power. We thank You for healing Your people. We thank You for strengthening Your people. We thank You for giving life and favor. Lord we thank You Lord. We thank You for letting those who are just starting out and letting them know that we just trust in them Lord that You trust in the Lord and praise Him and give Him the…

Judges 13:1-14:20, John 1:29-51, Psalms 102:1-28, Proverbs 14:15-16

Today is the 1^st day of May welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I’m Brian it is wonderful to be here with you today on the 121^st day of the year and the 1^st day of the 5^th month of the year. Man, we’re still takin’ steps forward and they’ve let us this far and we’ll keep taking steps forward and they will lead us through this year and through the Bible. So, it is a joy to mark the 1^st day of May with you. May the month of May bring us all light and hope and life and good news and the comfort of the Holy Spirit in and among us each. So, it’s a new month, it’s a new day, but we do pick up right where we left off yesterday, and that leads us back into the book of Judges. And today we’re going to begin to learn about the judge named Samson. We’re reading from the Common English Bible this week. Judges chapters 13 and 14.

Commentary:

Okay. Let’s review some of the things that we read in the 102^nd chapter of Psalm today. “My days disappear like smoke. My bones are burned up as if in an oven. My heart is smashed like a dried-up grass. I even forget to eat my food. I lie awake all night. I’m all alone like a bird on a roof. I’ve been eating ashes instead of bread. I’ve been mixing tears into my drinks. My days are like a shadow soon gone. I’m dried up like dead grass.” Have you ever felt like that, right? Like, we’ve had lots of reasons to kind of feel like that in some ways over the last season that we’ve been…we’ve navigating. Basically, “I am alone, I am at the bottom, I don’t know where to turn, like all of the things that we face as human beings in certain seasons of our lives. And yet here they are in the Bible, right? And like, so…so often we’re like turning to the Bible for…for the answers, certainly, for the stories that we can find ourselves in, certainly. But sometimes the Bible gets really, really honest about our human experience and commiserates with us by just speaking the truth – “this is what it can feel like sometimes.” And sometimes just being able to name it, right? Sometimes just being able to say, “this is what I’m feeling.” Like we can feel guilty about it because we know we’re supposed be saying these opposite things that are…especially our religious culture tells us like, you know, we should…we should be saying the language of the overcomer. And those things are true, but what about being honest about where we actually are? The Bible is, why shouldn’t we be? And sometimes even hearing these words out of the Bible brings…even though they’re kind of like difficult words describing difficult times, they bring a certain amount of hope because it’s like, “I’m not the only one here. This was written thousands of years ago. This kind of thing has always been going on among human beings. We all feel this way at one time or another, like the lowest of the low.” So, there is some comfort in commiseration. The problem arises when we get stuck there, right? So, we just look for people to listen to our problems and we just listen to problems all the time and flip the channels and listen to the problems. And we get on social media and we listen to the problems. And we get on the phone and we listen to the problems. We get on text and we text our problems. Like, at some point commiseration becomes wallowing. And that’s the interesting thing here in this Psalm. Yes, brutal honesty is here for our commiseration, for our understanding, but that’s not all the Psalm says. So, like after all this outpouring then there are these words, “that this be written down for the next generation so that people not yet created will praise the Lord. The Lord looked down from his holy summit surveyed the earth from heaven to hear the prisoners groans, to set free those condemned to death.” That one move right there, that move from, “here is the honesty about how I am feeling. I’m going to say it. I’m going to name it.” And then that move outward, “let this be written down to the people who are not here yet. I will praise the Lord. The Lord looked down. He came for us.” That’s the move we need in our toolbox. We all know how to complain. And even if we’re not complaining we all know how to maybe say what we’re feeling. Even though most of the time we just keep it stuffed inside, we’re still thinking it, like it’s still happening. But so often that like leads us deeper into the darkness and then we get stuck there. The move in these times is to shift outward, to shift upward, to realize, “yeah this is happening and yeah this is terrible. This is difficult. This sucks, so I’m not gonna stay here.” But usually we do. But if we’ll make the move and shift to worship of God and knowing that He will never abandon us. How could He? He is within us. Why would he? He died for us. To understand that seasons come and seasons go in the constant that brings us through all of it, whether mountaintop or dark valley is our utter dependence on God, this is the place that we need to hang out and this is a really good word. This is a really good thing that the Bible is revealing to us as we begin this new month and continuing…and continue marching forward together in this world. So, let’s remember this. Let’s remember this move. Yes it’s okay to articulate, yes it’s okay to say what’s going on inside of us and be honest about it but after that, there is the move upward and outward, changing our outlook and changing our focus.

Prayer:

Holy Spirit, as we begin this month of May we invite You into that. We need to keep this before our eyes. There’s never a shortage of things to be down about and right now there’s plenty. But this isn’t all there is. You are more than enough. Help us to shift our focus upon You and outward to our brothers and sisters that we might be known by our love. Come Holy Spirit into this we pray. In the name of Jesus we ask. 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.

Judges 11:1-12:15, John 1:1-28, Psalms 101:1-8, Proverbs 14:13-14

Today is the 30^th day of April welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I am Brian and it’s great to be here with you on the final day of the fourth month of the year. Wow, we have completed four months. And what an interesting four months it has been in the world, in the Scriptures, in our lives. And it’s nice to know that we are continuing the journey forward. So, we will certainly be continuing the journey forward in the book of Judges, which is what we’re working through in the Old Testament right now. When we get to the New Testament today, we will be beginning a new book, the Gospel of John and we’ll talk about that when we get there, but first we’re reading from the Common English Bible this week. Judges chapters 11 and 12.

Introduction to the Gospel of John:

Okay. So, as we said at the beginning, we’re beginning a new book today now that we’ve gotten to the New Testament. So, we’re ending the fourth month of the year and we’re starting the fourth gospel in the…in the Scriptures, the gospel of John, which is…is the final narrative that describes the earthly life and ministry of Jesus. And this is a bit different. Like, if we’ll member, Matthew, Mark and Luke, these are known as the synoptic Gospels because even though they are written to different audiences, they share a lot of the same source material, a lot of the same stories, and a lot of times word for word. John’s Gospel…John’s Gospel is a different…different thing, totally different texture than the other Gospels have. It’s like 90% different from the other Gospels, which gives us a whole lot of new and interesting context and perspective for Jesus life and ministry. And John was one of the disciples of Jesus. So, he knew the stories likely that had been written and were being told. He obviously knew the stories. He was there, but he probably also knew the other stories that were being told around by Jesus as the gospel spread. So, rather than telling the same stories it appears that he…that he wrote more of the story or the rest of the story. And this is important because the other Gospels were meant to tell the story of Jesus, leading to a compelling reason to believe and to become a disciple, to follow Jesus. And John wrote this gospel to those who already believed. So, he’s writing it to strengthen and deepen the faith of those who would already come to know the story of Jesus and believed in him, which…which would be most of us. And so, let’s drink deep as we begin the final gospel. I mean let’s really embrace this because after John is finished then we’ll be going into the birth of the church, the beginning of the church era. And I don’t want to say that we’ll be leaving Jesus behind. We certainly won’t, but we will be leaving behind the stories from the Gospels because we will have completed them. So, let's…let’s drink deep from the gospel of John. Today John chapter 1 verses 1 to 28.

Prayer:

Father, we thank You for Your word. We thank You for four months that we’ve spent this year every single day together in Your word. Thank You for all that You have done through it. We thank You that You’ve been with us and instructed and guided us through some pretty weird times. We thank You for never leaving or forsaking us. We thank You that You are with us always because You are within us. And, so, we release this fourth month. There is only one way ahead and that is a forward and so this day will pass and along with it so will this month and we’ll move into a new month and we know You are already there waiting. And, so, we find comfort in that. We thank You for Your kindness. We thank You for Your mercy. We thank You for Your grace and we invite Your Holy Spirit into all that we do and say in this day and in the month ahead. Come Jesus we pray. In Your mighty name, we ask. Amen.

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I can’t believe it. We’re at the end of the fourth month of the year. Like, can you believe it? What a weird, strange year. At least for us like the last…well for us like the last six weeks we’ve been pretty much, you know, staying away from each other in all this, and tomorrow some…some of that begins to…begins to loosen a little bit in some places and others it’s a couple more weeks and still kind of watching it all happen. But we’re here and we’ve been here every day, and that’s the beauty of the global campfire. Day by day, no matter what is happening in the world we’re just…we’re here and there is a space that we create together, and we come here, and it’s a place of serenity, it’s a place to kind of let it all go and simply let God’s word come into our lives. And, so, it’s been a joy to spend this last month with you, strange, strange as it has been and I’m looking forward to the weeks ahead with you. So, anyway, dailyaudiobible.com, that’s home base and that is…that is where we stay connected.

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Judges 9:22-10:18, Luke 24:13-53, Psalms 100:1-5, Proverbs 14:11-12

Today is the 29^th day of April welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I’m Brian it is a pleasure and an honor to be here with you today as we come around the Global Campfire and take the next step forward in the Scriptures as they lead us through a year of our lives. And the journey in the Old Testament has been taking us through the book of Judges, which is where we will continue our journey today. We learned the story of Gideon and we’re kind of in the story of what came after Gideon, which is Abimelech, one of Gideon’s sons has assassinated all of his brothers except for one has taken control. And, so, we pick up the story. Judges chapter 9 verse 22 through 10 verse 18 today and we’re reading from the Common English Bible this week.

Commentary:

Okay. So, we are almost at the end of this month of April and today we concluded the gospel of Luke, which means tomorrow as we end a month we’ll be beginning the final of the Gospels, but the last thing that we read from the gospel of Luke is kind of like the aftermath of the resurrection. So, it's…it’s resurrection day. This is the day we commemorate on Easter but it’s the day of the resurrection and we’ve kind of already read the story of kinda running to the tomb, the tombs empty, the women, all of this, but it’s still the same day. So, let’s call it Easter. It’s still Easter. Some of the followers of Jesus have departed Jerusalem. They’ve heard what happened, like they’ve heard that the tomb is empty, but they’ve still left Jerusalem to walk to this city of Emmaus when Jesus shows up and walks alongside them and they don’t recognize Him. So, they’re going along and they’re talking to Him and, you know, He’s like, “what’s going on?” And they’re like, “are You the only one in Jerusalem that doesn’t know?” And He’s like, “what…what happened?” And they explain the whole story and then Jesus opens the Scriptures to them, they get to Emmaus, He’s gonna continue walking down the road and they’re like, “no. Come, be with us.” And He’s like, “no. I couldn’t. I’ve gotta keep going.” And they convinced Him to come and He sits down to dinner and breaks the bread and then…then they realize it’s Jesus. So, like obviously He doesn’t look like they were expecting Him to look. They didn’t recognize Him, but then they did and then he disappeared. And, so, then they come back to Jerusalem to tell everybody what they had seen. Now they’re convinced. And then Jesus shows up in the midst of them, including eating some fish, which would’ve been important to them because they thought he was a ghost, so a ghost wouldn’t eat fish. A ghost wouldn’t eat anything. Like we would believe that a ghost couldn’t eat anything. So Jesus eats in front of them, they calm down and He tells them about a comforter that is going to be sent to them and then we’re kind of whisked away back across the Mount of olives as far as Bethany, where He then returns to the Father. And I think there’s something pretty key in that…in that series of stories or scenes that the gospel of Luke ends with that is poignant to us. They stopped being able to completely recognize Him in His physicality. Like we could look at the story and go like, “Jesus appears and disappears, and He does all these supernatural things” or we could go into the story and realize He’s among them, but they don’t recognize Him in his physicality the way that they once did. They may see him that way, like He shows…shows His hands and feet in Jerusalem, but on the road Emmaus they don’t. There’s scenes like this in the other Gospels too. So, what’s up with that? Why the mystery? The key might be in what they said to each other after He disappeared in Emmaus. “Weren’t our hearts on fire when He spoke to us along the road and when he explained the Scriptures for us?” So, before they understood it was Jesus their hearts were on fire. Once they knew it was Jesus, they reflected upon that. And after Jesus ascension didn’t the Holy Spirit come with tongues of fire? Didn’t the Holy Spirit come and ignite their hearts on fire? And isn’t that fire still burning? Like didn’t the gospel then spread out of Jerusalem to the entire world from there without the physical Jesus walking around? It seems like the last lesson that Jesus is trying to teach His disciples, at least as told in the gospel of Luke is that His physicality isn’t the only indicator of His presence. It kind of closes the loop on the kingdom He’s been talking about all along, this is kingdom that is within you, that is among you, that is happening now if you simply have eyes to see it and ears to hear it. It’s happening now. In terms of Jesus the King of this kingdom, it is also beyond physicality. He is within and among us now and always, even to the end of the age. Okay. So, so often we’re like just wanting any kind of…any amount of time that we could have with Jesus with skin on. Like, you know, I hear that all the time. And I…I’ve longed for the same thing. Maybe if we had eyes to see, we would see Jesus everywhere and maybe the place to start is by looking at our brothers and sisters. After all, we are the body of Christ in this world. We are the hands and feet of Jesus. We are Jesus to the world. Like we’ve heard these things all along. What if they’re true? What if my returning to the Father Jesus no longer situated Himself in a place at a time, but is rather now omnipresent in this world through us? Man, that could change everything, which was kind of the point and that could change the way we live today, which is kind of the point. It’s just so often we know our own imperfections and we know the imperfections of those that we love. And, so, we assume the imperfections of everybody else and we look for those imperfections. We like to point them out. And, so, we can deduce that…that this can’t be Jesus with skin on. This is a flawed person. But isn’t that the story of the Bible? I mean isn’t the Bible full of the stories of flawed people that God uses when they open their eyes, when they awaken, when they have eyes to see? We’ve gotten to know the disciples to some degree in the Gospels, we’re they not flawed people? And did not the explosion of the gospel happen after Jesus removed Himself physically from the scene? Maybe if we would have eyes to see, we would realize He has not removed Himself from us. He has become even more present. He is not external to us as something that we can look. He is a part of who we are, He is within us. The interesting thing is, if we want to see Jesus all we have to do is go look in a mirror. And if that seems odd or that seems impossible because we know who we are then maybe we don’t know who we are. Maybe we have to stare at ourselves in the mirror and keep looking and looking and looking until everything that is false crumbles away, and we do see, we do have eyes to seem He is within us, we can see Him and maybe that can change our lives as it is supposed to do, transforming us, working the work of sanctification within us, helping us to understand that we are becoming Christ like in this world. Some things to think about today.

Prayer:

Holy Spirit we invite you into that. We do believe that you are here. We do believe that you are our comforter, that you are our advocate, that you will lead us into all truth. We do believe because we are told in the Scriptures that the same spirit that raised Christ from the dead lives in us, which means that nothing is impossible, and this is the way of your kingdom. The impossible becomes possible with God. You have not abandoned us. You are not distant from us. You are as near as our next breath and may we receive that breath into our bodies and know that it is a gift and may we exhale it in worship and may we repeat that and repeat that and repeat that and repeat that for the rest of our lives understanding that we are your children, you have adopted us, and we have work to do. Come Holy Spirit into this make us aware, awaken us we pray, in the name of Jesus we ask. Amen.

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Today is the 28^th day of April welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I’m Brian it’s great to be here with you today. Wow…just a couple more days left in this month. What an interesting month it has been. So, let’s take the next step forward in the Scriptures. And today we will…well…we will continue the story of Gideon one of the judges of Israel and we’re reading from the book of Judges. So, this week we’re reading from the Common English Bible. Today Judges chapter 8 verse 18 through 9 verse 21.

Commentary:

Okay. So, I guess…I guess if there was like some sort of theme that would emerge from today’s reading, it’s gotta be injustice. So, we concluded the story of Gideon the judge today and the way the story ends gives us significant clues into the times of the judges, like how things had become in Israel, how tribal it had become and disunified things had become. So, after this triumph over the Midianites they want Gideon to be their king, their supreme leader. He doesn’t want it, doesn’t want it for his family. He basically knows how it goes with Kings and trying to hold onto power at this time in the world. And, so, while Gideon is the judge for 40 more years than there’s peace around the land and soon as He dies then everyone begins to go back to worshiping Baal again. I mean Gideon had a big family, 70 sons. And one of his sons was a son from a concubine in Shechem. His name was Abimelech who was like basically, “you know, if my dad didn’t want to be king, I do.” Like, “and do you want 70 judges now. Gideon’s dead. You want 70 judges, or do you want one king?” And the result is that all of Abimelech’s brothers are murdered so that Abimelech has this claim. Like, you see how barbaric of a time this is.

But we can move forward a thousand years as we flip to the book of Luke and see that barbarity still exists because we’re seeing Jesus hanging from a cross, which is a very barbaric way to be executed, giving His life in so many ways to put an end that. And, you know, barbaric things still exist in our world today as we well know. So, just in today’s reading along, we can look back thousands of years and see the state of mankind and zoom all the way through the New Testament and then get all the way to where we are today and see that the struggles just look different. They’re still heart issues. They’re still the problems that have always existed when we try to do life separate from God. So, whether it be from the Old Testament or the New Testament or from yesterday, when we drift, when we walk away and we turn to false comforters and walk the path that leads us away from the narrow path, then destruction does come, which is what Bible says. But…but Jesus removed the separation allowing us to unite with God. If there was ever a time for us to…like…for that to finally catch flame within us it’s now.

Prayer:

Father, we invite you into that. We keep trying to trust you until what we see seems as if it’s going in a different direction and so we take the reins back and trust ourselves when you are often counterintuitive. You often force us into a place of faith because it is perhaps like the most important…I don’t know…muscle that we need to be able to live in this world. And yet it’s the one we’re not continually exercising. It gets use when there’s no other choice. You’re inviting us to flip that around and understand that faith is what leads us forward, our complete and utter trust in you for all things knowing that you are the author and finisher of our faith, that you are the author and finisher of our lives, and our lives with you never end. And, so, we get so obsessed about momentary things when there is forever together with you. Help us to have the eyes of faith today we ask in the name of Jesus our Savior. Amen.

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My DAB Family this is __ in __ Africa and I’m just phoning in to thank everyone who prayed today and just shared. It’s Friday the 24^th of April. It touched my heart so, so much. This community is so authentic and so special because I personally don’t find this authenticity in churches. We are all so busy almost just walking around with a mask on and not…not being our true selves and not showing our brokenness and this community allows us to…to feel vulnerable and to phone in to…to share our hearts and that is that is real and that’s authentic, that is…it’s beautiful and I want to thank each and every one of you. I want to thank especially Saria. Thank you so much for phoning in. I’m so proud of you. You said you were proud of Brian and China. I’m proud of you that you’re listening to DAB at such a young age. You said your 10 ½. I think it’s so amazing and God loves you and I just want to encourage you to continue listening. It was so wonderful to hear your voice and just, yeah, I love you and just take care of yourself and…and stay in God’s word. And just thank you again Brian and the whole Hardin family. Thank you for your love. Thank you for your faithfulness and doing this every day. You’re helping people in ways you can even begin to imagine. I just thank you so much and God bless all of you.

Good afternoon family it is Friday the 24^th of April and it is the first day of Ramadan. So, yeah, let’s pray. Father God thank You so much that we can come together and pray for…and pray for all things but to pray for Muslims, that we can be united to this, that we are the body of Christ and that we be brought together in unity so that the world will know the love of Christ because of how it’s displayed in us. Father God, thank You for all of the Muslims who have relationships with Christians whether they be neighbors, friends, work colleagues. Thank You, Lord that those links exist, and I pray You’ll be helping us to be shining examples of You. Help us to be good ambassadors, help us to display Your love and so that Muslims would be able to see Jesus in us and be curious and want to know more. And Father God thank You that Jesus Esa is an important figure to Muslims. And we pray Lord that they know to experience a revelation of Jesus during this time of prayer and fasting, that they would come to know who Esa really is and that they can have a relationship with Him. Father God we pray Your protection over Muslims who are celebrating Ramadan at this time. I pray Lord You’d be giving them wisdom as they might have to celebrate it a bit differently than normal in the current crisis. In Jesus’ holy and precious name…

Good afternoon Daily Audio Bible this is Tracy Baker calling out of Arlington Texas. Blessed be, Blessed be. I know we’re in strange times right now with this COVID virus but fear not, fear not. God has just given us a little time out. I know a lot of us don’t understand what…what or why this is going on but it’s not for us to understand. Trust him. He’s got this. You know, like I said, a little time out. Give us time to take a breath, get back to the basics. So, it’s…it’s…it’s rough, don’t get me wrong. It’s rough. I can’t get out to play tennis like I want to but I’m fine, I’m happy, I’m…I’m…I’m blessed to be here, you know, as it is. But I called in. I haven’t called in a while and my bad, but I am listening every day. I don’t know if I could live without this thing. Brian, where was this 20, 40, 50 years ago? Do you know how much a difference this could be made…have made in people’s lives, if I could have had this 20 years ago? For those of you young people, you guys are blessed to be a part of this. This will make a life changing difference in your life. Real quick the sister who called on the 20^th, oh, oh, oh, oh I love you for that. You’re in…you’re in pain but what you’re doing helps others and God’s got you. So, fear not. Love you all.

Hello Daily Audio Bible family this is Rebecca Joy from Illinois calling for the first time ever due to God’s prompting in my heart, which I cannot ignore any longer. I have been a listener of Daily Audio Bible ever since I was a kid, but this is the first year that I decided to go to the whole Bible on my own accord. And so far, I’ve been keeping it up. I decided to call and because of the prompting of three different women. The first one was a woman from the 20^th of April who called in suffering from extreme emotional distress. The second is from today’s reading, Mother Lioness with her two daughters that she is struggling with, and finally another woman who called in from Florida just breathlessly asking for prayer. And…oh man I…I need a…I just needed to call in. So, dear God, I am no stranger to emotional distress whether it be anxiety, depression, anything…just fear in general and I can tell that all of these women are in such fear right now and it can be such a lonely thing to be in. But I pray that You would just lay Your hands on them and that they would know…they would know that they don’t have to be strong enough. Everything that You offer to them is right there and You are strong enough. I pray for the woman in emotional turmoil, that she would find peace, that she would hold on. I pray for Mother Lioness, that she would know that You have her daughters in Your hands. You have a good plan even though she can see it right now. And I pray for that woman in Florida. I pray whatever she needs let her be with You. Be blessed.

Hey Daily Audio Bible family, To Be A Blessing in California. Hope this finds everyone doing well. I am in the process of waiting to see what a new work organizational chart is going to look like and am trying not to project my fears on my position being demoted or eliminated. The whole organization is going through a process of looking at what it’s going to be like in the future. So, it brings up all kinds of old stuff. But I don’t want old stuff to get in the way. I wanted to throw myself on the floor and have a temper tantrum. And God is sweetly singing, God will take care of you in my mind. And, so, I know that that will take place, and He is. He always has. So, I need prayer to just be more than being an adult about this because the temper tantrum to being an adult, that just masks pouting and upset inside. I’d like to have Jesus show up in the meeting and in the midst of coronavirus and all that everyone is going through, you know, I’m just…my heart breaks for people. It might be you who’s listening who has lost a job or a family member or you’re sick yourself. So, know I’m praying for you and know that I thank you for your prayers.

This is Caribbean Joy saying hi to you from the dark side of the tiny, tiny island of St. Martin in the Caribbean. I have been a listener for many years and have encouraged many others to listen as well. One of my greatest joys is to learn that family and friends have become listeners as well and that they are enjoying it. I have also encouraged people in different languages, for example I have a chat group that is called friends of DAB and that is…those are my English friends, and I’ve also encouraged friends to listen in the Spanish language and also in French. __ [speaking Spanish] I’d also like to give a shout out to one of my special, special encouragers here on DAB which is Victoria Soldier. I love to listen to you, and you are really an encourager. May God continue to bless you. Thank you Brian and I guess I have to say goodbye now. Bye-bye until the next time.

Judges 7:1-8:17, Luke 23:13-43, Psalms 97:1-98:9, Proverbs 14:7-8

Today is the 27^th day of April, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I’m Brian it’s wonderful to be here with you today as we gather together. No matter where we are in the world we gather together around this Global Campfire and be together, allow God to speak to us through His word, let everything else go. It’s wonderful to be in this place together with you today. So, I mean in the next step forward is the one that comes after the last step. And, so, we’re working our way through the book of Judges right now and we’re in one of the longer stories of the judges, the story of Gideon. We’re reading from the Common English Bible this week. Judges chapter 7 verse 1 through 8 verse 17.

Commentary:

Okay. So, in the book of Judges we’re reading through though the story of Gideon and it’s a pretty famous story but it’s, you know, it’s one of the longer stories of the judges in Israel. And, so, we’ve already gone through who is Gideon and how God came to him and said you…you know, he’s gonna use him to set the people free from the Midianites and the testing and the assembling of the Army and all of this. So, Gideon has 32,000 people. And, so…like…that’s a lot of people. It may not have been anywhere near as big as the Midianite army that was coming but that’s enough people to do some damage with and to put up a good fight with. And, so, we see the counterintuitive ways of the Lord in like, “there’s too many people. If I had the Midianites over into your hand then…then you’ll say you did it by your own strength. And that’s not what’s going on here. I am setting you free from the Midianites.” And we can see that this is true from our reading alone. Like, after the battle has happened and people are chasing the Midianites and everything then some of the tribes come to Gideon and they’re like, “why didn’t you take us into battle”, right? So, it was all about this glory. And, of course, Gideon’s like, “what have I done? Like, you’re doing more than I ever did.” So, he’s calming them all down. But we can see that when God stripped the Army down and whittled it down further that he was right, they would’ve tried to take the glory for themselves. So, he invites anybody who was afraid basically to leave the mountain and 22,000 of the 32,000 leave which leaves Gideon 10,000. And, so, like that whittles things down considerably but that’s still too many for God. So, in the end the fighting force is 300 people against a vast horde and according to what we read today that vast horde was over 100,000 people. So, 300 against that much of a horde of armed people, like that is not…like you wouldn’t say like, “yeah…that…those are good odds. That's…you should…you should go to battle”, right? It’s more like, “this is a suicide mission.” And we see these counterintuitive ways of God in so many of the stories of the Bible. So, the 300 people, like when it all starts, they are able to, you know, kind of raise torches and blow trumpets and smash vases and make a lot of noise and scream and yell. And because these 300 people have surrounded the camp the people inside the camp have no idea that…all they know is that they’re being attacked. And it…and no one would attack an army like that with three hundred people. Like this is a big attack. And, so they get up and just start fighting…fighting each other. Everything is thrown into disarray. They start fleeing and we’ve seen these kinds of things in many different battles on our journey through the Scriptures so far this year. So, why not the battles that we face? Why wouldn’t God be counterintuitive so that we couldn’t raise our own flag and say look at what I did?

And if we want to talk like counterintuitive ways of getting things done, then let’s just flip over into what we read in the gospel of Luke today because again we read the story of the crucifixion, like the final judgment and the crucifixion of our Savior. And again, it’s so easy, but really…I mean…because it’s so well-known, we’ve heard in a million times, maybe read it 100,000 times…like whatever…we…we’ve been through this story so many times that it’s very easy to just move beyond it, kind of know the end of the story, kinda know what’s gonna happen. And we don’t necessarily have to focus on the fact that, yeah, Jesus was crucified…crucified. That’s just an unthinkable form of execution. It’s just so completely counterintuitive. The most-high God could to anything, could destroy the world in a second, could create things into being out of nothing. The all-powerful most-high God, this is how He chose to humble Himself. Like this…this is such a profound outpouring of love that it is like impossible for our minds to even comprehend it. This is the lengths God is willing to go to to get to us and it’s very counterintuitive because in the end He left us reaching for Him in faith in what looked like defeat. He could’ve done this differently. He could’ve just road in and took over the world. This is the most-high God, who created the world and everything else, both known and unknown, like can whatever He wants to do and this is what He chose. And, so, let’s not expect anything different but a counterintuitive creative God working in among His people, including us individually to do victorious things in counterintuitive ways.

Prayer:

Father, we invite You into that because we like linear. We like predictable. I raise my hand. I raise my other hand. I like things to make sense. I like to know a predictable outcome. We generally do like this and try to arrange for that. And yet, through the stories of the Scriptures we see You continually working in very very interesting unconventional ways. So, why would we expect that would stop even in times like this? So come Holy Spirit, may we hear and see Your movements, may we attain what we’ve been asking for all along, eyes to see and ears to hear, that we might see what You are doing in the world, that we might see what You are doing in our lives. We open ourselves to Your transformation. Come Holy Spirit we pray in the powerful and mighty name of Jesus we ask. Amen.

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Judges 6:1-40, Luke 22:54-23:12, Psalms 95:1-96:13, Proverbs 14:5-6

Today is the 26^th day of April welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I am Brian it is great to be here with you today as we open the knob or twist the knob and throw open the door and walk into a shiny, sparkly new week together and what a joy it is. It’s exciting to…to turn the page, walk into a new week, allow God’s word to begin speaking into our lives and see what the week brings us. So, we’ll be reading from the Common English Bible this week and we’re moving our way through the book of Judges, which is kind of recounting the…the next centuries after Joshua. And, so, we’ve met several of the judges and some of their stories are our full narratives that tell us kind of the whole thing that’s going on and some of them are just very very short mentions of who they were. We met the judge Deborah, the only female judge of Israel in yesterday’s reading and today we’re gonna settle in for a story, a story of Gideon. Judges chapter 6.

Prayer:

Father, we thank you for your word. We thank you for bringing us safely into this new week and before this week is out, we will be heading into a new month. And, so, we are thankful and grateful for that. God you are so faithful. You are so loyal to us. You have brought us this far. We are so grateful, even as we read in the book of Judges just the kind of back and forth and back and forth, that’s been our story and we are humbled to read this story in other people’s lives at other times and we ask for wisdom because the book of Judges gives us an opportunity to see where those roads, this back-and-forth, where…where that leads. And we already know this, we’ve been through it in our lives and its…we’re sorry. We’re are humbled. We love you. We surrender. We trust You. And we ask your Holy Spirit to lead us into this new week and every thought and word and deed. And we ask 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.

Community Prayer and Praise:

Hi family this is Biola from Maryland I hope you’re all doing well. Brian and Jill God bless you, God bless your ministry, your family, your children, and grandchildren. I’m calling to pray for the lady who called in, she was in so much emotional pain, she was crying. Sister I’m praying that God will comfort you and give you rest and peace in the name of Jesus. I’m praying that God will wrap His arms around you and __ 3:17 says that God will quiet your heart with His love and He rejoices over you with __ sister and I pray that you will receive relief from that emotional pain in the name of Jesus. Well sister I want to encourage you. If you need help, please reach out for support. Don’t stay there by yourself trying to work through this by yourself. Craig and Vikita I was so happy when I heard your testimony. That was a beautiful testimony. You see how God works, it’s so powerful. Grateful to God that you’re now in Sweden and praying for you Craig that you will learn the language quickly and that you will get a good job in the name of Jesus. Mark Street from Australia, I’m praying for your son that that hunger that the Holy Spirit has created in his heart, he will find him to light flames and that your son will be on fire for God. Brother before you know it you will have a pastor on your hands in the name of Jesus. Now, Demetri I’m praying for a consultation between you and your wife. Brother on praying Ephesians 4:32 over both of you. Read it, memorize it. I pray that God will soften your wife’s heart and that He will help both of you to be tenderhearted to each other, to forgive one another, be quick to forgive, make allowance for each other’s faults in Jesus’ name. Bruiser from Oklahoma I am grateful for God and awesome testimony of reconciliation between you and your son Charles. I pray that God who has started a good work will complete it in Jesus name. Shout out to Deb from Washington and Sheila Rivera who reached out to me because I was ill…

Hello DAB family this is Scott in Texas. This is my first time calling. I do pray for all of your requests silently and never you call in, but I have a prayer request about my marriage that is just falling apart. It’s pretty much over with. I’m in the process of getting a place of my own. There’ll be a separation of kids and I don’t know where else to turn. Just I need help real bad and I hurt real bad. And I just ask for a miracle. That’s what I’m asking for prayer for that…that the Lord will provide a miracle, that hearts can be changed and marriage can be saved. Thank you.

Hey Daily Audio Bible family my name is Carrie and I’m calling from Franklin Tennessee which is just up the road from Spring Hill Tennessee where the Hardin family broadcasts to us the Daily Audio Bible. I heard a gal yesterday on April 22^nd by the name of Samantha from Seattle and she had her daughter Evelyn in the background, and you had stated, Samantha, that you came out of a narcissistic abusive relationship. And I came out of 14 years ago and was granted a move away to Tennessee from our precious community in California. And even though some things have changed, some things haven’t changed as far as the attempts at power and control. I know that I am in a better place and my daughter is definitely in a better place as far as the community that God has provided for us. And, so, I just wanted to encourage you and anyone who is ever gone through narcissistic abuse, that first of all, I’m sorry and it is not your fault, you did not deserve this, but God is with you every step of the way and He has His hand on you and your daughter and He’s gonna lead you through. And please continue in the Word, worship the Lord and trust that he has a plan for you and He has a specific plan for Evelyn and His ways are higher than our ways. And, so, just one day at a time He will get you through.

Hi DAB family Toni from Germany, a little bit of tears. Missing my mom. Time is near. And, so, I’m calling to ask you to pray for a peaceful death for my mom. So, it may be that you get this after she has passed but I know that God works, God’s time is not our time. And, so, I ask with confidence that your prayers will be heard. Thank you.

Hello Daily Audio Bible family this is Will Beverland from Strasburg Virginia. My wife Ann Marie and I have been married now for just over three years almost 4. In that time, I’ve…God’s blessed me with the ability to mentor her children. Unfortunately, this past Monday in the early afternoon her son suffered a tragic accident and lost his life. We are all extremely torn out and the boy was 15 years old and we’re trying to cling to good theology and good doctrine and trying to understand what God is gonna do through this. But the tremendous response and outpouring of love from the people he has touched in the short 15 years is spanning across three different states. Tomorrow is going to be his funeral service and because of COVID-19 no one can get out of their vehicles but we are setting up an FM transmitter so that the cars can gather around across the street and all around the cemetery parked at an angle to be able to listen to the service. The gospel will be preached, and I pray that through this some people will come to know the Lord as their Savior. My stepson professed his faith the morning before his passing. So, we take comfort in knowing that we’ll see him again but please now just pray for the family and give us the strength to endure. Thanks very much for your love guys. A good day. Bye.

Judges 4:1-5:31, Luke 22:35-53, Psalms 94:1-23, Proverbs 14:3-4

Today is the 25^th day of April welcome to the Daily Audi Bible I am Brian it’s great to be here with you at the end of another of our weeks together. I mean the rhythm of our life is that this is an everyday thing, so we just mark time but just marking the time that this is the end of another week, we’re getting ready to begin another week, a fresh beginning helps us to mark our progress as we continue the journey of a lifetime through the Bible. So, we’ve been in the book of Judges for a couple of days now just understanding that we’re moving quickly through time, understanding who came into leadership and why after the death of Joshua and just this back-and-forth turn and tumble that the children of Israel go through over the centuries. So, today we’re gonna learn about a female judge in Israel and her name is Deborah. Today, Judges, chapters 4 and 5. And we’ve been reading from the Amplified Bible this week, which is what we’ll do today.

Prayer:

Father, we thank You for Your word. We thank You for bringing us through another week in Your word. We thank You for the story of Deborah, the judge in Sisera today and the way that You used women to free Your people from the bondage and oppression that they were suffering because of their rejection of You. And Jesus, even as we move in the gospel of Luke into the time of Your arrest and we know what’s coming, we’ve been through this story before but again we invite Your Holy Spirit. We’re seeing the lengths that You have been willing to go to in order to find and rescue us and we don’t take that lightly and we don’t take that for granted. So, as we move through this day we invite Your Holy Spirit to help us meditate upon the sacrifice that made it possible for us to be restored to You. Come Holy Spirit into this we pray and into this weekend we ask in Jesus’ name. Amen.

Announcements:

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If you want to partner with the Daily Audio Bible you can do that at dailyaudiobible.com also. There is a link on the homepage. Thank you, thank you profoundly for your partnership. If you’re using the Daily Audio Bible app, you can press the Give button, it’s 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, which is the little red button at the top or you can dial 877-942-4253.

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

Community Prayer and Praise:

Good morning Daily Audio Bible community this is Diane Olive Brown calling from Newburgh Indiana. Shalom, shalom it is 3:38 in the morning and this is my third try. The first two didn’t work out and I always think that the Lord didn’t want those first two to go through. So, I love You Lord. I lift up this lady who is very emotional and she’s inconsolable and it’s so painful for her. And father, You…You understand, You created us with emotions and sometimes my emotions are really really uncontrollable too. And, so, my husband heard this cry from this dear lady and I just speak to you now from my heart. I just say, I understand it seems that you’ll never have peace, but you can have peace and your emotions are not wrong, God created our emotions. And, so, don’t beat yourself up about it. Just let Him wrap you in His arms and hold you. Let Him hold you and lean on Him and cry, cry, cry as much as you need until you feel a release from the Lord and be at peace. I speak peace, shalom shalom. I’ll be praying for you. I love you.

This is for the completely heartbroken woman who called in yesterday or it was aired yesterday on the April 20^th podcast where she’s just emotionally distraught and in pain. And I just want to know…you didn’t leave your name…but I just want you to know that Jesus hears you. He is with you. His steadfast love is new every morning. Psalm 90 verse 14 says, satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. And I just pray Jesus that You would comfort her and let her know the joy of the Lord, that she would see that You are still there that You have never left her nor forsaken her and that she will not despair and she will not give up. Just please bring let her joy come like the morning. And just please please surround her with your steadfast love in Jesus’ precious name. Amen. Dear woman please note that this community is praying for you and you do not have to give up and you are not alone in whatever you’re going through. Where praying that Jesus will rebuke the enemy and He will. And you will come through this. He will walk through this with you and you’re not alone. Please, please, please do not give up. Thank you for calling. Thank you DAB family for just being the family. And thank you to Brian and Jill in China and the whole Hardin family for offering this podcast.

Good morning DAB family this is Paula calling from Albuquerque. I pray that you’re all doing well and staying safe during this time and sane…ha ha. Anyway. Calling for a few reasons. First of all, a prayer request. A friend of mine Susan is actually a DABber, her sister passed away yesterday from COVID and some other complications, so please keep that family in prayer for me. And then a coworker of mine, her mom’s been struggling with cancer since December. I think I called about her before. Would you please continue to keep Kim’s mom in prayer? And then I have a praise report. I’ve called in before about my kids reconciling and praise God it happened this weekend. My son drove all the way to Denver to reconcile with his sister. I am so grateful for that. And Christine with a bumpy dog, oh my gosh, it was just so good to hear your voice again. There are so many of you, you know I could just go back through my journal and…and there’s so many people missing that I think about often. Mark Street, you were one of the first ones and Biola, to pray for me when I first started listening and calling in. Gosh, now 8 ½ years ago I believe, was right before my mom died. I just want you guys to know how much I love you. I listen to all the prayer requests and the encouragement and prayer on Saturdays. You guys are amazing! And I meant what I said on Facebook the other day, we have some amazing prayer warriors. Keep it up Saints. I love you. Have a blessed week.

Hello Daily Audio Bible I…my name is Sharon and I just want to tell you how very grateful I am for this app. I started listening in the beginning of March and it’s been incredible. It’s just been the highlight of my day a lot of times been encouraging I love your voice and the way your perspective, especially April 15^th just really touched my heart. To think that the kingdom of God is in us is just so beautiful to me. Brian, thank you so much for all that you do. I am definitely a lifer. God bless you in your ministry. You are on my prayer list now.

DAB family this is Penny from Tasmania I’m ringing in response to the young lady who rang in on the 20^th suffering from some emotional pain. Let’s pray together for her. Lord I thank You for this beautiful woman and Lord right now we pray for Your blanket of peace to surround her, for You to wrap Your arms around her that she would be cocooned in Your love. And Lord right now I thank You that by Your stripes she has been healed. I thank You Lord that…that on the cross You not only bore sickness, You not only bore poverty, You not only bore sin, You bore our emotional pains. And Lord You’ve considered it all joy to suffer for us. You wanted that exchange. You wanted to take our pain so we could have life and life abundantly. You made that exchange willingly so that she wouldn’t have to bear this pain that she’s suffering at the moment. So, Lord I just pray that You touch my dear sister, You reveal Yourself to her, You reveal to her what You have done for her. And Lord I pray that she would have an opportunity every day to have communion with You, that she would be able to take a piece of cracker or bread and some wine and have this exchange where, as she takes the emblems she sees You took her pain, You took her grief, You took her sorrow and Lord that You brought peace to hers. So, we just prophesy peace, we prophesy deliverance and wholeness in Jesus’ name. Amen.

Hello this is the girl with the bumpy dog and today is April 22^nd. This prayer is for Samantha, Evelyn’s mom. I heard your prayer request and I saw you. I’m so glad you rediscovered your faith, but I also pray for a revival of my teenage children’s faith as well. I believe the Lord always redeems the time we spend in struggle and my life is a testimony to that. Today I’m praying for you Samantha Galatians 6:9 and Hebrews 10:23. Dear Lord Jesus, how grateful we are that you have chosen us as your children. Today I pray that you uphold Samantha. Help her not to grow weary in bringing…in being patient and doing good because at the proper time she will reap a harvest of your blessing if she doesn’t give up. So uplift Samantha to hold her unswervingly to the hope we all profess, your promises and you promise to be faithful. Thank, you Lord Jesus. And it’s in Jesus’ name I pray. Be encouraged everyone. This is the girl with the bumpy dog.

Judges 2:10-3:31, Luke 22:14-34, Psalms 92:1-93:5, Proverbs 14:1-2

Today is the 24^th day of April welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I’m Brian it’s great to be here with you as we move forward taking another step in the week. I guess we’re at the end of the week now but taking another step forward in the Scriptures. And we’re well on our way but we’ve got a ways to go. That’s the beauty of the rhythm of life together around the Global Campfire, allowing God’s word to speak into our hearts each day. So, we started the book of Judges yesterday we talked about it and it’s kind of this…well…it’s what happens after Joshua’s leadership and after the children of Israel have moved into the Promised Land. So, let’s continue that journey. Judges chapter 2 verse 10 through 3:31 today. And we’re reading for the Amplified Bible this week.

Commentary:

Okay. So, in the book of Judges we met three of Israel’s Judges – Othniel, Ehud and Shamgar and they weren’t all at the same time. So, we…we…we kind of pass through like maybe a century and a half of time in our reading today and we’re already noticing this kind of back and forth. Like the people fall away from God, serve other gods, do their own thing, then oppression falls upon them, the enemy comes down upon them and oppresses them and they crowd to God and God raises somebody up. But what once that person dies then everything kind of goes back, it slides away, they fall away until something else happens and then somebody rises up. But since we’re covering so much time in such a short amount of reading it’s easy enough for us to think like, you know, Ehud was around for a few years, Othniel was around for a few years, Shamgar was around for…they…they like…they were elected officials or something and a lot of time is passing. And, so, if we look under the surface as we’re going to the book of Judges we can see just how and what directions the people are falling away. And as we watch how they are falling away we can also look into our own lives for the same kind of patterns because although we’re passing through centuries and centuries in the book of Judges the circle is kind of the same. Like they keep repeating the same circle and so do we a lot of the time.

Then in our reading from the book of Luke today we have come again to what we know as the Last Supper. And we know it as the Last Supper, because that’s what it was, a last meal, like a last moment with friends where nothings gonna be same again after this. And it’s in this meal Jesus institutes the sacrament of communion or the Eucharist and as Jesus is explaining this and passing the cup, He mentions that there’s a betrayer that’s at the table. And like, we know the story, so we don’t have to unpack all of this but there’s a betrayer at the table. And, so, everybody then at the table, all the disciples start asking who…who…who it could be. And kinda as the as the gospel of Luke reads, once they kinda get done with trying to figure out who it could be then this kind of transitions to a different discussion about who is the greatest of them, right? So, if they’re kinda trying to figure out who’s the lowest of them, then it would…“Stop! Me, I’m the greatest” you know…you can see how the conversation could turn. But then they get on this conversation about who’s the greatest of them. I mean can you imagine being Jesus in this situation if you’re sitting there and you’re explaining that your blood is going to be shed and you’re instituting this remembrance, this thing that should be ongoing among your friends so that you will be remembered for what you’ve done for them. And it’s not that you’re just kind of giving information but you know like tonight, later on tonight you’re going to be arrested and beat up and you’re sitting there at this meal watching those that have followed you the whole way fighting over who is the greatest. I imagine that would be discouraging to say the least and would only add to the isolation Jesus must’ve felt in those moments. Let’s pause here for a second. Like none of us have been around that table…we weren’t at that particular meal, but our culture is continually watching people, even in the faith jockey for position about who can be the biggest, brightest star, who can be the greatest. I mean our culture encourages this. Jesus responded to this. He responded to His friends, but He’s responding to us. Jesus said, “it’s not going to be that way with you. On the contrary, the one who is the greatest among you must become like the youngest and least privileged and the one who is the leader, like the servant. For who is the greater the one who reclines at the table or the one who serves? Is it not the one who reclines at the table? But I am among you as the one who serves.” That’s actually a pretty big reality check for us because, yeah, we can embrace the culture, we can embrace the world and work inside the world system which is for us to get as much as we can, and to become as famous or as big or as important or whatever as we can. something to give us an identity of our own or we can understand that Jesus is telling us something very important about His kingdom. And that’s basically if you want to be the greatest in His kingdom, then you must be the greatest servant, like it's…it’s backward and upside down to the way we see things and Jesus is saying greatest in my kingdom is the servant, the one who is like Christ.

Prayer:

Jesus, we invite You into that. We are pulled away from that awareness and that understanding every single day. Our culture does it, but we can’t just blame our culture. We are looking for some kind of identity and we’re trying to craft it and build it based on the criteria of the world and it is so counterintuitive to think if…if I serve well, if I lower myself, if I humble myself then I am actually being lifted up in God’s kingdom. So, Holy Spirit come into this. Help us to become more and more aware of this because what You are offering is a way out of the world, a way out of that other system that is nothing more than a treadmill. No matter how high we rise can’t stay there in that system. Whereas in Your kingdom You’re saying You don’t even have to play that game, it’s not even a real thing, it’s a completely false reality, it doesn’t lead anywhere. Humble Yourself, be a servant, love one another, serve one another. This is the way of Your kingdom. And we can think to ourselves, “well if I try do really do that for very long, I’m just gonna get walked all over.” But the way of Your kingdom is that everyone is on that same page. No one is taking advantage of anyone, there is no lack. So, Father this is how we be in the world but not of it. We have eyes to see these things and ears to hear these things. And, so come and help us become more and more aware of what our hearts posture, what our motivations are leading us into. Are we trying to scratch and eke out an identity in some way, are we trying to just get more and more and more so we can be served, or do we have the freedom to know that we are Your child, everything belongs to You and we are here to be light in the darkness, inviting everyone into the ways of Your kingdom. Come Holy Spirit into this we pray. In Jesus name we ask. Amen.

Announcements:

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Judges 1:1-2:9, Luke 21:29-22:13, Psalms 90:1-91:16, Proverbs 13:24-25

Today is the 23^rd day of April welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I’m Brian it’s great to be here with you today as we do what we do and take the next step forward no matter what as day by day this journey pulls us forward and forward and forward through the Scriptures and through a year. And today is an interesting day because we’re kind of turning the corner in the Scriptures. We are moving into a new book, the book of Judges, but we’re also moving into a new era.

Introduction to the book of Judges:

Let’s talk about that for a minute because we really are turning the page. We’ve had kind of a singular leader for a while like Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and…and although they were family and tribal leaders, we knbw their stories. And then Moses comes onto the picture and we’re traveling with him and then Joshua. Things are gonna change now. Like, basically, that whole era is coming to an end and the time of the judges is emerging, and on the other side of the time of the judges will be the time of the monarchy, like they’ll want a singular leader again, they’ll want a king. So, we go into this book called judges and we can, by its name think, “well this is gonna be a book of judgment.” It’s actually more kind of a quick overview of the centuries that occurred after Joshua. So, Joshua has died, the land has been settled. Obviously, there's…he's…there’s still some land that isn’t settled and conquered but the tribes have been all given their inheritance and things are settling down, but there wasn’t a dominant leader that was installed. You know, like, Joshua comes after Moses. Moses puts Joshua in place and Joshua had been like the right-hand man of Moses for a long time. So, he took the reins of leadership but there was no dominant leader after Joshua. So, the tribes were just basically ruling themselves doing what they think is right in their own eyes, but a decline begins and they begin to do everything they were warned not to do - all of the mixture, the way that they were seduced…will be seduced away to false gods and who God uses, who God uses to bring the people back to rescue the people. Even those people, like we’ll go into their stories and go, like “wow! Very, very different character than Moses and Joshua.” But we’ll be able to see that the people are just doing what they…whatever they want. So, basically Moses and Joshua made things very, very clear - very clear who God is, very clear who their identity is, very clear where they’re going, very clear who they belong to. And there’s all kinds of rituals and statutes and laws that kind of govern this awareness. And Judges will give us a picture of…well…of how that can disintegrate, and we’ll find a lot in the book of Judges for our own lives. So, let’s dive into this new era. The page had turned. We’re reading from the Amplified Bible this week. Judges chapter 1 verse 1 through 2 verse 9 today.

Prayer:

Father, we thank You for Your word and as we…as we do kind of move into this new book, the book of Judges, review the last…the last things in Joshua’s life and prepare to move forward and meet some new people, some interesting and some strange people, we invite Your Holy Spirit, We feel the changing of the seasons in the world and the seasons are changing in the Bible as well. And, so, we invite Your Holy Spirit into all of it in the days ahead. Come Jesus we pray in Your mighty name, we ask. Amen.

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Community Prayer and Praise:

Hello Daily Audio Bible family this is Abba’s Grace I just had to call in because I just heard Val. I’ve been looking at the days and I’m like she said the 15^th of every month, she’s got a call in to let us know that she is okay. And I’m just so glad to hear your voice. I was just overwhelmed with your call, not even because of what you are struggling with physically but mostly and mainly because of the lies that were consuming you at the time that you called just covered in shame, just…just like Adam and Eve were at the very beginning of time. The same exact lies that deceived us then is still carrying on today. And I just felt so sad and by how we were feeling from within, your inner man. So, thank you, thank you so much for calling just to hear your voice and just hear that praise and your encouragement to others stating that if He could do it for you, He could do it for all of us. He has done it for all of us. It’s done and it’s finished. All of us are loved. All of us have been rescued whether our physical body is being attacked or not, we can rejoice in the fact that our soul has been set free and that our Spirit is currently completely whole, completely healed, completely delivered. May we all awaken to that this year. That’s what this year is about. It’s about that awakening of the truth of what was finished on the cross.

Hello this is Jackie Saved by His Grace in Oregon. I wanted to thank Silver Lining Cindy in Seattle for her advice. Honestly, it’s made me look around and thank God for so many things that I just took for granted in the past. I think all of us are doing that and it’s drawing us closer to God and I know that God did not bring this virus, but He does have a purpose in that this virus is gonna draw…make many people closer to God. I just recently read a couple about to get a divorce that they’d been in the house together and got to know each other all over again and they canceled the court date. So, I want to thank God for all these things and especially Brian and his family and the Daily Audio Bible. Bye.

Dear God, I just want to pray for the anonymous lady that phoned in on April 20^th 36 minutes into the program just crying out to You for help and for comfort for the emotional pain that she’s going through. Oh God, I can feel her pain and sister I want you to know that I feel your pain and I feel for you and more than that Jesus feels it. Jesus has felt your pain and carried you. Oh, dear God, I pray that this sister would feel Your arms around her, I pray that she would feel Your comfort. And thank You God for being there near her. Please hold her together and take her through this and please bring her back to a place of stability and safety and peace. God, please let her know that she’s loved. In Jesus’ name. Amen. Sister, please know that you are loved and not just by Jesus but through all of us who…who love Him and who love you. God bless you sis. Love you.

Good morning holy and beloved children of God who listen to the DAB. This is Allison from England. Although I’m a longtime listener I very rarely call in, but I just wanted to say how grateful I am that the DAB has been in my life this year as a constant, as a challenge, as an encouragement and I thank you for the relationship that I have with God through being in His word through this resource. I pray for you all, I listen to all your prayers and I join my heart with yours in vibrant prayer. Lord, so many people are frightened and afraid, so I want to wish hope for this community and for all those lives that are touched by the people of the DAB. May we know the joy and the peace and the hope that can only come from God as we follow You in our lives. Oh, Father son and Holy Spirit we praise Your holy name and we offer You our whole lives to be used in Your service. Support us, be with us, that we may be people of Your kingdom. Amen.

Hi my name is Soraya I and I live in Fairborn Georgia and I’m 10 years old, 10 and half and you guys do really, really good on the Daily Audio Bible and I hope that you guys keep on doing this because it’s really helping kids in the world and I’m very, very proud of you China and Mr. Brian. And like I said before my name is Soraya and bye.

This is Sharon from Kansas City. I just finished listening to April 20^th and a lady called in in extreme emotional turmoil and could barely get words out for her tears. And I just felt so strongly that this is torment from the enemy and that she does not have to…to fight this battle on her own. The battle belongs to the Lord. And, so right, now I just take authority over these…this demonic attack against her that is influencing her emotions to cause her this emotional turmoil as she called it but it’s more than that it is torment and it is painful. And, so, I speak to that torment and I tell you to stop in Jesus’ name. Stop it right now in Jesus’ name. And I speak peace. Peace to your heart, to your emotions, to your thoughts, and we take them captive to the thoughts of Jesus Christ. We ask Lord that she would realize that she has been given a Spirit not of fear or torment or timidity or even pain but one of power and of love and of a sound mind. I speak a sound mind to you. Rest in the Lord. Trust in His name. Thank you, Lord.