A Walk Through The Word

Jeremiah 8:8-9:26, Colossians 3:1-17, Psalms 78:32-55, Proverbs 24:27

Today is the 7^th day of October welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I’m Brian it is wonderful to be here with you today, hump day, another center of the week that we move through…well…once a week, but here we are in the middle of the first full week of this month. And yeah, the Bible is speaking to us. And, so, let’s move into that. We’re reading from the New Living Translation this week. Jeremiah chapter 8 verse 8 through 9:26.

Commentary:

Okay. Let’s think about cooking. Let’s think about recipe books. Like some of you are like extravagant cooks. My wife would be one in that category. I would be much less in that category, but above just making Ramen noodles. But we’re all over the map. But the thing that we usually need until we become extremely advanced cooking is a recipe. How much of this, how much of that makes this particular dish that I’m going to eat. And, so, just think about some dishes that we might cook up. Let’s say we grab a leaf of sexual immorality and throw it in the pot and then stir in a couple of impurity and then a handful of lust and then a generous dash of greed and idolatry, and then a cup of anger and a half a cup of rage and three quarters of a cup of malicious behavior and then a dash of slander and some dirty language for taste and then a cup of lying and bake that 350 after we whip it up and pour it into some sort of container. How yummy does that sound? And why do we keep eating that dish when there’s another recipe found in Colossians today? And the recipe…well…I…I…I mean I made up the amounts, but Paul told us the ingredients. But what if…what if we made need a different dish? What is we took a cup of tenderhearted mercy and poured that over a nice base of kindness with several leafs of humility, a cup of gentleness, a cup of patience, two cups of forgiveness, right, some sprigs of peace and a garnish of love. That sounds delicious. Which dish would you rather have for dinner tonight? Like, they are completely different dishes that will have a completely different taste and outcome, which is basically what Paul’s talking about in Colossians. Paul was saying essentially that Jesus transforms us into a completely different person with completely different tastes and the old stuff that we used to munch on that were…were leading us down the pathway of destruction should be basically abhorrent to us now because it’s the food of the dead. Let that roll around in your mind for a minute. But it does bring us to a point where we can think about what it is we’re munching on. I mean, I know that’s a metaphor but it’s a metaphor the stands. We all understand what we’re talking about here. What are we consuming? What are we putting in ourselves? Because that’s what’s coming out of us. That’s the aroma of our lives. Like, that’s what we look like. That’s how it is with us. We could say in this spiritual analogy “we are what we eat”. Ironically what we’re mostly trying to do is have like maybe a cup of impurity, with a pinch of humility, several tablespoons of greed with several tablespoons of patience. Anger mixed with forgiveness. Like these things do not go together. When I was a kid…I can’t remember if it was like Sesame Street or one of the children’s programs back then, like, I can still remember all these years later this little, you know, little children’s songs - one of these things is not like the other, one of these things just doesn’t belong. Can you guess which things not like the other be…I don’t know…before we get to the end of this song. Something like that. Things that don’t go together don’t go together and the things of this world do not go with the kingdom of God. And if we just do some self-examination, especially about the…the points inside of us that have so much unrest, if we look at how that got made it might make sense at why it’s turned out the way that it is. Maybe we’re trying to make something that can’t work. It’s never gonna taste good ever no matter how we try to keep modifying it. Paul’s saying like, “you got a whole new pallet brothers and sisters, a much more refined one, a much better one. You don’t have to eat garbage anymore. You are a son and a daughter of the most-high. Come and feast on the goodness of the Lord. And as we concluded our reading today, Paul’s like, “whatever you do or say”…in other words…“whatever you’re mixing up, whatever the recipe’s gonna be, whatever you do or say, do it representing Jesus, giving thanks through Him to God the Father. That is a great little garnish on the top of the dish but it’s actually saying a lot because it gives us a barometer and gives us the opportunity to say can I…can I do this? Could I put this in my recipe for the day in the name of Jesus? Right? I mean we’ve discussed this before at a different point in the Scriptures, but we look at these things and say okay, sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, greed, idolatry…idolatry, anger, rage, malicious behavior, slander, dirty language and lying, which of those can we do in the name of Jesus as a representative of the most-high? So, we just have to ask ourselves, can I do this in the name of Jesus? Maybe I’m free to do whatever I want as Paul has told us so many times, but not everything is good. Can I do this in the name of Jesus or is this going to ruin my whole dish?

Prayer:

Father we invite You into that. We have ruined plenty of dishes, plenty of days, plenty of encounters, plenty of meetings, plenty of circumstances. We’ve ruined plenty of stuff by trying to mix ingredients that do not and will not ever go together. And yet You are calling us higher, You are inviting us forward, You are ever patient and You don’t hate us because we’ve made bad dishes, because we’ve made masses of things. You’re just calling us forward. You’re just saying You can do better than that because You are better than that in me. May we recognize that. May we recognize what we are making of our lives we pray in the name of Jesus. Amen.

Announcements:

dailyaudiobible.com is home, its home base and if you’ve never been home then you should come home and check it out, at least home for the Global Campfire here and check it out if you haven’t been in a while. Yeah, check it out. Come check out the Prayer Wall maybe pray for some brothers and sisters. Maybe you’re carrying stuff that you need some brothers and sisters to carry with you in prayer. And the Prayer Wall, that’s what it’s there for. So, check that out. It’s in the Community section.

Check out the resources in the Shop. Check out the Initiatives. Just come check it out and stay connected in any way that you can or in any way that you want to.

If you want to partner with the Daily Audio Bible, thank you. If what’s happening here around the Global Campfire is bringing life to you and encouragement and challenge and forward movement and all the things that can happen as we move through the Scriptures in community than thank you for your partnership. There is a link on the homepage. If you’re using the Daily Audio Bible app you can press the Give button in the upper right-hand corner or the mailing address, if that’s your preference, is PO Box 1996 Spring Hill Tennessee 37174.

And, as always, if you have a prayer request or encouragement 877-942-4253 is the number to dial or you can hit the Hotline button in app, the little red button at the top and share from there.

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

Community Prayer and Praise:

Hello Daily Audio Bible family this Shelby from Pittsburgh and Brian just want to congratulate you and your family on China’s announcement for this spring occasion of the brand-new life. Your excitement and…and happiness really came through and it just brightened up my day and I think all of us at this time could use some more really happy joyful news. And it really touched my heart. I feel like, you know, I’m going to be another auntie. It’s awesome. Really happy for you guys. God bless you God bless the process and everything. God bless the baby and, yeah, it’s a wonderful thing. Thank you for sharing that with us Brian and I’m very happy to be a part of this Daily Audio Bible family. It is a welcome reprieve from the days, whatever, and I like it because it also helps keep me on track and…and staying in the word of God. So, thank you very much and God bless you and again, congratulations. Goodbye.

Hello, everyone this is Rebecca’s heart from Michigan I’m a first-time caller and been listening to the DAB with my husband Skye since January and we love you guys and appreciate you all. Just wanted to ask for prayers today. I fell a few weeks ago and hit my jaw on a piece of hard metal and whiplashed my neck and spine and that’s…that was right before we went on a 9 ½ hour mission trip road trip to deliver a hand cycle that we fundraised for a new paraplegic friend up in Copper Harbor Michigan. We were able to witness God’s love and care towards Eric and need prayers for his spirit to be opened to be receiving the gift of Jesus love and salvation. We also shared our testimony of our trip with a young couple at a remote campsite named Scarlet and Dave and another young man on a hike named John and we’d like to ask prayers for them that they will come to know Jesus and maybe even read the Bible’s we gave them or listen in to the DAB with us. So, hopefully we’ll hear from them. Besides my own need for prayer and physical healing, Skye and I need prayer for our marriage to be covered by the blood of Jesus and to pray against any attacks the enemy would come at us with. We’ve had three years similar to Job’s story in the Bible with incredible losses but we’re trusting Jesus and need prayers to find us new means of income since Covid and to lead us to where He wants us to be this winter as our landlord is selling our house. We’re asking that when we travel again also in our funky van that God provided He would open the door for us to share Jesus to those we meet along the way.

Hello this is Wonderfully Made Amber from Albuquerque this is my first time calling in a been a listener for a few months now and Daily Audio Bible has been such a blessing in my life and today is the 2^nd of October and I’m specifically calling to pray for Lacey from Massachusetts who asked for prayer for her sick dog. That prayer request really resonated with me because I…I have a dog and he is my buddy and companion and I…I couldn’t imagine being isolated and alone without such a companion. And, so, first I want to pray. Heavenly Father thank You for the blessing of this dog in Lacey’s life and Lord You created this little…this little dog and…and…and You…everything is possible with You. So, I asked that You’ll show mercy Lord and favor on this woman and that You’ll extend this dog’s life. He’ll her precious dog in Jesus’ name. And I also pray Father that You will bring more friends, companionship into her life beyond what she has with her dog Lord. This is a hard time of people being isolated and lonely yet there’s still a way for people to reach out to others. And, so, I pray that in Jesus’ name You’ll stir somebody’s heart to reach out to this…to Lacey and to be a friend to her. And lastly Lord I want to pray for healing over her health as well, that You will heal whatever successes, diseases she has and that You’ll comfort her, comfort her and thank You Lord. Thank You for Your mercy and Your grace and Your love and that You never leave us and that You give us good things in Jesus’ name. Amen.

Hello this is the Anthony I’m calling from __ I just did hear my fellow New Englander and she called in from Cape Cod, Lacey I believe she said her name was, who’s calling about her sick dog whose her only companion. Just wanted to pray Lord for…for healing for Lacey’s companion…for Lacey’s dog and more importantly Lord that You use this as an opportunity to just help people, help friends, help the community reach out to her so that she’s assured that she’s not alone Lord because no one…no one needs to be alone especially in these…in these times. We just pray Lord for that community and that she through this, finds companionship in Jesus’ mighty name. Amen.

Good day Duncan the Piano Man it’s October 22^nd and I’m remembering you because this is the anniversary of your wife’s death. And I know what it is to go through loss. You know, as I’m in right now mourning the loss of my mom, so I understand and I want you to know that I’m thinking about you, I’m praying for you and I pray that you would have a good day with the friends that you are taking out to that special place to eat and those memories that you will encounter in your mind, instead of bringing you sadness will bring you joy. And here is something I want to read to you it says, “do not weep long. You will weep today for sure I know but don’t weep long. Lift your eyes to heaven and see her in the Father’s arms. She will always be a part of you and remember that where there is love death is never the conqueror because God’s love makes it triumphant.” So, be triumphant today in the midst of your memories. And this is Soaring On Eagles Wings from Canada. I love you and I’m praying for you today. Bye now.

Hello this is Howard from Northern California sitting in the parking lot at Kaiser here just dropped by wife off going in for a biopsy. Need some prayers for the women in my life. Obviously, my wife got lucky getting this biopsy because of the great help from the lady that worked the desk yesterday when she went in for a simple mammogram. And then I also need prayers for my mom, she’s 83. She’s had some stroke issues and she’s struggling and Covid thing isn’t helping, no interactions with friends, she feels alone, scared. I try to get up to see her as much as I can. Her sisters are helping her. It’s a burden on them. So, probably prayers for them for patience prayers, for my three daughters. They all struggle from…a few of them struggle from some serious health issues and my oldest struggles with just trying to make it now that Covid took her job and she’s got two kids and her boyfriend, who he’s not the greatest guy that you want for your daughter but hopefully he’ll step up. So, probably prayers for him too. Thank you. God bless

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

Today is the 6^th day of October welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I’m Brian it’s great to be here with you today and every day for that matter. It’s great to be in your presence is great to be in…in one another’s presence, and in the presence of the Lord as we let it all go, spend a few minutes here focusing ourselves, orienting ourselves to God, allowing His word to speak and preparing us for the rest of our day or evening. So, let’s dive in. We’re reading from the New Living Translation this week. Jeremiah chapter 6, verse 16 through 8 verse 7.

Commentary:

Okay. In the letter to the Colossians we’re seeing Paul respond against some teachings that had kinda  come in and come around the church, angel worship and this sort of thing but in the process of doing that he is stating or even restating because these things have been stated before in other letters, they’re fundamental, foundational pieces of our…of our understanding of our faith. So, we kind of get yet again another opportunity to take the basics that we take for granted and look at them and marvel at how mind-boggling what’s being said is. So, Paul’s saying, “everybody that has put their faith in Christ, their reality is a different reality than it used to be.” And we could say, yeah…well…yeah…I mean Jesus changes everything, so things look different.” But Paul’s like, “everything is different because everything that happened before that moment is dead, it died so it no longer has any claim, it no longer has any anything, it’s dead, it no longer can influence us, it no longer can overshadow us, it’s gone, it died, and Paul restated that, “in Christ”, and I’m quoting, “in Christ lives all the fullness of God in a human body.” Okay, once again reiterating, Jesus is God, is one with the Father, is God. In Christ lives all the fullness of God in a human body. And, so, Paul’s like, “that’s the…that’s the thing. So, any other thing that kinda comes in and nuances that away from that stark reality isn’t true and any other reality being described beside this baseline reality isn’t reality and living into this reality forces us to understand that we are not who we were. We were transformed and we continue to be transformed and that transformation is leading us away from the fragmentation of life as we knew it and leading us on the path toward and into restoration and complete wholeness where our identity is in Christ, in whom the fullness of God dwells and that same Christ dwells within us now.” Okay. Again, like that’s kind of the basic understanding of things, but it is absolutely mind blowing when we stop and think about it. When we stop and think about anything that we believe about our faith and live into it we realize most of the time we are living significantly…significantly like fractionally of what is available to us. And what Paul’s saying basically is that anything that will erode your understanding of who Jesus is and the fact that when you believed in Him your previous self ended and you were reborn into this new thing that God is doing. Anything that would try to steal that from you is something that you can identify as false, which is not to say anything that disrupts you or makes you think or takes you deeper or takes you wider, like that’s not the point. The point is anything that would steal what is yours, your understanding of your Savior and your understanding of yourself in Christ is a false reality being spun out before you that you can go into, but it will be a false reality. Your reality has completely changed and in the reality that Christ offers you, you are continually, whether waking or sleeping, like no matter what you are doing, when you are in Christ, you are being sanctified, you are being made whole, you are being made perfect. And once again we get this description of why this is good news.

Prayer:

Jesus, this is such good news that it offers us, no matter where we’ve been, no matter what we’ve done, a complete and utter restart, like a…not a restart of what was but a brand-new rebirth, born again and we are…we are stunned at Your mercy and kindness and grace and we worship You and we thank You because this is such good news that it changes everything and there is no way for us to do this on our own. And, so, we put our faith in You. We trust You. Holy Spirit, may we be aware of Your continual work in our lives transforming us as we move forward. We pray this in the mighty name of Jesus. Amen.

Announcements:

dailyaudiobible.com is home base, it's…it’s where the Global Campfire…it’s us, it’s home base for a virtual community. So, be sure to check in. Check in…it’s, as I’ve said before, it’s pretty simple to navigate around.

There’s a section called the Community section. Be aware of that. That’s where to get connected to other people. That’s where the Prayer Wall is to pray for other people or to ask other people to pray for you. So, just knowing that, like just dive in there, visit the Prayer Wall. As I’ve said…I don’t know…many times, sometimes when we’re feeling pretty much at our low points it’s really, really easy to get very very focused on our struggles and it pulls subtly into isolation because we’re focusing on fixing whatever it is that’s broken in our world and all of the sudden we feel like we’re totally alone walking this path when we’re not, we just got isolated. So, going to the Prayer Wall and just praying for others and realizing, I’m not the only one, maybe my circumstances are unique and specific to me, but other people are going through all kinds of things. We are all in this together and when we reach out in prayer for each other it changes the atmosphere. We know we’re not alone and we can start to turn…to turn outward instead of increasing our self-absorption in some way and it makes a huge difference. So, just knowing that the Prayer Wall is there all the time is a great thing. You can always reach out and ask for prayer or offer prayer. So, check that out.

If you want to partner with the Daily Audio Bible, if the mission that we share to bring the spoken word of God read fresh every day and given freely to the world for anyone anywhere anytime to listen to and  to build community around it because it’s a rhythm of life so that we know as we go through each and every day we’re not going through this solitary kind of endeavor. We are on a journey together through the Scriptures. If that matters to you, if that has brought life into your life than thank you for your partnership. We wouldn’t be here. We wouldn’t be able to do this if we didn’t do this together. And, so, thank you. 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 877-942-4253 is the number to dial or you can hit the Hotline button, the little red button at the top in the app. No matter where you are you got a hotline and you can share from there.

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

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

Today is October 5^th welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I’m Brian it is a joy and a privilege and an honor to be here with you today as we move into this workweek as we take the next step forward together in the Scriptures, the…the grand adventure that we find ourselves on as we move through this year together. So, we’re reading from the New Living Translation this week. Today Jeremiah chapter 4 verse 19 through 6 verse 15.

Commentary:

Okay. So, Psalm 77 is what we read today when we were moving through the Psalms portion and man there’s not a better argument for why we should journal our way through the Bible and maybe even through our lives. And we’ve talked about journaling a number of times as we move through the Scriptures. We see the president kind of set with the monuments and the piles of rocks that would be stacked up. What is being portrayed here is a way of remembering what happened so that what happened isn’t forgotten. And we see a deep soul cry in the Psalm today. “I cry out to God. Yes, I shout out.” And let’s think about it. When do we cry out to God? I mean we…we can cry out to God if we are in a sense of worship. Mostly we cry out, like shout out to God because we are done, like because we are overwhelmed, we are cooked crispy, like everything feels like it’s falling apart and we are suffering and it’s agonizing and so we cry out to God. And this is the psalmist Asaph today, “I cry out to God. I shout O that God would listen to me. When I was in deep trouble I searched for the Lord. All night long I prayed with hands lifted toward heaven, but my soul was not comforted.” Oh…there’s such honesty in that. We should all be able to understand where this is coming from. It’s just that Asaph actually gives voice to this. These thoughts, these kinds of things, these are the things we stuff. We just keep them inside. It’s like, “I could never…never say that out loud.” I mean…some…some of us are good at just telling God how we feel but usually this is the kind of sentiment that we…we just go like, “yeah, you’re just being a big baby. Suck it up, move on.” But the psalmist asks some really penetrating questions and likely they are questions we have asked. “Has the Lord rejected me forever? Will He never again be kind to me? Is His unfailing love gone forever? Have His promises permanently failed? Has God forgotten to be gracious? Had He slammed the door on His compassion?” Asaph is giving voice…like I just read this out of the Bible. This is ancient. People have been having these kinds of feelings for thousands of years wrestling through these. Like we might think we wrestle through these things when we try to say them but it’s just like a new phenomenon? This is not true. This has always been going on. So, Asaph kind of concludes, “this is my fate. The most-high has turned His hand against me.” Have we never felt that way before? It usually goes away, right? We get some context, we get some perspective, but in the moment that feels so true. So, what does Asaph do? Like, he’s poured his heart out. He’s been brutally honest about what he’s feeling like. But what does he do? I continue to quote the Psalm. “But then I recall all you have done O Lord. I remember your wonderful deeds of long ago. They are constantly in my thoughts. Can’t stop thinking about your mighty works.” Okay, so in the moment where we feel like everything is falling apart, we get pulled into a hurricane basically and we are just being pummeled if we have nothing to remember, like if we can’t remember God’s faithfulness. And this is what Asaph is essentially teaching us. “Then I recall all you have done. I remember your wonderful deeds of long ago.” And, so, as we move through the Bible, but also through our lives to be able to write down…and it can be a religious like tradition where it’s an every day thing, it can be a once week thing, it can be a once a month thing, whatever, but just to kind of chronicle our own journey in our own hand after some fashion gives us literally the written testament of God’s faithfulness in our lives. So, when we find ourselves in those moments where we’re just totally gettin’ leveled, to be able to remember God’s faithfulness when we can’t see or feel it is a game changer. And we see this borne out in the Scriptures.

Prayer:

Father we thank You for the ability to write. We thank You for the ability to articulate. We thank You for the ability to chronicle Your faithfulness in our lives and we thank You that this has been done in the Scriptures, not only as a model for us, but as something we can look at and say, “okay. Honesty is coming off of these pages and leading me into a true place that can really help me.” And, so, we thank You for that. And Father as we do chronicle our lives as we do write down the things that are going on, may they be exactly that, a place to return to say, “O, I thought I was going to get destroyed in that situation but I’m still here and I remember that fear and I remember being agonized over all that. But I’m reading these pages and remembering but I see that I’m still here. You were faithful. You brought me through.” We thank You for the ability to do that. This is what the Bible does for us over the course of thousands of years. But we have our own story to tell, our own story with You. And, so, come Holy Spirit as we continue…as we continue to write the story of our lives, or maybe as we just begin to start to write down some of the days and some of the happenings and some of the things going on in our lives. Come Holy Spirit, lead us to create a testament of our own, a testimony of Your faithfulness through our lives. We ask in Jesus’ name. Amen.

Announcements:

dailyaudiobible.com is home base, it’s the website, it’s where you find out what’s going on around here. So, stay tuned and stay connected.

Check out the Daily Audio Bible Shop where there are resources that are available for this journey including resources for what we just talked about, journaling. We have our own Daily Audio Bible journal that we have developed over the years and it’s perfect for writing in. And we also have writing stuff like the Black Wing pencils that I…I use on a daily basis. As I’ve said over the couple of years that we’ve had this, there’s something tactile, something real about sharpening a pencil and writing in my own hand my own life. There is something to that to giving it honor and enjoying the process. And, so, there are resources in the Daily Audio Bible Shop exactly for this. So, check those out.

If you want to partner with the Daily Audio Bible, you can do that at dailyaudiobible.com. There is a link on the homepage. I thank you, humbly and profoundly for your partnership. If you’re using the app, you can press the Give button in the upper right-hand corner or, if you prefer the mail, the mailing address is 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 red button at the top or you can dial 877-942-4253.
And that is it for today. I’m Brian I love you and I’ll be waiting for you here tomorrow.

Community Prayer and Praise:

Good morning Daily Audio Bible. So, I just heard the news Ms. China, Mr. Ben, we have the same last name, Brown that’s awesome! Congratulations to Jill Brian in the whole Hardin household. God bless you. Heavenly Father, thank You that You have given us Your written word, the word that these…this family has been anointed by…by Your hands and the words of…of Your mouth the theirs and to our ears over the years casting the bread upon the water and reaping great harvests. I ask You to bless this new baby and their parents and their grandparents and their children and their children for generations to come. Lord You said that children are an inheritance from You and that blessed is the man whose arrow…they’re like arrows that are shot out into the world and blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them. So, I pray that…that just as Brian and Jill have trained their children up in the way that they should go they are training us up and the legacy is and amazing one and it’s just from God because of God because of the abiding presence of the Lord Jesus Christ in our hearts that we would seek Him daily and share this together. Lord I remember meeting China when she was 12 at the Wind…the Wind Farm café and Max was out riding his skateboard in the parking lot and Tyler was doing the audio and Christian was there. Just thank You so much for this family. I pray bless them. And thank You that the followed Your commission from Adam and Eve.

Hello family this is Demetri I’m calling from Oregon. Some of you might remember I called regarding my marriage, my wife, and everything that’s been going on with that. My wife did apply for divorce even though I told her I didn’t believe in divorce and I will not go for it. I received the paperwork and the court date is set for…for the beginning of November. I’m staying faithful to God and believing that He’s in control and He’s gonna do what…what is best for both of us. I pray and continue to pray that restoration is what’s gonna happen, but I believe that God can use this situation even if through divorce He can…He can restore us anyway. So, I pray and ask you family to continue praying for my wife, continue praying that that she will seek Him, she will find Him, and she will do the right thing. Thank you, family for…for always being there for me and Brian thank you for this amazing platform. I’ve been with you guys for about five years now and I don’t plan to stop anytime soon. So, if you can pray for my wife, pray for me to not lose hope, not lose faith, to continue relying that God is in control I’d really appreciate it. Thank you everybody for your prayers and for always being there for me.

Oh China and then and baby what wonderful news you had today and I listened to your dad earlier and it made me remember how my husband and I felt when our baby girl finally told us that she was pregnant and it turned out she had a baby girl too. We were just walkin’ on air and when I knew I was pregnant back then we didn’t know the sex but that first Christmas, and I want to warn you, brace yourself, every time we would sing Christmas carols I would just have tears streaming down my face because I was so happy and so humbled that I was going to the same thing that Mary went through to have Jesus. And, so, oh, you know that so many prayers are with you and with this baby and take care of yourself. We love you. We love Ben we love the baby. God bless you. Bye.

Hi family this is his little Cherry in Canada and I want to pray for Kim in Texas, her husband, and their family. Daddy, it’s wrong what’s happening. I can only imagine Your fury over the suffering that’s happening, and the injustice and I pray God that You would do battle on behalf of what’s right and what’s true. You love everyone involved. But I pray for Kim and her husband and their children. I pray that You would rebuke the devourer, that You would silence his lies, that You would expose him as if he’s suddenly naked in front of everyone, that he would be dismayed, turned back, that he would run screaming into the night, into the darkness that he himself has created. May he fall into his own traps and be foiled. And Lord Jesus I just pray that You would vindicate those who are in the right, that You would put a stop and an end to all the plans and purposes of darkness for Kim and her husband and her children and that they would be delivered in Jesus’ name. Amen.

Heavenly Father we just thank You and praise You because You are worthy You are worthy of our highest praise You’re worthy of our best You’re the one who supplies our joy Lord and so we thank You. We thank You for this awesome news that China and her husband Ben are gonna have a baby. Thank You for that. We needed that. We so much needed that. And how appropriate Lord with the Psalm that You picked that we saw the wicked succeeding in the world and everything going to pieces Lord, but You cause us to remember Your faithfulness Lord and You’ve done it through this __ through this beautiful thing that we get to share together as a family Lord. You are good. You’ve always been good even in the beginning of this year You were good. Throughout the year You are good. And thank You Lord for returning our attention to that goodness Lord. So we praise You and we ask that You extend Your healing hands over this child, that You protect the baby, keep the baby safe, watch over the mother, the Father, the grandparents, aunts and uncles Lord. Heavy blessings upon them Lord so they can bring this child to term healthy and strong that we again as a community can continue to give You the praise honor and glory that You deserve Lord. You are a faithful God, You’re a loving God and You’re a true God and we thank You we thank You we thank You. And all praise honor and glory belong to You. This is Byron out in Florida. Brian, China, Jill, Ben, everybody. Congratulations. So excited for you all. God is so very good. Amen.

Hey Daily Audio Bible does Paul from Houston and I wanted to call to pray for James the Mighty Warrior from…called in on the September 29^th asking for prayer. He’s been…you said you that you’ve been separated two years and I’m not sure that you…that your wife was trying to move on and just wanted to pray for you with all the people and totally understand what you’re going through and just want to pray for peace Lord. I ask Lord that You would be with James marriage Lord, that You would bless him. God, I ask Lord that You would open the eyes of…of him of his wife. Lord I thank You for being with them. Lord I ask Lord that You would just see the different things that…that…that Your Holy Spirit would just guide their steps Lord, that You would be in the middle of…of what’s happening Lord and I ask Father that Your presence would be made known and I thank You Lord that as James seeks You Lord I thank You Lord that You would just bless him and be with him just give him wisdom help him to see things clearly. Help him to have the eyes to see and the ears to hear and help us all to have the eyes to see and ears to hear to know what direction to take and what steps to go and which way to go right or to go left or to go straight or to backup. There’s…there’s all these things God that we just need we need Your help and we’re just praying for my brother that You would be with him and just bless him and keep him and put Your angels around him. Lord I thank You Lord for just giving him peace in the middle of the storm no matter what’s happening. God, I ask Lord that You would just direct his steps in Jesus’ name. Love you guys. It’s Paul from Houston. Take care.

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

Today is the 4^th day of October welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I’m Brian. Here we are friends at the threshold of a shiny, sparkly, new week that we are entering into. Whether we like it or not there’s only one way to go and that’s forward into this week and this is our first full week of the 10^th month of the year. So, we are well on our way in our journey although there are some tremendous miles in front of us. We began the book of Jeremiah and we’ll continue with that today. We concluded the letter to the Philippians yesterday and so when we get to the New Testament, we will begin the letter to the Colossians. But first we’re reading from the New Living Translation this week. Jeremiah chapter 2:31 through 4:18.

Introduction to the letter to the Colossians:

Okay. So, as…as I said at the beginning, we are now at the New Testament so we’re moving into some new territory, another letter, another epistle from the apostle Paul, this one to the Colossians. And the city of Colossae, this is a place that Paul frequented. It was like 100 miles maybe from Ephesus and Paul spent years even in Ephesus. So…so, Colossae wasn’t unfamiliar, and the people weren’t unfamiliar to Paul. And the ancient ruins of Colossae, they exist. They’re in the western part of modern-day Turkey, but they’re largely unexcavated to this point. But during Paul’s life Colossae, like so many of the other urban centers…and we notice that…we notice the early church, at least under Paul’s ministry is more of an urban center thing. Like you don’t see a lot of churches being planted in rural areas. He’s is going into these cities and so the Roman cities, they…all…although they have their own personality like every city even today does, they had a lot of similarities. It was a stew of people and a lot of the philosophical and religious ideas being thrown around and argued about and wrestled with. And, so, some of this had made its way into the Colossian church. And, so, Paul writes this letter in response, because he’s been there, he’s given the gospel. But then, now it's…you know, now it’s being made into theology, now the philosophy is getting involved. And, so…and this isn’t a bad thing, it’s just a thing and this is what’s going on. And, so, Paul is responding to things that they’re asking about, responding to things that he’s hearing. And like the letter to the Ephesians and the letter to the Philippians, Colossians is another of the letters that are considered prison epistles, letters that would’ve been written while Paul was awaiting trial before the Emperor And basically we got…we got two sections to this letter. We have the first doctrinal issue. Like, people were coming into the church and they were bringing in, kind of like…well like we’ve said before. At the time of this writing of this letter there was no New Testament, right? There is nothing…there was nothing to go like, “well, this is this is the baseline.” So, lots of people thought lots of things about Jesus and lots of writings and lots of basically early denominations were happening. And some people had come into the church and they were teaching angel worship and some other rituals. And, so, Paul has to basically address this by making them understand that no matter what lesser thing you might try to give yourself to there is only the most-high God and Christ is supreme over all things. And it’s in this letter that hear Paul saying the universe itself was created by and through Jesus and remains sustained by and through Jesus. And then there’s this issue that…ahh…I mean we’ve seen this issue so many times. It’s the circumcised versus uncircumcised controversy that seems to permeate the early church writings from Paul. And, so, once again we’ll see Paul comment on that very issue. And of course, that issue goes back to the very very beginning – does a person need to be Hebrew and obey the Mosaic law to become a follower of the rabbi, teacher, wisdom teacher, miracle worker, Jesus or is God in fact doing a new thing in the world, one in which He is inviting everybody who believes to be a part of no longer needing to be under the law, but realizing freedom has come from the law? A direct relationship with God is possible. There is no chasm because righteousness has been bestowed upon us, which was the purpose of the law like to lead a person to become righteous. But Paul’s argument is that Jesus made that possible. We are righteous. And, so, these rituals especially, or the one that seems to crop up the most is circumcision. And, so, with that said, we begin. Colossians chapter 1 verses 1 through 17.

Prayer:

Father, we thank You for Your word. We thank You for bringing us into this shiny sparkly new week. We thank You for bringing us into the new letter of Colossians. We thank You for the journey that we are on. We thank You for one another. And although we don’t see each other we feel each other’s presence and we have…we have become allies we have become brothers and sisters in this journey. And, so, we are thankful for the gift of community, thankful for Your Holy Spirit that binds us together. And, as we move fully into this first full week of this final quarter of the year we pay attention we become aware, we have eyes to see and ears to hear all that You are saying to us and all that You are leading us into. Come Holy Spirit we pray. In the name of Jesus, we ask. Amen.

Announcements:

dailyaudiobible.com is home base its where out find out what’s going on around here as I a say most every day as a reminder that we should know what’s going on around here. What’s going on at the Prayer Wall? Pray for people. Ask for prayer. Stay connected.

The Daily Audio Bible Shop is another great place to visit. There are resources there. And, yeah, it’s a shop. So, certainly, certainly it all goes to help keep the servers spinning so that all over the world the Daily Audio Bible is served up fresh every day, but the resources weren’t really invented or…or sourced for that. They…they were brought together over all of these years to be a companion to the journey, to take the journey to the next level, to take the journey deeper, to take that journey wider, to feel more connected to the journey. And, so, you can check that all out at…at the Shop at dailyaudiobible.com.  Of course, if you’re using the Daily Audio Bible app you can access all of this by pressing the little Drawer icon that’s in the upper left-hand corner of the app and that’ll get you to where you’re going.

If you want to partner with the Daily Audio Bible, if this mission that we share in common to bring the spoken word of God read fresh every day and given freely to anyone who will listen to it anywhere on this planet any time of day or night time zones are irrelevant, if that has been something that’s brought life into your life than thank you for your partnership. There is a link. It lives on the homepage at dailyaudiobible.com. If you’re using the app you can press the Give button it’s in the upper right-hand corner or the mailing address if that’s your preference, is PO Box 1996, Spring Hill Tennessee 37174.

And, as always, if you have a prayer request or encouragement 877-942-4253 is the number to call or you can hit the Hotline button in the app, the little red button at the top and that makes it so convenient no matter where you are. You have a hotline in your pocket. You can always reach out.

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

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

Today is the 3^rd day of October welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I’m Brian it is wonderful to be here with you today as we bring to a conclusion another one of our weeks together. And I guess we’re preparing as we move forward from here to encounter the first full week of this 4^th quarter of the year beginning tomorrow, but we are here. And we concluded the book of Isaiah yesterday which brings us to another book in the grouping known as the major prophets.

Introduction to the Book of Jeremiah:

This is called Jeremiah. And it’s an intriguing book, a lot because…because of Jeremiah. Like he didn’t…he didn’t really want to be a prophet. This wasn’t like his most exciting time and he’s authentic about it because God tells him to do things that he doesn’t exactly want to do and there’s plenty of times he just wants to walk away because nobody’s paying any attention to him and his prophetic words, like the ministry that he’s doing on behalf of God, speaking for God is only getting him persecuted because things have been going pretty well in the society. And, so, for a prophetic voice to come and say, ‘hey where this is going isn’t going to end well.” When nobody can see any evidence of he’s just dismissed or harassed or persecuted. And he gets very much persecuted before the story is over. I mean it’s just…it’s not good for…it’s not good for the economy to have somebody like Jeremiah out in the streets of Jerusalem prophesying that things are gonna get bad. But Jeremiah was faithful and as it turned out what he was saying was accurate. And, so, in 587 BC…so we’re looking back a long ways as we go into this story…but in 587 Babylon invaded and the Babylonian empire conquered Jerusalem and the city fell. And much of the…the development from Solomon’s era, including the temple, the temple of God was destroyed in that conquest. But if we put ourselves in sort of the mindset where things are prosperous, things are going well, we’re generally at peace, economy’s doing well, people are prospering, like we have ourselves kind of in that mindset and listen to Jeremiah we’ll see like why they would want him out of circulation and we’ll see that what he was saying was the truth and it allows us to kind of examine our own hearts in our own time. So, we’re reading from the Lexham English Bible this week, which is today. Jeremiah chapter 1 verse 1 through 2 verse 30.

Prayer:

Thank You, Father for Your word. Thank You for another week in Your word. And as we get ourselves moved into this new quarter, we are grateful and hopeful, and we rest in You. Come Holy Spirit we pray in the name of Jesus. Amen.

Announcements:

dailyaudiobible.com that’s home base, it’s certainly where you find out everything, everything that…that guides the Global Campfire and what we do together.

The Community section is there. That is how to get connected. That’s where the Prayer Wall is. So, if you’ve never been, that’s probably the place to start and get connected. So, check that out.

If you want to partner with the Daily Audio Bible you can do that at dailyaudiobible.com. There is a link on the homepage. I thank you profoundly and humbly for your partnership. I say…similar things every day because they’re always true. It's…it’s a community endeavor that we’re on and we…we need to be in it daily. And, so, thank you for your partnership. If you’re using the Daily Audio Bible app you can press the Give button in the upper right-hand corner or the mailing address, if that is your preference, is PO Box 1996 Spring Hill Tennessee 37174.

And, as always is the case, if you have a prayer request or encouragement, if it’s pretty dark inside your head right now or the circumstances in your life are looking like you can’t carry this load, there’s a place to reach out. Like, you may still have to move through these things, but you don’t have to go by yourself. Just knowing that there are people thousands by the thousands all over the world that are going through this too, that are going through these kinds of things too, but that we’re in this together. That makes a difference. And, so, you can reach out. There’s the Hotline 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.