A Walk Through The Word

Joshua 22:21-23:16, Luke 20:27-47, Psalms 89:14-37, Proverbs 13:17-19

Today is the 21^st day of April welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I am Brian it’s great to be here with you for another day, another step forward in the adventure that we are on, the one that takes us all the way through the Bible in a year, day by day step-by-step together in community. And I’m glad that we can be together today. So, like every other day we’re picking up where we left off and where we left off yesterday in the Old Testament is in the book of Joshua and there’s some drama because there’s two and a half tribes that were given land on the west side of the Jordan River, provided that they would cross the Jordan River onto the east side into the Promised Land and help their fellow tribesmen settle the land, which they did. And then they were dismissed. So, they were headed back to the other side of the Jordan, and they built an altar that has caused a lot of confusion and that’s where we pick up the story. Joshua chapter 22 verse 21 through 23 verse 16.

Commentary:

Okay. So, we have almost completed the book of Joshua, which is the first book that tells kind of what happens after Moses becomes a part of history hen Joshua takes leadership. And, so, Joshua’s now telling us that he’s old and he’s about to die and we’re gonna be finishing the book of Joshua tomorrow, but this story that we’ve spent the last couple of days working our way through in the book of Joshua has some really, really important advice embedded in it for us now in the times that we’re facing, for that matter for times anybody’s ever facing but it’s appropriate for us now. So…so, we remember being on the other side of the Jordan River, right? We remember wandering around in the desert for all that time and finally getting to the Jordan and finally getting to crossover and we remember that the tribes of Ruben and Gad and half the tribe of Manasseh, they loved the land that was on the eastern side of the Jordan River. It was perfect for shepherding. It was perfect for what they did. And they went to this whole thing with Moses about, “could they have this land?” And Moses telling them, “you’re gonna…you’re gonna not cross over?” This whole negotiation happened, and it worked out that if they would cross over, fight with their brother tribes, settle the land, then they could come back and have the land that had been conquered on the east side of the Jordan. And that happened. They…they were faithful, and they were true to that. They did that and they were given their leave. Everything was good until they got back to the Jordan River and erected a replica of the altar of God. What it looked like was that the tribe of Gad and Ruben and half the tribe of Manasseh were going to go back over on the other side of the Jordan and that was gonna become a boundary and they were turning away, like they were rebelling. They were turning away from God. They had made their own altar, which got all the tribes in the Promised Land on the western side of the Jordan River together to go like, “if we let this happen then all of us are going to be destroyed.” So, they all got together and they’ve all been battle worn, like they have been fighting and are used to combat and they’re…they’re gonna go attack their brothers, their gonna go attack these two and half tribes because it appears the two and half tribes have rebelled against God, which will bring judgment upon them all and they’re ready to go. Thankfully they went, thankfully they sent somebody to find out the other side of the story, to find out why they would build this altar, why they would have rebelled against God. If they hadn’t done that they would’ve raced down, and the Jordan River would’ve run red with blood. It would’ve been awful Civil War. But they went down and asked and the two and half tribes were like, “absolutely! We would never turn away from God. We built this replica because we’re…were worried that the Jordan is gonna be a border and someday in the future the people on the east side of the Jordan are going to say to the people on the west side, “you have no place with God.” And, so, they built this this altar as a memorial, as a witness for future generations about who follows God. Here’s where this gets personal. The tribes on the east side of the Jordan River who were settling this newly conquered Promised Land, heard a rumor. They heard a story about an altar and about a rebellion and they took that bit of information, that rumor and started fabricating assumptions about what it meant, creating this plausible understanding, this plausible reality, and then began to live into that plausible reality created by a rumor to the point that, like the militaries being called out, to the point that the plan to attack their brothers who had fought alongside them was being hatched. That’s what can happen with a rumor and assumptions. That’s what can happen with disinformation and this kind of stuff happens personally individually, like we make up assumptions about things all of the time and…and we’re not very good at it. And, so, our assumptions invariably are flawed, but we’re making up realities about people that might have some truth in them but are not true. In the case of the story that we’re reading it was true, an altar had been erected. It was not true that it had been erected to rebel against God and offer sacrifices to false gods. The fill-in the blank part, the assumption part could’ve caused bloody Civil War. So, now you can see how we do this to each other and we suffer the consequences of doing it to each other, whether it’s just like a personal fracturing of a relationship are the disintegration of a friendship or whether it’s on national or even international levels. This stuff happens and these rumors and false assumptions, like the fabrications of reality that we then live into and believe can have us attacking our brothers and sisters for no reason. If we want to take the lesson from the Bible here, is that there was a moment of pause, right? Wisdom was at the crossroads. And they’re like, “yeah, before we go down there and start swinging swords, we should send an envoy to go find out what in the heck, like what’s happening? Why the altar? What is this about? Once the story was corrected, once the assumptions were exposed, once the rumor fell apart then things made sense. That is so often…so often the case in our personal interactions. So, let’s take a lesson from ancient Israel and apply it to modern life today.

Prayer:

Jesus, we invite you into that. We confess and it’s not like you don’t know, it’s not like you haven’t seen us take these missteps so often that it’s embarrassing. We have made assumptions. We have listened to rumors. We have listened to chatter. We have formulated plausible explanations. We have made up false realities and lived like they were true. We are all guilty of this. And if we would pause, if we would slow down and meditate upon us, just think back over our lives, we would see the chaos and destruction that it has caused in our rearview mirror, but our rearview mirror isn’t our windshield. What has happened does not have to continue happening. We don’t have to consume rumor and gossip and assumption like it’s some sort of delicious delicacy. We can see it for the putrid disease-ridden poison that it is. And, so, Holy Spirit we ask that you help us to stop making things up, to actually go find out what’s really going on in our relationships. We need you in this. Our default is usually to go to dark and negative places when we need the default to be light and life and good news and hope and charity. So, come Holy Spirit into all of this as we meditate upon it today, as we catch ourselves going into those dark places. Stop us. Give us the opportunity to go wait, wait, wait, wait, “I’m not going there. That doesn’t go anywhere good.” Help us Jesus we pray in your mighty name, we ask. Amen.

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Community Prayer and Praise:

Alisha here from Pennsylvania just calling to pray for all of those healthcare workers out there, the doctors and people taking care of other people. And we just pray Lord that You keep them safe and help them find peace in this time where they’re witnessing so much Lord. We just want to lift them up to You. Lord I pray for all the college kids that are turning to online classes, just help them to hang in there and to continue to feel motivated and connected. Just help them to continue to learn Lord, to know that they can do this with You. Lord I want to reach out, pray for all the teachers out there that are…whether their teachers just learning how to move online or if they’re mothers and fathers teaching their children, just be with them, give them patients, give them understanding and give them the tools that they need Lord to make it a successful semester for everyone. Lord, I pray for those graduates or undergraduates that are working on different things like research and development or people that are trying to student teach online Lord. I just pray that You’ll keep them…that You’ll keep them in Your in Your hands Lord. Lord I just thank You so much for my family, I thank You for everybody that is healthy, and I thank You that this whole thing is not as blown out as it could have been. In Your name I pray Lord. Amen.

Good morning DABbers this is Still Waters calling in from the Netherlands. I’m a new DABber I started back in January. I found the Daily Audio Bible in December last year and I thought, “okay. Let me have a look at this.” But then when I started, I couldn’t stop I kept being drawn back to it. So, thank you very much Brian. And I just want to encourage everyone because today on the 18^th of April we read from Luke 19 and the story of the __ just reading __. The __ was a chief, a chief tax collector which meant he was very rich. And look at him, he had no reputation to keep anymore, he was short, he was a tax collector, a chief tax collector __. And he wanted to experience Jesus, so he had to climb a tree. And when Jesus called out his name, my goodness, I can only imagine how he felt. The great joy, excitement that he was filled with, I felt it, that excitement, that every human being, every believer should feel once they say yes to Jesus Christ. And salvation my friends, I like to encourage everyone that salvation is a life lived with great joy and excitement. And let us all just enjoy…enjoy the love of Jesus Christ with great excitement, with great joy and share His love for the world. Thank you, Brian for Sneezing Jesus it was lovely to listen to. Thank you. Bye-bye. Have a lovely day.

I just want to give a shot out to Scott who just accepted the Lord, that You just accepted the Lord and I just praise God for the wonderful way He has brought You before the throne of grace. Lord God I just thank You for Scott and for his willingness to…to accept You as Lord and Savior and I pray Lord that You would help him to grow and mature as he reads Your word and that he would keep his eyes focused on You and through all things and all things and because of all things. We just praise You Lord and thank You for Scott once again in Jesus’ name I pray. Way to go Scott. I’m so proud of You. This is Susan from Canada. Just praising God.

Hi this is Helen in Durham North Carolina I would like to share a personal lesson I received from today’s reading, a rebuke from a friend, from Jesus. In the passage in Luke about the 10 minas, the one servant buried his mina because he was afraid. He said you take what you did not deposit and reap what you did not sow. Well that hit me. I recalled elsewhere in Scripture we read that God makes a way in the wilderness, streams in the desert, He makes something out of nothing. As I heard Brian read this parable the Lord told me a woman who has named herself in the past as miss much afraid that I am guilty of often hiding what he’s given me to invest in the world. My testimony, what I know about Him, just speaking up because I’m simple afraid I’ll say it all wrong. I might be inept, but He can take what I do have and say and use it for His glory for his purposes and the other person’s lives. So, the sweet Lord spoke to me this morning, gave me a rebuke and also encouragement. I said thank you, I hear you and I’ve asked Him to sink this deep into my soul so that I can share whatever I have with others and let Him take care of the results. I’m praying for my two sons to find Jesus, one with emotional issues of anger depression and selfishness. He has a four-year-old son that is suffering from his dysfunction. Please pray. And the other is chasing the world of financial gain and sensuality. I love them both so much. Please pray. Thank you, Brian for being faithful for so many years to walk this calling of reading the Bible to us. God does speak through you.

Val from Vegas I’m so excited for you. Thank you for calling in and sharing your praise report on what’s happened with you. Like, what a quick turnaround. It seems like just a week ago when I heard you call in like super sick, destitute, ready to give up and look at you now. Beautiful. Thank you for sharing that with us and all of you out there that are feeling like that, hang in there. God’s got something for you.

Shabbat shalom, today is Saturday, April 18^th and I had very good holy week and I pray that you had a holy week that was very special to you. During this time, I have been battling and trying to understand what am I supposed to do with this time. So, I do pray, and the Holy Spirit does help me pray for others and the Holy Spirit is sent out to help others in need just as I am in need. My name is Danielle I am in Maryland and at this time I do a little bit of checking myself to see what is it that I’m supposed to do, what do I need to do and I’m left but one thing at this time, I have an addiction. And, you know, I am honored by God that God had taken another addiction away from me and I’m praying for the Spirit of God to break and break and break the chains of addiction in my life and for others who have been struggling with addiction and to be set free, to be set free and to just enjoy each day without curdling back to what feels comfortable. I’m asking the Daily Audio Bible family to pray with me and to pray for others who have addictions…addictions and ask for those things be broken by the blood of Jesus. Thank you for your prayers and thank you for praying together and the family and by the campfire because God hears us, and God sees…

Joshua 21:1-22:20, Luke 20:1-26, Psalms 89:1-13, Proverbs 13:15-16

Today is the 20^th day of April welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I’m Brian it’s great to be here with you today as we continue our journey through life and through the Scriptures together. And it’s a joy, as always to come around the Global Campfire and be together and know that we’re not alone and know that we’re stepping forward together. So, we’ve been reading from the Amplified Bible starting yesterday and that’s what we’ll read from you in the days ahead here and throughout…throughout this week. And today we’ll pick up where we left off yesterday. Joshua chapter 21 verse 1 through 22 verse 20.

Commentary:

Okay. So in the book of Joshua basically we remember being on the other side of the Jordan River and the two and a half tribes saying, “this is perfect for us, can we have this?” And ultimately, they were told, “if you’ll go with your brothers across the Jordan and help them win the land for themselves then yes you can.” And, so, that time has come and these two and a half tribes now who have been across the Jordan helping the other tribes settle the land have been given leave to go home. So, they are on their way and they’ve gone all the way back to the Jordan River and then erected an altar to God before crossing over the river. That seems to be patently against what Moses said to do. And, so…and the children of Israel have learned the lesson like, “yes if God goes before you who can stand against you but if God doesn’t how can you stand at all?” So, they’ve gotten together now because they’ve heard about this alter that’s been erected and they’re trying to figure out what to do because their brothers have just helped them kind of clear the land and settle and now they’re going back home, but it seems like they’re going back home in rebellion, which should cause the other tribes to rise up and go to war with them and like it’s looking like a bad situation. And we’ll have to wait until tomorrow to continue that story and see how things play out.

Then, in the New Testament we also kinda got a bad situation. I mean have…like we all probably know, like, what a mouse trap is, right? You set a mouse trap to get a mouse or whatever it is you trying to trap or catch or get rid of, whatever rodent, whatever. But have you ever stepped into a word trap, right? Something you’re supposed to step into because it’s supposed to get you to say something that maybe don’t even mean, but to trap you, to ensnare you so that it can be used against you. That is basically what it has happened to Jesus and the reason that it’s happened to Him is that He continues to call into the light what is in the darkness. And this is making the religious leaders, because He’s mostly focusing His attention on them because they are continually questioning Him. So, it creates a lot of tension. They’re asking Jesus, “who gave you the authority to do what you’re doing?” He knows what they’re trying to do so He asks them a question about John the Baptist, basically “was he from God or not?” An that is pulling into the light what is in the darkness. So, they have to get together and go like, “if we say he’s from heaven then Jesus is just gonna go like, ‘why don't…why didn’t and why do you not believe in him? Like why don’t you believe that God sent him?’” But if they were to say like, “you know, he was just from…he made all this up in his head” then they’re going to be in trouble with the people because the people believe fully that John was a prophet. So, all they can do is say, “I don’t know.” And, so, Jesus turns the whole thing back on them and is like, “then I don’t know. I’m not telling you who gives me the authority to do what I do.” He’s basically exposing that they’ll do the same thing to him that they’ve been doing to John. And he illustrates how this has been an ongoing systemic thing by using this parable of the vineyard owner. So, this person who owns a vineyard leases his land to tenant farmers and then goes away in at harvest he sends somebody to get his…his share, but they beat this person and send them away. And, so, the master then sends another servant to get his share and they beat that one too and send him away. And then he sends a third one and they do the same thing again. What Jesus is showing in this parable is the prophetic voices that God has sent all along to the people and how the religious leaders have ignored these things, that this is an ongoing thing. So then, in Jesus story the master sends his own son to be his representative to get what is deserving of the master because there is no higher representative. And they decide this is…this is the heir so let’s kill him, which they do in Jesus story. Then they realize He’s telling the parable about them. And, so, they’re just…they’re just trying to find a way to silence Jesus. Thus, the word traps. And, you know, if Jesus were to say something that was against the religious order or whatever, that could be called blasphemy, that could be called any number of things but that isn’t going to be able to get Jesus killed. Like that’s not good to be able to get him executed. The Romans don’t really care about that unless it’s causing unrest. To get Jesus actually in trouble He’s gonna have to do something against Rome, which is why they set this word trap - “Should we pay taxes”, basically. What we should notice is that Jesus, He…He kept His cool. Like He slowed things down enough to see what was actually going on and then responded appropriately. He wasn’t aggressive toward them or anything. He used wisdom to drag into the light what was in the darkness. He didn’t get into a debate, He didn’t get into a yelling match, there wasn’t arguing, there wasn’t a big fight. He…He just drug into the light what was in the dark and after that nobody had anything more to say about it. They just privately went and continued to plot against Jesus. And, so, let’s remember that. Let’s remember that posture. We have seen it over and over and over since the beginning of the year since we’ve been traveling with Jesus. We watch him calmly move into these situations. He’s not intimidated, which would be normal. He’s just there calling into the light what is in the dark. He’s not trying to prove anything. He’s certainly not trying to draw attention to Himself. Like we don’t have any examples of these exchanges where Jesus then, you know, leaves the situation and goes into a private place and self congratulates or gets His disciples together and says, “look at how awesome I was in that situation.” He’s just moving through life being light in the darkness.

Prayer:

Jesus, there is never a shortage of darkness but there’s no shortage of light either if we have eyes to see it. And this is what we’ve been focusing on, how we see things, our vision in this year. And, so, again, You know, we’ve seen this story before as we cross through this territory again, we are reminded. So, come Holy Spirit, help us to slow down and know that at every crossroad wisdom will be there and if we will walk in wisdom then we will walk in the light and that may disrupt the darkness, or even get the darkness to plot against us but what we’re seeing when we watch You is someone simply being completely true. And this drags into the light what is in the dark. So, in imitating You we’re gonna be walking that same path. So, our prayer today Lord is that You would come with Your light and expose what is dark within us, that we might first to deal with our own issues before…well…before trying to pull the speck out of somebody else’s eye, that we pull the beam out of our own. So, come, Holy Spirit, thank You for these words of correction today. Thank You for this example, once again of what the narrow path actually looks like. We invite Your Holy Spirit to cause us to meditate upon this today. We ask in Your holy name. Amen.

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Community Prayer and Praise:

Hello family this is Dimitri from Portland Oregon calling back. Just wanted to thank you all for praying for me. Just wanted to give you an update. My wife and I are still struggling in our marriage. Like I said last time, she is ready to get divorced and move on with her life. And I know that’s not God’s will and I’ve been praying about it. I let it…I let God take over the entire situation and I received peace in my heart that now God is in control and I rely on Him to do the rest. So, I pray you guys that you guys can pray for me to continue with this, to continue being strong and for my wife to do the right decision. And pray for me guys. And it’s going to be alone hard road but I’ll…I’ll be thinking about you guys and I wanted to thank Brian for this amazing platform for always reading the Bible every day. It’s what’s keeping me alive in this struggle, keeping me alive the past five years that I’ve been listening this…to this platform and I thank you all again. Stay blessed and I’ll see you guys next time.

Hi everyone at the DAB family I’d like to ask everybody to please pray for me. For the last five months or more…I don’t know…I don’t even…I stopped counting I’ve been dealing with pain, but it hasn’t been physical pain. I’m not sick or anything. I’m not sick or anything. It’s just been emotional turmoil. It’s just been…I’ve just been in…in emotional turmoil and I’ve never felt like this before. It’s…it’s the most pain…emotional pain I’ve ever experienced before and I’ve been praying to God every day and I have been trying to be hopeful and I’ve been trying to be just seek God and trust in Him and believe in Him and know that it’ll eventually end, but I’m in so much pain every day and I can’t continue being in so much pain…

Hi this is Kim from recovery I just wanted to pray and lift up the lady on Friday that called in and said she just lost her dad. Let’s go to prayer. Jesus, I know in the word You say that You’re always close to the brokenhearted and You save those that are crushed in the spirit. Lord I just want to lift this lady that has lost her dad and kept from California. Lord just have her feel Your comfort, have her understand how close You are with this Lord. And sometimes that when we get in those moments that we feel so alone in that…that loss. Lord just have people come around her. Give her the peace that You…You give us so greatly Lord. Give her comfort, give her Your arms around her, surround her with Your love and thank You for Your willingness to take every part of this life with us Lord. And we just want to thank You and we pray that You’ll be with all the people that are going through this grief, that they know You are close. And we pray this in Jesus name.

Hi this is Andy from Birmingham I’d like to leave a prayer for Susie from Colorado who runs an orphanage for a child named Junior who called on the 17^th of April. __ I prayed, and I could see this tear in her eye and remembered Psalm 56:8 says, “He collects tears and hurt.” So, my first prayer is that our Lord will be so close to Junior that he see this…see the compassion and I pray that he would not be consumed by what’s happened in his life. Lamentations 2:22 says, “because of His great love we’re not consumed for His compassions never fail.” And finally, Jeremiah 8:10 says, “don’t grieve for the joy of the Lord is your strength.” So, my final prayer will be that Junior would learn to draw his strength from God, not rely on his on strength. And I’ll keep praying for Junior. God bless you.

Hello DAB family this is Greg and Beketa from Sweden. On behalf of both myself and my wife Begeta this is to say a big thank you for your prayers which sustained us during our move to our new country. My wife, she is Swedish. We had heard Jesus days before moving assuring us before everything will be fine. He prompted me to put our flight forward when we realized that we could still be in the UK because of lockdown. On the day we moved standing in line and just about to board our flight an official came up to us informing each British person that only Swedes their immediate families and medical personnel will be allowed to fly. I was informed that I could not fly but my wife was allowed to go. All our belongings had been advanced to Sweden ahead of us. The Lord’s necessary reassurance enabled us to not to give up upon receiving this downer. It took the airport several calls to Sweden and us producing evidence of a tenancy agreement before we both were fortunately allowed on board. So, we thank Jesus that we’re now in Sweden. We ask him to detail His plans for us going forward. I now need to quickly learn Swedish and start earning since my wife is caring for her elderly health challenged mother full-time. We do thank you for and we appreciate your prayers. Our abundant Christ can assure that no prayer goes or went unanswered by the Lord. Thank you, Father in Jesus’ precious name. May we blessedly and joyfully hear and obey you when you speak, after all we’ve just been answered by our creator the God of heaven. We’re really grateful to Jesus and everyone here at Daily Audio Bible. Goodbye for now and thank you. Greg from South Sweden.

Hey Daily Audio family this is Becky in Orlando. I just wanted to call and let you know that I just listened to today’s podcast, it the 17^th of April and my heart goes out to the mom whose daughter wrote the letter about how…what it was like…how the gentleman with COVID-19 died under her hands as she was giving him compressions. I feel so sad for you and for your family and all the doctors and the nurses and for all the family members that have lost somebody due to cCOVID-19. And, so, I am glad that you shared that with us and the importance of social distancing and those poor young girls who are not going to get to see their father again. So, my heart goes out to everyone in…in the world who is dealing with this. And thank you so much Daniel from Singapore for calling us and letting us know how you’re doing. I do remember praying for you and for everybody in Singapore. And at that time, I did not ever expect it was gonna be like this in the United States. So, I’m just gonna continue praying for our world and I love all of you so much. So, thank you. Thank you for being my family and being there for me every day. Thank you, Brian for reading the Daily Audio Bible. So, alright guys. I love you. Bye.

Joshua 19:1-20:9, Luke 19:28-48, Psalms 88:1-18, Proverbs 13:12-14

Today is the 19^th day of April welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I am Brian it is joy to greet the new week with you. And like we always do, just to consider the fact that we’re steeping through this threshold into this week and it’s in front of us. And, so, at the beginning of each week we take this moment to realize the story hasn’t been told yet. We’re gonna tell the story with the decisions that we make and the words that we form and the thoughts that we think. And, so, as we…we take this moment to notice that the beginning of most every week we take it to heart because the story is ours to tell and it needs to be a story of redemption in these times. So, we’re gonna read from the Amplified Version this week and let’s pick up the story that we’ve left off in the book of Joshua. Right now, I mean the…the tribes are giving…being given the allotments of their inheritance in the land so we’re reading a lot of…well…we’re finding out the cities that are involved and how the borders work between the clans. Joshua 19 and 20 today.

Prayer:

Father, we thank You for Your word. We thank You for this new threshold every week, that we walk into a brand-new week and realize that it’s all out in front of us and we take this proverb today to heart because it is…it is solid truth, “hope deferred makes our hearts sick.” And there’s been…there’s been plenty of reason to have hope deferred but there always is. And, so, we understand now if we’re feeling heartsick, if we’re feeling low, if our thoughts more resemble the Psalm today from Heman the Ezrahite then we only need to know that we’re at a crossroads and wisdom is telling us, “maybe Your heart is sick.” And Father, we can’t heal that, only You can. We can chase after all kinds of things to distract it but only You can heal it. And, so, we invite You in this week, to come, to where our hearts are sick, to where we’ve conceded hope, to where we’ve let go of it or lost sight of it because this explains a lot. Restore our hope in You God. Show us the way, the narrow path that leads to life we ask in the name of Jesus. Amen.

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Community Prayer and Praise:

Hello, everyone this is Scottish Tom from the Cleveland Ohio area it’s April 15^th and I’m just listening to today’s podcast. Thanks, Brian for going over all of the things in the app. To be honest, haven’t really use the app that much but now I know more about it and I know that I can download the podcast on there and listen to them in the car wherever I am. I’m going to start doing that. And I’ve been listening for probably eight years now and it’s always been on the…the Apple podcast. So, I’m excited to start using the app more and I’m using the app to make this call rather than calling the phone number. So, thanks for that. Just wanted to say I’m still praying for everybody as we go through these strange days and hope you all had a very good Easter. As I think it’s Slave of Jeuss said I was telling people people, “make it a good one” because the day was what you made it. We still had our Easter dinner at home here and we put on our Easter clothes we’d have done it if we were going to church, watched Easter mass online and made it feel as much like Easter as we possibly could. So, hope you all had a good one and I continue to pray for you all. Take care. Bye.

Hello, my DAB family this is Mark Street from Sydney Australia today is Wednesday the 15^th of April and I just wanted to call for a praise report. I don’t…just to let everybody know, I’m still around I know I haven’t called haven’t been calling in as much as I used to. I will try to call in but I’m still believing that God is in this world and is helping everybody. Like a lot of people, about 20% of my income, but I will survive. The praise report is I bought one of Brian’s journals and I’ve been journaling conversational history since the 1^st of January for about 30 mins every morning. And out of that I’ve been praying…talking to God about my children William and __ and praying for Him to bring their hearts bac. And I’ve got a shorten this up because I’m running out of time, but this morning, faithfully I’ve been asking God, “please change…stir their hearts…stir their hearts and bring them back to you Lord.” And this morning I was talking to William and he was watching me journaling and he says, “I have a theory on what you’re writing in there dad.” First he thought it was work stuff and heard me saying it was personal stuff for my older son and then he said, “I think it’s your prayer.” And then I said, “well it’s more than his prayers, William it’s my conversation to God.” And then it sparked conversation with me and him about God. And he was saying that he wanted a God that would talk to him and I said, “He would.” And now, I know I’m running out of time but look, please pray that William, this spark in Williams heart will continue. And I’m praying…I’m still praying for you all. I love the DAB family. Talk to you soon. Mark Street from Sydney Australia. Bye.

Hello Daily Audio Bible family this is Rosie in Oklahoma today is Wednesday, April 15^th and I’m gonna have to call back again because I want to give you a praise report this time. I ask you to pray for my son Charles. And I hadn’t seen or talked to him for so long and I was about to give up on the whole thing because I…I was just so hurt but I was in the bedroom a while ago and I saw a picture of him and I just started crying and I played praise and worship to help me stop thinking about and then my grandson knocked on my door and opened my door and there was my son. So, I just want to let you guys know that God does answer prayer and I just wanted to make sure that you knew about it. But please continue to pray that God will restore my relationship with him and make it even better than it was before. I appreciate your prayers and I’m still praying for all of you. I love you DAB family. Bye.

Hi this is Garfield here and I’d like to thank you guys so much for the things that __ for a while through the months and I’m just blessed by the daily devotions and Bible readings and the…the different prayer request that go out. Praying for everyone. There was one that got my attention, especially praying for the…the mom who was praying for her children. I think her two daughters were suicidal and definitely my prayer group and I, we’re praying for those young ladies as well. And definitely love you guys. Love hearing your postings and especially the…the…the Bible stories. Right now, in the end of…the middle of Deuteronomy and…and getting into Joshua. __ lessons learned there. Caleb…85 years old and still fighting. And as a reminder that we can too, be strong in the Lord and follow His might and definitely have a __ walk with him __. It’s my wish for everyone that’s blind. Alright DABbers. Love you.

Hi DAB family it’s Hopeful it’s been a while since I’ve called them. We are doing great, still not pregnant but I wanted to share something about faith that I thought would be important for some of you listening. I really felt like God has placed this on my heart. So, my journey with infertility has been pretty heartbreaking over the years. I really felt like the Lord was telling me to stop praying to get pregnant. And I realized that in my prayers asking for this for so many years I was never okay with the answer being no. And I finally just completely surrendered, and it was so freeing. And I really felt like He was telling me to focus on my blessings. And in doing so it is been just so life changing. Every day that I walk my dogs it’s an hour to an hour and a half and I run out of time because I can’t even make a dent in the list of things I am so grateful for including my two dogs and our cat who are fur babies for now. But I wanted to remind everyone and encourage those whose prayers are not being answered that God hears you and loves you and for reasons maybe we don’t understand they’re not being answered in the timeframe that we have. But those of you who are being attacked by Satan and feeling like you don’t have faith, please remember even Jesus’ 12 disciples who he warned many times about His death and resurrection, they were not there when He rose from the dead on the third day. They didn’t believe. They didn’t have faith. So…

Josh 16:1-18:28, Luke 19:1-27, Ps 87:1-7, Pr 13:11

Today is the 18^th day of April welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I’m Brian it’s wonderful to be here with you as we bring another week to a close, continue the steps forward, day by day. So, we’ve been reading for the English Standard Version this week, which is what we’ll do today and we will continue in the book of Joshua with chapters 16, 17 and 18.

Prayer:

Father, we thank You for another week. Another week has gone by. They go by quickly it seems. Sometimes it feels like that time is dragging on and sometimes it’s like flying by and when we consider like how quickly we move through a month it feels like it’s flying by and yet day by day step-by-step You are there guiding and instructing us through Your word, drawing us together in community. And, so we thank You for that. And as we release this week and it floats away and becomes a part of our history, we are grateful, and we are longing to see all that You have in store for us in the coming days and weeks. So, come Holy Spirit we pray. As we move into the end of this week may Your spirit hover around us in everything we do and say. And we ask this in the name of Jesus. Amen.

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So, the Prayer Wall lives there. That is a place that we can always reach out for prayer and always reach out and offer prayer. It’s always going, it’s continual, you never have to be alone. You can reach out there for prayer. So, be familiar with that and aware of it. You can get to all of this within the app as well by pressing that little Drawer icon in the upper left-hand corner. So, lets continue to stay connected as we always have over all of the years. No matter what’s going on in the world let’s remain connected in heart and Spirit as we continue our journey through the Bible.

If you want to partner with the Daily Audio Bible you can do that at dailyaudiobible.com. There is a link. It lives on the homepage. I thank you profoundly 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, if you prefer, 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, 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:

This is Silver Lining Cindy from Seattle and my good friend Kristi Walker whom I met at the Moore conference a few years ago had some fantastic quarantine advice. She said at this time the best thing to do is to praise God. And, so, I followed suit and I came up with a list of phrases. Number one, so many dishes equals washing hands, very clean hands. There’s no parking tickets. CO2 emissions are down all over the planet and it is causing for some great views in different places. Very inspiring. From homeschooling I get to hear some really interesting stories from my kid that is…they’re very good and they’re very funny. My other kid is actually making use of a science kit that has been collecting dust for a few years. And, so, I’m excited about that. I’ve learned that by golly I can cook. I am donning this silver crown of wisdom atop my head from my undyed roots. I’m getting in touch with long-lost contacts. I found that wearing a robe to work is finally okay. Necessity breeds invention in so many ways, especially when you run out of ingredients in your kitchen. Jill, you did not have the Moore conference this year and just the foresight around this and what a blessing from God that it wasn’t…it didn’t happen. And Brian I’m so grateful that you and everybody got back from Jerusalem before everything got really crazy. Discoveries - eyes that can see. I’m learning a lot about the things that happen at my house when I’m normally at work, like all the crows that fly up to my roof. This is very interesting. And I’m also enjoying the lovely submission that we have no idea what God has in store for us and I pray that He feeds all of you in different lovely beautiful surprising ways every day. I have a certification exam that I am doing on Friday morning at 8:15 AM Pacific Standard Time. I’m really hoping for your prayers that I will pass my exam on Friday. I love you all.

Hi this is Scott Campo from Olean New York and I enjoy the Daily Audio Bible. Brian you do a great job and your daughter does a great job too on Chronological. And I just accepted the Lord and I’m a new Christian. And, so, have a great day.

Good morning DAB today is April 15^th staying true to my calling on the 15^th of the month for this entire year. This is your friend Val in Vegas. This is a praise report y’all, a stand up for Jesus, the Lord Almighty is strong and powerful praise report. This time last month I was in the hospital with double pneumonia, a ton of other health issues. I had just lost my job and felt so low that I believed God was mad at me y’all. And today just 30 days later I’m out of the hospital feeling amazing despite the doctor’s reports. I started my dream job last week working from home. You cannot tell me that our God is not able. Please, if you are out there like me on the edge in horrible health, hospitalized, unemployed and you feel like giving up, please, please, please listen to me. Listen to my words right now. God loves you. And my sister and my brother if He will do it for me, He will do it for you also. Thank you to everyone that prayed for me. This community has saved my life on more than one occasion and it can be done for you also. If you need prayer or have a praise report, please call in and share with us. There is power in the prayer circle of believers we have. We’ve got the most valuable tools here in this resource. Thank you, Brian thank you Jill, thank you Hardin family. Please call in and share…

This is Bonnie and this is for Victoria’s Venessa the respiratory therapist in Maryland. I heard you call in and I felt a connection to you because I also live in Maryland and my son who too lives in Maryland is a respiratory therapist. I want to call and in pray for you and I want to tell you how much I esteem you for coming out of your retirement to help your fellow respiratory therapists and patients. Heavenly Father I ask that You and Your great love and mercy, that You will keep Vanessa safe from the coronavirus and You would honor her dedication to these sick patients that she would come out of retirement to help him. What a great sacrifice of her time and talents that she is giving. I also pray for safety for my son Michael and his wife Sarah who is an ICU nurse. I pray for all medical personnel who are taking care of these patients and putting their own health at risk. I pray that there is enough PPE for all of them to keep them safe and enough medication and ventilators for the patients. I pray that more people would come to help in the hospital settings where there is so short staffed and overworked. I ask that You give wisdom to President Trump and the whole coronavirus task team and all the governors and leaders of all the states and all the countries on the best way to handle this pandemic. And most of all Lord I pray that Your will be done in the situation and that You are bringing people to Yourself through this. That’s the most important thing of all. And also, that You will be with the world as we strive to recover financially when this is over, and people would be able to return to work. And Father be with those who are sick and dying without family members, that is very heartbreaking and be with the family members who are grieving and can’t be there with their loved ones. Help us to trust in You because we know that You are in control of this and give us the peace that only You can give. In Jesus’ name. Amen.

Good morning DAB this is Blessings Flow in Pennsylvania. I was just calling in to say hi. Today’s April 15^th and I am lounging here with my…our six-month-old who’s just kicking and enjoying life. But I was just calling in to say hi and just sitting here grateful. I believe it was Stanley in Maryland shared today just how we have a rhythm and every day we can listen and partake in the word and listen to each other’s prayer requests and praise reports and feel connected whether in quarantine and before the quarantine. So, I just want to call in with gratitude and also to thank the Hardin family for the app, the app that has been and…and all of the new updates. Thank you, thank you for your tireless work that many people like myself and thousands around the world you’ve never met are able to reap the benefits of your labor of love and also to give back. So, I want to thank you for that. And I also wanted to shout out Kingdom Seeker Daniel and Lady of Victory, back in early March I think it was listening to the February 25^th Community Prayer and you had talked about jumping over to the DABC. And that day I really didn’t feel any impetus to start that but for some reason the next day it was just in my heart to start listening to the DABC. So, I have been doing that and I’m a double DABber now. So, I just want to thank you for your faithfulness and encouraging us to do that. May God bless everyone. Blessings Flow in Pennsylvania…

Joshua 15:1-63, Luke 18:18-43, Psalms 86:1-17, Proverbs 13:9-10

Today is the 17^th day of April welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I’m Brian it is awesome to be here with you today as we…as we take the next step forward here around the Global Campfire where it is safe. No matter what is going on out there it is safe here and we are safe together and this is one of the places that we have in our lives where we just kind of come in, sit down, and know we’re not one not alone and exhale, and just allow peace to reign in this space as God’s word washes over us. So, let’s just take a deep breath and exhale it…ahhhh…and allow peace to come into our hearts and lives. We’ve been reading from the English Standard Version this week, which is what we’ll continue to do. And we’ve been working through the gospel of Luke and the book of Joshua, which is what we’ll continue to do. Today Joshua chapter 15.

Commentary:

Okay. In the gospel of Luke today we find Jesus in the city of Jericho. And Jericho is basically a desert city in the Judean wilderness. And, so, we have to remember that Jesus was baptized in the Jordan River outside of Jericho according to the Scriptures. So, in…in that story of Jesus baptism He then goes into the wilderness and is tempted by the evil one before He makes His way back into the Galilee and announces His ministry. And this was one of the well-known pathways. Once you get down into the valley, then you have kind of flat, although arid, although doesn’t like, you have flat road basically, roadway, pathway to move, whereas just trying to cut down through the center you’d just be going through the mountains up and up and up and up. So, a lot of times they would descend out of the Galilee down into the valley and make their way down south and then make the trek up to Jerusalem. So, when Jesus was baptized after His temptation then He went up into the Galilee. Now He’s basically done that pathway in reverse, come out of the Galilee, down into the valley through Jericho, where He will then be heading west up to Jerusalem, and…and to His death. So, there’s a blind person on the side of the road and we’ve passed this story before but now as we pass it in the gospel of Luke like…it would….it should…like it’s so poignant for us right now. So, this blind mans on the side of the road and he’s just begging, right? Like he’s got a hat out or something. He’s just asking for…for any help he can get. A crowd goes by and although he can’t see the crowd, he can hear the crowd. And, so, he’s wondering what’s going on and people are telling him “Jesus of Nazareth is passing by.” And Jesus reputation has grown so this blind man knows who this is and so he starts screaming for Jesus and everybody’s telling him to shut up, like he’s kind of marginalized blind person off to the side just begging, “just be quiet.” But he just keeps screaming for Jesus, he just keeps calling out, and Jesus hears him and has him brought to him. And here’s where our lives intersect with the story because Jesus has compassion on this man and asks him, “what do you want me to do for you?” And the man says, “basically, I would like to recover my site. I would like to see again.” And Jesus says, “fine” basically. “See. Open your eyes and see. Recover your site. Your faith has made you well.” It’s a beautiful story of the compassion of Jesus, who is on His way to His death in Jerusalem. I mean we wouldn’t blame Him if He were preoccupied with that fact that He’s gonna walk this last stretch up to Jerusalem and die, but he had compassion on this man we find ourselves spiritually in this story because we are that blind man. We have been calling out to Jesus this whole year for eyes to see. And we’ve been through this story before, but we’ve faced some significant challenges along the way since then and that is one of the most beautiful things about this rhythm of life that we have in the Scriptures. The Bible brings up the things that we need to focus on and it has a profound way of doing that when we need it.

Prayer:

Jesus, we come to You and we hear Your words out of the Gospels again, “what do You want me to do for You?” And we could have a long list of things that we would like You to do for us but like this blind man, the one thing that he needed to most was his site and that’s where we find ourselves spiritually. The one thing that we need is eyes to see and ears to hear, especially the voice of wisdom at the crossroads. And we believe this is completely available. This is what the Scriptures tell us. And, so, even as we look at this story in the Gospel of Luke Your response was, “recover your site your faith has made you well.” Holy Spirit, please as we surrender to You may our faith arise and well up within us. May we see with more clarity than we have ever seen before, the way that Your kingdom is in and among us and moving forward and moving and pulling us forward. Give us eyes to see this so that we might collaborate with You rather than working against You. Come Holy Spirit we pray in the mighty name of Jesus this is our request. Amen.

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So, the Community section of the website is a great place to find those connection points, including the Prayer Wall. All of these things can be accessed from within the app and we’ve done some talking about the app this week. Just click the Drawer icon in the upper left-hand corner of the app and you can access some of these things like the Prayer Wall. So, stay connected. It’s one of the beautiful distinctive things about the Daily Audio Bible community is that we seem to be willing to love one another where we are and pray for one another where we are and just walk with one another where we are. And that makes all the difference. So, stay connected.

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Joshua 13:1-14:15, Luke 18:1-17, Psalms 85:1-13, Proverbs 13:7-8

Today is the 16^th day of April welcome to the Daily Audio Bible, I’m Brian it’s great to be here with you as we move into the back half of another of our weeks together and ease our way toward another weekend and of course another week beginning, but that’s in front of us and we are here now around the Global Campfire together. So, let’s take the next step forward in the Scriptures. We are working our way through the story of Joshua and the conquest of the Promised Land. We’re reading from the English Standard Version this week. Joshua 13 and 14 today.

Commentary:

Alright. Let’s talk about the book of Proverbs today and immerse ourselves in its wisdom for a moment. Probably…probably we all know people that we consider to be…like we know their life and we know what they are portraying their life to be, and we know that there is like dissonance there, there is like a disconnect. So…so, they, you know, curate things on social media. And we see a lot of this be tested because it’s a house of cards, right? Like when a whole society is doing the same thing then it’s kinda all a house of cards. And, so, when hardship shows up and it becomes more and more difficult to keep the act up. But we…we all are aware of this kind of behavior. In fact, it's…it’s in us, it’s in all of us to some degree and a lot of times it comes out of in as an insecurity. Like we’re looking around at what everybody else is curating and then just deciding that they have a better life and that we gotta keep up. And, so, we just keep up the pose. And Proverbs kinda gives us a riddle today to work through. “One pretends to be rich yet has nothing. Another pretends to be poor yet has a great wealth. The ransom of a man’s life is his wealth, but a poor man hears no threat.” Okay. So, like, let’s work through the scenarios. A poor man hears no threat, right? So, a poor man who is not pretending to be anything other than he is, isn’t threatened, isn’t taken for ransom. The rich person in the riddle has the resources to perhaps extricate themselves from the scenario, they have wealth. So, both the rich and the poor have a way out in this proverb. What is the scenario that doesn’t? The one who pretends to be rich but is actually poor. The one who is pretending to be something that they are not. If that person is pressed or taken for ransom or whatever then the illusion falls apart and they have no way out of it. It all falls down. So, the ultimate thing that the voice of wisdom is bringing up here then is, “are we being true?” And that is an important question in the trying times that we’ve been going through. Are we becoming more true or are we becoming more false?

Prayer:

Holy Spirit as we move into this day, this is what we will meditate upon. This is what Your word has brought up today. And, so, we invite Your Holy Spirit into that. It’s been plenty of chaos. There always is. There’s always something that invites us to either pose and hide or to be true and be light. And, so, Holy Spirit show us the areas that…that we are shining but also shows the areas that we are hiding. We invite You as we walk through this day and as we become aware of Your presence that we listen to what You are saying. We pray this in the name of Jesus. Amen.

Announcements:

dailyaudiobible.com is the website, its home base, its where you stay tuned and connected to what’s going on around here. And, so. I mention it most every day because of that. Stay connected. Stay connected in these times. But, you know, even if this…all this stuff wasn’t going around to kinda keep us separate, isolation…like there’s no shortage on isolation in the world. It’s funny because actually have more time to be together. We just need to be apart. Usually the world is moving so quickly that we’re just overwhelmed by it all. And, so, we’re in a different kind of isolation and staying connected, as we always have is helpful as we take this journey through the Bible and through life. So, yeah, stay connected.

There’s a Community section at the website and this is available in the app as well by pushing the Drawer icon in the upper left.

And by the way, if you weren’t here yesterday, we did like an overview of the Daily Audio Bible app yesterday, the main things that you need to know to navigate it and it’s not a lot, it’s very simple, but if you didn’t get a chance to listen to that go back to yesterday’s episode and listen through.

But anyway, the Community section shows you the different places that we interact on social media. Like for example, if you are a woman and you’re not part of the Daily Audio Bible women’s group, you’re missing out on a sisterhood. And if you’re like a professional social media expert and you’re not a part of DAB friends, then you’re missing out on community. If you are on social media and you’re not following Daily Audio Bible, then you may be missing out on announcements and even encouragements. So, stay connected. We are all here on the same journey achieving the same quest to make it through the entire Bible in a year and to know what the Bible says with our own ears and our own minds and our own hearts. We’re in this together. We’re on that same page and makes a world of difference. So, yeah, stay connected.

If you want to partner with the Daily Audio Bible, if what’s happening here is life to you, it brings encouragement, and helps you move forward then thank you for your partnership. We can’t do this if we don’t do this together. It has always been the story and I’m so grateful that we are in this together. So, there’s 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, if you prefer that, 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, 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.