Month: June 2018

2 Kings 6:1-7:20, Acts 15:36-16:15, Psalms 142:1-7, Proverbs 17:24-25

Today is the 24^th day of June. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I’m Brian. It’s great to be here with you. And we twist the knob and open the door and step through the threshold of a shiny, sparkly, new week, which means that we’ll read from a new translation this week. We’ll read from the Gods Word Translation. And, of course, we’ll be picking up where we left off. 2 Kings, chapter 6 and 7 today.

Commentary: 

Okay. So, in second Kings we had a couple of stories told today, all involving Elisha the prophet and involving the Aramaeans as they tried to intimidate and conquer Israel. So, we have the very famous story of Elisha being able to tell the king of Israel where the Aramaeans were hiding and that God is telling Elisha this and he even knows what the king says in his bedroom. So, the surround the city and there are more who are with us that are with them, Elisha says. So, it’s a very, very famous story. And without any bloodshed whatsoever, that story ends the feud between the Aramaeans and the Israelites for a while but not forever. Then King Benhadad of Aram blockades Samaria, trying to take over the capital city. And it’s gotten so bad the people are eating each other. Okay. So, that’s pretty bad. And the king plans to king Elisha over it. Elisha prophesies that things won’t be that way in 24 hours. And we know how the story goes. These leprous men go into the Aramaean camp and find it empty, and then they start hoarding things because there’s, like, an overwhelming plenty all the sudden. And there are already outcasts so they start hoarding things. And then they come back together and realize, what we are doing is not right. In fact, that’s a direct quotation from the Bible. What we’re doing is not right. This is a day of good news and we are not telling anyone about it. All of the sudden we have a story being told that has become a mirror because we know what it’s like to be isolated and walled off and surrounded by the enemy. We know what it was like to be completely lost and floundering. We look around at the world and see the bondage, the starving souls of people who are floundering, who are eating each other, metaphorically. We see all of the conflict, the spiritual starvation and it’s like we are those who leprous people. We walk out of starvation, we walk out of lack and into plenty. And then we enjoy it, start hoarding it, start building a subculture around it, but we have to realize that maybe what we’re doing is not right. This is a day of good news and we’re not telling anyone about it. The leprous people went back and got word to the king who went to investigate and restoration came to Samaria. In a spiritual sense, we’re like this. We’ve found the good news. We’ve found the hope of humanity, the rescue of the world, the restoration of all things. And maybe we hoard it more than we share that this is a day of good news. So, think about that as you move into this new week. Realize that you are carrying within yourself the hope of humanity and all that Jesus has done on our behalf. And this is good news. This is in a sales pitch. This is in a marketing ploy. This is the good news of the gospel, the hope of humanity. And we have it. And we can bring that hope and that good news to a world in bondage, starving. What’s that going to look like for you this week?

Prayer:

Father, we invite Your Holy Spirit is into that. That hits close to home and we need Your guidance and leadership in exactly how it is that we are to orient ourselves to this good news and freedom and how it is that we are to live it out in this world, being a light in this world, being the salt of the earth. Come Holy Spirit we pray. In Jesus’ name we ask. Amen.

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Next up on the calendar is July 7^th, which happens to be a Saturday this year. And that’s the day of the Daily Audio Bible long walk. It’s an annual tradition. This will be our 11^th annual Daily Audio Bible long walk. And you probably get the drift. We’ve been talking about it for a few days. It’s just very simple. Circle the day on your calendar and set it aside. It’s a day for you to walk with God. Not that you’re not walking with God every day, but a day to intentionally go for a long walk, as if you have fallen in love with the Lord. And time doesn’t matter. And you have a lot to talk about because life is so busy. This is a chance to say it all and a chance to allow God to speak in response in ways that only He can. And it takes place, right here, in the middle part of the year so that we can look back, look back at all that God has spoken to us through His word this year and invite Him into what is yet to come as He continues to lead us forward. And, so, is an individual, very solitary thing. I mean, you can go with friends or whatever, you go as family. People go as couples, people go as individuals, but it’s a very individual time with God. But it’s something we’ll be doing all over the world as a community. So, wherever you go, and go somewhere beautiful, go somewhere where you can actually drink in the beauty and exquisite detail of nature. And maybe snap a picture or shoot a little video. Post that back to the Daily Audio Bible Facebook page which is Facebook.com/dailyaudiobible. And this becomes a beautiful, beautiful community thing. We get these beautiful windows into each other’s lives and it’s a lot of fun. So, make plans for that July 7^th.

If you want to partner with the Daily Audio Bible you can do that dailyaudiobible.com. There is a link, it’s 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, if you prefer, you can use the mailing address which is PO Box 1996 Spring Hill, Tennessee 37174.

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And that’s it for today. It’s going to be a great week. I’m Brian I love you and I’ll be waiting for here is tomorrow.

Community Prayer and Praise:

Yes. This is Beautiful Soul out of North Carolina. I call myself Beautiful Soul because God showed me that my soul was created beautiful and that I should not be down on myself and that I should not have low self-esteem about myself because He created me beautiful. He doesn’t create junk. The reason why I say this is because I heard a podcast on June 20^th, a DAB member by the name of Keisha whose suffering from depression, is suffering from health issues, is suffering from family issues, and she’s suffering from being morbidly obese. I’m speaking to you directly Keisha. You touched my heart this morning. God just spoke to my Spirit because I’ve gone through the same struggles that you’ve had. And I can identify with what you’re feeling. But the thing that touched me the most about what you said was that you were ashamed to ask to help us to pray for you. Let me tell you something. In first Peter 3 and 4, God speaks about not looking it the outward appearance but looking at the inward appearance. He is in love with your soul and your heart. There’s no reason you should be ashamed to ask for help because that’s what we’re all here for and that’s what God put us here for. To pray with each other. I want you to know that you’re not alone, that there’s nothing wrong with you. No matter what you…even if you weigh…I was morbidly obese too and God helped me get the weight off. It takes three measures but God gives. It wasn’t even about the weight or if I got it off of me. It was about the way I perceived myself. And I want you to know that you are beautiful. You’re absolutely beautiful and…

Hi. My name is Sherry and I am caller from the second time and I’ve been listening to Daily Audio Bible for three years and this is the first year I have dedicated myself to listening on time. I’ve called them before as regards to the job that I hold as a social worker. God knows my heart that I no longer like this job because of the racism, the politics, the mistreatment and as one of the ladies that called in before said, it’s difficult to be in a hostile environment where racism is on the rampage. I ask for prayer that God to sustain me for the next seven months or nine months before I retire. I get up every morning and I cry. So, I’m asking for your prayers that…

Hey everybody this is PJ from Vermont, a five years, or so, listener. I’ve called a few times. I just wanted to say, first, shout out to Keisha. She just called in and wanted to hear her name. And, so, I’m saying it and I pray for her and that God may answer her prayers. She’s knocking Lord, please open the door. She’s asking that she receive. And, so, I just want to say a prayer for her and also, I pray for everybody who calls in and all those who don’t call and every day, and for you Brian. Thank you so much for your family. And I want to encourage those new people listening in, the Daily Audio Bible hass made a huge difference in my life. I have, you know, ups and downs, loss of spouse, loss of job but I am definitely…my faith is stronger than ever and I definitely attribute that to this family and to the word, of course, most importantly. And the format which allows us to consume it bit by bit and supporting prayers. So, just wanted to, just yeah, say thank you. God bless you. Bye.

Hi everyone. This is Melody from Canada. And I just heard Keisha’s call. And Keisha, you just touched my heart so much and I am really proud of you for your courage in asking for prayers about your weight. And I just really want to say that you are beautiful in God’s eyes. And you are His lovely daughter. And I just pray that you will receive that affirmation from Him and that love from Him and that He lifts you out of your depression. I struggled with depression for a time as well and I just know that the joy of the Lord is your strength and I pray blessing over you in Jesus’ name. Amen.

Hi this is __ from Lynncor. Just going to work. Originally I was a Sikh. I’m a Christian. I believe in Jesus Christ. Regular Lister. I heard a phone prayer request from Keisha. Keisha you’re suffering from depression and you have…you’re saying, a generational curse of depression. Sister, I am praying for you. Be strong. Be strong in Christ. Know that Galatian 3:13 says that Jesus Christ took our curses by. He took our curses Generational curses are broken. We believe that. We believe that and claim that. Jesus Christ not only took our sins. Jesus Christ not only took our sufferings. First Peter 2:24, by the stripes of Jesus Christ we are healed. We believe and claim that and not only that, like I said, Galatian 3:13, He also took our curses. You are curse free. Every curse, generational curse, in the name of Jesus Christ be broken on you and all your family members who believe in Christ. Sister, be strong. And I also pray for brother Curtis from Cali. He used to call a long time ago and I haven’t heard from you. Please call in how you are doing and all those people, Blind Tony, and all those wonderful people. I hear you. I hear your prayers are wonderful. It’s a blessing, it’s a blessing. And God bless you all. Thank you, Brian. Thank you, Jill for the wonderful work you’re doing. God bless your ministry. God bless you. Bye.

2 Kings 4:18-5:27, Acts 15:1-31, Psalms 141:1-10, Proverbs 17:23

Today is the 23^rd day of June. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian. And here we are, heading toward the end of another week. And they just keep rolling along. It’s getting steamy here in the rolling hills of Tennessee. Our summers are lush and beautiful and rich and green and lovely and humid and steamy and hot. Went outside the other day to do a little work and it was 101 degrees and like a sauna and I was like, O my gosh. But that’s how our summers are and they are hot but they’re beautiful. And I hope it’s beautiful wherever you are. I know some of you are putting on your winter coats down under and experience wintertime, which is so interesting. But I digress. Let’s dive into the Scriptures today. We’re reading from the Contemporary English Version this week, which is today. 2 Kings 4:18-5:27.

Commentary:

Okay. A couple things we should probably talk about. In the book of 2 Kings, we have the story of Naaman, the Syrian general, the military commander. And it’s an interesting story. He has leprosy, right? The king of Syria sends a letter to the king of Israel who’s freaked out because how’s he gonna cure leprosy? We just read the whole story. What’s interesting about this story is how Naaman responds to Elijah. And for that matter, how Elijah responds to Naaman. When Naaman makes the journey all the way to Elijah’s house, Elijah doesn’t even come out to say hello. He just sends word- here’s what you need to do. Real quick and efficient, you don’t need any incantations, you don’t need any magic spells. Just go wash in the Jordan, dip yourself seven times and your will be healed. Naaman is angry about this, right? So here is a guy that is dying of leprosy very slowly but is also a very powerful man. And he’s been given simple instructions when he was expecting something other than what he got. And, so, he was mad as opposed to thinking, well, this is what the prophet said, this is what this little servant girl said. This is that prophet and this is what he said to do. He’s kind of mad. It’s like, I could have dipped in any of the rivers in Syria. It’s his servants who will bring him back to his right mind. And they say, Listen, if Elijah had told you to do something difficult you would have done it, so why not do the easy thing? That’s when things become a bit of a mirror because we have a tendency to dramatically overcomplicate things in our lives a lot of the time when the simple instructions in the Scripture are to obey and walk with God, right? To be in collaboration with him in our lives. To open ourselves to his presence in everything that we do and say. And sometimes we think it’s about the hoops that we can jump through. How hard can this be? Like the harder I have to work to do something, the more God will notice. The more that I press in, the more that he will notice when he’s not going to really be paying attention to the hoops. He’s going to be paying attention to the heart. So Naaman decided, I’ve come a long way, it’s been a long journey. What do I have to lose by jumping into the Jordan? And what he got was his health back. So, when we think about the hoops that we need to jump through or the flags that we need to wave or the jumping up and down that we need to do to get God’s attention, he already knows.  And so maybe the hoops and the jumping up and down are us getting our own attention. And maybe what we need to realize is God’s presence is always available. There is nowhere we can run from God presence according to the book of Psalms. So maybe rather than the anxieties and all the things that we put ourselves through, maybe stillness, maybe slowing down, being still and knowing that He is God and walking with him in the invitation that we have to collaborate in life with him and to be his child and to focus our attention and our affection on him. Maybe it’s easier than we’re making it.

Then we get into the book of Acts. And we see this council that takes place. And this is known as the Jerusalem Council.  And it’s really the first recorded council of the church.  And the issue was the initiation of a believer.  How does a person become accepted into the faith?  And the problem was the earliest of early believers felt like faith in Jesus was completely in a Jewish context because it had only ever been in a Jewish context until the Holy Spirit began to flow among the Gentile people. So, this caused a bit of a theological mess.  These people had been trying to follow the Mosaic law, that’s what they had been raised in.  This is part of their culture, part of their understanding. And even Pharisees like Paul had converted to following Jesus, but they wanted to retain all of what they had always known, specifically the law. The problem was that even those who had been raised under the law and trying to be obedient to the law couldn’t obey the law. So, the question than became how will we even begin to teach the context of all of this to a Gentile person who doesn’t know anything about it at all? Are they really required to essentially convert to the Jewish faith so that they can then put their faith in Jesus? And this is a pretty big deal. Big enough deal to have the first ever church council. And what was decided was that God had begun to pour his Holy Spirit out upon the Gentiles without them having any knowledge of the law, so what’s the point in getting in God’s way? Which sounds nice and easy but is a big deal at this point in time. And we’ve talked about this before and we’ll talk about it again because as we move deeper into the letters of Paul, we’re going to see that not everyone was on board with this. So those with an opposing view would visit some of the churches that had been established by the Apostle Paul and then teach essentially another doctrine, the doctrine that would compel a person to come under the Mosaic law and essentially become of the Jewish faith, convert to the Jewish faith. Paul stands vigorously against this. And it will come up over and over in his letters. And I bring this up when we encounter it just to keep ourselves rooted in what’s really going on and the struggle that the early church has to adapt to this new thing that God was doing in the world. Because we can think of the early church as a handful of believers in an upper room singing Kumbaya and there was a lot more to it than that. They had to deeply wrestle with and struggle through and find God’s leading in the way forward, just like we do.

Prayer:

Father, we thank You for Your Word. We thank You that there’s context and history included so that we can see how things moved and how You moved things along that brought us to where we are today, and we thank You for that. And we understand that we’re still being pulled forward. You are still inviting us forward into the full plan, the complete restoration of all things and have invited us to be a part of that story. And, so, we are grateful. We are grateful for the stories of those who have gone before, and we are grateful for that story that we are telling now. Come, Holy Spirit, we pray. In Jesus name we ask. Amen.

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I’ve been mentioning for a couple of days the upcoming Daily Audio Bible Long Walk. It’s the 11th annual Daily Audio Bible Long Walk. It takes place on the 7th of July. And if you’ve been gone for a few days and you’re like, what’s the long walk, it’s exactly like what its name says. It is a day that as a community we circle on our calendars and do everything that we can to carve out the whole -as much of the day as we can get - and give it to God and go for a long walk. The kind of walk that you go on when you first fall in love. The kind of walk where you can walk for hours and it seems like minutes, like time is standing still. And you feel that intimacy growing in your love. That’s what we’re talking about. Because life is very busy. I bet every single person who’s listening to me right now has a pretty busy life. There’s all kinds of distractions everywhere, and so we don’t ever take the time or make the time, actually consider it a priority, to have that kind of fellowship where we can have a long, extended, uninterrupted conversation. That’s what the long walk’s about. It’s right in the center of the year, so we have the opportunity to reflect back on the first six months of the year, what God has spoken to us through his Word, what he has led us into because of his word, and so we can look back at that, have a long conversation about that. But then we have another half of the year to go. And it’s important to reset, to look at where our hope lies right now. What is our hope in, especially this year of hope. What is it that we have put our hope in and where is that leading us and what adjustments do we need to make as we move forward into the back half of the year? So, circle it on your calendar. July 7, which happens to be a Saturday this year. So, it’s pretty simple. And then make plans. What are you gonna do? People drive hours to beautiful places that are significant. Other people just go walking down the street. Maybe go to the lake. Maybe go to a park. Just go somewhere beautiful. Somewhere where you can actually hear nature speak and look at the extravagant detail of God’s creation and be reminded that we’re part of something big. And then just enter into the silence and then begin to (say) out what you need to say. Take the time to say everything that you’ve needed to say and make space for God to be able to speak back everything that he’s been trying to get your attention about for months. This is that time. So, it’s an individual endeavor for sure and it’ll be happening all over the world for sure, but it’s something that we do together because we’re doing it at the same time on the same day. So, wherever you go, find something beautiful, some place beautiful. And while you’re on your long walk, make sure you take a little video or snap a picture, post it up to the Daily Audio Bible Facebook page, which is facebook.com/dailyaudiobible. And that becomes a beautiful mosaic. All kinds of little windows into each other’s lives. And, so, by the end of the long walk, you’ll scroll back through all of those photos and videos and go all around the world. It’s a remarkable thing that we have as a tradition here. So, make that a part of your plans. July 7th is coming up.

If you wanna partner with the Daily Audio Bible, you can do that at dailyaudiobible.com. There is a link that lives on the homepage. I thank you for your partnership deeply and humbly. 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 P.O Box 1996, Spring Hill, Tennessee, 37174.

And, as always, if you have a prayer request or comment, 877-942-4253 is the number to dial.

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

Community Prayer and Praise:

Good morning guys. This is Jan in SoCal, a.k.a. prayer warrior Princess. I’m calling because today is Tuesday, June 19^th and I heard, I Can See, in North Carolina call in with your prayer request. Your daughter has SPD and your husband just returned home from deployment and you are traveling Sunday together to a specialist. And that definitely rang my bell and I’ll be praying for you. Yeah, so that hits close to home. So, as I prayed for you, these things first came up. And, obviously, as I said, I will continue to cover you just as you have not forsaken your daughter in her suffering He, the Lord, your Father, will not forsake you in yours. His truth is your shield and He promises to shelter you under His wings near quiet waters at the table with Him in the presence of your enemies. I bless you with peace and rest, with a quiet heart, and a quiet mind. I bless you with love, with hope, not in resolution to your current circumstance, but in Christ alone. I bless you with the presence of the Lord because He promises that. And I’ll keep praying for you sister. I love you.

Hi everybody. It’s Margo from Australia. I was just really prompted to call in today to share something. I was thinking about the lady who called in a few weeks ago who’s a single mom and not really finding any joy in it. And I thought perhaps a little story of mine might help and perhaps for all the young moms out there. Many years ago, when my children were little we’d been living in Amerland in the very north of Australia and it’s very, very isolated as a regional community. And my husband was flying with the mission aviation on a ship. And we were there as missionaries. And at the time my children were young. So, I was stuck at home with them quite a lot. And I couldn’t get out and do, you know, what I saw as the work of the Lord and be a real proper missionary out there amongst the __ regionals because a lot of my time was spent at home with my children. And one day I was at a little local regional church and we found a room at the back that had been locked up for many years and we decided to open it up and clean it up and use it as a Sunday school room. And I remember I was out in that room and it was an absolute filthy mess and I was sweeping and mopping, and I stood there, and I said to the Lord, gee, this finally feels like I’m doing something really like a proper missionary. I’m getting down and dirty and fixing up this room. And clear is anything, the Lord spoke into my heart, Margo that’s exactly how I feel about you every day as you mop out your children. And that really encouraged me at the time. And I hope that it encourages you young moms out there. And especially the single mom that rang in a few weeks ago. As we mop up our children, that is our mission. It is the most important job in the world and God bless you for doing it. He loves your children and He has given them to you as a very, very special and important mission. I hope that encourages you today. Love you all. Bye.

Good day my Daily Audio Bible family. This is Ozzie J. calling from Japan. I’m not sure how many of you are aware, but on Monday morning at 7:58, Japan time, a 6.1 Richter scale earthquake struck and it was only 11 km away from where I live. Yet, we’re okay. We didn’t suffer too much damage here, just a few things got knocked off some shelves at our house, but fortunately they landed on the soft Khatami floor. So, they didn’t break or anything. So, we’re okay. Unfortunately, closer to the epicenter, five people have been killed certainly that they know of so far. And, yeah, I’ve seen some photos from people I’ve connected with on twitter that live closer to there of some pretty big damage around those areas, closer to the earthquake Center. And, yeah, everybody here is worried about that this might trigger a bigger quake. So, please pray that that doesn’t happen. Please pray for us here in Japan as we recover from this earthquake. Thank you, my Daily Audio Bible.

This is Michael from North Georgia. This is my second time calling in I’ve been listening to the Daily Audio Bible for, this is my second year. And I would first like to say, quickly, just how much this has changed my life, that I know now that I’m not in this alone. And it has, in more than one way, the Daily Audio Bible has completely turned around my entire life. It has changed me, and I will never be the same as I was because of Christ and because of this and the way that ya’ll are just able to reach other and through prayer and able to touch each one of our lives, the way we’re able to pray for each other and help each other and it keeps us connected. And I just thank and praise God every day. I look forward to every reading. I just got done listening to the June 20^th, that’s what today is. And the reason I’m calling in, quickly, is my wife has been struggling with something that is wrong with her. She has a physical condition. The doctors have no idea what it is. She’s coughing up and spitting up blood clots. That’s been going on for about eight or nine months now. And they have yet to be able to get to the bottom of what the problem is. She’s in the hospital with pneumonia right now in North Georgia for the second time in three months. And they figured out she has a heart condition that she was born with that no one knew she had until about a month ago. One doctor, the heart doctor says that’s not the reason why she’s coughing up and spitting up blood and getting pneumonia. And the lung doctor is dealing with the heart doctor saying it is the reason and they can’t get on the same page and no one really seems to know is wrong with her. And, so, I’m calling in because I want as many people around the world to pray for her. Her name is Sandy. She loves God. She’s saved. And she’s just such a little humble…

2 Kings 3:1-4:17, Acts 14:8-28, Psalms 140:1-13, Proverbs 17:22

Today is the 22nd day of June. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I’m Brian. It is a pleasure and a joy to be here with you today as we center ourselves in God’s word and allow it to wash into and over our lives. So, we began the book of 2 Kings yesterday and transitioned between the prophet Elijah and Elisha as we continue forward in the annals of the kings and the generations of the kings of Israel. So, we’re reading from the Contemporary English Version this week. 2 Kings chapter 3 verse 1 through 4, verse 17 today.

Commentary:

Okay. So, in the book of Acts we’re watching now as the apostle Paul becomes more of a prominent figure in the book of Acts. And we’re watching his journeys and travels and what we should notice both in Peter’s life and in Paul’s life, which are two, kind of, the main figures that are featured in the book of Acts, everywhere they go, everywhere that they share the gospel, it is a disruptive thing. It shakes things up. It causes a reaction in people. So, for example, just today Paul is preaching in Lystra. He makes eye contact with this person in the audience who can’t walk, but he sees that this man has faith and he calls it out and the man can walk and everybody…I mean…Paul’s preaching the gospel…and then God comes for this man and everybody wants to sacrifice to Paul and Barnabas as if they are God’s. And barely before they can stop the people from like sacrificing to them as God’s, other Jewish people have come from other towns and the crowd turns against them, and then rather than sacrificing a bull to Paul as a God, they stone Paul and leave him for dead. That’s how disruptive the gospel can be. And we watched all this happen in Jesus ministry as well. And normally, if we do think about these things, we just think about the authority of the gospel and that we’re carrying that along with us into our lives and into the discussions that we might have. But have we ever stopped and thought, is the gospel still disrupting me? Does it still shake things up in me? Does it still bring up the things that need to be brought up in me? Does it still confront me in the same way? Does it pull me deeper into intimacy and union with God or has a become a relic, something that I just do, something that I just kind of am? According to the apostle, Paul, and we’ll see this over and over as we move through his writings, the gospel is changing us, literally transforming us. The end of this destination is union with Christ, oneness with Christ. That’s disruptive and it’s going to disrupt anything that will be in the way of that, that full sanctification, that full wholeness and restoration that we are headed toward. The gospel is always going to disrupt anything that would interrupt that. So, rather than reading a story like this and going, wow, you know, wherever these early people went, they caused problems. The gospel was highly inflammatory in all kinds of ways to all kinds of people for all kinds of reasons. We need to look into our own lives and say, just, does this still set my heart on fire? Is this still transforming me? Am I running into this full force with all my heart mind soul and strength? Some things to invite the Holy Spirit into today.

Prayer:

Holy Spirit, come. We ask for that. We invite you into that. We invite you into everything that the Scriptures bring up in our lives. And, so, we invite you into this. Show us the ways that we’ve grown numb. Show us the ways that we’ve grown cold. Show us the ways that we’ve kind of walled ourselves off from the disruption that the truth brings into our lives because when we wall ourselves off from the disruption we’re also walling ourselves off from the transformation. Come Holy Spirit, we pray. In Jesus’ name we ask. Amen.  

Announcements:

dailyaudiobible.com is the website, its home base, it’s where you find out what’s going on…

…and we’ve been talking the last couple of days about the upcoming tradition that we have as the Daily Audio Bible community. It’s called the Long Walk, the Daily Audio Bible Long Walk and it takes place every July 7th. And this year, the 7th July falls on a Saturday. So, that makes it fairly easy for us all to participate. And, fundamentally, what the long walk is is exactly what it sounds like. You go somewhere beautiful. You take the day, set it aside, give it to God, go somewhere beautiful whether near or far from where you are and go for a long walk. And, in part, this is a living parable of our lives. We walk with God. But the truth is, there’s so many distractions, so many entanglements, that we are walking with God but we’re not always paying attention to that fact. So, a lot of times we reflect back on decisions and choices that we made, that we really didn’t talk with God on, we just had to make the choice. We didn’t slow down enough to stay present to what He might have to say. This is an opportunity to reset that and it takes place right here as we approach the hearts of the year, like right in the middle of the year. So, it’s this reset button, an opportunity to go for a long walk with God, somewhere beautiful, beautiful enough that if we’re distracted by anything, it is the beauty of His creation and His presence all around us. And just take that walk. Review the year so far. Consider how the Scriptures have spoken. Consider what God is doing in our lives and then allow Him to speak into what the second half of our year is supposed to look like. So, it is a rich and beautiful time that I look forward to every year because I’m as busy as the next guy. So, you know, there’s all the stuff that’s going on. So, to set this aside and just slow it all down and have a moment to just look back and look forward in hope is beautiful. So, take your phone or something. Don’t be distracted by it, but make sure you take a video or snap a picture. You’ll want to remember. You’ll want this for yourself. You’ll want to remember that time that you went for this long walk and what God spoke to you and all that happened, what you saw and how that felt. But take a picture that you can post back up to the Daily Audio Bible Facebook page, which is Facebook.com/dailyaudiobible. And as hundreds and hundreds of pictures come in, they become windows into each other’s lives. We get to kind of look through the lens of your camera at what you captured and what you found important and what it meant to you and share in that as a community. So, the Daily Audio Bible long walk is a solitary thing, but it’s also a very communal thing because we’re all doing it at the same time. And, so, when we post up the pictures, it just becomes…I love it…I look forward to it every year. Looking forward to it this year. So, that’s the Daily Audio Bible long walk. Make plans for the 7th of July and we’ll do this together.

If you want to partner with the Daily Audio Bible, you can do that it dailyaudiobible.com. There is a link. It’s 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, if you prefer, the mailing address is PO Box 1996 Spring Hill Tennessee 37174.

And, as always, if you have a prayer request or comment, 877-942-4253 is the number to dial.

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

Community Prayer and Praise:

Good morning DAB family. This is Paula calling from Albuquerque. It is Monday, June 18th. I just had to call. I listened to the podcast. I always listen first thing in the morning. This is my devotion time. But on Mondays I always listen to the community prayer afterward. Well, I was listening to the community prayer and stop playing so I went back to the app. It went back to today’s reading and Brian’s commentary on Elijah running from Jezebel. And with everything I’ve been going through with my daughter and her husband and my job and just life, I call them gut punches. So, you touched on that Brian and I thank you for that because it was what I needed to hear. God is not in all the drama. He’s in that still small voice. So, I’m just…I’m praying that all of us listened to that because marriages are being attacked, jobs are being attacked, our peace at home is being attacked. Marriages, oh my gosh, I cannot tell you how many marriages I know of right now. People’s faith being challenged. The list goes on and on and on and I know you all know that. So, anyway, I just wanted to let you all know that, you know, God is so much bigger than all of this. Thank you Mark Street, my brother, for praying for my daughter and her husband. I ask that you guys…we need to lift up prayers for marriages. There was a man that used to loosen that used to do a list and I just used to always read that list. So, anyways, stay on top of this ya’ll. So, I love you all so much and…

Hi family. It’s Shannon from Texas. I keep thinking that every time I call for myself that it will be the last time that I call but here I am calling again. And I hate to keep calling about a job. I just really feel like a fool even though I know that I’m not. I’m just really struggling right now needing a job. I definitely lost my way after many years with a man in just being, you know, I owned several businesses but I was just kind of half-wife and I took care of my family but after leaving him in that abusive relationship. He was a narcissist and the PTSD that I’ve suffered after has definitely…I’m realizing how much…even though it’s four years later…I’m just looking back thinking I have had a terrible time figuring out what I’m supposed to be doing now. And, I know the Lord has guided me, but I feel like it’s just going from worse to worse. And here I am two months after quitting a government job that I called in several times about and just utterly failing at. And I was able to get that job with a felony but now I have a felony on my record and I’ve been applying for jobs left and right and I just feel like I’m getting exposed everywhere that I go and I don’t know what God’s trying to do with it. He’s definitely up to something. I just need your prayer. I’m running out of money and bills are due and I know he’s got me but I just don’t want my mind to crumble in the meantime if that makes sense. I love you guys. I’m praying for all of you. Bye-bye.

Hello. My name is Elizabeth or in Hebrew that name also Ellushiva, which means, my God is abundance and he certainly is. It’s June the 18th and I spent a bit of the time today in prayer for God to raise up prayer warriors because there’s so many of us who are hurting. And I just was praying for God to raise us up to pray for those people. And then I listened to the June 17th podcast. And at the very end there were three amazing prayers by three amazing prayer warriors, one for Muslims and the bread of life, one for Cherry Chase Cherry Pie - all is well, and the last gentleman, who exhorting us to remember that God’s yoke is easy. So, my God is abundance. I prayed for prayer warriors and, wow, I can tell you that I was blessed with those prayer as I’m blessed with you every day that I listen to this wonderful podcast. So, thank you, family. Thank you, Brian. And God bless you.

Hi beautiful family. This is Pastor Gene from Bradenton Florida. I want to thank you so much for your prayers for me as I go through my trials, for the prayers for Victoria. She was told yesterday in the audition that she’s cute and very talented but she’s not quite ready. And we are okay with that, that the Lord is the Lord that opens and closes doors. So, we really can pray that and then when he closes, we’re really ___ . So, we just love the Lord for that. You know, in this industry, we are very, very used to no’s and we’re just speaking up and pushing on. But I love you family and I thank you for your prayers. I just want to give a shout out to our sister Christine from Washington. Sister, thank you so much for your call regarding your struggles in your marriage. You are always in my prayers. And you were talking about narcissism. And I want to talk a little bit about that from the perspective of someone that has narcissistic traits. And that is me. I was raised by a narcissistic mom but for me that was normal and I had no idea what narcissism was or what you __ defeat with. So, as I started realizing the abuse that I had been raised in then I realized that my mom was a narcissist, I realized that I had a lot of the same traits. And, so, for me prayer was not enough. I needed to relearn a way of life. And, so, I saw a Christian counselor and I focused on working and I read and I studied and I prayed and the Bible says, in Habakkuk, my people die for lack of knowledge. And I was literally dying and my marriage would have eventually died if I had not found myself with knowledge about this. So, I put that out there for whoever has to do it. I love you family. Pastor Gene from Bradenton Florida. Bye.

2 Kings 1:1-2:25, Acts 13:42-14:7, Psalms 139:1-24, Proverbs 17:19-21 

Today is the 21st day of June. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I’m Brian. It’s great to be here with you today for the next step forward as we move deeper and deeper and further through the Scriptures this year, which brings us to kind of a new line of demarcation. We’re moving into the book of 2 Kings today in our Old Testament portion. And when we come to a new book, we talk about it. We talk about its context, its place in history. And, kind of what we’re going to cover, but with 2 Kings there’s nothing new to tell, versus 1 Kings. These were all one manuscript at one time. So, we’re just continuing the story forward. But as we move into 2 Kings we’ll see that the prophet Elijah that we have been following along with will be transferring his authority to his successor named Elisha. And we’ll follow that story forward. But we are beginning a new book, the book of 2 Kings and we will read chapters 1 and 2 today. And we’re reading from the contemporary English version this week.  

Prayer: 

Father, we thank You for Your word and we marvel at what we’re reading in Your word today because we want to be in Your presence every moment of this day and You’re telling us in the Psalms that there is no where we can go to flee from Your presence. So, we will be in Your presence today and the question will become whether or not we are paying attention. So, come Holy Spirit. May we sense Your presence all around us, leading our steps, whether the right or to the left, leading us forward into all truth, leading us on the narrow path that leads to life, leading us deeper into Jesus today. We ask these things in the name of Jesus’. Come Holy Spirit. We pray in Jesus’ name. Amen.  

Announcements:

dailyaudiobible.com is the website, its home base, and, of course it’s where you find out what’s going on around here.

What’s going on right now is the upcoming Daily Audio Bible Long Walk. I believe this is the 11th annual Daily Audio Bible Long Walk. It takes place on the 7th of July. And, so, those of you who have been here for several years, you’ve probably been on long walks, you know what this is. But for those of you who are taking the journey for the first time, it’s kind of our own little Daily Audio Bible tradition. Almost our own little internal holiday that just came out of nowhere. Back in 2007, we had a big stadium prayer event that was televised here in Nashville. Because it was televised, many of the Daily Audio Bible community, and this is the early Daily Audio Bible community, it just would be our second year of doing this, were also watching along. So, we had this virtual experience that eventually transformed itself into the Daily Audio Bible Long Walk. An invitation to take a day, circle it on the calendar and say nothing is getting into this day. Nothing is taking me from this day. All the entanglements of my life, I’m disentangling for this day. I’m going for a long walk with somebody I need to talk to, someone who knows me better than I know myself. Someone who loves me deeper than any other love on this earth. I’m going for a long walk with God.  

And it becomes this reset button in the center of the year. But we have time in the middle of the year to reflect back over the last six months. And yes, that’s about where were going to be here in a few days, halfway through the year and halfway through the Bible. So, it’s a great opportunity to look back at what the Bible has spoken, at what we have been faced with, and what we have overcome, of what we are continuing to press through and all of the beauty, all of the beauty of God’s faithfulness in our lives. Get the chance to kind of think that over and talk that over, debrief with the Lord and then look forward into what the next six months is supposed to look like. So, it’s a great opportunity for that. Go somewhere beautiful. Whether you make big plans and drive somewhere far away and enjoy beauty or whether you just walk across the street, it doesn’t really matter. And doesn’t matter where you are on earth. We’ll be doing this all over the world. Just take your phone or something. Take a picture. Don’t take a bunch of distractions because everything, will distract you, but make sure that you commemorate the day, remember the day. Take a picture. Shoot a little video or something. Then, post it to the Daily Audio Bible Facebook page, which is Facebook.com/dailyaudiobible and this beautiful window, a little mosaic of windows actually begins to open up. And throughout the day and the next day we get all these pictures and we can scroll through and just hear from each other, just look into each other’s lives for just that brief moment, have that connection, be able to look through the window and see all over the world. it’s great. So, make plans for that, the 7th of July. It’s a Saturday this year, so that makes it easy for most of us. So, make plans for the Daily Audio Bible long walk the 7th of July.

If you want to partner with the Daily Audio Bible, you can do that at dailyaudiobible.com. There is a link on the homepage. Thank you, 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, if you prefer, the mailing address is PO Box 1996 Spring Hill Tennessee 37174.

And, as always if you have a prayer request or comment, 877-942-4253 is the number to dial.

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

Community Prayer and Praise:

Hi Daily Audio Bible family members. This is __. I just wanted you all to know, well, Alice the Seeker, I just read your call on the community prayer line and I want you to know that I am praying for you, your wife, and your son. Everything that you’re going through with him. You were on your way to a psych eval. And I just pray for answers and I pray for doctors to recognize the need for some help for him. And the woman who called right after that also just struck a chord with me. It sounds like our stories are similar with your ex-husband, who you just,…was your first love…and whatever happened to break that up…I’ve been there with you sister. I recognize that. I am happy to have my husband as you are, as well your husband you currently have, but there is pain and there is sorrow in that still after all these years. It’s been what, 25 years, but he’s my children’s father, so we definitely still are connected. But I just want you to know I will be praying for you. I will be praying for you ex-husband and his cancer. I’m just, again, thankful for this community. Every single prayer that comes across this line I pray for. And, quickly, I would just like to lift up my daughter who is 24 weeks pregnant. They just discovered that the babies and umbilical cord is a two-chamber cord versus a three-chamber, which can be a sign of problems. It can be okay. There’s various things, but I’d just like to lift up my daughter in prayer if you all wouldn’t mind. I just thank you and I love you all. Have a great day. 

Hello Daily Audio Bible family. This is Anne from Charlotte North Carolina. Thank you for those who prayed for me. I am still recovering from the mishap in the hospital. God healed me and saved my life and I wanted to ask prayer for our insurance business that I’ve been doing for 18 years and my husband for 10 with me. It has gone down dramatically in the last two years. And even though the economies improving, our business has not improved yet and we really need it to. So, would you pray that God would help us to find businesses and clients that need our help us with benefits and insurance and God will prosper and grow our business for us to have adequate provision and overflow to be generous givers we long to be. And I want to pray for pastor Gene. Father, thank you for Gene. She has the most beautiful name. You have given Gene a beautiful name and I pray that she will feel the presence of You our heavenly Father, who loves us and cares for us and who is our Jehovah Jira, You will encourage her in her purpose in the work that You call her to do and want her to do and that You will help her to rest in You and just all of us to be reminded Lord, especially Gene, that no matter what we do or don’t do, we are enough because Jesus died for us and we belong to You. And even if we were in a wheelchair and couldn’t move or do anything we are still of infinite worth and value because we’re made in your image and you love us. 

Help me Lord upon this day 
to be more Christlike in every way 
help me choose the right words to say 
while at work and while the play 
help me pray and talk to You 
help me choose the right things to do 
help my whole life become brand-new 
draw me always Lord closer to You 
renew my strength when I feel weak 
cleanse my heart and guide my feet 
purify the things I seek 
keep me humble keep me meek 
guard my hands from things they touch 
I’m seeking your spirit Lord very much 
forgive me Lord when I don’t do right 
help me fight the good Christian fight  
in the day as well as the night 
help me always to seek thy light  
help me never be too proud to say 
I’m trying to live in a Christlike way  
and if I fail and start to sin 
take me back Lord please amen  

blindtony1016@gmail.com. Joe the Protector, I hope you’re still hanging in there, brother…hope you’re still hanging in there…and I hope things are well with your daughter. And, once again, Brian, thank you for this wonderful podcast for God’s Holy Spirit flow. Keep it flowin’ ya’ll. All right. Bye-bye. 

Hello DAB family this is Michael from Mesa. Lots of little things…just lots of just things on my mind. First, just let you all know that I’ve been praying for marriages and just know that a lot of you are going through difficulties there. It’s on my heart regularly. So, I’m praying for you. Pastor Gene, just heard today the call from her husband about your situation. You know, we’ve been listening to your wonderful voice and wonderful prayers for our DAB family for a long time and know that we have you covered there to. So, we pray Lord that you’d be with Pastor Gene in the anguish she’s going through. Open the doors as she needs them. Get those closed where she needs them. She’s looking to You and her faith to guide her. So, Lord we just pray for that. And then personally, if you could pray for me in terms of getting clients for work. I’m coming off of kind of a major thing I need to get done here at work and when that happens I’m going to the clients. So, without clients I really can’t work. So, if you’d all be praying for me for that that be great. All right. Love you all. Listen to you every day. Brian thanks for the opportunity care. You do a fantastic job and everybody behind the scenes. Love you all. Talk to you soon. Michael from Mesa. 

1 Kings 22:1-53, Acts 13:16-41, Psalms 138:1-8, Proverbs 17:17-18 

Today is the 20th day of June. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian. It is a pleasure, it is an honor and it is a joy to be here with you today as we prepare to take the next step forward in our lives and in the Scriptures. And this week we’ve been reading from the Contemporary English Version, working our way through the kings in the Old Testament and the story of the early church in the book of Acts. Today 1 Kings chapter 22. 

Prayer:

Father, we thank You for Your Word. We thank You for all of its facets. We thank You for all of the territory that it takes us into, places that we’ve never seen before. And even when we’re coming back through the same territory again, we see it with different eyes. Your Holy Spirit continues to lead and direct us. You continue to show us the path forward, and we’re thankful for this gift. We invite Your Holy Spirit to plant the words of the Scriptures into our hearts and minds so that they can change our lives from within. Come, Holy Spirit, we pray. In the name of Jesus’ we ask. Amen.  

Announcements:

dailyaudiobible.com is the website, its home base, and, of course it’s where you find out what’s going on around here. 

So, it’s getting to be that time of year. And what time of year is it getting to be you ask? It’s getting to be time for the Daily Audio Bible Long Walk. And if you’re scratching your head and you’re confused cause this is your first year through the bible at Daily Audio Bible, then here’s kind of the short story. The Daily Audio Bible started in 2006. In 2007, so we’re going back a ways now. I mean, it doesn’t seem like it’s that long of a time ago, but technology has rapidly increased in the last decade. But back then, back in the old days, it wasn’t quite as interactive and there was this giant stadium prayer revival type thing that happened here in Nashville in our football stadium and there were like seventy thousand people or whatever. It was just a huge, huge thing. And I went down to that and it was being televised. So, many people inside the Daily Audio Bible community around the world knew about this and were watching. So, we were there but many were watching. It was the first time because Daily Audio Bible was only a year and a half old, first time that we were all able to do something virtually all at the same time. And so we did this and lots of emails came in and there was this one email of a person who had done a prayer walk that day and walked, oh I don’t remember, twenty miles. Like a really, really long time. A really long walk. And a tradition kind of got born. Every July 7 since then, we’ve done the Daily Audio Bible Long Walk 

What’s going on right now is the upcoming Daily Audio Bible Long Walk. I believe this is the 11th annual Daily Audio Bible Long Walk. It takes place on the 7th of July. And so those of you who have been here for several years, you’ve probably been on long walks, you know what this is. But for those of you who are taking the journey for the first time, it’s kind of our own little Daily Audio Bible tradition. Almost our own little internal holiday that just came out of nowhere. Back in 2007, we had a big stadium prayer event that was televised here in Nashville. Because it was televised, many of the Daily Audio Bible community, and this is the early Daily Audio Bible community, it just would be our second year of doing this, were also watching along. So, we had this virtual experience that eventually transformed itself into the Daily Audio Bible Long Walk. An invitation to take a day, circle it on the calendar and say nothing is getting into this day. Nothing is taking me from this day. All the entanglements of my life, I’m disentangling for this day. I’m going for a long walk with somebody I need to talk to, someone who knows me better than I know myself. Someone who loves me deeper than any other love on this earth. I’m going for a long walk with God. I mean, because that’s how we describe our faith journey, right? We’re walking with God. So, this is a day to actually go for a long walk. And it doesn’t matter where you are. It doesn’t matter where you are on planet Earth. You can do this. And as you do this, as you go for a long walk with God, you will not be alone. Your brothers and sisters all over the world will be doing this. So, just take your phone or tablet, not so that you can find additional distractions from your day. This is a day to set aside and say everything that you’ve needed to say, the things that have been building up throughout this year, the things that you need to have a conversation with God about, the things that you need his leading and guidance on. So, don’t be distracted. But you don’t want to forget this day either. If you’ve never done a Daily Audio Bible Long Walk before, if you’ve never done this, well it doesn’t even have to be Daily Audio Bible Long Walk, this is just when we do it together. If you’ve never gone on a long walk with God, you’re in for a treat. So, go somewhere beautiful. Well, the first thing you gotta do is set aside the day, the 7th of July, which happens to be a Saturday this year. And then plan where you’re gonna go. Maybe you’re gonna drive a couple hours to somewhere that is meaningful to you. Or a place that you find just exquisitely beautiful. Or maybe you’re gonna drive five minutes to a park that you find gorgeous. The point is, get outside in nature. Disconnect from the hectic pace of life. Give yourself this one day to just be where you are and look at the detail of God’s creation and allow yourself to become aware of his presence in all things and then say what you need to say. Have a conversation and leave enough space for him to say the things that he’s been trying to say to you for a while, the things that he’s wanted to tell you for a while but there hasn’t been time because it’s been too frantic.  This is an opportunity at the center of the year to say, Okay, I’m giving this day to God, I’m gonna review the first six months of the year, we’re gonna go back over that, we’re gonna talk about all the fun that we had and all the challenges that we faced and now we’re gonna look forward together, because I’m not walking another day without God. I’m walking into the second half of this year fully aware of where he is leading me to go right now, understanding the context for where it is I am right now and walking into it with the confidence of the Holy Spirit in my life. It’s a beautiful thing. So, take a picture, post it to the Daily Audio Bible Facebook page, which is Facebook.com/dailyaudiobible. And this mosaic just begins to materialize as hundreds of little windows are opened into each other’s lives. And just scrolling through after the long walk is almost like a little bit of a world tour. So, we’ve had this tradition and this is the 11th annual Daily Audio Bible Long Walk, so we’ve had this tradition for a while. And it’s never not been deeply meaningful. So, plan on that the 7th of July.  

If you wanna partner with the Daily Audio Bible, you can do that at dailyaudiobible.com.  Thank you profoundly and humbly for your partnership. So, there’s 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 if you prefer, the mailing address is P.O Box 1996, Spring Hill, Tennessee, 37174.

And, as always if you have a prayer request or comment, 877-942-4253 is the number to dial.

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

Community Prayer and Praise:

Hello everyone in the Daily Audio Bible community, this is Keisha and I just want to call and request prayer just for a couple things. My heart…and I’ve walked a Christian life a long time…and I feel very alone in my family. Also, I want to pray for…I’m asking prayer for…I am morbidly obese. I am over 300 pounds and it’s because of depression and living in a family that has a generational curse of depression along with several other things. And I’m so ashamed to ask for prayers in these areas just with my family and my health and my weight and my marriage. But I just…I believe in the power of prayer and I believe in this community and I’m just asking for your help. Brian and Jill, I just thank you so much for your ministry and for your devotion. I love you all and I’m praying with you all and I just…I just need you to call my name. Thank you.

Hello Daily Audio Bible family. This is Carol from Arizona and I had called about a month ago and I sent in a prayer request to all of you about my brother who was recently diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. I want to call in a praise report. And that before my message was played, my brother had some blood work and his liver enzymes came back really off. They weren’t good and the doctor ordered an ultrasound and they were very worried that the cancer was now in his liver and then my message was played on the Daily Audio Bible. And he went and an ultrasound and they did not find any in the liver. And then about a week after that they took his blood work again and the liver enzyme test came back completely normal. And his doctor and the doctor’s nurse just couldn’t believe…they said it’s nothing short of a miracle. They just couldn’t believe it. And my brother knows that I had called a message in. So, he asked that I call in and thank you. Thank everybody who prayed for him because it worked. We know that prayers work. My brother is a strong, strong believer and I thank you all so much for praying for him. Even the nurse said that it’s renewed faith because she knows how strong his faith is. So, thank you family for praying for my brother. We got a miraculous report back and I would just ask that if you could all just keep praying for him. He’s on some experimental chemo medication and we’re going to hope that that’s to shrink some of the…it’s going to shrink that pancreatic tumor so that they can do surgery. I love you guys. I pray for you all time. And again, I thank you so much for your prayers and just ask that you’ll keep praying and I’ll call in these miracle reports. Love you guys. Bye.

Hi. This is Victoria S. Just calling tonight to pray for one of…for some of the DABbers. I want to pray for the lady in Alaska that had the single car accident. She said the mom and one of the kids didn’t make it. I want to pray for that mom and for that family, that these kids will find a place to be. Also, to say hi to Margot in Australia. I wanted to also pray for the lady in Indiana whose husband has Parkinson’s disease that has to have the surgery. I want to pray for him. And I also want to pray for Lynn…who…Lynn regarded to the alcohol. Don’t trust them Lynn. You know, the thing as Christians, we fall down many times. But it’s not the falling down. It’s the getting up. You get up and you get right back on that horse. You can do it honey. You can do it. And God can give you the strength. He can take away the desire. Just continue to trust Him. Gracious Father, we come today. Oh, Father, in the name of Jesus we ask You to touch that mother and that child and the children in those accidents. Lord, the children that made it, Lord, You provide for them Lord in a mighty and special way. Lord, You comfort that family in the mighty name of Jesus. Lord we ask you to touch that gentleman that has the Parkinson’s disease each step of the way. Lord, we ask You to be with him. We ask You to heal him each step of the way. You are a miracle working God. You can do anything but fail and Lord, we want to thank You in advance for healing our brother as he goes through the process. I want to ask You to talk to Lynn Lord. You know that You are a God that can do anything. You are a forgiving God. You are God that can work miracles. Lord, I ask You to touch Lynn. You would have her trust You and let her know that she is not…she can make it. She is more than a conqueror and that You are carrying her through the rough and the difficult times when she is weak. Remember, when you are weak Lynn, He is strong. Continue to…

Good morning Daily Audio Bible family. I wanted to say happy Father’s Day to all of the fathers, how much you matter and how much difference you make in our lives. Thank you for being you and for loving us and for showing us a good example, especially for Brian and all the other dads that are so in one with the Lord. And I just wanted to lift up Michaela in the UK. Your heart is so beautiful, that you’re always…you’re ministering to the Muslim community. And I just pray for Michaela’s refreshment, for refreshment Michaela. In Matthew 11:28-30 it’s written that Jesus said, come to me all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you. Let me teach you because I am humble and gentle at heart and you will find rest for your soul. For my yoke is easy to bear and the burden I give you is light. So, praying, lifting up Michaela as she deals with so many of the stresses that we all face in life, like her…I mean…workloads and conflicts in relationships and financial uncertainties and that as Michaela struggles with these issues, that she is not alone, the Holy Spirit lifts her up and empowers her and refreshes her and that she has fellowship and support of other Christians and that she continues to live and work in a cross-cultural environment adding that additional element of God’s love and reaching people and how will they know if we don’t tell them. So, I am just praying for refreshment and protection over Michaela in the UK. Thank you, brothers and sisters. In Jesus’ mighty and precious name I pray. Amen.