The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Tuesday October 2, 2018 (NIV)

Isaiah 66

Where God may be found

66 The Lord says:
Heaven is my throne,
and earth is my footstool.
So where could you build a house for me,
and where could my resting place be?
My hand made all these things
and brought them into being, says the Lord.
But here is where I will look:
to the humble and contrite in spirit,
who tremble at my word.

The one who slaughters an ox kills a person;
the one who sacrifices a sheep breaks a dog’s neck;
the one who makes a grain offering offers swine’s blood;
the one who burns incense blesses an idol.
All these have chosen their own ways,
and prefer their detestable things.
So I too will choose to punish them,
to bring horrors upon them,
since I called and no one answered.
I spoke and no one heard,
but they did evil in my eyes.
What I didn’t want, they chose.

Listen to the Lord’s word,
you who tremble at his word:
Your family members, those who hate and exclude you because of my name,
have said, “Let the Lord be glorified;
let’s see your joy.”
But they will be ashamed.
The sound of an uproar from the city! A sound from the temple!
The sound of the Lord repaying his enemies what they have earned.

Mother Zion

Before she was in labor, she gave birth.
Before her pangs came upon her, she delivered a boy.
Whoever heard of such a thing?
Whoever saw such things as these?
Can a land come to birth in one day?
Can a nation be born all at once?
Yet as soon as birth pangs came,
Zion bore her children.
Will I open the womb and not bring to birth? says the Lord.
Will I, who create life, close the womb? says your God.
10 Celebrate with Jerusalem; be happy with her,
all you who love her!
Rejoice with her in joy,
all you who mourn over her,
11 so that you may nurse and be satisfied
from her comforting breasts,
that you may drink and be refreshed
from her full breasts.
12 The Lord says:
Look, I’m extending prosperity to her like a river,
and the wealth of nations like an overflowing stream.
You will nurse and be carried on the hip
and bounced upon the knee.

13 As a mother comforts her child,
so I will comfort you;
in Jerusalem you will be comforted.
14 When you see this, your heart will rejoice;
your entire being will flourish like grass.
The Lord’s power will be known among his servants,
but his fury among his enemies.
15 The Lord will come with fire,
God’s chariots like a windstorm,
to repay in hot anger,
to rebuke with fiery flames.
16 With fire and with sword the Lord will judge all humanity;
many will be slain by the Lord.

17 Those who became holy and purify themselves, following their leader into the gardens,[a] who eat pork, detestable animals, and mice, will meet their end together, says the Lord.

Worshippers gathered from the nations

18 Because of their actions and thoughts, I’m coming to gather all nations and cultures. They will come to see my glory. 19 I will put a sign on them, by sending out some of the survivors to the nations, to Tarshish, Libya, and Lydia, and to the archers of Cilicia and Greece—distant coastlands that haven’t heard of my fame or seen my glory. They will declare my glory among the nations. 20 They will bring your family members from all nations as an offering to the Lord—on horses, in chariots, in wagons, on mules, and on camels—to my holy mountain Jerusalem, says the Lord, like Israelites bringing an offering in purified containers to the Lord’s house. 21 I will select some of them as priests and Levites, says the Lord.

22 As the new heavens and the new earth that I’m making will endure before me, says the Lord,
so your descendants and your name will endure.
23 From month to month and from Sabbath to Sabbath,
all humanity will come to worship me, says the Lord.
24 They will go out and see the corpses
of the people who rebelled against me,
where their worm never dies, where their fire is never extinguished.
They will be a horror to everyone.

Footnotes:

  1. Isaiah 66:17 Heb uncertain
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Philippians 3

Values and priorities

So then, my brothers and sisters, be glad in the Lord. It’s no trouble for me to repeat the same things to you because they will help keep you on track. Watch out for the “dogs.” Watch out for people who do evil things. Watch out for those who insist on circumcision, which is really mutilation. We are the circumcision. We are the ones who serve by God’s Spirit and who boast in Christ Jesus. We don’t put our confidence in rituals performed on the body, though I have good reason to have this kind of confidence. If anyone else has reason to put their confidence in physical advantages, I have even more:

I was circumcised on the eighth day.

I am from the people of Israel and the tribe of Benjamin.

I am a Hebrew of the Hebrews.

With respect to observing the Law, I’m a Pharisee.

With respect to devotion to the faith, I harassed the church.

With respect to righteousness under the Law, I’m blameless.

These things were my assets, but I wrote them off as a loss for the sake of Christ. But even beyond that, I consider everything a loss in comparison with the superior value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. I have lost everything for him, but what I lost I think of as sewer trash, so that I might gain Christ and be found in him. In Christ I have a righteousness that is not my own and that does not come from the Law but rather from the faithfulness of Christ. It is the righteousness of God that is based on faith. 10 The righteousness that I have comes from knowing Christ, the power of his resurrection, and the participation in his sufferings. It includes being conformed to his death 11 so that I may perhaps reach the goal of the resurrection of the dead.

12 It’s not that I have already reached this goal or have already been perfected, but I pursue it, so that I may grab hold of it because Christ grabbed hold of me for just this purpose. 13 Brothers and sisters, I myself don’t think I’ve reached it, but I do this one thing: I forget about the things behind me and reach out for the things ahead of me. 14 The goal I pursue is the prize of God’s upward call in Christ Jesus. 15 So all of us who are spiritually mature should think this way, and if anyone thinks differently, God will reveal it to him or her. 16 Only let’s live in a way that is consistent with whatever level we have reached.

Imitate Paul

17 Brothers and sisters, become imitators of me and watch those who live this way—you can use us as models. 18 As I have told you many times and now say with deep sadness, many people live as enemies of the cross. 19 Their lives end with destruction. Their god is their stomach, and they take pride in their disgrace because their thoughts focus on earthly things. 20 Our citizenship is in heaven. We look forward to a savior that comes from there—the Lord Jesus Christ. 21 He will transform our humble bodies so that they are like his glorious body, by the power that also makes him able to subject all things to himself.

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Psalm 74

Psalm 74

A maskil[a] of Asaph.

74 God, why have you abandoned us forever?
Why does your anger smolder
at the sheep of your own pasture?
Remember your congregation
that you took as your own long ago,
that you redeemed to be the tribe of your own possession—
remember Mount Zion, where you dwell.
March to the unending ruins,
to all that the enemy destroyed in the sanctuary.

Your enemies roared in your own meeting place;
they set up their own signs there!
It looked like axes raised
against a thicket of trees.[b]
And then all its carvings
they hacked down with hatchet and pick.
They set fire to your sanctuary, burned it to the ground;
they defiled the dwelling place of your name.
They said in their hearts, We’ll kill all of them together!
They burned all of God’s meeting places in the land.
We don’t see our own signs anymore.
No prophet is left.
And none of us know how long it will last.

10 How long, God, will foes insult you?
Are enemies going to abuse your name forever?
11 Why do you pull your hand back?
Why do you hold your strong hand close to your chest?

12 Yet God has been my king from ancient days—
God, who makes salvation happen in the heart of the earth!
13 You split the sea with your power.
You shattered the heads of the sea monsters on the water.
14 You crushed Leviathan’s heads.
You gave it to the desert dwellers for food!
15 You split open springs and streams;
you made strong-flowing rivers dry right up.
16 The day belongs to you! The night too!
You established both the moon and the sun.
17 You set all the boundaries of the earth in place.
Summer and winter? You made them!

18 So remember this, Lord:
how enemies have insulted you,
how unbelieving fools have abused your name.
19 Don’t deliver the life of your dove to wild animals!
Don’t forget the lives of your afflicted people forever!
20 Consider the covenant!
Because the land’s dark places are full of violence.
21 Don’t let the oppressed live in shame.
No, let the poor and needy praise your name!

22 God, rise up! Make your case!
Remember how unbelieving fools insult you all day long.
23 Don’t forget the voices of your enemies,
the racket of your adversaries that never quits.

Footnotes:

  1. Psalm 74:1 Perhaps instruction; the root is used in Ps 32:8.
  2. Psalm 74:5 Heb uncertain
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Proverbs 24:15-16

15 Wicked one, don’t wait secretly at the home of the righteous.
Don’t destroy their dwelling.
16 The righteous may fall seven times but still get up,
but the wicked will stumble into trouble.

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10/01/2018 DAB Transcript

Isaiah 62:6-65:25, Philippians 2:19-3:4, Psalms 73:1-28, Proverbs 24:13-14

Community Prayer and Praise:

All is well. Thank You Father for Your mercy. Thank You Father for this child of God __ the body of Christ. We pray to You through Your Son, our Savior, Jesus Christ for Your guidance, strength, justice, heavy favor, and wisdom, for friends, this moment, today. Thank You Father for Your faith and the eyes of faith You have given us to focus on that which we do not see in the natural yet can see clearly believing in and through the promises You have already spoken in the living word of God, living this day You made inside our hearts. Father, You said Your name is, I am that I am. Father, You said we can do all things through Christ. Father, You said all things work together for good and those who love You and are called according to Your purpose. Father, thank You that You already answered this prayer for Freddy. Thank You Father that I can type this message to Your child of God here in faith because I just know Father in Your perfect will all is well. In Jesus’ name. Amen.

Hi everybody this is Lisa the Encourager. I just wanted to call in tonight to pray for Elizabeth and I also wanted to welcome her and her. And she also who wanted us to pray for her husband, Jason. But I just want to welcome you, Elizabeth, to the Daily Audio Bible and release some virtual balloons in celebration of your two weeks of being with us. I’m so happy that you have joined such a wonderful group. And we just want to know I just…I admire you for calling in and having the courage to pray for your husband and…or ask us to pray for your husband. And I definitely will be playing for Jason. And also, that he’ll be able to, like you said, just bring down the walls of the things are that are affecting his life and having an impact on his temper. And I just pray that the Lord will help him have a breakthrough there. And I think you are doing such a wonderful lovely thing for your husband just by praying for him. Even the small prayer that you prayed over him when you called in your request, I thought it was really beautiful. And I will pray for your husband. And I think if you continue to have a faith and pray for him that will…your righteousness and faith will help them in that area. Also wanted to pray most especially from Melody and her son, Melody in Canada and her son is living on the streets right now because of an addiction that has pulled him back out into the world of this horrible addiction. And Melody I just want you to know I love you and I’m sorry for what you’re going through with your son and I’m really gonna be praying for him. And I pray that you will have…you will be able to just give him over to God and hopefully that will help you with the fears and the unsettledness that you have when he’s away from you. And the unknown…

Hey Daily Audio Bible. My name’s Levi. I’m from Dallas Texas. I’m calling because I’ve been hearing a lot of voicemails of mothers and they’re praying for the sons to come home. And I felt like, I just wanted to call and encourage. I’m 24 years old and I ran away from home and from God for, you know, between three to five years. And my parents were really by covering. My mom was constantly praying for me. I’m sure I kept her up a lot at night time. But she was constantly praying and she never gave up and she was strong and her faith is the covering that protected me because I refused to have the Lord’s covering. And because of her prayers I really believe she saved my life. So, I just wanted to do a quick encouragement and say, just do not give up on your sons. Keep praying. The Lord is fighting with you and for you. He will never abandon you and He is there for your son. And we’re calling all of the sons, all the prodigal sons. My mom will probably even hear this one day. I love you guys and thank you. Bye.

Hi family, this is Laura calling from San Diego. I was listening to the prayer from Saturday the 28th…29th and I heard Miguel from Santa Rosa praying as he bandaged his foot over sexual sin. And I just want to pray along with him and with our community. I’m so thankful that we have this place where we can bring everything to bear in front of God. And, so, let’s play together. Holy Spirit, we come before You and we commit the deepest places of our hearts and our desires into Your hands. I pray for my brothers and sisters Lord. This is an area we don’t talk about much in the church and in our day it’s so rampant that people are doing things. I think it probably always has been Lord. But we bring these deepest places of our hearts before You and we confess Lord that our desire has been toward wanting to be in relationship and in pleasure and these are things that You give us, but Lord we ask that You would put our hearts and our minds set on You, that we know that You are the source of fulfillment for our lives and these things are not, and we believe the truth that we don’t believe the lie. And we trust You and when our mind starts to think that those other things are desirable, I pray Lord that You would help us take captive those dots and put them down and put our minds on You and put our minds on the fulfillment that You bring. And I know Lord from practice and from experience Lord that Your Holy Spirit ministers in those moments and that Lord You bring us back into…

The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Monday October 1, 2018 (NIV)

Isaiah 62:6-65:25

Upon your walls, Jerusalem,
I have appointed sentinels.
Continually, all day and all night,
they won’t keep silent.
You who call on the Lord, don’t rest,
and don’t allow God to rest
until he establishes Jerusalem,
and makes it the praise of the earth.
The Lord has promised
with raised hand and strong arm:
I will never again give your grain
as food for your enemies.
Foreigners won’t drink your wine
for which you labored.
Those who harvest will eat it
and will praise the Lord;
those who gather will drink it
in my holy courtyards.

10 Pass through, pass through the gates;
prepare the way for the people!
Build, build the road;
clear away the stones!
Raise up a signal for the peoples.
11 This is what the Lord announced
to the earth’s distant regions:
Say to Daughter Zion, “Look! Your deliverer arrives,
bringing reward and payment!”
12 They will be called The Holy People,
Redeemed By the Lord.
And you will be called Sought After—
A City That Is Not Abandoned.

Vengeance against the nations

63 Who is this coming from Edom,
from Bozrah in bright red garments,
this splendidly dressed one, striding[a] with great power?
It is I, proclaiming righteousness, powerful to save!
Why is your clothing red,
and your garments like those of one who stomps on grapes?
I have pressed out in the vat by myself—from the peoples, no one was with me.
I stomped on them in my anger,
trampled them in my wrath.
Their blood splashed on my garments,
and stained all my clothing,
because I intended a day of vengeance;
the year of my deliverance had arrived.
I looked and found no helper;
I was astonished to find no supporter.
But my arm brought victory for me;
my wrath helped me.
I trampled down nations in my anger
and made them drunk on my wrath;
I spilled their blood on the ground.

Prayer of yearning

I will recount the Lord’s faithful acts;
I will sing the Lord’s praises,
because of all the Lord did for us,
for God’s great favor toward the house of Israel.
God treated them compassionately
and with deep affection.
God said, “Truly, they are my people,
children who won’t do what is wrong.”
God became their savior.
During all their distress, God also was distressed,
so a messenger who served him saved them.
In love and mercy God redeemed them,
lifting and carrying them throughout earlier times.
10 But they rebelled,
and made God’s holy spirit terribly sad,
so that he turned into their enemy—
he fought against them!

11 Then they remembered earlier times,
when he rescued his people.[b]
Where was the one who drew them up from the sea,
the shepherd[c] of the flock?
Where was the one who put within them his holy spirit;
12 the one who guided Moses’ strong hand
with his glorious arm;
who split the water for them
to create an enduring reputation for himself,
13 and who guided them through the depths?
Like a horse in the desert, they didn’t stumble.
14 Like cattle descending to the valley,
the Lord’s spirit brought them to rest.
In this way you led your people
and made for yourself a glorious reputation.

15 Look down from heaven and see,
from your holy and glorious perch.
Where are your energy and your might,
your concern and your pity?
Don’t hold back![d]
16 You are surely our father,
even though Abraham doesn’t know us,
and Israel doesn’t recognize us.
You, Lord, are our father;
your reputation since long ago is that of our redeemer.
17 Why do you lead us astray, Lord,
from your ways?
Why do you harden our heart
so we don’t fear you?
Return for the sake of your servants
the tribes that are your heritage!
18 Why did the wicked bring down your holy place?[e]
Why did our enemies trample your sanctuary?
19 For too long we have been like those you don’t rule,
like those not known by your name.

64 [f] If only you would tear open the heavens and come down!
Mountains would quake before you
like fire igniting brushwood or making water boil.
[g] If you would make your name known to your enemies,
the nations would tremble in your presence.

When you accomplished wonders beyond all our expectations;
when you came down, mountains quaked before you.
From ancient times,
no one has heard,
no ear has perceived,
no eye has seen any god but you
who acts on behalf of those who wait for him![h]
You look after those who gladly do right;
they will praise you for your ways.[i]
But you were angry when we sinned;
you hid yourself when we did wrong.[j]
We have all become like the unclean;
all our righteous deeds are like a menstrual rag.
All of us wither like a leaf;
our sins, like the wind, carry us away.
No one calls on your name;
no one bothers to hold on to you,
for you have hidden yourself from us,
and have handed us over[k] to our sin.

But now, Lord, you are our father.
We are the clay, and you are our potter.
All of us are the work of your hand.
Don’t rage so fiercely, Lord;
don’t hold our sins against us forever,
but gaze now on your people, all of us:
10 Your holy cities have become a wilderness;
Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a wasteland.
11 Our holy, glorious house,
where our ancestors praised you,
has gone up in flames;
all that we treasured has become a ruin.
12 After all this, will you hold back, Lord?
Will you keep silent and torment us so terribly?

Judgment for idolators

65 I was ready to respond to those who didn’t ask.
I was ready to be found by those who didn’t look for me.
I said, “I’m here! I’m here!” to a nation
that didn’t call on my name.
I extended my hands all day
to a rebellious people
walking in a way that isn’t good,
following their own plans;
people who provoke me to my face continually,
sacrificing in gardens and burning incense on bricks,
who sit in tombs
and spend the night among rocks;[l]
who eat swine’s flesh
with broth of unclean meat in their bowls;
who say, “Keep to yourself!
Keep away from me! I’m too holy for you.”
These people ignite my anger
like a fire that burns all day.
Look, this stands written before me.
I won’t be silent, but I will repay;
I will repay in full measure
your sins and the sins of your ancestors as well,
says the Lord.
Since they burned incense on the mountains,
and mocked me in the hills,
I will count out to them
full payment for their actions.

The Lord proclaims:
As new wine is found in the grape cluster,
and someone says, “Don’t destroy it, for there is a blessing in it,”
so I will do for the sake of my servants
and not destroy everything:
I will bring out offspring from Jacob,
and from Judah, heirs to my mountains.
My chosen ones will take possession;
my servants will dwell there.
10 Sharon will become a pasture for sheep,
and the Achor Valley a resting place for cattle,
for my people who seek me.
11 But you who abandon the Lord,
who forget my holy mountain,
who set a table for a god of good fortune,
and fill cups of mixed wine for a god of fate:
12 I will offer you to the sword.
You will all bow down for slaughter,
because I called and you didn’t answer;
I spoke and you wouldn’t hear.
You did what I considered evil,
and chose what I didn’t want.
13 Therefore, the Lord God says:
Look, my servants will eat, but you will hunger.
My servants will drink, but you will thirst.
My servants will rejoice, but you will be ashamed.
14 My servants will sing with contented hearts,
but you will cry out from heartache;
with broken spirits you will wail.
15 You will leave your name behind for my chosen ones to curse:
“May the Lord God kill you!
May he call his servants by a different name!”
16 Those who pronounce a blessing in the land
will do so by the God called Amen;
those who make a solemn pledge in the land will do so by the God called Amen.[m]
Past troubles will be forgotten
and hidden from my sight.

New creation and new Jerusalem

17 Look! I’m creating a new heaven and a new earth:
past events won’t be remembered;
they won’t come to mind.
18 Be glad and rejoice forever
in what I’m creating,
because I’m creating Jerusalem as a joy
and her people as a source of gladness.
19 I will rejoice in Jerusalem and be glad about my people.
No one will ever hear the sound of weeping or crying in it again.
20 No more will babies live only a few days,
or the old fail to live out their days.
The one who dies at a hundred will be like a young person,
and the one falling short of a hundred will seem cursed.
21 They will build houses and live in them;
they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
22 They won’t build for others to live in,
nor plant for others to eat.
Like the days of a tree will be the days of my people;
my chosen will make full use of their handiwork.
23 They won’t labor in vain,
nor bear children to a world of horrors,
because they will be people blessed by the Lord,
they along with their descendants.
24 Before they call, I will answer;
while they are still speaking, I will hear.
25 Wolf and lamb will graze together,
and the lion will eat straw like the ox,
but the snake—its food will be dust.
They won’t hurt or destroy at any place on my holy mountain,
says the Lord.

Footnotes:

  1. Isaiah 63:1 Or stooping
  2. Isaiah 63:11 Or Moses, his people
  3. Isaiah 63:11 LXX, Tg; MT shepherds
  4. Isaiah 63:15 Heb uncertain
  5. Isaiah 63:18 Cf LXX, Vulg; Heb uncertain
  6. Isaiah 64:1 63:19b in Heb
  7. Isaiah 64:2 64:1 in Heb
  8. Isaiah 64:4 Heb uncertain
  9. Isaiah 64:5 Heb uncertain
  10. Isaiah 64:5 Heb uncertain
  11. Isaiah 64:7 LXX, cf Syr, Tg, Vulg; MT melted
  12. Isaiah 65:4 Or in guarded places
  13. Isaiah 65:16 Or so be it
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Philippians 2:19-30

Sending Timothy and Epaphroditus

19 I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to see you soon so that I may be encouraged by hearing about you. 20 I have no one like him. He is a person who genuinely cares about your well-being. 21 All the others put their own business ahead of Jesus Christ’s business. 22 You know his character, how he labors with me for the gospel like a son works with his father. 23 So he is the one that I hope to send as soon as I find out how things turn out here for me. 24 I trust in the Lord that I also will visit you soon.

25 I think it is also necessary to send Epaphroditus to you. He is my brother, coworker, and fellow soldier; and he is your representative who serves my needs. 26 He misses you all, and he was upset because you heard he was sick. 27 In fact, he was so sick that he nearly died. But God had mercy on him—and not just on him but also on me, because his death would have caused me great sorrow. 28 Therefore, I am sending him immediately so that when you see him again you can be glad and I won’t worry. 29 So welcome him in the Lord with great joy and show great respect for people like him. 30 He risked his life and almost died for the work of Christ, and he did this to make up for the help you couldn’t give me.

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Psalm 73

BOOK III

(Psalms 73–89)

Psalm 73

A psalm of Asaph.

73 Truly God is good to Israel,
to those who are have a pure heart.
But me? My feet had almost stumbled;
my steps had nearly slipped
because I envied the arrogant;
I observed how the wicked are well off:
They suffer no pain;
their bodies are fit and strong.
They are never in trouble;
they aren’t weighed down like other people.
That’s why they wear arrogance like a necklace,
why violence covers them like clothes.
Their eyes bulge out from eating so well;
their hearts overflow with delusions.
They scoff and talk so cruel;
from their privileged positions
they plan oppression.
Their mouths dare to speak against heaven!
Their tongues roam the earth!
10 That’s why people keep going back to them,
keep approving what they say.[a]
11 And what they say is this: “How could God possibly know!
Does the Most High know anything at all!”
12 Look at these wicked ones,
always relaxed, piling up the wealth!

13 Meanwhile, I’ve kept my heart pure for no good reason;
I’ve washed my hands to stay innocent for nothing.
14 I’m weighed down all day long.
I’m punished every morning.
15 If I said, “I will talk about all this,”
I would have been unfaithful to your children.
16 But when I tried to understand these things,
it just seemed like hard work
17 until I entered God’s sanctuary
and understood what would happen to the wicked.
18 You will definitely put them on a slippery path;
you will make them fall into ruin!
19 How quickly they are devastated,
utterly destroyed by terrors!
20 As quickly as a dream departs from someone waking up, my Lord,
when you are stirred up, you make them disappear.[b]

21 When my heart was bitter,
when I was all cut up inside,
22 I was stupid and ignorant.
I acted like nothing but an animal toward you.
23 But I was still always with you!
You held my strong hand!
24 You have guided me with your advice;
later you will receive me with glory.
25 Do I have anyone else in heaven?
There’s nothing on earth I desire except you.
26 My body and my heart fail,
but God is my heart’s rock and my share forever.
27 Look! Those far from you die;
you annihilate all those who are unfaithful to you.
28 But me? It’s good for me to be near God.
I have taken my refuge in you, my Lord God,
so I can talk all about your works!

Footnotes:

  1. Psalm 73:10 Heb uncertain
  2. Psalm 73:20 Heb uncertain
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Proverbs 24:13-14

13 My child, eat honey, for it is good.
The honeycomb is sweet in your mouth.
14 Know that wisdom is like that for your whole being.
If you find it, there is a future.
Your hope won’t be cut off.

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09/30/2018 DAB Transcript

Isaiah 60:1-62:5, Philippians 1:27-2:18, Psalms 72:1-20, Proverbs 24:1-20

Today is the 30th day of September. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian. It’s great to be here with you at the beginning of a shiny, sparkly, brand-new week and the closing of another month. So, this marks the end of nine months consecutively, seven days a week that we have been moving our way through the Bible and that leaves us one quarter to go, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves. Let’s be right here and enjoy the final moments that we have together in this month. It’s a brand-new week so we will read from a new translation, we’ll read from the Common English Bible. And we have finally reached the 60th chapter of Isaiah. So, we will be finishing up Isaiah soon, there’s 66 chapters. And today we’ll read Isaiah 60 verse 1 through 62 verse 5.

Prayer:

Father, we thank You for Your word. We thank You for this brand-new week to live into and walk into with You. And we invite Your Holy Spirit and ask that You lead us. And Father, we ask that we discipline ourselves enough to be aware and vigilant and listening for Your leadership and guidance. And Father, even as we begin this new week and this ninth month of the year, we look into the final quarter and it’s the busiest time of year. And, so, we invite Your Holy Spirit to lead and guide us through all that is before us as we prepare to move into the autumn here in the northern hemisphere and as our brothers and sisters prepare to move into springtime in the southern hemisphere. I thank You for Your goodness and Your faithfulness to us, Your merciful kindness toward us. We love You, we worship You, we declare Your faithfulness as we look back over the months of this year and we know that You will be faithful as we move forward. So, come Holy Spirit we pray. In Jesus’ name we ask. Amen.

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Community Prayer and Praise:

Hi Daily Audio Bible family. This is His Beloved from California, first-time caller. I’ve been listening for 2 ½ years. I went to their women’s retreat in Georgia this year and was able to meet incredible women and Brian and Jill and their family and it was so amazing and I feel so connected to all and I’m just blessed to have you in my daily life. I am calling, finally, because I need prayer. I just got a bad…not bad…I can’t call that bad…I just got a report from a test that I had done for my yearly exam and instead of getting nervous I decided to pull over and call prayer and __ my family on __ with prayer. I would just like everyone to pray for me, that it’s nothing and my test results will come back in a week and everything will be fine. I hope that finds everyone well and I love you all and there’s so many people that I just…I enjoy listening to every morning. You’re so special. And God bless you all. Thank you Brian and Jill for this incredible community and your family. Amen…Amen brothers and sisters. Bye.

Hi Daily Audio Bible family. This is Rihanna calling and I’m really just reaching out for some prayers. I’ve been struggling with an eating disorder for probably around 10 years, but my anorexia reached the worst it’s ever reached and caused to lose some cognitive functioning and electrolyte imbalance. So, I’m just really reaching out for prayers during my recovery as I’ve been in treatment for the last month and ½ and I’m just continuing to ask for God’s strength and to feel back into fullness and __. Thank you for your love. Bye.

Hello, this is Zach from North Carolina and I was calling today because my wife, Kelly, is going in for in vitro fertilization, which is IVF. We’re having a frozen embryo transfer today and we would just really love it and cherish your prayers, that she’s able to get pregnant. It will be a couple weeks from now when were able to find out, but we just pray for those suffering from infertility around the world. And I really ask you to lift up my wife Kelly in your prayers, that this procedure works and that everything goes well and that we have a healthy baby in 10 months. Thank you for everything. Love listening to Daily Audio Bible and love all your prayers.

This is Becky in Louisiana. I’m calling with an urgent prayer request for my God child. Her name is Angelique and she is threatening her husband. She’s threatening to burn down their home in West Virginia and she is the granddaughter of my husband’s sister. And my husband’s sister is passed away now but she was mentally ill her whole life. And then this girl’s father committed suicide. But before he did that, he killed his wife and killed another man and then killed himself. So, she’s threatening her husband and he’s in West Virginia. He’s calling me for help and he’s going to the authorities to see if he can get some kind of restraining order on her. I think she has what they call paranoid personality disorder. And she’s just traveling around the country and I’m afraid she’s a danger to other people out there on the highway. She’s living in her car. And I just would really beg for y’all to please pray with us. I called about this and put it on the Prayer Wall about a year ago and nothing happened. And I just got really hurt and disappointed about the whole thing, but I know that God hears our prayers and I know that He can do anything. And, so please, once again I’m asking you to pray for Angelique, my godchild. This is Becky in Louisiana and I’ll be…I’m expecting a miracle in Angelique’s life. In Jesus’ name. Thank you so much. Bye-bye.