Month: March 2019

Numbers 8:1-9:23, Mark 13:14-37, Psalms 50:1-23, Proverbs 10:29-30

Today is the 7^th day of March. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian and it is a joy and an honor to be here with you today and we’re here to take the next step forward. For me, the next step forward out of jet lag, but for all of us the next step forward in the Scriptures. So, this week we’ve been reading from the New Living Translation, which is what we’ll continue to do through the remainder of the week. And, of course, we’re picking up where we left off yesterday. Numbers chapter 8 and 9 today.

Commentary:

Okay. So, the book of Proverbs told us today that “the way of the Lord is a stronghold to those with integrity but the way of the Lord destroys the wicked.” So, the way of the Lord is the way of the Lord and depending on how you approach the way of the Lord determines how the way of the Lord will have an impact on you, right? So, the way of the Lord is a stronghold if we have integrity, but the way of the Lord will be destroying us before if we’re wicked. I mean this is like…typically this is fine and good with us, we like the encouragement because the first part, God’s gonna be our stronghold and, of course, that’s because we’re the upright, we have integrity. We consider ourselves on the positive side of the equation, but are we? Because God’s purpose in the world is to heal and restore it bringing humanity back into relationship with Himself and part of that restoration is the abolition of wickedness, right, the annihilation of evil and deception in every form because it can’t coexist with the righteousness of God and it goes against all we were ever created to be. Wickedness is counter to redemption. The Proverb tells us the Godly will never be disturbed but the wicked will be removed from the land. And if words like that, like, immediately take us to our political views or for that matter make us cast judgment on somebody, like there, they’re getting what they deserve just like the Bible says, then we have to look a little deeper into our own hearts because honestly, we’re wandering into pretty wicked territory. When we put ourselves in the position of a cosmic judge then we are putting ourselves in the position of God. And when we do this apart from God, then we’re denying the way of the Lord and this will destroy us in the end, according to the Proverb. So, if we want to live a life knowing that God is our stronghold and that we will not be disturbed then we have to take responsibility for our personal integrity and not everybody else’s. This is what the voice of wisdom has to speak to us today.

Prayer:

Holy Spirit, plant the words of wisdom in our lives because we are determined to become wise, people of wisdom, we are determined to follow You and be Your hands and feet in this world. And, so, Your word has come to us, the voice of wisdom has spoken to us, and we are once again reminded to get our eyes off everyone else’s life and onto our own. Come Holy Spirit we pray in Jesus’ name. Amen.

Announcements:

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And feeling a little stronger today. Probably by the time we get through the weekend I’ll be back to right side right. Jetlag is just…especially coming back…it takes me about a week to get back to a hundred percent. So, that’s what’s going on around here. Just to trying to get mt feet back on the ground and get back to moving forward. And I’m sure those of you who were on the trip with us and took the pilgrimage are, you know, in different stages of the same boat.

I remind all of us that registration is open for the 2020 pilgrimage that we’re planning to take to the land of the Bible. And these pilgrimages, they fill up, so you may want…just kind of look into it. You can find out all the details at dailyaudiobible.com in the Initiatives section. Just look for Israel 2020 and all of your questions can be answered. Hope to see you. Its funny to be talking about that when I’m just getting back and jetlagged from this one. But registration is open and we’d love to see you when we go next on the next pilgrimage.

Registration is also open for the More Gathering for woman and that will be taking place April 11^th through the 14^th, which is just around the corner. We’ll turn the corner and springtime will come to the northern hemisphere and that kinda begins from the south. And, so, will be in the South on this mountain when new life is beginning to show. It’s such a perfect time for this. So, I hope to see you there. We’re looking forward to a grand celebration of a season that we spent having the More Gathering in the mountains of North Georgia. That season is coming to a close. And, so, we are truly celebrating what God will do at this More Gathering in the mountains of North Georgia. So, once again, you can check it all out at moregathering.com or just go to dailyaudiobible.com and you’ll find the More Gathering in the Initiatives section.

If you want to partner with the Daily Audio Bible, you can do that at dailyaudiobible.com. There is a link and it has a home on the homepage and I am profoundly humbled and grateful that what we’ve done we’ve done together and that we continue to take steps forward by keeping the global campfire burning, 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 you here tomorrow.

Community Prayer and Praise:

Hi, this is Kenisha out of Atlanta and I was calling in regards to Suzy out of Colorado. I heard your story or your prayer request where praying…asking for prayer for your kid. I was just so moved about what I heard…the job that you’re doing or the service that you’re giving to those kids, providing, being a mom and dad to so many kids. God is truly blessing you with that and I heard your prayer request of how you can get overwhelmed…not overwhelmed but emotionally drained or financially. So, I’m just calling to let you know that I am praying for you and lifting you up in prayer to continue to give you and your husband and your family strength to continue to do God’s work. I think it’s amazing what you’re doing. God bless you and your family. And also, I’m calling for prayer for Art. I heard your prayer request and I just wanted you to know that I am praying for you too. I understand what it’s like to have to endure people’s pain. So, I’m just praying for healing throughout your body and that they can find the answers that you need so you can be healed. Thank you. Bye.

Hi family, this is Christy from Kentucky, traveling, so, and my heart is just broken today for the devastation in Alabama and in Georgia and all the lives that have been lost and I just…family I just can’t tell you of…we were supposed to be right in the middle of that yesterday. We left Florida and we were late. We came to Gainesville and when we got to Gainesville we had a tire on the car that was separated and we didn’t know it. And, so, when we got here, we have friends here and we stopped to visit them and my husband found it and it was Sunday and they couldn’t find tires for it and so we were gonna have to spend the night and we got to elderly dogs at home and the sitters were like put out with us because it’s so late, but God in His mercy…and I’m so grateful to Him because we would’ve been right in the middle of that storm had this not happened and I just thank God for His faithfulness in taking care of us and keeping us safe. I just wanted to call in today because I’m just…my heart is just broken for these people and I’m so grateful that we were not in that storm. I love you guys so much. Please pray for continued safety. The tire store’s not been very gracious but I’m praying that they did a good job on our car so we can get home. I love you guys so very much, and I pray that each of you today are going to have a blessed and lovely day and that you safe.

Hi DABbers, this is Kara calling from Denver, mile high city and I just…I would like prayers today for me. I want to learn how to be a warrior, a spiritual warrior, a warrior for Christ and for God. I’ve always been just really kind of a jellyfish and real pacifist I guess and I’ve lost really, really big things in my life because I’ve been…I’ve been so…kind of in the hands of the enemy and so entrenched, you know, in the kingdom of darkness that I just didn’t know how to fight and specifically with my children. I have…I should, you know, have a house of children and I don’t…it’s by myself and, of course, decisions that I made lead me to be in this situation. But I didn’t fight…I didn’t fight for my kids and they were…one was taken from me and I didn’t fight to get her back and she is with an adopted family and she’s…her name is McKenna and she’s with a good Christian family I think. So, that’s really comforting but she’s not with me and it just does not seem right and my heart is broken and my son who is in open adoption and I decided to do that because I didn’t feel…I didn’t have the confidence in myself that I could take care of my own children and I couldn’t be with the father, you know, of these two children. And I just didn’t know how to fight, and I really want to…I want to learn how to fight…

Hello fellow DABbers, this is Mike from New Jersey, I’m a first-time caller, I’ve been listening for about four years though and I had to call today. Jill, when you, I guess, providentially used the wrong readings today that was a blessing for me, especially when you said in your exposition gospel that anything can be redeemed. I mean, that was exactly what I needed to hear today. I am struggling in my marriage and need prayer for myself and my wife. She says we need to be apart, we’ve been apart for a year now and it just so happens that today is our 30^th anniversary, being March 4^th. So, appreciate your prayers guys and really for anyone who’s struggling in their marriage. You know God is using the where I’m right now. He’s treating me with kid gloves really and maybe I need to be moved along a little bit as well. So, thank you so much guys. Thank you, Brian and Jill for your ministry and praise God is using you guys.

Numbers 6:1-7:89, Mark 12:38-13:13, Psalms 49:1-20, Proverbs 10:27-28

Today is the 6^th day of March. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian. It is so good to be back together with you from the rolling Hills of Tennessee. And I certainly thank my beautiful and lovely and gracious wife Jill for stepping in and driving the ship for a couple of days while I do some recovery fromm returning from Israel. So, like, you know, you’re there and you are on adrenaline quite a bit of the time and you kind of go in tired because your jetlagged. Even if you get a little rest your still on adrenaline and drinking from a fire hose the whole time. And, so, you’re getting enough sleep but you’re still tired, you’re not realizing how tired you are until you come back and then you’re tired and jetlagged. And, so, for me it’s kind of like a couple of days of truly like, what is my purpose in life again, where am I again because it’s like my body is in one place, my heart has still has not arrived. And, so, thanks to Jill for coming in for a couple of days and I’m on my way back to recovery. So, we’re reading from the New Living Translation this week and we started reading from this translation from Jerusalem and although that feels like a long time ago to me, that was only a few days ago. And, so, we’ll pick up with the story. Today, Numbers chapter 6 and 7.

Prayer:

Father, we thank You for Your word. We thank You for all that You have brought us through all that Your word has given us guidance on in our lives. We thank You for the journey that we’ve just completed and as all of us who were on that pilgrimage are acclimating back to home, we can see that the Bible isn’t the same thing as it used to be because now we see things in vivid color and we thank You for that opportunity and we thank You for the opportunity to do everything that we can as a community to connect us to the geography of the land so that we are rooted where these things happened, but to also begin to understand the context of why they happened when they happened so that these things can begin to inform our lives properly. Thank You, God for Your word. Thank You, Lord for Your Holy Spirit’s guidance. Come Holy Spirit and plant the word of God that we read today in our hearts and lives and may the fruit of Your Spirit be bountiful, a bountiful rich harvest that is shared with the world for Your sake. Come Holy Spirit we pray in Jesus’ name. Amen.

Announcements:

Okay. So today, jetlagged as I might be and confused about where I am, I do know that today is Ash Wednesday. And, so, for many of you, you know that and, I mean, you’ll be attending some sort of Ash Wednesday service today and the ashes of palms will be put on your forehead in the shape of a cross and you’ll walk around with a black mark on your forehead all day understanding exactly what this represents and for others of you, you’re like, I’ve heard of Ash Wednesday, I kinda knew about the black smudge, I don’t really know exactly what Lent or Ash Wednesday’s about so tell me more. So, I’m glad you asked. Ash Wednesday and the beginning of the season of Lent will lead us all away to Good Friday, which will of course lead us to Easter Sunday. So, the season of Lent is a season, much like the season of Advent that leads up to Christmas, the season of Lent leads us into Easter and it’s a 40 day and it’s traditionally associated with fasting. So, you may meet people who are like, I’ve given up chocolate for Lent, or I’m not watching TV for Lent or whatever and that’s kind of part of the tradition, but it really goes much, much deeper than that. It’s not about really fasting chocolate, although fasting chocolate or fasting television or whatever reminds you that something that is part of your normal life is missing. And, so, you’re continually reminded to consider what Lent means. Lent is the time we sit with the fact that sin kills, sin only leads to destruction, sin only brings about loss. And, so, Lent is actually a season of lamenting what it cost to bring us our salvation and the elimination of sins hold in our lives. And yet at the same time even though we know our sins are forgiven we also know that we willingly turn back into sin and that only goes one place. And the cross is the reminder of where that goes. Sin estranges us from God and destroys us. So, during the season of Lent it’s not only about like fasting chocolate, maybe that’s what the Lord will lead you to do, but the posture of heart is to be, “Father, I surrender everything. Whatever is out of alignment in my life, I ask that during this season while I’m focusing on this, you rearrange my life and the things that are in my life that belong in my life, put them where they belong in my life and the things that do not belong in my life take them from my life. Everything is on display before you and nothing is off limits to you as I sit with the cost, the price, of sin. And, so, often that does include some sort of fasting, depriving ourselves, allowing ourselves to sit with a loss of some sort, a constant reminder of where our heart is focused, leading us, right, into holy week, and Good Friday where we commemorate the crucifixion of Jesus, which is territory that we’re about to head into the book of Mark. And then often, you know, there are Good Friday services and maybe many of you go to Good Friday services just like you go to Christmas Eve services. And a lot of times traditionally in a Good Friday service there’s a candle and at the end of that service the candle is blown out and you realize Jesus died, the flame of life went out, He grew cold, He was laid in a tomb, He began to stiffen, He began to turn blue…like He was dead. Our Savior, our closest ally was dead in a tomb, right? And then that leads us into understanding the magnitude of what we’re talking about when we talk about Easter. And, of course, Easter will come and we will rejoice but now we begin the season of Lent that moves us toward Easter. And, of course, Lent isn’t a command in the Bible, you’re not even gonna find it in the Bible. So, it’s up to you, you know. But I didn’t grow up observing Lent, but in my adult years, as I began to understand our church history and the context for the different customs and rituals that we have in our faith I began to realize this could be very valuable. And, so, it is. I for sure try to keep my heart’s posture correct going through this season and I have found it rich and in meaningful, as have billionths of our brothers and sisters over the last millennia and a half. So, today is Ash Wednesday and today begins the season of Lent and that is a bit about what the season of Lent commemorates.

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

And, as you know, we’re just trying to re-emerge, re-immerse ourselves in the life that we normally live and gotta move past the jet lag and just all of the memories, all of the experiences that come with a pilgrimage like the one that we’ve just done. They just come flooding in. They just…you remember certain places like, oh, when I was standing in the desert and dust was swirling around. Oh when I was standing at the Red Sea and just thinking about what that would be like, or when a I was in Galilee and overlooking the sea of Galilee and all of its splendor and realizing this is the view that Jesus saw every day. This is where he chose to base a ministry that continues to radically change the world. It’s pretty profound. It’s pretty profound to be in Jerusalem at the Wailing Wall or to walk up on top of the Temple Mount or to be in the dungeon where Jesus was held before His crucifixion. I mean all of these things just begin to flood back in and remind, at least me, remind me of the journey and why we’re on this journey and why we show up every day to take the next step forward. It’s because God did some profound things in the world and we can still visit some of these places and just contextualize them and understand that He is continuing to do profound things in the world. And as the body of Christ we are the means by which He does these profound things in the world. And just to begin to understand that we are part of an ongoing story. And yes, we can visit ruins, right? We can look at piles of rocks at locations where things happen thousands of years ago and just walk away from that or we can realize I am a part of the story that began with this pile of rocks right here. I am in the same story and my own rocks are being piled up. How do I carry that story forward because it’s the same story and it profoundly affects the way we live our lives as it should and as the Bible continually reminds us. So, you know, I guess this is kind of the official ending I of this journey and we will continue forward in our year, but if you want to go next year, absolutely, registration is open for 2020. You can find that in the Initiatives section at dailyaudiobible.com. zyo can find out all about all about the trip, everything that you would want to know.

The other thing that we are reminding everyone about is the forthcoming More Gathering in the mountains of North Georgia at Sharp Top Mountain. And it’s about an hour outside of Atlanta and this will be the final More Gathering up on top of that mountain in North Georgia. We have no idea…we are praying into what is next. All we know is this is the end of that. So, I couldn’t tell you that there will be another More Gathering and I couldn’t tell you where that might be until we get some more clarity. We’re just walking in obedience. But as we do that we’re certainly celebrating. If the Lord is bringing us to the end of something He’s bringing us in the beginning of something. And, so, we’re certainly celebrating the milestones that have happened on that mountain, the lives that have been irreversibly changed on that mountain, the way that Jesus has come for every woman in his own way, in a language they can understand. It’s a beautiful thing. So, I hope you can be there. If your lady, I hope you can be there for this memorable time and this monumental event that we’re commemorating. You find all of the details at moregathering.com or just go to dailyaudiobible.com in the Initiatives section, same place you would find Israel 2020, and look for the More Gathering and you can get all the details there and register. Hope to see you.

If you want to partner with the Daily Audio Bible, you can do that dailyaudiobible.com there is, of course, 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 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 you here tomorrow.

Community Prayer and Praise:

Hi, this is Sonja calling from Tampa. I’d like to pray. Lord I ask that You look upon the broken hearted, those that are feeling lonely, those that feel like there’s no direction or hope in their lives, those that are facing financial challenges and medical challenges to reveal Yourself to them Lord so that they may know that You are God Jehovah. I also ask that You look upon Noah and Isa. I bind every demonic principality that has come against them in the name of Jesus. I plead the blood of Jesus upon them and command their bodies to be aligned with Your word, that by Your stripes they are healed. I command the angels of God to encamp all around them and the rest of my DAB family waging war against every fiery dart of the enemy and canceling every assignment that the enemy has set forth against them. Let them know that You are Jehovah Elohim, the powerful and mighty God, Jehovah the Lord that is present, that You are always with us, Jehovah Jira, that You are the Lord of their __, Jehovah Shalom that You are the Lord of peace over their lives, You are Elohim, the most high God and Elohim our everlasting God. My DAB family hold steadfast to God for He will never leave You nor forsake You. And I also want to thank Protected by His Wings who read Psalms 91, one of my favorite Psalms. For many years during spiritual warfare I kept my Bible open to that particular Psalm. Thank You my dear DAB family, and be blessed.

Hi, my name is Angela, I’m calling from California. I just really still need you guys prayers. I’m still battling this suicide. I have…I’ve just been…it’s on my mind every day and I’ve written letters to my family and everything. I went back and read through it again and I just started bawling and crying because I’m just so upset about it. It’s my mind, it’s my mental status, it’s really got me __ and I just don’t know what to do. And I know my daughter’s about to have a baby and everything and I’ve been trying to live through her happiness and just be happy for her and…but when she’s gone I get back into the same kind of mind that I was in before and it’s so hard on me and I don’t want to leave my family without me but then sometimes I think about it and I just thank I can’t feel my emotions anymore, I feel dead inside and I don’t want to feel that way anymore. I’m sti ll hurting so bad and I don’t know where to turn or what to do. I just need God to come into my heart and fill my heart with love because it’s so hard for me to fill it. I just need you guys to pray for me if you could please. I want to feel the love and the connection again. The doctors say they can’t do anything else for me. So, I just need somebody to pray for me and just keep me in their prayers and just for something to help me. I know that God’s available…

Hi this is Vanessa in Texas and I am calling because this weekend the Lord has shown me an error in my way. Three years ago, I said something that really hurt my best friend and wounded his heart in a way that I had no idea. And this weekend I learned that even though we are still very good friends he still hasn’t forgiven me for offending him back them. And I didn’t mean to. I thought I was making a better choice of the two choices and instead I chose the words that would hurt him the most rather then, choosing the words that would have humbled me back then. So, I’m asking for repentance. I have seen the errors of my way and I’m calling to repent, and I want to move on and learn from this and to ask for his forgiveness. He doesn’t listen to the Daily Audio Bible, but he still hasn’t forgiven me and maybe if you forgive me he will to. I’m so sorry. Thank you. I love you all.

Hi this is Victoria soldier just calling to pray for some of the DABbers. I just want to pray for the mother who had a daughter who was molested by her father and the father was also a preacher. Lord, just praying, let you know that I’m praying for you. This is…this is so vicious and so…this is so deep…but you know, it’s good to know that God can handle deep, God can handle anything and I just want you to know I’m praying with your daughter and because God is able to do exceedingly. I’m gonna pray for Tracy from Vancouver and also want to pray for Noah, Noah who has been sick I’m gonna pray for him. I want to pray for Tim because he was talking about changing, let him know that we can try to do everything to change ourselves, but God is the ultimate, God can do anything but fail. We can’t you do nothing to change our self except let God have his way in our lives. I want to talk to the Wolfes who lost their…I think it was their daughter. I’m praying with you, I’m praying with the family, I know it’s difficult and I’m praying for the family of the daughter also and I just wanted to pray for Viola and the son Daniel and Dominic. I want to pray for them. Gracious Father we come before You today, Father in the name of Jesus, Lord we just praise Your name, we magnify You, Lord we have some deep things tonight but we know that nothings impossible for God. Oh Lord we just ask that You Have Your Way. Lord we need Your miracle working power, we need Your grace and Your mercy, oh Lord we need You tonight, we need You to touch those names I called out, Lord we need You to touch the names that I didn’t call out that are going through similar or the same thing or that are just going through. Father, You have Your way. We just touch…Lord just…just…

Numbers 4:1-5:31, Mark 12:18-37, Psalms 48:1-14, Proverbs 10:26

Welcome once again to the Daily Audio Bible. I’m Jill, filling in for Brian who’s usually here but is taking a much needed day of recuperation and rest and restoration and rejuvenation in all of the “re” words that come with doing such a grueling trip like Israel. So, it is good to be here with you today on this 5^th day of March, and it is so good that we can be here together as we align our hearts around the living breathing word of God through Scripture. And we are starting today as we always do, in the Old Testament. Numbers chapter 4 and we’re reading through 5 and we’re continuing this week in the New Living Translation.

Prayer:

Jesus, we thank You for Your word, we thank You that it is a double-edged sword, and the truth often times, it can hurt and it often times cuts us, and we find our hearts and our minds offended. We’re usually offended because there’s a great amount of truth and it just takes us off guard. Often times the truth offends the mind to reveal the heart, but we know that You are the way, the truth, and the life and Your word is truth. It is a lamp unto our feet and a light unto my path. So, Father I pray that truth would lead us to a place of repentance and in that repentance would ultimately lead us to a place of change. And Father with You then lead us to a place where change is irrevocable, where we no longer want the things that we formally wanted, we no longer desired the things we formally desired. If truth is truly what we’re after then God would You speak truth to our hearts and our minds, our spirits, our souls. Give us ears to hear and eyes to see and a heart that truly beats for You. We love You Lord and we are truly so lost without You. So, we invite You into every part of our day, for those that are just getting started listening to this podcast as they begin their day and those that are ending their day as they lay their head down to go to sleep tonight. Lord, would You fill our minds, our hearts, our spirits with Your truth. And we thank You for this community, we thank You for every person that longs to know You more, for Eeery person that longs to read through this word in a year God, that You would speak something new, that You would speak in ways You’ve never spoken to them before, that they would hear new things that they have never heard before. Lord, for some people that they would hear Your voice for the very first time. We thank You Lord for a day and an age where the Internet has changed everything. You have found a way for Your word to go forth. We love You, we thank You, we praise You, we worship You. You are good and holy and righteous and just and merciful and kind and loving to all of us. Bless this day, bless this night, bless this new mercy, and bless Brian as he rests and comes back tomorrow. In the name of the Father, the son, and the Holy Spirit.

Announcements:

www.dailyaudiobible.com is the home base, it’s the main thing. Of course, you can join us on social media Daily Audio Bible Facebook page, Daily Audio Bible women’s page just for the gals.

And also if you have not liked it or followed it and you are part of the More Gathering coming up in April you will want to like that page for all of the updates and announcements. It’s a great way for you to connect with other women that are coming, and you may even know someone from your hometown and is a great way to just connect, stay in the message afterwards together, to be accountable, and even connect with people across the country. I was gonna say that you will remain in each other’s lives, but I can’t speak for that. I can only say that if you are intentional about remaining in each other’s lives then you will remain in each other’s eyes. And I would encourage you to remain in each other’s lives. It is such a beautiful thing to see the relationships made More and how they continue to grow and how women come back at the family reunion later in the year and catch up and it is…it’s indescribable. Okay, you all know I could go on and on and on and talk about More Gathering but I’m not going to.

Brian will be back with you tomorrow. Everybody said, Amen and Hallelujah. I heard that, yes, I did and echoing that with you. I do not know how he does this every day, oh, but I am so thankful he does. So, that’s it for me today. I’m Jill. Until tomorrow, love one another.

Community Prayer and Praise:

Hey guys, this is joyful James and I’m calling right now to pray for Tim in Tampa. And my heart really went out to you buddy. I could feel you. I’ve actually been there man and I understand. And I felt like God was talking to me recently and He reminded me, He said, your hopelessness about the situation is worse than the situation. And it really got me to thank, well, what if I need to focus my attention not on what I’m not or what I don’t have but on God again. Focus my attention on His promises, His capability, His…and that led me to extreme gratitude and gratitude for everything, even my trials and my tribulations because all of it is for His glory and He loves us so much that we get…when we go to that stuff that brings…you know…it makes us into diamonds, you know, extreme pressure illuminates the…I mean…brings out the diamonds out of coal I think it is…not sure. But I want to pray for you Tim. Lord I just lift up my brother Tim to You right now and I ask that You would open his eyes to see and open his ears to hear the song that Your continually singing over his life, the dance that Your continually dancing over his life and the amount…the amount of mighty love that You have for Tim Lord just as he is right now, where he is at. Lord, I ask that his heart would be receptive to this mighty love and I thank You for all that You’re doing in Tim. To You be the glory. We trust You God. In Your holy name. Amen. Well Tim, I’m praying for you buddy. I love you. Talk to you later.

Good morning Daily Audio Bible family this is Grace in Tampa. I’m calling in…I’ve been praying for you all. I love you all. A woman called in today and her daughter had been going through…or had been abused in her past, she was being admitted to an institution today. I’m praying for you. I can’t even articulate it. I pray in the Spirit for every one of you. A woman called in today for her pastor’s son, Noah, who has been experiencing seizures. I’m the praying for you. A gentleman called in whose son had been hearing voice. I’m praying for you. And a woman called in and there was an issue with her son Daniel. I couldn’t make it all out, but God hears your prayer and I’m standing in agreement with you. I’m calling today because I don’t…I just need prayer. I come to these places in my…you know…in my life with my family where I…over the course of time I start asking…acting out…but people won’t say it to me because I am very outspoken and it sometimes difficult for them to even get me to hear. And we’re back at one of those places and I’m far from the victim in this situation but I don’t want to be a problem anymore and I’ve run out of innovative ways to change myself. So, I just need…if you would pray for me, that God would walk with me as I walk with Him to just change little by little so that I don’t go back to how I had been. I love you all and I thank you already for your prayers, it’s so important. Bye.

Hi Daily Audio Bible family, my name is Reina I live in California. I am a three-year listener __ before, but you all are my family, so I trust you that you will lift me up in prayer and my children, Victor, Sophia, and Vincent. We are just a family that’s been destroyed by Satan. My children are 24, 21, and 20 years old. So, they are older now. I suffer from fibromyalgia, which they don’t understand and I’m struggling with this autoimmune disease and I just pray that God would put this into remission for a little while longer. It’s a struggle to go to work. I love my job. I draw blood. I’m a phlebotomist, but I might lose my job, I’m not sure. I have a fiancé that…we’re hoping to get married in September, but he’s a loving man of God. So, anyways I often pray for all of you and I listen more than I call in and I’m always praying for all of you. And please just lift me up in prayer, my children to come back to Jesus. And I love the Lord with all my heart, but my children are just so far off and I’m struggling with this autoimmune disease that is taking my life away and…

I immerse myself within myself and find myself in You
the Father and creator of everything the only one always faithful and true
You created the sun the earth the sea and mapped out every strand of DNA
from the largest of the dinosaurs to the smallest little flea
I can’t even fathom the depths of Your awesome creative power
from the diversities You have created among men
to the intricacies contained in the detail of a flower
You tilted the earths access at exactly 23 ½°
gravity reproduction the cycles of rain tides and seas
constellations galaxies dark matter black holes
quarks ions nano-proteins and the essence of all men’s souls
I too am fearfully and wonderfully made just like David said
You even took the time to number and count every single hair that is on my head
and what is man that You are mindful of him
here for a few days eyes growing dim
stubborn disobedient always wanting to have things his own way
refusing to acknowledge You day after day
but like You said in Your word eventually every tongue will have to confess
that it is only by Your great grace and mercy that we all are also abundantly blessed
help me today Father and every other day too
to always see and appreciate the many wonderful things You continuously do

blindtony1016@gmail.com. Like to give a shout out to Asia. Hope all is well with you and the entire family and also like to give a shout out to Slave of Jesus. Thank you, brother. Love you both and know you’re both daily in my prayers. And once again Brian, thank you for this wonderful podcast, you and your entire family for God’s Holy Spirit to flow. Keep it flowin’ y’all.

Numbers 2:1-3:51, Mark 11:27-12:17, Psalms 47:1-9, Proverbs 10:24-25

Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Jill Brian’s wide and the birthday boy is recouping as he should be on his birthday. Happy 14^th birthday Brian. He starts counting his years in life now through Daily Audio Bible years. So, babe, happy birthday. Thank you for leading us all so well. So, we’ll do cake and celebratory songs and all that later but for right now we are here to center ourselves around the word of God. It’s what we do every day on the Daily Audio Bible and Brian has done it for 14 years every single day. The Bible has been read fresh every day for 14 years. Well done, my love. Marching forth right now in the Old Testament and we’re reading in the New Living Translation today beginning with Numbers chapter 2.

Prayer:

Father, thank You for Your word. Thank You for this community, this place where we can center ourselves around the living breathing word of God. We thank You for the journey of Israel and the pilgrimage that we can put our faith to the test and go and see all of the places, where we can put our faith to the test and go and see  and go and see and we can walk where You walked, we can go just look at places and people that are walking where You walked and we can breathe in the air and the land  of the Bible. Thank You for the transformation that took place of every heart of the people that went. We thank You for our fearless leader and thank You for bringing them home safely and we just thank You for his life on this day of celebration where we celebrate his life and we celebrate him who said yes to the call and I just pray that You would give him rest today for his body and his mind, his soul and for every person that travelled God, that You would just as they reacclimate into the world, into real life the transition would be smooth and seamless. We love You and thank You for every person in this community who longs to know You more, who longs to know Your word and understand Your word. Help us to hide Your words in our heart so that we may not sin against You. Thank You for this day. Thank You for the sun that is shining here but we thank You God that in every season even in every season of long and hard and cold You are there, You are with us, You are in the midst, and You are for us. We love You. In the name of the Father, the son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen.

Announcements:

So, as I stated earlier, it is somebody’s birthday. Happy, happy, happy birthday to our fearless leader. I think this may be one for the first times ever that he has not been here on his birthday. And, so, he’s not gonna make a big deal out of it, so I get to. So, happy birthday Brian. Happy 14^th DAB birthday. We are so proud of you, we are so thankful for you. We love you. Thank you for your faithfulness to this community. Thank you for your steadfastness to the reading of the word of God. Thank you for your desire to go deeper to understand it better so that you can make the whole world understand it better. And I look back on 14 years…wooo…with exhaustion, with gratitude, with pride, and I can look ahead with excitement, anticipation, with exhaustion, and with just immense gratitude for who you are and all that you have given to us. I might get teary. I see what goes on behind the scenes every single day and I am the type of person that I want you to know what I’ve been doing, and I want you to see me and acknowledge it and suffer just a little bit if I have suffered, but Brian is not like that. That is not his way. And, so, he will never complain, and he will never tell you all he does behind the scenes. But I see it, I know it. So, this is where we break out the balloons and the cake and as I stated earlier it is somebody’s birthday happy, happy, happy birthday to our fearless leader. I think this may be one of the first times after that he has not been here on his birthday and Sally he’s cannot Connecticut begin. So, I get to sing happy birthday Brianna happy 14^th DAB birthday. We are so proud of you. We are so thankful for you, we love you, thank you for your faithfulness to this community thinks thank you for your steadfastness to the reading of the word of God. Thank you for your desire to go deeper to understand it better so that you can make the whole world understand better, and I look back on 14 years…wooo…with some exhaustion with gratitude with pride and I can look ahead with excitement and anticipation with exhaustion and with just immense gratitude for who you are and all that you have given to us. I might get teary I see what goes on behind the scenes every single day and I am the type of person that I want you to know what I’ve been doing and I want you to see me and acknowledge it and suffered a little bit if I have suffered, but Brian is like that that is not his way so he will never complain never tell you all what he does behind the scenes. I see it. I know it and I love you even more for it to this is where we break out the balloons and a cake and the little noisy things that whirrrr or whatever they do and say happy birthday Brian

Lots to mention today. Okay. The other thing that we want to mention to you is some of you, lots of you, many of you have reached out and said that you would like to bless China and Ben in their marriage in some small way and you’ve asked how to do that. So, we have collectively met as a family and as a team and said what is the best way to do that so that you all feel included and for those of you that want to be a part of it. I mean, we obviously cannot invite the whole world to the wedding, we could if, you know, she was the queen of something or the Princess of something. Well she’s our princess, but she would like a small intimate wedding. And, so, we are going to honor and bless her and that. But if you as a community would like to give to China and Ben in their celebration, you can go to their registry on Amazon. So, you just click on Amazon, go to the link, and you will go then to the link on the right-hand side that says accounts and lists and then underneath that you will click on bridal registry and then when you get to that link there will be a separate box that pops up. It’s not can it be in your search engine for where you normally type in your all clad pans if you like me or whatever it is that you’re searching for. You go down to find a registry, it’s like an orange box with an orange arrow next to it and you simply type in DAB all in caps. And when you type that in it’ll pop up for Spring Hill. That’s the one that you click on and you can get the lovely couple, you know, their spoons or whatever it is that they want, for those of you that have just asked. So, that’s just a special way that you can be a part of loving on China and Ben and maybe feel a part in their special day. So, we thank you for that, for those of you that have asked about it.

Home base - www.dailyaudiobible.com that’s where you can find out everything you want to know about the Daily Audio Bible.

You can join the prayer wall there if you would like your prayer requests known in prayed for. Of course, you can always call the prayer request line and that number is 1-877-942-4253.

Gonna mention really quickly, yes ladies, you can still sign up for More Gathering. A lot of you have asked and there’s still time, there’s still space, but we are going to have the biggest number of women we have ever had this year. So, www.moregathering.com if you want information there.

That’s it for me today. I will be back with you tomorrow. One more day as Brian rests. I will see you then. Until then, love one another.

Community Prayer and Praise:

Hello DAB brothers and sisters this is Abiding in Him calling to pray for Tim in Tampa. Heavenly Father I just thank You for my brother Tim. He has been a blessing to me, to my wife and to my children and to my family over the years with his prayers and encouragements Lord. I count it a privilege to be able to come before the throne on his behalf heavenly Father and ask for Your blessings to be over him. He is a husband, he is a Father heavenly Father and Lord he has responsibilities on his shoulders Lord and people are sensing that he is off and he’s lacking, and he needs renewal and a refreshing Lord. And as a man I can understand walking into those places heavenly Father and needing a touch from You to be refocused and to move forward Lord. And I just thank You Lord that his life is not done but there’s much left for You to accomplish through him and I pray Your blessing to be over him Lord. Touch him in a place where he needs it Lord. Open his eyes heavenly Father. And Lord blast through him and blow away the things that are no longer necessary heavenly Father. Pry his hands off of those things that aren’t taking him where he wants to go Lord and put him __ Lord in the direction that You want him to head. Give him boldness heavenly Father and focus Lord that he’s been lacking and energy in his heart heavenly Father that he can claim what You’ve laid out before him. Let his wife see it, let his children see it, and let them fall in behind him Lord in where he’s going to lead heavenly Father Lord. I just pray Your blessings over his name because so many people will be blessed in turn heavenly Father once he gains focus, once he is renewed, once he is refreshed Lord. Bless my brother Lord and bring our community together heavenly Father to pray for him Lord. Watch over him and strengthen him and guide him. We pray these things in Jesus’ name. Love You brother.

Hi, Daily Audio Bible family, Andrea Delane hear from Kentucky. I want to give you a word of encouragement today and it’s from first John 1:9 and it says, “if we confess our sins he is trustworthy and righteous to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” And I don’t know if you’ve ever been in a place like I have been, struggling with some sins or struggling with unbelief and doubt, but the Lord’s been encouraging me that the sooner I come blame, the sooner I confess my sins the great high priest, Yeshua, the sooner I can walk in that victory. And I want to encourage you, like, maybe life is really hard right now and maybe there’s some things that you’ve just been holding back and your lie, what’s the use. I want to encourage you that in Proverbs it says something like this, that you may fall seven times but the righteous get up eight. And I want to encourage you in endurance and in perseverance today and that if there’s something you’re struggling with and it’s gotten so bad, I want you to keep getting’ back up, keep getting’ up and confessing your sins. Don’t just beg and beg. There’s a place I was like begging God’s forgiveness. It’s already available to you. All you have to do, according to Scripture, is confess your sins, come clean, take personal responsibility, just be transparent and open and vulnerable with Yeshua. He can handle it, no matter what you’ve done, where you’ve been, what you’re going through. Don’t receive the guilt, the lies of the enemy. Receive the forgiveness and humble yourself. I’ve been experiencing this…it’s such a beautiful thing. When I fell in sin the enemy wants to hide you, he wanted to hide me in shame, say whatever and keep you down even more. I’m telling you, the best thing that you can do to fight the enemy is get up and receive the forgiveness of Christ because He is victorious and that’s what He came to die for. He didn’t come to die for the fervent, He came to die for those who fell in sin and we are all sinners and we have all…some of us have been saved by grace…we are now saints and we have that right as heirs to come before His throne. So, I just want to encourage you today, whether you have failed…

Hi, I’ve just been listening for a couple weeks now. This podcast is been a huge, huge blessing. I’m very busy and I’ve been craving the word, and this really just gives me the opportunity to just dive right in at any time. So, thank you for maintaining this and thank you all for praying for each other. And my request is that I will be able to find a way to keep my little boy, he’s six months old, at home. I’ve prayed for him for a long time and after many years he’s finally here and I want more than anything to be with him and take care of him, but I may not be financially able to do that. So, I’m praying for an opportunity for either me to be home with him more, whatever that looks like, or for his father to be able to take care of him. I just want him to be home and cared for. I don’t want to put in daycare. And I’m remembering the Scripture that a wise woman builds up her house, but folly tears it down. So, help me to build my house, take care of my family, let go of my expectations and my desires and help me to do what’s best for my family to keep us all sound…intact. So, thank you all. I am praying for you all and every day I listen, and I do pray along with you guys in your situations. So, bless you all. Love you. Bye.

Hi, my name is Susie from Colorado and I’m calling because I really, really need you guys to pray for me and my husband and our kids. We are in desperate need of prayer. We have 120 children, 65 who are handicapped or severely ill, labeled terminally ill, actually. We have a children’s home in Haiti that we take abandoned children who’ve been left at the government hospital and we raise them. And a lot of them don’t live very long, but it’s just really taken a toll on our hearts and emotionally. We’ve been doing this for 25 years. We are exhausted physically, emotionally, financially, although God has really blessed us with great work and, you know, I have no complaints about that, but we just need help. We have just lost one of our sons, his name was Stevie, he was 12, heart failure due to severe seizures all of his life. And I just want to lift up a few my kids who have been told who have a very short life expectancy and we may be sending on to God this year: Job, Junior, Watson, Val, Lucian, Yaron, Pedro, Lepardis, Romagna. Would you please pray for all of our kids? That’s just part of the ones that are terminally ill, but those are, you know, we’ve been told that they probably won’t survive the year and they’ve been with us for so many years, they’re part of our family. We love them, and it hurts so deeply. So, pray for us please…

Leviticus 27:14- Numbers 1:54, Mark 11:1-26, Psalms 46:1-11, Proverbs 10:23

Today is the 3^rd day of March. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian. It is a pleasure and an honor to be here with you and this is the last broadcast from the land of the Bible for this year from the city of Jerusalem. We have completed our tour and depending on where you are in the world, for example, if you are back in the United States where we live, we’ve probably already landed and probably we’re on a long layover somewhere waiting for our connection back to Nashville unless you listen to this that night, in which case we might be sleeping in our own beds, but nevertheless because of the travel I am here with you now from Jerusalem and we got a brand-new shiny, sparkly week out in front of us. I don’t know what your plans are. I’ve got one main plan and that is to work through the jetlagged and just invite God to plant whatever he wants to plant that has come from this trip in my heart. And whether you have come along physically here to this land or whether you have come along virtually, I pray the same for you. So, we got a new week, which means we will read from a different translation, this week the New Living Translation and we’ll continue to pick up where we left off yesterday, which is going to lead us, actually to the conclusion of the book of Leviticus and then we will begin the book of Numbers. So, we’ll talk about that when we get there, but first let’s finish the book of Leviticus.

Introduction to the book of Numbers:

That concludes the book of Leviticus and as we turn the page, we find that the next book, the fourth book of the Bible is called numbers. And we may notice as we get into the book of Numbers what seems like redundant review and some passages can seem tedious but it’s not. It’s actually really important because we’re switching now from the first generation that has come out of Egypt. Like we’ve been traveling along with these people who have been freed from slavery but now we’re moving into the second generation of people. So, a lot has happened under Moses leadership. They’ve seen God show up miraculously in their midst and His mighty power as they received the law, but now they have to actually live it and God is giving them the order to move out. It’s time for them to move into the Promise Land. And in the book of numbers we’ll see spies sent into the land and we’ll see an entire generation disqualify themselves from the promise and we’ll find many, many parallels in the story that can land just a little too close to home sometimes. So, we’ve noticed the theme of God’s holiness emerging as He’s giving laws and customs and rituals and celebrations and weaving together a fabric that will become a society. And the fact that He requires His people to be holy like He is holy threads its way throughout numbers as it does through the entire Torah and, in contrast, we’ll see the harsh but true reality that rebellion reaps judgments. So, the territory that we’re about to go into, the first nine chapters are review and structure because God’s preparing His people to move into the Promise Land. So, we’ll see like a census being taken, additional laws being given, and review of laws. We’ll see purification and celebrations happening and then we’ll move into the story where the spies are sent across the Jordan into the Promise Land where they can spy it out and will face the repercussions of what turned out to be an ill-fated mission and then see the curse of an entire generation destined to die in the wilderness when they were at the gateway to the promise. And if that doesn’t set up some parallels for us to think about like I don’t know what will. So, once the old generations gone we’ll see a new one with the new leader beginning to rise and warfare beginning, and new laws being established and a foreshadowing of what the culture is gonna look like when they actually get into the Promise Land. And, of course, with all of the counting going on, the census being taken, we’ll see a lot of counting and hence the book of Numbers, chapter 1.

Prayer:

Father, we thank You for Your word and for the last time for this time, we thank You for allowing us to experience the land where so many of the people and stories that we encounter in the Bible, where they happened. Thank You for letting us walk in Your footsteps along the shores of the Sea of Galilee. Thank You for meeting us in Bethsaida as we walked around in a serene beautiful countryside at sunset. Thank You for our experiences in the wilderness and allowing that to come alive in our lives and hearts and apply it to our own stories. Thank You for allowing us to go north and stand on the Syrian border and pray for our brothers and sisters all over the world who are persecuted and suffering or marginalized and disenfranchised. Thank You for letting us be along the Mediterranean coast. Thank You for bringing us to the holy city of Jerusalem where we stood in places like the upper room and considered the coming of Your Holy Spirit or the southern steps and the birth of the church or Jesus at Your tomb that has been empty a very, very long time. We thank You for all that You have done, all that You are doing, all that You will do because of this pilgrimage, because of this long journey, this difficult journey to somewhere holy. Make us holy Lord. Come Holy Spirit we pray. And Father, we pray over all of the travel that has been and continues to take place as we migrate back into our own hometowns and to our own homes and communities. And Father, we ask that this not be just a good memory that becomes distant and faint, but that the transformation that we felt happening inside us all throughout this journey that that would be real, that that would stick. Come Holy Spirit into the days ahead as we move through the jetlag, those of us who have been on the trip and as we move forward in Your word this week. We love You and it is overwhelming that You love us back the way that You do. And, so, we receive Your love and we ask that You lead us forward in all the thoughts, words and deeds of this day and this week. Come Jesus we pray. In Your precious name we ask. Amen.

Announcements:

dailyaudiobible.com is the website, its home base, its where you find it was going on around here.

And I have been…well…obviously what’s been going on around here is we’ve been in the land of the Bible, but mentioning that we are making plans to return here a year from now and registration for that tour, that pilgrimage is open and you can get all the details at dailyaudiobible.com in the Initiatives section. Just look for Israel 2020 and you’ll get your questions answered there. Hope to see you in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem and in the wilderness and at the Dead Sea and in the Galilee and on the Mediterranean coast, all of these places next year.

If you want to partner with the Daily Audio Bible, then thank you. With all my heart I thank you for your partnership. There is a link on the homepage at dailyaudiobible.com. 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 am Brian I love you and I’ll be waiting for you here tomorrow.

Community Prayer and Praise:

[singing] Have Thine own way Lord
Have Thine own way
Thou art the potter I am the clay
Mold me and make me after Thy will
While I am waiting yielded and still
Have Thine own way Lord
Have Thine own way
Search me and try me Master today
Whiter than snow Lord wash me just now
As in Thy presence humbly I bow
Have Thine own way Lord
Have Thine own way
Hold over my being absolute sway
Filled with Thy spirit till all can see
Christ only always living in me [singing ends].

That’s the song that came to mind when Brian talked about the fact that the first shall be last and the last shall be first and trying to get your attitude wrapped around the fact that you’re not all important and it’s not all about you. And I just really needed to hear that today. So, I’m so grateful that. This is Treasured Possession. I love you all, I’m praying for you, and I’m enjoying so much the travel log. God bless you. All right. Bye.

Hi this is Sonja calling from Tampa. I’m listening to the February 27^th podcast and I heard Tim indicate that he had internal struggle. Remember to Tim that the enemy comes in like a thief to see who he can devour. The enemy is very cunning, and he will sneak up on you and you don’t even know he’s there, but today I come against all of the attacks of the enemy. I tread upon the serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy in the name of Jesus. Tim, begin to declare that you are a mighty man of God. Take your shield of faith and quench every fiery dart in the name of Jesus. Call upon the angel saints to camp all around you. I declare that the Holy Spirit will help you in every year of your life and they will shield your family from all harm. In the name of Jesus, I command that you be equipped with the whole armor of God, the helmet of salvation, the breastplate of righteousness, the shield of faith, and the sword of the Spirit. Tim, declare that you are a mighty man of God and call upon God to break every yoke that would hold you back from being the high priest in your home. God bless you and God bless your family.

Hi my beautiful family this is pastor Gene from Bradenton Florida and I’m like caught up through February 28^th. It’s unbelievable. This doesn’t happen very often so I’m super excited. It probably won’t stay there because __ man I’m enjoying the moment right now. I love you guys very much. James from Tampa I miss you. I don’t know if you remember, we met in Fort Myers just a couple of years back with Brian. I remember what a wonderful impression you made and just such a beautiful human being and I want to pray for you. So, if my family would join me. Jesus, we bless our brother James. Father You know what He’s going through. I know exactly the feeling of feeling out of control and like things are off. So, Father in the name of Jesus Father honor our dear brother and bring him to the realization that You are with him, that You are strong with him, that You strengthen him, that You lift him up, and that You bring to balance everything that’s off balance and we believe that You are accomplishing a beautiful work of righteousness in the life of our brother James. Bless him, less his marriage, his business, every area of his life Lord Jesus and bring him closer and closer to You. Father, we lift our sister Brave from New Jersey praying for the nation of Congo and the women and children that are being victimized right down. We believe that injustice can and will __ and we are asking for miraculous intervention. We also pray for our sister Kelly from Australia. We pray that she will be victorious over alcohol addiction. We rebuke the fear and we call upon Your strength on our sister and I bless all my brothers and sisters in the mighty name of Jesus. Help them to continue to __ in Jesus name. Amen. Love you family. Pastor Gene from Bradenton Florida. Bye.

Hi, this Jackie calling from Colorado. I called yesterday, and I just had to call again. I was listening to the 12^th of February. I’m a couple of weeks behind. There was a woman who came on who was just…just reiterating what my heart was saying, that Brian’s message was amazing on the 12^th. The Holy Spirit just spoke to my heart and its…what I have learned in this last two months by listening to the Daily Audio Bible verses what I learned in the last four years is multiplied. And I just encourage anyone who starts listening, try to listen every day. It’s…it is so…I don’t know…I can’t put it into words. God speaks to my heart stronger than He ever has and He is doing a work in my heart that I have just now recognized and so much of it comes through listening to the Daily Audio Bible. And I thank you Brian for your teaching and just through the Holy Spirit. It’s wonderful. And I also wanted to pray for Jill in Washington who reached out to us about her husband and all the situations with the problems in her family due to her husband’s issues. And Jill, just know there’s many, many women that have gone through this and I can understand your brokenness…