04/04/2020 DAB Transcript

Deuteronomy 26:1-27:26, Luke 10:38-11:13, Psalms 76:1-12, Proverbs 12:15-17

Today is the 4th day of April, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I am Brian it’s great to be here with you as we head into this first weekend of the month, a brand-new month, the 4th month of the year. And, yeah, April and May, these are beautiful times in the rolling hills of Tennessee. So, I’m glad that we can be here, wherever you are, whatever rolling hills or flat plains, you might be in or tropics or coastland or whatever. Wherever you might be it is wonderful to be here with you today to take the next step forward. So, we’ve been reading from the New International Version this week, which is what we’ll do today. And we’re continuing the book of Deuteronomy the…the final commands, the final review, the final things, the final charge of Moses in the Bible. After this, Moses becomes a part of history and we continue forward. So, this is what he has to say. And today we will read Deuteronomy chapters 26 and 27.

Prayer:

Father, we thank You for Your word and we thank You for another week in Your word. And, so, as we…as we end another of our weeks…and we normally take this moment to look back for second, and we look back over the full three months of the year now into this fourth month, we look back at all that You’ve spoken, all that You have done, all that You are doing. We thank You for the different disruptions that You have brought our way that make us open our eyes for but a moment because this is what it means to have eyes to see and we want that. And, so, we welcome it and we welcome You, Holy Spirit, into any area of our lives, anything that’s going on. Nothing is off limits to You. It’s ridiculous to think that we would keep something from You and yet we try because we try to keep lots of things from ourselves. We invite You into all of it. And we also take this moment to look forward and in toward the new week and settling into this month and the new territory in the Scriptures and in our lives that we will experience. We sit here at this moment of ending a week and preparing for a new one with a heart of gratitude. We thank You for Your presence in our lives that is never ending and is always there and all we need is to be aware. All we need is eyes to see and ears to hear that You are always with us. And, so, we release this week to You and invite Your Holy Spirit to come into the day ahead and into the week ahead and into the month ahead. And we pray this in Your mighty and holy name, the name of Jesus. Amen.

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