Judges 2:10-3:31, Luke 22:14-34, Psalms 92:1-93:5, Proverbs 14:1-2
Today is the 24th day of April welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I’m Brian it is great to be here with you as we bring to a close another week and we get to share together. So, let’s dive in and take that next step. As we end our week, we’re just getting going in this brand-new territory that we entered yesterday known as the book of Judge. And like I said the book of Judges does take us into new territory. It takes us forward after Joshua but the complexion changes. The people are in the land and they have what is been promised and they get comfortable and that they have not done what God said, which was to force everybody out of the land otherwise it would become a thorn in the side, a stumbling block, and their gods would become a temptation. And…and we see that that’s the truth in the book of Judges. So, let’s dive in. Judges chapter 2 verse 10 through 3 verse 31 today.
Prayer:
Father, we thank You for another week that we’ve been able to spend together day by day step-by-step moving through the Scriptures, allowing them to wash into our lives and hearts and plant seeds, the fruit of the Spirit in our lives. We are so grateful, as we mark this time. Even as we draw closer and closer to the end of another month, we look back and see such profound things that You have begun to shift inside of us, and we are grateful. And, so, we mark this time with gratitude as we seal this week, close the books and step forward. And this day and this week become a part of our past, a part of our history, a part of our story. And yet, we look forward to the next chapter, the next week, the next month, all that You are doing in and among us. So, we stay open to You and Your leading. Come Holy Spirit we pray. In the name of Jesus, we ask. Amen.
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Community Prayer and Praise:
This is Saved by His Grace in Happy Valley. Brian I just finished listening to today’s podcast, the 19th of April and your comments about God crying or Jesus crying over Jerusalem and what might have been truly impacted me. I look back over my life and think what might have been had I not defied Him so often. And yet He’s been patient and loving enough that even now that I’m 80 he is creating a new creature in me and I am so thankful for that. Brian thank you for your…your ministry and think Jill for her readings and China before her and Ezekiel. And then of course Walta called in and was talking about how we allow discouragement to stop us from our mission, which kind of fitted in there ‘cause I just started a business to help families record and save their history for future generations and no one seems to think that’s important, and I do get discouraged. And then of course God’s Smile called and that just was the whipped cream on top of the sundae. As other people have said, every time I hear her voice I break into a smile. She truly is God’s smile for us. I love this community and I ask God to bless you in everything today. Amen.
hey DAB family today is April the 19th. At the end of today’s broadcast there were two women one who is giving praise for the message of Yeshua in us and the other who was lamenting the tragic suicide of a church member. These two messages seemed to encapsulate the struggle that so many of us are facing in these darkened times. Just yesterday I wrote in my journey how lately all I want to do is die and how I spend so much time imagining ways of ending my life. It’s been a lifelong struggle raging in me, one that’s fueled by nothing less than the sin of idolatry. We’re reminded in John:15 to love one another, to show our love by laying down our lives for our friends. And who is Jesus but our greatest friend. It’s pure idolatry that leads me to believe my life is my own to take. In Job 1 we are reminded that the Lord alone gives, and He takes. So, bless it be the name of the Lord. This my life my right mentality that deludes our society is simply one of the flaming darts friary arrows of the enemy throwing at us every day by any means possible. After all what message does each successful suicide send to the world except that there is no hope and that the promise of God’s grace sustaining us through this life is just a lie. So, friends I’m asking you for your forgiveness for not loving you the way that I’m commanded to do each time that I give free reign to these selfish idolatrous thoughts and I ask for God’s forgiveness for the vanity of my darkened thinking and may He for…forbid that I should ever leave this life by my own hand. May He forgive me for my lack of faith and the idolatry of thinking that my life is my own when He alone has given it and He alone has the right to take it away. Even if I do in fact have that right to choose then Lord, I reject that choice right here and right now and choose instead to give you my life in full trust and believe that Your love for me endures forever and that Your grace is more than sufficient to shine through the darkness that seeks to consume me. I pray for myself and for anyone who is plagued with these same daily struggles. In Jesus’ name. Amen.
Hi DAB family it’s Hallie from Michigan. I’m going to go with a Hallie Heart because I was born on Valentine’s Day and my grandma always calling me that. After listening to the April 17th, I heard Chad and Simona and I want to lift them up in prayer. Dear Lord, my God please let Chad feel Your presence. He is filled with anxiety, fear, and depression like so many of our Christian men today. Society wants to silence them because they stand for good, and our society is evil and doesn’t want to be reminded of it. God, You made man in Your image and stand for what is right. Please help them disregard what the enemy is saying and not waiver from the cross of righteousness. Please let them continue to speak out about what is right and keep on speaking the truth even if their own family turns against them. Please do not turn their course from truth and light. Please use this to prepare Chad to be a warrior for You. Give him the strength and the heart of seven men. Lead him out of the darkness with his light shining as bright as a bonfire. Also, Father we heard from Your beloved daughter Simona from So Cal who has long suffered. She is keeping the faith and You just want…we just want to lift her up to You. She understands that we’re nothing without You and she has an 8-year-old who she wants to see grow and come to love You too Father. Please Lord come to her and let her feel Your power rush through her and heal her body completely with Your divine intervention. Please let her have many milestones with her child and time to instill her faith in her child. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen.
Hello DAB family this is Gigi from Gville calling in. I’m asking for prayer from my mom. She’s 69, recently widowed, and feels a new calling on her life to step into something that God has prepared for her and it’s scary, but God has just been lifting her up and her faith has been growing and she’s been getting stronger and she’s been really being renewed every day. So, it’s been awesome. But the enemy has been coming against her with her sleep. She used to struggle with insomnia, and it’s just been hounding her, just three hours a night, not been able to really be consistent and also being attacked by a lot of fears and doubts even though she’s been experiencing so much overcoming power. It’s just been a real like continual battle in her mind and not being able to sleep makes it worse. So, if You guys could all join me in prayer for her. Thank You, Lord, that it says that faith works by love and that Your love never fails. So, we are praying right now that You would reveal Yourself in a deeper new way to mom, that she would understand Your love in…in ways that she never has before and that her faith would become effectual in that understanding and that…that she would be able to…to move her eyes off of the waves and off of the fear enough off of the doubt and have her eyes fixed on You and on the one thing, on Jesus and His faithfulness. And thank You Lord that You are overcoming in her and I pray she be protected in her sleep. In Jesus’ name. Amen.
Good morning DABbers this is Brave from New Jersey. Today is April 20 and I’m calling to report a praise report for my daughter, my prodigal who’s 18 and who has ran away out of the house sometime back in the winter time. She’s returned home physically and she’s with me now. I praise God for that, and I would like to ask the family to pray for her for full restoration of her life back to her Father and that Lord will restore her fully and bring her back to His Kingdom and heal her completely. This is my prayer to you family. Thank you for holding her up for me. God bless you.
Hello, my family this is Prodigal no more actually. God gave me a new name this weekend and I’ll tell you a bit about it. But Thursday night I was supposed to be at a John Eldridge site boot camp. And instead, I was sitting here with a bottle of vodka and I had my good old Glock out again because I had just gotten news that I’d been financially crushed and was probably gonna lose…well…be on the street. And, so, I wasn't…just wasn't…I just had no hope of the future. So, right before I was going to do the final act my…my wife called, my estranged wife called and said, “where are you? Why aren’t you at this boot camp?” Because somebody had called her and said that I was not there. I told her why and she said, “don’t you dare do that. Get up there.” Because this was the first night. So, I drove up the next morning. I didn’t expect much but when I got up there my life totally changed. The Lord shredded me. Halfway through the day one of the guys quoted, speakers quoted, “this is your beloved son in whom I am well pleased.” And that’s a phrase I had never heard in my 68 years on this earth, and it totally shredded me. So, long story short he totally unwound my life, totally stripped me down, told me why I was the way I was and why things happened. And, so, real quick, He spent two nights talking to me nonstop and the second night He gave me a new name. And my new name is Lazarus. So, from now on family I’m Lazarus. Jesus loved him Jesus wept for him Jesus raised him from the grave and Jesus made him the most dangerous man on earth. So, look out Satan and I’m now back, I’m strong and powered by your prayers and your love. God bless you family. I just wanted to give you a celebration for a change. God bless.