Month: October 2021

Jeremiah 49:23-50:46, Titus 1:1-16, Psalm 97:1-98:9, Proverbs 26:13-16

Today is the 26th day of October, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian. It is fantastic to be here with you today, as we continue our journey forward taking the next step forward, which is going to lead us back to the book of Jeremiah. We will finish the book of Jeremiah this week and it is a longer book and so we’ve camped out for a while now, but we are reaching its conclusion. When we get to the New Testament, we will enter a new letter from the apostle Paul. Of course, we finished second Timothy yesterday so, we sort of bid farewell to the apostle Paul because that is thought to be the last writing of his life, and it’s pretty well indicated in the letter itself, but we still have a couple short letters left to work with as we move through the New Testament that are from Paul and Titus is one of them. So, we’ll talk about that when we get there, but first we’re reading from the New International Version this week. Jeremiah chapter 49 verse 23 through 50 verse 46.

Introduction to Book of Titus:

Alright, so as we we’re talking about just a few minutes ago when we started today, we have a new letter to move into, this is known as Titus. It is a letter from the apostle Paul. Although many scholars dispute these pastoral epistles in terms of whether Paul wrote it or whether it was in the next generation of Pauline school of theology and thought, not that there was such a thing, but this was passed down and then these were written by a later generation. And we already talked about that when we talked about I Timothy. The reason, well, there’s a number of reasons that specific kinds of scholars would think things like this and it’s not to denigrate the New Testament in any way it’s just thought that certain structures, certain ways of doing things in the early church, church governance type things were developments that didn’t happen in Paul’s lifetime and it’s not a new phenomenon, like, this is been thought, these kinds of disputes, have been thought for a long time, centuries. But tradition certainly gives us this from Paul and it is part of the three letters known as the pastoral letters. And we’re like a little bit out of order because we read I Timothy and probably in time chronologically, what would’ve happened is that I Timothy and Titus were likely written simultaneously or pretty close together, whereas II Timothy is thought to be the last thing Paul wrote. And so, the way that the scenario goes is that Paul was imprisoned in Rome, was kind of house arrested, like had some mobility, had some freedoms but was still under arrest to stand trial before the Emperor and was subsequently released from that first imprisonment. And so, Paul goes on another missionary journey then and during that travel is when I Timothy and Titus were probably written and then was rearrested under Emperor Nero and was thrown into the dungeon that he described in II Timothy that we read yesterday and then from there, was executed. And so, if Paul’s released and Titus accompanies Paul to the island of Crete and they’re going to share the good news there and the Cretans had never heard the good news, they didn’t know about Jesus and they were known to be very carnal people. But when Paul shared the good news, faith arose and a little church formed. So, Paul left Titus to form the church and to form the leadership around the church so that they could navigate their culture like all of the other churches. And this wouldn’t be work that Titus was completely unfamiliar with. Paul had sent him to do this kind of thing to be an ambassador, carrying the letters to different churches, going into difficult situations in churches and reporting back to Paul. This would be something that Titus had experience with and so Paul then leaves Titus on the island of Crete to form this church and then departs. And while he’s traveling, then, right, I Timothy, a letter to his son in the faith and the pastor in Ephesus, Timothy and also writes a letter and sends it back to the island of Crete to Titus. Certainly, encouraging Titus to continue his work. The work that had been assigned, but also now it’s in writing, right, so Titus has this letter that grants him apostolic authority from the apostle Paul and it’s in writing and so as we’ve seen in other letters from Paul people came in after Paul left and tried to change all kinds of things and started questioning all kinds of things, especially Paul’s authority. So now this late in the game, Paul understands some of this, so this letter in writing authorizes Titus to essentially work in Paul’s name in organizing this congregation that is being established in Crete. And church governance structure that’s found in the pastoral epistles tells Titus about pastors and criteria, and deacons and criteria to look for in them, very similar to what we read in I Timothy. But for Paul to put it in writing in a letter to Titus and send it back not only gives Titus, Paul’s authority but also gives instructions so these Cretins who have accepted the good news they don’t know what a deacon is a pastor is and so Paul puts it in writing for Titus so that Titus can say see this, this is how we do this this, this is what Paul is telling us to do. And again as we move through those portions of the letter, we will recognize this criteria and again anyone in seminary or moving toward ordained ministry is likely to encounter these passages in the New Testament, it is likely to be a part of a discernment process, it’s likely to be part of, of the ordination process because as, as we’ve talked about before, it may look like an easy job, but it is not an easy job to lead God’s people. So, with that in mind, Titus chapter 1.

Prayer:

Father, we thank You for Your word and thank You for this new territory that we are in the letter to Titus and even as we round the corner and move to conclude the book of Jeremiah, we invite You Holy Spirit, to come, lead us into all truth, lead us into what we need to absorb from the Scriptures and apply these things to our lives, shifting paradigms, changing the entire story because that’s what You do and that’s what You have done. You have changed our entire story. The ending of our story is very different than the one we were living before we understood how desperately You love us. And so, we are grateful and we come to the Scriptures each and every day to be fed by You that You might lead us into all truth, that You might lead us in the way that we should go. That You might give us context and understanding. Holy Spirit, come we pray in the name of Jesus we ask. Amen.

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Prayer and Encouragements:

Hello DAB family this is Tony the Truck Driver. Just checking in, I know I haven’t called as much as I used to but I’m still listening every day, still praying for everybody and all that, I was just real encouraged to call in cause I heard my brother, CoolBrother2003, gave me a shout out and it just dawned on me how many lives we’ve touched, you know, praying for each other and over the years I’ve been listening for probably about the same time, over ten years. It just, never stops amazing me, the community and the family that we have here, that we can pray for each other and just be connected. I just want to thank Brian and Jill and the whole DAB family for this platform and thanks you guys, just never-ending doing God’s work. And I just want to encourage everybody that we continue to do His work, to be His hands and His feet in this world. With so many things going on that we have thing Global Campfire to come to that we could just fellowship with each other and pray for each other is amazing. And I just wanna give a shout out to everybody there, Asia this morning, I know she’s been listening for a while. We just lift you up Asia. Whatever you’re going through, the Lord knows you and He knows what you’re going through and just trust Him to see you through. And for everybody here DAB family, I love you. Let us continue to be His hands and feet. Shout out to my brother Blind Tony and let us just continue to do our Father’s work. Thank you DAB, love you guys. Bye Bye.

I’m calling from Georgia and I was just calling to say how grateful I am to the Daily Audio Bible with all the people who call in for prayer requests, for the reading and just the explanation of the Scriptures. Like many of you, I’ve had my spot on my porch, 5/530, the darkness and my dog. And I just sit here and pray and hear what is said and it is just a very, very refreshing time of my day. And I just wanna say I’m thankful for it, all the work that goes into it and all the people who are so willing to participate and share. My prayer request is I am a teacher and a coach in the public school system. And I just want to claim Ephesians 6 that I will work as if I’m working for the Lord that I will shine for Him and be a difference that people see. I wanna be successful at it, I want to be helpful and I want God to be glorified to do what I do. So, I just ask that you pray for public school teachers and coaches as we are in the midst of an educational world that doesn’t necessarily want God to be a part of it. So, thank you.

Hi Daily Audio family. My name’s Kate, I’ve been listening to Daily Audio Bible for a good ten years now. This is my first time calling in actually. I’m in the UK here and just asking for prayer for mine and my husband’s financial situation. My husband was running a business that really struggled through the pandemic and just about came out the other side and then it just, a couple things happened where it just kind of fell, fell flat really. So, he had to get a job. He’s looking to close the business that was six months ago but now He’s just lost that job, it was a temporary position. We thought it might go on longer but he just left the job and then the business just took a severe turn in the last 24 hours as well. So, financially it’s not good for the business and us personally. There’s gonna be a lot of debt involved and his lawyers were taken out in our names and it just is gonna fall back on us. So, if you could pray for our financial situation, my husband could get a job and that we could pay of these debts. We have two small toddlers, if you could pray that everything is covered. We would really appreciate that, thank you. And then just pray that we just continue to walk in peace. We know God’s got it but it’s hard emotionally sometimes, especially in the last 24 hours, there’s been a lot of tears. So, thank you so much for praying, love you all.

Hello everyone. I don’t know how to say this and I have been trying over and over and over again to say it. I just want someone to hear that I am going through some struggles, mentally, emotionally, spiritually. I have confessed and I believe that Jesus is my savior but I have walked away and not been as active as I used to be. And I go through a struggle that many of us also do. And it’s very depressing. It’s a very depressing thing to want to know and to glorify God and yet fall into the same, same struggle over and over again. I’m just asking for prayer. Just asking for an ear to hear my voice and to know that I am not alone in this struggle. Thank you for hearing this. Have a great rest of ya’lls day or night, whatever time it is.

Good morning, everybody this is God’s Smile here. I’ve been having quite a few thoughts this week as I do with the Lord and I thought I’d just share with everyone. It’s no great revelation it went in deep and it just blessed me. I was thinking about seeds and you know, seeds can line a package in the drawer or in your green house or in the shed and their dormant, there’s all the potential in them yet nothing happens while there in that package. And what happens to the seed it gets planted into a dark place; it gets planted into the soil. And I was thinking about our lives and seeds and the growth in God and most of all pain comes from, sorry our understanding and growing comes from planted in that dark place being placed being found ourself put in. And this seed needs a couple of things: it needs light, warmth and water. And that’s what God does to us, He brings His light upon the soil of our life and He waters it and feeds us with His word. And the warmth of His love upon us and all these things encourage us to grow our roots deep and to spring forth and push through that dark place. I was also thinking about bread too, and you know bread needs to be left to rise up to be allowed to have time for it to grow too. These pictures are just really strong in my mind and I just wanted to share them with you. Time’s ticking away again would you believe it. I love you everybody.

Good morning Daily Audio Bible, this is Aussie Bear from Australia. I’ve been just listening to the community prayers and encouragement this morning, it’s Saturday the 23rd of October and it’s just before 8am. And, I just heard a caller from Sydney, Australia, I mean, hello fellow Aussie, that just makes me so excited to hear another Aussie voice on this platform. But listening to her call, my heart just wanted to embrace her and surround her in prayer and in love and in sistership. She was talking about how she’s dealing with a lot of the aftermath from childhood abuse and I am I just wanted to tell her you are so, so courageous, you are so brave to have made the call that you made and to open up the lines for us, as listeners, to pray for you. I just, I don’t know, I went through childhood abuse myself so I can empathize with what you’re dealing with and I just pray that you know that you are being prayed for that you are being loved on and that God has you, God has you. Even though there’ve been probably so many times when you feel like you’re in the dark and that you are so lost, you are not lost to God. And He loves you and He’s got you and He will walk every step of this journey with you. And so, I just wanted to say I love you and I’m praying for you. God bless you sister.  

Jeremiah 48:1-49:22, 2 Timothy 4:1-22, Psalms 95:1-96:13, Proverbs 26:9-12

Today is the 25^th day of October welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I’m Brian it is wonderful to be here with you today as we launch ourselves into a new workweek and, of course, pick up where we left off and take the next step forward together, which leads us back into the book of Jeremiah once again. Today, Chapter 48 verse 1 through 49 verse 22.

Commentary:

Okay. So, we finished second Timothy just a few minutes ago and we’re not done with Paul’s writings, we have a couple more short letters to read before…before we we’re finished with the apostle Paul for this year and continue forward into some of the other letters in the New Testament, but these are thought to be the last words to come from Paul, the last preserved thing that we have from Paul. And it’s pretty heartbreaking. Paul, as we learned in this letter is in a cold dungeon and winter is coming and his judgment is imminent, and the end of his life is imminent along with that judgment unless by some miracle, a very anti-Christian persecutor who is the emperor is gonna judge Paul and condemn him to die, which as church tradition tells us, is exactly what happened. I’ve actually stood in that place where tradition holds that Paul was executed. The tradition is that as a Roman citizen he was…he was condemned by the emperor and then…and then beheaded. And, so, there’s a place in Rome that commemorates this. Of course, it’s venerated with a chapel now, as so many important places in the Christian faith are. But I can remember walking down the path toward this chapel, toward this place and thinking about how monumental this person’s influence is on the world until this very day. But to read it in Timothy, to read of a dungeon that’s cold and winter’s coming and everyone abandoned Paul, it would be so easy in a circumstance like that to just…I mean you’re in jail, you have nothing to think about, but what might be coming for you. And just to think, “did this matter? Did any of this matter, because I’m gonna die. And nobody’s standing with me, everybody’s deserted me” gives the letter poignancy. And he asked Timothy to bring his scrolls and parchments and his coat. It’s pretty heartbreaking actually, to see that all the apostle Paul, right, famous from the book of Acts and all of these letters, this is where he ends up. And it’s very similar to how Jesus ended up, which lets us know that we might need to rewire in some ways our expectations because we seem to…we seem to gauge how well we’re doing with God based on how well we’re doing in life and how blessed we feel. And granted God blesses us beyond our wildest dreams and gives us more than we…we will ever be able to earn or deserve. But one of the lessons that we learn in the Scripture and one of the lessons that now will….it will not let up. It’s as if the New Testament really begins to bring this theme and it’s a theme known endurance. It becomes more and more apparent that this life of faith cannot be navigated without the ability to endure, to stick to it, to keep going, to not surrender, to not give up, even if that costs everything, even if that costs our lives. And we can hear it. We can hear it in what Paul’s saying to Timothy today. “I am already being poured out like a drink offering, and the time for my departure is near.” That is heartbreaking friends. At least to me it’s heartbreaking. Like what he’s talking about is a drink offering is his own blood being spilled out as…as he’s being executed but also that he’s pouring his very heart, every breath that he has left, pouring out everything that he can in this life in the service of Jesus, enduring to the end which is how we get to the famous verse; “I have fought the good fight.” And, so, Paul says, “I am already being poured out like a drink offering and the time for my departure is near. I have fought the good fight. I have finished the race. I have kept the faith.” And he looks forward to the crown of righteousness. So, once again, as in the life of Jesus we see that the things that we use to measure well-being and success may not actually be those kind of correct measures at all. Maybe we find that being able and having the ability to endure is even more valuable than a…large bank account. The Bible indicates to us pretty clearly that it is something we need to become accustomed to. And I think that, in part, is because enduring makes us strong. But I also think in part because it's…it’s part of the story and people have historically all along died for their faith and endured and people are doing exactly that now, enduring hardship and struggle and some are…are dying for their faith. It doesn’t seem like that’s how it ought to be. And ultimately that’s not how it will be. But from the biblical times until now that’s how it is. And Paul can look at this situation with confidence and know that the end of his mortal life wasn’t the end of him and that he had preached a message of good news and hope and that he would hope in Christ. And, so, let’s honor that as…as we leave this final writing from Paul. Even though tomorrow we’ll be picking up with Paul, this is the last writing. And, so, let’s give honor where it is due while taking the message, the lesson and applying it to our lives. Endurance is part of it. And most of us will have to endure far less then Paul. But we have brothers and sisters on this earth today because of where they are on this earth today because of what they believe in the place that they are that very well can face the very same thing Paul was facing. So, certainly, certainly we can keep the faith. Certainly we can endure and not be mad that we didn’t get that gift box from heaven on the day that we expected that gift box from heaven to bountifully bless us. Maybe we can endure. Maybe we can learn to put on our spiritual big boy pants and big girl pants and grow up and understand that so many hang in the balance between good and evil, and we actually have a mission. That’s something that Paul didn’t lose sight of, lose site of the mission that he was on. And, so, he stayed on the mission no matter what was going on. No matter whether he was in prison, no matter whether he had been beaten up, no matter whether he had been run out of town, no matter whether things were doing great or whether he was floating in the open sea wondering if he was gonna drown or sitting in a dungeon with winter coming on wondering how many hours remain in his mortal life. So, let’s not lose sight of our mission because it’s the same mission.

Prayer:

Father, we invite You into that. We thank You once again for the Scriptures. Without the Scriptures, without these letters being preserved, we wouldn’t have this story to tell each other. We wouldn’t have these reminders. We wouldn’t know that endurance is part of the story. And, so, we are grateful. And we are grateful for brothers and sisters who have gone before, who are heroes of the faith, saints of the faith, but also just brothers and sisters who endured until the end, holding true to the name of Jesus. Help us Lord to understand that this is a big story. And, so, much we focus the story around ourselves and our own well-being when it’s way bigger than any of us. We are all a part of something and we must endure to see that something come to fruition. And, so, as we journey together on this earth step-by-step, day by day sharing history together, let us know that we are in this together. We are carrying good news into dark places. Come Holy Spirit. Come into all of this we pray. In the name of Jesus, we ask. Amen.

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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:

Hey guys, hi family this is Janice calling from Phoenix. And praise report, praise report! I called on Friday. My husband was in a critical care unit with a bleed on his brain and it did not look good. And I was told it was horrible news. OK, testing, testing all weekend. Monday…yeah…turns out they did an MRI, and the bleed is not so much there anymore which was a miracle! So, miracle alert, miracle alert! I feel bad because this is our third miracle in Dave’s life. And the Lord has spared three times. First from pancreatic cancer and then he had __ hematoma and then he had…it’s called an arachnoid something. But anyway, it’s gone, and the doctors and the nurses are freaking out. And we’re just praying to the Lord. Even the nurse who isn’t so much a God person is like, “whoa! That is a God thing.” So, please know not only is He on the throne but He’s showing up just a little bit. And He is perfect. So, all praise and glory to our Lord Jesus Christ. Anyway, I’m going to cry it out so I gotta go. I just knew you had to hear this. Please take it and know your miracle is close behind.

Hello, my amazing DAB family this is Kristen Fletcher calling from Oceanside CA. I love you so much. I love you so much. I listen to you from, let’s just say 11:00 AM to 5 PM sometimes longer every day. I’ll replay and replay and replay. But this is what I need to hear. And I just want to let you know that I absolutely love every single one of you. I love your voice. I love what you say. I laugh with you. I smile with you. I cry with you, and I pray with you most importantly. I am asking for prayer for my son’s father Paul. I wrote it on the Prayer Wall yesterday to deliver Paul from his addictions to drugs. And I want to thank everyone who prayed for Paul. I want to let you know the enemy wants Paul because I put that prayer request on the Prayer Wall and then last night Paul got high. And I know he is just…Paul is just tormented. He is just being attacked and the enemy wants him. The enemy wants to steal, kill, and destroy Paul. Paul has the potential to be such a strong brother with us, a brother of God. And, so, I’m praying for you…or that you will pray for Paul to deliver him from his addiction to drugs. I need your help family. I know we can do this with the power of prayer. So, I thank you so much for your prayers and I love you all…

Hi Daily Audio Bible family it’s the Disciple that He Loves in Ohio. I haven’t called in in a little bit. I guess I was feeling like I have asked for so much prayer that it was someone else’s turn. But God has just convicted me that there are a lot of us out there who have kids struggling with mental health and the need just doesn’t go away. My daughter has made so much progress and she just finished up her program today. She’s on a new medication and in a lot of ways she is doing better but she’s still so sad and she still doesn’t want to be alive. And I don’t want to quit praying for her and lifting her up anywhere short of total freedom and healing. So, could you just pray with me for all of us parents who have kids with mental illness who just feel really lonely sometimes and feel like we’re always reaching out and asking for help. But our need for help is so real. Dear God, please be with every parent who loves a child and is child trying to shepherd a child through a mental illness. Lord I pray that these children would have complete and total healing and I play…I pray that you would lift us up and give us strength and send people into our lives who are willing to come alongside of us and fight and battle with us and help us to not get weary in doing good. In Jesus’ name. Amen.

Good morning this is Just Right from Pennsylvania. This is actually my first-time calling in. I love DAB I recently found it maybe a few months ago and I’ve been listening to it every morning and I just…I absolutely love it. So, I want to say thank you to Brian and the entire group over there at Daily Audio Bible for always delivering a wonderful message and…and just everything that you guys do. Thank you so much. I…I…I want to pray for Mike in New York that he continues to walk the path that the Lord has laid out for him, and he continues to be able to deliver a message to those he comes across. And I also want to pray from mark for…for him being able to find Jesus eventually and him being able to know…to come to know Jesus and the love that is there for him. Lastly, I want to pray for the young lady and her family moving across country. I want to just pray that her family is surrounded by love, surrounded by Jesus and that they just hold on to God’s word. And lastly I…I…I ask for prayer for my own family just for…just for a long season that we’ve been in. It feels like we’ve just been experiencing one thing after the next. And, you know, there’s been some ups and downs. There’s been some…some good times but I just want to just lift up prayer for us and just continue…continue to hold on to God’s word and continue to…to look to Jesus and not to look to our surroundings. And I thank you and I pray for everyone. Love you.

Hello Daily Audio Bible family this is Alexander Soldier for God. Today is October 21^st. I just spent0 the…I’m trying to catch up the last month and a half of Daily Audio Bible that I missed due to a lot of things, but this is actually part of my praise report. I had to leave the army for various reasons so I could take care of my family better, raise them in a godly way, and spend more time with them. For about half a year we were without a home of our own. And I did work in between, and a lot of prospects fell through, a lot of things I thought would have worked fell through. And I thought God was telling me to take my family back out west to Missouri to a community we’d been to before where I felt I was being led to for the best of the family. So, we left for Missouri without a job, without a home. And through an elder of a church God blessed us with a home and with connections to find work so I can take care of my family. So, praise God and know that he can provide. I also have a prayer request for my wife and I. We have scars from packs relationship that seem to be interfering with our own intimacies and our relationship being able to be open with one another without feeling pains from old injuries. So, I pray and ask for prayer for healing for her and I, spiritually and emotionally, that we can fully love one another and be an example to our children of how to love one another better. Thank you, Daily Audio Bible for all that you’ve done for us and the support that I’ve had.

Hello everyone, my name is Crystal and I’ve been listening to this podcast for a couple of years. I just love listening to everybody’s stories and praises and it encourages me. And I’m so blessed and thankful. I’m calling today because I’m just so discouraged and hurt. I’ve been standing in the gap for my husband and our family and our children for my future children’s children. He has left my kids and living with another woman. We’ve been married for a long time, for 27 years and I’ve known him for 30. We have five children and I know that standing in the gap for him is where I’m supposed to be. God has shared this in so many ways. And I’m so blessed and thankful that I have a relationship with my Father, but I’m asking for prayers today. I’m asking for y'all’s encouragement so I can stand with no doubt just like as Abraham. I’m asking for the Lord to restore my husband’s soul so that he would love the Lord. He is lost. I’m asking for a restoration Father, for our marriage and our family and our kids. I know that they want to love my husband but they’re so full of pain and rejection. I know God is a restorative God and I know that we will be fine one day. But I ask everybody here for prayer for help so I would have some little bit of encouragement. Thank you.

Jeremiah 44:24-47:7, 2 Timothy 2:22-3:17, Psalm 94:1-23, Proverbs 26:6-8

Today is the 24th day of October, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian and it is wonderful, it’s exciting to be here with you today because, well, this is the day and we get 52 of these per year, but this is the day we begin a new week and so it’s out in front of us and together we open the threshold and step into it and remind ourselves, like we do probably 50 times a year, nothing’s happened yet. How we live this week is up to us. And all kinds of circumstances might come our way but the Scripture is coming our way as well and we have a seat around the Global Campfire to center ourselves in God’s word and in His leadership in our lives. And so, let’s, let’s live this life to the fullest. Let’s live this week to the fullest. Let’s be in a better place, one week from today than we are today. We simply have to head in that direction intentionally and part of that intentionality is certainly showing up around the Global Campfire every day for the next step forward together. And that next step forward will take us back into the book of Jeremiah which we will finish before this week is out as well as leading us into the letter, II Timothy which we will finish before this week is out. We’ll read from the New International Version this week. Jeremiah chapter 44 verse 24 through 47 verse 7.

Prayer:

Father, we thank You for this new week. We thank You that the days are out in front of us. We thank You that You’ve given us the opportunity to make choices and that those choices they, they get to matter. And so, when we make wise choices, they matter, and when we make foolish choices, they matter. And You have given us the Council of the Scripture and the power of Your Holy Spirit to help us make wise decisions and so often we’re not paying attention to either. But we’re paying attention now. And so, Holy Spirit, we invite You into this week and all the decisions we will need to make and to all the conversations that we will have and to all of the things that will go on inside of us. The inner monologue that is constantly going on that leads us into all kinds of things all kinds of bitterness and judgmentalism and all kinds of things. We’re inviting You into all of it. The motives of our heart, the actions of our lives, our thoughts, words and deeds. We ask for Your help as we navigate the days ahead. And we ask in Jesus name. Amen.

Prayer and Encouragements:

Hi DABers. My name is Jen, I’m a long-time listener. I’ve called in a few times to lift you up in prayer, this is my first time calling to request prayer. I’m calling to ask if you would please lift up my husband Jeff in your prayer. He went through a hard time back in November. He had a lot of anxiety and depression that he battled with. He ended up going out of work in April and he’s just starting to go back to work now. But I feel like he’s starting to spiral down again and he’s just lost. He’s kind of walked away from his faith. He doesn’t know what he believes. It’s just hard, it’s hard to watch. And my daughter’s watching too and it’s just hard. She’s walked away from her faith also. They don’t really attend church with me anymore. So, I just ask that you would just lift him up, Jeff and my daughter Liz. I just, I thank you for listening. I know that there’s power in numbers. And I’m a prayer warrior myself. So, I battle on my knees everyday for the both of them and all of you as well. I thank you all for your prayers.

Good morning everybody this is Barb calling from Canada. I had something happen to me yesterday that I just wanted to share with everybody. Because it was really encouraging to me and I hope it is to you too. I have been going through a pretty stressful time probably at the highest stress levels of my entire life and that’s quite a few years. Anyway, I live in an area in a town now that is one of the highest crime rates in all of Canada. And to leave your car door unlocked is really silly because you know for sure that your car will have gone, been gone through and it happened to me probably three different times. So, I say that to say this during this stressful time yesterday I was getting ready for work and again it was just a stressful start to the morning and then I couldn’t find my car keys. Well, I can always find my car keys because I always put them right where I leave them at the front door. But they weren’t there. And so, I searched the entire house, couldn’t find them and realized I must have left them in my car. So, I went outside, my doors were unlocked so I opened my door expecting to see chaos. I didn’t see chaos but I did see my keys. And, I realized that you know, God is looking after me even when I don’t ask. So, imagine what He does when we do ask. And, I just thought that’s just such a mighty God that we serve. And I love Him so much. Just wanted to share that with ya’ll.

Hi DAB family, this goes out to Mike in New York City, this is Michelle, God’s Life Speaker. You are on a set filming and you have been witnessing to another gentleman that is hostile towards God and you felt the insult, you felt it, yes you did but praise God that you stood firm because you know who’s you are and who you are and I yes, I stand with you that God will use you as His vessel, you are a witness an ambassador. You are the aroma of Christ in a world that is lost and your opportunity exists in the name of Jesus, we are declaring into what is not a yet, we are just can speak that this man well just know Christ and that you are just privileged. I often just pray, Lord let me just be there when somebody accepts Christ as their Savior. So, Mike I pray that for you, I pray that God allow you to see the transformation, allow you just to have your hand working for His kingdom and just to bring glory to God. But your example, how you look, how you act, even nonverbally, what you say, how you consistently show His truth in the way you just do life is going to speak volumes. You know the old saying that your actions speak louder than your words and I, I believe this is true in the kingdom. So may you be blessed, may you have favor. May there be prosperity in you as you continue to witness and may we hear back of the transformation of this man in Jesus name.

This is Chris from York, Pennsylvania. Listening to the October 20th DAB and the prayers. And what a way to end the prayers today. Our sister who moved across the country calling in and just giving us a little bit of an update. Thank you so much for that. I’m so sorry that you went through that situation with your old church and so thankful that you heard your fellow DAB brothers and sisters praying for you and that that was an encouragement. We’ll just continue to pray for you that you would be encouraged and know that God is there that Jesus and the Holy Spirit are in your life, and that there’s a solid rock you can stand on. But my prayers today is for those of us who have been in that situation where we didn’t respond with the love of Christ, so let me pray for that. Lord, God, we just know that we have failed so many times to hear your prompting, to follow the way we should be with others who have shared hardships that they’re going through. And when your Holy Spirit is prompted us to reach out to somebody even if we don’t know what they’re going through. Lord we have failed so many times to do that. Forgive us for not wanting to leave the clean sidewalk and get down into the gutter where some of our brothers and sisters find themselves sometimes and just need the encouragement of someone close to them to help get them out of that situation. Lord, please forgive us for not following.

Good morning DAB community. This is Blessings Flow in Pennsylvania. I wanted to leave a prayer for our beloved and dear sister Victorious Soldier. Victorious Soldier, you’ve been on my heart and mind and ever since you left your message about your brother. Guess it’s been a few weeks now, but I just wanted to leave you a prayer. I’ve been praying on my own, but I wanted you to hear my voice. If you hear it. Lord, we thank You God and we bring to You Victorious Soldier, God, before Your throne of grace. Lord, we don’t come in our own strength, we come weak, we come as we are. We thank You for Your strength being made perfect in us. Lord, we lift up my sister God, asking that You will comfort her. Thank You Lord, for the blessedness of those who mourn for they will be comforted. God, thank You that You’re near the brokenhearted, to bind up all their wounds. God, we thank You that you’ve identified Yourself to be the God of all comfort. We thank You for comforting her heart and her loss. Lord, and all those who are grieving at this time, loss of loved ones, loss of mentors, loss of friends and pastors God, comfort us O Lord. Remember, your daughter, surround her with Your light, surround her with Your peace. Let her know that she will make it, God. Thank You for the gift of relationships Lord that surpasses anything that money could buy, we bless You, we love You and we thank You for Victorious Soldier, the life of her brother in Jesus name, amen. God bless you sister. We love and appreciate you so much and we’re standing with you.

Hi DAB family, my name is Yosinia, I’m from Burbank, California and I’m calling to request prayer for my dad. My dad and I have always had a strained relationship. He was very physically and verbally abusive toward me when I was growing up. And so, I ran away when I was 13 years old and I’m now 47. Anyways, my dad who’s 72 years old now had a stroke and they think he might have cancer and I’m not going to lie I didn’t feel anything when the doctor told me this, but I prayed upon it and I asked God to please soften my heart so that I can be there for him. And wow, God really answered my prayer. I feel like I love my dad and I forgive him and it hurts me to see him the way he is now, like a little child who needs help to be fed. And, so just pray for him that God gives him healing. Thank you, thank you.

Jeremiah 42:1-44:23, 2 Timothy 2:1-21, Psalms 92:1-93:5, Proverbs 26:3-5

Today is the 23^rd day of October welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I am Brian it is fantastic to be here with you today as we round the corner on another one of our weeks together. As we continue to move through the Old Testament, we’re working our way through the book of Jeremiah, and we have…well…we’ll finish Jeremiah in about a week. We are also working our way through second Timothy which we’ll spend the next several days working through. So, let’s dive in. Jeremiah chapter 42 verse 1 through 44 verse 23.

Prayer:

Father, we thank You for Your word. We thank You for another week to spend interacting with the Scriptures, to be in…in Your word, to be together day by day step-by-step. We thank You for all of these steps that we’ve taken. And as we continue to step forward, we ask Holy Spirit that You continue to lead us into all truth, that we might receive from You and from the Scriptures what we need for our lives, that the fruit of the spirit might be planted in the soil of our hearts. Make us fruitful God. Help us to keep the soil of our hearts fertile and cared for, that we might continually yield a bountiful harvest for Your kingdom. We pray this in the name of Jesus. Amen.

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Community Prayer and Praise:

Hello loyal listeners this is Royal in the city of trees. Today is October 18^th and the reason I’m specifically calling in today, this message is for as a follow up for Vicki in Northern California. Your prayer request that aired on September 17^th you shared that you lost your precious son Shane on August 18^th which means it’s been two months today since you had to say goodbye to him. And I just want to let you know in the days following when your call aired last month I had 5 customers throughout that week, this never happens, I had five customers by the name of Shane. So, every time I would see his name, I would think of you and pray for you again. And I also have a brother-in-law named Shane and we call him gentle giant because he is 6 feet 4 inches tall. So, I just wanted to let you know Vicki…yeah…just…it’s just really stuck out to me, just your voice and your heart and just lifting you up again today. I know…just…monthly and daily anniversaries can be super hard. So, I pray…continue to pray that God will comfort you and continue to bring the best memories and moments of the light of joy you had with your son. And I just pray for His covering over you and like you said for all the nurses. Amen.

Resilient Rachel, Redeemed Rachel, I just heard the most precious prayer for you and encouragement, and I wanted to add my log onto the fire. I am lifting you up to our Lord, the most-high God. Dear God, we bring our sister to you, and we pray that You will continue to redeem her, continue to move in her family, in her life. Reveal Yourself to her Lord. Show her Your way. Show her where You are in her situations and her struggles Lord. Bring her through it and just enable her Lord to do Your work and to be firm and bold in her identity in You. And I pray that You will bless her family and her circumstances in Jesus’ name. Amen. This is your sister Radiant Rachel. Have a blessed…

Greetings to you my DAB family this is Walking in the Light in Tennessee still walking in the light in Tennessee. Going through some dark places. Of course, we all are but we can thank God for the light and we thank him for just being…being that light in everything that we do and everything that we say and for the DAB family our priceless priceless. I want to lift up…well…I want to encourage those of you who like myself have family members who are alcoholics, are drug addicted. And I say family members but I’m thinking particularly of one of my sons who this season has been a real real challenge. I don't…I don’t know why it has to be, but it is. And, so, I listen to so many calls of you who have problems with brothers and family members who are alcoholics. And, so, I just want to pray for the alcoholics, and I would I pray for those of us who are dealing with that problem. Father God in the precious name of Jesus we come collectively together Lord to lift up our loved ones who are bound by this addiction. Lord, we just ask You to intercede on their behalf. We ask You O Lord to give us the heart and the wisdom to deal with this. And Lord, we ask You that You will send Your angels to rescue…there’s a song we used to sing in the church called rescue the perishing. And, so, Father so many are perishing around us, but our hearts are always in belief that You are able Lord to change and to deliver. So, we trust You O Lord to do what only You can do. And I ask You all to continue to pray for one another, to love one another, to be kind to one another and encourage one another in Jesus’ name. Love you, Brian. Love you, DAB family. God is so good and together we stand. Amen.

Hey DAB family this is WC from Arizona. I have demons and temptations in my life that I ask all of you to pray for me to help me eliminate from my life. I have hurt people close to me and I need to gain their trust back ‘cause I love them so much. I ask God to accept me. It’s been close to 30 years since I accepted…accepted Him as my Father and the Holy Spirit and I’m looking to have Him back in my life. I’m asking for prayers that I can accept God back in my life. It’s been over a week now that I’ve been listening to this app, and it’s been very refreshing and it’s opening my mind and almost my life to new thought process and to new beginnings. So, please I ask for your prayers that God can help me, that the ones in my life that I’ve hurt, that He can help them to forgive me and to make me a better person and husband. Lord I pray to you. Amen.

Good morning DAB family this is Margaret. I’ll go by Immaculate Margaret. That’s my name on Instagram. But I’m calling…I’m out here in Louisiana in the South. I’m normally in New Orleans. Right now, I’m in Gray right outside of Homer. Anyway, first of all I just want to thank all of you who call in, listen, write down on the Prayer Wall whatever you do, all your contributions to us daily is…we’re blessed, I’m blessed, I’m grateful. Thank you. This is my first time calling in…well…not actually. I called in before and I called this for my same favorite person, my grandmother. First, she had COVID. Now she has in the hospital with pneumonia, and I am praying that she fights like she always do. She’s a trooper and I mean that’s all…pretty much all I want to say about that. But I’m just praying that we all have a blessed day and that…I don’t know…this is why I never call in, 'cause I never know what to say but I’m gonna try to call in more. So, you guys have a blessed day. Thank you.

Hey DAB family this is Veronica calling in from Oklahoma City. I’ve called in before about my younger 20-year-old brother. He and his twin brother and their younger sister, they’re all three adopted and have a kidney…a genetic kidney disease called Alport’s and both boys are on dialysis. One twin is already on the kidney transplant list but my other brother who has had significantly more issues has his meeting today with the doctors for them to make a decision on whether or not they will accept him to the transplant list. He has had a lot of seizures, a lot of heart problems which complicate things and make him less likely to be accepted to the transplant list. So, please just pray for a favorable outcome. He is 20. He is a child. So, yeah please just pray that the doctors will accept him to the transplant list. It’s very…there’s a lot of decisions that they have to make and they’re not easy decisions. And I understand why they have to make these difficult decisions because a lot of people need organs. So, anyways please pray for him his name is Trent. Thank you.