Month: November 2022

Ezekiel 31:1-32:32, Hebrews 12:14-29, Psalm 113:1-114:8, Proverbs 27:18-20

Today is the 15th day of November, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian. It’s great to be here with you today. I guess this is the…the dead center day of the month of November. So, here we are in the middle again and continuing to take our steps forward. So, we are reading from the New International Version this week and our next step forward leads us back into the book of Ezekiel in the Old Testament. Today, Ezekiel chapters 31 and 32.

Commentary:

Okay so, in the book of Hebrews today, the writer is telling the Hebrews, and we remember Hebrews is written to Hebrews and so, the writer of Hebrews is telling the Hebrews, who believe in Jesus but who are being tempted by culture and oppression and persecution to sort of shrink back into traditional Judaism that they’re not going back to Mount Sinai, they’re not going back to a mountain that can be touched with burning fire and darkness and gloom, to the trumpet blast, all of the things that we saw when we left Egypt with the children of Israel and camped out at the mountain of God. That terrified the people. The writer of Hebrews is saying, you’re not going back to that. Rather, you have come to Mount Zion to the city of the living God that heavenly Jerusalem, you have come to the multitude of the Angels, you have come to Jesus, you have come to God the judge of all, you’ve come into a new covenant. And so, there is a warning here about sort of shrinking back and disappearing into the wall work, as it were. And that is basically look, if our ancestors were terrified at the voice of God in Mount Sinai so that the whole earth shook and trembled and we said we can’t hear the voice of God, and we needed Moses to speak on behalf of God, then what do you suppose? Because now the veil is torn and we can go into the Holy of Holies, we can go right into the presence of the Almighty God, who shook Mount Sinai. So, if you’re trying to go back to that tradition, now, knowing that there is no separation anymore, like how is that gonna work out? And so I quote from Hebrews, “see to it that you do not refuse Him who speaks, if they,” speaking of the ancestors around Mount Sinai, “if they did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, how much less will we. If we turn away from Him who warns us from heave. At that time, His voice shook the earth, but now He is promised once more, I will shake not only the earth but also the heavens.” And that part right there, once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heavens, is from the prophecy of Haggai. So, once more “I will shake not only the earth but also the heavens. The words, once more, indicate the removing of what can be shaken, that is created things, so that what cannot be shaken may remain. Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe for our God is a consuming fire.” So basically, we have Hebrew believers who believe in Jesus and were in the first century. They had become aware of this new covenant through Jesus. They had become aware that the sacrificial system of atonement was complete and they were a part of the people who work to let the entire world know this good news. But even among the other Hebrew people, most people did not get on board with this. If they had done away with Jesus, than the Jesus message was still being opposed, and so people who thought that there was an eminent arrival of Jesus and the kingdom of God was about to be set up and then that didn’t happen but what happened instead was marginalization and oppression and persecution that made them sort of shrink back into the wall work. Because the more that they believed in Jesus and the more that they shared their belief in Jesus, the more they were finding aggression against them and opposition against them. The more that they shared the good news, the more shaken their lives became, the more things got shaken up all around them. So, in quoting Haggai, I the writer of Hebrews is telling the Hebrew believers in Jesus, yeah, not only was Jesus foretold, this shaking was foretold. Nobody likes their lives to get shaken up. Nobody wants to get shaken upside down. We typically prefer our lives to be orderly and, in our control, fully, not shaken. And so, the believers in the first century, whose lives were being shaken, and they were trying to figure out what to do and they were disappearing back into Judaism, etc. etc. The writer of Hebrews is saying this is all part of it. This was foretold long before this. We find this in our books of prophecy what can shake is going to shake. And so, rather than looking at this as a bad thing or looking at this as like we’ve been fed a line here and this isn’t true and all that’s happening is my life is getting ruined, I’m going back to where I was before. The writer of Hebrews is saying no, this is how it’s supposed to be, everything that can shake is going to shake. And that might sound ominous and you may not want to go through this shaking but when you come outside the other side of the shaking, all that will be left in you is that which is unshakable. So, the writer of Hebrews is encouraging the Hebrew believers. And since we’re reading this in the Scriptures, encouraging us to be aware that life has its shaking’s and to embrace the shaking, knowing that it isn’t for nothing. God is establishing what cannot be shaken, and part of that is inside of us. And where we can take this to heart is in simply reflecting back, maybe back to the beginning of the year, maybe back to the beginning of the summer, back to any point that we want to and look at the ways that our lives have been shaken since that season began. And what has that shaking done to us. Nobody likes that, nobody likes it, so it's…it’s probably made is very, very uncomfortable. But we might find ourselves rebuking all kinds of things to get the shaking to stop, not understanding that this shaking may have purpose in our lives. Maybe we’ve been using all of our energy to stay in control because we don’t like the shaking. When actually God has been trying to shake loose our need for control. And so, we’re working against the whole process and what we need to understand is that in the end, all that can be shaken will shake, so that all that is left is that which is going to endure, that which cannot be shaken. It’s funny, we pray these kinds of prayer’s, make me a solid foundation, make me a rock, make me immovable, set my face like a flint. We’re saying like, make me stable, make me a pillar. And asking that, essentially, we’re saying is, strengthen me and shake all that can be shaken loose, so that all that remains is unshakeable. So, let’s give it some thought today, how are we shaking, what is being shaken, how are we responding to that? Are we responding in trust, knowing that as difficult as some of these seasons can be they are not purposeless, they are unto something. And that thing that they are unto is that we will not be shaken. Even having a little bit of perspective along those lines can be a tremendous help as we move through the shaky seasons of our lives.

Prayer:

And so, Father, we invite You into that. We’re not assuming that everything that ever happens to us that we find to be negative, is You shaking something loose in our lives, but we normally don’t even have this as a category. Anytime we find ourselves uncomfortable, we want to rebuke that thing, we want to get back to comfortable and You do too. But sometimes getting back to comfortable is getting back to the foundation of what cannot be shaken because there are things that need to be shaken loose. And that, may at times be a little uncomfortable, if we don’t have any perspective at all. So, Holy Spirit, give us perspective, show us the things that You are prying loose and shaking off of us, things that are weights, that are holding us down exactly like we were talking about yesterday, things that we’re carrying around that are deadweight, brambles that are around us that are keeping us from moving. We need those things to be shaken loose, so that we are unshakable. And so, give us perspective as we move through these seasons, we ask this in the name of Jesus. Amen.

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Prayer and Encouragements:

Shalom Daily Audio Bible, this is Duane from Wisconsin. All praise and glory to our wonderful Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Calling in today for Vincent who called in and is struggling with a question that many have asked, what is the meaning, why would God put love into your life and then take it away. Well, how about why would God put love into your life in the first place. People always want answers for that, we always look for the answers. We want to know what God knows. Go back to the garden. What did Satan tempt Eve with? Oh, you’ll know everything that God knows. And that’s what tempts us, we want understanding. And we strive for it and we struggle with it and it’s hard at times. You know, I’ve raised my kids well, why is one in jail? Why is another homeless? I haven’t seen my daughter in 5+ years. Why did my nephew die at such a young age. Yes, it’s hard. We understand, we wonder why. But there’s so much of God’s glory, that’s why He created us, in this place to live on. The sunset this time of the year, the fall colors, the look in my wife’s eye, know that yes, at some point we will all pass on. But we have to embrace that as Christians. We cannot fear death and not let sin be what, what we look at. We look at the good and glory that the Lord has given us. And we will pray for you, we pray that you will have the peace you are looking for. In Jesus name, Amen. And God Bless.

Hey, DAB family, Reday Alsovey here, aka Kathleen in Illinois. I was just listening on the tenth or eleventh, I think it was the tenth, and I heard Barbara’s call who said just lost her husband. And I just wanted to let you know, I’m praying for you, Barbara. We all, you know, as we get older, we know these things are coming but it’s just, got to be a shock when it does. I just am glad that you found this family, and I’m glad that the DAB can bring comfort to you. And I just lift you up to the Lord. Just want you to know that. Have a good day everybody.

Hey, Daily Audio Bible family. Hey, this is Crystal. Hey this is like the 3rd time I’ve got in this. And really, please go through this time. I just want to say hey, everybody. Hi, my names Crystal, I’m from Nottingham here in England. I have been listening to the Daily Audio Bible for about 4/5 years. I’ve listened to it all the way through. I’m literally, how I got through the entire Bible by listening to this amazing podcast. I just want to say, I hear all of your prayers and I do pray for people, especially when something really tugs at my heart. I will be in prayer for my brothers and sisters around the world. I’m actually on here today to just share, just how faithful God has been. So, I’ve been on here a couple of times, and I’ve actually submitted prayers, maybe three or four. Over the past 5 years, I’ve been struggling with an addiction to alcohol. I also home educated my school; I home educate my children. I have been incredibly worried at times and was really facing like, insanely dark days. Just like being worried about my children, being worried that you know, I’m so stuck in this addiction. January of this year, I went into rehab. And today, I have been sober about 9 ½ months. I can’t begin to express how God has been so, so good. Like, I just, you know, just to be free all of this time, it’s just so freeing for me. It’s been so helpful, like so beautiful for my family. And I’m just so grateful that God has delivered me, that He has set me free from this generational curse. I really wanted to go on but times gonna go. But I just wanted to say that God is faithful. Love you all. Speak against …

This is for Dennis and Walking in Love. Vincent, this is your brother in Baltimore. I heard your…your request, your prayer on the, on the 11th of November and you’re asking the question to the Lord, what is the meaning of it all? Solomon had the same question. And there are a lot in the Bible who have the same question. You’re not alone. I’m not gonna pretend I know the answer though. Because that would be just endless. But I pray that the Lord comes along side of you and give you comfort and peace, in your sense of loss. And I pray that you would receive the comfort and strength in you. And that He would meet you at the point of your need. We pray this in Jesus name. Amen.

This is John in Florida. I am so wiped out. We just had a second hurricane come through here. It’s like we’re in the crossfire here in Central Florida. Just got things cleaned up from Ian and now Nicole comes through here yesterday and just pretty much, all the work I did, out the window. I found this program about ten years ago and I haven’t listened in quite a while, but I listened today. And it’s ironic is you know; I was thinking about the Book of Job. And in chapter 40 verse 6, it says the Lord answered him out of the whirlwind and told him gird up his loins and He will answer him. And that’s the whole of this point that God would just answer me. Because I am so wiped out and exhausted. I’m not going to go into all the losses I’ve had in my family. But just here on my property, these two hurricanes, it just is one thing after another. So, I thought maybe, if I’m not hearing from God, maybe some other people out there, I know it doesn’t sound logical but maybe some other people out there, I mean, John’s such an uncommon name, right? But maybe some other people out there are praying for me if God won’t answer me. Pray for me.

Hey family, this is Rosanna from East Tennessee. I’ve been listening for about 3 years now and Brian, I just want to say, oh my goodness, thank you. I, my…my spiritual walk has been, my walk with Jesus has been so much deeper since I’ve been able to get in the Word with the Daily Audio Bible. And so, I’m calling today to thank Brian for creating Sleep, A Contemplating Journey. And I want to say, I feel like this is, that this music is anointed. Because not only is it peaceful and you can play it through the night, but it literally impacts the spiritual realm. When the spoken word of God is spoken into a house. I have kids who have struggled with night terrors and I’m going, that’s demonic. And when…when you have Scripture that is spoken into the spiritual world, which is, when we speak out Scripture, there is power in the Word of God. I mean, Scripture tells us that, that the Word of God is sharper than any two-edge sword and it can cut between bone and marrow and it’s the only offensive armor weapon that we have. So, Brian, thank you, thank you, thank you. I’m letting it play through the night on replay for my kids as they sleep. There is power in the name of Jesus and there is power in His spoken Word. So, Brian, thank you. And guys I pray for you every single day. I don’t call in that much but I just wanted to say I love you and Brian; the Lord has used you. And guys, Isaiah ___ says ___. So, it’s really true. If we are receiving from something then we need to give back. We really need to give back.

Ezekiel 29:1-30:26, Hebrews 11:32-12:13, Psalms 112:1-10, Proverbs 27:17

Today is the 14^th day of November welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I’m Brian it is wonderful to be here with you today as we approach the center of another one of our months together. And we reach the beginning of a month or the middle of a month or the end of a month the same way, step-by-step day by day together. And, so, our next step forward leads us back into the book of Ezekiel. This week we’re reading from the New International Version. And today, Ezekiel chapters 29 and 30.

Commentary:

Okay. So, for the last several days in the letter to the Hebrews we’ve been walking down what is famously known as the hall of faith. And the writer of Hebrews spends quite a generous amount of time, walking through the biblical stories that we’ve been walking through all year while pointing out very specifically that these stories all had something in common. The people had faith in the promises of God regardless of what they saw. And, so, in effect their stories couldn’t have been their stories without faith. They may have had stories. They would have just been totally different stories and we probably wouldn’t be reading about that, but for faith. So, this hall of faith is this march through the biblical narrative of examples of people’s great faith that changed the story, stories that wouldn’t have been the same without faith. So, we’ve kinda been walking through the hall of faith for a couple days. We finished the hall of faith today and that little journey and by revealing to us that our story as well is not the same story without faith. Our story requires faith just like the examples of the people in the hall of faith. And we saw as we walked down the hall of faith that most of these people believed in a promise that they never got to see. They knew they were carrying the story forward and their faith didn’t always just make them blessed and prosperous. Some of them died for their faith, believing that what was to come in faith was greater than what they had to lose, which was their lives. The writer of Hebrews is revealing to us that we’re no different. Faith is the ingredient that is irreplaceable in the recipe that is our lives. So, as we’re coming out of the hall of faith we are told how to not be stuck or how to lose weight, how to understand that faith is the central piece of our lives and not all the other things that entangle us. And, so, we encountered a very famous passage in the letter to the Hebrews. And I quote, “since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles.” Many translations tell us to throw off every weight, the things that we are carrying that are excess, that aren’t doing anything, the things that we are dragging around that are slowing our progress down that do not build and encourage and establish our faith. So, Hebrews says, “since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith.” Basically, we’re being told that we’re running a race, an endurance race, a long race, like a marathon, a life-sized marathon. If you’ve ever seen a marathon or seen that kind of race, whether in person or on TV you understand that the runners are very light weight as far as what they’re carrying with them. You don’t see people with 80-pound backpacks running marathons because the excess weight would keep them from enduring enough to complete the race. You don’t see runners following a well-marked path, the path of the race who decide simply to run through fields of brambles and entangle themselves and fall down and get all caught up trying to stay on course. But if we think about our lives and think about our lives using the metaphor of a marathon then we realize we’ve been trying to run this marathon in a way that we can’t really achieve. We’ve been cutting through fields of brambles. We’ve been carrying backpacks. We’ve been chaining things around our ankles. We’ve been trying to run a marathon with all the weights that drag us down, that don’t keep faith out in front of us as the central thing that we are running toward. Looking at the examples in the hall of faith we see that the promise was the prize. Faith was the path. Endurance was what needed to be built up to follow the path to the promise. And this is a good time to point out what we’ve pointed out before, because the further that we go into the New Testament, and it’s not as if we have forever to go, but the further that we go toward the end of the year the more we’re going to see this theme on every page, that endurance is part of the story, that there is no escaping endurance, that even runners who want to win a race have to endure. They have to train then they have to run the race with endurance in order to win. And, so, the writer of Hebrews tells us as we ended our reading in Hebrews today, and I quote, “therefore, strengthen your feeble arms and weak knees. Make level paths for your feet, so that the lame may not be disabled but rather healed.” What we are learning is that there is a precedent for faith. We walked down the hall of faith and saw all the examples, that that precedent is attached to our lives, that faith is the era personable part of our story, and that faith requires endurance, that we keep running in faith, even though we can’t see the promise. Because it is faith that tells us it’s there. It’s out there. We must keep going. We cannot give up, we cannot surrender. We must endure. We must persevere. It’s out there, we can see it through the eyes of faith. These kinds of things are so encouraging when they come up in the Bible because life is an endurance race, is it not? Like that’s a good metaphor. And there are times where we feel like we are weighed down to the point that we can’t move. And there are times we feel like we have endured until there’s nothing left. And we have run in the dark when our faith seems dim. Life has a way of pulling us off the path and inviting us into the brambles where we find ourselves entangled in all kinds of things, weights that we don’t need to be carrying around, shackles that aren’t ours, things that we’re dragging and carrying that they’re best let go of because they’re not going to be helpful on the race ahead, whether that be wounds in our lives, assumptions about other people, anything in our story. Anything that we’re believing about anything, we’re or sending out our faith in that direction. And sometimes we can be believing things about ourselves that we have honestly been set free of. We can carry weights around inside of ourselves because of regret or failure or things that have been done to us and we carry these things as a burden like it’s the burden of our lives when we have honestly been set free from those things and our Father, is saying hey sweetheart, son, son, you can let that go. You can put that down right here. You don’t have to carry that another step. It’s not your story anymore. Your story is a promise in front of you that you run toward in faith and let go of everything that is tangling you. And, so, as we continue through this day that is worthy of contemplation, that is worthy of inviting the Holy Spirit into. What are the tangles? What are the things that I have entangled myself in that now are trapping me? What are the weights that I am carrying around that are slowing everything down and making me exhausted so that I don’t feel like I can persevere, so that I don’t feel like I have the endurance to finish this race. Those things need examination. It doesn’t mean that we just selfishly jettison everything and everybody because it would make our lives so much simpler if we didn’t have any entanglements whatsoever. It’s worth inviting the Holy Spirit into what is the dead weight that I am carrying around. Because that’s what it is. Dead weight. I am carrying around dead weight in my life and I have full permission by the lover of my soul to set that weight down and run forward without it.

Prayer:

Holy Spirit, we all have these things. We all have things that have slowed us down and are slowing us down that are entangling us and trapping us and weighing us down. Each of our stories is different. You know all of our stories. You have been here with us every step of the way. You know what’s going on in each one of us. Show us the dead weight that we may set down and run with freedom because we’re going to need more endurance and perseverance. Letting go of the things that are weighing us down is necessary for our future. Help us Holy Spirit, we pray. In the name of Jesus, we ask. Amen.

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Community Prayer and Praise:

This is Jersey Jane for Jesus. It is November 10^th. I heard Barbara call in. Barbara, your husband of 41 years passed away you said at one in the morning, and you downloaded the Sleep album by Brian. It rested his restlessness. It calmed him. You said he passed away with a smile. Oh, Barbara, I’m so sorry but as you said he is lifted now to the Creator to our Lord. He is in heaven, but it leaves you alone down here until it is your time. So, I pray for you for comfort through Jesus. And Barbara, I was astounded that because of your grief you still reached out to Kayla. You still had the heart to think of other people during your time of deep grief. You are precious Barbara. You are loved. God sees your work. He sees how you care. I…I have never heard of someone losing a partner and then in turn praying for someone else. Kayla, call in to us. Let us know you are OK. God bless.

Hi Barbara this is God’s Life Speaker I’m listening to November 10^th and you came on as the first prayer after Brian’s commentary to tell us that your husband is now in the arms of Jesus and after 41 years. And I just loved your testimony. It was 1:00 o'clock in the morning and this is your story, yet I wanted to just…I’ve never heard anybody say that even though they were there with their loved one they were wrestling but as they departed you felt that you saw a smile on your husband’s face, and I’ve never heard anybody say that. And my mom had had a stroke and it was another 43 days before she would depart and be with Jesus. And she couldn’t smile and that was like the one thing that we were missing and when she took her last breath also at one in the morning, she left us with a smile. So, Barbara, that was so beautiful and it was just so heartwarming to feel like we were there with you and your husband. You are now on a different path as this is airing behind and in a new place that we just hold you up. In the name of Jesus we pray for your strength to be given by the Lord, that your joy would be of the Lord, that He would just be flooding your mind with memories of the past 41 plus years, that you are surrounded by beautiful believers and family and all that just cherished your husband is a friend, dad, son whomever…whomever is there, that it is just joyful even in the hard spots, but that you cling to that smile because you know why he was smiling. He was standing in the arms of the savior. Amen.

My heart was touched today by a call from Barbara. In tears you told us that your husband had just passed away on November 10^th. We care about you Barbara. We love you and want to support you. I was amazed that in your tears you also shared with a grateful heart how much DAB has encouraged you and helped you and I really related to your call. My husband passed away in a similar situation three years ago and DAB has always been an encouragement to me and a comfort. And I know it will be for you as you go through this journey. Know that I’m praying for you, I care about you, and I know there are many others who feel the same way right now. You’re loved.

Please please please family pray for my nephew Sam. He’s a marine veteran. He has PTSD and he stepped out on his marriage. He’s got four beautiful children and now he’s suicidal and it has been…has been admitted to veterans’ hospital. He knows he did something so foolish and we’re just desperate for him and his…his children can’t lose their daddy. And we just pray for some miracle for their marriage. Please pray for his wife Kelsey and their four beautiful children. Lord please please please make a way where there seems to be no way. Rescue Sam. Rescue his family…the family and thank you family for praying. Just in desperate need. Thank you so much. This is Sarah from Colorado.

Hello Daily Audio Bible I’m asking you all to pray with me. I wanna thank the Lord for the sister who called in from Waco TX on 10/21. It was the last call, and it is so awesome how God is working in your life, how He’s blessing you in your recovery. I am so so proud of you. And I just thank You Lord for putting people in this sister’s life who can identify with her and love her. And I thank the Lord for everybody who’s been in recovery that’s calling in and talking about being set free. I’m thankful for the guy who works in the prison who called in talking about the water and comparing it to the Holy Spirit. That was a great analogy. God bless your work. I’m praying for all the ministry that goes on in the jails and the prisons, that the prisoners would be set free just like God has set all of us free who have been in prison to sin, that God would give them freedom. And I’m thanking God for Echo Hope who called in on November the 7^th when it was played. Praise God for how He is working in your life. Joyful James, how all the letters have made a difference in that prison. And pray for my friend Marty who’s on Hospice who’s trying to decide whether to stay with her brother or what. God bless you guys. Bye-bye.

DAB family I have been a long long long-time listener and this podcast has been a huge blessing to me in my life. All throughout the trials and tribulations I’ve had this has been my foundation. Every morning before I start my day I am blessed by this podcast, by your spirits, by your prayers. Each and every one of you are truly a blessing in my life because you pour out your heart and soul to my God my Lord my Savior and to thank you each and every one of you. And I’m just calling now finally after so many years because of the podcast that just played where a guy said I don’t understand. I just don’t understand. And I feel you my brother because I…I have gone through the same…same state of mind, same perspective that I just don’t understand, especially because I’ve gone through my Job moments. I’ve lost everything and I am the only one left in my family that’s alive trying to honor their lives the way that I live my own by honoring God and allowing Him to be the forefront of everything that I do. But you’re gonna have moments where you just don’t understand but you gotta take that leap of faith. It’s all about that faith that you have to have and remembering the blessings even when the prayers don’t go answered and your voice is not heard. Have faith. In Jesus’ name I pray that we all continue to stay in love. Hoping you all have a blessed day.

Ezekiel 27:1-28:26, Hebrews 11:17-31, Psalm 111:1-10, Proverbs 27:15-16

Today is the 13th day of November, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian and it’s great to be here with you, as we move into a brand-new, shiny, sparkly week and move our way through the center of another one of our months together and we only have one more after this one, before we complete this revolution through the Bible. I don’t want to start thinking about that just yet though. We got a ways to go, a lot of territory to cover and what a joy it is to be able to gather around the Global Campfire every day and move forward together. So, we got a brand-new week, it’s out in front of us, how we live it will be the story of this week and the story of this week will combine with all of the other weeks of this month and we’ll tell the story of this month right, and then all those months are gathered together and tell the story of our year. But here we are with a brand-new week in front of us. So, let’s walk the path of wisdom and let’s continue to immerse ourselves in the Scriptures each and every day. So, it’s a brand-new week, we’ll read from the New International Version this week and will go back and pick up where we left off, which takes us back into the book of Ezekiel. Today, we will read chapters 27 and 28.

Prayer:

Father, we thank You for Your word and we thank You for this brand-new week that we have entered into, we thank You for all of the weeks of our lives and Your faithfulness to us in all of it, even when we were anything but faithful, we love You, Lord. There is no love like Your love and through faith, we have this relationship intimately with You, as we are learning as we read through the book of Hebrews and walk down all of these examples of how faith was the irreplaceable part of this story, that this story couldn’t have happened without faith and that is true of us. Our story couldn’t have happened without faith and so we put our faith and our trust in You. Our loyalty and allegiance is to You. Come Holy Spirit, and lead us into all truth, we pray. In the name of Jesus, we ask. Amen.

Prayer and Encouragements:

Hello, my sisters and brothers, this is Sunset Cindy, calling November 9th. And I just listened to Taylor, bless your heart sweetie. You are in despair; you’re having such a time that you’re just tired and you wanna go to heaven. And I just wanna tell you that Jesus does love you, God loves you so much. He sent His Son for you, to die so that that would prove to you how much He loves you and there’s nothing you can do, to end that love or fall out of favor. So, I just wanna say, when you’re feeling like you just don’t want to go on, if you could just pray to Jesus, all you have to say is His name. Say His name, over and over. And you know how the Israelites, those people, they just kept falling down too. God’s chosen people just kept falling down. He kept picking them up and they would head off on another journey and He would be with them. And that is your case as well, sweetheart. You just, you’re on a very hard struggling journey, right now. And I want you to stay strong and do not leave this world by your own hand. Your daughter, she will just be in total agony. All, all of the people that love you and I know this from this happening to my children when their father left by his own hand. They’ve been struggling now for over 30 years. Jesus is walking with them though but let me tell you, it’s a struggle. Please, just leave when Jesus takes you home. Okay, not on your own and just call out to Jesus and see yourself holding His hand. Jesus, hold my hand, just, and He’ll lift your head up and walk with you. I love you; we all love you.

Hi, this is Grateful in Tennessee, yeah, I haven’t really called in. I’ve been a part of this community for a few years, from a standpoint of listening and praying but not really calling in. But I’m very grateful for each and every one of you guys. It thrills me whenever you guys come on and share and talk and pray. And I couldn’t imagine not being a part of this community. But my, my best friend called me yesterday and he said that his mom, she’s got cancer in her eye, and it’s gone back into her sinuses and it’s just a matter of time. She’s been kind of hard to deal with. She was, I mean, she was like my second mom growing up and she always called me her son number two. But she’s gotten, you know, kind of cranky and onery, and he said you gotta realize now that she’s so isolated now and she can’t hear that well or see that well and she’s kind of stuck in her house, so she kind of understands why she might be a little bit like that. But she’s also such a, such a joy. I mean, she was always so good to me, so good to us. As from, you know, being rambunctious teenagers, to street preachers, to whatever else we’ve tried to do. But anyway, I told him, I said I would make sure that I got you guys to pray for her cause I know that you will. And her name is Sue and she’s, she’s a believer, she, she helped me so much in my younger days learning about, about Jesus. So, if you guys could pray for Sue and pray for her comfort and peace. And just, that she feels a connection and connected. And pray for my friend Tom, that he, that he has the patience that he needs to help his mom out and all that. You guys are awesome, and I appreciate that, and I know that you will do that. This is Grateful in Tennessee. Thank you.

Hey family, it’s JC from Washington. Don’t really know how to ask for this prayer other than just to say it, not, no real way to sugar coat it. But my middle stepdaughter’s kind of been estranged from, I’ve had a little bit of contact with her over a few years. But she’s definitely been estranged from her mother for seven or eight years. And I’ve been in touch with her here and there and just kind of these cryptic interactions and kind of new something was up. But last weekend we found out she had gone to jail for some threat chargers among other things. And then, we found out from her boyfriend’s mother that she had been basically crashing in their basement for the last year or so. And she’s on fentanyl. Then we found out that she’s living with this dude in Kirkland who’s potentially trafficking her and she’s 18-years-old. So, she’s you know, he’s got her phone, he’s kind of monitoring all her texts and calls so, I haven’t been able to get ahold of her. So, it’s a pretty dire situation. And it appears there’s nothing we can really do about it. You know, so, and I know I’ve kind of expressed to her multiple times, without accusing her of you know, being an addict that you know, I’d be willing to help her. It’s just, she’s not really acknowledging that she needs help. So, I know, when it comes to addiction, there’s, if they’re not reaching out for help and they haven’t reached rock bottom you know, there’s nothing we can do. So, I know this fentanyl the kids usually end up dead. So, just prayers for her, God knows her name. Thank guys, love you. Bye.

This is Kathy from Kentucky. I continue to need your prayers. It’s a difficult time for me just trying to work at my age and keep up with inflation on gas and groceries, maintain my health. I keep my home together, getting in ready for winter. I think I’ve got rid of the bed bugs and mice. Just a lot of different things happening in my life when I look back over the last four to five years, I’ve lost six family members. And then we had COVID and now we have inflation to deal with. It’s not easy to live alone. And sometimes it’s very lonely and very hard. And I ask your prayers for me. Thank you. Kathy from Kentucky, in Jesus name.

Ezekiel 24:1-26:21, Hebrews 11:1-16, Psalms 110:1-7, Proverbs 27:14

Today is the 12^th day of November welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I am Brian and it’s great to be here with you. Oddly, this concludes our…it’s taken us 12 days but this will conclude our first full week in the month of November and we’ll continue our journey full speed ahead, which will lead us back to where we left off yesterday, and that happens to be back in the book of Ezekiel. Today we will read from the New English Translation, which is what we’ve been doing this week and we’ll read Ezekiel chapters 24, 25 and 26 today.

Prayer:

Father, we thank You for Your word. We thank You for another day to gather around it. We thank You for the presence of Your Holy Spirit leading us into all truth as we allow the Scriptures to seep down into our lives watering the soil of our hearts. And we thank You Father for a bountiful harvest in our lives, the fruit of the Spirit. May it be ever-growing within us, and may we share it freely with all that we encounter. We love You and we take this moment and make it a moment of gratitude. We love You. We thank You, we worship You, we trust You, and we pray these things in the name of Jesus. Amen.

Announcements:

dailyaudiobible.com, that is home, home of the Global Campfire, that is where you can find out what’s going on around here. The Daily Audio Bible app does that as well in the palm of your hand. And, so, just look for Daily Audio Bible in the app store that you use and you should be able to find it. And, so, certainly check that out.

Check out the Community section.

Check out the Daily Audio Bible Shop.

And then this is just a reminder, brand-new resource not in the Daily Audio Bible Shop out there all over the world and all of the…the music outlets is Sleep, a contemplative journey our brand-new release for this season that we are navigating into, this really busy, stressful, joyful, uplifting, wonderful time of year that is heading straight at us day by day, step-by-step. And you can get Sleep wherever you get music, wherever it is that you download your music, whatever…whatever that may be wherever you may be you should be able to find it. So, check that out.

If you want to partner with the Daily Audio Bible, thank you humbly, thank you, we wouldn't…we wouldn’t be day by day step-by-step together if it weren’t step-by-step together. And, so, thank you for your partnership. There is a link on the homepage at dailyaudiobible.com. If you’re using the app, you can press the Give button in the upper right-hand corner, or the mailing address is PO Box 1996 Spring Hill Tennessee 37174.

And if you have a prayer request or encouragement, you can hit the Hotline button in the app or you can dial 877-942-4253.

And that’s it for today. I am Brian I love you and I will be waiting for you here tomorrow.

Community Prayer and Praise:

Good morning DAB family this is Saved by Grace in California. I’d just like to lift up that…the gentleman who came on and asked for prayer. It’s been a week and his wife, and his daughter has left him. And Father God I just lift up my brother to You Father and I just pray that he would see Your hand in this situation. Father, he says that he…his church…and he sounds like he’s a member Father but I just pray Lord that You will show him and be ever present in this situation for our brother. Comfort his heart Father God that’s grieving the loss right now Lord. I pray for restoration. I pray for Father God for a new relationship not amending of the old Father God, but I pray new total newness in this situation. I pray that they will put You first in their marriage and in the rearing of their child. I ask God that You would give him favor in the eyes of the wife Lord God and that there’ll be a forgivingness Father, that You would remove all resentment, bitterness, and unforgiveness in this situation in the name of Jesus. And I pray that thy will be done forever in this…in his life Father God and in this situation and I thank You for the powerful testimony that this couple will have that will lead others Father God to trust in You and to rely on You in the name of Jesus I pray. Amen.

Hey good morning Daily Audio Bible family this is John calling from Westminster MA I hope everyone is doing well. Today is the 9^th of November and it’s the 313^th day of the year, which is just mind boggling. Brian thank you so much for your commitment and loyalty to Jesus Christ and for your outpouring of love that is the love of Christ in your heart to everybody here in the community. We are great benefactors of the mighty work that God is doing in and through you and we’re entirely blessed that you and your family are so on fire for the Lord. And that fire continues to spread and we’re glad to be caught in it. We’re Catching Fire so thank you Brian. I wanted to call in today to pray for Prodigal Princess from Massachusetts. I heard your prayer request play on the 312^th day of the year so the 8^th of November and you were just talking about how you’re a child in the faith and that you are…you desire to become strong in the faith so that…you know right now you knew you need milk, but you know you do desire that you can have solid food. Sister, you are…you are on the right path and on the right track. You’ve got strongholds that are broken in Jesus’ name, chains that are of bound you that are broken in Jesus’ name. You’re a new child and a new creation. What had you held back in the past is projecting you propelling you forward into the future, and I can’t wait to hear your testimony. This is John from Massachusetts.

This is Hands to Heaven. Father God, I lift up the troubled ones to You to night. You know them Lord, the ones who are caught in the storms of life and are so busy bailing out the boat they haven’t had time for more than an SOS prayer. Each time they feel like they’ve made headway another wave of trials complications and difficulties swamps the boat and they’re once more struggling just to keep afloat. Strengthen the troubled ones, Lord. Help them to carry on knowing that You haven’t abandoned them but are right beside them encouraging them. Give them the faith to keep their eyes above the waves. Fill them with the assurance that storms always end, and many are followed by a rainbow, the promise that You will never break Your word, never forsake Your children, never send more than You can help us bear. And Lord when the waves cease, and the rain abates let the troubled ones turn to You and thanksgiving and praise and let them tell the others whose boats are still floundering in deep waters that You are faithful, and You are present in each moment. Let them share how You helped them through their problem into Your promises in Jesus’ name I pray. This is Hands to Heaven. God bless you all.

Good afternoon, everybody it is I, the Slow Boat. A young man called on November 1^st. His first name is Jonathan and I think his last name is Santos or Lopez. I didn’t quite get it. Anyway, he asked for our prayers as he reaches his 20^th birthday and he’s concerned about a job. He’s reaching a new stage in his life. Jonathan, I would like to praise you for two reasons. First, you took your courage in your hands and called us. Second, you are serious about moving on to your next stage. While I want you to have every success, that you get a great job that pays well that teaches you a lot, that if you go on in your education you get good grades in whatever courses you take and you finish them up with honors. The DAB is a family, and we welcome you. Stay in touch. Call if you need to. I am praying for you as you requested and happy birthday.

Ezekiel 23:1-49, Hebrews 10:18-39, Psalm 109:1-31, Proverbs 27:13

Today is the 11th day of November, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian and it’s great to be here with you today. It’s great to come around the Global Campfire together. And as we often say, let it go, leave it at the entrance, this little circle around this Global Campfire is a safe place for us. We’re here to allow the Scriptures to wash into our lives and speak to us and honestly, being here right now around the Global Campfire together with you, this is one of my very favorite places in the world to be. And so, it is great to be here with you today, as we gather and take the next step forward. And that next step forward, leads us back into the book of Ezekiel today, we will read Ezekiel chapter 23.

Prayer:

Thank You, Father, for Your word. Thank You for another day. Thank You for allowing us to be in the book of Ezekiel and read the letter to the Hebrews, to be in the Psalms, to be in the Proverbs and that this just is a relationship that never ends. Not only a relationship with You that never ends but with a relationship with Your Word, day-by-day, step-by-step, it is guiding us, transforming us, challenging us, restoring us and giving us the promises of things yet to come, and we hope in these things. We thank You for what we’re learning in the book of Hebrews, from a Hebrew context, that we, that we can enter the Most Holy place, that we can move through the curtain into the Holy of Holies, that we, through Jesus, can have intimacy and relationship with You, Lord. And this is the most spectacular thing that we, can have a relationship with the Almighty, the Most High. So, we worship You, we thank You for making this possible, because it wasn’t something we earned, it wasn’t something that we did, we weren’t so righteous that one day You said I can’t keep You out of my presence you’re too righteous. We were never that, on our own we will never be that. You are that, You are righteous, and You have come to restore us and through You, we have been made righteous. We rejoice in this, we rejoice in You and praise Your holy name in the name of Jesus, we declare these things. Amen.

Announcements:

dailyaudiobible.com is home base and that is where you can find out what is going on around here. The Daily Audio Bible app does that as well and you can get that from the App Store that is connected to your device, so check that out. Check out the different sections. Check out the Community Section. This is where the Prayer Wall is, this is where links are to get connected on social media. Check out the Daily Audio Bible Shop. There are resources there for the journey that we are on.

And if you want to partner with the Daily Audio Bible. Thank you, humbly, thank you. There is a link on the homepage at dailyaudiobible.com. If you’re using the app, you can press the Give button in the upper…upper right-hand corner or the mailing address is P.O. Box 1996 Springhill, Tennessee 37174.

And as always if have a prayer request or encouragement, you can hit the Hotline button in the app or you can dial 877-942-4253.

And that’s it for today, I’m Brian, I love you and I’ll be waiting for you here, tomorrow.

Prayer and Encouragements:

Rest in peace DAB family. This is David from Tyrone. And I have been with the DAB community now for almost 4 years. It has been quite a journey. I’ve gotten so much out of listening to Brian and his insights into Scripture. Haven’t come out to the Community much on the Prayer Line. I’ve really only done it once and that was in January of 21 when my mom passed. But last night at the hospital with my wife, we got some news that she has several abscesses on her colon and doctors had to go in last night and do an emergency procedure to put a line in to allow the infection to drain in hopes that it would promote healing of her colon. And if that doesn’t work, we’re looking at having to have at least a third of her colon removed. And so, I’ve reached out to my church family, I’ve reached out to my friends and family, asking for their prayers. And I would be remiss if I didn’t ask this DAB Community to pray for my wife, as well. So, that’s what I’m doing, I’m asking that each and every one of you would pray for my wife Lynn. Pray for comfort and healing and help us to just be strong in our faith. Understand God’s will and accept that but most important Lord, we’re praying for her, her healing. So, thank you family. And God bless you.

Hey, this one goes out to Brian. This is Micah in Awe, in Kansas City. I just wanted to mention how excellent your commentary was today. The Scriptures were so awesome, the end of Hebrews. I don’t remember it ever being, as like, caught up in the end of Hebrews as, er, this part of Hebrews as I was today. Like, catching that Scripture so thoroughly today. It just really, really hit me hard today. Made me almost, almost weep; I’m a weeper. Almost made me weep. I was like, daaaang. We are grafted in, like you said, that’s in Romans but like I really felt that this was towards the Israelites, but I know that we’re grafted in. And God’s saying that He’s no longer gonna hold our sins against us and like, that’s, that was the change, that’s like, Him telling us things are gonna be different, right. He saw all of our, all of our error, all of our inability to follow the law and do what was right. And He loves us so much, He loves us and even though we were like a cheating spouse, and like, the Scriptures point that out, He still cared for us so much, that He made a way for us. And I felt that in my Spirit, like when I’m doing something wrong, the Spirit shows me and convicts me of it and then sometimes the Spirit, like, nudges me and pushes me towards doing something that I believe is what you would call good, like, that God wants that’s good. And man, I just love this whole thing. And like, those things that you said, literally the word “grafted in” came to my mind as I heard that, like, this is for the Israelites, but I’m grafted in. And then, in your commentary you said that, so that you said that, reminds me of these themes, that the Holy Spirit, gives to His people. Like, all of, all of us Christians share these messages from the Holy Spirit and I really, it’s just confirmation that God is in this. I love you.

Hey, DAB family, this is Your Sister Ashley from California. And I just wanted to come on here and share with you all, an update about my son Jackson. He has been in and out of the hospital, we’ve been admitted for low sodium and blood pressure issues and all sorts of fun stuff. But today, last night, November 7th we came home and so he’s home right now. And thank You Jesus, thank You so much Lord, for just Your goodness and Your mercy and the modern and Your grace and medicine and just everything that You’re doing. And guys, I just wanna say thank you too for praying. It’s like, it’s like your prayers are all these pearls, like these beads of pearls that have just like wrapped the room and decorated. It’s such a beautiful and comforting thing to think of. But I also wanted to share with you. Brian, we go the Sleep soundtrack and one time we were in the hospital and Jackson was having a hard time sleeping. And he said, I put it on for him and then a little bit later when he had woken up again, he said, mommy, put on the guy from the DAB again. So, I just wanted to say thank you for that because it has really been a blessing. And I just want to let you know guys that I’m praying for you because praying for you helps my heart too. So, I love you DAB family and I’ll let you know what’s going on soon.

Hello, my beautiful DAB family. This is my very first time calling. But I pray for you all right there and then when the petitions are requested. This is my fifth year studying the Bible with you all. I just want to thank Brian for standing before us, with his wonderful mission of yours and your family. I’m so grateful for that. And I wanted to share that, before the release of the Sleep, Contemplative Journey was released, I already was falling asleep with repeating the same study of the day. I’m so grateful for this new release, it helps me contemplate more than the Bible and God’s Word, rather than my problems. I am so grateful; thank you, I love you all.

So, this is Vincent, Walking in Love. At least, I used to, or I try to. I don’t know, even if this will get played but I’m really trying to understand our Heavenly Father. How, how in His name does He put love in your life and take it away? What is the point of all of this, of any of this? And I’m not trying to be funny. I just don’t get it. I just don’t get it. God bless, you all.