Month: March 2023

Numbers 15:17-16:40, Mark 15:1-47, Psalm 54:1-7, Proverbs 11:5-6

Today is the 11th day of March, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian, it’s fantastic to be here with you today as we gather wherever we are, all over the earth, together in one place here at the Global Campfire, as we take the next step forward together. We have been working our way through the Book of Numbers, which is what we’ll…what we will return to today. The children of Israel and reached the precipice of entering into the Promised Land. Spies went into the land and came back with a report that essentially demoralized the people, who then rebelled. They have been sent back into the wilderness and we’ve discussed all of this over the last couple of days, as we encountered it. The children of Israel now, are in the wilderness a new generation is beginning to emerge. And so, we will see some things that are review because a new generation is emerging and is being taught what the expectations are as the people once again move toward the Promised Land. It’s just gonna take, it’s gonna take 40 years until the previous generation dies out. And so, off we go. We’re still working our way toward this Promised Land, and we are in the wilderness with the children of Israel. We’re reading from the Christian Standard Bible this week, which will be today. Numbers chapter 15 verse 17 through 16 verse 40.

Prayer:

Jesus, we love You and as we come to the story of Your crucifixion, Your trial, and death on our behalf in the Gospel of Mark, we take this moment to reflect upon it affect. In fact, Holy Spirit, we ask that You guide us to reflect upon it throughout this day, even as we continue to move through this…this season of repentance, that we know of as lent. May we take it to heart that You suffered tremendously on our behalf. That You loved us, even as You were being rejected by the ones that You love. We confess, we have rejected You in big and small ways over-and-over, repeatedly. And You have always come for us and welcomed us because like the people who were trying to destroy You, we don’t know what we’re doing any more than they did. Without Your Holy Spirit, we are wandering in the dark, completely unaware of what is happening. With the guidance of Your Holy Spirit, we realize the magnitude of what has happened in the world. With You coming to reveal that You are a Emmanuel, that God is with us and that there is no separation. We can enjoy fellowship, intimacy, friendship with You. So, we take these moments, as we encounter this story in the Gospel of Mark, to take the weightiness, to sit with it, to understand that sin leads to death. And that is what was supposed to be our story and You rescued us and we are eternally grateful. We will be grateful in a million years; we will be worshiping You for this in a billion years. We love You and we thank You and we pray this in Your name. Amen.

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Prayer and Encouragements:

Hey DAB fam, this is Beloved in Texas and I’ve got some news on Thursday, that was a little unexpected. I was having my daughter assessed with the school psychiatrist for a possible ADHD and it, turns out we’re not really in that but her main problem is major depressive disorder and she’s only 12. So, I just wanna lift up all of us mothers, who have children with mental illness. Father, I just thank You so much for Your word and for Your grace and for Your sovereignty. Lord, I ask that You give us grace and peace and a special kind of wisdom in discernment, when we’re trying to love our children who have mental illness. Father, it breaks my heart to know that my daughter has felt the way that I have felt, which in turn, helps me to understand a little bit of how much it breaks Your heart. And I just continue to ask for that peace, I ask for supernatural joy in our home. All of the homes, supernatural peace and joy in the home in which they’re people living with mental illness. I’m just gonna leave it at that, cause I don’t even know what else to pray. In Jesus name. Amen. I love you DAB fam. And we are, Sparky and I, and the girl’s dad, biological father, working as hard as we can with the recommendations that were given by the psychiatrist. And we’re gonna, we’re gonna see victory of this, in Jesus name.

Hey DAB family, it’s James the Teacher. Just taking a moment from my work day to reach out and pray for everyone who is financially hurting right now. Father God, I want to pray that You’ll give them, give us strength, courage, wisdom, understanding to face the situations that we’re in. Lord, the grace of understanding and insight to see where we have been doing things wrong. God, the courage to face issues that we know how to fix but we’re just scared. Provision for opportunities to bring in extra income when it’s truly necessary. You’re grace God, to do extra work where we don’t have the energy to do it. Your word and Your Spirit, pour into us to replenish us when we are already exhausted. God, and yes, justice, where we have been ripped off and oppressed, deceived, robbed. But Lord, at the bottom, at the top, around in all of it, let it be for Your glory, that we might be able to not just get but give to Your kingdom, to Your causes, to glorify You. We love You and we praise You. In Jesus name.

Hey guys, it’s Sparky. I just wanted to reach out there, I wanted to say, hey. It’s not a social club and you guys that don’t ring out about your problems, some of us that do, and we’ve gotten comfortable with ringing out. We have problems, ring them out. We all have struggles and trials, every day. We all sit there and go, my problems is not as big as theirs. I want you to ring them out. Let us pray for you. I’m ring them out cause I want somebody to pray for me. And I know what this family is. I guess I say this, because no problems are bigger than anybody else’s problems. You’re loved. And every problem it gonna be a giant problem as long as you follow Jesus. Because you have to react the right way. So, I’m implore you, ring out when you’re having your problems and let God’s church pray for you. I love you.

This is God’s Chosen from California. Brian, thank you so much for your reading today, March 6th on the blessings. You encouraged us to bless someone. I declare blessings over you, Brian, and your entire family. I declare blessings over all those who are behind the crew at the Daily Audio. I declare blessings over all the people of Asia, all the people of Africa, all the people of Europe, all the people of North America, all the people of South America, all the people of Australia, all the people of Antarctica. I declare as we listen to the words and the teaching and the seeds that Brian plants every day, may God, almighty, continue to shower His blessings upon us. May the Lord bless us and protect us. May the Lord make His face shine upon us and be gracious to us. May the Lord look upon us all with favor and grant us His peace that surpasses all understanding. Thank you, Brian, for all that you do. May God continue to strengthen you and may He continue to bless you, above and beyond your imaginations. In Jesus name. Amen. [singing] The Lord bless you and keep you, may his face shine upon you. Be gracious to you. The Lord turn His face towards to you and give you peace. Amen, Amen, Amen. Amen, Amen, Amen.

Hello, my DAB family, this is Jamie in New Jersey, Standing on the Word of God. I humbly ask you to please pray with me. Dear Father in Heaven, thank You for being the author and perfecter of our faith. Father, in our lives there are many changing seasons. We go from feeling joyful and close to You, to grieving and feeling like You are distant. We wrestle with our doubts and questions, wondering if You even hear us or if You’re even real. Our faith decreases when we look around us, not up to You and Your purpose. No Christian goes through this life without feeling weak in their faith, at times. But we all can take comfort in knowing You are our Emmanuel. You are with us in every season, whether good or bad. Thank You, that You’ve carried us through the uncertainty of deep waters, through the flames of trial, and through the pain of hard bosses. Please forgive us for giving to much time and attention to other things, for looking to other people before coming to You first. We choose to press in close to You today and keep You first in our hearts and lives. Without You, we would truly fail. But with You, there is great hope. When we are weak, help us to look to You and to hold on tight to the truth that You love us and want the best for us. We pray in Jesus name. Amen. Thank you for praying with me, my brothers and sisters. I love each and every one of you. Have a blessed night.

Hey DAB family, this is PA Chappy. I am calling because I just celebrated my one-year anniversary as a full-time pastor and God has just been really blessing the ministry that He has called me to. In fact, this past Sunday, we added 5 new members to our church. And that’s exciting. We would have had a couple more but the husband of the family that would be joining our church, still needs to be baptized. So, we’re gonna be baptizing him this summer and then, they’ll be joining the church as well. And it will be our first immersion baptism in probably decades at this church. So, I am really excited. I just wanted to call in and give praise to the Lord. When I first took over the church, became the pastor, there was about 60 people in attendance and we’re averaging about 90 people in attendance. When I first came to this church, it was one family with some kids. Now we have about four or five families with children. So, the church is just growing in ways that only God can receive the honor and glory for this. So, I just wanted to, again, thank you all for your prayers. When I called in about a year ago about this, and I ask that you continue praying for the church that I’m at. And again, this is PA Chappy. Thank you. This is my eighth year of listening to the DAB. God has brought me from the depths of despair, from where I was even considering suicide 8 years ago. To now, I’m a senior pastor of a church. And so, God is just so good. And I just want to give Him all honor and glory. Thank you.

Numbers 14:1-15:16, Mark 14:53-72, Psalms 53:1-6, Proverbs 11:4

Today is the 10^th day of March, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I am Brian it is great to be here with you today. Every day…every day…this my favorite spot around the Global Campfire every day. Looking forward to it every day and glad to be here today as we take the next step forward. And our next step forward leads us back into the book of Numbers. And we are with the children of Israel, who had moved away from Mount Sinai and had moved to the precipice of entering the promised land. And before entering this land of promise some spies, one from each tribe of Israel were sent into the land to spy it out, to find out what’s up, what’s going on, what kind of people are there, what kind of cities are there, what kind of agriculture is there, what’s up in this promised land as they were preparing to enter. the spies came back and essentially gave the report that it's…it’s really an awesome land. It’s only that we can’t possibly take this land. We’re grasshoppers compared to the people in the land. And that is where we left off, like literally with that drama hanging in the air. And, so, as we begin our reading from the book of Numbers today that’s where we are. We are immediately going to feel the response of the Israelites as they get the report that there are giants in the land. So, we’re reading from the Christian Standard Bible this week. Numbers chapter 14 verse 1 through 15, verse 16.

Commentary:

Okay, so let’s just kind of catch ourselves up here on where we are in the book of Numbers. We have been at the precipice of entering the promised land. Like, I was saying yesterday, like we’ve been moving toward this since the book of Genesis and we have seen that it’s been a long view, a long promise, a promise given to Abraham that has taken centuries to get us to this place, the threshold of the promised land. And the children of Israel have been delivered from Egyptian slavery in very miraculous fashion. We went through the entire plagues. We saw their deliverance. We saw all of them leave. We watched them go into the wilderness and we also watched Egypt change their minds and start asking themselves, what have we done by kicking the Israelites out? Like this is going to destroy our economy. And, so, they go back after the Israelites who are encamped by the Red Sea, and they are walled in by mountains and ocean and here come the Egyptians. And God splits the Red Sea, and they go across on dry ground in the Egyptian army is destroyed. So, like these people have seen things that very few people ever get to witness. And they head into the wilderness. And they have trouble finding water and they grumble. They’re not satisfied with food, so they grumble. They come to the mountain of God and encamp around it and God is going to come and speak directly with them and they fear and ask Moses basically to be God’s spokesperson. And, so, Moses is on the top of the mountain receiving the revelation from God. Meanwhile, the people are down below the mountain building a golden calf to worship because they don’t know what happened Moses. And, so, they’ve decided that the golden calf, this is…this is the God, this…this is who led you out of Egypt. This is the one that did all the mighty acts. This is the one who has got us here. And they’re dancing around and worshiping this idol. Mosses has to come down because God is like, you gotta go down and see what they’re doing. And the 10 Commandments are broken there. Moses grinds up the golden calf and puts it into the water and then eventually we get all this revelation of the law and about the tabernacle and about the priesthood and then they move out because it’s time to live this. They are prepared. They have received the revelation of what the statutes and celebrations and sacrifice…like all of the things that will weave a culture together and knit them together with a common story. And they have to go live it now. And they wander around and we watched them complain more. We have no meat. You remember the meat we used to eat for free when we were slaves in Egypt? And, so, God sends them meat to eat. At every turn, every time they face something that’s gonna be hard or that seems difficult to sort of process, something that they can’t figure out in their own strength then they just throw up their hands and start complaining about their leaders, which is Moses and Aaron and Miriam and the priesthood, or they complain directly about God. Every time they face something that they can’t navigate on their own, they lose it, when they are in the wilderness to learn something, that they are dependent, that they are chosen people of God, that He will protect them, that He will guide them, that it doesn’t matter what they see or what their fears are because those aren’t real. God is with them, and they have to learn to trust. And, so, we get to the precipice of the promised land and the spies are sent in and the spies come back and say it’s not possible. And the people lose it again. And it gets really erratic in our reading today. If only we had died in the land of Egypt. If only we had died in this wilderness. Why is the Lord wanting us to go into this land where everybody’s gonna be plunder? It would’ve been better for us to die in the wilderness than to die in battle and our families be taken into another kind of slavery. We should go back to Egypt. Let’s get a leader. Let’s appoint a new leader who will take us back to Egypt. That’s their initial response to finding out that they may have to contend for this promised land. They may have to actually live into the message of the wilderness, they are utterly dependent on God. They must trust God. And, so, Moses and Aaron are falling on their faces before the Lord and begging for mercy because God is like alright, what else do I have to do? Do you not remember what has happened to you as I let you out of slavery as I destroyed the Egyptian army, your enemy, as I provided food and water for you in the wilderness, as I revealed myself to you and built up keep a lot of you changing your identity from slaves to chosen, as I’ve led you right here to the threshold of your promise, what else do I have to do? An in the end what God determines is essentially you have not learned the lesson of the wilderness yet. This wilderness is here to shape you so that you can boldly live your lives without fear knowing that I am with you right in the middle of your camp. I am right in the middle of this story. Until you realize that it’s not gonna work out for you in this land of promise. You have to turn back. And in the process God determines that everyone who had seen all the things that we just talked about from Egypt forward, they had gotten to see this with their very own eyes. And now there’s an emerging generation, the next generation is beginning to take its foothold and to take its leadership. And, so, all of these people who had seen all that God had done, they could poison this next generation. And, so, they are being instructed to turn back into the wilderness and head back toward the Red Sea. And of course, some people begin to realize the gravity of the situation, and are like, we’re sorry, we want to obey God now. We want to obey Him. We’re sorry. We’re…let…let’s go, let’s do it. Moses is like, yeah, the lesson isn’t learned, and God is not with you and if you go in it’s not gonna go well, which is exactly what they did. They rebelled again after being instructed by the Lord again. They decided, no, we’re ready to obey You now and they go in and they get pummeled. And, so, that’s where we find ourselves, heading back into the wilderness as a new generation emerges. And we will see some review of things that we may have heard before in the giving of the law because this new generation is being taught to do what their parents would not. And in the process of all of this, the mistrust and distrust of God in the face of hardship is dooming a generation to die in the wilderness and is burdening a future generation to go do what their parents wouldn’t. There’s a generation of people that have to rise up and take the promised land when they were supposed to be the first generation to live free in it. Trusting God in the wilderness is one of the most important lessons ever learn in our lives and we will continue to circle and lead ourselves into places of wilderness until we learn this. We all find ourselves wandering in the wilderness in our lives from time to time. We find ourselves in wilderness seasons. If we can just hearken back to what the wilderness teaches us in the Bible, it’s that the lesson here, the growth here is to become intimately acutely aware that we are utterly dependent on God and we must trust Him. It is the only way forward. It is the only way out of the wilderness. And if we think about our wilderness seasons, we realize that those seasons take an awful lot of energy. They take a lot of emotional energy because it’s hard, but they take a lot of energy because we’re using all of our mental capacity to try to figure out how to get ourselves out of it when the lesson is trust. There is a path out of this into promise. Trust. Move forward one step at a time and trust that we are utterly dependent on God. He is our source of life. There is no other place to place our hope. There is no other. Trust is the lesson here. And we are watching the children of Israel simply mimic our own stories. And maybe this is a good time to realize that they are staying in the wilderness longer than they needed to. And maybe that’s true of us. Maybe if we we’re in the wilderness right now and we begin to trust that we won’t know matter what things look like we have moved one step toward freedom every single day, one step toward promise every single day, as we trust in the goodness of God and the wisdom of God in our lives.

Prayer:

Father, we invite You into that. This touches all of us, every single one of us as it touched Your people. And as You continue to teach and train them this brings an enormous perspective. And, so, now we repent and begin to change the way we were looking at things and change our minds and run toward You and not with accusation wondering why You’re not doing what we want You to do, but we run to You for protection. We trust You to help us navigate the seasons of our lives and when we stop doing that we feel like were alone in the wilderness and that speaks so much. And, so, we are so…we are so grateful for what You teach us in the Scriptures in the stories of the lives of those who have gone before us. Come Holy Spirit show us how to trust You, how to put our full hope in You alone no matter where we are in life. We pray this in the name of Jesus. Amen.

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Community Prayer and Praise:

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Numbers 11:24-13:33, Mark 14:22-52, Psalm 52:1-9, Proverbs 11:1-3

Today is the ninth day of March, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian. It is fantastic to be here with you today, as we gather to take the next step forward together. And as always, the next step leads us to the place where we left off, and that will lead us back into the Book of Numbers. Today, we will read Numbers chapter 11 verse 24 through 13 verse 33. And just by way of reminder, we are in the wilderness with the children of Israel who are complaining about having to eat manna, and Moses had been complaining about having to do the job that he’s doing of leading these people. It is a burden that is crushing him. And so, we pick up the story Numbers 11:24 through 13:33.

Commentary:

Okay, so, yesterday in the Book of Numbers, we talked about obstacles and hardship. The children of Israel in the wilderness, complaining about having to eat manna and longing for what they used to get to eat when they were in bondage and slavery to the Egyptians. Moses, as the leader, being crushed by the weight of responsibility that he is facing in the wilderness. And so, both of them end up crying out, but as we see in today’s reading, God brought them quail and so they had so much meat to eat, couldn’t eat it. And we saw God being exasperated in and the whole situation because there’s a lesson being taught in the wilderness and that is that they are utterly dependent upon God, and that is a good, profoundly good thing because they are safe and the obstacles and endurance that they are having to learn is generated by their sense of lack, of what they don’t have, and how they feel unsafe and incapable of meeting their own desires. Why would that be exasperating to God? It’s because they are safe and they are cared for, what they are enduring is a fight within themselves. Can they truly trust God in the wilderness, or do they need to start thinking about making their own arrangements? We face the same things brothers and sisters, we face the same things ourselves and when we start trying to make our own arrangements, instead of following the safe path that God has for us through the wilderness, we end up staying in the wilderness, as we will soon see. Until the children of Israel truly leave behind their identity in slavery and put their full and absolute hope and trust in God, they can’t get forward. And we see that one playing out today because we actually reached the Promised Land today. We have been working toward getting to the Promised Land since the book of Genesis. Like we have been on a long journey to get to this point, and here we are. Everything is ready, the people know the customs, they know the laws, they know the rituals, they know the holidays. They know what they’re supposed to do, they know what they’re supposed to do every day and it’s baked into their culture. Everything is reminding them of who they are and where they’re going and who God is, and even with all of this, here we are at the precipice of the Promised Land. And spies are sent into the land, one from each tribe to go and spy out the land and we kind of travel, we don’t have a ton of narrative about their journeys, but we have some and we know that they went in, cut down some of the fruit in the Valley of Eshcol. That goes back to the book of Genesis. In fact, I remember we were going to the book of Genesis, and remember this place, remember this, remember the Valley of Eshcol here. Remember this because we’re gonna come back here and now we’re back here. The Valley of Eshcol is where the cave of Machpelah is. The cave of Machpelah is where Abraham, Isaac and Jacob are buried. It’s been centuries since the children of Israel have been anywhere near there. But on their journeys, spying out the land, they went through there and they would’ve been able to see this is true, this isn’t just stuff of lore and legend. This is true, this is our origin story. And then they come back, and they give a report. We can’t possibly take this land. We can’t do it. There are giants there. There are fortified cities there, it’s a beautiful land, flowing with milk and honey but we can’t take it, we look like grasshoppers to them. This is on the heels of God miraculously providing meat after their complaints in the wilderness. And we can work back all of God’s leadership in their lives, since he brought them out of the land of Egypt in miraculous fashion. He has been providing and sustaining them ever since. Even though at times they had to actually trust Him because, at times, they had run out of their own ability and here we are at the threshold, once again, they have determined that they’re not safe to trust in God and in their own strength, they cannot conquer this Land of Promise. We’ll have to see how that plays out. But we could look in our own lives and see how that plays out. We just have this idea that obstacles and hardship are always bad things they are labeled bad, they bring bad emotions. We associate hard and bad emotions to them and so, we try to avoid in every possible way that we can, anything that makes us endure. I’m the same way, hundred percent, I’m on the same page, doing the same thing. But I’ve learned, now that I’ve lived long enough to learn this is that you can do everything you possibly can to arrange to avoid these things, but there are, is no way, there’s no way to perfectly avoid any kind of challenge, hardship, conflict or endurance. And we watched that even in the life of our Savior Jesus today, because Jesus is in the Garden of Gethsemane in our reading today, asking God if the cup could pass, if there were an…an alternative path, if there were another way. He’s crying out to His disciples enough to…to say that like the anxiety within Him is to the point of death. Or to just quote it from Mark, “I am deeply grieved to the point of death, remain here and stay awake.” Even Jesus, in this moment, doesn’t want to be left alone. Like He is enduring His own human mortality and the shortness of it that is left to remain. Even Jesus endured, and Jesus is one with the Father, this is what we believe as Christians. So even God endured. Jesus demonstrated absolute and utter trust all the way through death, only to find resurrection. So, there are some poignant and profound lessons for our lives, as we move through the wilderness with the children of Israel, watch their story and as we’re able to move over into the Gospels and watch Jesus model so much of this for us, so that we can see what both ends of the spectrum look like. Let’s continue to meditate upon it, to continue to invite the Holy Spirit to show us the places that we do not have utter and complete trust for God or trust at all for God, and that this creates all kinds of disconnects inside of us, because we’re trying to trust Him to do something, but when He’s not doing it the way that we expected or the way we wanted and we reach in and hijack the story and try to write a different chapter, than He’s trying to tell through us. Understanding that we can’t avoid some of the challenges in life. But that those challenges in life are challenges within us because they are beyond our control. But from God’s perspective, there’s nothing and our response in trusting God to lead us through whatever wilderness we are walking through, is the right choice, this safe choice. Like this self-preservation choice is to trust God in the wilderness. Let’s give it some thought.

Prayer:

So, Holy Spirit, come. Because in the wilderness, when we feel like we are being pressed and that we have navigated into a place where there’s no way out. That is the time to trust You and it is the time that we don’t, it’s a time that we make ourselves crazy trying to figure out our own solutions, when none of this is a problem for You. None of this stuff is a problem for You. And if we had a long view, none of this is a problem for us either. It’s an opportunity for us to trust You, and so, come, Holy Spirit. And help us to understand that sometimes the challenges that we face are invitations to go deeper, take us deeper, we pray, in Jesus name. Amen.

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Prayer and Encouragements:

Will be posted soon.

not through this forum, no. I would suggest the facebook sites

The weekly prayers aren’t posted, let us know if you would like to help. We are a small group that just loves DAB so much that we want to serve in this area by transcribing. We just don’t have the capacity at this time. But if more people want to help to get those posted, we would love it.

Well I believe you would have to just scroll down, I’m not sure when the transcribing actually started, I started Chronological 5 years ago. But they just are a continual line of posts. Hope that helps

Numbers 10:1-11:23, Mark 14:1-21, Psalms 51:1-19, Proverbs 10:31-32

Today is the 8^th day of March welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I am Brian it is great to be here with you today around the Global Campfire as we gather to take the next step forward. And I’m grateful that we get to take the next step forward each and every day. Our…our next step forward, the one we’re gonna take now, the step forward for today will lead us back into the book of Numbers and we will continue our journey with the children of Israel in the wilderness. Numbers chapter 10 verse 1 through 11 verse 23 today.

Commentary:

Okay. So, in the gospel of Mark we have reached the portion of the narrative where we are encountering the last supper of Jesus, the betrayal of Jesus, the last days of Jesus. And I mentioned when we went through this in Matthew, we should always give reverence to what we’re reading. We get to encounter this story four times, once in each of the Gospels - Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John - and then we move forward into the book of Acts and into the letters and we leave the narratives of the ministry of Jesus behind. And, so, when we encounter these stories, giving them the weightiness that they are due it’s important especially now that we’re in this season of Lent, a season of repentance, a season of reflection, a season of trying to slow things down enough to realize the impact of our lives and understand that sin, as we have allowed it to direct our lives has only ever let us to destruction, and that a Savior came to rescue us. That’s the story that we are moving into in the gospel of Mark. And, so, just again reminding us as we move through this in the coming days that…that…that we immerse ourselves and meditate upon the story of our salvation.

Then we turn backward into the book of Numbers and our reading began poignantly, and I quote, “the people began complaining openly before the Lord about hardship.” Like that one sentence right there describes a generous portion of our lives, especially our spiritual lives. “The people began complaining openly before the Lord about hardship.” A couple verses later…later we get to hear what they were saying as they were complaining about hardship. “Who will feed us meat. We remember free fish we ate in Egypt along with the cucumbers, melons, leaks, onions and garlic, but now our appetite is gone. There’s nothing to look at but this manna.” So, what they’re saying is, ha, this journey into freedom has gotten difficult. “Do you guys remember how great it was when we were slaves when we could eat fish and cucumbers and melons and leaks and onion and garlic. Now all we have is this manna.” So, what they’re saying is slavery fed us better. God’s provision out here in the wilderness that is sustaining our very lives, we’re sick of this. This is too hard. This is too difficult. And then Moses hears all this, and he gets provoked by it, but he’s not like mad, specifically at the Israelites. He is also complaining before the Lord. “Why have you brought such trouble on your servant? Why are you angry with me and why do you burden me with all these people? Did I conceive all these people? Did I give birth to them so you could tell me to carry them at my breast like a nursing mother carries a baby to the land that you swore to give to their ancestors? Where am I supposed to get meat? How can I feed all these people? I can’t carry all of this by myself. They’re too much for me.” And then…and then the best. “If you’re going to treat me like this, please kill me right now if I have found favor with you and don’t let me see my misery anymore.” So, Moses is one of the greatest leaders in the Bible, absolutely revered above all in Judaism. Like Moses…this is who the law came through. This is Moses, the prophet that led them out of slavery in Egypt. This is a man who was the friend of God. And now they have all received instruction from God at the mountain. They have made preparation to do all of the things that God commanded them to do. They have built the tabernacle and made it portable, a place for God to dwell among them wherever they go right in the middle of the story wherever they go. He is providing for them daily all that they need, but it’s getting hard and challenging because now it’s not a concept. They have to live this. And in living this, they’ve had to go further into the desert to further understand the message of the wilderness that they are utterly dependent upon God. They are learning to trust. It as if God is saying I have a path through this wilderness into the land of promise. I have a way prepared for you. I will protect you every step of the way. I will take you. And when you face things that you don’t understand you have got to remember that I have got you. I understand. Like you’ve gotta stop trying to hijack the story and write something different. You’ve got to trust me. You’ve got to follow the path that I’ve made for you. If you’re going to deviate, it’s not going to work. You’ve got to learn this out here in the wilderness. And they’re not. They’re thinking about how good it was to be in slavery and bondage, and Moses is exasperated as a leader because he is carrying too much. He’s trying to own too much of this because he as a leader also has to learn the same lesson of utter dependence upon God. Even as I’m retelling the story that we just read in the book of Numbers it should become apparent that this is a mirror into our own stories through our own wilderness journeys. We get into places that we don’t understand or situations that feel constricting, we feel like we’re in the wilderness and it’s hard and very very easily we find ourselves thinking about better days, the days of bondage. Somehow, we look back and forget that we were being destroyed before our very eyes and we were rescued. And sometimes as leaders we can be leading and nobody’s listening and no matter what we do we can’t seem to keep anyone on the same page and it gets exasperating and we’re just simply trying to serve God by leading His people to Jesus. And, so, we see both in this example, today, the children of Israel and Moses facing their own set of difficulties in the wilderness. This is the mighty children of God, the chosen people. This is the mighty Moses, the prophet of the most-high God. And as it turns out they didn’t have anything that we don’t. In fact, we have much more than they did. We still find ourselves in the same places in our lives. And, so, let’s once again watch how everything plays out, allow it to be a mirror into our own souls, and realize that scriptures are certainly telling us the story of the children of Israel, but through the story they’re telling us how our own story. There is a way forward. That doesn’t mean we won’t have to endure the way forward, but we will accomplish the way forward if we will realize that we are utterly dependent upon God. We will begin to realize that we wrestle with this a lot because what we would prefer is that by our own power we would be able to arrange for the kind of life that we want and that God would empower us to do that when the invitation is to go on a grand adventure of life with God, trusting Him completely for all things in every conceivable way. Some things for us to give some thought to today.

Prayer:

Father, we invite you into that. We confess. We confess that when we feel self-sufficient and that we have power and control to arrange for things that we feel the most stable even though we still navigate ourselves and all kinds of trouble regardless…regardless of where the path is leading us until we realize that trusting you is the only way forward. We will continue to try to hijack things, write a different story than you are telling. May we relax. May we exhale. May we realize that we are safe, that you are with us and will never leave us. May we trust you instead of reflecting back upon the good old days of bondage that we used to have. May we trust you, because where we are going is into the promise. We pray this in Jesus’ name. Amen.

Community Prayer and Praise:

Good morning it’s the 28^th of February here in the UK and I just heard the prayer request from a gentleman who refers to himself as Joseph in the Pit. He was requesting peer for his marriage, in particular his wife due to childhood trauma has left __. they’ve been married for 25 years. And I call you Joseph at this time. Joseph I was so moved by your prayer request because it is almost identical to the situation that I have in my own life. I am very similar to your wife in that I had childhood trauma and that led to control in ways that were unhealthy in my marriage. I’ve been married for 26 years, and I just started counseling last week. And, so, my prayer for you is the same prayer that I pray for myself and my marriage. Father God, I pray for Your intervention. I pray for You to convict Joseph’s wife. Convict her of her fear and of her anxiety to want to control issues. I pray Lord that she finds the courage to make herself vulnerable in Your site so that she’s able to hand over…hand over those issues of control and fear to You Lord, lay them in Your hands so that You may be able to take hold of her and…and minister to her heart Lord for the healing that she needs. I pray for Your protection over Joseph and his wife’s marriage Lord. May You guard his heart also as they hand him over to You. I pray that You hold him dearly and closely to You and I pray this in Jesus’ name. I come against the enemies’ ploy to try to prevent them from having a healthy, strong marriage. And I pray this Lord trusting that You will speak to her and that she will lay herself vulnerably at Your feet and nail to the cross all her fears and anxieties and seek the help that they require in Jesus’ name Amen.

Hi everyone, this is Willow from Washington. I don’t have any prayer request today, but I just wanted to share some scripture that I read the other day that’s just been very encouraging to me. I actually made it my lock screen, home screen on my laptop so I could just be reminded of it every day. But…so it’s gonna be psalm 71 versus 19 through 22. Your righteousness O God reaches to the highest heavens. You’ve done such wonderful things. Who can compare with You O God. You’ve allowed me to suffer much hardship, but You restore me to life again and lift me up from the depths of the earth. You will restore me to even greater honor and comfort me once again then I will praise You with music on the harp because You are faithful to Your promises O God. I just wanted to share that scripture with you guys. I’m praying for all of you and I hope you have a wonderful rest of your day.

Hey DAB family this is Julian in Miami FL and I’m calling in to pray for Cynthia who requested prayer for her eyes and gave such a beautiful prayer for the whole DAB community. And I just want to pray over your eyes Cynthia and say, Lord Jesus we know that all things are possible through You, we know that all healing is possible through You, we know that miracles are possible through You. And in Your name Lord we pray for our sister Cynthia. We pray over her eyes Lord, and we pray that You may heal her fully 110%. Lord, we know that these things are possible through You when we call upon Your name Lord Jesus Christ. Love you, Cynthia. Take care. Bye-bye.

Hi neighbors it’s Lisa the Encourager. I am wanted Work in Progress to know…first of all I’m going to call you WIP because that’s easy…work in progress…easy for us to all remember, but I just wanted you to know that ever since you called in, I have been praying for your daughter. Every day I have her on my prayer list and I am praying that especially that considering she was a follower of Daily Audio Bible and she is part of this community I feel like we all should in unison just call out to God and pray that the angels on earth will just come to her aid and be able to help your daughter to be safe, be rescued, not only in her mind and soul and body but her heart and just be changed through the Holy Spirit. And I just want us to all please…just all pray together for WIPs daughter and pray this in the name of the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit. God, please Lord God, please put people in her life Lord that will be able to give her safety, give her security Lord. Put people in her life that can help her God, any resources that can come her way God, that can protect her. And we just pray dear Lord, that she will hit her rock bottom, that her rock bottom is now God and now is the time that you are going to send your angels to protect her and guide her back to you and even back to this community God. I pray all of this in the name of the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen. Love you.

Hi this is Winnie. I’ve called once before a couple months ago, I guess. My nephew had called. He had lost his wife and he was left raising his three kids. Just an update. They’ve been evicted from their home and the two older kids are living with my niece and her sister. They sleep on the floor and the couch and then the baby is staying with my mother, my 80-year-old parents Monday through Friday. Friday. I pick the baby up and keep him through Sunday just to give my parents a break. I work full time, so they help out in that way, and I help them. But the father has pretty much abandoned these kids. He shows up to take the baby to daycare and that’s about it. We don’t see him again especially on the weekends we don’t hear from him. So, I just want to ask the DAB family to just pray for this situation because my parents, like I said, are in their 80s. They can’t do this and it’s becoming very taxing on everybody. The girls who don’t have their own bedrooms anymore are just pretty much in limbo. And, you know, I understand that he’s bereaved, but he has…he has children. And, so, I just ask for your prayers for that. And…and that’s pretty much all right now. I’m thankful for this DAB community and I pray for you all. Thank you.

Hey DAB family I’ve got a couple of prayers that I want to pray. It’s Alexis the psalmist on the prayer wall. First of all, I want to pray for my sister in Europe whose mom passed away after suffering from some longtime illness and her dad is struggling. Lord God I just lift up my sister. I pray father God that as You have given her the strength to continue to believe in You, to continue to trust in You when it’s just been a month since You lost her mom since her mom returned to be with You, I pray Father God that You give her and her family the strength to get through the season. Comfort her by Your precious Holy Spirit and give her grace and strength to move forward each and every day. Yes, there will be hard times, but Lord God I pray that through each and every hard time, each and every single wave of grief You are with her and with her dad and You draw them to You in Jesus’ name. I also pray for Kim in California who has been through quite a time with the floods and the storms. Lord God, it says in Your word in the book of Isaiah that we’ll go through the fire and we won’t be burned and we’ll go through the floods and we will not be overwhelmed. So, Lord God I just speak that word over her and her husband. I pray Father God that even through the health challenges that he is facing he won’t be overwhelmed. I pray that there will be a peace in their home, a peace that surpasses understanding, that surpasses their surroundings and just to keep them. And last of all I pray for Emma and Beloved on the Beach Lord God, the move that they have made. Lord God, I know that You direct the path of the righteous. So, Lord God I pray that You direct Emma specifically to good friends and good counsel in Jesus’ name. Amen.