Month: April 2023

Joshua 11:1-12:24, Luke 17:11-37, Psalms 84:1-12, Proverbs 13:5-6

Today is the 15^th day of April welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I am Brian it is fantastic to be here with you today as we gather yet again around the Global Campfire and take the next step forward and bring another one of our weeks in for a landing together. We have been working our way into the book of Joshua, which we will continue today with chapters 11 and 12.

Prayer:

Father, we thank you for your word. We thank you for another week. We thank you for your faithfulness in our lives. We thank you for your patience with us. And as our hearts are transformed by this rhythm of being in the Scriptures each day and applying them to our lives, we come to the same place that the psalmist came to, “a single day in your courts is better than a thousand anywhere else.” We would rather be the gatekeeper. We would rather be the servant simply doing our duty in the house of our God then to live in the good homes of the wicked. You are our treasure. You are our hope. You are our protection. You are our God. There is no other above, below or beside you. You are the most-high, and we love you. Come Holy Spirit. Lead us through this day, lead us into the new week we pray in the name of Jesus. Amen.

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Community Prayer and Praise:

This is Brandon from Texas calling first for Justin in Memphis. Justin, I appreciate your call and glad you’re back with us. I’ve shared on here before my story of being in a similar position to yours. And I began praying every day that God would get everything I thought I knew about Him out of my mind so I could discover who He actually was and read through the New Testament praying that prayer each day. Not sure if that’s the path for you but I know it was very helpful for me. And I finished and and felt like I had found truth and dispelled some things that I would call religion versus spiritual relationship, religiosity or…or whatever. But anyway, Lord I just I come alongside Justin and…and ask Lord just as he did that You lead him to truth. He just…he just wants truth Lord and…and like all of us he needs You and we only find truth through…through the direction of Your Spirit Lord. So, I just come alongside my brother Justin and ask that You lead him to truth. I know Lord that Your word promises if we seek we will find and You honor Your word and just ask that You help Justin find. It’s in the name of Jesus i pray. Amen.

Good morning it is Monday April 10^th, and this is the Lord is my Strength and My Song calling in to pray for a couple of the DABbers that called in this morning, Justin and Garrett. And Justin said he didn't…wasn’t sure what he believed. He…he’d gotten away from listening to DAB for a few years, but was back and Garrett asked for prayers and help in he…what he believes and depression and other issues. Lord, I pray for these men. They’ve come to You in their wandering in the wilderness and desert and not feeling Your presence and not seeing You in their lives and being under attack really. And I pray. You promised that if we ask in Your name how will You not pour out the Holy Spirit and give us what we need. So, I pray that You would lift up these two, Justin and Garrett this morning. Fill them with Your Holy Spirit. Let them see the light of Your glory and let Your love fill their hearts that they would know You Jesus love them, died for them, was raised, and sit in heaven and are making a way for them in this life and forever for all eternity. I give thanks and blessings to You Lord Jesus and ask this in Your name.

Hello DABbers, this is Emily of Emily and Jim and Cardiff and I’m calling for the little brother who called and said that he’s struggling with his faith and he misses Jesus. And we pray for him. And I just want to say I am so proud of you. Why am I proud of you? Well, because you don’t call the Daily Audio Bible podcast and think people are gonna pray, oh i hope you find your home in Buddhism. You know we’re gonna pray for you to experience the lord Jesus afresh. We all have doubts. It’s happened to us in our journeys. I’ve had times where I’ve experienced God’s holiness in ways I can’t describe. And yet there are times where I think, well, are you real? That is OK because Jesus is still real, and He longs to be with you. He misses you. So, I’m going to pray for you right now, little brother. I’m sorry I don’t remember your name. But Father God, I thank You that Your word is a light to this brother’s feet…feet that it’s a lamp, it’s a light unto his path. Lord, I thank You that You love him with an everlasting love Lord, that he…that even if he feels like that one little lost sheep that You leave the 99 and You go get him. So, Father I pray and the name of Jesus that he would experience Your love, Daddy’s love, Abbas love in these coming days Lord. I pray that he would experience Jesus and Lord that You would open his eyes to see how good and…and sweet it is to be in Your presence, to…how good and sweet You are and all these other things, all these other distractions are just distractions. And I bless him, and I thank You for where You’re taking him on his journey in the name of Jesus. I love you little brother. Bless you.

Hello DAB family, my name is __. Like to go by Seeking the Abundant Life. I’m calling because I am married to a Muslim man. We’ve been married for about two years, and I have kind of…I guess I've…I’ve started to lose hope or passion for seeing him come to Christ and have gotten kind of focused on just the day-to-day things. I’ve recently started a new job which I’ve made more demanding than it really is. Kind of allowed it to be my god. And over the past week I’ve been convicted about spending more time giving my best to work and not giving my best to home and to God and I’ve just felt far from God as well. And, so, I am calling in prayer for renewed passion for God, my relationship and intimacy with Him. I’ve had a hard time just even sitting down and reading the bible. I’ve listened but just for my own self and for my own prayer life of my own spiritual life. I’ve just not really been showing up for myself in that way and similarly for my husband as well. And, so, I’m just calling to ask you all to join us on this journey and thank you so much. You all take care. Bye.

Good morning on this beautiful Easter Monday. I’m a beloved Christian who periodically finds myself needing to once again release to God my forever singleness. It is a great joy to know that I am Christ’s bride and yet there’s perpetual pain in never having experienced the human relationship that paints the picture of this glorious relationship I have with Jesus. It is a great joy that I cling dozens of children my own and yet there’s a nagging ache in my heart knowing that I do not have primary responsibility for any of them and knowing that I most likely will not marry while my body still has the capacity to bear a child. And, so, as an extension of wanton discipline this Easter time I feel cold once again to release to God my hopes and my dreams to daily ask Him to transform my hopes and desires to be only for Him. So, please join me in praying not only for myself but for the many who earnestly feel called to a Christ centered marriage yet have never felt called to develop this relationship with any particular person. So, let us pray. Lord Jesus, we love You because You first loved us. Help us to seek first Your kingdom and Your righteousness even and especially if the way that You are working does not line up with what we think we know about You and for what we think we know about Your ways. Restore to us the joy of Your salvation. In Your name we pray. Amen.

Joshua 9:3-10:43, Luke 16:19-17:10, Psalm 83:1-18, Proverbs 13:4

Today is the 14th day of April, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian, it is fantastic to be here with you today as we gather together around the Global Campfire and step forward together into a brand-new day and into the next territory that the Bible is leading us into. Which will lead us back into the Book of Joshua. Israel’s second city of, of conquest the city of Ai, they were able to take that city and we went through the entire story of Aiken yesterday and discussed that. And so, where we find ourselves, as we move back into Joshua today, is that word is getting out, the kings of the regions, the nations that are surrounding where the children of Israel are, are getting pretty nervous. And although they may have at one time been enemies with each other, they are becoming allies to join together to attack and eradicate this people that is coming into the land. So, let’s take the next step forward and find out what happens next. Joshua chapter 9 verse 3 through 10 verse 43 today.

Commentary:

Okay, let’s look at something that Jesus was teaching today because it invites us, it invites us to deeply check our motivations and our posture. And I don’t mean posture like your, your standing or sitting down posture. I mean, the way you’re standing up or sitting down or slouching around or laying down spiritually. So, Jesus says, if another believer since rebuke that person and if there is repentance forgive, even if that person wronged you seven times a day and each time turns again and asks forgiveness, you must forgive. So, if a person is going to repeatedly offend you seven times a day, then it will require a posture or a lifestyle of forgiveness. And the apostles responded to Jesus after he said this, show us how to increase our faith. Cause in listening to what Jesus is saying and going okay, we’re gonna need more faith, show us how to increase our faith so that we can do this. And Jesus says, if you had faith even as small as a mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree may you be uprooted and planted in the sea, and it would obey you. So, what is Jesus telling the disciples, unless you are faithless, like, unless you have no faith, then you have what you need to obey me. And Jesus then responds when a servant comes in from plowing or taking care of sheep does his master say, come in and eat with me. No, he says prepare my meal, put on your apron and serve me while I eat, then you can eat later. And does the master thank the servant for doing what he was told to do? Of course not. In the same way, when you obey me you should say we are unworthy servants who have simply done our duty. That is a very different posture than our culture operates in and that we normally operate in. That is a posture of utter humility that we don’t often display, even in Revelation to God. This is the posture, as Jesus is describing it, of a servant who has a master, and the master does not owe the servant anything. The servant’s posture is to be grateful that they have shelter and sustenance and work. The master doesn’t owe the servant, the servant owes the master service. In this analogy from Jesus, by the way, we are the servants, we aren’t the Masters. And so, if the instruction from the master is to stay in a posture of forgiveness, even if you’re offended by the same person seven times in the day, if they come and repent and ask forgiveness, you are to forgive. This is the way of God’s kingdom, as we’ve talked about before already this year. But then if we obey the command, we think that we’ve put ourselves in some kind of humble position and we deserve a reward, when what Jesus is saying is this is your lifestyle, this isn’t some special thing you do to be humble. It’s not some kind of special thing that you should be rewarded for, this is supposed to be your normal, this is the normal state, one that takes care of each other and looks out for the other and dispenses forgiveness, as we are forgiven. This reveals God. If the work of God isn’t forgiveness, what is the work of God? Why did God come to earth in the person of Jesus and and die that we might be forgiven. But where the posture kind of has to shift and the understanding has to shift, is that, when we do something that humbles us, we haven’t done anything that’s not supposed to be normal. Putting it back in the words of Jesus, we are unworthy servants who have simply done our duty. That’s a bit of a big shift, one that we need to consider in our own lives, in our relationships to others, and in our relationship to God. That we are fortunate to be servants, and to be serving God. It’s simply our duty to obey our master. This is the normal Christian life, and this flies in the face of our pride and our arrogance and our entitlement. And so, let’s give it some thought today, let’s remember we’re simply doing our duty, we’re simply doing what were supposed to do, what’s supposed to be normal for us.

Prayer:

And so, Father, we invite You into that. Certainly, this applies to more than forgiveness. Although, forgiveness is the context here in Luke. But more and more, as we get to understand what You are teaching and applying that to our lives and letting it be a mirror, so the way we have to look at ourselves and see where we are, versus what You are instructing. We more and more realize our utter helplessness to in any way achieve righteousness before You, without You, and without Your help. And so, Holy Spirit come. We can’t do this on our own. We really aren’t good enough, we really aren’t as good as we had thought, we really truly need You. But in understanding this, it’s like coming home. It’s like realizing that what has been missing has always been there. We just needed to surrender for real and not in word only, but an actual posture of heart. So, we thank You for coming for us, and rescuing us, and forgiving us and giving us right standing with You and allowing us to come into Your presence and allowing us to be a part of Your family, allowing us to be grafted in as Your children. And we say we are unworthy servants who are simply doing our duty. We take this posture of humility and put it on our head, like the crown that it is, that we may forgive and be forgiven and reveal the good news that all are welcome. Come, Holy Spirit, into this we pray. In the name of Jesus, we ask. Amen.

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

Prayer and Encouragements:

Hi, Daily Audio Bible Family. It has been a really long time since I called in. My prayer request is, I live in Maryland. My sister lives in Pennsylvania and my sister is really having a hard time. She’s limited with her income, and she has difficulty getting around. She’s mobile, you know, but just age and it makes it painful for her to do things. And I have been weighing out options on how to help her, how to support her. And I’m thinking that I need a house, I need a house with 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms so that I can have a place for her to come and be with me, so I can watch over her and care for her. I’ve just been struggling with taking the steps to make that happen. So, I mean financially I can do it, it’s just taking the step and finding the house and the financing and all that. So, I ask please for guidance, clarity and the steps that I need to take to bring my sister home with me. Our parents are deceased, neither of us has children so it’s just us. And I really need to figure out what to do and how to help her. Please pray for me. Thank you. God bless.

Good morning, DABers, this is Carrie aka Jesus Girl. It’s Saturday April 8th and I just want to lift up 2 of the DABers that I just heard call in. Jesus, I come to you on behalf of KB and his friend Chico. Lord, this traumatic accident that has caused so much physical damage for his friend. Jesus, I just ask that, as we know You’re capable of doing a miracle, Lord, and this is the weekend of the ultimate miracle. And so, Lord, I’m just asking that You heal, that You touch this body, Lord. That You give strength and courage to the family and to the loved ones and to KB, who said he didn’t need prayer. But he does need strength, Jesus, he does need comfort and courage. Jesus, I don’t know at this point if this young man is still alive or not, regardless, either please touch his body or both ways, be healing or be he gone, Lord. Again, be with his friends and family and loved ones. Lift them up with courage, strength, peace, Jesus, and reliance on You. Wrap Your arms around them at this point. And Lord, I also bring Kathy’s friend Kim to You, Lord. My heart just broke, thinking about what this poor woman’s going through right now, having lost her husband a year ago and now her son. Jesus, please. I thank You that she’s a believer. I thank You that she knows You and that she’s leaning on You. But Lord, help us as fellow believers to lift her up to You, Jesus. To again, her also, wrap Your arms around her, Lord. Let her know Your there. Give her peace and comfort and strength as I prayed for this other family. Jesus, as who You are in our situations. And I just thank You and I praise You, Lord. I know that through this, You will be uplifted and You will be glorified. And Lord, if there are those that are lost, dealing with this, use these horrible situations to bring them to You. Thank You and praise You in Your holy name. Amen. God bless ya’ll. Happy Easter.

Hi, Daily Audio Bible Family. This is Work in Progress. About a month ago, I called in a prayer request for my daughter, who we didn’t know where she was, and we were kind of fearing that she was being trafficked and. Well, I just wanted to give you an update and continue and ask that you continue to pray for her. We, she is, she was found on the streets unconscious. She had methamphetamine and fentanyl in her. She was weighing 88 pounds now, by what I understand. Is currently in the ICU. She was extremely dehydrated and will probably be in the hospital for, well, at least 3 or 4 weeks. Which I’m grateful for that she’s, that she’s off of the streets and all that. But what, if you would just, please continue to pray for her and especially that she gets the, she gets into a treatment facility that is Christ centered and something that really deals with more than just her addictions but also just her hurt heart and her mental illness. We would love for her to get into a adult and teen challenge ministry somewhere. So, if you would just lift that up to the Lord in prayer, I would appreciate it. Thank you, family. Thank you for just the comfort in knowing that you’ll be hitting your knees and praying. So, thank you.

Just like Satan I was stubborn, and I had to be the best.
Hard driving, impatient and cut above the rest.
And sensitive, self-reliant and chronically independent
I even tried to compete with God, was a crazy or just demented.
Demented, now that’s the perfect word.
It has that demonic sound and demons did control my life, they rammed me into the ground.
It had to be poor self-esteem that made me so independent.
And dependence made me critical, egotistical and cynic.
Being critical and egotistical has led to isolation.
Isolation led me into sin and lots of aggravation.
Once you’re deep in the sin, you’re far away from God.
And once again, poor self-esteem starts to make you feel odd.
This cycle just repeats itself; you know you can’t win.
Unless some kind of way you can get to God and make the cycle end.  
But how does one get back to God? There are a lot of different theories.
I guess that’s why so many people give up, the spirit often wearies.
Especially if your spirit isn’t one that’s from the Lord.
Satan tries to make it seem hard to get back restored.
But really, it’s quite simple. Accept and just agree.
Deliverance is a gift, my friend, that’s absolutely free.
You can learn to be dependent. God will help you too.
Stay humble and compassionate, cause love will bring you through.
And as your walk in faith gets stronger, you once again become Gods son
The cycle will be broken and the battle can be won.
But there’s gonna be other battles.
But other victories too.
As long as you stay close to God but the choice is up to you.
Blindtony1016@gmail.com I’d like to give a shout out to Sherlock Washington and Kim, on the case, Sherlock Washington. Haven’t heard from you lately, but know you’re daily in my prayers, often in my thoughts.

Happy Easter DABers. This is Grace Filled in Castro here. I’m just calling for prayer for the family of Big James who went on a beautiful trip with my husband and 13 other guys. A boy’s trip to the Peak District, here in the UK. And unfortunately, didn’t return home after having a fall down a hill and just passed away, instantly. Pray for his family, his wife who would have had to receive the news at whatever point yesterday. And pray for all of the guys. My husband included who witnessed this unfortunate accident and we’re very distressed. They were supposed to come back at some point this afternoon, early evening. And they all made the journey in the early hours of the morning back home. Because they just wanted to be with their families. I pray that this unfortunate accident will draw them nearer to God. That they will realize that their life is a gift, and we aren’t promised tomorrow. So, we should honor God every single moment of our lives when we’re awake. From the moment that we wake up and every breath and every step that we take. Thank you to all of you who are always calling in, prayer warriors. You know, even though I haven’t been calling in regularly, I’m still praying for everyone behind the scenes. God bless you. Have a wonderful Easter. Love you all.

Joshua 7:16-9:2, Luke 16:1-18, Psalms 82:1-8, Proverbs 13:2-3

Today is the 13^th day of April welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I am Brian it is wonderful to be here with you today as we gather once again around the Global Campfire and find our places and get cozy and take the next step forward together. And our next step leads us back to where we left off. And that leads us back into the book of Joshua. We’re just getting going. We’ve crossed the Jordan River. We’re in the promised land. The walls of Jericho have fallen. They’ve gone to the nearby city of Ai to conquer it and were routed and fled. And this caused great mourning, until the Lord said the reason that this is happening is because you’ve already…you’ve already broken covenant with me you’ve already disobeyed. Someone has taken what has been forbidden and is made everyone guilty and that is where we pick up the story today Joshua chapter 7 verse 16 through 9 verse 2 today.

Commentary:

Okay. So, we can kind go back…back and forth between what we read in Judges today and what we read in the gospel of Luke today because there are parallels there. So, the children of Israel were defeated at Ai, right? Remember that? They ran away and everybody was freaking out and looking for answers that they that they found. There was a person. His name was Aiken and he had stolen plunder from Jericho, even though he knew that was to break covenant and disobey God not only upon himself but also upon the entire community of Israel. Aiken lusted after…after things and took those things and it did not end well. And we could just stop right there and understand when we lust for things that are forbidden, and we take those things and hide them it is not going to end well. Like, this is one of the moments we see the pathways. We see what happened. We see where the road led. We apply it to our lives. Anything that we will lust for and exalt in our lives to a place above God, or that interferes with our union and relationship with God is probably an idol. And we know enough about this already, but it will be abundantly and crystal clear that nothing good comes from idolatry. It leads us into a false reality further and further from God. In Aiken’s case, it was plunder.

In the gospel of Luke today Jesus said, “nobody can serve two masters. You’ll hate one and love the other. You will be devoted to one and despise the other.” Aiken chose his master, defying the covenant that the people had entered into to to obey and be faithful to their God, to God. So, we need to not underestimate this because we see that the road leads to destruction. We go to God. We ask for what we want. We ask for what we need but so often we’re doing this asking while continually being disobedient and unfaithful. We want God show up and give us what we need, and we don’t want to have to obey or be faithful. But that’s not how it seems to work. God isn’t going to bestow upon us things that will ultimately be poison to us. He’s not going to give us things that will ultimately gain control over us because of our lusts and passions, things that will replace his sovereignty in our lives, things that we will put our hope and trust in, things that we will worship hoping that it will give us life. What parent would do that? What father would do that? He won’t do it because He’s insecure. He won’t do it because it will destroy us. Everything that we lust after, or desire is something that is actually best for us or even good for us. And, so, we kind of have to do a self-check. Are we being faithful? Are we being true? Are we being loyal? Are we being obedient? Is what we’re asking of the Father something we can…we can even handle? Let’s go back to Luke for a second. I’m quoting Jesus. “If you are faithful in little things, you will be faithful in large ones. But if you are dishonest in little things, you won’t be honest with greater responsibilities. And if you are untrustworthy about worldly wealth, who will trust you with the true riches of heaven? And if you are not faithful with other people’s things, why should you be trusted with things of your own?” And, so, the lesson for us to really consider today is what is it that has or is gaining control over us? What are we willingly giving power to that is not God and are we simply asking God to make that thing that we have put our hope and trust in to work for us as if it could be a false God? Aiken gives us a picture of disobedience and breaking faith and covenant due to lust and passion for other things. Let’s take an examination of the terrain of our own hearts and see what path we are walking.

Prayer:

Holy Spirit, come into that. We don’t want or desire to walk anywhere near the path that leads to destruction. We don’t want any of that. But so often we allow things to take over and blur…blur our vision and confuse us. We allow things to twist us backward so that we’re suspicious of You when its our suspicious behavior that we need to be examining. Forgive us Lord. The only way that this can work is if You give us eyes to see and ears to hear, the ability to slow down and seek You and find the piece that You bring. Come Holy Spirit as we consider this today we ask in the name of Jesus. Amen.

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

Community Prayer and Praise:

Hello, my Daily Audio Bible this is Lori it’s April 7^th I’ve just been listening to the community prayer for April 1^st, and I heard Victoria from Ohio’s prayer request and her whole situation with her husband and how she’s being alone and her rest and how she wants out of her marriage. O, Victoria I just know that you’re not alone, that there are people out here praying for you. And I just…I’m praying for a breakthrough in your situation. I’m praying that the Lord God puts the right words whenever you are communicating with your husband, that no matter what happens that you know that this is a season and that he’s with you each and every step of the way through this season. I pray Lord that You just surround her with love with Your presence Lord, that even the darkest times when she just feels like there’s no one Lord that she’s reminded there are people out here that love her who are praying for her and her husband Lord. I pray Lord for breakthrough and this marriage lord and I pray lord that You…that You give her the answers that she seeks Lord or the relief that she seeks Lord. I pray this in Your name. Amen.

Hi Daily Audio Bible family this is Thankful and Still and today’s April 7^th. I just finished listening to today and at the end the song Were You There played, and it just really struck a nerve. And before the weekend gets rolling with activities and services and family and friends just…I want to take time to just thank the Lord. So, heavenly Father, I just thank You. I thank You for having compassion on us, Your children. I thank You Jesus for dying on the cross for us. I thank You for the path that led You to the cross, coming down in the form of a human child and being raised and…and learning a trade, and interacting with those around You, and Your ministry here on earth with the disciples and feeling alone at times. And I thank You that when I feel alone, I can be reminded that…that You’re always with me. You’re always with us and I’m so grateful Lord. Thank You that You are You, and that You rose again, and that You’re so marvelous, so amazing, and…and even when I was not worthy You did it anyway. Thank You so much. I love You Lord.

hey guys, good afternoon this is Be Filled Bridget from New York City currently I’m in Puerto Rico on a vacation and today’s Good Friday and I wanted to share two things. One is a praise report. My daughter as you all know was a witness to the murder of her fiancé five…almost five years ago in June and I just wanted to thank you all for your prayers because she shared today with me that she for the first time since he’s been murdered was able to sleep without a nightmare since last night. Last night she slept through the night and did not have a nightmare for the first time in four years. This is after she saw these two young men in court and shared her testimony of what she witnessed. You know, I truly believe that when we speak and share the hurt and the pain and the things that we experience that God does what He says in our word…in His word…sorry…and He heals us. And I believe that she has the…she has finally faced the giant that was tormenting her. I just ask you all to continue to pray because they’re taking it to trial, and she will have to testify again. And just keep this in prayer, you know, pray for everyone involved, our families. I do pray for their souls and for them to be saved and just that God’s mercies and justice will unfold. I thank you all for your prayers. I love you guys. God bless you and I pray that those of you hurting would take time to confess to the Lord.

Good morning Daily Audio Bible family this is Karen calling from Florida. I’m just listening. Today it’s Saturday and hearing a young man call about his friend Chico who was in a terrible car accident and we just want to pray for him today. So, today Lord we just come before you and we lift up Chico to you. Thank You, Lord that You are good, and You are gracious, and You are mighty, and You are wholly and powerful and awesome indeed. And we’re asking for Your mercy on this Young man’s life today Father God. We just pray that You’d heal his body and that this would be a great and mighty testimony to who You are Lord God, that…that going forward from this time, this terrible terrible time, what the enemy meant for evil You will use this for good and You will just use this Young man Father God to share Your truth into this world and many will come to know the saving grace of the Lord Jesus Christ through this terrible trauma. Again, Lord I just…I just ask for a healing of his body, every molecule, every atom, every ligament in his body would be restored into normal and I pray for strength for his friend. I know he says he’s not calling for him and I thank You that he is such a humble Young man, but I do pray for Your strength for him God, that You just protect his heart and help him through this terrible time Lord God. Thank You that You hear our cries and hear our prayers and You’re there with us Lord. Give him strength to go through what he needs to be going through right now Father God. Thank You that You’re always with us and we can put all our faith and trust in You in Jesus’ name. Amen.

Hey DAB fam I just kind of wanted to give a praise report. And I’m just really humbled by the way God works in our lives. And you guys probably remember my 12-year-old got diagnosed with __ depressive disorder and this is also the daughter who had asked Braden As the Doves Send to be praying for when she was going through a really hard time. She kind of has like hording tendencies. Her room gets disgusting. You can’t see the floor. It’s a good representation of probably how she how she feels on the inside. And I was talking to two friends at work and telling them that, you know, I've…I’ve really gotta get her and I’ve really gotta get that room cleaned out because I’ve bought her new furniture and we’re gonna paint her room and we’re going to kind of make it someplace that she can…her…her safe space, someplace she can be proud of and maybe that’ll help her keep it clean. Those two friends came over yesterday in their pajamas, brought coffee and breakfast, took a look over that bedroom that smells like rotten cheese and they didn’t judge me. They rolled up their sleeves and said alright let’s take care of this. And I’m just so blessed and so grateful that God put those two women in my life, that there was absolutely no judgment, just love. And I just wanted publicly to thank God for that blessing. Thanks DAB fam.

Joshua 5:1-7:15, Luke 15:1-32, Psalm 81:1-16, Proverbs 13:1

Today is the 12th day of April, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian. It is wonderful to be around the Global Campfire with you today. Every day is wonderful. This is the best place to be in the world for me, around the Global Campfire together, immersing ourselves in the Scriptures together. What an incredible journey we are on. And our journey in the Old Testament has led us all the way into the Book of Joshua. And as we’ve moved into the Book of Joshua, we’ve gotten to do something that we’ve been waiting to do since Genesis, and that is to go into the Promised Land. We crossed into the Promised Land yesterday with the children of Israel. So that’s where we find ourselves, just on the other side of the Jordan River, actually in the Promised Land. And memorial stones were placed, so that the children of Israel would be able to come back to this spot and remember what happened there, what God did there. And we talked about that yesterday and memorializing our own lives. And so, here we are in the Promised Land. Let’s take the next step forward and see what happens next. We’re reading from the New Living Translation this week. Joshua chapter 5 verse 1 through 7 verse 15 today.

Commentary:

Okay so, in the book of Psalms today, we get the opportunity to think about what God is like. And let’s just look back over our journey so far through both old and new Testaments. We’re, we’re into this now, we’re well underway. And so, we’ve been able to see the formation of the children of Israel. We’ve been able to see their freedom from slavery and their wilderness journey. And we’ve also been able to move through some of the Gospels now and watch Jesus move about on earth and see what He has to say and what He does. And so, are we getting the picture thus far of a God that is disinterested and aloof and above it all and doesn’t really care? Like, that’s not the picture that the Bible is drawing. When God began to give the instructions to Moses about how this culture would be shaped, we saw him give very detailed plans for what would become, what would come to be known as the tabernacle. And this is where he would dwell with His people in the middle of their camp, like right in the middle of it all with them. That doesn’t seem dispassionate, that doesn’t seem aloof, that doesn’t seem arrogant or disinterested. So, we wonder things like does God have feelings? And this isn’t an attempt to like humanize God down to our level. But in some ways, we only have so much capacity as human beings to comprehend the un-comprehendible, the Most High God, the creator of everything. Things that we have discovered and that we know and things we have no idea about. But does the way that we live affect God? Does He get exasperated? Does He lament? In the Psalms we read today, but no, and this is God speaking, “but no, my people wouldn’t listen, Israel didn’t want Me around. So, I let them follow their own stubborn desires, living according to their own ideas. Oh, that my people would listen to Me.” That’s, that’s the voice of God coming from the Psalms. That doesn’t sound disinterested or aloof or distant, because God is not distant. He is not indifferent. He’s never stopped caring for His people. The fact that we have the Scriptures as a gift to reveal God, so that we might reach toward God, lets us know that He wants to be known. This is what we call a relationship. And we’ve been in, like we, we’re made for relationship. People are made to be in relationship with each other and with God. We’re made for relationship, so we know if we’re in a relationship. And we probably know that, like indifference doesn’t work in a relationship. And yet, we blame God for indifference all the time, when we don’t get what we want. And usually, we’re the ones that are being indifferent. Or putting it back in God’s words, “Oh, that My people would listen to Me. So, let’s, let’s give that some thought today. And make that a point to meditate on. Our actions, our thoughts, our words and our deeds, affect the relationships that we’re in, including our relationship with God, because He has given Himself to us and for us. He has given His heart to us, He loves us. You can’t be in love and be completely indifferent and aloof. It doesn’t work and God is not being that way toward us, it’s usually the other way around.

Prayer:

And so, Father, Father, we repent for using You as a means to an end, as a way of accomplishing something or getting something for seeking Your favor and blessing. We want these things and need these things as Your children, but You already know that before we ask. So often we think You are indifferent towards us, when so often we are not listening to You. And we repent of that, and we repent of breaking relationship with You and then turning around and blaming You for breaking relationship with us. We can be stubborn and stiff-necked and unbelievably selfish toward You and we are sorry. We are growing up, we are learning. We thank You for Your patience and endurance in our lives toward us. Show us how to love You in a way that brings joy to Your heart. We ask, in the name of Jesus. Amen.

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I wanted to take a few minutes now that I believe we are in the clear again, to just briefly talk about what we were experiencing last week. We had some technical difficulties last week that were really, really mystifying. Mystifying, in part because they were not affecting everybody and those are, like those of you who are in app development or any kind of development, web development, code development of any sort, and you have something that’s like deployed that’s out there in the world and you begin to have technical problems. Well, if it’s not affecting everybody, then those can be the worst things to find because you have to begin to divide and conquer. It is isolating down exactly what’s going on with what specific kind of phone or what specific kind of tablet or whatever. What’s going on here and like tracking that down, and then reproducing it can be really difficult. And so it was, but it will be two weeks ago tomorrow, tomorrow night. We began to get some emails, people getting logged out, couldn’t get back logged, logged back in. Things weren’t working in the login area. And then by Friday morning, we knew like they’re coming in. Like we’re getting all kinds of interaction here. There seems to be a problem. And so, then trying to determine whether this is affecting everybody are not, and understanding that it’s not affecting everybody. In fact, most everybody’s not being affected, but lots of people are. Yeah, we just started digging in and it wasn’t but a day before the entire development team was on this, literally tearing everything apart trying to find out what changed because nothing had changed. We hadn’t recently done any kind of an update. Nothing new was introduced. Only to find out after a week of this, that there wasn’t anything wrong and that we hadn’t like nothing in our code was out of place. We were being affected by a problem on down the line, with one of our technology providers and we weren’t the only ones being affected. So, I don’t want to make a long story tedious and longer. The net is that we’ve migrated our entire infrastructure three times in the last two weeks to completely different server architecture. But once we got away from the updates that were installed underneath us, everything started working perfect again. So, if you have had some troubles logging in and using the resources the app, like the Hotline or any of that stuff. Everything should be back to normal right now and working fine. Which leads me to simply say within the next couple of months here, we’ll probably be having a fireside chat. Like, I’ll probably take some time to actually sit down and tell you a whole story of really rethinking our our whole technology footprint underneath it all. And it’s not a new story to me, like this is a story that really kind of began when COVID began and has been being processed and reengineered and rethought for well since then. So, we’re way, way, well underway and we never stopped developing, we just started thinking about what the future looked like. But we are not quite at the place to have kind of a little bit more of a lengthy conversation about it, but we will before this year’s out. But I am getting on here today since enough people were affected that I think yeah, this, this, sometimes when we have these like little isolated incidents they do affect people and we fix them but they really affected a very small segment of people with a specific kind of phone or something like that. This affected kind of people of all across the board. Whether you are Android or Apple device or whatever. So, I’m getting on here to let you know, all should be well and thank you for your patience with us as we were really tearing everything possible apart, only to find out, it wasn’t us. So, thank you for your patience. Thank you for your prayers. Technology is a beautiful thing that we deeply depend on in this day and age. But then when it’s not functioning properly, we find tremendous amount of frustration in that and I’m one em. I find tremendous frustration in that. And so, I just wanted to let you know, all should be well and we’ll continue this discussion in the future.

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Prayer and Encouragements:

Hey DAB family, this is Laura in Colorado, and I just had some things I wanted to call in and update you about. Over a year ago I had called and asked for prayer about a little baby that was abandoned in her NICU. And I know many of you prayed and we’re just so grateful for that. We were able to have her and love her every day for over a year. But last month, a decision was made to move her to a different home out of state. And that has just been really hard for our whole family. So, if you could just pray for comfort for especially my little kids, they’re just kind of confused and this is probably the biggest loss they’ve ever experienced to this point in their life. And if you could just, please continue to pray protection over this sweet baby and the, God’s will for her life would just be fulfilled, He would bring Godly people in and around her and we know she’s in His hands. As we’re in Holy Week, I just keep also thinking about the story where the, Jesus is at dinner and this woman comes in and breaks this expensive bottle of perfume and pours it all over Him. And you know, the disciples are upset about that. And He said that she did this to prepare His body for burial. And I’m not sure why it keeps striking this year, but it just keeps making me think that, so this whole time that He’s, you know, in trial and carrying His cross and hanging on His cross, his body has been, you know, dipped in this oil and He just has this scent. And I just keep imagining that, even in the middle of this suffering, He’s just keeps catching these whiffs of, these comforting and meaningful fragrances to guide Him through. And that was just meaningful to me this year for some reason.

Hi DABers, this is Shepherding Outside Seattle. I’m a pastor of a small church, like thousands of people around the world. And there are a lot of voices in the church that what you to do this or do that. Or listen to this or listen to that. And I would ask for your prayers for myself and others like me, that we would hear and tune into the voice of God. His word, help us to be faithful to His word against all odds. And proclaim His word, lift up Jesus in appearances and sensible and winsome way. I really value your prayers and ask for this prayer for wisdom for us, that we would see God, even when we don’t even realize that we see Him. That we would understand and see the things that we’re missing. That they would come into focus for us. That we would be God’s shepherds, loving the flock and directing them to Him only. So, I ask for this, in Jesus name. Amen.

Hello, my DAB Family, this is Unwavering from North Carolina. Many years ago, this prayer community prayed fervently for my daughter Jillian. And now, I’m coming to you all, asking for prayers for my daddy, Elton. I’m currently at his bedside as he suffered an emergency on Sunday night. Palm Sunday, so I’m asking for your prayers. He is 72 years old and really just a God-fearing man who was in great shape, ate healthfully and worked out. So, I just wanna lift up all of those of us whose lives have just been, just turned around suddenly, due to a family member falling ill or just life’s circumstances, just being lifey. So, Father God, we put the enemy on notice that he cannot win this battle with your sons and daughters, like my father Elton, and anyone else that is right now. For all of heaven backs up the word of God when it is prayed accurately, affectionately, and fervently by those in agreement. Therefore, with prayer, faith and belief we pull down to earth the healing, health and wholeness that rightfully belongs to your children. Jesus, Himself, bore their sickness and disease for every organ and every cell, every muscle, every tissue, every nerve, every vein. We claim them functioning and continuing to operate properly. Father God, we believe in the amazing testimony that Your sons and daughters who are falling ill, who are sick, Father God, that they would have a supernatural healing and a supernatural blessing. And they will tell the story of how good You were to them and all of us.

Shalom, Daily Audio Bible, this is Dwayne from Wisconsin. All praise and glory to our wonderful Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Today is April 7th, it is Good Friday. I would like to lift up Anna, in the Trenches. She called in Lord, with her last mend to be prayed for her family. Her husband just had some surgery on his leg. Lord, we ask for Your intervention that You would heal his leg but more importantly, that He would take the time to get the rest that he needs to recover from this. We ask that You be with Anna and her three children, as she home schools them. Her 8-year-old daughter, her 12-year-old son and her disabled 12-year-old, 18-year-old son. Lord, what a blessing that is, we want to lift that up to You for praise and glory. That Anna and her husband are taking on the responsibility to care for this 18-year-old disabled son. Lord, in Your eyes he is not disabled. We ask that You be with Anna during this time and all the times that she feels that she’s down and needs to be lifted up, Lord. That You will be there for her and give her the peace, understanding and strength she needs to get through this time. And that she will be able again to home school her children, what a blessing that is Lord, that she is willing to do that, along with her husband. And that she is feeling pain and fatigue, Lord. We ask that You come upon her, Lord, and give her that strength that she needs to know that You are there with her. And that when she lays her head down at night Lord, that she will get a good restful sleep. And be able in the morning, to see the light of You in her life and the life that she is to her children and a blessing she is to her children and her husband. Anna In the Trenches, we lift you up to our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. God bless and Amen.

Joshua 3:1-4:24, Luke 14:7-35, Psalms 80:1-19, Proverbs 12:27-28

Today is the 11^th day of April welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I’m Brian and it’s great to be here with you today and every day as we gather once again around the Global Campfire and take the next step forward together. Our next step leads us into relatively new territory. We finished the Torah, the first five books of the Bible - Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy - yesterday and then we began the book of Joshua, a new era taking shape. Moses has died and Joshua is now the leader of the children of Israel. And as we began the book of Joshua the preparations were getting underway to cross the Jordan River. And we’ve been working toward this. We were talking about this yesterday. We have been working towards this Jordan River and crossing it and getting into this promised land all the way back since the book of Genesis. Today we will cross the Jordan River. And, so, let’s dive in. We’re reading from the New Living Translation this week. Joshua chapters 3 and 4 today.

Commentary:

Okay. So, a pretty big day today in the Bible in the book of Joshua. Like we said when we started out a few minutes ago we’ve been working toward this Jordan River and the promised land for a long time now and the journey to get there through the wilderness. We learned a lot about the wilderness as we learned about the children of Israel and their wandering in the wilderness and applying that to our own lives. But we’ve been moving toward something and that is the promised land, and we’ve been moving toward this for a long time. And we’re there. And that’s pretty big. We’re there. We’re in the promised land with the children of Israel at this point. And, so, the Lord told Joshua that He would make him a great leader in the eyes of all the people and that they would know that God was with him just as He was with Moses. And then the Levites were instructed to carry the ark of the covenant into the Jordan River and when they did the water stopped up just like the Red Sea. It dried up so that people could cross over on dry ground. Now the Jordan River is very different than the Red Sea. The Jordan River is not that big of a river, but in high water season in the rainy season definitely it’s overflowing its banks and it’s big enough to…to…to need a way across, and God provided that way with…with dry land to cross. Can you just imagine this? I mean the dry ground part is his miraculous but can you just imagine walking across the Jordan River and setting foot for the first time in the land of promise. This thing has taken centuries to come to fruition and you are stepping foot into the promised land. It's…It’s a pretty dramatic scene. The promised land is no longer this mythic land. They’re standing in their land of promise. They can reach down and grab a handful of it. It’s tangible to them now. And then Joshua instructed different leaders, one from each tribe to go back into the dry riverbed that was the Jordan River and to each of them gather a large stone and carry that stone back into the camp. And then the people created a memorial with those stones, and a similar memorial was placed in the dry riverbed of the Jordan River before the waters covered it once again. And I quote from Joshua at this point. “In the future your children will ask, what did these stones mean? Then you can tell them this is where the Israelites crossed the Jordan on dry ground. For the Lord your God dried up the river right before your eyes, and He kept it dry until you were all across just as He did at the Red Sea when He dried it up until we had all crossed over. He did this so all the nations of the earth might know that the Lord’s hand is powerful and so you might fear the Lord your God forever.” In other words, the memorial stones were placed as a memorial so they would not forget, so that they would remember. And this is a good time to talk about remembering. Something…something that makes us human is our ability to remember. And as we’ve moved through the Bible we’ve seen that remembering is a very very important thing. Both Old and New Testament. Like if we’re in the New Testament and we’re with Jesus and we’re at the Last Supper and He’s passing the cup and breaking the bread what does he tell them to do? Remember. In some cases, in Scripture the people are told to write things above their door posts, and they’re told to remind each other, to have it on their lips and on their tongues and in their conversation, to remind each other where they came from, talking about it, remembering. Even the fact that the Bible exists shows us God’s intention about us remembering because the Bible leads us to remember every day who God is, who we are, where this is all going. And, so, as we see these memorial stones set up at this spot where they cross the Jordan River into the promised land it was so they would remember it in the future and tell future generations what God had done. And people would need to be able to have this memorial. They would need to remember what happened there because we’ll see that they have every opportunity to forget. And they do as we do. And, so, let’s think about it. Let’s take a step back together from this and just imagine our lives for a second, looking back kind of remembering. What were those moments where the memorial stones are? Where do they sit in your life? What would memorial stones even look like in our lives? Maybe…maybe writing it down is a memorial. One of the things we’ve said over the years here is, if God speaks through His word to you, if God speaks, take notes. When we write things down or journal things down, we are memorializing those things. And when we have these memorials or these pages in our lives, these moments that take us back to a place where God was there, and He rescued us and He led us forward. We need to not forget these things because we’re moving at warp speed, and we can hardly keep track of what we gotta get done today. And, so, it’s so easy to be moving…moving through life and all the sudden we didn’t see this fog was drifting in and all the sudden we’re in this gray mist and we don’t know what’s going on anymore and we feel lost and disoriented. If we can return to these places where the memorial stones are set up in our lives, return even to the pages of our journals to remind ourselves who God is, who we are, and that this is going somewhere, we’re going somewhere together, it can be a game changer. And as we write these things down over years, we’re writing down the story, our story with God that can be revealed to future generations of our families, that can be preserved and kept and maybe cracked open a century and a half from now telling the story of God’s faithfulness in our lives. When we retell ourselves the story. we are reminding ourselves of who we are, chosen children of the most-high God. And, so, something for us to consider.

Some of us are journalers and some of us are not, but remembering, however we do that is important to our own stories. And, so, journaling…obviously everybody knows what we’re talking about here. You can grab a pen and a piece of paper and write some things down or type them up or whatever. Over the years we’ve crafted even resources for this. We have the Daily Audio Bible journal that is available in the Daily Audio Bible shop and that was developed for this, exactly this. That’s something that’s tangible that we can kinda carry around with us that can fit in a backpack and fit in a bag that we can kinda just have available so that we write it down and don’t forget. I myself have told the story over the years, it  was the year my mom died, I found these pencils and I fell in love with them and I reacquainted myself with writing in my own hand, and I just found sharpening a pencil, just the whole tactile thing, sharpening the pencil having a good pencil to write with and writing things down has just become part of a rhythm. And, so, those resources, those pencils, the journal, everything are in the Daily Audio Bible Shop but there’s no magic in the Daily Audio Bible Shop. The Daily Audio Bible journal isn’t going to write something or have something written on it that’s gonna all the sudden become magic. It’s just a resource. We developed this resource because this is so important, so important. Man if you journal your way through the year this year, the things that are happening in your life, the things that the Bible is speaking to you and you reach the end of the year and maybe that…that week between Christmas and New Year’s, that kind of weird week of the year where everything is being reset to take a moment and just go back through your journal over the year, remembering, remembering God’s faithfulness, remembering the challenges you that you faced and the joys that you experienced. Remembering is throughout the Bible and we witnessed this today so that we won’t forge.

Prayer:

Father, we invite You into that, into our remembering, into us being able to see tangibly the story of Your faithfulness in our lives and the way that You have protected us, the ways that You have guided and directed us. Lead us to the ways that will work in our story, that we might have memorial stones in our lives at the junctures that we need to remember. Come Holy Spirit into this we pray in the name of Jesus, we ask. Amen.

Community Prayer and Praise:

Hey DAB family this is your sister Ashley from California, and I called in a few weeks ago just letting…updating you guys letting you know that I was struggling. And I’ve been digging in and asking God to reveal to me and just to help me through the season that I’m in with my son being sick and just trying to walk through this…the compounded grief that I’m going through. And He spoke to me, and He told me, hope. Because God is my helper and will never leave me or forsake me. I’m going to get through this so help me God. The miracle is that He continues to sustain me. And as we humbly seek Him and cry out to Him, we become more aware of His presence. And not only will we make it through, but God will help us grow through this. So DAB family I…like I need to preach myself I'm…I’m trying…I’m just trying to pass this on to you guys. So, if you’re walking through a season of grief and healing and all the…all the survival mode kind of thing I want to encourage you, hold on. Press into the lord, be honest and just lift your hands up and say lord Your kingdom come Your will be done. And I want to encourage you, the only way through is…the only way through to grow closer to the lord is to not be grateful for the situation but be grateful in it and to praise Him and to rejoice and to say hallelujah. OK. I don’t know if that makes any sense to you family but I love you and I am praying alongside with you guys and thank you for lifting us up and your prayers. Bye.

This is little Penguin from South Africa. I want to thank Brian and his family for bringing me back to Jesus. I would like prayers for three things. Number one my country South Africa. Things are very dire here. It’s going backwards. A lot of people are fleeing our country that are qualified to do the jobs. The second thing I want to ask is to pray for…is prayer for my boyfriend. He’s got a lot of emotional issues. He was abused by his father and friends in __ where he lived with his father and his father’s blaming him for everything. And then the relationship between me and my boyfriend. I'm…I’m divorced with two children and his fathers against our relationship because of things he did wrong. He also had a relationship with a woman with two children and he’s thinking that I’m just of these of his after his son’s money. So, please pray for me. Thank you Brian and your family for bringing the Bible and Jesus back into my life.

Hi, I’m calling anonymously today out of respect for the person I’m asking a prayer for. So, just yesterday a colleague of mine messaged me to say that he was sorry he had not shown up to a meeting. He had gotten news from his doctor that his life expectancy was going to be short. And that was really all the news that I got. He asked me not to say anything because he hasn’t informed his family yet. And I just want to ask you to pray please. I know for a fact that God has the ability to heal this man. I just don’t know if it’s His will. And, so, I just want to ask you that you would pray with me that if God would extend this man’s life and allow his…his family to watch him grow old. Lord he’s got children, he's…he’s got a wife, he’s got siblings, he’s got a mother, there’s so many people friends that love him and want to see him live if God would just allow it. Would you pray for that? Thank you. I appreciate this community. I love you so much and I pray for you guys daily. Bye-bye.

Hello DAB siblings this is God’s chosen again from Georgia. I just want to say prayer over all DAB members. Abba father you are the creator of all things so we thank you throughout this first quarter of the year and as we continue in the second quarter of the year, Lord God we pray that your mighty hand will continue to lead and guide us. Thank you Lord for leading us as we continue to wait on you. Help us Lord to continue to walk in victory. Grant us healing, restoration, reconciliation and redemption through your grace and your mercy. Grant us your shalom peace. Give us favor and renewed strength to be able face each new day. When we are distracted or when our minds wander, help us Lord to channel our gaze and focus back to Jesus Christ who is our Lord and our Savior. We thank you for the beauty of the earth. We thank you for all that you did for us throughout this Holy Week. Make each one of us humble vessels as we continue to wait and trust you. We thank you Lord for your love and your grace that carries us through each single day. And as we look forward to the resurrected Christ on Sunday as we celebrate the risen savior, heavenly father Lord I pray that all of us would be renewed in our strength, all of us would be met at our various point of need, all of us would sing a new song. Thank you, most gracious God, because we know that our savior Jesus Christ will rise again, and we all shall celebrate with him in glory. Amen.