Psalm 32, 51, 86,122
Welcome to the Daily Audio bible chronological I’m China. Today is the 14th day of May. Welcome. So good to be here with you today. Today is Mother’s Day, and I just want to take a moment to recognize and honor and celebrate all the moms in the community. Whether you are a mom biologically or through adoption, you fostering through taking on a kiddo that’s maybe a family member or a friend or another situation. Maybe you’re pregnant and this is your first Mother’s Day. Maybe you are grieving. This day is really hard for you. Maybe this is your first Mother’s Day without your mom. Maybe you’ve never known your mom. Maybe you don’t have a great relationship with your mom. I know this day can be really difficult for some, and so we definitely want to be sensitive to those who do wrestle with this day, who kind of hate this day. I’ve had friends who’ve hated this day for years just for several different reasons. And so the Lord is with you. He is our great comfort, our very present help in time of need. And I just believe that Holy Spirit is the essence of mother so much. And so just recognizing both sides is kind of hard to just celebrate all the moms and not recognize the ones who are longing to be or just have those things, whatever it is. Fill in the blank with your story and just make today hard. So today is hard. I totally validate that. I’m praying that the peace of the Lord would be with you and sustain you for sure, and that the desires of your heart would be met. Whether that’s healing for your own body restoration and healing for a relationship just for God to intervene, as we know he does, and also just celebrating the super strength it takes to be a mom is something I didn’t really fully grasp until I became one. And I love being a mom. It’s one of my favorite things that I get to be. And so I hope you feel celebrated today, and I hope that you got to be able to communicate what you want from today. That’s something that I have learned. And there’s a saying, and I don’t remember who said it, but it was like, it’s not sexy to communicate what you want, but it’s also not fair to not have your expectations be voiced. And so I always thought that was really helpful. I told Ben, I told my husband, I was like, hey, Mother’s Day is coming up. This is what I would like, have your freedom within these things, but this is how I would like to be celebrated. That way Mother’s Day doesn’t come and go. And then I’m like, I do so, you know, like, all these things and all these feelings, and so I just encourage you sit down with your spouse or sit down with whoever and just say, this is what I would like these are my expectations and they may not meet all of them and that’s okay. You definitely have to have some grace and some wiggle room. But just to be like, this is what I would like, this is how I’d like to be celebrated and give them freedom to also be themselves and put their own personality touch on it. So anyways, that’s my relationship tip for the days. And it saves this is kind of a joke, but not really. It’s serious. It saves marriages and it saves arguments. So there you go. Anyways, welcome. So glad that you’re here today. Hope that you are having a great day. I’m excited that we get to read the word of the Lord together this week and yeah, it’s been a great month. It’s been so rainy, which I love. You ever just need a good rainy day to kind of be like, yeah, I’m going to bloom it on the rain. I’m not doing anything today or I’m not going to leave my house or I’m going to sit right here and finish this book or watch this TV series or whatever it is that has been this past weekend. And I’m like, thank the Lord. There’s just something about rainy weather that gives you permission to do nothing. I love it. Hallelujah for it. It’s my Sabbath. Rain is my Sabbath. That’s probably blasphemous. I take it back. Anyways, today we are bouncing around in the Psalms. We’re in Psalm 32, Psalm 51, Psalm 86, and Psalm 122. Since it’s a new week, we switch up the translation and this week we are in the Evangelical Heritage version.
Commentary:
I love this last psalm that David is singing. It’s the song of the ascent, the peace of Jerusalem. And he’s talking about peace being within Jerusalem, but to read it in a place of peace being within us, that was something that I was actually recently bringing over. My daughter, she hit two and just developmentally her kids at this age, it’s very normal for them to have the call it sleep regression, but I’m like, you can’t really go backwards, you can only go forward. So I call it sleep regression. But there’s one night where she just wasn’t going to sleep and it had been like an hour and 45 minutes of trying to get her to lay down and Ben and I were both in there, we were just trying everything and I just was like, we just need to pray over her. We just need to pray for peace to come and reside because we are all getting cranky and she clearly is just feeling at unrest and we just need the peace of the Lord to come over her. And as soon as Ben was praying over her, she just calmed down and I felt like the Lord was like, just put her in your bed for tonight. And she slept for 12 hours that night. It was so great. And so I just think a lot of the times I’ll speak for myself. For me, I personally can just forget to pray for those things or to really just declare how we need peace right now. And I love what David is saying because, yes, he’s talking about Jerusalem in a very specific reason and purpose, but then also to kind of resonate it for our own homes and for our families and everyone that’s living in our home, typically families. And then sometimes there’s other people too, but then also just to be like for the sake of my brothers and my friends now I will say, peace be within you. And for the sake of the house of the Lord our God, I will seek good for you. I just think that that’s a really sweet blessing. And I think sometimes I just forget like, hey, I can actually speak peace over this situation right now. I can speak peace over this, I can speak peace over you. We can call pause on this and just seek the Lord for a second because what we’ve been trying to do isn’t working in our own strength. We need the Lord. And so that’s kind of what that made me think of. But I just love we’ll get into it later this year, but I love a lot of Paul’s writings that start with, may the grace and peace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. What a beautiful way to start something. I feel like if someone started a conversation without with that to me I would just be like so chill leaning in so intently on what they were going to say. Because I believe that when we speak, that when we ask that from the Lord, he’s meeting us right in that. And so yeah, I just encourage you. Maybe there’s things like big things in your life that you really need peace over. Maybe there’s things that don’t feel as on the grander scale and you can also speak peace over it.
Prayer:
Father, I thank you for Your word and just for the really sweet reminder that we have Your peace with us. And God, I just thank you that we can be carriers of Your peace. Our homes can be resting places for Your spirit in Your presence and Your peace. And I just pray that we would be people who desire that to live in a place from it, not just from time to time when we can think of praying for it and asking for it, but that we would be people who are habitually seeking you out and seeking forth Your presence and Your peace. And so even right now, God, I pray that you would flood those who are feeling unrest with today. God, I pray that there would be peace in their hearts. They would just surpass understanding. They may not have to be answers that are given today or big conversations with you or from somebody else, but simply just peace to calm the raging waters in our hearts. And God, I just thank you that you meet us in that that’s in Your name we pray. Amen.
Community Prayer Line:
Hello, brothers and sisters. I would deeply appreciate if you would say a prayer for my daughter’s fiance who’s dealing with an addiction due to health problems. Please pray God would supernaturally intervene on his behalf to pull him from the grasp of the enemy. Thank you so much. God bless you all.
Hi, this is Scottish Tom calling in from the Cleveland, Ohio area. Just want to let you all know that I am praying for you all and I’m new to this channel. I have been listening to Brian probably for ten years or more, but this is the first year listening to Gel in China and I must say I am really enjoying it. Hope you’re all well and I continue to pray for you all.
Hi DABC family, this is Tabby from Nairobi, Kenya. First, honestly, I’m so grateful. I’ve just listened to the reading on May 9 and I’m just so grateful to God in my heart to have you all as part of our community. There was a gentleman who called. We had his call yesterday and I don’t remember your name, but you prayed for Whitney because the Holy Spirit put it in your heart. And I want to say thank you so much for that obedience because as Christians we should never take it for granted when the Lord brings a thought about someone our way. Because at that point there’s probably a need, there’s something that you need to raise before the Lord about that person. So thank you and also because you’ve prompted me to remember that for a while now. Cody of Utah, who also used to call a lot last year, has been on my mind and I haven’t heard from him, so I want to pray for Cody. Lord. Thank you for Cody. I know that last year was pretty tough and then at some point there were good things happening to him, but we haven’t heard from him in a while.And pray, Lord, that wherever he is that Lord, you would watch over him and perfect your plan over his life for God, perfect everything that concerns Him as you have promised and keeping wealth and safe. May you turn to his concerns. May you raise his spirit and his hope and faith in you. May you strengthen Him and bless him and his family. In Jesus name, amen. Cody from Utah. If you…
Hi, this is Pure Heart from Tennessee. I was calling to pray for a couple of our sisters. One didn’t give her name. She called May the 9th and she had a lot of requests that she was wanting to be brought before the throne of God on her behalf. A prayer for her mom with dementia, her son that’s having false beliefs about his walk with Jesus, the husband who’s not at home anymore and his salvation, the daughter who’s struggling with mental issues and my sister needing a job. And also prayer for first time caller Donna, whose granddaughter is 26. Her name is Shay, and she’s left home and hadn’t contacted her family. Father God, you know all of these prayer requests. You already know the beginning and the end. And you said, Lord God, that even before we ask, you’ve answered. So, Lord God, I pray that you would make ways for that mom to be cared for and that son’s heart, that the heart of stone would become a heart of flesh once again. That that daughter struggling by the God, that she would do well in school even more exceptionally than others, and that there’ll be a job provided for my sister, that she can work remotely, and it’ll be more than enough income and great benefits. And I pray for Shane, a hedge of protection around her, Father God, that you will keep her safe and sound while she’s out there and give her the heart to want to call her family, to let them know that she’s doing well. In the mighty name of Jesus. We love you, Lord.