Month: May 2023

Judges 17:1-18:31, John 3:1-21, Psalms 104:1-23, Proverbs 14:20-21

Today is the 3^rd day of May welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I am Brian it is great to be here, it’s great to be here with you, it’s great to be here with you together around the Global Campfire as we gather again for another day and another step forward in the Scriptures. And we have wound our way from the beginning of the year and the beginning of the Bible all the way into the book of Judges. And we read of the story of the judge named Samson yesterday. We’ll continue forward as we meet the other judges of Israel. And once again, not to be redundant, but judges covers the centuries between Joshua’s death, and the emergence of Kings in Israel. So, the judges were the leaders of Israel during or between…during…during that transitional period, those transitional centuries. And, so, let’s dive in. We’re reading from the English Standard Version this week. Judges, chapters 17 and 18.

Commentary:

Okay. So, we came to one of if not the most famous verse in the Bible. We can probably quote it together. “For God so loved the world that he gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life.” We…we probably have heard this verse, at least, and probably a lot of us were able to quote it back as we just said it. It’s very famous all by itself, but as we’re kind of going through the Scriptures we can see that it’s not a chapter unto itself. It’s not a statement unto itself. It’s a part of a conversation. And Jesus said, John 3:16. And let’s remember, Jesus said John 3:16 as a part of a conversation that He was having with a religious leader who was named Nicodemus. And Nicodemus has instead snuck out at night to find Jesus and under the cover of the night he’s having this kind of secret meeting because he's…he's…he’s part of the religious leadership. And Jesus told Nicodemus that he wouldn’t see the kingdom of God unless he were born again. And Nicodemus  is thinking that Jesus is literally saying like, you’re gonna be reborn, which is true, but in the way that Nicodemus was thinking of it, how can a person who is fully grown, and even old go back into their mother’s womb and be born again. And at its core this little conversation is the essence of the gospel. Jesus explained to Nicodemus that there is a physical birth and that is the birth that He called of water, and that there is a spiritual birth that He called of the spirit. The Holy Spirit gives birth to spiritual life inside of a person and that life is eternal and everlasting. And this is how Jesus explained being born again. And, so, this means that we are reborn, re-integrated with the Spirit of God with nothing standing between us and the Spirit of God within us, giving us new life, born again. When we truly believe in Jesus, the whole status, the whole trajectory of our lives changes. We are awakened to new life within us. And then Jesus goes on to tell Nicodemus, “God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through Him. Whoever believes in Him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because He has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. And this is the judgment, the light has come into the world and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed. But whoever does what is true comes to the light so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.” And as Jesus finishes explaining this to Nicodemus it leaves us with plenty to think about. Jesus is saying those who truly believe have no judgment against them but those who do not believe are already experiencing judgment. And that can be seen in this world. We just have to look around. The fact that people love the darkness more than the light is easy enough to see. And Jesus explains why. Because the light exposes what is in the darkness and tells the truth that people want to stay in the shadows where they can hide and be duplicitous and do all kinds of things that aren’t exposed. And, so, yes indeed, my friends, God so loved the world that He gave His only son, that whoever believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life. But this rebirth is an invitation to be true, to step into the light. If we love the shadows and the darkness then we are not in the light, which leads us to consider as we should, what are we afraid of being exposed? What are we trying to hold in the shadows or in the darkness? That, if we can identify that, is what is pulling us into the darkness. When being reborn means we are being pulled into the light where there isn’t anything to hide, and there isn’t anything to lose because our eyes have been opened and we realize we have it all. We are children of the most-high God.

Prayer:

Holy Spirit, we invite You to shine the light of truth into our souls. We declare nothing off limits to You as if we could hide anything from You. We invite Your light to come into the darkness and expose what is lurking there and what is hiding there and what is manipulating us and pulling us into the darkness. May we see these things. May we see the root of these things. Lead and guide us that we might be true in the name of Jesus, we ask. Amen.

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Community Prayer and Praise:

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Judges 15:1-16:31, John 2:1-25, Psalm 103:1-22, Proverbs 14:17-19

Today is the second day of May, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian and it is wonderful to be here with you today, and every day, as we gather around the Global Campfire and come into this safe, serene space, find our place and let everything else go and allow the Scriptures to come washing into our lives and into every circumstance that we are facing and inform us and guide us, and give us clarity and direction, so that we go back out into the world with a different perspective. So, it is wonderful to be here with you today as we take the next step forward. And that next step forward leads us back into the book of Judges, back into the story of Samson, today Judges 15 and 16.

Commentary:

Okay so, as we finish up the story of the judge named Samson, let’s just look back because it’s taken us a few days to move through that story. There’s a lot there. Samson’s birth was foretold to a couple who were infertile. And we…we noticed that and we noticed that that’s a theme, that there are a lot of stories like that, that begin that way in the Bible. But Samson was to be set apart from the time that he was born, he would be a Nazirite, which means he was set apart for the service of God. And that meant that he wasn’t supposed to drink alcohol and he wasn’t supposed to eat unclean food and he was not to have his haircut. And as a result, he had strength that that was unparalleled. And at the time of Samson, the Philistines had been ruling over Israel, and the conflict between the Philistines and the Israelites well, this isn’t the last time we’re gonna, we’re gonna run into this conflict. But conflict was stirred up between the Philistines and the Israelites because of Samson, and Samson had beef with the Philistines for one main issue, for one main reason: women. So, at first Samson finds a woman that he wants to get married to who was a Philistine woman and he has this riddle that will enrich himself with his fiancée and their new life and their new beginning, but he loses the wager because his fiancée betrays him. And so, Samson retaliates by killing Philistines, which did not work out for the Philistines, it only made them angry with the determination to capture Samson and bring about their version of justice upon him. But he was too strong for them and then eventually Samson met another woman. Her name is Delilah, and we watched their relationship, and we, I mean the story allows us to get insight into the…into what’s going on and we can see that Delilah is doing nothing but manipulating Samson. She wants to know where his strength comes from so that she too, can betray him. And so, she wears him down, over and over again. Tell me the source of your strength, and then he tells her something, and then she does that something as if it’s like…like a cat and mouse game and gets up and frees himself until she’s finally, she finally presses him in a…in a extraordinarily manipulative way. If you really loved me, you would X, Y, and Z and what she wants is the source of his strength and he trusts her. He loves her and she betrays him. His hair is cut, his strength is gone. The Philistines come, they gouge out his eyes and blind him and they turn him into entertainment. They turn them into a circus act, they humiliate him. Not realizing that his hair is growing back. And so, Samson, at his last stand in the last scene of his life, is being humiliated and ridiculed before the Philistine people in the temple of the Philistine God, Dagon. And actually, this isn’t the last time we’re gonna be in this place. They’ll be a meeting with Dagon and the Philistines again because in the future the Philistines will capture the ark of the covenant, which doesn’t go well for Dagon. But we’ll get to that soon enough. The people are worshiping Dagon, rejoicing and praising for the capture of Samson. Samson is standing by the pillars of the building and utters a final prayer, God remember me once more, give me my strength one more time. And then Samson pushes the building down and it collapses around him, and he dies in the rubble. One of the things that we see in this story is, who left who. Samson gave up his strength, his calling, his anointing for a woman who manipulated him, which reveals a number of things, but it reveals the power of women in this world, the power and influence to capture the heart. In the case of Samson, this is like a cautionary tale. But the opposite of what Delilah did, would also be true, a woman can call a man higher than he ever would’ve gotten without her when she is true and faithful. So, I am in no way trying to say femininity is the problem. Quite the contrary. I’m married to a faithful woman. I’m married to the opposite of Delilah, and I would not be here without her. I’m just trying to say there is enormous strength and power bestowed upon women in this world for good and for evil. And that should be taken to heart. And I’m not trying to skip men. We have plenty in the Bible, that men need to pay attention to and the way that they conduct their relationships. I’m just saying, this is one of the things that we can observe in the story of Samson. Another thing for us to remember is that we have also been set apart to God. And we still sin. And when we do, who is walking away from whom? Like, we are walking away from God and not the other way around. And so, we walk away from the strength of the Lord, the calling of God, the anointing of the Lord on our lives for lesser things that aren’t going to stay true, and that may in the end manipulate us into our own destruction. So, let’s give this some thought today.

Prayer:

And Holy Spirit, we invite You into all of it. The entire story that we’ve read here and we can look at this from all kinds of different angles but we’re inviting Your Holy Spirit to lead us to what we need, and what we need to carry forward, and what we need to know for the steps that are in front of us. Come, Holy Spirit, in the name of Jesus, we ask and lead us into all truth. We pray this in Your name. Amen.

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Prayer and Encouragements:

Hi, I don’t know what to say except I can’t do it alone anymore. My email is all messed up. I don’t know how to ask for help. I just know that I can’t, I can’t do it. And I just, I need help. And I keep trying to do it alone and there isn’t anything I can do. And there isn’t any way that I can even ask for help because I don’t know what to ask for anymore. And it’s not even a pride thing anymore because I am just too weak to do anything. And I’ve tried to ask, I can’t ask. I don’t know what to ask for. I just need help. I just turned 65 and I have no parents, I have no children, I have no friends. I have a car with 306 thousand miles on it. I have a place to live. I’m grateful but I’m lost. I know that God is helping me. I’m surviving. But I don’t know what to do. I’ve tried to help others, but it ends up getting me in more trouble than it’s worth. I don’t know what to do. Just pray, please. Thank you.

Hey, Daily Audio Bible Family. It is Sheena from Saskatchewan. And I’ve called in a couple of times about some of things that we’re going through. So, some of you might remember that. My boyfriend is going through a legal case and while we are super scared about that and praying all the time about that, we are, we’ve found that we’ve been neglecting to pray for our children. In between him and I, we have 6 girls. Each one of them is so very different and has different issues. Only one of them has proclaimed that she is saved. We have a pregnant teen, soon-to-be mom. We have non-binary teen. We have a teen who will be diagnosed, what we believe to be autistic. A teen who’s being bullied. A teen who is very materialistic and wanting to spend money, spend money, spend money. And the youngest is refusing to do anything she is told to do. So, can I just ask you guys to pray for, help us pray for our kids. We’ve decided that we’re gonna make a habit of it, regularly to pray for them. So, I would just ask that if you guys could do the same, we would greatly appreciate all your prayers. Thanks, Daily Audio Bible Family. We love you so much.

Good morning, Daily Audio Family. This is Eunice, I’m calling today to pray for families like my family, as well. I have two daughters and two sons. And my daughters are striving to live for God, but both of my sons are struggling with who they even believe God is. And so, it’s nothing but the trick of the enemy. And so, I just wanna pray for families. Lord God, we thank You today because we know You are our Healer and our Redeemer. You are our Savior and our Lord. And God, I pray for my family as well as all of the DAB families, Lord God. I hear the cries of parents over their children, who are addicted to drugs, who don’t even know what they believe and God it’s nothing but the trick of the enemy. And so, God, we pray against that stronghold. And God, we know that You have called us to be healed, to be whole, to be set free. And so, we pray for our children, Lord God. Whether they be young people, teenagers, or full-grown adults. We pray, Lord God, that You would hear, oh my God, and to deliver, to set free and to restore. We thank You, Lord God, because we know that You are at work and cause them, constantly, Lord God, to hear You and to see You, and to follow in Your ways. Break the strong holds, Lord God, and we just thank You, even now for deliverance. We love You and we just bless Your name. DAB Family, be blessed today. In Jesus name. Amen.

Hi, my name is Louisa and I’m calling from Central Massachusetts. I just want to start by thanking you, Brian and Jill and China and Ezekiel for this soul filling ministry of the Daily Audio Bible. I’ve been blessed by the DAB for three years and I giving this first call to pray against Satan and his powers and principalities that are becoming more bold and more brazen in attacking our culture and our families and our children. During the last weekend of April, the largest Satan Conference in the world is going to take place in Boston, Massachusetts. And I’m asking for the extraordinary prayer warriors of DAB to pray against all the lies, deception that’s promoted at this event. Please join me in praying against the one who seeks to steal, kill and destroy our communities, our cities, our nations in our world. Pray that those attending this event will see the light of Satan’s curses and will turn from Satan and will open their hearts to Jesus our Savior and our Redeemer who offers them and us, life and mercy and grace and love. And we just praise Him for that. So, God bless you all. Thank you so much for letting me reach out to you, that we can all be prayer warriors against Satan and his minions. Thanks.

Hey neighbors, it’s Lisa the Encourager. I wanted to call in and pray for Matt’s son Josiah and his needs for prayer as he’s gonna be getting out of the hospital soon with, after being treating with suicide and depression, issues and concerns. And also, for his upcoming therapy for ECT therapy. And I also want others to know, I’m continuing to pray for Hannah and her eating disorder. Mitchell, who you know, has been on the streets and has been struggling. And also for Drew. Just want you to know, I’m lifting all of them up in prayer. Dear Heavenly Father God, I want to pray for Josiah tonight, Lord, as he’s soon will be entering in a new therapy, God, to hopefully and prayerfully, God, interact with his brain in a way that he can break free from the bondage of depression and how it has impacted his life. And I pray, God, that You will give him the, the strength and be able to finally, the doctors in this procedure will finally be able to be the one thing that heals him forever, Lord. And that he will be able to praise Your Holy name for this beautiful recovery from this awful disease of depression, which puts him in a point of having bad suicidal thoughts, God. I also want to continue to pray for Hannah and her eating disorder and that her recovery will be continuing and that You are with her today, right now, God, and giving her strength to …

Hello, Daily Audio Bible, my name is Kim and I’m calling from Tennessee. And I’ve been listening to the Daily Audio Bible for quite a few years now. And I’m calling in, asking for prayer. My husband and I have, we met in Afghanistan together while we were serving. And we were together since 2012 and we married. And since that time, we have, because of our careers and our jobs we have not been able to live together on a permanent basis. I’m asking for prayer tonight. I have tried to apply for jobs, and I thought I got a job that was remote, where I could move and be with my husband but it’s not a remote position. I don’t know, there was some confusion or something. But I’m just asking for prayer that I would like to be with my husband. We have been faithful, we have been faithful in our, in our faith in the Lord and with each other and through our marriage. And I just pray that I will be soon, finding a job. Please pray for me to be able to find a job where I can relocate and finally live a life with my husband. We’ve been married for a while, and we’ve been apart ever since. We see each other you know, long weekends, leaves, things like that, but I would like to share a life with him, a life in Christ. So, I ask for your prayer and I thank you. And I pray for every one of you in the Daily Audio Bible Family. And I thank you. God Bless.  

Judges 13:1-14:20, John 1:29-51, Psalms 102:1-28, Proverbs 14:15-16

Today is the 1^st day of May welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I am Brian it is wonderful to be here with you today as we greet a brand-new shiny sparkly month. And we’re just kinda getting going in this brand-new week. Today is the 121^st day of the year. That’s hard to believe. It really does not seem like we’ve come so far into the year yet but we have and we got here how we get everywhere - day by day, step-by-step. And, so, this is our 121^st step of the year out of 365 steps. So, we are well underway. We began the book of John, the gospel of John the yesterday. So, that’s where we’re situated at least when we get to the New Testament, but in the Old Testament, we are continuing our journey through the book of Judges, which kind of gives us an overview of…of those who led Israel between Joshua’s death and the emergence of…of the monarchy, of Kings in Israel. And today we will begin the story of one of the more famous judges, his name is Samson. We’re reading from the English Standard Version this week and today, Judges, chapters 13 and 14.

Commentary:

Okay. So, as we begin this fifth month of the year in our journey through it let’s just kind of recap where we are. We’re working our way through the book of Judges and as we know several centuries go by in the book of Judges. It’s kind of a transitional period between the time that Joshua, who led them across the Jordan River between his time of leading and the time that the children of Israel decided to establish a kingdom, a monarchy and set a king over them. And, so, between that time, the centuries between that time, the judges ruled. And we’re far enough into the book of Judges that we know everyone was doing what was right in their own eyes and a judge would come and restore order and lead people back to God, but they would then pretty much immediately after the judge was gone go back and do what was right in their own eyes, which would lead them into other obstacles and then another judge would rise up. And, so, some of these judges we get to know pretty well and some of…some of them we just have a sentence about. But we’re kind of doing a survey of who led Israel after Joshua. And today we met the judge named Samson, which is a fascinating story. Samson’s parents had no children. His mother was barren. That is a recurring theme as we go through the Scriptures. It’s the backdrop for a number of stories that we encounter in the Bible. And there is an angelic visitation with the promise of a child and the woman tells her husband, whose name is Manoah about it and he basically says if he comes back come to me right away. We need to know what we’re supposed to do. And that’s what happens. And, so, there is a discussion about what’s supposed to happen, and Samson is to be a Nazirite from birth. The spirit of the Lord will be upon him, and we’ll get to see how that plays out as we continue the story forward tomorrow. But as his story does unfold we…we will be able to see, yes indeed the people are doing what is right in their own eyes, and they’re kind of all over the map and it’s a volatile time for the children of Israel, but within the story of Samson is also an embedded mirror that becomes a good hard look into our own lives. And, so, as we continue the story of Samson we have much to learn.

And then as were navigating our way into the final gospel, the gospel of John, we find ourselves again at the Jordan River, which is also a place that we visit a lot as we navigate through the Scriptures. But we are back at the Jordan River and Jesus is beginning His ministry, and a loose group of people are beginning to find their way to Jesus. He’s calling them forward and they’re beginning to band together around Him and it gives us a chance to just look at who Jesus picked to be His closest friends, the people that He was going to invest His earthly life into. I mean let’s think about it for a second. The Almighty God decides to incarnate Himself into human form and become a human being and He has much to do but one of the things that He is going to do is invest in enormous amounts of time into specific human beings lives, that they may carry the story forward. Like you would think, God has His pick of the best of the best of the best of the people and yet we don’t find any depictions where there’s a job interview where Jesus is sitting across a rock from somebody else going over their work experience and education. I mean, these guys, these guys were not even literate, very likely that they were illiterates or just a basic understanding. And He didn’t seem to be looking for the most muscular, the biggest people, who could be His bodyguards or the strongest people. He was looking for the smartest people he could find. He didn’t look at anybody and go, they’re…they would…they would make a great speechwriter for me. He was looking for open hearts, people with eyes to see and ears to hear. Those were the qualifications. And, so, it’s kind of counterintuitive because we look at how Jesus chose to invest His life into, and He chose to equip the ill equipped. And those people went on to change the whole world. And that is our story friends. We’re not equipped for this. No matter what we think, no matter what we think we know, to be an ambassador for the most-high God, same thing is going to hold true. Do we have an open heart? Do we have open hands? Do we have eyes to see and ears to hear? Because we have all been invited to come and follow Him. And, so, may we…we rejoice that He didn’t come to choose the elite he came to choose those who were ready to hear, and may that be us.

Prayer:

Jesus, we invite You into that. It is our intention to do whatever that we can that is in our power to open ourselves to You and Your ways, to learn from You, to be comforted by You, to be disciplined by You, to be directed and guided by You. And the first step is for us to realize that without You we are nothing and we know nothing. We think we know a lot, but it is Your Holy Spirit’s guidance and direction that we need. And, so, as we continue to navigate through the book of John help us to listen and learn as true disciples who are following You. We pray this in the mighty name of Jesus. Amen.

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Community Prayer and Praise:

Hey there from beautiful Cincinnati OH this is Daniel Johnson junior it has been a little while since I’ve reached out here. And brothers and sisters I just…I have not been…I’ve…I’ve felt like I’ve not been doing very well. See, as I'm…as I’m recording this it is Saturday April the 22^nd I think it is…yeah Saturday April 22^nd and I am…let’s see it has been over a month and a week…by the time that I do wind up getting paid it would have been two months that I have not had any income at all. And that’s messed with my head a lot. You know, I had been unemployed prior to that for six months, nothing coming from it and, you know, not being able to be bring any income into my family. Fortunately, my wife has some money, my daughter she…she has a job, but it’s not been nearly enough for us to live on. I felt a tremendous amount of guilt and I’ve let the enemy oppress me in this area and let me think less of myself in this area even though i do have a job that I’m starting on Monday, and I did…I have done work to get work. I’ve let the enemy oppress me in this area and I just…just think less of myself and I’ve gone to idols to try to comfort what it is that I’m feeling. It’s just not been…it’s not…I’ve not been very healthy in the way that I’ve dealt with this. And I am committed to getting back up every time that I fall. You know, fall down seven times get up eight. So, from beautiful Cincinnati OH, God bless you all. Thank you and make it a great day.

Good morning this is Helen in Durham and…actually in Pennsylvania at the moment visiting our grandson and family and I feel compelled to let you all pray with me please for tomorrow. Our grandson Carter who has shown that he has a real interest in God and actually even has prayed to God and heard His voice. So, I have…really feel the Lord wants to move in his life. He has…he wants to go to church with us tomorrow morning. And I’m also praying that either his dad who we have a long history of difficulty with, or his mom will go with us as well. Anyway Lord, I just want to lift up this family. I just feel like there are things that You really want to do in their lives and that You are poised to do those things. Lord, I have great faith that You really want to build little Carter, seven years old, into a man of God whose already heard Your voice. And Lord, just fills me with expectation for what You could do in his little life. And there’s so many negative issues that have gone on in families, addictions and different things of that sort Lord. I just want to lift up this Young family and pray that You will make end ways, especially through Carter but through my son who knows about You Lord, that You would soften his heart to want to follow You, that You would build greater faith into the mom and this little girl who’s only two that we’re celebrating her birthday, that lord even You will move into her life as well. So, i just really have great hope for this family.

Hi DAB family this is Thankful and Still and I was calling in response to the January 28^th community prayer. I heard a mama of a son named Quincy and I just want you to know that I am praying. I’m praying for your son and my son because it sounds identical to what I’m experiencing with mine, my boy. But I’ll just pray for them. Heavenly Father, I thank You. I thank You and I praise You for the blessings of children. I thank You that they are unique in their ways, that You created them for a purpose Lord before You set the foundations of the earth. And we thank You for our children that are…are created in Your image to serve and to do the works that You set up for them that are just so unique to them Lord. I thank You for their walk. I thank You for the experiences they’re having God, even though we as mothers don’t know what’s going on when they’re out. God I just know that You’re there and You know, and You are with them heavenly Father. We pray that You would surround our children with people that are of You with Your angels, with people that will speak wisdom and life and love into them, God, that will spark interest in things of above like things that are beyond them, themselves. Grow them, inspire them Lord to draw near to You. Draw near to them as well. And we just praise You for the victory for salvation and for children that are gonna serve You and do just miraculous things for You God. And give us momma’s peace as we wait for You to do Your will in Jesus’ name. Amen.

Scripture tells us beware when you think you’re standing lest you fall
now that’s some good scriptural advice that’s applicable to us all
because all of us at times have made plans
and have at times unforeseen circumstances pop up that takes the control totally out of their own hands
and we find ourselves at the mercy of the wind
not knowing when where how things are going to end
we get so angry at that point that we want to hit something till it cracks
frustration aggravation satanic attacks
driving us till we reach our wits end
and that’s usually the point where we ask the father to step in
because he says many are the afflictions of the righteous
but he also says that out of them all he will rescue us
and he does over and over again
his grace mercy faith love and kindness has no end
Jesus savior please pilot me
take control and set me free

blindtony1016@gmail.com. Like to give a shout out to Michelle from LA and I’d also like to give a shout…shout out to Rebecca from Michigan. Know that you’re both are being prayed for daily and loved thought of often. And once again Brian and the Hardin family thank you for this wonderful podcast for god’s Holy Spirit to flow. Keep it flowing y'all. All right, bye-bye.

Hey, my adorable DAB family, this is Kingdom Seeker Daniel. Wanted to pray for our sister Melissa from Albertville AL concerning your nephew, Elijah. Father, I come on behalf of your daughter Melissa’s nephew Elijah and I plead the precious blood of the lamb Jesus the Christ over his life where the enemy is putting out and assault to ravish this young man’s mind and life. He doesn’t want anything to do with you oh God. And I pray that you would demolish the walls that have been erected to stand in the way of this young man’s life. I pray God that you would surround him on every side and I pray that you would destroy the stronghold and the yoke of bondage that the enemy has been able to gain access into his world. O God set this young man’s mind free and do a mighty work of healing deliverance breakthrough and salvation to the glory of your great name I pray. Amen. Be encouraged sis. God’s got your nephew. Family if you would be so kind to be in prayer for LOV’s daughter, Tanya Gordon. She had a heart attack on yesterday. Today is the 22^nd and they had to put two stents and…and they did a blood transfusion this morning. They’re still running tests to determine what’s going on with her blood. There seems to be some issues with her blood And, so, I’m asking that you please lift up LOV’s daughter Tanya Gordon for healing in Jesus’ name. Love you family.