Month: September 2023

Ecclesiastes 7:1-9:18, 2 Corinthians 7:8-16, Psalm 48:1-14, Proverbs 22:17-19

Today is the fourth day of September, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian and it is fantastic to be here with you today, as we dive into this week and move forward together another step, as we continue our voyage through the Bible this year. We have wound our way into some wisdom literature in the Old Testament, and that’s where we are right now. And so, we’ve worked our way through the book of Job, and are now in the book of Ecclesiastes. Which, looking at it, in terms of wisdom literature, we could be like well this just sounds like a very depressed guy who got to do a lot of things and found it all meaningless. There’s wisdom in that though, big, big wisdom in hearing from the Voice of a person who is been able to do whatever they want, whenever they want, pretty much with whomever they want. And these are some of the conclusions. And so, let’s continue that journey today, Ecclesiastes chapters 7, 8 and 9.

Commentary:

Okay, let’s talk about sorrow for a minute. What does that word mean to you, sorrow? When you think of that word and what it means and maybe even what you have or are experiencing right now. When you hear the word sorrow, is that a positive word? Is that like light up blue and like yes, this is good. Or is it like a negative, it lights up red and not, that’s to be very much avoided. Or maybe more true is that we do everything we can to avoid it, but we can’t. And so, is it just this thing that comes in life from time to time, sometimes just literally leveling us flat. And sometimes just kinda making us down for the day. Is this just something we have to endure? I mean I’ve of been in Christian ministry for very long time now and so, I’ve talked to thousands of people, and I haven’t ever met anybody that, you know, just told me that they were seeking sorrow or just looking for it. That this was their purpose, was to find sorrow but at the same time, I don’t think I’ve ever met a person that hasn’t experienced sorrow in some way. And when people describe sorrow it’s loss. Right, it's…it’s dark, it’s not light it’s dark, it’s disappointing, its sadness, it's…it’s the hardships that we face. It’s the losses that come when there’s a hole left in our lives that a person used to fill, and they’re gone, and we’re distressed. And we have been reading in the New Testament long enough to know what the apostle Paul is and what his story was. And so, we know that Paul had to experience suffering everywhere he went. But in today’s reading, Paul seems to make a distinct…distinction between suffering and sorrow. Because for most of us, when we think of sorrow, we think this is a bad thing that God would not want us to experience. And yet I quote from the apostle Paul, “the kind of sorrow God wants us to experience leads us away from sin and results in salvation. There’s no regret for that kind of sorrow, but worldly sorrow, which lacks repentance, results in spiritual death.” Okay, so Paul is saying look, there’s a distinction here. There is a kind of sorrow that leads you to repentance, which leads you to wholeness. So, another way of saying this would be that we should experience sorrow when we wake up and find our lives wandering in directions that we know are not right, that should produce these emotions that we were talking about. It should be a disappointment. It should feel like we’ve lost something, it should be distressing. Like, when we walk into sin with our eyes wide open, we should then experience the gravity of what we’re doing because we’re…we’re being a willing participant in interrupting what God is doing and inside of us. We’re betraying our source. That isn’t good and that is healthy, and that should produce sorrow because, as Paul said, it leads us away from sin and results in salvation. The kind of sorrow we’re talking about here is that we open our eyes and become aware that we are running away from God instead of running to him. And we should become aware of the implications. We are running away from what we need to survive. According to Paul, this kind of sorrow leads to repentance and repentance literally means that we change our mind, we go in a different direction, like we return to God. And so, let’s reframe sorrow as we think about this today. Like, there is no sorrow store that we can go to, go through the drive through line and get our daily dose of sorrow. Sorrow comes and we deflect and seek comfort in any way that we can. Maybe if sorrow is upon us before we do that, maybe we should wonder what is this about, because the way we handle and interpret it, will lead us to run to God or to run from God. But if we are experiencing sorrow, we ultimately want that sorrow to be comforted and the Scriptures tell us, God will heal our broken hearts, and that God will forgive us and will be patient with us. And so, may we experience the sorrow that leads to repentance.

Prayer:

And Jesus, we invite you into that, to embrace a concept like sorrow something that we spend so much of our lives and energy trying to avoid, to actually embrace it and understand that it refines and leads us somewhere, it gives us an awareness. It’s within us, something crying out that something’s wrong. And if we will embrace and find out what that is and allow your comfort to come into this place and your leadership, then you will always lead us on the narrow path that leads to life. You will only lead us in a place that is ultimately healthy for us. So, we trust you, come Holy Spirit. May we experience repentance today. We ask in Jesus name. Amen.

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Prayer and Encouragements:

Hello DAB community, it’s Morning Lift. Reaching out just to give you all an update. I really appreciate all your continued prayers for me and my family. Went to court on Tuesday of this week and while that was one of the hardest days of my life, the most painful and sad days I’ve ever had to walk through. The judge pretty much gave us everything we could have asked for and it’s I say, a very good result, legally speaking and for the kids. But it was also really hard to see my wife go through what she had to go through. And I don’t wish that on anyone. I wish she had never filed the lawsuit, I wish she would have never done what’s she’s done. I wish we had never gotten separated. And I pray that God will hopefully use this humbling experience for her to soften her heart and open her up to reconciliation. I don’t really know what’s gonna happen. But I’m lifting it up to you family to pray for her, to pray for me, to pray for our kids. Very happy with the results. I get to choose a new therapist for our kids and I think that’s the best thing. And the judge agreed and that alone was, you know, a massive win. I also get to spend a week at a time with my kids. Which I was not getting before, I was getting days or hours. So, I’m just really blessed by that, it is a true praise report. And I thank you family for lifting us up in prayer. But I ask you to continue to pray for reconciliation. In Jesus name I pray. Amen.

Hi, Lorianne from South Carolina, this is His Light from Tennessee. Just wanted to chime in here and my hymnal is being heard through prayers are being heard and they are going to be lifted up before the throne room of the Lord, Jesus Christ. And you have such a sweet voice and I’m so glad you’re here, I’m so glad that you are able to reach out to the DAB community family and ask us to pray for you. It just broke my heart to think that your family members would try and harass you for money or steal things from you. That’s just not the way that our family is supposed to be. So, I am praying complete focus for you, so that you can get to that place that your mom’s cleaned out quickly, so that you can go and lock the door, put the alarm on and know that you won’t be harassed. And I just pray for you to be lifted up and that the Lord will comfort you. Just meditate on His word. Just know that He loves you and He has you in the palms of His hands and His heart and He’s holding you and loving you. And again, just because I’m listening and hearing your prayer today, which happens to be the 31st, I think you called in on, well it was played I think, on the 25th or 26th. But neither here, nor there. Bottom line, what I’m trying to say is, you will have people that are gonna continue to pray for you now and in weeks from now. Somebody that’s gonna be a little behind, they’re gonna listen and say a prayer. So, you’re covered girl. We love you. Thanks for calling.

Hey, everybody, this is Carmen from Germany. I’m just calling in to say hi. I’ve been listening since 2017, I think it was the end of 2017 when my husband left me for like, somebody 30 years young. I was just, I had the rug pulled out under my feet. I had just no idea how things were gonna go. Anyway, I did call in for prayer and I still remember Alaska Mom and Kingdom Seeker Daniel praying for me which really meant so much just to hear your name. Anyway, long story short, 6 years have gone by, my husband and I are divorced, and I did come back to a normal life. It’s been two years; it took two years but I’m living again. Because at that point you just feel like, up is down, down is up, your whole world is turned around. It’s hard to believe that you’re gonna see light at the end of the tunnel. I did have some wonderful prayer requests answered. I asked God for a really, concrete things so I knew that I could give Him the glory, He answered it the way I had requested, and He did. So, it was really exciting. So, now I can be a blessing to others. I keep hoping that I’m not gonna end up living the rest of my life alone but this time, I really want a Christian husband, my last husband was not and it’s really hard here in Germany to find somebody who is a Christian and in, you know, the later half of life. Anyway, I really enjoy hearing all of you. I pray with you, and I thought I should just touch base, so you guys know I’m here. So, Carmen in Germany sending lots of greetings. We’ve got rain and letting you know that I’m a part of this community and praying with you, thinking of you and I just love Biran’s comments. Bye everyone.

Hello, Daily Audio Bible family. I just want to call this in for a mother that called on the broadcast of the 1st of September, I heard your desperate cry for help, for your daughter Rebecca. And at this time, I want to pray for Rebecca and for you. Oh God, Heavenly Father, we thank You Lord that You hear our cries. You hear our desperate cries and that we can come before You with any petition and knowing that You’re a God of love, You’re a God of mercy. And at this time, we come before You Lord to remember Rebecca and her parents before You. You know that Rebecca wants to take her life because she’s not feeling worthy, and she doesn’t feel that she should continue to live in this world. Lord, we pray that Your Holy Spirit would touch her, deliver her from this desires. I pray God that You would make her conscience of Your love, the love her parents has for her. The love You want her to enjoy. God, we pray complete deliverance and wholeness for her, even now. And we thank You Lord for touching her and for encouraging her parent’s hearts as well. That they would continue to believe that You are able to do more than they can ask, think or imagine. Oh God, we just give You praise, we give You thanks now. We cover her on Your blood. In Jesus name. Amen.

Introduction to the Book of Ecclesiastes continued:

And Ecclesiastes contains these musings of an older, wise person who has had nothing withheld from him and he’s reflecting back on the meaninglessness of all of it, without God. So, as we enter into Ecclesiastes, let’s invite the Holy Spirit to reveal where we’re chasing things, in exchange for the promise of a comforter life. Chasing things, like chasing the wind, expecting these things to do what only God can do. We might find like Solomon, that there is a time and a purpose for everything under heaven, and that maybe we’ve been chasing the wind, because Ecclesiastes shows us Jesus taught us. We can have the whole world; we can gain the whole world and lose our soul. We can gain the whole world and still have nothing and be empty. A fully achieved life by worldly standards, can still be lonely, anxious and depressed. Having everything without God is having nothing. And so, we begin Ecclesiastes chapters 1, 2 and 3.

Prayer:

Father, we thank You for Your word. We thank You for another week. And as the weeks go by, it becomes clear that there are fewer weeks then…then would, then have gone by already, at least on this journey, at least in this year of our lives, and we thank You that we can mark the time, we mark Your faithfulness, we thank You for Your kindness and patience with us as we continue to grow and be transformed through this process over time of being made holy and set apart to You. This process we call sanctification. So, we open ourselves to You and say, come Holy Spirit and continue to sanctify us, continue to transform us, continue to open our eyes that we might see. We pray this in the name of Jesus. Amen.

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Prayer and Encouragements:

Hi DAB family, I need your prayers for my son. He is 18, he still lives at home. But he has been fighting me and my husband about church and God, the way that we’ve raised him for the last year. And now he has told me that he’s an atheist and he doesn’t believe in my God and he if he did, he wouldn’t serve Him. And my heart is broken, and I feel like I’ve failed as a parent. But I believe God’s calling me to just hand him over and trust Him and just love. Show my son love and show the character of God. But I need your prayers. I need, please God. Cover him, protect him, bring him back. And I thank You God for the prodigal son, because I’m the prodigal son and I have come back, and I pray God. I pray for all of our kids. I pray in Jesus name that Satan is stopped in his tracks. Please help us, Lord. Amen.

Good morning DAB family, this is Karen in Florida. I’m asking for prayers this morning for my dear young friend, Veronica in Canada. Veronica is my son’s friend. She is currently in hospital in __ bridge Columbia. Veronica is an addict. My son and her met while being part of the music industry in Winnipeg. She’s like a sister to him. My son was also an addict but by the grace and mercy of our Lord, has been clean now for over 6 years. It is only by the grace of God that he is okay. And for that I am truly grateful. But many other families are not so fortunate and blessed as I have been. I don’t take that lightly. I’m asking for my dear Veronica, for prayers. She’s suffered her whole life with traumatic events. She grew up with addictive parents. Her mother is now clean and living for the Lord. I know she is also praying. As a first nations woman, she has struggled her whole life to find her solid ground. Her beloved sister committed suicide. Many tragedies that most of us will never have to endure. Brian has been reading from Job this week. And one of the things that really stood out was how Job really wanted to hear from the Lord. All of his friend’s good intentions were not going to suffice. He needs to hear from the Almighty himself. Only God’s unending mercies and interventions can finally deliver Veronica. I only ask that you please pray that the Lord would intervene in a mighty way, that all the demonic strongholds would be broken in her life and that she would finally be set free. This may be her last chance. What seems very hopeless to me is not too big for our Lord. Thank you for praying.

Hey family, this is Prodigal. I’m calling to pray for Agent of Grace, called on the 23rd I think and, and I’ve heard prayers for you. So, I’m praying for you. But this is really for the husbands. The ones who are mistreating and abusing their wives, their life partners because they can’t see through the veil of alcohol. So, I was there bros. It sucks. And I was terribly abusive verbally and psychologically and I, in retrospect I was crushing the spirit of my angel. And that’s a terrible thing. Until one day, she simply was gone. Just poof, gone. And I was here and seven or eight years whatever, since she left. And that’s a pain every day. So, imagine that woman not there. And she’s better off happy with someone who really loves her and treats her well. And imagine if you called yourself the names you called her and treated her the way you, you treat her. Imagine being beaten like that every single day. And that ask yourself, is this worth it. Is this what Jesus wants? Am I, am I doing anything right. And I gotta tell you guys, it destroys you. It destroys everything around you. And you can be the aroma of Christ. You can’t even, all you smell like is burden. So, I would encourage you all to take a step back and imagine that space empty, instead of filled with a loving heart. Cause it’s gonna be empty. It’s the Prodigal, signing out. God bless you all. I love you. Bye.

Hi, everyone, it’s Kristy in Kentucky. I’ve been a little behind. As many of you know, my beautiful husband was diagnosed with ALS last year. So, our days are really busy. And we are just continuing to pray and believe in God’s healing for him. I wanted to call in today to say thank you to Brian, for your commentary, especially today when you talked about the aroma of Christ which Paul talked about in his letters to the Corinthians. I just wanted to say that yesterday, the 27th I was actually getting ready for my day and the essence, the aroma of honeysuckle filled the room. And I looked around, trying to figure out where it had come from and there was nothing except that I realized that it was the beautiful word of God that I was being enveloped in at that moment. Oh Brian, so today to hear that it just blessed my heart. So many times, I have been out and even just looked at someone and just seen the love of Christ on them. And like you said, a smile, I’d ask them, you love Jesus don’t you, and they say yes. It’s just amazing how the love of Christ can be exhibited through countless smiles, smell, aroma. Some of my favorites, patchouli takes me back to being a teenager. Always has been one of my favorites. Frankincense and Myrrh room spray, oh, family, it will absolutely change the atmosphere of the room. _ ah, got to be my favorite. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve prayed over someone and anointed them with Bitner oil, the same oil that Mary anointed the feet of Jesus with. Ah, the aroma. Christ, I pray that each of your feel His love today, in a very special way. I love you guys.

Ecclesiastes 1:1-3:22, 2 Corinthians 6:1-13, Psalm 46:1-11, Proverbs 22:15

Today is the second day of the month of September, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian. It is wonderful to be here with you today as we get ourselves moved into this brand-new month. And even as we’re moving into this month, we’re ending a week. So, it’s always transition, isn’t it? And speaking of transitions, we concluded the book of Job, yesterday, which means we have to transition into some new territory. Kinda sticking in the same kind of theme.

Introduction to the Book of Ecclesiastes:

Today, we’ll move into the book of Ecclesiastes. And both Job and Ecclesiastes, this as well as Proverbs and the Song of Solomon and some of the Psalms, these are part of a grouping of books that are known as wisdom literature. So, this book that we’re about to read Ecclesiastes, traditionally has been kind of connected with Solomon. And there’s scholarly debate about this for lots of reasons. There’s scholarly debate about lots of things for lots of reasons. But the book probably was originally with Solomon and was translated and updated and…and that still happens today, as we translate and modernize the language as time goes forward. But we know that Solomon was considered to be an incredibly wise man, in fact, the wisest man in the world. And we’ve read about his reign and how he kind of sat at the apex of ancient Israel’s civilization. He was at the top; everything went downhill after Solomon. And Solomon went downhill before the end of his life. But we read of Solomon, and he was a very powerful, very wealthy man of his time. He was very much in demand, audiences with him were being pursued from leaders from throughout the known world of the time. And he was able to do whatever his heart desired to pursue, no matter what he dreamed up. Like, that, he was the king with all of the power, at a time when Israel was very powerful. So, nothing was off-limits to the king and his dad, King David, had unified Israel and brought them to a place of authority and prominence and power and peace. So, Solomon had incredible resources at his disposal. He had a thousand of the most beautiful women in all of the world as wives and concubines. He had a royalty, he wore a crown upon his head, he had unbelievable power, and he had the wisdom of God. And so, as we go into this book Ecclesiastes, knowing who we’re talking about here. All of a sudden, we start reading Ecclesiastes and everything seems out of character. How could a person who has it all come to these conclusions. Like, we might read Ecclesiastes, and think okay, this is what Solomon has to say at the end of his life, this is going to be a memoir of greatness, it’s more of a depressing and hopeless rant. But if we’ll stay with it and look underneath it all, go below the surface, Ecclesiastes gives us this very thoughtful, very penetrating look into the human heart. Because we’re all pursuing things, right, dreams and goals in our lives, and there’s always somebody to look at as if they have what we wanted, and they got it easy and we’re clawing and scratching for anything. It’s real easy to get into this comparison thing and begin to think if I just had the resources, if I just had the knowledge, if I just had the right partner, if I just, if I could just get my life and all of its pieces in alignment. But no matter what we get in alignment there’s always going to be somebody that’s doing way better. But with Solomon here, we’re looking at a guy who, it would be hard to find an example of someone who has more. King Solomon has the power of life and death in his hand, unbelievable wealth there’s no shortage of resource for anything that he could desire to do. He has all of these wives and women that have been sourced the most beautiful women, like he has, this is a person who we can look at from a human perspective and say okay, that’s the top of the pile, there isn’t any higher to go in the, in the human experience. Very, very, very few people experience that. We’re always able to say, if I just had that, life will be better. If I could do this, life would be better. What if we got it all though? What if we actually got it all, then what? This is what Ecclesiastes exposes and explores. Solomon had pursued whatever he wanted, achieved whatever he set his hand to, and then later in his life the beautiful harem of women from all over the world that he loved, ended up seducing his heart away from God and into idolatry.

Job 40:1-42:17, 2 Corinthians 5:11-21, Psalms 45:1-17, Proverbs 22:14

Today is the 1st day of September welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I am Brian it is wonderful to be here with you today we are launching ourselves into the ninth month of the year. That is how far we have traveled together. Today is the 244th day of the year and the territory that we have been working our way through in the Old Testament has been the book of Job. And Job is coming into this new month with us but not for long. We will conclude the book of Job today. And, so let’s dive in. Job chapters 40 through 42.

Commentary:

Okay, so we concluded the book of Job today, a very famous book about suffering and we’ve gone through the whole thing and…and…and we…we watched Job’s story. We know Job’s story. We know the tragedy. And then we spent the book listening to Job and…and we listened to a lot of Job’s questions, a lot of things that he wanted to know, and we heard Job tell us everything that he did know. And then we also heard Job’s friends tell everything that they thought that they knew about God and for that matter all that they thought that they knew about Job. But then in the end Job got what he wanted, which was to…an audience, to be in the presence of God, speaking to God. And it was Job’s intention that he had all these questions that he would present before God and that God would then answer for Himself back to Job, but instead God shows up with questions of His own and He asks those questions, and it becomes pretty clear, we’re talking about a different level. Like the kinds of questions that we have about why am I suffering, why is this pain, why was I betrayed, why did I lose that person, why did this happen to me? Our questions are about our pain. God comes in with these cosmic questions revealing there is so much more going on than we know and very quickly Job realizes he didn’t know what he was talking about at all. And all those arguments, all of those defenses, all of those questions, all of the things that he’s been saying out loud to his friends, things that he wants to say to God, he gets in God’s presence and those things don’t need to be said or asked anymore. When we suffer, we cry out to God and the expectation is that He will bring relief, that He will simply make it go away. And He does sometimes. But what if He doesn’t? What if there is more going on? What if this is escorting us to the next place? We have to wonder. Does God…does God enjoy looking down upon the earth and watching suffering? Is that like…He created people to suffer? Is that what’s going on here? Or is the truth that the difficult seasons that we face in our lives, difficult as they may be, become the bedrock foundation of our character. But we don’t like to endure. And when we have to endure and it’s painful endurance and there’s suffering or hardship involved or obstacles or opposition or intimidation involved then we wonder why. Why me? Why this is happening to me and when we’re not getting the answers that we’re looking for after the same fashion that Job was looking for his answers, we become frustrated. It’s just that we begin to subtly judge God. We wonder if He can be actually trusted. And that’s a really weird place, to be the judge of God. That is a really weird place because that makes us the voice of the accuser. And that’s an important piece to look at because there is a character in this story that is the accuser. And that is not the position that we want to take in our lives. In the end, Job had a final thing to say to God. “I had only heard about you before but now I have seen you with my own eyes, and I take back everything I said. I sit in dust and ashes to show how sorry I am.” That is quite a different place then where Job began. And the change, the difference was the presence of God. So, Job has taken us as it is intended to into the deeper parts of the pain-and-suffering of…of humanity, looking for answers because we do. And does it give us all these nice tidy little answers for why all the things happen in our lives that we face? It does not. We got to hear the best of human wisdom and then God shows up with questions, not answers. And despite this, Job gets his answers. He gets what he wanted, and he realizes what he wanted wasn’t answers, what he wanted was God. And maybe if we contemplate that and arrive at the same kind of conclusions Job came to we will find a safe place in our stormy seasons. And may we find like Job, that in God’s presence things are true wonderful for us to comprehend.

Prayer:

Father, we invite you into that. We’d like a book in this Bible that had a list of all of the answers to all of the pertinent questions of life with footnotes and all kinds of explanations, especially in the area of hardship and difficulty, especially in the area of…of physical or mental anguish. We’d love all that knowledge, and that knowledge may not help us a single bit. What we are learning is that, whether in joy or in suffering, the place that we long to be is in your presence. Job completely reinterpreted everything in your presence. And, so, we come to you for comfort, for protection, for direction, for leadership, and for a safe place for our hearts to be. And we ask that you lead us into all truth. We pray this in the name of Jesus. Amen.

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