Month: October 2023

Lamentations 4:1-5:22, Hebrews 2:1-18, Psalm 103:1-22, Proverbs 26:23

Today is the 31st day of October, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I’m Brian, of course, it’s awesome to be here with you today, as we prepare to close down the 10th month of the year. Today is the 304th day of the year, which leaves us with 61 steps to go to the finish line. And also today, we will conclude the book of Lamentations. So, let’s get to that, we are reading from the Good News Translation this week. Lamentations chapter 4 verse 1 through 5 verse 22 today.

Commentary:

Okay, so, we’re quite a bit of ways into the book of Proverbs and we have been dispensed each day, a bit of wisdom has been given to us, that is practical and usable and true. And we also notice that it deals with all of the different postures and issues of our lives, encouraging us in the path that leads to and operates within wisdom. But we also have to acknowledge that where it is taking is now, the territory that we are going through right now, is pretty close to home because it’s dealing with the things that we’re saying and how that affects things, and it uses metaphors that we can understand to show us what we’re doing. Which gives us a great opportunity to ask ourselves, is that what I want to be doing with my words. In other words, if this is what is happening, is that who I want to be? So, let’s look at this Proverb, insincere talk is how this Proverb begins. So, what are we talking about when we’re talk about insincere talk? We’re talking about language or the portrayal of an emotion that is not authentic, that is not genuine. In other words, we don’t mean what we’re actually saying, and we don’t feel what we’re actually portraying. We’re saying it because we feel like we should say, or we’re exaggerating what we’re saying or what we’re portraying ourselves to be feeling. We’re exaggerating and stretching that beyond what is true and authentic. And the Proverb says this is cheap talk, and we know that, we know that euphemism. We know that Proverb; talk is cheap. This is what we’re talking about. But underneath that, we have to understand that it’s a sham, it’s not true. It’s not genuine, it’s not authentic, it’s not real. It veils the truth, it hides what you’re really thinking. So, as the Proverb goes, insincere talk that hides what you really thinking, is like a fine glaze on a cheap clay pot. So, if we’re looking at the metaphor than the clay pot is made of cheap materials, it is maybe poorly constructed, isn’t gonna hold together that well. Maybe it’s porous and actually won’t hold liquid and so this glaze is put over the top, that’s gonna break down, and it’s gonna leak. Which probably brings us to another euphemism: that won’t hold water. That’s what we’re talking about here. So, this glaze is slapped on top of it to make it look like it’s a finely crafted piece, but it’s not. It’s cheap. It’s not gonna hold up. It’s not what it’s being presented to be. So, put that starkly, as the Proverbs are prone to do, we immediately have the mirror that the Scriptures become up in front of our faces, and we have to examine ourselves. That’s the invitation of the Proverb. Do you want to live wise or not? If you do, then this is…this is what you need to pay attention to, this is what the Proverbs teach us. So, we have to look at ourselves and say am I true, am I real, am I authentic and genuine in the things that I communicate. Or is most of this a sham? I don’t think there’s anyone, you know, listening right now, that’s like yes, yes, every day I roll out of bed and see how fake I can possibly be. And when I lay my head down at night, if I can feel like I fooled everyone, then mission accomplished. Like, I don’t think we live our lives that way. But using this Proverb and the metaphor that it presents us, we might find that we very much are participating in insincere talk throughout any given day. And according to the Proverb, we’re trying to pass off something as valuable that is cheap. And if we’ll pay attention to this Proverb, if we put it in our hearts and walk through this day observing ourselves, we’ll probably catch ourselves. And as we observe ourselves being this way, than we have the opportunity to name it and change it.

Prayer:

So, Father, we come into Your presence asking for Your help with this, the false places inside of us that just come spilling out in all kinds of social situations. How is it that we can be true, and sincere and present in our language, in our speech? Rather than peddling something off, that isn’t true. Come Jesus we pray, we need Your help, and we ask for it, in Your name. Amen.

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And that’s it for today, this concludes the 10th month of our year together. It concludes the month of October. I’m Brian, I love you and I will be waiting for you here tomorrow as we begin a new month.

Prayer and Encouragements:

Hello, DAB family, this is Shannon in Orio Grande. Please join me in praying for my cousin Toby. He’s 40 and has brain cancer. It’s returned, a second time. He just had surgery and they’ve removed it. But he needs to start chemo. Pray that this time, Lord, Toby’s brain cancer will be completely removed. And that it would never return. Pray for his family; give them Your peace and comfort, as they worry about him and love him this time. We thank You that they know You. And again, we just ask that he will be completely healed of the brain cancer. May it never return. May his peace be in You and may he know that You have his best in Your in mind. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.

Good morning siblings. It’s me, your little sis, His Little Sharie in Canada. A big thank you to everybody who has prayed for me or sent kind thoughts my way. I so appreciate it. I have been doing better emotionally. I’m feeling a lot of peace about my situation with the possible progression of my MS, even though I am seeing symptoms. Overall, I’m just generally feeling a lot of peace. And the update is, that I’m gonna have to wait until January to make any decision. Which is good news, in a way, because I don’t have to make a decision right now about beginning MS drugs. I won’t be able to see my neurologist until January. I did call her but the nurse explained to me that I have an appointment with her in a couple of months, a few months. And she’ll be able to reassess me at that time. We’ll be able to talk about anything I want to and we’ll make a decision whether MS drugs is appropriate. And then, I have to kind of apply to begin these drugs and be approved. So, there’s a bit of a process involved here in Canada. So, the long and the short of it is I don’t have to do anything right now. I am noticing progression in some of my symptoms, but I just feel the Lord is protecting me emotionally from the fear that I was feeling. So, thank you so much to those of you who have prayed for me. I know people have been praying on the prayer line. I know people have been praying on the Prayer Wall. A friend has sent me some of those prayers, just beautiful. Thank you, thank you, thank you from the bottom of my heart family. You guys are awesome. And I’ll continue to keep you updated.

This is Molly calling in to respond to Bob from Phoenix. Bob, I don’t know what your circumstances are but God does. It sounds to me like you are pretty open to God’s moving in your heart and in your life. Keep something in mind, you don’t have to hear God’s voice in order to give your life completely over to Jesus. It’s a matter of your will. If it were anything else, then it wouldn’t be faith. And without faith, it’s impossible to please Him. So, please be encouraged. Just obey the word that you’re reading and you’re hearing. And move on with your life, it’s going to get better. It always does. And God is faithful to honor your prayers and to honor your faith. Just wanted to let you know.

Good morning Daily Audio Bible. I pray for Eyes of a Dove, called in about Jerry, her father. I am also starting to move in with my mom. The difficulty of the mental anguish and fear and delusions that keep us having a fulfilling relationship. We leave them all at your feet Lord. We become before You Lord to lift up those who are suffering with dementia, and the families that are supporting them through this serious and distressing disease. It must be traumatic to begin to realize that one’s memory is beginning to fail and heart rendering for those that are left to care for their loved ones with dementia through their process of physical and mental degeneration. Pour Your love and Your grace into the hearts of all those that are affected by dementia and memory loss. And we pray that You would supply all their needs, according to your riches and glory. Bless all those who care for those with this debilitating disease and supply them with an abundance of Your loving patience, gentle graciousness, and inner strength as they support and care for their loved ones, day-by-day. Lord, in Your loving kindness and great compassion, we pray that You would bestow Your tender mercies, sufficient strength and inner peace on all who are today involved in one way or another with dementia and uphold each one with your righteous right hand. We pray in Jesus name. Amen. God bless you Daily Audio Bible. This is Lauralee in Boynton Beach.

Lamentations 1:1-2:22, Philemon 1:1-25, Psalm 101:1-8, Proverbs 26:20

Today is the 29th day of October, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible and here we are at the threshold of a sparkly, shiny new week. And we’ve got some ground to cover this week. Before the week is over, we will enter a new month and we’re going to begin four, that’s right four books in the Scriptures this week. So, in the Old Testament we will read through the book of Lamentations, which we’re about to get to and just a minute. And then begin the book of Ezekiel. And in the New Testament we’ll read Paul’s letter to Philemon, which we will read today. And then move our way into the book of Hebrews. So, we’ve got some ground to cover and let’s get to it. We’re gonna read from the Good News translation this week and we will begin by beginning the book of Lamentations.

Introduction to the Book of Lamentation:

And the book of Lamentations is a book that contains five poems and they’re poems of lament and grief. And this lament is over the fall and destruction of Jerusalem. And we covered some of that territory as we read through Jeremiah’s prophecies. So, in Hebrew, this book is called Ica, which means how could this happen. And, of course, we know how it could happen. Jeremiah, the prophet, warned over and over, over decades of impending doom if the children of Israel didn’t return from their wicked ways, and now, the prophecy has come true. And although Ica, or Lamentations, doesn’t claim an author, and there’s really no definitive proof, we have church tradition that tells us that the prophet Jeremiah wrote these Lamentations. So, we don’t know that for a fact, but he was obviously intimate with the scenario and in the same time period. So, Lamentations was probably written somewhere in early 587 BC, as the Babylonians conquered and then completely destroyed Jerusalem in 586. Whether Jeremiah wrote this or not, someone who was an eyewitness, probably did. And today, in Jewish culture, on the ninth day of Hob, which is July 16 on the Western calendar, Lamentations is read on a day of fasting to commemorate the fall of Jerusalem. And as each poem is read, it provides a backdrop for personal reflection. Lamenting, that’s never something that we sign up for, lamenting is never an easy thing, grief is certainly hard, but it also has a way of washing us clean because it strips us away until all that’s left is what is true, what is bedrock in our lives. And it can be intensely painful, for sure, but it’s also freeing in hindsight. And when we’ve fallen into the depths and there’s no more depths to go to, then we find there’s hope, there’s nowhere to go but up, the euphemism says. There’s hope for our future, and we can find in this book of Lamentations much hope in our personal reflection. So, we begin Lamentations chapter 1 verse 1 through 2, 22.

Introduction to the Book of Philemon:

Okay so, as we enter the New Testament portion of our reading today, we come to the book of Philemon, it’s just a little personal letter from the apostle Paul, that we’ll read today, all in one sitting. And it’s written to a church leader in the church at Colossae, so the Colossians and his name is Philemon. So, Philemon was one of the more wealthy and influential churchman and in in a strange twist of divine providence, Philemon had a servant, and his name was Onesimus. And Onesimus ran away and probably stealing from Philemon. So, stealing from his master in the process. And Onesimus ends up not in Colossae but in Rome where Paul is under house arrest, and so this runaway servant Onesimus comes under Paul’s teachings and then becomes a follower of Jesus and becomes kind of like the servant of Paul, attends to Paul’s needs. So, Paul’s written a letter to the Colossians, right. He wrote the letter to the Colossians that we have in the New Testament, and he’s preparing to send it back with another servant name Tychicus. But then he writes this very short personal letter to go along with the letter to the Colossians to the church at Colossae. He pens this personal letter to Philemon and then sends Onesimus, the runaway servant with Tychicus, back to Colossae. And as short as this little personal letter is, it packs a punch. It shows us the importance of forgiveness and it shows us that no matter what our level of authority is over another person, if they are a believer then they’re a brother or sister and we’re to treat them like family. And it also shows us a perfect example of how God does, in fact, work all things together for the good of those who love Him. And so, with that we read the letter to Philemon.

Commentary:

Okay, so, we’ve already talked quite a bit about the letter and the book that we entered into today. And we can see, as we were the first couple of chapters of Lamentations, that it’s a gut punch, that it leads us into emotions and territory that are things that we try to avoid, and that’s why it’s here, because we shouldn’t avoid these things. We should invite the Holy Spirit into them. And as we read these poems allow the Holy Spirit to move us through lament, right. And so, maybe we haven’t you know, lived in a city with walls that have been torn down and a temple that is, like those things that we have witnessed through Jeremiah and now Lamentations. But we all have regrets. We all have things that we’re like, you know, I could’ve done that better. I wish I had done that differently. And, you know, now I’m going through what I’m going to because of that, or that sent me into a really hard season. So, a lot of times because it was hard, and because it was painful, we try to suppress and repress even going there, like even thinking about it anymore, like it’s just so painful. But the thing is, it’s still inside of us, like it’s still inside, it’s still there. Like, it may be shoved up into the attic or down into the basement of our hearts, but it’s still there, and the Holy Spirit uses times of lament to bring us back, so that he can heal those places, rather than allowing them to continue to seep poison into our lives, and that’s the invitation, as we go through books like Lamentations. And then obviously, this little, short letter to Philemon from the apostle Paul is a treasure to have because you know, we only have a few personal letters and they’re, the personal letters are mostly pastoral in nature. And so, here’s this personal letter to a man who kind of leads a home church and he’s basically saying Onesimus is my son in the face now and he has served me, and I would like him to continue to serve me, but he’s yours, so I’m sending him back to you in hopes that you will send him back to me. So, just this little glimpse into, sort of the back story of what’s going on, aside from Paul giving theology and doctrine instruction. This is like a little side personal thing that gives us a glimpse into his existence and his circumstances as he’s imprisoned in Rome.

And then we come to the Proverb, and we can’t not talk about that for just a second. Gossip, gossip is like cancer. I have witnessed this so many times and in so many contexts. And gossip takes on many forms but usually always is paired with married to, assumptions. So, gossip doesn’t become gossip until assumptions are made and blanks are filled in and a story is formulated and little bits from here and there are collected. Right, then it’s spoken to somebody else and passed around, and the person that’s being referred to isn’t even there to speak. And so, when they find out that people have been talking about them behind their backs. Okay, then there’s a confrontation and there’s quarreling, then there’s argument, then there’s separation, then there’s factions, then this whole community that you know, that’s involved is divided and you got all kinds of problems. And we’ve probably all seen this, maybe participated in it, maybe been on the receiving end of it but it just. Like, when have you ever seen gossip workout for good? Like, when have you ever seen a gossip, a person who collects all these little pieces of information and then tries to fill in the blanks and start spreading these things around, when have you seen that workout in a good way? It just never does, and it hasn’t for a long time because we’re reading ancient wisdom here, thousands and thousands of years old and it didn’t work then. So, we should get a clue that as juicy as it is, and it is entertaining as it might be, people’s lives aren’t there to entertain you and division never works out well. The Proverb tells us without wood, a fire goes out. So, we know that, right. You have a bonfire it’s autumn, you have a bonfire out in the back somewhere, it’s roaring. Everybody’s having a good time and then you pull all the logs out of the fire and fire goes out. The Proverb says, that’s how it works with gossip. When you don’t have it, because gossip is the fuel, it’s the wood of the bonfire. If you remove it, then the division and quarreling will stop. We should remember this. All our words matter, all our words are creating the reality we live in, and words spoken as gossip are only adding fuel to a fire that is going to be tremendously destructive in the end.

Prayer:

And so, Father, we acknowledge this, we know this is true, and even in the context of the book of Lamentations, it may be our words, it may be gossip and quarreling and division and divisiveness that we have regrets over, that we need to invite You into and that we need to lament over. So much of our story boils back to our words. And so, we surrender, our tongues, our mouths, our thoughts, to You and acknowledge that without wood, a fire goes out. And without gossip, quarreling stops. Come Holy Spirit and lead us forward, we ask in Jesus name. Amen.

Prayer and Encouragements:

Hello, this is Just Judy for Jesus. And I am calling to let Junk to Treasure know that she is well loved, well respected and highly prayed for out here in this family’s world. Now, I know she’s going through bad times right now but let me tell you girl, you are well prayed for. I pray high on you. I pray, I lift you up. I lift you up high to let Jesus know, to reach down there with His beautiful loving hands and hold you and stroke your head and just tell you how much He loves you and things are gonna be okay. Like you say, take the junk that is thrown into our lives and turn it into treasure. We love you so much and we appreciate all the prayers that you pray. You never seem to leave anyone out, you’re just wonderful. And that will come back to you because you are God’s creature, you are God’s daughter, you are God’s love. And He will see you through this shallow deep valley and He will gladly walk you right out the other side to sunshine and happiness. So, hang in there Junk to Treasure. You will be okay. We will not stop praying for you. So, hang in there sweety. We love you so much. And God’s Yellow Flower, I love you too. You prayed for my brother when he was dying of cancer. And I’ll never forget it. He’s passed now. But I will never forget, you reaching out and praying for him. It was Bob Allen from Arizona. And Eyes of a Dove, I’ll pray for anything you want me to pray for, cause you are good too, you’re wonderful. Oh, there’s so many of you guys that I love out there. I don’t call in often, but I listen all the time. And I always so, oh God please be with those people, they’re so many of you that needs, we all need to get around that campfire and hold hands and pray for each other, hard and strong and long.

Hi, good evening, DAB’s, today is October 23rd, this is Gift of God calling in. Just wanna say thank you for all the prayers for Jaleeya, my cousin, the 9-year-old little girl that had to have surgery. She is recovering so well. She’s going into therapy but hey, the devil lost. When the doctors said that we had to call, my mom had to call in all the family members and they didn’t think she was gonna make it. But ha!! The devil, we laugh in your face. Because Satan you are a lie. She’s recovering well. And I just want to thank each and every one of you who said a prayer. And I also want to say a prayer for those who are in need. I don’t know all of your names. I do hear your prayers and I do pray for you, but I just want you to know that the God we serve is good. So, I’m gonna say a prayer. Heavenly Father, Lord we thank You. We thank you Lord God for all You do and all that You’ve done and all that You’re about to do. We thank You for every DABer, Lord God. We ask You to continue to watch over them and protect them. Lord, provide for them, Lord. Give them everything that they need, Lord God. Father, we just say thank You, Lord God. For You wake us up everyday, Lord God. And Lord, You allow us to be able to use every limb, Lord God. And Father, You give us the ability to understand and to comprehend everything that we do, that we do on our jobs. Father, we thank You in Jesus name. Amen.

Good morning, DAB family. This is Pamela, Resting in the Lord from Pennsylvania. Today, I’m calling in to pray for, to continue prayers for people dealing with trauma or stress of any kind with all the darkness in the world right now with the war in Israel. And there’s just darkness permeating into every part of our lives, it seems like. But we don’t have to be taken down by the enemy with that darkness. We can keep our mind on the Lord and His plans. And all the good that He has for our futures and keep our hope in Him and our mind on things above. I’m also calling in to pray for all of us who have challenges in our marriage. Either separated or divorced or living in a very difficult situation. I am among you as well. I wanna thank Kristen, Christ in Me for calling in with a prayer for a narcissistic husband, for Diana in Florida, I am saying that prayer over my husband. And I believe I’m seeing some differences. My husband and I are also attending a freedom course, with freedom curriculum with small groups and then a conference at the end. And it is transforming our lives. So, I’m praising God for that. Let’s pray. Heavenly Father, we know this world is coming into darkness, but that’s what you let us know in your word. We trust You to be the light in the darkness and trust in You for every single thing. In Jesus name.

Hello, I’m from Colorado. I was listening to, I believe October 4th or 5th podcast and a gentleman praying for his daughter, Ashton, who thought she was pregnant and but it turned out that the test was erroneous. She’s not but she desires deeply to have a child. And I really was moved by the father who loves his daughter, obviously. Requesting his prayers for her. So, I do pray for Ashton, Lord, pray for mercy on her. Give her the desires of her heart. And I know You know exactly what is best and I pray, certainly, primarily for that. That it be good, Lord, to whatever You’re working in the lives of that family. That You would bless them and encourage them and be with them, Lord always. Thank You for Your faithfulness to all Your people who are calling in. Many needs but You are faithful. You are just Lord. Lean not onto our own understanding but in all our ways, acknowledge Him and He will give us the desires of our heart. Thank You Father for Your faithfulness. I pray these things in Jesus name. Amen.

Jeremiah 51:1-53, Titus 2:1-15, Psalm 99:1-9, Proverbs 26:17

Today is the 27th day of October, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian, it’s great to be here with you today for of course, the next step forward in the journey that we find ourselves on together. And if my math is correct, this is day 301. So, this is our 301st step of 365 steps on this adventure, that is the Bible. And we’re kinda running the corner on the book of Jeremiah. And we’ve spent most of this month reading from Jeremiah in the Old Testament. We will conclude the book of Jeremiah tomorrow. We are also reading Paul’s letter to Titus, which we will also conclude tomorrow, but it’s not tomorrow. It’s today. So, from the Names of God Bible, Jeremiah chapter 51 verses 1 through 53.

Commentary:

Okay, let’s talk about the Proverb for a second, and then we will tie it to something that Paul says in Titus. Okay, so, do you know someone in your life that they seem to be in every single argument around you? Like they’re in everything. Like, they can be around people and maybe overhear somebody debating or having a conversation and then they insert themselves into the equation, uninvited, as if they can’t help themselves. We all probably know people like that. Maybe we even are a person like that. The book of Proverbs counsels us that that is like sneaking up behind a dog and grabbing it by the ears. And I don’t care whether it’s a little dog or a big dog, that…that’s never a good plan, because you’re gonna get growled at, snapped at, maybe even bitten. That’s what you set yourself up for when you insert yourself into other people’s business, and it doesn’t usually go well. And a lot of times when we are that person, we might be thinking, like, I’m just trying to help people, and I talk to people, and I’m just trying to help but what we’re not realizing is we really like hearing ourselves speak and we like to instruct people whether they want it or not. We feel like we have a valuable…valuable opinion and it needs to be heard whether…whether anyone wants to hear it or not. And then pretty soon, nobody wants to hear it. And then we wonder why we don’t have any friends. And it’s because we keep grabbing a dog by its ears, by inserting ourselves where we’re not invited. Now, conversely, we probably also could bring to mind a person in our life that we think is full of wisdom and wise, and it’s rare to find that kind of a person inserting themselves into every equation. Those are the people that we seek out. We actually want their opinion, we actually want to know what they have to say and what they might be able to share, because they live a life that we look up to and they carry wisdom that we seek. And we witness their relationship with God, and we witness their self-control. Like, we witness the evidence of that relationship and we seek it out. Paul refers to that kind of person, in his letter to Titus. So, he’s going down a list of different life circumstances and behaviors that…that would be appropriate and proper in those circumstances. And then he says, after all God’s saving kindness has appeared for the benefit of all people. It trains us to avoid ungodly lives filled with worldly desires, so that we can live self-controlled, moral and Godly lives, in this present world. So like, so that we can live this way right now. So that we can live self-controlled, moral and Godly lives right now, while at the same time, hoping for what we are expecting, the appearance of the glory of our God and Savior Jesus Christ. So, Paul basically gives us an example or a view of the opposite of what the Proverb is talking about, and tells us that it’s available right now in this present world. Which brings us to the ultimate question of why do we do the things that we do? If we don’t have any really deep relationships because we insert ourselves into everything and grab the dog by the ears all of the time, then we can ask ourselves, what’s underneath that, because that behavior is just an outpouring of something below and we’re exposing our own insecurities. And yet, according to the letter to Titus, God’s saving kindness invades that space and trains us to avoid things that are ungodly in every way. And trains us to live self-controlled, including our tongues. Self-controlled, moral and Godly lives in this present world, in the right now.

Prayer:

And so Father that is what we want. All of the story that has led us to this place and all of the behaviors that go along with it that are at times destructive or unhelpful, at minimum. We surrender that to you because it’s unlikely that we’re not aware, that we’re just completely unaware. And so, we surrender those insecurities and those wounds and the assumptions that we continually formulate, the things that we invent in our heads all of the time. All of that stuff that motivates us in ways that are not self-controlled, moral, and Godly in this present world, all of that, we surrender to You and invite Your Holy Spirit to come, restore, repair, heal and make new again, those places that are trigger points for us in our behaviors. Come Holy Spirit, we pray in the name of Jesus. Amen.

Prayer and Encouragements:

This is Atis Eight, calling from Cincinnati, Ohio. And I’m calling in to pray for Liza and His Little Sharie. I’m a little bit behind and I’m catching up. But those two prayer requests really just pricked my heart. And so, that I offer, I hold my sister Sharie up to You God and I pray that You would lay Your hand on her body. God, I ask that You would give her perfect peace that passes all understanding for every decision that she has to make concerning her health challenges. And I ask, oh God, that You would give her just guidance on what to do and what not to do and just how to move forward in this specific situation. I thank You for her encouragement and for her just being so faithful to this community. And I pray, oh God, that You would just lead, guide and direct her. Continue to wrap Your arms around her, oh God. And in the midnight hour, I pray that You would just whisper, in Your still, small voice in her ear that comfort, so that she knows that You are still leading and guiding and working, even though You may not necessarily be saying anything. And I also ask, oh God, that You would lay Your hand on my sister Liza’s body. That You would move in the miraculous, oh God. Do the supernatural in her life, oh God. And I pray oh God, that You would just remove any discomfort that she’s feeling and just give her peace also. As she navigates through this situation. We believe You to be the perfect healer. In Jesus name. Amen.

Hello DAB family, this is Doctor Bob from Phoenix. I just heard the anguish in Junk to Treasure’s voice. And she just posted on the community prayer all the stresses she’s been going through, the disappointments, the financial difficulties that she’s had with her events and with her phone. And Junk to Treasure, I just want to say, I’m not the prayer warrior that you are. I admire all the prayers that you give forth every single time you’re on this platform. You pray for everyone, all over the world. I think it’s time for us to pray for you. Let me pray for you directly. Again, I’m not a great prayer warrior, Junk to Treasure, but you mean so much to me and I’m sure to all of us. So, let me just ask our Lord in heaven, please come to the aid of Your faithful servant, Junk to Treasure, as she’s going through these difficulties with her phone and her living in rural America with lack of reception, lack of adequate funds to get her through from month to month. Lord, she’s a great warrior for You, for all of us. Please come to her needs as I’m sure you always do. You’ve always kept all of us under Your wings. And You always provide for us all in our times of need. So, let me be the one to…to make this prayer, make this special request to You, Lord. Come to Junk to Treasure’s aid today. Bless her, keep blessing her, and give her the financial resources and the peace that she needs that goes beyond all understanding. Thank you. Bless you, bless you all.

Hey Lauriann from South Carolina. This is Heather of Pikes Peak by way of Texas. And I heard you on the Daily Audio Bible on October 22nd and you know, it saddens me too, what Christ went through to die on the cross. But this was ordained by God so that there would be no more sacrifices. He would end all sacrifices, for all time. He covered every sin on the earth for all time. And that means, even people in the world, they don’t know it, but their sins are covered by Jesus. And when you come to Jesus and you accept Jesus as your own, and you accept him as your savior, your sins are forgiven. That’s it. That’s it. There’s no hoops, there’s no special works, there’s no nothing that we can do. Jesus did it all. And so, Jesus says, you know, in John chapter 10, verse 29, that you know, that the Lord has made him shepherd and no one, no one, can snatch His sheep out of His hand. No one! So, that means your name is written in the book of life. You have a salvation through Christ Jesus. You are a part of the bride, which is the bride of Christ, which is the church. We are the body of the church. So, tell that demon of doubt and you don’t need to battle that anymore. That your name is written in the book of life. And you tell him, in the name of Jesus, go away. Because he is not welcome to question your faith. You are a child of God, your name is written in the book of life, Jesus died for you and you have your salvation. I hope this helps you sister. I love you.

Hi there, this is Katie in Ohio. I wanted to call for Lauriann in South Carolina. Lauriann said that she battles doubt that she’ll be in heaven on a continual basis, no matter how much she reads her Bible, or does anything else. And I wanted to say, Lauriann, I’ve gone through periods like that. I don’t think it’s uncommon for, especially certain personality types. I’ve also battled guilt over things that I’ve asked forgiveness for, over and over again. And I was given advice and I want to pass on to you. Lauriann, if you’ve admitted that you’re a sinner, if you believe in your heart that God died for you, if you’ve confessed your sins and asked Him to come in, then He’s forgiven you. Then you will be in heaven. And anything after that, any guilt, any doubt, that is of Satan. That’s not of the Holy Spirit. So, fight off those fears and doubts. Fend them off with the word of God. Memorize scriptures that can bolster you. That can help you get through. Because I am certain I will see you in heaven, and I can’t wait to meet you.