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Deuteronomy 21:1-22:30, Luke 9:51-10:12, Psalms 74:1-23, Proverbs 12:11

Today is the 2^nd day of April welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I’m Brian it is truly a privilege and truly an honor to be here with you as we continue to just…ahhh…get settled into a brand-new month. And today, I mean we’ve been working through this week, holy week, and today is Good Friday, the day that we observe and commemorate the…the crucifixion, the execution, the death of Jesus on a cross in Jerusalem. And, so, indeed we’ve got a lot going on and a lot to consider. And we’ve also got the next step forward in the Scriptures. And, so, let’s take that step. We’re reading from the Contemporary English Version this week and we’re continuing to work our way through the book of Deuteronomy, the last things that Moses wants to impart before he…before he passes away. And I want to guess we’ve got another…we’ve got another week in the book of Deuteronomy and we’ll be facing another transition. We’ll be ending the Torah and moving forward. But for today Deuteronomy chapters 21 and 22.

Prayer:

Father, we thank You for Your word. And Lord, Lord Jesus as we read through the gospel of Luke You have made Your turn toward Jerusalem. And, so, over the coming days we’ll read that narrative again. But today is a day where we observe a culminating point, the day of Your crucifixion, the day of Your death, which makes this one of the darkest days that we can comprehend. And in terms of a Christian calendar this would be the darkest day possible, a day when Your creation turned so utterly against You, that they could not recognize You and were willing to kill You. Obviously, that’s not the end of the story and we know that, but this is the story that today represents. And, so, as we put ourselves in that position thinking of an angry mob crying out for Your execution, thinking of the mayhem of it all, thinking of the mistreatment, the abuse, the beating, the bruising, the crown of thorns, the blood, the cries of agony, the human cries of agony as…as the instruments of execution are driven through flesh and into wood. It’s so difficult for us to embrace the picture. It’s so difficult for us to even slow down enough. It's…it’s not something we…we want to look at. It’s something that we would much rather look away from. And yet since we began a journey so long ago on Ash Wednesday and moved through the season of Lent it was always coming to this because we were considering the pathways of sin, and sin only leads to death. And You had no sin, but You paid the price of sin. And, so, even though we don’t want to look at, this is what it cost, this is what it cost for us to be here in fellowship with You now. And if we continue to look away and not pay attention to this cost…well…then, it’s cheap to us, its grace, it's…it’s drive through forgiveness and it doesn’t actually register that this, our sin caused Your death in our place. And, so, therefore we don’t want any part of sin. Anything that would estrange us from You is leading us down the pathway of destruction but is leading us away from the one who loved us more than is comprehendible to step in on our behalf and take the punishment. And, so, Jesus we are so grateful today. But this is where we focus our attention and our affection and our motivation and our contemplation. And, so, as we go through this day Holy Spirit come and allow us to sit with it. Allow us to move around today somberly. Yes, we will be rejoicing. Easter is coming. We will rejoice. But today is the day to sit with what it cost to bring us a moment to rejoice. Come Holy Spirit we pray and to all of this we ask in the name of Jesus. Amen.

Song:

Jesus Paid it All – Fernando Ortega

I hear the Savior say
Thy strength indeed is small!
Child of weakness, watch and pray
Find in Me thine all in all

Jesus paid it all
All to Him I owe
Sin had left a crimson stain
He washed it white as snow

Lord, now indeed I find
Thy power, and Thine alone
Can change the leper’s spots
And melt the heart of stone

Jesus paid it all
All to Him I owe
Sin had left a crimson stain
He washed it white as snow

For nothing good have I
Where-by Thy grace to claim
I’ll wash my garments white
In the blood of Calvary’s Lamb

Jesus paid it all
All to Him I owe
Sin had left a crimson stain
He washed it white as snow

And when before the throne
I stand in Him complete
Jesus died my soul to save
My lips shall still repeat

Jesus paid it all
All to Him I owe
Sin had left a crimson stain
He washed it white as snow

Jesus paid it all
All to Him I owe
Sin had left a crimson stain
He washed it white as snow

Deuteronomy 18:1-20:20, Luke 9:28-50, Psalms 73:1-28, Proverbs 12:10

Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I’m China today is the first day of April welcome. If you are unfamiliar with my voice. I’m China. There’s a start. I am Brian and Jill’s daughter. For the past three years I was the voice of the Daily Audio Bible Chronological and I stepped away this year because any day now I’m havin’ a baby. So, gosh it’s so good to be here to fill in for my dad. And I mean, it’s kind of Daily Audio Bible tradition to do a little something different on April Fools’ Day. And there's…there’s no tricks, it’s just me. But it's…it’s good to be here with you guys and just to give a little check in and say all is well with me, and baby, and with my husband Ben. We are super blessed by the Lord and just waiting in pure anticipation for our little girl to get here any day that she wants to. April is our due month so we will…we will see when that will be to. So, I have the honor of getting to read with you guys today. Today we  are in the book of Deuteronomy with chapters 18 through 20, the book of Luke chapter 19 starting in verse 28 going to 50, Psalm 73, and Proverbs 12:10 and this week we are in the Contemporary English Version.

Commentary:

Wow, I really love Proverbs today. That’s so good. There is a dog rescue in the town that I live in that is based off of this Scripture. I remember looking it up once and reading this Scripture. So, that is…its profound…it’s in God’s word. He…he’s saying be kind to my animals. Don’t be mean. Don’t be cruel. I made them. I love them. It’s so fun reading a different reading plan because really for the past…I mean this the DAB Chronological’s fourth year in existence but…so I read it for three years and the year before that I was doing Daily Audio Bible teens and I had experimented, like that was the year to experiment with a new reading plan and I tested out the chronological and fell in love with it. And, so, reading this way is…is very different going from the Old Testament and then jumping into the New Testament and reading Proverbs and Psalms I…I love that. I’m always drawn into the stories of Jesus with His people because it just makes Him feel so much more close and real and even the things that you believing about Him that may or may not be in the fullness of who He is, when your reading the Scripture your Spirit is coming face-to-face with “this is the truth.” And even if you don’t believe it, guess what, it’s still the truth. And, so, reading about the true glory of Jesus. Like, have you ever been with someone and they’re just like praying and you’re in the room with them and then they turn white? Not only dos their face change but what they were wearing before isn’t what they’re wearing now and their shining white. Like, that’s never happened to me so I’m sure Peter, John, and James were all like, “okay. Something insane is happening right now and we are in the true glory of Jesus.” Like, that’s amazing and I’m not sure if they really fully grasped that until maybe after His death and they were trying to remember all the…the times that they had with Jesus that they were trying to recall and recount. Like, remember that one time we were all with…you know…it was me and the other two people…whoever’s telling the story and like the fullness of Jesus’s glory was upon us? That's…that’s truly like…there isn’t a word for it. It just kinda gives you a little bit of envy, if anything. Like, wow, that’s…that’s what I want to encounter Lord. That’s what I want to be with you in. And here’s the sweet reality is, that’s available to us. that wasn’t just for those three. It’s available for all of us. The good news is that He sent us His son, the Lord sent us His son and then after He ascended back into heaven, He gave us His Spirit. So, not only were we set for life but now we’re like really set. When I really start thinking about all those things the week of holy week, which I know that’s what we’re in right now. And, so, there’s always a lot of emotions that get brought up in my heart just because it’s to be reverence, it’s to be revered and held in…in wonder and awe and also just like, man I just don’t understand like totally everything that went down but I’m in the mystery of it and I’m in the wonder and the awe of it and I’m learning about who Jesus is and I’m reading about people testifying to the true glory of Jesus. And as if that wasn’t like wild enough they…they, you know, like the next day Jesus is healing this little boy and He’s addressing people’s faith and He’s addressing people’s humility and wondering why they want to be the greatest and it all is just pointing back to His character, His heart, who He knows He is and what He believes the Father sent Him to do. And I love these stories. I love reading the Old Testament because it really sets you up for understanding that we needed a savior genuinely and we still actively do. And then when we jump into the New Testament and we read about who Jesus is, man I don’t know how you can’t read these stories and not just completely fall in love with Him because of His kindness because of His is nature because of the authority that He just carried. He didn’t need to prove it by being the loudest in the room or by barking certain things. He just was who He was and that was enough. And, so, while we’re in holy week as we come to kind of an end where…where it’s like the weekend eve, I like to call it, man may we just really posture our hearts well. We don’t have to whip ourselves into some emotions that aren’t real, that we’re not like really feeling, but maybe be present and attentive with what is going on in our hearts, what are these emotions that are coming up. And I encourage you just to really read through the scripture that talks about Jesus, His last week, the holy week and allow yourself to really have that wonder and awe. And it’s okay if you don’t fully understand everything. Jesus constantly says, “let the little children come to me.” And that’s how we’re supposed to come to Him. And guess what, kids, they don’t always super understand everything the first times it’s said to them. And, so, I don’t think that the Lord is expecting that you would just totally grasp everything the first time that you hear it or the third time that you hear it. Like He’s patient with us. He understands the human mind and the human heart. He created it.

Prayer:

Father, I just thank You that You are for us. Your word today told us that there are more for us than there are against us, that someone is for us. And I just thank You that You are for us. I thank You so much that that’s the sweet truth and a suite reality, that You are for us, You love us. I thank You that in our conversation this past week talking about how this is Your week You reminded me that this week is for me, it’s for us. That’s exactly why You did it, is for us. And Lord I just thank You for the beautiful and sweet truth is, that You didn’t just come and live a great story and do great things, but You left a great legacy and then You sent us Your spirit and said that we could do even greater works than You. And, so, we just are attentive of our heats, we’re attentive of our minds and we take every thought captive, and we make it obedient to Christ and we choose to be present with You. And as our minds wander may we softly bring them back to You. Lord, I pray that we wouldn’t miss the things of this week, that we celebrate in reverence and honor what happened 2000 years ago. And may we hold this this week in true holy reverence for who You are because You are more than deserving and we thank You for who You are Lord. And it’s in Your name we pray. Amen.

Announcements:

Well, this was so fun. It was so good to be back and reading and man this is like, when…when do I get to come back? I love this and I’ve so enjoyed getting to step in for the day. Like I said, no jokes, no fooling here. Just wanted to come on and thank you all for praying for me and my family as our lives are totally about to change. And, gosh, I’m waiting in anticipation and wonder and awe and trying to come in childlike faith and not have it all figured out, parenthood or even just trying to know when she’s coming. That’s been the hard part. But we trust the Lord and that’s where our trust and hope is in and just believing for wholeness and health of our family and over our sweet one. And, you know, once she’s born, who knows, maybe I’ll come back on and be able to have her in my arms instead of kicking me the whole time I’m reading. She is very, very active and was kicking the whole time during reading. So, it’ll be fun to come on and just share her birth story and maybe she’ll make like a little coo or cute little noise or something…I don’t know. I won’t put that expectation on her. But yes, this…this was sweet. Thank you for letting me into your homes or your cars or your workplaces and reading with you. This was definitely a treat for me.

That is all for today. I’m China you. You are so so loved. I will not be waiting here for you tomorrow. Your regularly scheduled program will resume tomorrow.

Community Prayer and Praise:

Hi, my name is Crystal I’ve been listening to the Daily Audio Bible app for about two years, and this is the first time that I’ve ever called in. So, I would like to say that I would like to have prayer in my life. Just feel like a little bit of a failure with…with my kids lately. I just feel like a little bit. My son turns 18 tomorrow and he’s no longer living at my house with my husband and myself due to him deciding to keep lying to us and breaking the house rules and smoking weed in the house and vaping in the house. And we have other children in the home to think of. So, it’s been hard to deal with not having him here and then just…I don’t think it really hit me how hard that was going to be on me as his mother. I really don’t. But just something happened yesterday, and I really ended up kind of hurting my daughter’s feelings and been struggling with guilt about it since last night and I think it’s kind of been building what’s been going on with my son and I…well my son and the family, not being here, and just more than I think I realized. And I felt like it’s kind of been dammed up and now that it’s kind of broken with me realizing I hurt my daughter’s feelings last night it just really upset me, and I’ve been just crying on and off today about it. Just feel…

Hey, my glorious precious DAB family this is Kingdom Seeker Daniel. In the words of the great Victoria Soldier, I’d like to pray for some of the DABbers beginning with miss Victoria Soldier. So, family let’s pray. Father I lift up our sister your daughter Victoria Soldier as she has a sister-in-law in Germany that is battling some illness and not feeling well. God, we pray that you will be the balm in Germany for this…this sister-in-law and be with a nephew that is incarcerated and having a tough battle of life. Lord would you show up where this young man is and allow him to hear your voice? And God would you begin to restore on both sides or the sister-in-law with her physical health and then for the nephew with his emotional health. And then for Rob Still Worship Dude in Nashville. Man of God I so appreciate you. The first time I’ve heard you call in you just you blessed my soul, and my wife Lady of Victory is in her doctoral program. And, so, I kind of know how you feel just watching her go through. So, I pray that the Lord will strengthen you he would surround you, he would allow you to catch up on your doctoral assignments and also he would favor you with that contract…that independent contract that you got going on. And I’m believing that God is causing all things to work together for your good because I know you love Him as a worship dude. And then DABber Danny, lifting up Micah. Lord be with Micah, continue to strengthen and reveal Yourself to him, save him, and do a work in his life in Jesus’ name. Love you family.

Hello DABbers, this is Sandy up in Ontario I’ve been listening for about 6 years and just introduced this to my friend, my new friend Jill. Can you say hello Jill? Hello. Anyways, we’d like you to pray for Jill’s family and her daughters. Pray protections over her daughters, especially her older daughter. It’s kind of private what’s occurring but you understand what can happen over the Internet and things do occur. So, we just ask prayer over this entire family and we pray for protection, especially over her older daughter named A. And we ask you also to a blessing over Jill herself that she would be held up by Jesus and that God would simply hold her when the boat rocks. And we thank you so much for Daily Audio Bible Brian and for your family and for the music and everything that you guys do. And we ask you all to have a beautiful, blessed day. Amen.

Good morning DAB this is Mommy’s Little Rock from Arkansas. I’m calling today to ask for prayers. A few months ago, I lost my mom in December and it’s been tough. It’s been hard. God has really been giving me the strength to go through each day, but I’ve had a lot of anxiety, a lot of fear of approaching life without my mom. It’s a weird world without my mom. I’m just asking for prayer to help me to continue on feeling like I can endure this life without her. There are so many things I have to do. I was working on a book and my mom knew about it and I just don’t have the desire to complete it. I don’t have the desire to do any of my goals any of the things that I know I should do. So, I just ask you all to pray for me and to pray that I continue being strong. I have great family and support and friends and people that my mom left behind to pray for us. But it’s not like mom, you know? So, I appreciate and love you all. Thank you. Bye-bye.

OK. I just…this is Beloved in Texas and I just want to share a little bit with you so that you can laugh at my expense but also along with me. And Brian feel free to not post this if you feel like this is inapropes but I just want you all…I just felt the need to share a story to make people laugh. So, I’m sitting at work. I work from home and about to go into a virtual meeting and I’d had a rumbly tummy that day and I thought, well, this is just gas. So, I go to release the gas. Turns out to be much more substantial than gas so I’m sitting there with more than gas and my meeting starts. I had to sit through the meeting in my own mess and pretend everything was OK before I could get up and go take a shower after that meeting was over. That was awful and I laughed so hard at myself because I thought, “what in the world? What is wrong with you? You’re a grown person, you hold the job, you pay bills and here you are messing in your own pants.” But I just wanted to share that stupid funny embarrassing story because just because sometimes I think we all just need to laugh and feel free to laugh at me because I was laughing at myself. You all be blessed. I love you. I love hearing from you every day, and I listened to the community prayer and encouragement every week and I’m praying along with all of you and celebrating along with all of you. You all have a wonderful, good rest of the day.

Deuteronomy 16:1-17:20, Luke 9:7-27, Psalms 72:1-20, Proverbs 12:8-9

Today is the 31^st day of March welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I’m Brian it is great to be here with you. If it’s the 31^st day of March then it’s the last day of March and that’s what it is, the last day of the third month of the year. So, the last day of March, the last day of the first quarter of the year. Whew! Can you believe it? It’s just so weird, time. It’s just so elastic. It just…because I’m gonna be we saying the same thing to you in six months or whatever and it’s gonna be October and it will be like wasn’t it just…wasn’t it just March? But here we are. This is how it works. We just keep showing up. This is how it works. Show up, take the next step forward, show up, take the next step forward and we move all the way through the year together in community and through the Bible. And what a year it’s been so far. So, anyway last day of the year. Congratulations for making it this far. If you have made it this far there is…you can do this. Like, it’s not a matter of whether you could or couldn’t anymore. You can. You’ve made it a quarter of the year. We’ve got this. And, so, let’s dive in. We are in the book of Deuteronomy as we reach the conclusion of our first quarter of the year. Moses is speaking. Moses is the speaker in all of Deuteronomy. These are the things that he needs to say before he is no longer the leader of this people before the transition of power or authority is bestowed upon Joshua and Moses becomes a part of history. And, so, Moses has everyone’s attention. He has led them every step of the way and he’s reviewing a lot of things and we’re reviewing a lot of the key aspects of the law at this point. Deuteronomy chapters 16 and 17.

Commentary:

Okay. So, we’ve already talked about how this is the last day the month, it’s the last day of the quarter. And, yeah, we’ll flip the page and tomorrow will be a new month and a new quarter and then the day after tomorrow will be good Friday. And, so, we’re in the middle of holy week and we’re coming to the end of the Lenten season for those who have kind of engaged in it to some degree. And we…we’re  moving toward Easter. And we very, very often just move past all of the holy week stuff, the contemplation of…of the sacrifice and just move into Easter and we’ve talked about that before too, about not doing that. And, so, this is kind of one of those times because we’re seeing this story where Jesus goes to Caesarea Philippi. And we talked about this story already but the question that comes out of the story - “who do you say that I am?” - there’s not is not a more important question than that, maybe in life. But right now, as we are moving forward, moving forward into new seasons, and embracing where we are as…as we observe Good Friday and think of Jesus crucifixion and His death. And on Saturday just sitting with the loss, basically, because Jesus died and was laid in a tomb and laid in the tomb dead. Like all is lost and then all things are made new. And yet this question, “Who do you say that I am?” sort of burns its way through all of that and continues to come front and center because the answer to that question really truly dictates the trajectory of our entire life. And, so, it’s fitting that we would cross this territory as we prepare to leave this quarter behind and move into a new month and move directly into Easter, that this question would sit there like the bookend at the end of a quarter, almost like everything that we have read and learned and thought about and contemplated in the Scriptures up to this point, almost like everything has been leading us to this question.

Prayer:

Jesus, we embrace that fully. We could answer like Peter, You are the Messiah, You are the son of the living God, and that is true, that is our declaration. And yet, how would we…where would we even start if we needed to say all that You are because You are more than we can say and You are more than enough. And yet even declaring that to You in a statement of worship it’s also a convicting thing because we can say You are more than enough and then look at the way we live as if that’s anything but true. And, so, this question “who do what You say that I am?” really does dictate where we’re going. We want to embrace that today and over the next several days as we move into and through the Easter celebration. What is our lives saying? Who do we say that You are? Come Holy Spirit into that question. Lead us down the pathways of our own hearts we pray in Jesus’ name. Amen.

Announcements:

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

Community Prayer and Praise:

Hello this is Mountain Girl from New Mexico I just want to thank Brian and Jill and everyone that’s involved in the Daily Audio Bible. I’ve been listening for 12 years and it has become a major part of my life. I would like to pray for Phil. Father I ask that You’d bless his son Andrew who is having open heart surgery. I pray for guidance and wisdom for the doctors, and I pray for healing for Andrew, and I pray that You’d lead and guide Phil. Kingdom Seeker Daniel, I pray for his son Daniel and his mental illness and I just pray for healing for his mind Father. You are a great healer and I ask You to heal his mind. I pray for the lady that called in and sang tis so sweet to trust in Jesus. That was absolutely beautiful. Thank you. Miley from Canada who’s retiring from being a family doctor and persecuted for her faith. I just pray for guidance for you and for wisdom and the Lord would lead you to exactly what He wants you to do. Marla from Kentucky whose friend Steve had a stroke. I pray for healing. I pray Lord that You would help him and help him to recover, and I just pray that everyone involved would become closer to You through this trial. C with postpartum and the kids and her husband, Lord I just pray for emotional healing for emotional support. I pray Lord that You would help them and that You would heal her and guide her. For redeemed Rachel whose pastors leaving in a cross-country move. I pray Lord that so many changes but that you would be her constant through all this and that You would be her rock. Jaws of Life in New Hampshire, I pray for you marriage and I pray that God would heal your marriage. I pray that He would be the steady force in your life that would heal. In Jesus’ name. Amen.

Heidi DAB Family this is Laura in South Florida. Today is the 28^th day of March and this morning I heard a prayer request from someone who did not give their name, but it was a girl who is dealing with a sexual sin. And I just want to tell you dear sister whenever you ask God for to forgive you, He forgives. God is always honest and always truthful. Whatever He says is true and He says if you confess your sins, He is faithful and just to forgive your sin and to cleanse you from all unrighteousness. My sweet sister you are forgiven. I love that word, forgiven. Believe me, I have…I have asked God to forgive me many times and I…I am so grateful for his forgiveness. And I just pray sister that you would just…just every time you feel an urge to sin that you would just say God, I can’t do this without You. Please God Holy Spirit give me Your strength to do this and thank You Jesus.

Good morning Daily Audio Bible family my name is Julie I’ve been listening for many years, but this is the first time this introvert has called in and I just wanted to call because as we’re reading through Deuteronomy and listening to Moses his words for the people I can’t help but think, you know, see what a compassionate person he is. Here he is not going into the promised land because of them yet he still loves them dearly and is still trying to teach them so that they can be successful. It’s just…it is so wonderful, and I feel that this community is Moses too. I feel that we’re a compassionate people, the body of God helping each other, praying for each other. And I just wanted to call and say thank you to all of you are there for this community and keep…keep calling in with your praise reports, keep calling in with your prayers and, who knows, I might call in yet again. It only took four months this year before I made the commitment that I was. So maybe…maybe it won’t take another four months for me to call in again but love you all. Thank you.

Hi DAB family this is your sister Julie from North Idaho. I just wanted to call and encourage my little sister that called and didn’t leave her name on the podcast that was on March 28^th. Sweetheart, thank you so much for making yourself vulnerable to the rest of us and you are in a safe place. And you called and asked the right people to help you out. We’re your brothers and sisters in Christ and we support you and we absolutely encourage you and want to thank you for asking for forgiveness. Honey, you’re forgiven, first through the eyes of Jesus and then through your brothers and sisters in Christ in this DAB family. And we also want you to know that while you have been forgiven you need to forgive yourself sweetheart. And sometimes that’s so much harder than asking for forgiveness from others. You need to know that you are washed and cleansed by the blood of Jesus, that He no longer counts your sin against you, and that just the fact that you are emotionally and spiritually asking for forgiveness and to be healed and restored, honey, know that it’s already been done as soon as you asked Him. Lord we ask that you heal and restore our little sister. You know who…what her name is Lord and we just pray for deliverance and we pray for emotional healing, spiritual healing, and physical healing. To you be all glory honesty and honor Lord Jesus. We love you and honor you and thank you for hearing our prayer and putting your protection at our you’re covering over our little sister. May she live in freedom praising you and thanking you for being her Lord and savior. We ask this in Jesus’ name. Amen. I love you my brothers and sisters in Christ. Have a wonderful day and happy Easter. He is risen!

This is Candace from Oregon I’m gonna be asking prayers for Karen in Florida but before I do that I just want to say that in my own life, I’m 64 years old now, but I had children starting as a very, very young person first one born when I was 21 and my husband was a really, really great husband a really good provider, did not have as much of a vision as a parent. He didn’t ever, you know, get up in the middle of the night with a baby or change a diaper. He didn't…that just wasn’t his desire or his thing. He didn’t go, you know, throw a ball with his boy or anything like that. So, I raised these three kids alone…also because he was working 70- or 80-hour weeks or off and he was in Asia or traveling somewhere far away. So, I raised them alone although we had materially what we needed. And, so, it was a great relief to me when I turned…we both turned 58 and he retired early. And at the time our oldest child was living here with us with her 3-year-old son and they lived here with us for three years that it was just really wonderful to parent this little boy together rather than me just alone. And, you know, it was really three of us parenting this little boy which was delightful. So, Lord I pray for Karen in Florida, a single grandma raising a 13-year-old in a high…she’s in a highly demanding job. The 13-year-old is homeschooling, she’s raising a 3-bedroom household by herself. So, Lord lift her up, be her husband, make this go incredibly smoothly. Let her feel Your support around her at all times and Your guidance and Your provision and we ask this in Jesus’ name.

Deuteronomy 13:1-15:23, Luke 8:40-9:6, Psalms 71:1-24, Proverbs 12:5-7

Today is the 30^th day of March welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I am Brian it’s great to be here with you today on the eve of the last day of the quarter. Yeah…and that’s where we’re at. And I would rather be here with you than anybody else. I’d rather be around this Global Campfire together and God’s word than anywhere else. What a privilege that we can be here no matter where we are and allow the Scriptures to speak into our lives. And they are. We’ve taken the journey this first quarter. They are speaking. And, so, let’s dive in. And we’re reading from the Contemporary English Version this week. Deuteronomy chapters 13, 14, and 15 today. And again, Deuteronomy is Moses last words. This is the important things that he has to say. And, so, we’ll pick up with the story in Deuteronomy chapter 13.

Commentary:

Okay. So, we are kind of in the thick of Jesus ministry now moving alongside of Him in the gospel of Luke and again we’re in the third of the Gospels. We’ve already gone through Matthew and Mark and Luke is the third of the synoptic Gospels. So, they all share some of the same source material. So, these are stories that, in one form or another, a lot of them we’ve encountered before. But this is such a riveting story here. So…so Jesus is back from across the lake, right, where the pigs and all that stuff we were talking about, everybody’s waiting for Him and so he begins to minister and then a synagogue leader comes and his name is Jairus and we know this from what we just read but he’s a leader of the Hebrew people and he’s asking Jesus to come because his only daughter…and doesn’t that just pull…like his only child, she’s 12 and just so sick she’s on the verge of death and there’s not a lot of places to turn. Could Jesus come? Would He come? And He’s willing. And He does. He does head in that direction. And that’s where this very famous story of the woman with the issue of blood and that’s how I grew up learning…learning this story - the woman with the issue of blood. This is where the story takes place. So, it’s not like Jesus is teaching in the synagogue, the woman has…you know…she thinks if I could just get close enough to touch Him. There’s a totally different story happening, and the woman inserts herself…self into the story. Jesus is on His way to Jairus house, time is of the essence because the little 12-year-old girl was on the verge of death, this woman is following along in the crowd and its really, really beautiful because we’ve been reading about clean and unclean and we’ve been moving through Mosaic law, and we have moved through bodily discharges, right? We moved through all of that territory and when these things are occurring or have occurred then there is uncleanness and separation for a period of time of purification and all of this. We are dealing with a woman who has been unclean, every moment of her life for a dozen years. She has been ceremonially unclean. And if we remember the things that we were reading as were moving through and into the Mosaic law we…we have to recall that if you are unclean and you touch somebody then they become unclean too. So, we have a crowd here, we have a rabbi. I mean, we know who Jesus is, but we have this rabbi who is healing people and revealing the kingdom and people are following along and…and she’s in the crowd and she’s unclean. And to make a rabbi unclean, this this could get you beaten up. Like this…this could get you punished in pretty significant ways if there was an issue made of it. And we’ve been dealing with…we’ve been dealing with other rabbis and Pharisees, right, and the Scribes. We sort of have the lay of the land of their kind of attitude, especially their attitudes toward Jesus. So, this woman’s taken a pretty big risk. It’s kind of a measured risk because it’s like, you know, if I just brush Him who’s gonna know and what’s the worst that could happen? Like nothing. The worst that could happen is nothing happens. And, so, she reaches out in faith and she’s healed, and Jesus stops and He’s wondering touched Him. And this whole story is so beautiful because the woman, she’s trying to cower back. Like, she's…this could get her in trouble because she just runs forward and confesses, “yeah, I’m perpetually unclean and now you’re unclean because I touched you on purpose” and all of this. This could get her in trouble, but Jesus is like, “no…no…this isn’t…this isn’t just somebody rubbing up against me about or just the crowd. This is…somebody intentionally touched me, and I felt it and I am aware. The power left me.” And, so, the woman, she does confess and Jesus’ reaction to her is very different than the way that we see the other religious leaders of the time behaving because He’s like, “go in peace daughter. Your faith has made you well. Go in peace.” It's…it’s beautiful. Isn’t that what Jesus has done in all of our lives? Like were we not unclean and completely lost and did He not show mercy upon us? The problem in this story, though, is that that slowed things down. Jesus was on His way somewhere and time was of the essence and this slowed Him down. And in the midst of that the messages came to Jairus that, “your daughter’s dead, that she died. You…you don’t need to bother the rabbi. You don’t need to bother the master anymore.” Now put yourself in Jairus position in the story because you had come pleading and begging for mercy from Jesus and He agreed and He was on His way and there was hope, there was hope there for a second and then…and then this whole incident happened, and she died. So, what do you feel like if you’re Jairus? It would be like hope was snatched from you and it was so close, so close. And Jesus speaks to Jairus, because we can put ourselves there in that story too. It doesn’t have to be the child’s about to die. It’s that moment where we have hope against hope and it looks like…and we’re right…and it could possibly…and then it’s snatched away. And the bitterness and the disappointment in those moments. Jesus speaks to Jairus who’s a person in that moment. His words, “don’t worry. Have faith.” And He continues to tell Jairus, “your daughter…your daughters gonna get well.” And they go to Jairus house and everybody’s outside crying. And there are…there are ancient traditions here where…where mourning, it needed to be loud…like you couldn’t just like post on social media like, “yeah…we’ve had a death in our family” and then everybody can know it. The word would need to spend, and this is a synagogue leader. And, so, there would be people mourning to make noise, like professionally mourning, like to show the depth of sadness that has descended upon this household. And, so, there are people out there that are…that are mourning and actually grieving but there are also people there that are…that are making the noises of grieving, like that…that…that are letting the village, letting the people around know, “death is calling, this is a terrible day.” And, so, Jesus kind of enters into all of that throng and He’s only letting people…a few people in and He looks at the crowd and He tells them, “the child isn’t dead, she’s asleep.” And all of that noise of grief turns to noise of laughter. I quote from the gospel of Luke, “the people laughed at Him because they knew she was dead.” So, that kind of laughter is sarcastic laughter. Like when you think you know something and you’re laughing at somebody because they’re telling you different, that’s kind of a mockery. And that’s what we see going on here. And Jesus goes in and…and the girl wakes up and she’s given back to her parents. But again, here we are in the story. We’re the professional mourners. We’ve had our disadvantages in life. We’ve been knocked around. We think we know how life works now and we’ve had enough heartbreak that we have walls around certain areas of our hearts where nobody can get in so we can’t get hurt anymore, so a set of circumstances can’t arise anymore that will bowl us over. We've…we’ve learned some hard lessons through hard knocks, and we know what’s going on and…and we know that life has beaten certain aspects of who we were to death. And We…we know that there are places in us that we’re just trying to let them go, just let them lie, right? Just let them lie in their grave. To have even hoped in those directions was stupid in the first place. And then maybe the Holy Spirit comes along, and we hear the voice of Jesus, “it’s not dead. It’s just asleep.” What happens in that moment? Does hope arise or do we laugh? Are we like Sarah back in Genesis, which seems like forever ago now? Are we in the tent? And she’s hearing the voice of the Lord, “about this time next year you will have a son.” And she laughed. Like who are we in these stories? Because this reveals our hearts to ourselves. This makes us become self-aware, not self-absorbed, self-aware. We become aware of the things that are driving us and we just are continually reminded that it's…it’s the utter surrender, it’s the complete dependence upon God that gives us freedom. It’s not what we think we know or what we’ve experienced or our knowledge or our wisdom or our accomplishments or our achievements or what we think is in our control. It’s our complete dependence upon God that saves the day. And, so, may we see that in stories of Jesus ministry like we are now. But may we begin to connect those dots so that we can see that the story plays out the same in our own lives if we’re aware and looking for it.

Prayer:

Jesus we…we love You. Could we just start there and maybe just end there? We love You. Where else is there to go? What else matters if we’re not walking with You? But as we get to see Your personality, as we get to see Your character as You minister among the people that’s coming off the pages of the gospel of Luke, we fall even more in love with You. To be like You, this is…this is what we desire. And yet, so often we want to be remade and transformed and be Christlike, but we think that that’s just gonna make us have more power and make our life better but we’re looking at how You bring light into the darkness and how the darkness squirms. And we have to understand that that would be the same story. So, as we are being remade, we are also being strengthened in our faith, because to be remade into Your image is to bring light into the darkness and the darkness will squirm. And we need to know what that looks like and be discerning and aware. And, so, come Holy Spirit we pray. In the name of Jesus, we ask. Amen.

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Community Prayer and Praise:

[singing starts] I love you Lord and I lift my voice to worship you. O my soul rejoice. Take joy my King in what you hear. Let it be a sweet, sweet sound in your ear. I love you Lord and I lift my voice to worship you. O my soul rejoice. Take joy my King in what you hear. Let it be a sweet, sweet sound in your ears. [singing stops]. Thank you, Jesus. Jesus be with us.

This is Kathy from Kentucky calling to ask for prayer for my neighbor Sharon who’s still grieving the loss of her daughter, my friend Sarah a retired missionary who had a stroke and pray for myself. God is revealing to me some deep issues if I overeat, and I ask for prayers so that I can stop overeating and lose weight. Thank you for praying for me over the years. I’m doing well and I had both my covid shots and I survived covid. And, so, I didn’t get it. So, thank you Jesus for that. Thank you. Kathy from Kentucky.

Hi this is Sandra in Denver calling for Tammy in the Adirondacks. Tammy, I heard your message today that you left on March 9^th and I wanted to let you know even though I’m behind in my reading for the year that this could have been a special appointment for the Lord just to pray for you. And I know the tears are coming as you’re grieving so many changes with the ovarian cancer and a hysterectomy and caring for your husband and the kids not coming by as often, but I want to encourage you that the Lord is capturing your tears in His bottles and He loves you so much. And as the tears come, it’s alright, they will. They won’t always but in the meantime it’s alright. Just snuggle in, press into Him, let them flow and He will rejoice over you with singing as you heal. Give yourself lots of time dear one.

Hello Daily Audio Bible family this is His Dearly beloved in Minnesota. I have called in several times within the last couple of months, had a hysterectomy and then they found cancer. And…and so, I just had 50 tumors removed from my liver and as well as 6 inches of my small intestine and I’m recovering but the last few days, you know, I’m about ready to go home and then it seems like my white count is coming up a little bit. And…and now I have to make a decision about whether to go home or stay or what to do. So, I would just really appreciate prayer, that the doctors who will be in here any minute can help me make a decision. And I just so appreciate all of the prayers. The Daily Audio Bible has totally taken me through this hospitalization. I’ve been here, I think this is 8 days now, and…and I just really thank you. And I’m praying for each of you and how what a…what a gift this podcast is. So, take care, love you. Bye-bye.

Hi this is Donna from California and I just listened to today’s podcast for March 27^th and there was a caller who called in, Mr. somebody concerning your cousin, your 15-year-old cousin who has fathered a baby on…on the way. And I just want to…I am praying for your family. I’m praying for this young couple and I’m praying for this baby. I wanted to offer my perspective on it from my experience if it…if it is at all helpful to you. On July 6^th of 1976 when I was 15 years old, I was taken to Planned Parenthood and I had an abortion. And I would now have a child who is over 40. There’s many things that I regret in my life but nothing…if I had to choose one thing that if I could go back and undo or redo it would be that. I pray for the life of this child. I…if you want to share this with the family, I pray that if they know Jesus that to remember that Jesus’ birth was certainly kind of a messy ordeal for the family at the time too. There is no such thing as an unwanted child. There might be an unplanned pregnancy, but every baby can be wanted and loved and there are many of us out there including myself who would take a baby and love that baby. I…I pray for…for you. Thank you for calling in. Sending my love.

Deuteronomy 11:1-12:32, Luke 8:22-39, Psalms 70:1-5, Proverbs 12:4

Today is the 29^th day of March welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I’m Brian it’s great to be here with you today. It’s great to be here with you every day including today. It’s great to be here around the Global Campfire as we continue moving forward and that moving forward will take us back into the book of Deuteronomy. We’re reading from the Contemporary English Version this week. Deuteronomy chapters 11 and 12 today.

Commentary:

Okay. We are in the book of Luke, obviously in the New Testament and we’ve come to this…this story. And we…we’ve seen this story before but I just…when I come to it in the Gospel of Luke it’s like every year this is one of the places where we kinda talk about something very specific. Even though every year at the Daily Audio Bible we’re talking about all kinds of stuff we’ve never talked about before, this story, I don’t what it is because it's…it’s always been a riveting story to me for some reason. But then after having been on the site of this story walking around it’s just…it’s like imprinted on my mind, mostly because the story…every time I come to it, I’m like this is…this is…this is how I have reacted more often than not. And, so, what happens here is that Jesus is on the other side of the Sea of Galilee. And it's…it’s if you’ve never been there and like you don’t have a map or whatever, most of Jesus ministry would be situated on the northwest corner or the northwest shoreline of the Sea of Galilee. This is where the cities of Capernaum and Bethsaida, Chorazim, Magdala are, the cities that Jesus would’ve frequented. And it’s also near a main road that would’ve climbed up from the Sea of Galilee and headed west toward places like Nazareth and Cana. So, this is where Jesus spent most of His time. But when He got into the boat to sail with the disciples they were heading to the sort of North East side of things to another people and they were moving into a region that was controlled by one of the Decapolis cities and that city was known as Hippos or Sussita. So, a Gentile area, a Roman area, cosmopolitan area, a very non-Jewish area, but I mean, we should notice that by the fact that there were a herd of pigs being shepherded. That’s not something that you would find a Hebrew Shepherd typically doing. So, Jesus is exhausted enough that He gets the back of the boat and goes to sleep and when this storm comes up and it’s violent…and let’s remember like these aren’t like little kids rowing the boat for Jesus, these are experienced fishermen on the water. So, if they’re freaking out it’s a legitimate problem. And they were freaking out, enough to go wake Jesus up and I guess, you know, you’re terrified…so like, “we’re gonna drown”, you know, “wake up” and…and he does, and He instructs the storm to calm down and it does, which is an amazing thing to even imagine but definitely something that struck the disciples silent, “like who is this? Even the wind and the water obey Him.” That’s all going on before we ever get to that northeast side of things. And then we land on the shore and there’s this naked man running toward you. And I can…I mean…you visualize that whether you want to or not and there’s a naked man running down the shore and he’s yelling and he’s screaming, and he addresses Jesus, “what do You have to do with me? What do You want with me?” Or in another translations, “why are you interfering with me?” Like, I mean for me, I can stop right there and find myself in the story in that man’s response to the presence of God. The presence of Christ comes and then there’s this reaction immediately – “what…why are you interfering with me? What do you have to do with me?” We might not agree that we’d say that out loud to Jesus in that context, but our lives, that’s all you have to do is just look at our lives. What happens when we’re disrupted? When we’re disrupted, we immediately think it’s bad, we immediately start cursing the devil. But what we see in the Gospels is that wherever Jesus goes things are disrupted and He’s not bringing evil and He’s not trying to challenge the people by attacking them in some sort of way. He’s trying to bring light into the darkness, which disrupts what’s hiding and lurking in the darkness. And as soon as it comes on and is exposed then it starts squirming to find more darkness so that it’s not exposed. And when that light comes, and we’re exposed and we’re looking for a place to hide so we can feel safe, and we feel like “why are you interfering with me? What you have to do with me?” We may be speaking to the circumstance and rebuking the circumstance when God may be after something in us. So, I can, at least myself, I can see myself in that story but, you know, as the story goes on the evil spirits are thrown into the pigs who run into the water and drown and then the man gets dressed and is in his right mind speaking with Jesus and the people come around and they see this. And certainly, just seeing pigs floating in the water and the insane man, the demoniac well and in his right mind, that would be startling and disruptive for sure, but you would think on the one hand it would be a mighty power that would set that man free since according to the Scriptures he already been bound and put in leg irons and chained and under guard, and he’d always broken free of all that. So, to come around this man and find him with clothes on in his right mind having a conversation you would at least have to say a mighty power, like something extraordinary has happened. And in this case since everybody knew this demoniac and what he was capable of you’d have to think that this is a move in the right direction, like a positive move but it scared them so bad they were in terror to the point that they asked Jesus to leave. And that’s the part. That’s the part that just like…it’s like an arrow to the heart to come by this territory in Luke because that’s just it. We get…we get all whipped up in worship. We might have our hands raised and we’re like, “do with me what you will. Send your consuming fire upon me” and, you know, “take me and use me as a vessel” or whatever kind of sentiment that we would offer. We would say these things in our prayers and “I just want to be used by you, I just want to be available, I just want to be aware, I just want to know what’s going on so I can make some sense of this” and then God comes and it’s disruptive and perhaps makes us uncomfortable or brings us to a place of fear. And even though we can see the good, the power, the strength, even though we can see God at work, we…we can’t put ourselves in that story. We’re too afraid, it’s too risky, it’s too much out of our control, it’s too much out of our wheelhouse, it’s too much out of our comfort zone. And, so, in so many functional ways we…we ask Him to leave when He was coming to answer our prayer and invite us deeper. And that’s the thing about faith. For some reason we have it in our mind that it…it’s like…it’s gonna be easy and we’ll walk into it no problem and we’ll just keep growing in our faith but how in the world will we ever grow in our faith if it isn’t tested? Like, how does a muscle growth if it isn’t strained? How does anything grow if it’s not challenged? If all we are is operating in operating in our wheelhouse, everything is good, everything is under control, everything is in our control…well…if we’re gonna ask for more faith then that’s going to be answered and it’s going to be answered by us having to exercise our faith so that it can grow, which is the opposite of what we see happening with these people in this story, which is why it’s like an arrow to the heart sometimes to think I missed so many opportunities along the way because I wasn’t willing to step into faith. I wasn’t actually willing to live by faith. I can say over the years I’ve grown. I can say like if I look back 15 years or whatever when we were starting all of this, the things that were scary then are not scary now. I have grown in my faith, but any time we are ever going to grow in our faith it’s gonna be faith, which means we’re gonna be reaching for what we cannot know or what we cannot prove but we still know anyway. And that’s gonna bring tension. That’s always gonna stretch us. That’s what growing in faith looks like. And, so, let’s think about that today as we move into this week.

Prayer:

Holy Spirit come into that. So often we put labels on things and anything that’s hard is bad, but actually the hard things are the things that make us grow and they’re things that expand us, they’re the things that make us strong. And, so, help us to have a discerning heart and an acute awareness of Your Holy Spirit’s leading, the voice of the Spirit in our lives we pray. In the name of Jesus, we ask. Amen.

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Community Prayer and Praise:

This is Doctor John in Illinois. I was listening to the DAB the other day and just reminded of faithfulness. I listened to Victoria Soldier and Blind Tony and Jill and Brian and their family – faithfulness, faithfulness. And I listened to Victoria Soldier now and she’s crying out for help. And I think of all the times that she’s prayed, you listen to her so frequently and all these others - Blind Tony - and again I can’t even name all those I’ve listened to the last six years and they’re faithful. And, so, Lord I want to lift up them right now. Heavenly father would You…would You from heaven today and for all those Lord that are faithful that lift their voice to You that cry out and petition You Lord for all these others when they’re hurting and we all have needs Lord we’re all broken we’re all in desperate need of a savior. Today Lord would You be that Redeemer? Would You be that way maker that promise keeper? And father I’m thankful for this ministry, thankful God for this…these that cry out Lord in desperation for their brothers and sisters Lord even when they’re in need themselves. Lord would You meet that need today? And father, again would You bless the Hardin family Lord for their dedication. And Lord bless them because of all the suffering they’ve injured and all the hardships they’ve endured, but they do it with joy because of a hope in You and hope in Christ in His perfect service. Lord would You bless them today. Lord thank You for the DAB Lord bless this family and all those…

Hey this is DABber Danny from Southern Oregon. Micah in Awe you’re one of my favorite callers. You’re so compassionate and your voice comes through so powerfully and I just love it when you call in. So, when you called in and you prayed for me, I just really appreciated that, especially because I have a son named Micah and I long for him to be in awe of God’s glory. And he’s not walking with the Lord. He’s 18 and I wonder if you all could just pray for him. He is living on his own and he just found out he’s gonna be a daddy and the mom is only 16. And, so, if you could…if you could pray for them. I had the privilege of hearing from the Lord a couple of days before I found out and the Lord told me that this is going to be happening and so I was completely prepared when he actually told me. And, so, I’m OK with it. I think that this baby might, you know, turn him around and bring him into a closer relationship with us and also with the Lord, I hope. And, so, if you could all pray for my son Micah, I would really appreciate that, that he would just be a godly father. And he’s never wanted anything to do with God. So, anyway if you could pray for his heart, I would appreciate that. Love you all.

Hello DABbers, my name is Jay from the East Coast I’ve called before. I have a praise report. I had gotten a job after…since November 2019. It was very hard, a lot of applications, but I wanted to thank you guys and I know that you guys always pray and…but I’m also asking for prayer for my nephew who’s in the military. And he, in 2018, he suffered a loss of my brother, his father, and he took up to alcohol to…to…to deal with it and both his mother and father suffered from that and his father, my brother, it was part of the reason why he died. He is a young man. He’s afraid to go for help because he’s afraid of what it might mean for his military career. Please pray that he would do the right thing and that he would…that God would heal him from this addiction and also if he needs to get that help and it’s being offered that he will take it before anything else goes wrong. He’s very bright young man and dealing with a lot of…of emotional issues now because of the…the bad grieving, not grieving well and not having support to grieve because they’re pretty much locked…locked down where they are and all he has is on the base and just friends who would just not talk about things. He feels isolated. I need your help guys and especially those who were in the military who knows how that is. Thank you.

Hi this is Joseph from Dublin New South Wales Australia. My wife’s an Australian. I’m an American obviously. Just like to give a praise report and thank you all the Daily Audio Bible family for keeping us up in prayer. My wife gave a safe delivery to our son Gia on the 30^th of April. And please pray for my wife for complete healing. She tore while giving delivery. And I’d also like to ask for prayer for me and my wife for reconnection in our marriage because lately we’ve been feeling incredibly distant from each other and I just I thank the Daily Audio Bible family out there. Thanks for keeping us up in prayer. Thanks bye.

Good morning Brian and Daily Audio Bible family my name is Glenn, and we have a son that has had a really bad alcohol problem that came to a head with his family in a pretty tragic way. He ended up being shot but God miraculously saved him, and he’s had an awakening that is very real but he’s in a place right now of trying to sort his life out and he wants…he wants the help that he needs, and he has a real firm faith in God. It’s been difficult but we’re just asking that you might pray along with us, that the things that need to occur will and that God will be gracious to him and his family and that he will touch his wife and children and comfort them and just that His will be done. Appreciate you guys. Love you very much. Glenn and Sharon.

Deuteronomy 9:1-10:22, Luke 8:4-21, Psalms 69:19-36, Proverbs 12:2-3

Today is the 28^th day of March welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I’m Brian it is a joy and a privilege and an honor and everything else good to be able to step out of everything and come around the Global Campfire and just find a place together with you as we allow the Scriptures to become a part of this new week. In Fact, lead us into this new week, this brand-new shiny sparkly week that we have to live into. And, wow, we won’t finish this week until we have graduated into another month. If you can believe that we will finish the first quarter of the year during our week this week. Also, this is a big week. This is holy week. So, today is Palm Sunday, a day that we commemorate Jesus coming into Jerusalem riding on a colt, people putting palms down in front of Him, putting their cloaks down in front of Him and…and shouting hosanna. And of course, this Friday is Good Friday and a week from today is Easter Sunday. So, we find ourselves in the last week of the season of Lent, a season that we’ve talked about on a number of occasions, a season where we have yielded ourselves and opened ourselves and surrendered ourselves, a season of lament, a season of fasting, a season of giving everything to God that it might be rearranged and re-prioritized so that as we move toward resurrection Sunday all things are made new, and we begin…begin to live, truly from that place. So, yeah, we have…we’ve got plenty going on around here and in it all we will continue with our rhythm day by day step-by-step as we continue the journey through the Scriptures. So, we got a brand-new week. We’ll read from the Contemporary English Version this week picking up where we left off. In the book of Deuteronomy, Moses is speaking of course. Moses is saying all the things that he needs to say and leaving nothing unspoken as he prepares to turn over leadership to Joshua. Deuteronomy chapters 9 and 10 today.

Prayer:

Father, we thank You for Your word. We thank You for this brand-new shiny sparkly week, this week of tremendous importance and meaning to what we believe, this holy week. And, so, we enter deeply into that story as we observe Palm Sunday today. And as we move through this week, we move through it with deep reverence. We have encountered the story of Your return to Jerusalem, and Your betrayal and Your final meal and Your arrest and trial and Your death and Your resurrection. And we have moved through that story and now we are putting ourselves in the story and doing all that we can to live within what it would be like. And, so, come Holy Spirit and draw us near as we embrace the story that brings us salvation. And even as we transition from this month into the next month, we recognize that all things are being made new. Help us to embrace this. As the seasons begin to change help us to embrace that You are making all things new and may we sense new life coming we pray in Your precious name. Amen.

Community Prayer and Praise:

Good morning family just heard Angel from California she called in and she said her ministry was praying on the Prayer Wall. So, she makes a concerted effort to go onto the Prayer Wall and…and pray for everyone and I just thought that was awesome. So, I just want to give a shout out to __ Angel from California. Just thank you so much for what you’re doing and for your ministry. This is Delta Alpha Foxtrot calling from the central Texas front.

Hello DAB family today I’m calling in for prayer for something that I’ve been struggling with for quite some time. Before I gave my life to Christ and got serious about my walk with God I was feeling very depressed and I got into a lot of sexual sin and now I’m better mentally but for some reason I still keep going back to those things and I don’t want to speak on a side goal or a lifestyle. I know that I cannot obtain freedom on my own and that only through Christ I can, but I truly feel lost. But God put the scripture on my heart James 5:16. It says confess with one another therefore your faults, your slips, your false steps, your offences, your sins and pray also for one another that you may be healed and restored to a spiritual tone of mind and heart. And that is really what I need right now. I didn’t know who else to come to except for you. So, I’d really appreciate your prayers. I’m feeling very lost right now and I really need some help. Yeah. So I’d really appreciate that. Thank you.

Good morning DAB family this is Lady of Victory on Friday the 26^th of March. How could we not Victoria Soldier pray for you when you have stood in the gap for all of us for so many years that this is just a no brainer? So, God we come to You on behalf of Your daughter our sister Victoria Soldier on behalf of her sister-in-law and nephew in Germany. God You see exactly what has taken place concerning her loved ones God and what is going on and how the enemy God is trying to steal kill and to destroy. God but You came that they might have life and that more abundantly. So, God as we stand in the gap for Victoria Soldier as she stands in the gap for her loved ones God, we ask that You would show Yourself mighty and strong. We ask that Your train will fill the temple where they are with Your glory, with Your power, with Your Majesty. God, we ask that You would defeat the enemy as You already have but that You would allow them to understand that the enemy is defeated and that no weapon formed against them shall prosper and every tongue that rises up against them they get to condemn. So, God whatever portal has been opened to allow the enemy to infiltrate their space we close it we bind it in the name of Jesus we tie it up we throw it back into the pit of hell from which it came and we loose the peace and the authority and the power of the almighty God in their lives. God we’re asking that You would do it for Your glory and for their good that they would see a victory that they would get their hope back that they would begin to put their trust in You. Victoria Soldier be encouraged sis. We love you.

God’s Smile this Dawn Rising I just wanted to call and thank you so much for reading that beautiful hymn. I’ve rewound it and played it and it has just spoken to my heart this morning. There’s so much sadness in my family right now and your words just flowed over me knowing you come from a place of such pain, of physical pain. And your ministry of obedience and love and just walking the Christian walk and you are building me up my friend. So, thank you for your words. It was like soothing salve to my open wounds this morning and I just love you. I just…I love you and I love what you did for me this morning. I love this family, and this is why. Many Gods blessings. Bye.

Deuteronomy 7:1-8:20, Luke 7:36-8:3, Psalms 69:1-18, Proverbs 12:1

Today is the 27^th day of March welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I’m Brian it is great to be here with you as we close another week and…and we’ll release it and it will become a part of our history and it will be in the past. But right now, it’s the present and we’re here to take the next step forward in the Scriptures. We’ve been reading from the English Standard Version this week and we’ve been moving into the book of Deuteronomy and we’re well underway during this week and will continue that journey. We find ourselves situated in the second of three discourses that make up the book of Deuteronomy, Moses last sayings. And, so, we’ll pick up where we left off yesterday. Deuteronomy chapters 7 and 8.

Prayer:

Father, we thank You for Your word. We thank You for all that…all that has transpired in the Scriptures since we began this journey nearly 3 months ago now. And we thank You for where we are in the gospel of Luke. We thank You for where we are in the book of Deuteronomy as we’re just listening to Moses impassioned pleas to Your people about their future and we hear those pleas, and we look at our own lives and we see that so often we have been guilty of straying into and onto pathways that only lead to death and destruction. And we are grateful for the counsel of Your word. We are grateful for the counsel of wisdom. We are grateful for the leading of Your Holy Spirit to continually remind us there is clean, there is unclean, there is a way things work, there is a path that leads to life, a path that we will never be able to walk without Your guidance. But Your word is a lamp to our feet and a light to our pat. And, so, Come Holy Spirit, plant the words of this week deep into the soul so that they might yield fruit, the fruit of the Spirit in our lives in the time of harvest. Come Jesus we pray in Your mighty name. Amen.

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

Community Prayer and Praise:

Hello, DABbers this is David calling from California. I have been listening to the DAB since last year and I am just so very thankful for Brian and Jill every day. I listen to them every single day. I even skip ahead if I can sometimes. And I’m just, like I said, so very thankful for Brian and Jill and the Daily Audio Bible family. Right now though DABbers I’m just asking for prayers right now for myself. I feel like I’m going through this spiritual battle right now to where I'm…the…the enemies coming in and I'm…and my doubts and my fears are taking over and I’m not having trust and faith in the Lord as I should and then it’s just causing me to have so much stress and anxiety to the point where it’s just basically manifesting in my body where like I feel like I’m about to have a heart attack. Every day it just hurts my chest and everything and my whole body and everything and DABbers I just I ask for your prayers right now that…that I can drive the enemy out and just have…get closer to God and just have a better relationship with Him and have more faith and more trust in Him every day and that I can just not feel this pain like I do and that I can be healed and be healthy and be a better person for my family and everything as I’m going through such this difficult time right now. It’s just so stressful…

Hello DAB I am…this is my first-time calling in. This is Mister Sun Walk Around the Blues and I’d like to ask for a prayer request. My cousin who is 16 years old, he is a high schooler and he and his girlfriend have been together for about two years and she’s 15 and we just found out about a week ago that she’s pregnant. And, so, they’re obviously going through a really tough time at the moment as is most of our family, you know, their parents. And I’d like to ask for you guys to join me in prayer for wisdom both for my cousin and his girlfriend and for from my family going through this. Not everybody sees eye to eye on how this should proceed. And, so, being such a volatile situation and something that could go wrong really quickly I think that I just wanted to ask the Lord to step into that and to enter into the huge mess that it is and that He would be glorified and that my cousin and His girlfriend would be honored and the baby as well. So, I’m just trying to give up to the Lord and let Him do his thing with that. So, yeah, thank you.

Hi DAB friends this is Rob Still Worship dude in Nashville TN and I have a big prayer request but first man I just gotta say it is such a blessing to hear all the testimonies and as well as like the prayer requests and the words of encouragement people call in as well as their intercessions. So, like somehow man I just think you guys who stay on here and listen and pray and call in, I think that this is a work of the Kingdom of God and it’s really important somehow in God’s economy. So, as far as my prayer request you guys can help me bear a couple burdens. First, I put on the Facebook page for DAB my father passed away on March 12^th and it’s a time of, you know, mourning for me and my family and but we don’t grieve as those who have no hope like Paul says in first Thessalonians, you know. My dad he was a good man, and he loved the Lord, but he had a long-term illness, and God in His infinite mercy and wisdom knew it was his time. So, anyway I appreciate your prayers for my family as we kind of had this time of mourning and we really need the wisdom of the Holy Spirit how to do this in a healthy way. The second thing though and this is my big ask, man I feel like I almost need a miracle to fulfill my responsibilities for my independent contracting work and especially I’m in the middle of a big academic project. I’m working on my doctorate and I’m so far behind and I really really need to get this done during this term. And, so, if you guys could just pray the Lord would help me, send his Angels man to get this project done with excellence. I would really appreciate it. The Lord be with you. Thank you.

Good morning DAB. Good morning. Good morning to you. Good day. Good day to you. I just want to start the day off taking a deep breath to being still and knowing that God is God. May that just soak in this moment. Be still and know that I am God. Be still and know that God is God. I just would like to celebrate some prayer requests that I’ve heard on March 23^rd. One was from a military person…sorry about that…and she was talking about true North and I was…and she was like talking about conviction for it and I just wanted to say that you gave me conviction. You gave me conviction for it. And I just want to say thank you and bless you and may we have that self-awareness, that self-control to really understand that it’s God and not just us, that God is our true North and that’s my prayer today. Also celebrating someone’s name, the Burning Bush which will not be Devoured for Our Lord. That’s just a beautiful name, a very encouraging name. And now this time I just thank you all for listening to this podcast and may God bless you today and may you have that self-awareness knowing that God is true north and remaining in silence knowing that God is God. I love you brothers and sisters.

Deuteronomy 5:1-6:25, Luke 7:11-35, Psalms 68:19-35, Proverbs 11:29-31

Today is the 26^th day of March welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I’m Brian it is great to be here with you today moving our way forward, moving our way toward the weekend. We’re coming around the Global Campfire together be together to spend time together to allow the Scriptures to speak into our lives and our motivations and our situations and it’s great to be here. It’s great to be here every day. And, so, let’s take that next step forward. We’re reading from the English Standard Version this week. In the Old Testament we are reading from the book of Deuteronomy the Last things that Moses has to say. As we will recall, three different discourses in the book of Deuteronomy and we’ve moved our way through the first one and we are now, like we just kinda got the prologue yesterday but we’re now in the second of the three discourses. Deuteronomy chapters 5 and 6.

Commentary:

Okay. So, in the book of Deuteronomy, we’re in this second discourse where Moses is saying to the people everything that he needs to say, everything that God has told him to say. These are the last things that he’s going to say. He’s gonna be absent from their presence because he’s going to…well…he will disappear into history. He is going to die. And, so, these are the final things that he needs to say. So, some of this is review. Like for example, today he reviewed what we…what we would call the 10 Commandments, these main commandments that are guiding, that are like centerpieces of the culture that is being formally and he reviews this and he reviews the fact that God had come down upon the mountain to speak directly to the people but the people were afraid and in awe of God and so they asked essentially asked Moses to be the spokesperson for God which is in effect asking Moses to be the prophet. And then we come to a central foundational like declaration, what is a prayer until this very day, “hear O Israel the Lord our God, the Lord is one.” A profound declaration that there is but one God and only one God. And in introducing that Moses is laying out a posture that the people are to espouse, a posture of heart that is supposed to be the normal, the default way of living and being. Hear O Israel the Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way when you lie down and when you rise, you shall bind them as a sign on your hand and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes and you shall write them on the door posts of your house and on your gates.” In other words, you must not forget any of this. This must become a part of the fabric of your life, the default, the normal. This is the posture of this new culture. This is the posture of this new people that is being raised up. And he puts that out there and we need to take it on board and live into it completely ourselves, but he puts that out there and then he begins to give a warning about what it’s gonna be like when they get over the Jordan. Like when they get cross the Jordan and they succeed at conquering the people’s and dispossessing the land and taking the land and forming the land and then dividing the land up into the different tribal lands and they become one people in this land and they have inherited all kinds of cities that they didn’t build and crops that they didn’t plan and things are going well. And that's…that’s the essence of this. When you get through the wilderness and you get to the Jordan River and it’s time to crossover and you’re thinking about that you…that you’re realizing that you are at the beginning of the end of your wilderness experience and you are about to enter the land of promise and your dreaming about what that’s gonna be like, that’s essentially what Moses is saying here. And boy does that apply to our lives. And Moses counsel is when you get through the trial, when you get through the battle, when you get to the other side and you’re in the promised land and things start to get easy for you don’t forget this posture because if you forget this posture, then you’re gonna fall away, you’re gonna forget that God brought you out of slavery, you’re gonna forget that He brought you through the wilderness and shifted your identity and gave you an identity that wasn’t slavery. If you forget than you’re gonna get arrogant. You’re gonna oppress people, you’re gonna fall away from God, you’re going to chase other gods you’re going to transgress the covenant and destroy yourself. Don’t forget what God has done to bring you this far. That’s what Moses is telling the children of Israel, but does it not feel so immediate to us? Is this not good counsel for us as we continue to navigate forward?

Now as we turn the page and go into the book of Luke, we have Jesus doing his ministry healing people, revealing the kingdom of God, teaching the people, comforting the people and pretty interesting juxtaposition today because Jesus raises someone from the dead as they were being carried out of the city to be buried and the next thing you know the disciples of John coming up to Jesus and asking Him if He’s the one. And this lets us understand the expectations of the time surrounding the Messiah. So, if Jesus is the Messiah, the Anointed One, then He is someone that was expected because of prophetic utterances that it comes centuries before. So, it wasn’t like they weren’t looking for a messianic figure, but they were reading into the culture of the time what the Messiah would do, and they felt like they really didn’t need a Messiah to come because they were a people that were occupied, they were people landlocked by the Roman Empire. They were a people inside the Empire. So, even though they were in their ancestral homeland it had not been under their rule and governance other than for short rebellious…rebellions it hadn’t been in their possession for over a millennia. But they were there in their ancestral homeland. This promised land that we’re talking about in the in the book of Deuteronomy, they were there in that land, but it was now a part of the Roman empire. They wanted a Messiah who would come and sort of defeat this global superpower of Rome, throw them out of the land so that the land could be under Hebrew rule again and restored back to God. And the Messiah, the Anointed One would be able to bring everything together, all of the components together that would…that would enact that. So, even though John the Baptist knew he was preparing the way of the Lord and was calling the people back to God as a prophet, and even though Jesus submitted to baptism and John baptized Him in the Jordan River, even though all of this has happened John is now arrested and he’s sending these messages…these messengers to Jesus, to say, “are You the real One? Are You the One we were looking for or should we be looking for somebody else?” It’s a fascinating question that allows us to understand what the expectations were. People were looking at what Jesus was doing, thinking He might be the Anointed One. And then all of the expectations of the anointed one are read into and put upon Jesus. Is he going to be able to get a militia together? Like, is He gonna be able to get people who are willing to die, who are going to go fight the Romans, who are going to go try to take over Jerusalem, to try to take over the capital? Is this what’s gonna happen? And Jesus response is very very important. They expected Jesus to certainly be godly and anointed and that He would lead the people back to God, but He would lead the people back to God first by war, by takeover. Jesus response to that and specifically to John’s disciples so they can go tell John is, “go tell John what you’re seeing. Go tell John what you’re hearing. The blind are receiving their site. The lame walking, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, the poor have good news preached to them and blessed is the one who isn’t offended by me.” What Jesus is saying is, “I am the one. And I am doing exactly what I came to do. I am restoring the people. I am revealing the kingdom. I am showing you that there is another way to be and it’s a good way to be, because it’s the normal. It’s what you were designed to be. You’re supposed to be in this world doing what I’m doing. I am revealing the kingdom.” So, in other words, the kingdom Jesus is revealing is different than the kingdom they are expecting. The kingdom they are expecting is one that will be established by the ultimate takeover and removal of the…of the governing power. The kingdom Jesus is operating in is one that is after the hearts of mankind, because if you capture the hearts of mankind anything and everything can change but if you just go take over a building or you just go take over a nation…well…then there’s only gonna be retaliation. Like it’s only going to cause problems that are ongoing and there are ongoing problems in the world today that go back thousands of years because of rifts and injustices between peoples and we find this in the Bible. This isn’t the way forward, that you just finally defeat everybody. The way that you defeat everybody, at least in God’s kingdom, at least according to Jesus is through love. You capture and turn the heart through love. The kingdom is revealed and comes crashing in and then once that happens inside of a person they become transformed, they can’t see things the same way anymore, things of shifted. We who follow Jesus, we should know this, this should’ve actually been our experience. But now we look through the eyes and the understanding of our faith and we look at things differently. The trouble is that all too often we don’t. All too often we’re just pulled back into the culture and we’re worshiping at that altar instead of raising up our eyes and seeing that when the good news when the kingdom comes breaking in it brings restoration and life like a river cutting a channel through the desert. So, it begs the question what we are expecting of Jesus. I mean, are we in the same boat? We just…we need him to beat up the bad guys? We need Him to kinda move the obstacles out of our way, the things that we can’t overcome our own, the things that we just wish were different? We just need him to beat up the bad guys? Or are we understanding that we’re a part of that story and there’s a whole different way of looking at things. And we can have eyes to see and we can see that the kingdom coming isn’t out of armed rebellion or some kind of military overthrow, the kingdom comes when we see the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, lepers cleansed, deaf hear, dead are raised up, the poor have good news preached to them, and blessed is the one who isn’t offended by that because that is the way of Christ

Prayer:

Father, we invite You into this. There’s a lot here, a lot to consider in today’s reading. That happens so often where we can move back into the day and just get distracted and in an hour we will forget all of it or we can meditate upon it, we can allow…allow it to sit there and just keeps speaking to our hearts and minds, that there’s a posture, that there’s a way, that there’s a way to see, that there…there’s a way to hear, there’s a posture of heart that is in alignment with how we were created to be and when we are acting how we were created to be we are in alignment with You. Come Holy Spirit, plant this in our hearts and lives we pray. In the name of Jesus, we ask. Amen.

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

Community Prayer and Praise:

Hi this is Victoria Soldier just calling to pray for some of the DABBers. And before I begin to pray I just want to pray a prayer request for my nephew and my sister in law in Germany. She was found sick and my…my nephew, he was in jail and I just need some prayer that he’s having some challenges and just want some things to pray and I also want to pray for piano man and just build his precious wife. I wanted to pray for the…the lady who just lost her husband a few days ago, Lori. I want to pray for Dusty Rose and the challenges her husband is going through. And it went on for the DABbers who are going through depression. There’s something there going through depression and they feel like giving up, but I just want to let them know to hold on because…because your…your…your…your…your answers are only only a…only a…only a whisper away. Gracious father, I praise you and a magnify you. I thank you for the DABbers. I thank you for all of your lovely people. I thank you for our prayer…for our prayer line. I just ask You to name my call Lord. Those who are going through there with the family, those who have lost family during this covid, those who have lost precious ones Lord and they’re having challenges and they’re dealing with it. And You touch that family Lord. You work a miracle. Those that have a need Lord, those Young women that are __ and they need…they need direction. O Lord bless those even with those that are looking for spouses. Bless them with a spouse that is fine for them. You have Your way in the name of Jesus. Lord You continue to bless Dusty Rose’ husband. You give him a champion job, one that he knows no one did it but God. Lord You have Your way in the name of Jesus that…that husband that is…that is…that is…doesn’t know which way…

Good afternoon Daily Audio Bible family this is my first-time calling in. I’ve been listening for…this is my third year and I felt led to call but to call in after participating in the prayer wall online last weekend. It was so amazing to be a part of it even just for that short time. It was just so wonderful to play for others. I went there to ask for prayer, but I got even more out of writing prayers for others and it made me think about when other people have called in and they’ve thanked people for calling in asking for prayer. I never quite understood that fully but after going to the prayer wall and writing out prayer for other people I realized that it really is a blessing to get…it’s a privilege to get to pray for others because I…I got to talk to God while I was praying for others and it was just really wonderful. So, thank you so much everyone. Thank you so much Brian for this podcast it has really blessed my life and I’m so happy to be a part of it and getting even more involved. I would like to pray for myself this Thursday. Today is Sunday March 21^st and this Thursday I have a __ surgery coming up. So, I would just ask for your prayers that all goes well, and I look forward to hearing all your continued prayers and to keep praising you all. So, God bless have a great day. Bye.

Good morning Brian thank you. Thank you DAB family. My name is Allison and…well…I just want to say that I am just thankful for Daily Audio Bible. I am new to Daily Audio Bible. I started January 1^st and I just want to give God the praise and I just ask for prayer. I have an exam coming up to become a substance abuse counselor. Keep me in prayer that I am not nervous and safe travels. Have to travel over an hour to get to the exam. But also, I just want to pray for everyone that listens to Daily Audio Bible and Brian. And I wanted to say Father in the name of Jesus thank You for this prayer group, thank You for Daily Audio Bible. We desire that our prayers avail much. We are individuals who are mutually dependent on one another, having gifts that differ according to the grace given us, we who with unveiled faces all reflect Your glory are being transformed into Your likeness with ever increasing glory which comes from You who are the Spirit. Father, we realize that You know what we have need of before we ask and that we are not all growing in the same manner or on the same time schedule, but we are growing in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and savior Jesus Christ. So, have a blessed day Daily Audio Bible family in Jesus’ name I pray. Amen and Amen. Thank you. And thank you Brian and your family and just be blessed. Have a blessed rest of the day and year.

A couple days ago I heard this from someone, that many millions __ yesterday and possibly tomorrow but only one today. So, where do we want to be? For sure in the present with the presence of our Savior. He’s aware of all of our mistakes and He has forgiven us, so we don’t have to live there anymore. He knows our joys and our sorrows, and He hears our cries. He answers before we call, and He hears us as we speak. In this present moment Lord, I…please hear the prayer of my heart as I call on you on behalf of Steve from Maryland who lost his wife five years ago leaving him with five kids. His 14-year-old son has been struggling through covid with his schooling and all the other issues of maternal loss and so on. And Steve has had to be a single dad with these kids helping to organize their life. Now his son is also losing his sister to a jail term and his one daughter is having a baby next month. So, these are tremendous amount of stuff being poured on him. And, so, I’m asking You the God of our very present please reach out to him, touch his life, enable him to manage and be with the children, be with his daughter as she goes to jail. May she receive a word from Christ while she’s there and turn her life around. Hear his prayers…

They come to the garden alone while the dew is still on the roses and the voice, I hear falling on my ear the son of God discloses. And He walks with me and He talks with me and He tells me I am His own and the joy we share as we tarry there none other has ever known. He speaks and the sound of His voice is so sweet the birds hush the singing and the melody that He gave to me within my heart is ringing. I’d stay in the garden with Him though the night around me be falling, but he bids me go through the voice of woe his voice to me is calling. This is God’s Smile here and aren’t those words just lovely? That old hymn. And that’s it…that’s it from me. I just wanted to read that hymn out and send my love. Kiss kiss everybody.

Deuteronomy 4:1-49, Luke 6:39-7:10, Psalms 68:1-18, Proverbs 11:28

Today is the 25^th day of March welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I am Brian it is wonderful to be here with you today as we continue to sail through this week, sail through this month, and sail through this year and sail through the Bible. And, so, let’s dive in. In the Old Testament we…we’re getting ourselves moved into the book of Deuteronomy. We’ve had a couple of days in Deuteronomy, we’re kinda familiar with what’s going on now. Deuteronomy is the last things that Moses has to say to the children of Israel. And, so, there’s plenty of reminders in there, plenty of things that we may kinda be like, “haven’t I heard that before?” And yes, you probably have. This is what Moses has to say to remind the people because he is about to recede, and Joshua is about to take over and Moses will disappear from history. He is about to die. And as I’ve said, we’ve been with Moses for quite a while now. He’s been a very major figure in the story. And, so, it does us good to honor the book of Deuteronomy, to honor his last words as if we were among the children of Israel and putting ourselves in their story. And, so, let’s pick it up. Deuteronomy chapter 4 today.

Commentary:

Okay. So, in the book of Deuteronomy as we said…well…I mean I guess this our fourth…is this our fourth day in Deuteronomy? I think it is as. As we’ve said every day since we’ve been in Deuteronomy, Deuteronomy is these three speeches or talks or discourses, like the final important things that he has to say to the entire congregation of…of Israel as he prepares…as he prepares to die, as Joshua prepares to take over and take the people cross the Jordan River. So, we concluded the first of those talks today and we may have noticed that because we got to the end of that talk and then we began this sort of introduction, like where we’re going next, the next things that Moses is going to say. And in this first talk Moses reminds the people of their covenant with God and that there is no other God that they are in covenant with because there is no other God. And if they are to attempt to chase after other gods that going to destroy themselves because they are in covenant. They are under authority. They belong to God. They are His people. And this will be evidenced by their obedience to what they have been told, the way that they are to set up their culture as they go forward. But if they choose not to listen, not to obey, not to heed then things are not going to go so well. And we’ll get a front row seat of watching that struggle as we continue our journey through the Scriptures.

But it’s kind of stark similarity when we turn into the New Testament and we hear Jesus saying, “why do you call me the Lord and not do what I tell you?” And if we had to think both of what Moses is trying to instill in the people of Israel and look at what Jesus is saying to His hearers, what are they cautioning against? Generally, they’re cautioning against our propensity to put ourselves on the throne, that we are the sovereign, and that we will worship whoever, however, whenever, wherever we like, which is in stark contrast…contrast to being utterly and hopelessly dependent. One of the greatest battles in the human heart is who sits on the throne, right? Because the whole system is set up that if you can be sitting on throne then you are in control and you are in charge of your own destiny, you make of it what you will when the way of the kingdom is there is a sovereign God and that is something you are not. You are not the creator. You are the created. So, you can try to build your own small kingdom, be your own small God but that will lead to your destruction or you can just simply live as you were intended to be free, free, free from the entanglements of culture, free from having to try to measure up, free from trying to pretend you’re something you’re not, free to not have a closet full of masks that you have to put on every time you go in to public depending on what you’re going to do, free to be utterly and completely and hopelessly dependent among God who will care for you, who knows what you need before you ask, free to let go of expectations, free to simply be here. So, we’ll watch all this play out as we continue to move forward. But there are so many junctures along the way in the Scriptures where the mirror comes up and we have to look at ourselves and we kind of have to look at where we’re going. like where the road that we currently are on is headed and is it headed toward life, will it get us there? And if we think we can be our own sovereign and just keep dodging we’re gonna eventually hit a brick wall or fall into a pothole. We have a choice. And the way of the kingdom is a choice to surrender and come under the protection of the mighty hand of God.

Prayer:

Father, we see this, we see this in Old and New Testaments, so we see this spanning thousands of years from each other and now we are thousands of years from the New Testament, the beginning of the New Testament era. And, so, we’re talking about thousands of years these things have been true and we’re still…we’re still struggling because it is so counterintuitive to the way that the world system is built up and made to work. And You invited us to be aware that we’re here, we’re in it, but we’re not of it and there are other ways to be on this earth. Give us eyes to see we pray. In the name of Jesus, we ask. Amen.

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If you want to partner with the Daily Audio Bible you can do that at dailyaudiobible.com. There is a link on the homepage, and I thank you with all of my heart for your partnership. It’s a…I mean there’s a mission that we’ve had all these years to just continue to bring the spoken word of God every day and just give it to whoever…whoever will listen to it because the idea is, these are the Scriptures…if you’re hearing this then you’re hearing…you’re hearing from God and who doesn’t need that every day? And, so, just…even if…even if people just encounter it they’re still hearing. And, so, we just keep speaking it, just keep saying it. Somebody’s here saying it out over the world every day. And, so, if…if that’s…if that matters, that’s part of a journey that is impacting your life than thank you for your partnership. There is a link on the homepage at dailyaudiobible.com. If you’re using the app, you can press the Give button in the upper right-hand corner, or the mailing address is PO Box 1996 Spring Hill Tennessee 37174.

And, as always if you have a prayer request or encouragement, you can hit the Hotline button in the app, the little red button up at the top or you can dial 877-942-4253.

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

Community Prayer and Praise:

I want to pray for Steve from Maryland. And you explained that you’re a widow and you’re… you’ve adopted five children and there are quite a few struggles going on right now. So, let’s pray. Heavenly Father I pray for Your strength I pray for Your blessing upon Steve. I thank You God for the work that he and his wife started together, and he finds himself in a lonely and falling apart place. And I pray Lord that…that You would just comfort him and help meet his needs. Help him to grieve and get the support he needs to grieve the loss of his wife and help each of those children Lord to know that their loved. I pray that You’ll bring supportive people from the church into their lives to work to walk right next to them and to show them the love that they need God. Fill the void and fill the place where mom was and now is not and…and help the church to just wrap loving arms around them and love them well. Help each one to get their needs met in You and…and give him strength for the journey Lord. None of us can do this alone but we can rely on You and we can take one step at a time and so I just pray that over my brother, and I pray for success and love and each one to continue in Your loving arms in Jesus’ name I pray.

This is Timberly calling for Steve the adopter…the adoptive father whose wife passed five years ago. Steve I just wanted to let you know that I come alongside you as fellow adoptive parents. We have two daughters that we adopted from the foster care system and I just want to let you know that I’m sure that on many levels we can connect on the unique challenges that present themselves through adoption and especially adopting children who have been through trauma or the foster care system or both. So, I just wanted to lift you up in prayer Steve along with your children. Father God, Lord, I pray for Steve and his children. Father God I pray that You give Steve strength or help him understand the strength that he has through You Father to be able to make wise decisions for himself and his children Father God. I pray a hedge of protection around this entire family Father God, that the forces of evil would not come against them Father Jesus, that You would protect them, Father that Your presence would be palpable, that Your presence would be unmistakable in their lives Father God. Please help them through this journey that they’re on Father God we know that You will organize their paths and we pray…we pray Father for them to understand how fully loved and fully accepted and fully known by You that they are Father God. I lift them up today to You Father and I pray that today is the day that they can see Your Salvation and they can feel Your love and that Steve would be encouraged Father God. Please give him some give him some…help him know Father…help him know Father the good things that he’s done, help him see the fruits of his labor today Father in Your precious son’s name I pray.

Hey Daily Audio Bible family this is John calling from Bethlehem PA it’s the 22^nd of March the 81^st day of the year and spring is in the air. Brian thank you so much for this program and for the opportunity to dive into God’s word every day. I wanted to give a shout out and say hi to friends here in the Lehigh Valley area in Pennsylvania that have decided to take the journey for the year this year through the Bible and you all know who you are. And I love you and I hope that you’re just hanging in there and taking it day by day and step by step and that…that God’s word is washing over you and having an impact on your lives as it’s had on mine in so many almost indescribable ways. My call this morning is to pray for Steve from Maryland. Steve, I heard your prayer request come in on the community prayer and praise on the 22^nd, it aired on the 22^nd and you called in asking for prayer for you and your family because you’re going through a lot of struggles right now. You mentioned that you’ve got five adopted children, that you lost your wife five years ago, and you’re struggling right now through with your son with home schooling and just home life with the pandemic and also over that loss of your…of your wife and his mom and then, you know, also with a daughter that’s got herself in a legal jam and a daughter who’s going to be having a baby. You’ve got a lot going Steve. Jesus, thank You so much Father for Steve thank You for what he’s doing in raising this family Lord God. Give him strength. Help him to endure Father God, to stay close to You. Help him to be prayerful, to remain calm and cool and collected. There’s nothing too hard for You Jesus and this isn’t a surprise to You. In Your name I pray. Amen.

Hey DAB family this is Gods Tree but I have many branches but I am yet rooted in the Lord. I’m calling because on behalf of two prayer requests this is March 22^nd. This is for Paul in Ohio. Paul you blessed my spirit because you said you’ve been praying for several things and it hasn’t come to fruition yet and you’ve been a faithful man before God praying and, you know, in a routine of giving God what you had and God spoke to you and said, you know, I can do something for you but you need to do something a little different so now you’re setting out to do something different and that spoke to my spirit because I once heard a message said that you have to do something different in order to get something that you never had. And, so, you’ve put that little fire under me to do the same thing because there’s some things I’m believing God for as well. So, I’m going to be doing some things a little different too so that I can see God move. God wants us to work our faith and that’s what I’m going to do. And also I want to honor a prayer request. Tomica, I didn’t get where she was from but I’m praying for the healing in your shoulder and your workman’s compensation go through, but more importantly I’m not only praying for just blessings for your children but I’m praying blessings for yourself because you deserve it. And, you know, you said there’s so many obstacles that’s keeping you from getting the housing that you need. But know this, sometimes the enemy puts obstacles in the way just so he can keep you from seeing the blessings that are on the way. So, don’t give up. Keep praying and keep trusting God. Housing is going to open up for you and it’s going to be a better than what you ever imagine, and your children are going to be blessed more because you’re highly favored and loved by the Lord. And again, I want to thank you all for this ministry and continue to bless for you as I…

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Deuteronomy 2:1-3:29, Luke 6:12-38, Psalms 67:1-7, Proverbs 11:27

Today is the 24^th day of March welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I am Brian I am glad to be here with you today. I’m always glad. This is one of the great oasis’s in my life and I hope it’s the same for you. I love that we can come around the Scriptures and allow them to speak into our lives across generations, across millennia, and speak truth into our hearts. So, we’re reading from the English Version…the English Standard Version this week. We have just begun the book of Deuteronomy. And just by way of reminder, these are the last three speeches or discourses or discussions or talks of Moses life, the last things that he has to say to the people that he has been leading for so long. And knowing that should give it gravity and should…should inquire of us that we might pay close attention just as the people would’ve been paying close attention. And, so, let’s dive in. Deuteronomy chapters 2 and 3 today.

Commentary:

Okay. So, in the gospel of Luke today we have encountered some territory that…that might seem familiar. We saw it more extensively in the book of Matthew and this is known as the sermon on the Mount, Jesus’ sermon on the Mount, which is known to be His central teaching, like a the core of the message that He is delivering. And actually, maybe even equally is important, the message that He’s modeling, the message that He’s living…like the sermon on the Mount certainly gives us the core doctrine of what Jesus is teaching to people but it’s also what He’s living. There’s not like some guru come down off the mountain with a new way of doing things and He’s just telling it to the people. He’s going about the countryside living this way and…and people are intrigued and are watching Him. And this set of teachings that Jesus traveled around and spoke of inviting people to open their eyes and see a  kingdom that is being revealed and how it works, this wasn't…like Jesus didn’t go around the countryside and people then began to call His teachings and the way that He was leading and speaking, they didn’t call it Christianity, that term is a Gentile term that came much later. Early on this was called “the way”. The Way - because Jesus was showing a different way of looking at the same picture, a different way of being in the same circumstances. In other words, nothing has to change around you for you to experience the way. It’s what changes within you. And once you see it and begin walking the way it changes the way you look at everything else and then you realize there are other ways of seeing and other ways of being and some of this is a choice. Some of the chaos, some of the drama, it comes upon everybody, but some of that we just…we just go to like a moth to the flame and we just keep getting taken out and wondering why it’s not working when Jesus is saying there is a totally different way of being, a totally different way of living, a totally different way of seeing and that way was and is disruptive and even difficult, might even call it a narrow path. Imagine that, when your…I don’t know…when you’re in a grocery store and you got your…you ran in for a few things, you got your few things, they’re bagged up, you’re walking your cart out and there’s somebody standing outside the grocery store just on the way little bit kinda like, you know, Salvation Army does a Christmas when they ring the bell and stuff. There’s just somebody down a few steps and there’s maybe 10 people around them or 20 people around them and they’re talking and your intrigued, “what’s going on here?” And, so, you walk over and then you overhear this person saying, “listen, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who hurt you. If someone slaps you on the cheek, turn the other cheek also. If someone demands your coat, offer your shirt also. Give to anyone who asks and when things are taken away from you don’t try to get them back. Do to others as you would like them to do to you.” If…like…you would probably recognize these words but if you had never really heard these words before and they were coming to you in a context of just your busy life then you’d see just how disruptive this is. This isn’t the way of our culture. The way of our culture isn’t love your enemies, it’s destroy them. It’s not to do good to those who hate you, it’s to hate back and build up walls of protection between us so that we can’t be hurt. There’s so rarely turning the other cheek in the world system that we live. And, so, we could see that even now where the words of Jesus, were they spoken out in the same kind of context that they were spoken in originally, they would be disruptive, they would be calling out a different way of looking at things. We might even listen to the words and think to ourselves, “that sounds so nice. Like the world would change if everybody did. Like this is a way that if people lived this way, the world would be a remarkably different place but nobody’s gonna do that. Or even if we decided I’m going to do that. I’m gonna live like this I’m gonna follow this person. They seem to…they seem to know something. I’m gonna follow this person. It’s crazy if we’ll observe ourselves the things that come pouring out of our mouths before we can stop them that are completely contrary to the way of Jesus. So, if you wonder about the narrow path that leads to life, if you wonder about what it practically looks like to be a disciple of Christ then love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who hurt you. If someone slaps you on one cheek offer the other cheek also. If someone demands your coat offer your shirt also. Give to anyone who asks. When things are taken away from you don’t try to get them back. Do to others as you would like them to do to you or maybe we could say that another way. Love your neighbor as yourself. There is a way. Jesus said there is a way that leads to life. He just said few ever find it. This is the way friends. And I look at that way and I have known this, and I have known this way most of my life. But I have known what I’m saying to you for a long time, and I look at those words and it makes me want to weep at my failures. And I realize I have no capacity. I mean I can…I can do this for couple hours, right? We can do this for a day. Like, we can…we can sort like white knuckle it and hold on tight and just make ourselves. Maybe that’s the first step though. Maybe that’s the first step to discipline, first step to opening our eyes to see, first step to say I’m not…I’m not…I’m not leaving any other way but the way of Jesus anymore. Nothing else works. This way that Jesus is describing is the ultimate of letting go, the ultimate of saying I am utterly and hopelessly dependent upon God and His mercy, and nothing else I try to arrange or build or make to ensure myself safety, that’s just a joke. The only true way, and honestly it’s such a cliché, such a cliché I’m about to say but the only way is to let go and let God, to lay ourselves down because isn’t this what Jesus is talking about? I mean to love your enemies is to lay yourself down, right? To do good to those who hate you, that’s like…that’s to lay your rights down. Like that’s to say, “I am not my own and I am not the judge and I am not retaliating I am letting go. I am hopelessly and utterly dependent upon God. God is the judge. I…I don’t even have to carry…this isn’t even a chain around my neck anymore. I am letting go. So, letting go of my offenses and letting go of the things that I need retribution for also means I’m letting go of the chains that are around my wrists attaching me that situation and that person. I’m letting go. And what happens happens. I am at the mercy of God. I would rather be safely there and at anyone else’s mercy.” So, let’s give that some thought today. This will be the last time that we…we reach the sermon on the mount in an encapsulated way like this this year. And yet this is so foundational. This is so important to what it means to follow Jesus that we just cannot blow by it. And if we want to go deeper than read it again or go back to Matthew 5 and read the whole thing again.

Prayer:

Jesus, we invite You into this contemplation, into this consideration. None…none of us are living up, none of us are measuring up and it’s frustrating but none of us are ever going to be able to without Your compassion and Your kindness…kindness and the leading of Your Holy Spirit and that You are faithful and just to forgive us our shortcomings in our failures. At the same time as much as we may fail as we walk this path You have given us the path. This is the way to go. This is the way to be, and so help us as we take steps forward because each step forward is a step forward in sanctification is a step forward in us being made holy and set apart, is a step forward in our transformation as we become like You. And we become like You by following the way and following the way requires that we lose ourselves in You, that we become a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to You. Come Holy Spirit into this we ask in Jesus name. Amen.

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

Community Prayer and Praise:

Hi this is Nikki Calhoon from Detroit. I’m just calling in just saying praise the Lord because He is so awesome and so good and I’m just now getting wind of this app and it was a blessing to me today. But I wanted to speak to Lori Music who was just on here that made a comment praising the Lord and was talking about the passing of her husband. I just want to say that I’m praying for you and your three beautiful daughters. I’m so glad that you are encouraged, and I just pray for strength for you guys through this journey. I pray that God will open up more blessing, more understanding, more wisdom, more insight is who He is and that He will pour out unto you everything that He has for you, that you will walk right into what He has for you. And, so, I just wanted to tell you that someone is listening, that you are loved you are being prayed for and that your strength and…and…and your testimony they just touch me. So, just keep fighting, keep walking sister. Keep going through what you need to go through as a soldier in the army of the Lord and you will see your husband again on the other side. God bless you. Love you.

Good morning DAB community this is Ming from London. Just want to lift up in prayer to the Lord everyone, all…all the brothers and sisters in the Asian communities following the recent spread of attacks in the US. I just lift them up to you Lord. I pray that you just be with my brothers and sisters, Your assaulted, Your racially abused. And following the recent shooting and…and attacks Lord I just pray that You be with them. I pray for leadership, justice, wisdom to come from You. I just…I just pray Lord that…that You…You help them to…to protect my Asian brothers and sisters. I just…just pray for love and understanding Lord. Yeah, yeah. I just pray this all in Your name. Amen.

Grace and peace Daily Audio Bible family this is RJ representing Jesus from Connecticut. I just felt led to call in and just give a word of encouragement two brothers and sisters out there. I just wanted to say that I myself has been one who have been just at a point in my life totally rock bottom. I mean, I’ve seen incarceration, I’ve seen drugs, I’ve seen fornication, I’ve seen a life of partying and just doing all sorts of things that were so unruly and ungodly, but the Lord has allowed me to see that He loves me more than that and He has reconciled me back to Himself and right now I feel so blessed. You know, it’s been maybe 2 maybe 3 years that the Lord has brought my children back into my life. He has allowed me to be married to a beautiful, wonderful woman of God and, you know, secure in home. And I just want to encourage someone else and let you guys know that the Lord can turn your life around. The Lord can bring you back to a place where you rightfully belong, which is with Him. Be encouraged family. Don’t give up. The Lord is with you. He promised never to leave us nor forsake us. Just keep looking to Him and He will do what He say he will do. Grace and peace family. God loves you.

Hey DAB family it’s Danny from Southern Oregon. Hey, the other day Brian you were talking about how when we spend time with God why is it that we do all the talking? And boy that really hit me and it took me back to about a year ago when I used to dedicate time every single morning to sit with God and be still, to listen to the DAB, to Journal, to specifically write down the people and praying for and to write down my own prayers to God and…and just be quiet and listen to what God had to say. And at that time I don’t think I’d ever been closer to God in my entire Christian walk. And, so, I know…I know that’s super important. And for some reason busyness of life and everything has just kept me from dedicating that time in the morning. I still…I still listen, I pray for people but it’s on the go and I’m squeezing it in. And I..I know it’s not the same. And, so, anyway I wanted to thank you for reminding me how important that is. And also, I just wanted you all to pray with me. O heavenly Father, we just come to You and we ask You Lord to remind us that Your arms are always open for us, that we can crawl into Your lap we can snuggle in close and You can wrap arounds around us and You can keep us safe from everything that’s out in the world whether we’re tired or we’re afraid or sick, anything Lord. Your arms…or Your healing arms You can just help us to feel so good. And, so, remind us that Lord that we…that You are our refuge always in Jesus’ name.

Hello DAB family this is Angel from California and I wanted to reply to Nathan. Nathan you had a stroke and I heard you on March the 22^nd podcast and you said that you’d been posting. And actually, that’s where my ministry is, in the Prayer Wall. I pray for a lot of people and I remember you. I remember you posted, and you got feedback from us. So, I listen to the Daily Audio Bible every single blessed day and I…when you, when people need prayer what I do is I…I post it in the Prayer Wall and I want you all to know that I am listening. And…and check us out in the Prayer Wall and post any…any need that you might have and may God bless you. And I am really, really happy that Daily Audio Bible is blessing so many people. And thank you so much and God bless you. This is Angel from California.