A Walk Through The Word

Ezekiel 7:1-9:11, Hebrews 5:1-14, Psalm 105:1-15, Proverbs 26:28

Today is the third day of November, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible, I’m Brian. It’s great to be here with you just like it’s great to be here with you every day as we find our place around the Global Campfire and move forward together, which will lead us back into the book of Ezekiel, we’re just getting going in the book of Ezekiel. Today, Ezekiel chapters 7 and 8 and 9.

Commentary:

Okay, can we zoom in on the Proverb because again today we have one sentence that speaks literally volumes into our human experience. So, once again wisdom is calling from the crossroads and speaking to us what is true and what is right and it says it in a stark enough way that we can’t kind of make it a gray area. So, the Proverb says, a lying tongue hates its victims and a flattering mouth works ruin. So, I doubt that anyone within the sound of my voice doesn’t know what a lie is right, and a blatant untruth or more popularly, a partial truth that is nuanced in such a way that it is effectively a lie. So, if we’re on the same page about what that is, then what the voice of wisdom is saying, from the Holy Scriptures is that a lying tongue hates its victims, and it even uses the word victims as people who are on the receiving end of a lie. And we could be like yeah, well, what’s another translation for that, victimization of a person who is on the receiving end of a lie that can’t be right, but it is. I mean if we want to go absolutely literal. We are literally talking about and oppressed person who is crushed. That is what happens to the person on the receiving end of a lie, according to the voice of wisdom found in the Holy Scriptures. So could it be more stark and should we not, should we not pause for a second and just think about it because our culture is built on these nuances. These partial truths that get spun in all sorts of directions and then regurgitated as fact all over the place. All of the time. So, if we’re in the habit of puffing up the truth, like making the story more interesting than what it actually is and what actually happened or what the actual situation is then that’s a lie. If we’re diminishing the truth, making it less and using it to manipulate or if we’re simply lying so that we don’t get exposed, it’s a lie. And we are hating on the person we are peddling the lie to. I know that’s pretty hard-core. I didn’t write this book though; I’m reading this book and this is what the book of Proverbs says, in the same Proverb in the same sentence because this entire Proverb is one sentence it says a flattering mouth works ruin. So, being a liar is hating on the people we are lying to and a flattering mouth, so using flattery works ruin, which doesn’t mean words of affirmation, kindness, speaking something kind and affirming to somebody about something that they done is flattering and we should stop complementing each other. Flattery is that used in a manipulative way so that in one way or another we gain something, whether that be deeper access to this person or their life. Whether things that we want from them or need from them that force us to kind of use words that we wouldn’t normally use in a way that we don’t really mean. Yeah, basically we’re counseled very vividly against this type of behavior. It does not lead to a good outcome. It’s foolish. It’s not wisdom and we’re getting that conclusion from the voice of wisdom. And so, let’s just take this strong medicine like grown-ups and examine the ways that we are hating on people, that we are acting foolish, that we are setting up scenarios that don’t end well and maybe invite the Holy Spirit into the why. Why do we react this way, why do we do this, why do we embellish the truth, why do we diminish the truth, why are we always in a situation where we’re on the defense and we’re always lying to protect ourselves even when it’s not necessary, why are we doing these things, what is underneath that? Because as we talked about in the book of Hebrews, what was it yesterday, this is alive and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and it can reach the place where soul and spirit divide. We basically flip the page and watch that exact thing happen to us. This is right at the level of our identity. This is as deep as it gets. Why do we do what we do when we know it’s not going to work out? And then as we’re considering, maybe we should also consider that we have been invited into a life of freedom. Freedom in Christ, which is freedom to be true because we’re not leeching an identity off of each other. We don’t need to lie to somebody else to make ourselves look better so that they look better at us. We are children of the most high God. There is no higher place to get, we have, there’s no aspiration for us that’s higher than that, we have an identity, basically, we have the identity of identities, we’re children of God. We actually don’t need to lie to each other or manipulate each other. We actually have freedom to be true.

Prayer:

So, Father, we invite You into that. It is a constant thing. It is a constant thing in the world that we live in as you know, it is a constant thing to be so deeply nuanced that it’s, that it’s a lie and we have participated in all kinds of things for all kinds of reasons, but we’re hearing loud and clear from the voice of wisdom that this isn’t going to go anywhere and so, we invite Your Holy Spirit to reveal to us the wounds and motivations, the things that compel us in a direction that is not healthy or good or profitable. Come, Holy Spirit, as we contemplate this today, as we consider, as we even observe ourselves in these situations because their regular, they face us on a daily basis. And so, Holy Spirit come into this, we need You. We need You not only to expose this to ourselves but then to begin to change that, to be transformed in that area to allow sanctification in that area. Then we have to be aware and open to You. So, help us Holy Spirit. We pray, in the name of Jesus we ask. Amen.

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Ezekiel 3:16-6:14, Hebrews 4:1-16, Psalms 104:24-35, Proverbs 26:27

Today is the 2^nd day of November welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I am Brian it is fantastic to be here with you today as we get ourselves moved into this 11^th month of the year. We’ve been transitioning through quite a bit of territory but we’re gonna camp out in the book of Ezekiel for a while in the Old Testament as well as the letter to the Hebrews in the New Testament. So, today we’re reading from the English standard version. Ezekiel chapter 3 verse 16 through 6 verse 14.

Commentary:

Alright. So, in the book of Hebrews today we encounter a very very famous passage of Scripture – “for the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and spirit, of joints and of marrow and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart” So, that certainly gives us a bit of context for why we show up here around the Global Campfire every day and why we would try to set aside all of the distractions for a little while, so that the word of God could wash over us and into our lives so that we could actually be paying attention to it. It gives us a great amount of context for why we would do that. And let’s look at what it says it’s doing or that it is. The word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword. So, let’s just look at those two. This is a living document which doesn’t mean that your copy of the Scriptures snores at night, right, because it's…It has a beating heart and its human. It means that over the ages, it still does something to the souls of mankind, right? So, when we come here and immerse ourselves in the Scriptures sometimes it tells us exactly what the next step for us is. Sometimes we think it’s saying nothing to us, but it is within us, transforming things. And sometimes we can go through a passage of Scripture this year and then come by again next year and it speaks volumes in and different way - alive, living and active. And sharper than any two-edged sword, so we get the concept of a sword, a double-edged sword which means it’s sharp on both sides. So, no matter what direction you’re swinging in you have a powerful blade that can…that can cut through the crap in our lives. We just have to be cognizant that this is…as powerful as a double edge sword. And, so, you take the Bible or portions of the Scriptures, you start swinging them at people then…yeah…people get cut. What we need to understand is that that double edge sword is to cut through the clutter and the confusion and the gray in our own experience because, as the Scripture continues, it pierces to the division of soul and spirit, which…there isn’t a time that I encounter this Scripture, and certainly we encounter it every year when we pass by Hebrews, but this is a popular Scripture, so we hear it many many times through the course of a year. It’s quoted often. And when I hear it I think. Where is the division of soul and of spirit? Who can…who can even point to where that is? It’s…wherever that is however that is, it's…it’s at the depths of us. It’s at the essence of us. We don’t have any….there’s no x-ray to find where soul and spirit divide. We may be able to find where joints and marrow, divide, but not of soul and spirit. And the Scripture says that the word of God can pierce to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow. In other words, it can touch everything about us. In fact, the Scripture goes on to say it can discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart. And it does. Does it not? Has it…I mean if you’ve been around here for very long the Bible…the Bible isn’t afraid to speak the truth, it isn’t afraid to look us in the eye, it doesn’t look away, it doesn’t pander, it just is there speaking the truth. And often in someone else’s story from a very very long time ago we find our own thoughts and motivations. The intentions of our own hearts are exposed because of the Scripture. This is why we’re showing up every day. This is how powerful this is. And that’s the end of that very famous passage. But the verse following that…well…let me just read the whole thing in context. “But the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart. And no creature is hidden from His site, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.” So, in other words, God already knows, He can already see into our soul and spirit. He can already see the thoughts and intentions of the heart, but the word of God can reveal them to us. The word of God can bring to the surface the things we are trying to hide, even from ourselves or the things that we are trying to avoid, all of the disassociations, all of the stuff that we’re trying to stuff down and ignore, the stuff that gets shoved down into the basement of our hearts, the word of God can even go there.

Prayer:

Father, we thank You yet again for the Scriptures and for the ability to show up and meet around this Global Campfire every day, that the word of God might penetrate us, that it might expose what’s really going on and cut through so that we might see the truth that is being offered to us. So, often we’re trying to get our facts and truths from places like social media and what we’re doing is regurgitating opinions. But when we come here there is no pandering, there is no agenda, there is no how many likes can I get, there is no how good can this make me look. You’re just speaking the truth in a tangible way in a way that we can hold in our hands. And we thank You for that gift and we invite Your Holy Spirit to lead us deeper in our understanding of this gift. And as we grow in understanding may our very lives be transformed so that we are transformed by the power of Your word that can penetrate into the very depths of who we are. And we open ourselves and welcome that. Come Holy Spirit we pray. In the name of Jesus, we ask. Amen.

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Community Prayer and Praise:

Good morning Daily Audio Bible this is Michael from Harrisburg PA. It’s the first time I’ve ever called in. I’ve been listening to Daily Audio Bible for five years on and off and this year especially it’s been my rock. In January both my mom and my dad passed. My Grandfather also passed in December. And then on my birthday August 28^th my mentor my best friend drowned in the Swatara Creek. And I felt like I was…no one else could understand what I was going through and I listened to the community prayer this morning, the 20…I guess it would have been the 30^th or the 29^th I guess it would have been last week and I heard a woman’s voice I think it was either Tamberly or Kimberly and I heard that she both lost her mother and her father. And I just want to say sister that I love you, I’m wrapping my arms around you and praying that God continues to show peace past all understanding because that is…that is exactly what you will be experiencing. Just be strong, find those who you love and can talk with and just know that your…your request touched my heart and allowed me to call for the first time. Have a great day.

Good morning DAB family my name is Island Girl. I have been listening to this podcast on and off for probably about 2 ½ years now but it’s my first-time calling in. I’m calling in because I know the power of prayer. I’m calling in because I need the family to help me, please to pray. My mother is in the hospital. She has been battling the COVID-19 virus and she has some underlying issues such as diabetes and hypertension going along with it. I called because I know the power of prayer. I called because I know that where two or three are gathered touching anything then God is in the midst to bless, and God is in the midst to hear and deliver. So, I’m asking you please to help me to pray…

Hi DAB family it’s October 30^th this is Child of God. I just heard Tamberly’s request for prayer after the loss of her parents and I can so relate. I still have both my parents. They’re living at home. My mom is 90 my dad’s 94 but it’s a struggle for them. And they are so dear to our family and I…my heart just goes out to you in your loss. I’m lifting you up.

Yes, my name is Rodney. I became paralyzed like six months ago not knowing, you know…I’m 38 years old, just new to me. I’m just gave my life back to the Lord two Sundays ago and about three weeks ago my wife left me. We were married 11 years. We have a daughter together. Things, you know, hit me real hard at one time and, you know, I’m still getting over the, you know, everything, you know, I just…I gave up and now I’ve got bed sores I’m back in the hospital again. But if you could just keep me on y'all’s prayers and just pray, you know, that my wife open her eyes and see that I need her or if not if the Lord don’t have that in his plan then, you know, to just let me have a peace of mind. I thank you all very much and I do. This audio bible has helped me tremendously. I listen to the proverbs every morning and I listen to the chron…chronicle thing every day and it's…it’s a blessing to me and I thank you very much and hope everybody has a blessed day.

Hey this is Andrew from Washington just calling in for the person who called October 25^th asking for prayers for struggles in life feeling bad about trying glorify and praise God and then falling back into the same struggles. Just want to say my friend you’re not alone. I'm…I’m there with you as many of us are. There’s an army of prayer warriors behind you and with you praying for you such as God’s Smile, Tony truck driver, Lorinda from Florida, Radiant Rachel, Blind Tony, Victoria Soldier, the Hardin family, Aussie Bear from Australia, Kingdom Seeker Daniel, Immaculate Margaret, the list…the list goes the list goes on and on if there’s more time but we hear you and God hears you and you have Jesus who’s your defender. So, I encourage you to come boldly to the throne…to the throne of grace. Ask him every time…every single time you go through a struggle, and you’ll see victory. So, don’t give up. Keep pushing forward, keep fighting. God bless and may your day be full of grace today.

Thank you God for giving me everything that I’ve asked
you freed me from my demons and my true self is now unmasked
time is running short now as they say this too shall pass
I praise and thank you constantly there’s not much that I ask
the relationship I have with you I pray will always last
last is first and first his last a simple little verse
some men go from good to bad some from bad to worse
help me just be patient God and follow where you lead
help me not be selfish and consumed with lust, pride, and greed
where the two are gathered I know that you’ll be there
keep my mind’s eye simple God strip my ego bear
make me over in your image God I’m flesh but still I’m clay
fill me with your spirit God and renew my strength each day
one and one are usually two but you and I are one
finish God the work in me you clearly have begun

blindtony1016@gmail.com. I’d like to give a shout out to Just James who just got out of jail or out of prison after 32 years. You and the other brothers, I just want to say your testimonies powerful brother and God is faithful and true and your strength He will definitely renew. You know. Keep the faith. And once again Brian and the Hardin family thank you for this wonderful podcast for God’s Holy Spirit to flow. Keep it flowing y'all. Alright. Bye-bye.

Ezekiel 1:1-3:15, Hebrews 3:1-19, Psalm 104:1-23, Proverbs 26:24-26

Today is the first day of November, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian, welcome to the 11th month of the year. Today is the 305th day of our journey which contains 365 days in it and seems like we reach this point, the 11th month of the year and by the time this month is over its Christmas around the world and we’re all focused in on the holiday season. We’ve already talked about that and we’ll talk about it some more, we’ve already talked about that and determined what we’re going to do is finish strong and all we have to do in order to do that is show up, show up every day as we continue our journey through the Scriptures and we are led once again into a bit of a transition. So yesterday, we concluded the book of Lamentations, which today leads us as we begin a new month into the book of Ezekiel.

Introduction to the Book of Ezekiel:

And so, let’s just kind of get a lay of the land or orient ourselves because we are moving into a new book with a new voice but we are still in this Babylonian exile time. So, we went through Jeremiah and all of the warnings and prophetic instructions from God, we saw nobody paying attention to those warnings, we saw those prophecies then come true and then we mourned it in the book of Lamentations. So now, we’re in a new month and moving into a new book known as Ezekiel but we’re not changing much in terms of time like, we haven’t jumped a couple centuries, we’re in the same time period. Ezekiel was an educated person deeply loyal to God, deeply loyal to God’s people. He came from a priestly family, and often he was instructed to symbolically prophesy or act out a prophecy in some sort of metaphorical or literal way, not unlike Jeremiah and they were prophesying at the same time. So, Jeremiah prophesied a bit before Ezekiel, but then also was prophesying at the same time as Ezekiel. They were just prophesying from two sides of the same story. Jeremiah was prophesying from Jerusalem and so, we were there, we were there watching all of this go down as we read through Jeremiah. Ezekiel’s prophecies were from the other side. They were from exile in Babylon. There was a lot going on in the world at that time. So, the Babylonian empire conquered the Assyrian Empire and if we just remember, it was the Assyrian Empire that conquered the northern kingdom of Israel and took them into exile where those 10 tribes disappeared. So now, the Assyrian Empire’s conquered by the Babylonian Empire, so now these superpowers, Babylon and Egypt, their clashing with each other and their clashing essentially in the land of ancient Israel because that little strip of land that was like to control, that is to control the trade routes between continents and all of the different countries that we just talked about, they all had interaction with ancient Judah or Israel. Like, at one point or another Israel was subdued by all these different empires it’s just that the city of Jerusalem was still standing. So, if they fell into a situation where they were about to be utterly destroyed than they would make some kind of treaty, pay tribute, be a vassal, essentially a, sort of a country with allegiance to another and we read about this when we read Kings and Chronicles, just the back and forth of all that happened and we read, as we read through the Kings, the decline, generational decline in leadership among the people and idolatry and just all of the stuff that we’ve gone through. It has led to this place where when Babylon destroys Jerusalem the ancient Israel of the Bible that we’ve read so far, it is over. So, it’s 597 BC, the Babylonians, they conquer Jerusalem and that’s when exile begins. So, they begin deporting people into different regions of the Babylonian empire. Ezekiel was among those first to go into exile. So, then Babylon puts it like a vassal king, a king to kind of rule and reign but not as a sovereign unto himself, as a client king for Babylon and that kings name was Zedekiah. And Zedekiah ended up rebelling against the Babylonians. Even though Jeremiah is prophesying against that kind of action and gives totally different advice. The rebellion still happens. And so, the Babylonians come back. So, in 588, they come back and lay siege, takes two years and then the walls are breached and yeah Jerusalem is utterly and completely destroyed. So, from the time of the Babylonians take over until the time that Jerusalem is completely destroyed is a little over a decade. Ezekiel, during this time, is exiled in Babylon and he prophesies of the destruction of Jerusalem. Jeremiah is prophesying the same thing from Jerusalem. And as we know those prophecies came true. Jerusalem was destroyed which is tremendously sad but after that, after the destruction then the prophetic utterances from Ezekiel become some of the most hope filled messages that we can find in the Bible. There’s also some interesting features about Ezekiel because of his visions. So, he has visions and they almost feel like science fiction in a way, especially when you think of them coming from thousands of years ago, there just cinematic. There are other places in Scripture that are like this, for example the book of Daniel or the book of Revelation. And so, because it’s so highly symbolic, those that study eschatology, the study of the end of all things or the end times, certainly use Ezekiel as part of that study along with Daniel and Revelation, many of the other prophecies in the Bible. So, as we approached some of that territory in Ezekiel, we can decide, I’m gonna figure this out. Right, just sit here and intently listen and try to sort out what the symbology is, we would be entering into something that’s been going on for a very, very long time and has been argued about for a very, very long time and that’s fine. But if eschatology isn’t something we’re seeking a degree in then we might want to just let the words, the metaphors, the imagery come to us. Just allow it to wash over us, and allow the Holy Spirit just see what it’s bringing up inside of us as we encounter those portions of Scripture. Let’s dive in, let’s get going. We’re reading from the English Standard Version this week, Ezekiel chapter 1 verse 1 through 3 verse 15.

Prayer:

Father, we thank You for Your word. We thank You for the gift and we thank You for these 300+ days now that we have been together on this journey. We thank You for this new territory that we’re moving into in the book of Ezekiel and we open our hearts, we open our hands to You. We ask that You lead us, even as these next week’s how they start speeding, speeding us toward the conclusion of a year and things get more busy. We thank You that we have this anchor. So, we invite You, Holy Spirit, come, lead us into all truth, we become aware of Your presence that is always near us, always available. So, we seek it, come Jesus we pray in Your mighty name we ask. Amen.

Announcements:

dailyaudiobible.com is the website, its home base and it’s where you find out what’s going on around here and man what’s going on around here right now is this is the first day of the 11th month of the year. We’re like in the 11th month of the year. I’m still trying to get my head around it because where did those first 10 months ago, but that’s how it works, where they went was day by day, step by step forward. And so, we find ourselves here, beginning to move into, into what becomes, the more busy parts of the year. And it’s just great, it is great to have taken this journey this far in this year, together. And we’ve come this far through the Scriptures and we have come a long way and we have a ways to go. Some really, really important things for us out in front of us. So, it’s good to be here. Fresh start. Brand-new month and if we keep going we will finish strong together at the end of the 12 month and that’s always exciting. So, yeah, we just keep taking one step forward each day and we will arrive at our destination. One of the ways that we do arrive at our destination is that well, we show up every day and it’s more than just showing up every day and listening the Scriptures, although that’s completely fine but because were showing up every day, we’ve gotten into a rhythm and we’ve gotten into a rhythm, together with tens of thousands of people all over the world. And one of those beautiful distinctives that has arisen out of that rhythm is that we pray for each other, we love each other through prayer, we hear each other stories and because we’re spread all over the place, the primary way we can get involved with one another is through prayer and it’s a beautiful thing. So, there are a number of ways to engage: the Prayer Wall is a primary way, that is found in the Community section at dailyaudiobible.com or in the app by pushing the drawer icon in the upper left-hand corner. The Community section, there’s a bunch of stuff in their, links to different social media channels that we participate in but the Prayer Wall is there, day or night, 24/7. If you’re getting crushed, you don’t have to be alone, but if you just can’t sleep or you’re just in a good place, it’s wonderful to reach back out knowing that things kind of go in cycles and we may be on top of things right now, but there also may come a day where we need our brothers and sisters to hold us up and the Prayer Wall is a great place to go for that. Also, if you have a prayer request or encouragement you can hit the Hotline button in the app, that is the little red button up at the top no matter where you are in the world, no matter what time zone it is, what time of day or night it is, you can share from there or you can dial 877-942-4253.

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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.

Prayer and Encouragements:

Hi friends this is Erin in Michigan, I’m a teacher. I teach seniors in high school and on Tuesday a student brought a gun to school and a lot of kids saw it on the bus and one junior high student went in and told and the rest just kept it to themselves. So, then yesterday there were three fights, two of them before 9:30 AM, and O friends, are students are crying out, every behavior is a communication and their telling us that they don’t feel safe and that they don’t feel loved and that they don’t belong. So, family if you’ll pray with me, Father God, Father God, I cry out to you, our children, are in crisis. Our children are faced with the world that says snitches get stiches and that fighting is the way to go and fighting is the way to get that respect and that fear and Lord God we just pray over our students, we pray over our teachers our administrators Lord God our families, moms and dads, aunts and uncles, grandmas and grandpas, Lord God and I just lift them up to You. Help our students, help our students in the school that I teach in, help our students across the nation, Lord God, help every single student understand that guns are not the answer, that violence and fights are not the answer, Lord God, that standing by watching it, videotaping it, posting these fights are not the answer. Help our students to stand-up, help them feel empowered to take back their school, Lord God, everyone just wants to feel safe and Lord God, help us, help us teachers to love our students, to build those relationships, to look them in the eye and to help them know that they belong. Father God, You are the only answer, You’re the only answer, we’re in crisis. We call out to You Lord God, help our schools, help our students, help our teachers, help our security staff, help our administrators Lord God, help us to be bold in Your love and Your belonging. In Your Holy and precious name. Amen. Thank you, family. Love you.

Hello my DAB family. This is Terry the Trucker. Quick praise report, new jobs going great. No stress, I can go at my own pace, I can work whenever I want to work as long as I do ten loads a day or 10 loads a week, 620 miles a day, I believe it was 620/640, I love it. Anyway, prayer request: called in about my sister, she’s taking care of her grandbabies. My nephew and his wife, they’ve been separated for I think about two years now, they’ve both been on meth. He was arrested today October 27th around 10am. The charge was manufacturing and delivering of a controlled substance, over two grams, under 4. He runs around a really sketchy crew. We’re praying that it’s not true, I mean, yes he is making bad decisions, yes he is on meth, he can’t be around his kids, my mom’s too old to be doing this, my sisters just at her wits end. Sisters name is Tina, moms name is Nellie, my nephews name is Brandon. So, I just ask you all to lift him up in prayer, pray that he can, I pray it ain’t true, pray that he can get his life straight, comfort for my mom and my sister, financial support. And always remember this is Terry the Trucker and I’m praying for you as I travel up and down these Texas highways. Ya’ll have a blessed one.

Hey, this is Tear from Texas. I wanted to just give a little praise report for my father. He basically has been going to visit my grandma again in my grandparents’ house. My grandpa, his dad passed away about a year ago and it had been very hard for him to cope with his death. And just, you know, cope with his house being different now and him going over there and him not being there. And I am just glad that in the same time that my mom and I are praying for him is healing that he’s taken the first steps to healing. I don’t think anyone can ever truly heal from losing a parent and I sure don’t want to think about that right now, but I was glad that as an adult you know, God allows us to still heal from things that happened to us as a child, things that happened to us as adults. And I just pray that every family new and old can heal from trauma, from you know, toxic habits that plagued a lot of households. New and old households can you know, stop the cycle of those toxic habits of those behaviors that you know, just come with being human. We hurt people or we forget that we hurt people, I just pray that every person in a family within Christ can conscientiously grow from there past, from their mistakes and be able to speak out and about their hurt and their pain and that we can all heal and grow and learn within Christ. In these blessings, I ask, in the sons Holy name Jesus. Amen.

Hi this is Victorious Soldier just calling to pray with some of the DABers. I wanted to tell you all thanks so much for the prayers you’ve given me, you’ve been such a tremendous blessing, you’ve lifted my spirit and my soul and I just want to say thank you. I love you all so much you’re such a, such a precious group of friends and safe people of God. And I just pray that life and savior for everyone. Whatever your need that God has it. I wanna pray for a couple of the DABers also. I wanna pray for Janet regarding her husband and I wanna pray for Kristen Fletcher and her son Paul. I wanna also pray for Mark and I wanna pray for those who are going through with mental illness. I want to pray for the lady who’s been married 27 years, has five kids and the husband has gone. I wanna pray that God would touch his mind and give him the power to come back and do what is right and what is good and what is wonderful to a wife that gave him the 5 kids and that God gave to him, the good things that God has given to him. I want to pray for Jen also and I want to pray for Jasmine from Burbank and all the challenges that she’s going through. And I want to pray for all the people of God and those that who’s going through with family members who’s going through with these challenges that we’re going through with the COVID. We just want to ask You to have Your way and I want to pray for Collen Powell who died and we miss him dearly and thank You for the __ he made in his life and we give You the glory Lord. We just ask You to have Your way. Your mighty name, heal and deliver and provide. In Jesus name

Good morning, this is for Tom and Susan from Phoenix, Arizona. From the October 28th broadcast requesting prayer for restoration of his marriage. My heart hurt when I heard the pain in your voice Tom and I do pray that God heals your marriage, restores that marriage. Just stay faithful in His word, continue to pray and hope and pray that He heals you and I will continue to pray for you. A Scripture to the member is, that I pray that the God of hope fills you with all joy and peace as you trust in Him so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit Romans 15:13 and then just remember He does heal the broken hearted. It’s the scripture from Psalm that I leaned on many times. Again, I’m continuing to pray for you. This is Tracy from Tennessee.

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

Today is the 31^st day of October welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I am Brian it’s great to be here with you today. Kind of…well…kind of a transition day. This is the last day of the 10^th month of the year. First day of a brand-new week. And this week will lead us into the 11^th month of the year. So, we are obviously nearer to the conclusion of our journey than we are to the beginning of our journey. And what a journey it has been. And what a journey it will continue to be, as we step-by-step day by day take the steps forward necessary to bring us to the conclusion of the year and the conclusion of the Bible. So, over the last few days we’ve been moving into new territory. In the Old Testament the book of Lamentations and in the New Testament the letter to the Hebrews. And, so, that’s what we will buckle up and move into as we conclude this month and move into the next. We got a are brand-new week here. We’ll read from the English Standard Version this week. Lamentations, chapters 4 and 5 today.

Prayer:

Thank You, Father for Your word and for bringing us into this shiny sparkly new week that also ends an entire month. And, so, as we prepare in the next day to transition into the 11^th month of the year and fully into this week we invite Your Holy Spirit to speak to us through the territory that we are moving through now, the mournful dirges of heartfelt anguish coming from the book of Lamentations that give language to what this feels like, and to the letter to the Hebrews, which provides so much of the underpinning of our…of our faith and our doctrine, what we believe. And, so, we need You, Holy Spirit to come and illuminate, enlighten us. Lead us forward into Jesus. Lead us forward into the truth. Be a lamp for our feet and a light to our path that we might see with clarity where You are leading. We ask this in the name of Jesus. Amen.

Community Prayer and Praise:

This is pastor John from Mississippi today is October 26^th. I’m calling in for the lady who is struggling and wants to be closer to the Lord and just wants and ear to hear. I just want you to know I’m one of the ears that is hearing and I’m praying for your peace and for your growth in the Lord and for your awareness of His presence in your life. And I’ll be with this young lady, this…this sister in Christ. And show her your love and your grace hoping that all things are made new. In the name of Jesus I pray. I hear you sister. Amen. This is pastor John signing out.

Hey family how are you? My name is Terry. I go by Shield of Faith. I live out in New Joliet IL. I haven’t really worked in four years but the reason I’ve been out of work is my own fault. It’s my own sins that have caught up with me. I lost my last job and I…I realize, you know, the repercussions of my transgressions and…and I want to pray. I’m looking at a job at a local university and I hope they hire me to do what I do. I just want to…I just want to serve. I just want to have a regular schedule and a regular gig and it’d be fantastic if that were to come through for me. But, you know, praising God that, you know, I haven’t lost my house and I have been able to work here and there and that my family is still with me and behind me. I also want to pray for my daughter who’s…we have, you know, we’ve been going through all sorts of testing wandering what is the problem. She loses vision in the right eye. We’re thinking she may have MS. There are certain vitamin deficiencies that are happening with her and we’re not sure why or how. Could be a thyroid issue. It could be so many things but only the great Healer knows. And I know that God puts us…gives us these trials that we may overcome them in His name and let the glory be to God. I also, you know, as a musician I get to play with my church family and that brings me healing and joy and…and…and fellowship as we all need with. You know, thank you God and I pray for you people. Thank you, Hardin family for all this. And praise be to all those…the saints that have gone before. Amen.

Hi, I’m Sending You from Egypt. I just want to thank you so much for such an app that makes a difference in my life. I look forward every day to hear what God has to tell me through this app. God bless you. I have two prayer requests for two dear friends. I know you’re going to support me in those prayers and God is faithful and He’s going to listen. One is for Sammy my friend. He’s in the hospital he has cancer. He has a lot of pain. He can’t see God’s hand in such pain and he’s so angry at God and he doesn’t want to hear that He’s a loving Father because what kind of father that would put his son in such pain. So, I’m praying…I want you to lift him up in prayers that he can actually see God’s goodness in the middle of this pain or take the cancer away. The second one is a dear friend. Her husband is leaving home and he is in a status of confusion and depression. And there’s another…there’s another woman that is actually following up with him and wanting him to leave home as she also left her children. So, it’s destruction like __ to both families, her family and his family. So, I want to pray that he changes it bind as his wife is going to sit today and talk with him. Thank you so much.

Hello brothers and sisters in Christ this is your brother Chad from Jomo. I’m calling because I was inspired by a brother that’s incarcerated. I believe your name was Terry Clansbery or Terry Clansberg. I know it was Terry. I heard that part really clear. Brother I’m thinking about you. I’ve been there and I know that you’re in a…in a place that usually is…is just drenched in darkness. So, I am just so blessed that you were able to tap into the Daily Audio Bible and the community while you’re in there. I can’t think of a better community for you to be tapped into while you’re…you’re paying your penance where you’re at. I pray that you get out soon. Brother while you’re in there I’m going to pray that you are a salt and light in the darkness of others, and you could be a passage for others to find Christ. So, Father in Jesus’ name I just wanna bless my brother Terry. I want to pray for him. I want to thank You Father that You have touched his heart and renewed his life in the…in Jesus Christ through salvation through Jesus Christ. And I just want to ask Lord that You please bless him right where he’s at and enrich him with Your word, enrich him with Your spirit, and help him Father to be a bright shining light in the darkness of where he’s at and in the darkness of other’s lives, that they may also find the path to Jesus Christ. Let him be that beacon Father for others to find salvation in Jesus’ name. And bless him Father and keep him safe from all forms of evil. I pray this in Jesus’ name. Father I also want to pray from all my other family members in the DAB land, that You keep them strong, help them to stand in this time of great challenge and tribulation, help them to stand on the word and stay true to Christ in Jesus’ name. Family I love you. This is brother Chad from Jomo. You guys have a blessed day. Have a blessed holiday's…holidays. We’re in the season. Enjoy. God bless you. I love you all so much. See you soon. Well…talk to you soon. Bye.

Good morning, everybody this is God’s Smile here. You know, this last week or two I’ve just been aware of the provisions God gives us that can be so easily overlooked sometimes when we’re in trials or, you know, going through stuff. I’m just aware of his peace. We have a lovely quiet home and Peter comes home and, you know, his wife’s waiting for him, little old me. And I’m waiting for him. And we enjoy each other’s company. And we get tea together when we can. And just sitting together listening to DAB, Peter doing his jigsaw, me doing my coloring. We’re like 2 little bookends. We’re slipping into old age very nicely. And…and God is so good, isn’t He? He’s so so good. Despite my tears, despite the pain, this peace that He gives us that we live in, just…I just cannot put it into words. The…it’s the atmosphere isn’t it? You know, you are aware of it, the atmosphere that surrounds us, His grace. I’m aware that He is close and ministering angels are close. [singing starts] Exalt the Lord our God and worship at His foot stool. Worship at His footstool. Holy is He [singing stops]. Kiss, kiss everybody.

Hi Daily Audio Bible family this is Ivan from Chicago, and I am super blessed and excited today. One, being it my birthday. And I’m just so grateful to God for another birthday and I’m grateful to God for the Daily Audio Bible family that I’ve been able to be a part of for many years now. I believe I started during a tumultuous time in my life going through an unexpected divorce and just at a low point. And God allowed me to connect with the Daily Audio Bible to encourage me. And that’s been many years ago. And I’m thankful for today, October 27^th that God has blessed me with faith, God has blessed me with hope, God has graced me through times of uncertainty. And I’m just so grateful to God and I just wanted to call in today to just bless and encourage each and every person as they go through. And I’ll leave you with Ephesians 3: 20. And now to him who’s able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine according to his power that worketh within us. I’m so grateful that God has done immeasurably more than I could ever imagine in these years of my life. And I’m looking for so much more to more. I’m believing God for salvation and deliverance for…for family members such as my brother who’s, you know, struggling with some addictions and other things and just encouraged in the Lord…

Lamentations 3:1-66, Hebrews 1:1-14, Psalm 102:1-28, Proverbs 26:21-22

Today is the 30th day of October, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian. It is wonderful to be here with you today on the eve of the last day of the 10th month of the year. So, as we begin a new week tomorrow, we’ll be ending a month and yesterday we moved into new territory in old and new Testaments. The book of Lamentations in the Old Testament we talked about that yesterday and the letter to Philemon which we read in its entirety yesterday. Which brings us to new territory in the new Testaments. The book of Hebrews and will talk about that when we get there. We’re reading from the New International Version this week. Lamentations chapter 3.

Introduction to the Book of Hebrews:

Okay, that brings us to new territory, another letter. It’s a pretty lengthy letter. It is known in the Scriptures as Hebrews. And I’m gonna say something right now because it needs to stick for us to really appreciate what the letter to the Hebrews brings to the table for us in our understanding and even our understanding of context centered around the Christian faith. Hebrews was written to Hebrews. Okay, Hebrews was written to Jewish people. The early believers in Jesus who were Jews and not Gentiles. And Romans does a good job of this, but Hebrews probably of all of the New Testament writings really contextualizes the Christian faith within Judaism because the here’s the deal week, we have the Christian faith and most of us are Gentile people and so we weren’t immersed in Mosaic law or Hebrew culture, ever, and the Gentiles, at that time, like the Jewish people stayed away from everybody else. They were separatists, they were set apart and holy, like that’s how they lived. They had their kind of own internal way of doing well, life. Then Jesus came into that culture, into that way of understanding and began to teach as a rabbi teacher of these customs and traditions and laws. He reinterpreted plenty of things but it was with in that context that he did his ministry. And so, the Christian faith arose out of Judaism. So, sometimes some of the intricacies that are involved there can just kinda go over a Gentiles head 2000 years in the future. But if we can remember the Hebrews was written to Hebrews and keep that in front of us, then we can understand that a lot of things are being unpacked that help us see that and give us that context. So, we don’t really know who wrote Hebrews. That’s not a new thing, that’s very, very old thing. There’s been seasons and traditions where Paul is credited as the author of the letter to the Hebrews. Many people believe that until this day, but most, most scholars don’t. Most scholars would believe that is super unlikely. But whoever did write Hebrews was a very good, well thought out, communicator and was clearly educated and was clearly educated and understood the Jewish, what was a Jewish person, understood and was immersed in the culture and could speak with authority about it. So, there are other candidates, lots of other candidates who have bubbled to the top like Barnabas. Or maybe Apollos, and there are other people that believe may be Hebrews was written by a woman and that that has been obscured over time. I don’t know, nobody, like we can argue the persuasive ideas but nobody can speak with absolute authority. There are some things that that help kind of place it. Like Timothy, who was a protégé, like a son in the faith, we read the pastoral letters to Timothy from Paul. Timothy’s mentioned in the letter to the Hebrews. So, this is probably somewhat contemporary with Paul’s writings, it could be that Hebrews was written a little bit later after Paul had died because Timothy was younger and so he would have lived longer after Paul of course Paul was executed. It’s also clear that things were starting to heat up against the Christians. They were being marginalized. They were being kind of isolated and persecution had begun. Maybe not like mass killing of Christians, but definitely the pushing to the outer boundaries of society. At this time, it wasn’t a popular or good thing to be a Christian in the Roman Empire, so they we’re being ridiculed and just thought of as weird, like weird people pushed to the margins. We have this kind of stuff that happens in all societies and has been part of the human story and so it’s still with us today. It’s not unusual in many circles for Christians to be portrayed as weird, right, backward, irrelevant. So, this is going on and what was happening as people were trying to kind of disappear. They just kinda backing…backing away, trying to disappear into the woodwork, in either keeping their faith very under wraps or just going back to the traditions of Judaism, just living as a Jew, which had its challenges already. That behavior, like the pressure coming and what it’s causing, which is people to kind of fade, really is the meat of what’s going on here in the letter to the Hebrews. Hebrew’s kind of steps forward and says don’t go back to what you were. Like, you’ve come so far. Don't…don’t go back, move forward. Hold fast, right don’t waiver, don’t hide, don’t disappear, don’t lose the faith. And it uses the Hebrew or the Jewish backdrop as a way to explain why not to lose the faith, like what’s actually going on here unpacked from the traditions of Judaism. So, with that, let’s dive in and settle in for the letter to the Hebrews, today chapter 1.

Prayer:

Father, we thank You for Your word. We thank You for bringing us right to the doorstep of another month. We thank You for all that we have learned in this month. We are so deeply grateful. And as we move into this letter to the Hebrews, as it brings home so many of the different concepts and things that we have read from the Scriptures, as it brings them into clear focus, we ask Holy Spirit that You give us clarity, that we may understand what You are saying to us, that we may understand where You are leading us and that we may in turn honor You with our lives as we live as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to You, which is not possible in our own strength but is possible because of Your mercy and grace and leadership. So, we humble ourselves and submit to Your leadership. Lead us, we pray, in the name of Jesus we ask. Amen.

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Prayers and Encouragements:

Good morning DAB family. Finally, I figured I’d call in and oh, my name is James, just James. I’ve been listening since December 2020. Which was the time when the COVID was sweeping through the prison and it was quite a still moment in the prison. I’ve been locked up since I was 21, I just got out after 30 years. And, man DAB and listening to the family and everything is such a blessing. And … hearing the way that Brian reads the word of God and the prayers and just being able to be connected to the family of Christ throughout the whole world is a tremendous blessing, especially when you’re in there and you don’t have any family, so many people in there. And I pray for Blind Tony and Kingdom Seeker Daniel and it just, not just the pillars in the DAB family but also everyone that calls in and all the prayers and just each and everyone. And I’ll call back more when I can but I just wanted to let everyone know that it’s so wonderful to be a part of the family. Alright, God Bless.

Good morning, everybody its Annette Alison from Oklahoma City. Hello, my friends. I want to thank all you people out there in Daily Audio Bible land. I had the dreaded COVID. I did survive obviously so I’m calling you now. My lungs hurt and it’s kind of hard to breath still and I have some ikky in my just sinus stuff I can’t get rid of it and nothing seems to work. I’ve done the sprays the medicines, everything, you name it. Man, I just thank you all for keeping me in your prayers and thoughts. And many of you called and text and messaged and I can’t thank you all enough. I’m praying for all those out there who are still are getting down in it. So, anyway, hey, I love you all, have a wonderful, wonderful day. Take care, bye bye.

Hi, Daily Audio Bible friends this is Kimberly. I’m calling in to request prayer. It’s been a long two months and I don’t know if anybody heard my prayer request. I believe it probably played on the weekend but I was needing to take care of my parents who contracted COVID and I was able to get over to their house and see the state of how they were doing. And they told me that they were doing better than I found them to be. Anyway, we had to take them, my brother and I needed to take them to the hospital because their O2 stats were not good. And I was able to spend the last four days with my mom in the hospital helping her pass into Jesus’ arms. Two weeks later my father also passed. They were very difficult times but very precious and very traumatic and God was so near. But I’m broken. And I cherish your prayers. I love them so much and I miss them so much. And, while I’m comforted that they are with Jesus right now it doesn’t fill the gap in my heart and the gap between now and when I get to see them again. Seems very long. And I just ask for protection over my thought life. That I can continue to endure it. And lean on Jesus and praise His name. I love you guys. Thank you so much for praying.

Hello family it’s Sharon from Salem, Oregon. I’m calling to share what God did in our church this weekend as an encouragement and also as a request for prayer. We had a guest speaker over the weekend from Amsterdam who shared about his ministry and toward the end of his message, he just honestly, transparently led us in this prayer of repentance and really called us to even come down to the front of the church and get on our knees before God and many of us did that. And it was powerful to see God’s spirit moving in our church which is a very traditional church that’s been around in our city for a long, long time. But God is moving, He’s awakening in us something that’s been slumbering for a long time. He’s awakening in us the heart of the good shepherd who leaves the 99 to seek the one who’s lost. And I just confess that my heart has been cold, my heart has been apathetic and God is awakening that compassion, that hunger for the lost to know the shepherd. So, I just want to praise God because I’ve been praying for many years for revival in my city and I know many others have too and God is, He’s stirring us up, He is preparing us. So, come Lord Jesus, help us to be your hands and feet and light and I pray that amongst all of our churches Lord, awaken us, help us to be ready. In Jesus name. Amen.

Hello, it’s Nobody Gets Left Behind from Colorado. Just checking in with the Global Community, here, just love you guys. I’m just wanting to call in for the lady that didn’t leave a name or an area that she’s from. I just want you to know that you’re not alone and I heard you, I heard your voice, I heard your pain and mentally, emotionally, spiritually. I bind the struggle sister. I bind the spirit of depression in the name Jesus. I’m very proud of you for calling, this is the place to do that, is to ask for prayers. Because you’re gonna be lifted up so many prayers. And I just want you to know that I love you and many, many of us love you and you’re not alone and we hear you. I also just wanted to give a shout out to Blind Tony, just very thankful for your last poem. I did post that on our Colorado DAB Bible study group. We just, we love you guys, you have a big team out here in Colorado. And shout out to all of you that are listening. We love this platform. We love you, Brian, we love you, Jill. We don’t know what we would do without you guys, without this family, without this community. And that’s my log that I’m throwing in. I just wish you all beautiful week, week 43, let’s get it. I love you guys.

Hello, this is Dave from Texas. I want to say a quick prayer this is what August; no October 26 and I’m hearing the message from the anonymous brother that called and talking about how he was backsliding a little bit and struggling with certain sins and he just wanted his voice to be heard and I can definitely relate with that. And I just wanted to tell him that it does get better with time, and the great thing about our relationship with Christ is that He doesn’t have an expectation on, you know, what you can do for Him. It’s a good sign that you are putting your efforts into watering that plant that is your relationship with Christ and it’ll happen, it just takes time. And I’m probably, you’re not ashamed, it’s a good thing because a lot of people get caught up in that trap that is shame and seclude themselves, which is the exact opposite of what you want to do. So, I wanted to let him know that his voice was heard and you know, I wanted to give just a mini praise report and encouragement because I went to school and I was trying to find a good climate to grow my faith, you know, the Daily Audio Bible is great and I look this as my primary church. You know, I pray for you guys every day. But I was able to find brothers, you know, people on campus that I can, you know, relate to and to talk to and share my stories with and what not which is important. So, I pray for all the college students who may not be able go to Sunday service like they used to, you know, back home before COVID. And that they can find, you know, good relationships and a good climate to grow in their faith. Which is very, very important. Thank you, guys, love you guys, praying for all of you guys, Brian, the family and yup, thank you.