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Daily Transcripts
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06/25/2015
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2 Kings 8:1-9:13 ~ Acts 16:16-40 ~ Psalm 143:1-12 ~ Proverbs 17:26
Today is the 25th of June. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. Greetings from the road, from the wonderful state of Pennsylvania and the Creation Festival and the sea of humanity that these events are. It's great to be here with you today where we can center ourselves, and with the all the hustle, bustle and movement, I'm looking forward to doing just that together with you. Reading from The Voice translation this week, we’ll dive in where we left off, still moving through 2 Kings and very engrossed in the story of Elisha.
Prayer:
We thank you, Father, for your love. We thank you for your Word that instructs us in how profound that love is, how connected to us you desire to be. It is beyond our comprehension why you, the eternal, the almighty, the sovereign would care for us, and yet you have made us in your image and have desired a relationship with us. You have inserted yourself into our human story all along the way as we see every day in your Word your willingness to come into our culture, into our hearts, into our customs, into our lives to be with us. We love you. How can we not? Forgive us for our wandering. Come, Holy Spirit, we pray. Lead us into all truth. Lead us on the narrow path that leads to life. We ask this in the name of Jesus, amen.
Www.DailyAudioBible.com is the website. It is where you find out what’s going on around here, and it is festival season. I’ve been invited to 5 of these festivals to participate in the Shock and Awe Show. So that is what I'm out here to do. Although I won't be at every day of every one of these, I'm sure here at Creation and am looking forward to participating tomorrow. So thank you for your prayers over the travel, over the stamina that is required to live out of a suitcase really and kind of move around a lot. This will be fun because we go together. We’ve been all over the place together. Depending on how many years you’ve been around, we’ve been all over the world together. So that is kind of how this community works. We’re everywhere together, which is kind of like how the body of Christ is supposed to be.
Speaking of everywhere together, we have this lovely tradition, just the Daily Audio Bible, just the Daily Audio Bible community and family. It happens every July 7th and it's called The Daily Audio Bible Long Walk. I’ve been kind of unpacking it the last couple of days. For those of you who are brand new this year, we’ve been doing this since 2007, just setting aside July 7th, at least part of the day to go walk with God, to take a long walk, to create space in our lives that provides for a nice long walk with God, one that allows for conversation to take place, where we can pour out all of our hearts, not just kind of fall asleep on it when we’re going to bed or over meals or just quick petitions of things we need, but actually enough time to have a real conversation, one that is meaningful, that is deep, that is memorable. We’re creating a memory with God, something we’re not going to forget like that long walk we went on where I was able to just really unpack my heart, say everything I needed to say but then surprisingly he spoke back. He had some things he has been trying to tell me for a long time, too. We were able to reorient our relationship, make plans together for the rest of the year. I got a trajectory and finally got the answers that I was looking for. I finally got the sense of shalom for the first time in so long.
We’re all together in this and it became a tradition. That is what The Long Walk is all about.
It is available. We talk about it all the time. We read through the scriptures all the time and say this is available to us, but the irony is we won't partake of it for the most part because we’re staying on the treadmill of life that is just chaos to chaos to chaos until we slow the world down and reorient ourselves to where peace is going to come from, from within. So The Long Walk is just this opportunity to say “okay, I'm taking this day” or “I'm taking these hours. I'm getting off work early. I'm taking these hours and I'm going till dark” or whatever. “I'm going somewhere to do this.”
You’ll be surprised. You might think “okay, I'm driving to this park. It's pretty. Everybody is playing. I'm going to walk this trail, but I don’t know what to say.” Start with “hi.” You’ve just met the one who knows you more than anyone else does. Go for a walk. It's beautiful, really. It's beautiful.
I’ve done long walks all over the place. One year Jill and I, I think we were on our way back to Tennessee so we could have our long walk, and we were stuck and delayed in an airport in Chicago. So I just walked all over the airport. I was so frustrated because it was like ‘this isn’t beautiful. This isn’t what I was looking for,' but it became beautiful. It became beautiful when I just realized the presence of the Lord in it all, in all of life.
I had driven 100 miles one year, not quite 100 miles but 70 miles down to where my father is buried in a little country cemetery where he grew up in a little area that no longer really exists, but the church, even though it is falling apart where he accepted the Lord at 8 years old was there and I just walked all over there and found this profound sense of identity. Like, wow, if the things had not happened here, then my life would have never existed and there would be no Daily Audio Bible.
Just invite God to speak into all those things because he wants to. God wants a relationship with us. That has been the point of Reframe all year. That has been the point of reframing what we think we know about God all year long and leads us to the fact that he desperately, deeply wants to be with us and wants to be with us more than we want to be with him until we taste and see that the Lord is good and what it is like to have a personal relationship with God.
So The Long Walk, yeah, you can experience that however you want to. Go somewhere beautiful and spend some time with God. What makes it community is that we just say hey, wherever you go, whatever you do, take a picture or shoot a little video or whatever and then come back to the Daily Audio Bible Facebook page – www.Facebook.com/DailyAudioBible and post it because as those come in throughout the whole day, all of a sudden not only are we experiencing the beauty of the world God created, but we have these little windows into each other's lives and it's awesome. So get that on your calendar, July 7th, The Daily Audio Bible Long Walk 2015.
If you want to partner with the Daily Audio Bible, then thank you. Thank you for your partnership. If the Daily Audio Bible is life-giving to you, then thank you for giving life back to it so that it can continue as it has for these many years. There is a link on the home page, www.DailyAudioBible.com, or the mailing address, if you prefer, is P.O. Box 1996, Spring Hill, TN 37174.
As always, if you have a prayer request or comment, (877) 942-4253 is the number to dial.
That’s it for today. I’m Brian. I love you. I’ll be waiting for you here tomorrow.
Community Prayer Requests and Praise Reports
Hello my DAB friends. This is Christy from Kentucky and my husband is here and he's going to say hello. Hello DAB friends! And Tim does listen to DAB, so sometimes I have to be very careful about what I'm praying for, if you know what I mean. Anyway, I just wanted to say hey to everybody. Missed you so much. We are trying to move from Orlando, FL to Lexington, KY. Now, we’ve been in Kentucky for a couple of years and my parents are elderly and since we haven’t been back to Florida for a while, we have had to decide that we have to give up our home there. So just please keep us in prayer. I wanted to say hey, a big shout-out to Stacy, new listener, and say thank you so much for just your greeting to me. It blessed me so very much and I just can’t tell you how much I appreciate it. I have so many friends in Orlando that are worship leaders and I just seem to bond with worship leaders, so I'm so excited, Stacy, that you gave me a shout-out. It meant so much to me. God bless you, sweetheart, and I hope that we can connect again. We are sitting on a mountain in Jellico, TN and we just went through a really bad rainstorm and we’re on our way to Lexington, so just keep us in prayer. I'm going to call back and fill you guys in. I have been listening to the prayers for the last 12-1/2 hours, getting caught up, and I’ve written down all your prayer requests and I am praying over all those and I am on the 21st. Yay! I just need to listen to the Community Prayers. Wanted to tell you guys hey, missed you guys, and I’ll tell you why I was so late in the next call, okay? Talk to you soon. Love you guys. Bye.
Hi Daily Audio Bible family. This is James from the UK. Haven’t called in for a little while. Just wanted to really wish you all well. Hope everyone is doing good this morning or this evening or whatever time that you're listening to this. I was really moved by a call, a recent call from Jason, Jason in Los Angeles. You talked, Jason, about the fact that you were struggling with serious feelings of anxiety and depression. I just really want to lift you up in prayer. I know it was the first time you’ve called in and you were listening and you have been listening for a long time. It must have taken a lot of courage, I would imagine, to call if you’ve been waiting that long and you’ve been struggling with those feelings for that long. I'm really, really, really glad that you did call in and that you were able to share that with us. I could sense the pain. I could really sense the pain in your voice. So can I just lead us in prayer, family? I just ask for Jason, Lord, for the fact that he has brought this challenge, this issue, this significant emotional crisis to the family and we just want to lift him up and we want to say, Lord, we know that your hands can reach him. We know, Holy Spirit, you can change the way that his mind is. It has just been corrupted in terms of the way that you feel about him and the way that he feels about his family, potentially, Lord, and that the anxiety he feels and those feelings of maybe leaving his wife and his two beautiful daughters, as he said on the phone, Lord, would you just replace that with a feeling of just strong bedrock, that he is grounded in you, that you love him and that whatever it is that he is going through emotionally, Lord, that you have got the capability, the power to bring him through?
Hi Daily Audio Bible family. This is Bonnie from Virginia. I'm asking you all to pray for my 21-year-old daughter, Helen. She is leaving to go to the Bhojpur District in Nepal to help with relief group. She is going with the Southern Baptist Relief Team and there she will be doing the construction work. This is her first time doing the construction work there, so please do pray for her safety and strength and also through her service that she could reach out to many and be able to save the souls for Christ. And also pray for my 17-year-old son, __________, who has also started doing the construction work from today for his summer job. He goes back to school in fall. They both have started doing construction work. This is their first time, so do pray for them and especially for __________ also as he is not following God's words and please pray for him so he could hear God's voice and return to him. So thank you all for your prayers.
Hi there. This is Liam from Springville in Utah again. Hello Brian. Hello Daily Audio Bible friends and family. Love you all. I wanted to call and thank Kathleen from Illinois, your comment on June 14th about seeking out healing ministry for my brother's dad. Also Ian from England, your prayer was played on June 15th and I'm going to write it down. I really loved what you said. And also Mike from New York, the encouragement you gave me and giving me advice, I really appreciate that. Ralph has decided not to go ahead with the surgery, but he is going to have some treatment. He might have a bit longer, but I do ask for prayers that the doorways are open for me to have full on conversations about Jesus and the reality of accepting him. If he is going to die then he needs to be saved. That is the ultimate prayer. So thank you everybody for that. The other prayer request I have, I may have to call back at a later time with more details, but my family is going through hell at the moment. My wife and children have moved out and this has gone on now for 8 weeks. I’ve been avoiding this call, but I need your prayer. I need your prayers for Liam, Nickie, Molly and Asher. Things went horribly wrong and I probably have to move out so that the family can move back in, but I have no real friends and family close by that can help, so please pray for us in this. Thank you ever so much. I love you all and I’ll call back shortly if I have the courage. Thank you. Bye.
Hey guys. This is Christa from Minnesota. Hey, I'm just reaching out for some prayer. My marriage is really bad and my husband, I think, just looks at me like I'm the enemy and said some really awful stuff to me and now he basically has thrown me away like a piece of garbage, like he just doesn’t care about anything. It just really hurts. It really hurts and it is really hard not to start to feel that way. I'm just praying that God would be on his heart and in his mind and change the way he looks at me as the enemy versus his partner. I would really appreciate your prayers. Okay, thank you. Bye-bye.
Hello, this is Elizabeth, New Zealand, not Australia. I'm calling for Jason who suffers from depression and anxiety. I just wanted him to know that as a child I grew up in a violent home and I was full of fears. Every time I felt that fear about to engulf me, I would say “I will trust in God and I will not be afraid.” It comes from Isaiah 12:2, Psalm 56:11, in fact it is right through scripture. Just hold onto Jesus and say that, “I will trust in God and I will not be afraid.” Thank you. And I'm from New Zealand, not Ozzie. Bye.
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