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Daily Transcripts
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08/28/2015
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Job 28:1-30:31 ~ 2 Corinthians 2:12-17 ~ Psalm 42:1-11 ~ Proverbs 22:7
Today is August 28th. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I'm Brian. It's, as always, a pleasure to spend these moments that we have together centered around the scriptures and continuing to take steps forward as we move our way through the scriptures this year. We’ll take another big step forward in the book of Job from our Old Testament reading today and, of course, this week we’re reading from the New Living Translation.
Prayer
Father, as we enter into discouragement and as we enter into sadness and even reminiscing and considering former times, as Job and King David both were doing, there is no point in pretending that these things don’t touch our lives from time to time. Often, Father, what we find ourselves doing is asking why, questioning you, looking to you for help but also looking at you accusingly, as if you let this happen or as if this is something you are doing to us. It brings us into this vortex of confusion that spins us away from you when what we need is you. We need you in those times. That we are never separated, that we’re not an on-again-off-again person in the relationship that we share with you, always mistrusting and misjudging and assuming things about you that aren’t true. So as we deal with these subjects in the scriptures, you have put them there for a reason. You’ve allowed us to come into those places in the Bible. Obviously you are aware that we experience these things from time to time. Some of us are experiencing them now and so we confess. We experience these things, yes, but we confess that you are the source of life and so rather than standing with our arms folded with an accusing look on our face as a posture of heart toward you, we run to you like a child with arms outstretched. You are our only hope in any of life, whether up or down, whether mountaintop or valley. Every experience that we ever have we want to experience with you. We don’t want you to be the reference point of our lives. We want you to be our lives, so we invite again your Holy Spirit within us so that it is no longer we who live, as the apostle Paul said, but Christ who lives within us, inseparable. Without you there is no life and that is the point, so whatever temporary thing we may be going through, whatever momentary discouragement or temporary hardship, we invite you to be our life and our light. We invite you to lead us into all truth as you have promised. We invite you into everything because we love you. We can’t imagine a moment without you. So come Holy Spirit, we pray, in the name of Jesus. Amen.
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Community Prayer Requests and Praise Reports
Hi. This is Bonnie from Virginia. Today is Tuesday, August 25th. I wanted to thank you, Brian, for reading the message and sharing from Job today. And I really remembered about my own life. I learned how we should be relying on God. I had the same problem after coming to U.S. I regretted a lot remembering my life in Nepal, and after coming here, not being able to get the job and not having family support, didn’t know where to go to ask for help, where I had everything back in my country and I had no one to share my burden or problems besides God. My kids were young and I remember one time my 12-year-old son a few years ago reminded me about Job's life. He said, “Mama, Job had a life, a very wonderful life, luxurious life he was living and he lost everything, but he never turned away from God and God blessed him double of what he had so maybe we will have the same life. Don’t regret, Mom. Don’t be sad.” I so felt ashamed to hear those things from my 12-year-old child so I just thank you so much as I learned Job was mocked by his friend, but he never stopped loving God and honoring him. And I learned that I should be also doing the same thing. I'm trying my best. If I had not loved God…
This is Seth from Bangor, ME. I was just listening today and I heard David from Kansas talking about how he has been dealing with some sickness and he's starting to develop some doubt and it is affecting him and his family and my heart was just moved because even as we listened to the Bible being read, you know, Job is being mentioned, and David, I just want to encourage you and I'm keeping you in my heart in prayer. I just want to encourage you. It is all about perspective. Just really guard your heart and perspective because the gospel is all about following him and receiving his love and his love will guard you. His love will keep you from that place of just being disillusioned and ‘why me, O God?’ Brings back the first thing that Jesus says, ‘If any man wants to come follow me, he must first deny himself, pick up his cross and follow me.’ So what the enemy wants to do is he just wants to play games with us, you know, physical frame, to our mind, and make it all about us when it is not all about us. It is all about love and God's love will never leave you nor forsake you. God is able to heal you. I believe that, but it is much deeper than that. Life is not about us. It is about God and serving others. I just feel like if you keep that clear perspective, just like Job didn’t allow another wisdom to come in, but he only allowed the wisdom from above to be his perspective, I think that is going to keep you. So Iet me just pray for you. Father, we lift up David right now in Jesus’ name and we just declare you Lord over…
Hi Daily Audio Bible. This is Christy again from Ohio. I know my original call hasn’t been played yet, but I just felt the need to call again. I originally called in to ask for prayer because I graduated college a year ago and I just kind of don’t really know what to do with my life. I need direction. But I was so nervous the first time I called I forgot to mention also I need prayer to overcome a lot of fear and anxiety that I’ve had with trying to apply for jobs or being bold in trying things. Like I went to school for writing and there are different writing projects that I want to try to work at, but I'm always too afraid to attempt it, thinking what if my writing is not good and there are so many others that are out there. And also I’ve just had a lot of like severe depression, suicidal thoughts, and I just need prayer for that, too, that I can overcome that gloom. And also my dad is kind of not really understanding on that. He has his own idea of what my life should be like and if I don’t follow him he gets upset, but yet when I try to obey him out of fear, then I feel conviction from God that I'm not following God. It is kind of like that verse that says you can’t serve two masters. But anyways, I'm going to try to talk to my dad tonight about my views, where I'm coming from and where God fits into all this and I just would like some prayers that that will go well and in the coming weeks my dad's heart can be softened and that I can continue on this process of figuring out life. Okay, thanks. Bye.
[Singing] Shema Yisroel, Adonai Elohenu, Adonai Echad. Barukh shem kevod malkhuto le’olam va’ed. Hello family, this is Rebecca from Nebraska. I love you all. Please keep calling. I'm lifting you up in prayer now. Father, I come before you in the name of Jesus and I want to pray just a hedge of protection, a wall of fire, the blood of Jesus over all of us here in the Daily Audio Bible family. Lord, I want to pray especially for people who have family members that do not yet believe or not yet have their faith in you, Lord. And I ask, Father, that you would remove the veil from their eyes, that your spirit would visit them, that you would bring deep, sincere repentance to their lives, that you would bring healing and let yourself be known and seen by them, that a sincere praise would rise up and songs of deliverance from their life. I pray for all of us, that you help us just to be worthy disciples to carry your name and to do the works that you’ve called us to do in advance as a power of the Holy Spirit. Help us, Lord, to shine bright and to be that salt with great courage and be brave. I also, Lord, pray for the peace of Jerusalem. I pray for the government and the rulers of the United States.
Good morning DAB family. This is Strong in His Grace Richard from Mississippi. I felt impressed to pray for the lonely and the isolated. Father in Heaven, I come before you right now, Father God, that you would draw those people to this site, to this prayer line. Father, I ask you to help them to connect through this media, Father God, through this social media, Father God, and be with them, and I ask your Holy Spirit to minister to them through these prayers. I pray in Jesus’ name, amen.
Hi there. I'm calling from Okinawa, Japan. My name is Megan. Today is the 26th in Okinawa but the 25th, I suppose, for everyone in the United States. Today I listened to the message about Job and how easily it is for us to blame God when it's not God's fault when we don’t understand why things are going on. About a month ago I had a miscarriage and I lost my child at about 13 weeks. You can probably hear my other child screaming in the background [laughs], but it was really, really hard for me. I'm taking it really, really hard and I feel like I’ve fallen away from God. Sometimes it is really hard for me not to blame God for stripping me of that. I question myself as a mother and I question my faith just because I feel so lost sometimes and abandoned. Today's message really helped me to kind of refocus on how things aren’t always that bad, they could always get worse and it could possibly just be a testing time. Right now I guess I'm asking for prayer that God touches me and makes himself known to me again, because right now I'm still feeling very alone and trying to heal from something that nobody understands why it is taking so long for me to heal from. I just need that connection again with God. I guess I just don’t want to feel absent from him anymore. I don’t want to place any blame on him anymore.
Well hello from beautiful Cincinnati, OH. This is Daniel Johnson Jr. and I'm calling, today is Wednesday, August 26, 2015. Just a few things that are on my heart. First of all, I'm just really grateful for everybody calling in here and praying for my family here in the past. There are so many needs that are on here. Sometimes it feels overwhelming and I just need you to know that God does hear our prayers and wants the very best for us. It's just amazing as we’re going through Job right now. That is one thing that is on my heart. The other thing that is on my heart, my daughter Keisha, I’ve brought her before you in the past, she has decided she is not real sure if she really wants to continue following Jesus right now. She has not been spending time with God daily. She does attend church services and other activities within the youth ministry of our church, but she is not really giving her own heart to God, so she is in this period right now. The other thing, too, is she is now 18 years old and is a senior in high school. School just started back so again keep her in your prayers, keep all of the students that are going back to school whether they are in grade school or university, college, keep them in your prayers. And then also today is my dad's birthday, so of course my name is Daniel Johnson Jr. so that means his name is Daniel Johnson also, Daniel Johnson Sr., so encouraging him today. And then also want to lift up my stepfather Paul W. in Texas. He's still going through some stuff. So God bless you guys. Love you. Pray much. Daniel Johnson Jr. God bless and again, make it a great day.
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