One Year Bible Podcast: Join Hunter and Heather Barnes on 'The Daily Radio Bible' for a daily 20-minute spiritual journey. Engage with scripture readings, heartfelt devotionals, and collective prayers that draw you into the heart of God's love. Embark...
One Year Bible Podcast: Join Hunter and Heather Barnes on 'The Daily Radio Bible' for a daily 20-minute spiritual journey. Engage with scripture readings, heartfelt devotionals, and collective prayers that draw you into the heart of God's love. Embark on this year-long voyage through the Bible, and let each day's passage uplift and inspire you.
TODAY'S EPISODE:
Welcome to the Daily Radio Bible Podcast, and a blessed day to you all on this January 26th! Today we continue our journey through the scriptures with your host, Heather, who joins us every Sunday to delve deeper into God’s Word. We gather not because the scriptures themselves are life, but because they bear witness to Jesus, the true source of our life. Together, we ask the Holy Spirit to illuminate these readings, warming our hearts around the fire of God's love. Our readings today cover Exodus chapters 14 through 16 and conclude with Acts chapter 2.
Join Heather as she recounts the dramatic crossing of the Red Sea, the provision of manna and quail from heaven, and the powerful moment when the Holy Spirit descends upon believers at Pentecost. Reflect on the obstacles that stand in our way, just as the Israelites faced the Red Sea and bitter waters, and discover the profound lesson that the disposition of our hearts is what truly needs healing. Heather reminds us of God’s unfailing promise and the life-giving power of Christ’s sacrifice on the cross.
Stay with us as we draw closer to Christ and apply the teachings of these scriptures to our daily lives. As always, Hunter will be back with you tomorrow morning. Don't forget to like, share, and subscribe to our podcast, and consider signing up for our monthly newsletter. Now, let the joy of the Lord be your strength, and remember this: you are loved.
TODAY'S DEVOTION:
What's standing in your way? Is it a big Red Sea or perhaps a small pond of bitter water? When that obstacle seems to be removed, there's dancing, worship, and song. But when it shows up again, the dancing disappears. The Israelites had sung and danced. They had seen God's hand deliver them by taking them across the Red Sea and saving them from Pharaoh's army. But now, only three days later, it's not the Red Sea standing in their way. It's a desert and a small pool of water that is full of bitterness and death.
They called it Mara because the waters were bitter. Now instead of thinking about the strong hand of God, they're thinking about complaining. Their thoughts turned to what they didn't have and what was standing in their way. They had no water, no life. Their thoughts turned from worship to complaint, not to prayer, but to complaint. They didn't look to God for help. They looked for someone to blame. That's so much like our life and the human heart. Our singing turns to blaming. The truth is God has nothing to apologize for. He was going to make good on his promise to them. He would bring them out of Egypt and into the Land of Promise.
The thing that really stood in their way was not the Red Sea or a bitter pool of water. It was the disposition of their hearts. In Exodus, we see Moses standing there looking at the waters that are in his way. God shows him a piece of wood, a tree as it were, a healing tree. God tells him to throw this healing tree into the waters of death so that death's poison could be absorbed into this tree. In turn, the healing life of that tree would be released into the waters. The picture couldn't be clearer. God, in his great love, has seen the disposition of our fickle and fallen hearts, so easily dismayed and quick to complain and blame rather than trust and worship.
Our god has seen the problem that stands in our way. It's not the Red Sea or the Pool Of Mara. It's the disposition of our heart. God's answer for our heart is a healing tree and his son who would die on that tree. On that tree, the son took the poison out of the water and released his life into you and me and into this world so that we might all have life. Look to the healing tree of Christ and all that he has accomplished for you on the cross. Recognize once again that on that tree, he absorbed the poison and released his life. His power enables you to live the with God life here and now, and it is his life that will take you into the land of Canaan. I'm not talking about life in heaven. I'm talking about life today.
Are there struggles you're facing today? Maybe it's an impending divorce, a devastating diagnosis, or a rebellious child. There is life now in the midst of all of that. Because of what Christ has done on the tree, he is able to teach us another way, 1 of awe, worship, gratitude, wisdom, and courage. It is a way where we are learning to walk with him once again. God has dealt with your heart on the tree. Let him now apply the life of his healing tree to your heart.
TODAY'S PRAYERS:
Lord God Almighty and everlasting father you have brought us in safety to this new day preserve us with your Mighty power that we might not fall into sin or be overcome by adversity. And in all we do, direct us to the fulfilling of your purpose through Jesus Christ Our Lord amen.
Oh God you have made of one blood all the peoples of the earth and sent your blessed son to preach peace to those who are far and those who are near. Grant that people everywhere may seek after you, and find you. Bring the nations into your fold, pour out your Spirit on all flesh, and hasten the coming of your kingdom through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen.
And now Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith. Where there is despair, hope. Where there is darkness, light. And where there is sadness, Joy. Oh Lord grant that I might not seek to be consoled as to console. To be understood as to understand, to be loved as to love. For it is in the giving that we receive, in the pardoning that we are pardoned, it is in the dying that we are born unto eternal life. Amen
And now as our Lord has taught us we are bold to pray...
Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven, give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our tresspasses as we forgive those who trespass against us, and lead us not unto temptation, but deliver us from evil, for thine is the Kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.
Loving God, we give you thanks for restoring us in your image. And nourishing us with spiritual food, now send us forth as forgiven people, healed and renewed, that we may proclaim your love to the world, and continue in the risen life of Christ. Amen.
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