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One Year Bible Podcast: Join Hunter and Heather Barnes on the Daily Radio Bible, a daily Bible‑in‑a‑year podcast with 20‑minute Scripture readings, Christ‑centered devotion, and guided prayer.This daily Bible reading and devotional invites you to live as a citizen of Jesus’ kingdom, reconciled, renewed, and deeply loved.
TODAY'S EPISODE:
Welcome to the Daily Radio Bible, where we journey together through the scriptures each day, letting God’s word warm our hearts and direct our lives. In today’s episode for June 7th, we continue our reading with Ecclesiastes chapters 4 to 6, Psalm 18, and Ephesians chapter 3. We’ll reflect on the frustrations and meaninglessness found in the pursuits of life without God, discover the steady refuge and strength offered in the Psalms, and meditate on the immeasurable love of Christ that grounds and empowers us. Join Hunter, your Bible reading coach, as he guides us through these passages, offers prayers for our day, and reminds each one of us that we are deeply and unconditionally loved.
TODAY'S DEVOTION:
Roots—if you want to grow, you have to have roots. Paul prays that you and I will sink our roots deep down into God's love. His love is where life and growth begin, and where it all continues from. His love is where we grow strong.
Paul writes in Ephesians 3, "I pray that from his glorious, unlimited resources, he will empower you with inner strength through his Spirit. Then Christ will make his home in your hearts. As you trust him, your roots will grow down into God's love and keep you strong." In other words, everything—our strength, our life, our growth—depends on these roots. Not roots in the soil of our own achievement or effort, but roots that are sunk deep into the unlimited love of Christ.
But Paul doesn’t stop there. He also says that he wants us to go on a journey into this love, to discover just how long, how wide, how high, and how deep his love really is. This love knows no bounds, it can’t be fully measured, and yet we are invited to be forever drawn into its embrace.
How are your roots? If you want to grow and have life and strength, you have to sink your roots into his love. Maybe today it’s as simple as hearing the words, you are loved. Maybe there’s something in your life—a wound, some shame, a regret—that whispers to you that those words aren’t for you. But whatever mutes those words in your heart, I encourage you: Look into the face of Jesus and receive his love freely, without interference. Today you are loved. There is nothing that can separate you from the love of Christ; you have been drawn into his embrace. In him, you can be strong.
Let the beauty of the gospel draw you further up and farther in, and find your strength in Him. That’s the prayer that I have for my own soul. That’s the prayer that I have for my family, for my wife, my daughters, my son. And that’s the prayer that I have for you. May it be so.
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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