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TODAY'S EPISODE:

Welcome to the Daily Radio Bible! In today’s episode, join your Bible reading coach, Speaker A, as we journey through pivotal moments in Scripture. We’ll witness Saul’s courageous rescue of Jabesh Gilead and Samuel’s heartfelt charge to Israel from 1 Samuel 11-12, explore the sweeping genealogies in 1 Chronicles 1, and listen to Paul’s passionate words in 2 Corinthians 11—where he shares about strength found in weakness and God’s presence in times of trial. Together, we’ll reflect on these passages, find encouragement in prayer, and discover what it means to see God’s faithfulness no matter our circumstances. Whether you’re new or have been journeying with us from the start, it’s a joy to read, pray, and grow alongside you on this 102nd day through the Bible.

TODAY'S DEVOTION:

It's an upside down world. Paul is being lowered in a basket through a hole in the wall outside of the city, and as he's being lowered, God is lifting him up. We are being invited into an upside down world—a world where those who are lowered down are, in God’s mysterious way, being lifted up, while those who lift themselves up are being lowered from within. Paul, in his letter, briefly recounts his own elevated days, that he was, as he says, like those super apostles. But Paul wants us to see that this outward elevation, this status, did nothing for his soul. In fact, while outwardly ascending, he was descending on the inside.

Paul tells us his defining moments with God weren’t in highlights of status or achievement, but rather in the deep descents—when he was accused, scorned, whipped, stoned, shipwrecked, left hungry and alone. It was there, in the moments of his greatest lowering, like when he was being let down in a basket outside the city, that God’s presence was most real and God’s strength most evident. The lowering did not defeat him; instead, it was the place where he experienced God’s intimate love.

God does his deepest work in our lowering. The world may tell us differently, and even super apostles may try to convince us the way up is always up—but we are reminded: See God in the lowering. Experience the fellowship of his suffering. There—in struggle, in humility, in weakness—he is faithful to bring about his good purposes in all our circumstances.

And that is the prayer for my own soul today: that I will participate with God in faith, even in the lowering. That’s the prayer I have for my family, for my wife and my daughters and my son. And that’s the prayer 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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