07/29/2010 DAB By Daily Audio Bible Transcripts

2 Chronicles 24:1-25:28 ~ Romans 12:1-21 ~ Psalm 22:19-31 ~ Proverbs 20:8-10

Prayer:  We come before you, laying ourselves down as living sacrifices.  As the apostle Paul admonished us to do in the book of Romans today, laying aside our preferences, setting aside our agendas, and giving ourselves to you, holy and pleasing, as an act of worship, our very lives given to your service as an act of worship to you in response to what you have done for us.  So we will not conform to the patterns of the world.  Instead, we will be transformed by the renewing of our minds that only your Holy Spirit can do in us.  We are your body.  We are here to do your work.  We are the church.  You didn’t need to do it this way.  You could do it any way you want and yet you chose to finish the work through us, your people, and we must ask you to forgive us because we have been so distracted trying to one up each other, trying to be right.  We set aside our rights and give ourselves as living sacrifices to you.  Use us.  Come, Holy Spirit.  Transform us by the renewing of our minds so that we can walk around this earth doing your bidding.  The rest is not our responsibility. Our responsibility is to obey you.  The rest is your job.  Come, Holy Spirit, and lead us.  We’re listening.  We place ourselves on the altar as the living sacrifices that we are.  Lead us into all truth, we pray, in the name of Jesus.  Amen.

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Prayer Requests:

Hi.  My name is Joe.  I’m from Colorado Springs, CO.  I’m calling with a prayer request.  Tomorrow morning…today is July 12…tomorrow morning my wife and I are going to the courthouse to file divorce papers.  It started pretty much in February.  She announced to me that she has been having an affair and so then the next week we got separated.  She moved into her own place and I could just really use some prayers for guidance, peace of mind, and, furthermore, just to pray that my wife can really sort through what she wants out of this.  During all of this, she kind of questioned whether she even wanted to be married period, like to anyone, and then if she ever wanted kids, which I really want kids in my future, so it has just put a lot of burden on my heart and I’ve had a lot of pain from this.  We still see each other.  We still go to church together.  Some of our friends are aware of our situation, but I could just really use some prayers.  Like I said, tomorrow morning, first thing, we are going to the courthouse to file and then nothing is really final, I guess, for 90 days.  So I just ask and pray that God will use those 90 days to continue to work in our lives and help us figure out where each of us is going so that we can further the work of God and that both of us are happy.  I think also just in today’s society we could really use prayers for all the marriages out there.  I have two coworkers I work with and both are going through very similar circumstances of their wives either having affairs or just wanting to leave and get out of their marriage.  So I think if we could all just pray for marriages, that Satan stays out of them, and that we can just be married and come closer to God.  I just really ask for prayers.  My soul is hurting.  I’ve come very close to God through all this.  In fact, this is how I found Daily Audio Bible.  It was during this I picked up a second job to help with my bills since my wife had moved out, so I was listening to podcasts and went to search for something a little different and was able to find this podcast, Daily Audio Bible.  It has just really helped me a lot just to get God’s word into my life.  There have been many times where I have asked for God’s guidance and then Brian comes on and reads something and speaks to that and it was kind of just what I needed to hear.  It really gave me hope and inspiration and just a little guidance.  But I could always pray and ask for more.  So, again, my name is Joe out of Colorado Springs, just asking you to pray to be with me and my wife, help her find out what she really wants in life, whether that is kids and marriage with me or just where that all goes and then also pray for all the marriages out there in the US and throughout the world because I think Satan gets in there and tries to pry us apart and puts a lot of turmoil between spouses.  So thank you very much for your prayers.  I thank you Daily Audio Bible.