#here i am trying to connect with his elderly fam and I get this

[daintydoilypon]

Silo: Dainty's practiced Spanish everyday-

His fam: UH NO I'M SURE YOU'RE WAY BETTER AT SPANISH THAN HER

Me:

[hellyeahheroes]

Non-Stop Spider-Man: Good Spider-Man story, but wrong Spider-Man?

Okay, this is weird to cover because I am not at all hating this story. In fact, this is not even a review. It’s more of an observation.

So Peter Parker Spider-Man often gets multiple series at a time because Peter is really the most flexible superhero in comics if not second to Batman. Since the bulk of the Marvel universe is based in New York, and Spider-Man’s power set makes him viable for both street level vigilantism and world saving hero, he can be put in almost every plot. In this case, Amazing Spider-Man is following along a more intimate plot line while Non-Stop Spider-Man is a typical but much needed action story with low level street thugs. This is normal. Secondary books cover different aspects of Spider-Man because Spider-Man has the most in-depth supporting cast in Marvel.

But here begins the crux of my criticism of its that, this doesn’t feel like a Spider-Man story that Peter would handle. First and foremost, Peter’s dialogue is off.

“Your threads slap...”

I had to reread this because I wasn’t sure if I misread this. Now Peter has used AAVE before and it’s not uncommon but writers generally make it a point that it’s in a manner of white guy trying to be hip which is in character. But this is weird because Peter not only used it correctly, he is complimenting the fashion of a bunch of bad guys wearing Machine56 styled gear which mallcore, high end urban fashion.

“Don’t worry, fam...”

And it keeps becoming a thing where Peter is using AAVE. He is a 27-29 year old Jewish white guy who was raised in a Queens suburb by his elderly aunt. Peter was a science nerd who was bullied and while he is pop-culture savvy, he only seems to be more aware of mainstream media. Peter sounding like a 15-25 year old black dude who loves hip-hop is weird. This is a dude who thought Guns and Roses was too edgy.

And then there is the motivation of the bad guys...

The bad guys are targeting intelligent people of color with high end designer drugs. Now I can name three Miles Morales stories that match this. The first is the novel by Jason Reynolds where a school teacher at Miles school targeted African Americans and made them fail as an allegory of the student to prison pipeline. Then there is the first three issues of Miles Morales: Spider-Man where a white supremacist called the Snatcher kidnapped children of color and made them brainwashed superpowered child soldiers. And finally, and probably the most well-known, Miles Morales: Marvel’s Spider-Man game where Miles is dealing with corporate environmental racism. Not to say that Peter can’t tackle social justice because he has but Peter would be like Norah was in the panel, oblivious to the racial connection until it is directly pointed out to him.

The thing is that Miles entire theme is to be people of color’s Spider-Man.

And speaking of Norah Winters, she doesn’t do investigative journalism anymore. She has but she was discredited and has been turning to buzzfeed-esque journalism style and she isn’t interested in finding the story as she heads Threats and Menaces. She is interested in the clicks and merely positing the discussion of superhero drama.

Maybe there was a character that probably fits this role more...?

Danika Hart kind of does this guerrilla styled journalism and she fits the bill of being a low level social justice university journalist. Outside of the fact that she goes to ESU and Peter is more likely to interact with her, the story feels too interchangeable with Miles.

Sure, the bad guy behind this scheme turns out to be Baron Zemo, Nazi extraordinaire, but again, Zemo is a weird choice in villain. Zemo has an army. He has resources. Why would he enlist some Hydra-lite Cyberpunk wannabes and the Zapata brothers?

Anyways, I know this story was written by Man of Action founder, Joe Kelly, and I want to reiterate that this is a fun Spider-Man story. I am no way of accusing the man who was part of the studio that created Generator Rex of racism but I have to ask was this supposed to be a Miles’ or Anya Spider-Man story because it fits them more?

@ubernegro

[general-luce]

Level 30

I turn 30 in a couple of days now, and it has me in my thoughts, especially with this coronavirus going around and my conventions canceled and all that stuff. Long post is long, by the way. 

Also hey @neobrogrippa, thanks for sticking with me so long, fam. 

So how does 30 look?

I’m not seeing anyone romantically.

I have no kids nor any desire to have kids.

I live with my dad (I’d live with my mom but she doesn’t have the space) in a home I will one day own. At this very moment, my dad is finishing up the sanding on some shelves for a library (I was helping him earlier with it and I’ll be staining them soon).

I work in customer service, in a call center.

I owe over 100k in student debt.

I figured out I was bi when I was 29 – yeah, I know.

There are many people who would look at all of this and consider me a failure. I don’t.

Sometime around the age of 25, maybe a little before, maybe a little after, I realized that all I wanted was to be happy. On May 15, 2015, I sent out emails to my professors, telling them I would be discontinuing the program. The response of one professor in particular has stuck with me, for all this time:

“Oh, how I envy you, and wish I had made a similarly wise decision many years ago. If I had I would be living somewhere that made me happy and doing something occupationally that made me even happier. The world is now your oyster; choices are many. Enjoy the freedom of a future with multiple paths ahead of you.”

And of course my train of thoughts get interrupted to go help with sanding!

But from this email, from this moment, I considered what made me happy – and I’m a very simple person. A video game, a book, traveling now and then with my mom or some friends, a good conversation, writing. My academic studies never fulfilled me, nor did the thought of career. I wanted money to do things with. Given, there ARE things I want to learn, but that’s for learning’s sake. Latin, especially. Academia was done with the intent of a job, and that job looked less and less happy.

So I took my Master’s degree and left off the pursuit of a PhD and went into the job market. I now have a stable job, stable hours, increasing pay with benefits. I could live on my own if I wanted, but it’s not wanted. I can invest instead in a house I’m going to own, and help shoulder the burden of bills so that my dad and myself have more money for other pursuits.

I can do cosplay.

I can buy books, games, coffee, and all number of things.

I have savings for trips.

I’ve gotten so much better at taking care of myself - of what I eat, of how I eat, of exercise, of mental stability - just, everything. 

I have found I can weather an emergency of $2k, because I had to.

I was able to go to a Star Wars Celebration, and I do conventions most every year.

If I had continued on the path at 25, things would be very different.

So what is this to say?

In part, this is to say, don’t let other people’s ideas of where you should be, influence you. Everyone has different ideas of what life should look like, and where they want to be, and our original thoughts often need adapting. Mine did. This is also to say it’s not too late to make a change. I know I’m only 30, but making a change at 25 was still terrifying for me, and if I didn’t have my family’s support, I would likely be scrambling a lot more to get a footing – so I know change isn’t always a SAFE option at every time, but I found a time when it was safe, and it was good, for me – and I took it.

I’ve found my happiness in simple things, after 25 years of struggling, and trying to be someone, because everyone said I “was going somewhere”.

And maybe I am, one day. I still hope to be a published writer, but even if I’m not, I’m all right with that.

I have two cats who depend on me.

I have friends who enjoy my insight into life.

I have plenty of small pleasures, and an active imagination.

I have thriving relationships with both of my parents.

I have a work-in-progress library, and a work-in-progress home.

I’m able to help my dad collect donations for an elderly home that took care of his dad (my grandpa). I see the power of kindness begetting kindness from my father, and I try to do the same -  so I am able to give larger tips for service workers. I bring chocolate to those I see often. I get sugar free candy for my diabetic co-worker now and then. 

I am able to bring random deliveries of food to my mom and go see her, and talk to her, more than before. 

I’m looking at getting a new tattoo here soon that is not quite a match, but a way to hold a connection with my brother.

My brother, who found himself at 25 and went to go travel the world through the navy. Maybe we’re both late bloomers.  

I have found my happiness in the 5 years since leaving school behind, and I’ve accepted that I don’t want to be interesting, or earthshattering, or make drastic changes. I’m okay being boring and stable. I’m okay being happy in myself, and I think that’s what I want to say.

At level 30, I want to say: find out how to be happy in yourselves, whenever possible, however possible.

[dailyaudiobible]

07/12/2021

1 Chronicles 12:19-14:17, Romans 1:1-17, Psalm 9:13-20, Proverbs 19:4-5

Today is the 12th day of July, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible, I am Brian it is wonderful to be here with you today as we get going in our new work week and actually we have new territory. We finish the Book of Acts yesterday. So, when we get to the New Testament portion we’ll be moving into totally new category and so we'll talk about when we get there but first we’re reading from the Christian Standard Bible this week, 1 Chronicles chapter 12 verse 19 through 14 verse 17.

Introduction to Romans:

Okay, so as I mentioned at the beginning, we concluded the Book of Acts yesterday. Acts is generally thought of as New Testament history and so in concluding the Book of Acts yesterday we earned our New Testament history badge for kind of keeping track in the Daily Audio Bible app. And so, now we’re moving into some new territory. We left the Book of Acts with Paul arriving in Rome. And so, the last part of the Book of Acts we were really right alongside the Apostle Paul, as he journeyed around and all the controversies that arose in his travels around the Roman Empire bringing the good news of the gospel. We went to Jerusalem and we saw him get arrested and we saw the appeal to Caesar and so he's sailed to Rome and that's the end of the Book of Acts. We will spend the next generous portion of our time through the year here working through the letters that Paul wrote that have been preserved that Paul had sent directly to different churches that had been established to encourage and instruct them. And what we need to understand is yes, currently at the moment we are reading the New Testament and these letters are included in the New Testament of the Bible. But when these letters were written there wasn't a New Testament to include them in. And so, these letters were copied and passed around from church to church. Descriptions of early church would be to sing a hymn to have a meal together to maybe read from the prophets or to read from the law from the Mosaic law, the law and the prophets. Or to read the Chronicles of the apostles or to read some of these letters and over time they were collected together and now we have them in the New Testament so we’ll be spending time in Paul's letters. He's not the only one that wrote letters that ended up in the New Testament but Paul's letters, they are grouped together and we’re gonna move through them at once. And another thing to understand is that we've read Matthew, Mark, Luke and John we've read the Gospels, that's how we got going, that's where we spent the first half of our year in the Gospels. These letters though, were written before the Gospels were written and so, these letters some of them are the earliest Christian writings that exist. So, today were going to move into the book of Romans and this is the first, like I said, many of the letters that Paul wrote in the New Testament. But this is the first one that we’re coming to and most scholars agree this is like the crown jewel, this is the very comprehensive work that provides an incredible amount of our theological understanding of Jesus and his work and what it represents. This letter was probably written from the city of Corinth where the Corinthians were, some of Paul's strongest missionary work was performed in Corinth and so this was probably written from there, probably somewhere in the mid-50s. And I don’t mean like the 1550s or the 1950s, I mean like the 50s like the 0050 length of 50s. And this is one of the more lengthy letters of Paul. And so, when he finished it, at least according to the book of Romans, he sent a Deaconess, her name was Phoebe, to hand deliver the letter. Phoebe was from the church Incontraia and that was like a suburb of Corinth. In this case Paul is sending a letter to the church in Rome. But this is not, Paul had never been to Rome so he didn't plant the church in Rome and nobody really knows who did or how the gospel made its way to Rome other, we remember that Stephen was stoned and then people began to run. People began to spread out looking for freedom in a peaceful way to live and to avoid, kind of, marginalization and persecution. And so, you know, a likely scenario, probably the likely scenario is it, that's how the gospel got to Rome, somebody or group of people who had been present with what the Holy Spirit was doing at Pentecost and in the church in Jerusalem, ended up carrying the message back to Rome and eventually a church was established there. So, Paul was a naturally born Roman citizen. He hadn't been to Rome but he was looking forward to it. We know the story, he went to Jerusalem, got arrested and then made his way to Rome as a prisoner and we’ve watched all that and we’ve watched you know, the Sanhedrin, against Paul plan to assassinate, assassination plots are unearthed, and Paul is rescued and saved in we've seen the difference between the Sadducees and the Pharisees when Paul has addressed them. We've seen all that's coming against Paul everywhere he goes, like he can't really hardly get to a new city without the Jewish people stirring up some kind a mob against him so, he has this reputation and we look at that, we may think like “okay, yeah, this is this is how they treated Jesus, this is how they treat Paul, this is how they treat everybody” but we me wonder like what's going on here? Why are they so mad at Paul, why were they so mad at Jesus for that matter? As we move through the book of Romans we’ll be able to explore some of that, begin to understand why this good news was a controversy, why it was thought of as a heresy even, why it was thought of as like an anti-God thing, this is why the Sanhedrin, other than just to stay in power, lie they’re raging against somebody like Paul because they cannot get their minds around what he's saying and we’ll begin to be able to understand the lay of the land there as we move through the book or letter of Romans. And so let's get started, Romans chapter 1 verses 1 through 17 today.

Prayer:

Father, we thank You for Your word. We thank You for bringing us into this new territory. And as we begin the Book of Romans and start our journey through these letters these very, very, the earliest of preserved writings that were centered around the story of the good news of the gospel, we invite Your Holy Spirit to lead and guide us to open our eyes to see and open our ears to hear and we might understand the implications of the Gospel and how much it actually changes things for we who believe. Come, Holy Spirit into this next season that we will share together in the letters of Paul. We pray this in Jesus’ name. Amen.

Announcements:

dailyaudiobible.com is home base it’s the website it’s where you find out what’s going on around here, so check it out. Be aware of the Community section. And by the way, this isn’t just the web like if you’re using the Daily Audio Bible app you can access these sections as well by pushing the drawer icon in the upper left-hand corner of the app. But be aware of the Community section. This is where did get connected, find social media links to where we are and get connected. It's also where the Prayer Wall lives. We are always connected in prayer, always, that’s one of the beautiful things about us. We are always connected in one way or another through prayer and so be aware of that. And also check out the Daily Audio Bible Shop. There are resources available that are for the journey that we are on, this voyage across the year and through the Bible. And so, check out those resources.

If you want to partner with the Daily Audio Bible, you can do that at dailyaudiobible.com. There is a link on the homepage and I thank you for everyone who has ever pressed that link. We wouldn't be here if we weren't in this together. If you are using the app you can press the Give button in the upper right hand corner or the mailing address is P.O. Box 1996 Springhill, Tennessee 37174.

And as always if you have a prayer request or encouragement you can hit the Hotline button in the app or you can dial 877-942-4253.

And that's it for today I'm Brian, I love you and I'll be waiting for you here tomorrow.

Prayers and Encouragements:

Hey my amazing DAB fam, this is Kingdom Seeker Daniel. To the unnamed brother, you’re battling unforgiveness and you find it hard to let go sins of the past. John 8:36 simply tells us, my friend, if the son sets you free you will be freed indeed. So, my brother, if you have accepted Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior and repented of your sin, you are free indeed. You simply have to walk that out and so sometimes I know that the stumbling blocks and the snares and the pitfalls of the enemy wants to try to remind us. That's all he can do though is just try to remind us. We’ve got to press, set our affections and our mind on things above so you are free. So, let's just keep pressing forward. Father lift up your son. I pray that You would cause him to remember who he is in You in the name of Jesus. And then for Ava from Colorado Springs, God I’m asking that You would be with her and the six children that will have to testify concerning this sex abuse court hearing. What would You give her and the children the ability to speak the truth and give them the strength to declare what needs to be declared and I pray that Your Spirit would govern all of these matters in Jesus name. Kirah, oh my goodness, thank you for your testimony this contrite in Jesus, hallelujah, thank you so much woman of God for that powerful testimony. Love you family.  

Hello Daily Audio Bible family. I am missionary from Chicago calling in asking for prayer. I am the sole caregiver for an elderly mom suffering from dementia. I’ve been a sole caregiver going on two years now when she moved in with me and if you’ve ever dealt with someone with dementia, you know it's very unpredictable but every day just gets a little bit harder and harder as the disease progresses, as well as just the pressure and the stress on caregivers. And I’ve just noticed the last few months my patience has decreased and my stress levels and kind of, frustrations with the situation that I'm in has only increased so I'm just asking for prayer. Prayer for my mom first and foremost that she will just continue to have all of the positive aspects of her personality and hold onto as much as herself for as long as she can. But also just prayers for me as I try to get more patience and kindness and less frustration and anger about the situation and that I can just be surrounded by guidance and support and just increased faith and perseverance for the situation that we’re in. Thank you very much for your prayers. I know God is listening and it's also so comforting to know that all of you all are are listening and praying for me as well. Thank you.

Hey from beautiful Cincinnati, Ohio it's Daniel Johnson Junior this goes out to Margo the missionary from Australia and Liberia and your husband oh my goodness you guys are going through a lot. I mean, we hear about how hard things have been with the pandemic in Africa and India and South America and I know you're there among it all and as you say you’re feeling some compassion fatigue. And I can't even imagine what that’s like. So, I just, my heart goes out to you Margo, I pray for respite for you and your husband. I pray for renewed renewal through Jesus through the Spirit of Jesus that may rest in you and on you, but you may continue to do God's work and until it's time for you to not do it there anymore so may God continue to provide for you and to bless you, our sister. You are one of our heroes in this community and we love you and you're definitely one of God's favorites. God bless you from beautiful Cincinnati, Ohio, Daniel Johnson Junior.

Hi, I just wanted to call in for this girl that was struggling at a hospital at Africa. I don’t really know her name, Margo, is her name from Liberia. That’s what my Aunt Rachel told me. And I just want you to help her God and please help good people to come in the hospital and help. Please help there not to be anymore bad people there. Please help the people to get better and there to be miracles. My name is Kailee. Hi, I’m Jaylyn and I wanted to pray for the same girl with my sister. I’m here with my sister and my cousin Benice and my Aunt and I wanted to pray for this girl Margo in Africa for there to be good people at her hospital and for them to get money to help those people and I just wanna pray for them and yeah. Hi, I’m Ben. I’m Big Hearted Ben I’m going to help Margo to have a good life and help the people in need. And to get and to help everyone, Amen. Bye.

Hey Daily Audio Bible family this is Billy from Montgomery with the Trinity Stone. I wanted to put a prayer request out there for Margo from Australia now it’s Margo from Liberia. You started, ya’ll went back to do mission work in Liberia, and I just, ya’ll sounded like ya’ll were having issues with things that were going on over there. I just wanted to wash y'all in the blood of Jesus and let ya’ll know that I was praying for y'all and keep ya’ll covered up in prayer. It sounded like ya’ll were really having issues with things that were going on over there. I just wanted to let you know I was covering, keeping you guys covered in prayer and I will talk you later. Alrighty. Bye for now.

[dailyaudiobible]

07/12/2021 DAB Transcript

1 Chronicles 12:19-14:17, Romans 1:1-17, Psalm 9:13-20, Proverbs 19:4-5

Today is the 12th day of July, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible, I am Brian it is wonderful to be here with you today as we get going in our new work week and actually we have new territory. We finish the Book of Acts yesterday. So, when we get to the New Testament portion we’ll be moving into totally new category and so we'll talk about when we get there but first we’re reading from the Christian Standard Bible this week, 1 Chronicles chapter 12 verse 19 through 14 verse 17.

Introduction to Romans:

Okay, so as I mentioned at the beginning, we concluded the Book of Acts yesterday. Acts is generally thought of as New Testament history and so in concluding the Book of Acts yesterday we earned our New Testament history badge for kind of keeping track in the Daily Audio Bible app. And so, now we’re moving into some new territory. We left the Book of Acts with Paul arriving in Rome. And so, the last part of the Book of Acts we were really right alongside the Apostle Paul, as he journeyed around and all the controversies that arose in his travels around the Roman Empire bringing the good news of the gospel. We went to Jerusalem and we saw him get arrested and we saw the appeal to Caesar and so he's sailed to Rome and that's the end of the Book of Acts. We will spend the next generous portion of our time through the year here working through the letters that Paul wrote that have been preserved that Paul had sent directly to different churches that had been established to encourage and instruct them. And what we need to understand is yes, currently at the moment we are reading the New Testament and these letters are included in the New Testament of the Bible. But when these letters were written there wasn't a New Testament to include them in. And so, these letters were copied and passed around from church to church. Descriptions of early church would be to sing a hymn to have a meal together to maybe read from the prophets or to read from the law from the Mosaic law, the law and the prophets. Or to read the Chronicles of the apostles or to read some of these letters and over time they were collected together and now we have them in the New Testament so we’ll be spending time in Paul's letters. He's not the only one that wrote letters that ended up in the New Testament but Paul's letters, they are grouped together and we’re gonna move through them at once. And another thing to understand is that we've read Matthew, Mark, Luke and John we've read the Gospels, that's how we got going, that's where we spent the first half of our year in the Gospels. These letters though, were written before the Gospels were written and so, these letters some of them are the earliest Christian writings that exist. So, today were going to move into the book of Romans and this is the first, like I said, many of the letters that Paul wrote in the New Testament. But this is the first one that we’re coming to and most scholars agree this is like the crown jewel, this is the very comprehensive work that provides an incredible amount of our theological understanding of Jesus and his work and what it represents. This letter was probably written from the city of Corinth where the Corinthians were, some of Paul's strongest missionary work was performed in Corinth and so this was probably written from there, probably somewhere in the mid-50s. And I don’t mean like the 1550s or the 1950s, I mean like the 50s like the 0050 length of 50s. And this is one of the more lengthy letters of Paul. And so, when he finished it, at least according to the book of Romans, he sent a Deaconess, her name was Phoebe, to hand deliver the letter. Phoebe was from the church Incontraia and that was like a suburb of Corinth. In this case Paul is sending a letter to the church in Rome. But this is not, Paul had never been to Rome so he didn't plant the church in Rome and nobody really knows who did or how the gospel made its way to Rome other, we remember that Stephen was stoned and then people began to run. People began to spread out looking for freedom in a peaceful way to live and to avoid, kind of, marginalization and persecution. And so, you know, a likely scenario, probably the likely scenario is it, that's how the gospel got to Rome, somebody or group of people who had been present with what the Holy Spirit was doing at Pentecost and in the church in Jerusalem, ended up carrying the message back to Rome and eventually a church was established there. So, Paul was a naturally born Roman citizen. He hadn't been to Rome but he was looking forward to it. We know the story, he went to Jerusalem, got arrested and then made his way to Rome as a prisoner and we’ve watched all that and we’ve watched you know, the Sanhedrin, against Paul plan to assassinate, assassination plots are unearthed, and Paul is rescued and saved in we've seen the difference between the Sadducees and the Pharisees when Paul has addressed them. We've seen all that's coming against Paul everywhere he goes, like he can't really hardly get to a new city without the Jewish people stirring up some kind a mob against him so, he has this reputation and we look at that, we may think like “okay, yeah, this is this is how they treated Jesus, this is how they treat Paul, this is how they treat everybody” but we me wonder like what's going on here? Why are they so mad at Paul, why were they so mad at Jesus for that matter? As we move through the book of Romans we’ll be able to explore some of that, begin to understand why this good news was a controversy, why it was thought of as a heresy even, why it was thought of as like an anti-God thing, this is why the Sanhedrin, other than just to stay in power, lie they’re raging against somebody like Paul because they cannot get their minds around what he's saying and we’ll begin to be able to understand the lay of the land there as we move through the book or letter of Romans. And so let's get started, Romans chapter 1 verses 1 through 17 today.

Prayer:

Father, we thank You for Your word. We thank You for bringing us into this new territory. And as we begin the Book of Romans and start our journey through these letters these very, very, the earliest of preserved writings that were centered around the story of the good news of the gospel, we invite Your Holy Spirit to lead and guide us to open our eyes to see and open our ears to hear and we might understand the implications of the Gospel and how much it actually changes things for we who believe. Come, Holy Spirit into this next season that we will share together in the letters of Paul. We pray this in Jesus’ name. Amen.

Announcements:

dailyaudiobible.com is home base it’s the website it’s where you find out what’s going on around here, so check it out. Be aware of the Community section. And by the way, this isn’t just the web like if you’re using the Daily Audio Bible app you can access these sections as well by pushing the drawer icon in the upper left-hand corner of the app. But be aware of the Community section. This is where did get connected, find social media links to where we are and get connected. It's also where the Prayer Wall lives. We are always connected in prayer, always, that’s one of the beautiful things about us. We are always connected in one way or another through prayer and so be aware of that. And also check out the Daily Audio Bible Shop. There are resources available that are for the journey that we are on, this voyage across the year and through the Bible. And so, check out those resources.

If you want to partner with the Daily Audio Bible, you can do that at dailyaudiobible.com. There is a link on the homepage and I thank you for everyone who has ever pressed that link. We wouldn't be here if we weren't in this together. If you are using the app you can press the Give button in the upper right hand corner or the mailing address is P.O. Box 1996 Springhill, Tennessee 37174.

And as always if you have a prayer request or encouragement you can hit the Hotline button in the app or you can dial 877-942-4253.

And that's it for today I'm Brian, I love you and I'll be waiting for you here tomorrow.

Prayers and Encouragements:

Hey my amazing DAB fam, this is Kingdom Seeker Daniel. To the unnamed brother, you’re battling unforgiveness and you find it hard to let go sins of the past. John 8:36 simply tells us, my friend, if the son sets you free you will be freed indeed. So, my brother, if you have accepted Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior and repented of your sin, you are free indeed. You simply have to walk that out and so sometimes I know that the stumbling blocks and the snares and the pitfalls of the enemy wants to try to remind us. That's all he can do though is just try to remind us. We’ve got to press, set our affections and our mind on things above so you are free. So, let's just keep pressing forward. Father lift up your son. I pray that You would cause him to remember who he is in You in the name of Jesus. And then for Ava from Colorado Springs, God I’m asking that You would be with her and the six children that will have to testify concerning this sex abuse court hearing. What would You give her and the children the ability to speak the truth and give them the strength to declare what needs to be declared and I pray that Your Spirit would govern all of these matters in Jesus name. Kirah, oh my goodness, thank you for your testimony this contrite in Jesus, hallelujah, thank you so much woman of God for that powerful testimony. Love you family.  

Hello Daily Audio Bible family. I am missionary from Chicago calling in asking for prayer. I am the sole caregiver for an elderly mom suffering from dementia. I’ve been a sole caregiver going on two years now when she moved in with me and if you’ve ever dealt with someone with dementia, you know it's very unpredictable but every day just gets a little bit harder and harder as the disease progresses, as well as just the pressure and the stress on caregivers. And I’ve just noticed the last few months my patience has decreased and my stress levels and kind of, frustrations with the situation that I'm in has only increased so I'm just asking for prayer. Prayer for my mom first and foremost that she will just continue to have all of the positive aspects of her personality and hold onto as much as herself for as long as she can. But also just prayers for me as I try to get more patience and kindness and less frustration and anger about the situation and that I can just be surrounded by guidance and support and just increased faith and perseverance for the situation that we’re in. Thank you very much for your prayers. I know God is listening and it's also so comforting to know that all of you all are are listening and praying for me as well. Thank you.

Hey from beautiful Cincinnati, Ohio it's Daniel Johnson Junior this goes out to Margo the missionary from Australia and Liberia and your husband oh my goodness you guys are going through a lot. I mean, we hear about how hard things have been with the pandemic in Africa and India and South America and I know you're there among it all and as you say you’re feeling some compassion fatigue. And I can't even imagine what that’s like. So, I just, my heart goes out to you Margo, I pray for respite for you and your husband. I pray for renewed renewal through Jesus through the Spirit of Jesus that may rest in you and on you, but you may continue to do God's work and until it's time for you to not do it there anymore so may God continue to provide for you and to bless you, our sister. You are one of our heroes in this community and we love you and you're definitely one of God's favorites. God bless you from beautiful Cincinnati, Ohio, Daniel Johnson Junior.

Hi, I just wanted to call in for this girl that was struggling at a hospital at Africa. I don’t really know her name, Margo, is her name from Liberia. That’s what my Aunt Rachel told me. And I just want you to help her God and please help good people to come in the hospital and help. Please help there not to be anymore bad people there. Please help the people to get better and there to be miracles. My name is Kailee. Hi, I’m Jaylyn and I wanted to pray for the same girl with my sister. I’m here with my sister and my cousin Benice and my Aunt and I wanted to pray for this girl Margo in Africa for there to be good people at her hospital and for them to get money to help those people and I just wanna pray for them and yeah. Hi, I’m Ben. I’m Big Hearted Ben I’m going to help Margo to have a good life and help the people in need. And to get and to help everyone, Amen. Bye.

Hey Daily Audio Bible family this is Billy from Montgomery with the Trinity Stone. I wanted to put a prayer request out there for Margo from Australia now it’s Margo from Liberia. You started, ya’ll went back to do mission work in Liberia, and I just, ya’ll sounded like ya’ll were having issues with things that were going on over there. I just wanted to wash y'all in the blood of Jesus and let ya’ll know that I was praying for y'all and keep ya’ll covered up in prayer. It sounded like ya’ll were really having issues with things that were going on over there. I just wanted to let you know I was covering, keeping you guys covered in prayer and I will talk you later. Alrighty. Bye for now.