Dear Father Mike Schmitz, I wanted to take a moment to express my heartfelt gratitude for your dedication and diligence in presenting the "Bible in a Year" series. Your commitment to spreading the message of God's word is truly inspiring, and I am so grateful to have the opportunity to be a part of this journey with you. One thing I particularly love about your presentations is your infectious laughter. It's so refreshing to see someone who takes their faith seriously, yet still has a lightness and joy in their heart. Your laughter is a testament to the Holy Spirit that flows within you, and it brings me such joy and peace to listen to you read from scripture or offer your prayers. There are times when I'm so busy that I have to force myself to take the time to sit down and listen to your DAILY PODCAST, but every time I do, I feel a shift within me. The worries of the day melt away, and I feel myself calm down and connect with God. Your reading and your laughter have a way of touching my soul, and for that, I am forever grateful. Thank you, Father Mike, for all that you do. May God continue to bless you and your ministry. And to everyone reading this, please like this comment if you love Father Mike as much as I do. With gratitude and blessings, Soaking Minds
May 5, 2024 Highly recommend to anyone who is listening the first time, stay with it, and listen to it all again a second or maybe even a third time. Things come together after listening more than once.
i agree doing this reading with father mike for the first time have read 2 versions of the bible on my own cant believe how clear and how things make sense this time
God thank you again for bringing me here today I sincerely am grateful. Please I pray for all here and for you servant Father Mike bless him with protection from evil 🙏
Wow, I was blown away when Fr. Mike mentioned that we are far greater than King David. Seeing from the readings how David's heart was so pure in his dealing with his soldiers and other people, I was in fear of what God would expect. But, as Fr. Mike says, we ask God what He wants from us. This is David's secret - ask and He will provide or give answer. The more critical part is to obey God's wants. As a Child of God, I can only do things with God. My being great is not because of me - but it is God who works in me (if He wants to) that is the greatness. It is from God's graces and blessings. He is the great one, my creator and redeemer. Glory and praise to our God.
Day 124 ( Friday, May third, 2024 ). I am so, so thankful to God Almighty for all the blessings and protections towards me and my family. Deo gratias. 😇❤ Thank you Father Mike Schmitz and Ascension press. God bless you all. Lord I am not worthy that You should enter under my roof but only say The Word and my soul shall be healed .
Thank you very much Father Mike, I would never been able to pronounce all those names, I would of just bypassed them and it would’ve taken some of the understanding of the text. I am also very happy for your reflection of these chapter because sometimes they don’t make much sense to me, but after you beautiful explanation they become clearer to us. Thank you Father Mike, I am praying for you and all priest, please pray for me. Anyone out there that happen to read my comment please help me pray for my friend Jonny who is very sick, she has cancer.
Lord Jesus, I humbly pray for myself, Father Mike, & all the people participating in the Bible-in-Year podcast. May your word take deep root in our hearts & transform our ways of thinking, deciding, and acting. May your grace open our ears to hear & understand the word of God in the Scriptures that we may revere and treasure both the Old & the New Testaments which God has prepared for all who desire to enter his kingdom. Send us your Holy Spirit to give us the Spirit of Knowledge, that we may know God and know ourselves. Give us the grace to approach the Word of God with meekness & humility, & with an eagerness to do everything God desires. Help us to be diligent students & faithful disciples of your Word. May our hearts never grow dull & may our ears never tire of listening to your voice. Amen.
Day 124..finally David makes the Covenant and becomes king of all of Israel, all 12 tribes! Once again we see the wisdom of a king seeking inquiry of the Lord..and gives him everything needed to defend his enemies.. It's amazing that the genealogy of all the descendants of the Israelite's were numbered and written down for all to know and try to learn how they were able to become so large and mostly successful in the taking the promised land given by the Lord.. Probably one of the most powerful statements in the Psalms, the Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear..give me not up to the will of my adversaries..I believe that I shall see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Such glorious and powerful statements made by David! Prayers for Father Mike and all the BIY family who are traveling through God's word together ❤ 🙏
I love your wisdom Father Mike! Thank you for these daily Bible readings. Thank you for reminding us that we should always ask God first just like King David did. .
Thank you God for your word. Thank you Father Mike. Very good point to ask the Lord daily what he needs me to do for his kids. . Reminds me of the song Wait on the Lord 🙏. God bless all. Lord I am nothing without you.
Just a fun history lesson that goes along with this. In the ancient world Tyre was phenomenally wealthy do to it's production of purple dye. As well, it was seen, do to it's tactical position, and wealth as impregnable. For their king to recognize David as so worthy of attention was a great honor.
14:53 Father in heaven, we give you praise, we thank you, we give you honor and glory. My gosh, Lord God, thankyou, thank you for your Word and thank you for letting us see in chapters 1 through chapter 8 of the book of Chronicles the ways in which you have unfolded this family. You've gone back in and helped us review, Lord God, you hope that you've helped us review the lives of your family, the lives of the Jewish people, those fathers and sons, those sisters and daughters, those people that you have called out of nothingness to be yours, to be a people peculiarly your own, Lord God, and so we ask you, please help us help us to be yours as well because you've called us from security, Lord God, you've called us from nothingness into being. You've called us from being into being your children. We're so grateful for you. Lord God. Please receive our praise, receive our thanks, and please be with us this day. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. †
God bless you dear Fr. Mike, we keep praying for you. Thank you so much for giving us this wonderful lesson about King David and that we are greater than him for the simple and pure fact that we are bapthised, in other words, for simple and pure grace. Thank you so much, God bless.
Father Mike, your enthusiasm is contagious! Each time I listen to one of your podcasts, I feel like I'm on fire for the Lord. Thanks so much for sharing your love of God and blessing us with the BIAY.
@Jonny 3241 hello brother , god bless you,! see thats the beauty with god, he doesnt pun ish peopel in theire unkowigness! and has lost sheeps everywere, no matter what denominations, even satansits will redem! and if he is a truly geniunly loving person ,the holy spirit will reveal him what god wants , and well everyone to know, and as i sayed if hes geniunly good, the choice will be easy, he goes with god not themajority, who will be fooled...! il keep you and him in my prayers! do aswell, seriously praying one for eachoter is a favour god alows us to do, is a task and a blessing all at once! praying to a piece of wood, or confessing sins to pope , doesnt do anything, but praying one for eachoter does! especialy when youre faithfull, you have to be faithfull in youre prayers, be asured god listens, and will provide! redemption is almost entirely FAITH, and cooperation! see el chapo himself if he realises ,jesuses shateted blood, is stronger than santa muerte, falls on hes knees, and prayse faithfully, being truly sorry, god will forgive him! even him! the unforgiven sin is not about the gravity of the sin, a sin is a sin1 its again about you, its u ignoring that voice so much that you no longer want to be forgiven! so if youre amoung those , who feel bad about all this awfulness satan rules , great news , god is a prayer away! and besides often prayers, he let us the biggest jolly joker to, thats the bible wich is gods word, its tyhe most amazing thing is gods private chanel to the siner! you may say ,oh is this big book wich im never gonna finish, you think wrong! bible is not about quantity iss about quality! so always pray before reading, for the holy spirt to reveal you what you need for the day! read slowly while meditating at what you read! and another thing, under many verses youl find a small writing, those are sendings, so if you dont get something were youre reading, go to a sending or even 2, 3, thats how you should read the bible , dive within gods word! and when its revealed to you clearly something, like the sabath for exemple(the sign 666 , wile be keping sunday, this will be a death decret pretty soon as its late, gods day the 4th comandmnt, "keep my sabaths its reafering at saturday, sunday is satans sign, or the 2nd comandnt , dont worship anything else than god, dont bow or give prayse to anything else than god(its full, the pope, countless dead saints, "holy water" even dead corpses and what not, satan infiltrated and corupted gods word, thats why you need youre sword and shield wich is the bible, wich is the truth, wich is an unfatimable river of knowledge, love, wisdom, guidance, shelter, forgiveness, strenght, and much much more! so when youl pray and study bible, and youl hear god telling you whats good and whats not, go with god, not the majority! death is a second- see also a huge decive peopel belive, god depicted god as this cruel maniac, with the purgatory and stuff, god is anything butcruel Eclesiast 9:4,5"the man after death no longer knows anything, he has no clue what hapens under the sun, even his name is forgotten" all this(ghost, horoscope, witccraft,ouija tbale, reiki ,hipnosis, - this are just demons and forms of decive the man as much as they can posibly do, and with the imortality of the soul fools huge, not just in christianism but in everything, as youre budist friend with the yoga-karma bulsshit! see thats why you need to talk to god, god never lies if you trust him, satan on tthe other hand cant tell a single truth, as he invented lies, his truth is, shut up heroin youl feel great, and youu will did he lied!? see thats him, thats his truth! so trust jesuses, get a bible and meat jesuses daily by prayers and bible! and i asure you, if youre wilingly sorry and want god, god already found you! dont lose in mind praying for others, love is the essence to it all! and as god wants you saved and youre buddy so he wants everyone, alway prayse for others to! il keep you in my prayers, do aswell and have faith!
Man oh man! I must write those last words down.... where do you want me oh Lord? Asking the Lord as David did beforehand. Put it forever on my heart God. Bless you Fr Mike. 🙏
Lord, You are our light. Verse 10 in 2 Samuel 5 says, “He became powerful because the Lord almighty was with him.” Our blessings come from you and you alone. May we never rely on our own strength but always trust in you. 🙏🏻
I have accepted Jesus as my personal Lord and Savior. I speck to the Lord often, but I don't hear any answers. I just go with what 'I think' (??) God wants me to do.
Yay! Day 124!👏👏👏👏 Praise God! Praying for all of you! I am also praying for Souls in Purgatory. Will you join me in doing so? #Checkthisout #SaintFaustinasDiaryinaYear #MarianPressPodcast #FatherMike #BibleinaYear March 20, 2022
Unfortunately, there is a YT video (from a rabbi no less) that says David was so favored in God's eyes that he COULD NOT have committed adultery! I have to ask, exactly what in the Psalms about if not his repentance for his transgressions with Bathsheba? We must be diligent and mindful of the falsehoods out there which want to lure us from the truth. Thank God for BIY podcast and Fr. Mike's perpetuation of TRUTH!
2 Samuel 5 tells of how the elders of Israel came to respect David at Hebron. They anointed him King of Israel when he was 30 years old and he reigned for 40 years including the 7.5 years he had already reigned over Judah. David conquered Jerusalem from the Jebusites and it came to be known as the City of David or the capital of Israel. The King of Tyre sent messengers to build David a house. It is said David took many concubines as wives breaking the Lord's Commandments in Exodus and Deuteronomy. David continued to fight against the Philistines with the support of the Lord. He defeated them at Baal Perazim and the Valley of Rephaim. 1 Chronicles 7 lists the descendants of the other Tribes of Israel including the tribe of Issachar, Benjamin, Naphtali, the Western Tribe of Manasseh, the tribe of Ephraim, and Asher. 1 Chronicles 8 lists more descendants of Benjamin. Psalm 27 is a Psalm of David. David proclaims his confidence in the Lord and his desire for the Lord's presence. He celebrates God's blessings that have given him shelter in times of trouble and offers sacrifices at His Tabernacle. He seeks the Faithful God who shall deliver him to salvation. He prays for the Lord's teachings so that he may see God's Goodness. He encourages others to open their hearts to the Lord. Day 124 - 5/4/2022
Great stuff. Let's you understand how God works through his people. However, a technical issue: the pod casts appear to start skipping days at around 110. Please fix
David died from his disobedience and wives. Christ had no wife but the Church that He died for. I'm glad David's polygamy got addressed, there's so much to delve into in the Saul, and Samuel, and David period saga.
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Why would they name a child Ba'al? Another thought, who had the daughters to bear all these sons? Daughters are almost never mentioned, curious thing that!
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