Can’t help but wonder what I would ask for if God came to me in a dream….right this minute I would ask for all those I know and love to know and serve Him.
I've always liked the way Solomon chose which woman who to give the living child to, knowing the true mother wouldn't want the one that was still alive to be put to death! The Lord truly gave him wisdom..prayers for Father Mike and all the BIY family 🙏❤
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 God's voice in the Scriptures that we may revere & 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.
So grateful for you speaking the WORD to us and your explanations. This is the best use of my prayer times……bless you and all who are seeking the Lord to know Him and serve Him 🙏🏻♥️♥️♥️🙏🏻
All glory and thanks to GOD most high. Today # 24 MAY 2024 & day 145. Thank you GOD for helping me to never give up on You. Grant me wisdom and protect me from evil plots. AMEN 🙏 Prayers for everyone journeying BIY, we all are rowing together on journey towards Almighty...getting closer day by day🙏by getting deeper understanding of WORD OF GOD. Thank you Father Mike for giving us this understanding and spiritual insight.
GOd please help me always choosing the right thing.thank you Father Mike. Praying for you and all other priest and also praying for Peace and love and understanding
Thank you Father Mike and God Bless you... I brought with me today 8 of Our US Military Veterans, who are excited to be here on this Journey. Praying for you and for all who follow you here on this Journey...
Children are so observant of their parents. Solomon saw when David loved and served God that God blessed him, therefore he asked for that wisdom to follow God. This is an old testament prosperity gospel lesson. Kind of. I'm sure this still happens today but, then there is Jesus and all the disciples who lived in vagabond poverty and then were tortured to death. One is like a path of following God and escaping worldly torture, while the other is following God into worldly torture. God give me the grace to accept and carry the cross you have specifically designed for me. Amen.
Beloved Father Mike, thank you for articulating clearly our human condition, and bringing us together in prayer. I’m trying too hard on my own again. “Oh Jesus, I surrender myself to You; take care of everything !”
Thank you Fr Mike. 145 days!!! Its been a wonderful journey. I have read these stories many times before. But You have brought them alive in my eyes and helped me understand even the boring parts😂. God bless you and everyone on this journey with me
Thank you, Fr. Mike. My relationship with Mother Mary is much clearer now, my Queen Mother. I can now see her role, completely, as did Bathsheba, when she was promoting King Solomon in his work in his Kingdom. Our Lady protects us from all who would ensnare us and she will be the one to crush the head of Satan who desires so much to put God's kingdom down. Praise to Jesus, our Lord, King and Master and honor and thanksgiving too to Our Queen mother our Blessed Virgin Mary. Thank you for such a light, O Holy Spirit and Fr. Mike. We continue to pray for the protection of Fr. Mike in his work for Jesus' kingdom and let us pray for our online bible community. Praise and thanksgiving, honor and glory belongs to our God and King. amen.
This is the first time reading 1 Kings for me. I just want to savour King Solomon building the Temple and accomplishing the mission set before him. I just want to relish the fact that God was so pleased that He filled the Temple with His Glory. It's so awesome. I'm in awe of it all, it shows God was with Solomon, Davids' son, and with the people of Israel. King Solomon honoured his father, King Davids' wishes, and he gave adoration, praise, worship, and thanksgiving to God, which He so rightly deserves. It just proves that when God is with us, He works all things for good for those who love Him and keep His commands. God never leaves us, we leave Him unfortunately.
“Little children (believers, dear ones), let us not love [merely in theory] with word or with tongue [giving lip service to compassion], but in action and in truth [in practice and in sincerity, because practical acts of love are more than words].” 1 John 3:18
Lord, We rejoice in your holy name. We pray that what we sacrifice and offer to you is what desire. You deserve our whole hearts. Grant us right wisdom, understanding and discernment. Give us the strength the live out your truth and hold firmly to it. 🙏🏻
Minor point that confused me at first: in minute 20:17 Fr Mike misspoke saying that “David” married Pharaoh’s daughter, whereas it was King Solomon is who he is speaking of. Hope I’m not being too petty. Love this series more than my three years of Bible college! ❤️❤️❤️
Did anyone else wonder why the Bible made a point of saying that nothing else was in the ark except the two tables of Moses? What happened to the rod of Aaron and the jar of mana?
Like many others, I am listening to the Bible in a Year for the second time. It always amazes me that King David and King Solomon and many other ‘good’ people in the Bible, were good, but they also fell of the pedestal and did some terrible things (e.g. have Uriah murdered so he could have Bathsheba) and God forgives then when they repent. There is hope for all of us as long as we remember to go to confession and repent of our wrong doings. Our God is indeed a loving and forgiving God.
Spot on Mavis! We mustn’t let any guilt of wrongdoings or careless words stain our souls, as we have a merciful Father just waiting in the sacrament of reconciliation to listen and forgive if we are genuinely sorry! What a gift! Because if we fail to be reconciled in this life we will carry it over in death and then we can’t pray for ourselves anymore. 🙏🥰
Yay, the temple is built! Great reading Father Mike. Thank you for your dedication to bringing us the BIAY daily. I am enjoying it. I pray for you and all who continue the readings daily. In Jesus's name I pray amen 🙏.
Thank you everybody for praying for me and I've been praying for you too and this is 144 my we really have come a long way thank you and God bless and have a good evening
11:16 Father in Heaven we thank you for our Word. We thank you for revealing your heart to us. We thank you for continually turning our hearts to you because our hearts can be so easily turned away from you. And so Lord, I just, at this moment right now, God, I just want to speak to you about this Psalm that we just prayed and how clearly the righteous find a place in your temple, how the righteous find a place in your heart, how the righteous find a place in you. And Lord, so often we are not righteous. So often we are the opposite of that. We are unrighteous. We are false and we're fickle and we're sinners. And yet you still take us back even then, even when we're not righteous. Even when we are disasters, you still love us and you never give up on us. Help us never give up on you. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. †
May 26, 2023 Round Two Please pray for Souls in Purgatory. Go ahead, just take about 30 seconds to help save a soul that maybe is your family member or friend! Go forth and help save! Here is the prayer: (According to tradition, St. Gertrude the Great was told by Our Lord that each time she piously recited the following prayer, it would release 1,000 souls (or a vast number) from their suffering in purgatory.) The Prayer of St. Gertrude Eternal Father, I offer Thee the Most Precious Blood of Thy Divine Son, Jesus, in union with the masses said throughout the world today, for all the holy souls in purgatory, for sinners everywhere, for sinners in the universal church, those in my own home and within my family. Amen. God would reply to St. Gertrude that He would use whatever was offered to Him for the faithful departed, according to His inclination to show pardon & mercy!
Solomon’s greatest accomplishment was building the temple that David was not allowed to build. God confirmed the temple by overshadowing the holy place with His glory. God also overshadowed Mary in the same way at the incarnation. Mary’s womb became the Holy of Holies & the abode of God. Please explain to me how a man could later impregnate that same womb with a regular child with original sin?
I do not think I have ever blocked anyone and I am ignorant on all that setting stuff. I am having a lot of problem with my computer right now and think I will have to take it in to be cleaned up. I cannot seem to get any messages from g mail or hot mail. I need to figure this out as my brother's family are mad that they cannot reach me to direct me on more things they want done with the main house. I am overwhelmed since my brother's death. 😍
