The Bible Recap - Day 091 The Bible KNEEcap Preview

Episode Date: March 31, 2024

This bonus episode is a sample of our daily prayer podcast, called "The Bible KNEEcap". This podcast is available exclusively to RECAPtains. If you like what you hear, you can become a RECAPtain at The Bible KNEEcap tier or higher, to pray with us as we read through the Bible. 

Hey Bible readers! In addition to our regular 8-minute daily podcast of the Bible Recap, we also have a second daily podcast that follows our daily Bible reading. In the Bible Recap, we'll be recapping what we just read in Scripture, and this podcast will be our prayer of response to God about what we just read. Since it's a podcast devoted to prayer, we're calling it the Bible Kneecap, like kneeling in prayer. Each day's episode will post immediately after the Bible recap,

so you can listen to them back to back. So our suggested order will be read, recap, respond. Lots of listeners tell us the Bible Kneecap prayers help them build out their understanding of what we've just read even more. In this podcast, we use a prayer method called PRAY. It's an acronym that stands for Praise, Repent, Ask, Yield. Each day we'll be changing up what we're praising God for.

That's the P in the PRAY acronym. Our praise will usually connect to the God shot from that day's episode since that's where we saw God's character or attributes on display. After that, we'll point you to some ways to R, Rep, A, ask, and Y, yield, but those will obviously look different for each person from day to day, depending on what's happening in your heart and your life. Before we begin, one thing I want to point out is that following along with pre-written prayer is not meaningless or vain. Even Jesus himself gave us a prescribed prayer to pray when He gave His disciples the Lord's prayer. Old Testament Jews and the believers of the early church

glorified God and took comfort in praying the prayers of the Psalms written by David and many others. Those prayers not only help us connect with God, but they help teach us His character as well. As you listen to my prayer each day, echo it back to God in your own heart and feel free to expound on it in your own words. We want this to serve not only as a teaching tool, but as a catalyst for your own extended conversations with God after I say Amen. So without further ado, here's today's episode of our daily prayer podcast, The Bible

Kneecap, which corresponds to today's reading from the Bible Recap. Yahweh shalom, we praise you for being our peace in the midst of chaos. Like Gideon, our lives feel overwhelming and scary sometimes, but you enter in and draw near and bring us what we wouldn't have access to without you. We praise you for your perfect timing and miraculous provision. Thank you for the leaders who lead us in your paths of righteousness.

Thank you for the prophets who call out our sin and speak truth to us. We repent of ignoring them both. We repent of leaning into the lie that you've forgotten or forsaken us when you've gone to great lengths to pursue us, sending your Son to pay for our sins, and sending your Spirit to indwell us even while we're still sinners. We repent of doubting you, and we thank you for being a God who isn't afraid of our emotions or anger or doubt.

You still draw near to us in all the fullness of our humanity. Give us the wisdom and courage to tear down the lies we're following after, even when it costs us something personally. Align us with the truth. When our hearts have misled us, remind us that there's no such thing as our truth, God. There's only your truth, and it is the truth. We surrender our lives to you, Lord, every moment of our day, every decision we make.

We yield our will and our way to your perfect will and way we love you too amen this second daily podcast is available each day through our patreon family but we want to give you all a free preview today even if you're not in our patreon family yet that way you can see what the episodes are like in case you want to add this to your daily routine each episode is about 1 to 2 minutes long. If you decide you want to jump on board with us, start by clicking the Patreon link in the show notes or visiting thebiblerecap.com and clicking the Patreon link there. Then in Patreon, you'll look for the Bible kneecap tier.

You'll also automatically get this tier when you sign up at any higher level. Once you sign up for this, Patreon will send you a private, personal link to embed in your podcast player. And once you add that link to your podcatcher, the podcast will automatically come to your feed each day, just like they do with the Bible Recap. If you're already part of our Patreon family but are below the Bible kneecap tier, all you have to do is log into your Patreon account and adjust your membership upward to make this part of your day.