April 14th, 26: Daily Bible in a Year

Click here for the DRB Daily Sign Up form! TODAY'S SCRIPTURE: Click HERE to give! One Year Bible Podcast: Join Hunter and Heather Barnes on the Daily Radio Bible, a daily Bible‑in‑a‑year podcast with 20‑minute Scripture readings, Christ‑centered devotion, and guided prayer.This daily Bible reading and devotional invites you to live as a citizen of Jesus' kingdom, reconciled, renewed, and deeply loved. TODAY'S EPISODE: Welcome to the Daily Radio Bible! In today's episode, we pause to celebrate over 100 days in Scripture together—a milestone marking not just a habit, but a journey that shapes and surprises us in ways we never expected. Speaker A reflects on how time in the Bible doesn't save us—but points us to the One who does: Jesus. As we read from 1 Samuel, 1 Chronicles, and begin the Gospel of Matthew, we are reminded that true transformation isn't found in outward power or appearances, but in the quiet work of God in our hearts. We watch as Saul loses his kingdom, David is anointed in obscurity, the genealogy of Jesus unfolds, and the promise of Emmanuel—"God with us"—is fulfilled. Today's prayers and reflections invite us to consider where God is quietly at work in our own lives, calling us to live from his anointing, trust in his presence, and step forward in faith and gratitude. TODAY'S DEVOTION: It's striking how often power gets measured by what can be controlled, traded, or extracted in our world. Oil has that kind of weight. It fuels economies. It shapes decisions. It even determines, at times, who rises and who falls. But for all its influence, it can't touch the deeper places of a human life. It can't make a heart whole. It can't give peace that holds. It can't form love in us. The Scriptures speak of another kind of oil—not the kind that drives systems or creates wars, but the kind that marks a life. When Samuel pours oil over David's head, it's almost easy to miss. There's no spectacle, no immediate change in the circumstances. David goes back to the field, back to the ordinary. But something true has been named. Not by outward strength, not by appearance, but by the quiet seeing of God. The Lord looks on the heart. That moment doesn't make David powerful in the ways we might expect. It places him within a story—a long, winding story where God continues to meet people in hiding places, working through what seems small, overlooked, even unlikely. And when you trace that story forward, through generations and names and lives, it carries all the way to the opening lines of the Gospel of Matthew. Not a story of uninterrupted strength, but a story marked by weakness, failure, surprise, and grace. And at the center of it, not a king grasping for power, but a life-giver—the Anointed One. Not anointed with oil alone, but filled with the very life of God. A life that doesn't dominate or control, but enters into the human story and transforms it from within. And that same life is not held at a distance. It is shared, poured out, not in spectacle, but in quiet, steady ways, in ordinary lives and people who often return, like David, back to the field. So maybe the question today isn't about where power is. Maybe it's about where God is at work—in what feels small, in what feels hidden, in what feels unfinished. And the prayer today is simple: that we would trust the places where God has quietly met us. That we would not overlook the life being formed there. That we would learn to live from that anointing—not as something we possess, but as a life we are being invited to share. That's the prayer that I have for my own soul, for my family, and for you. May it be so. TODAY'S PRAYERS: Lord God Almighty and everlasting father you have brought us in safety to this new day preserve us with your Mighty power that we might not fall into sin or be overcome by adversity. And in all we do, direct us to the fulfilling of your purpose  through Jesus Christ Our Lord amen.   Oh God you have made of one blood all the peoples of the earth and sent your blessed son to preach peace to those who are far and those who are near. Grant that people everywhere may seek after you, and find you. Bring the nations into your fold, pour out your Spirit on all flesh, and hasten the coming of your kingdom through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen.   And now Lord,  make me an instrument of your peace.  Where there is hatred let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon.  Where there is doubt, faith. Where there is despair, hope.  Where there is darkness, light.  And where there is sadness,  Joy.  Oh Lord grant that I might not seek to be consoled as to console. To be understood as to understand, to be loved as to love.  For it is in the giving that we receive, in the pardoning that we are pardoned, it is in the dying that we are born unto eternal life.  Amen And now as our Lord has taught us we are bold to pray... Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven, give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our tresspasses as we forgive those who trespass against us, and lead us not unto temptation, but deliver us from evil, for thine is the Kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen. Loving God, we give you thanks for restoring us in your image. And nourishing us with spiritual food, now send us forth as forgiven people, healed and renewed, that we may proclaim your love to the world, and continue in the risen life of Christ.  Amen.  OUR WEBSITE: www.dailyradiobible.com We are reading through the New Living Translation.   Leave us a voicemail HERE: https://www.speakpipe.com/dailyradiobible Subscribe to us at YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Dailyradiobible/featured OTHER PODCASTS: Listen with Apple Podcast DAILY BIBLE FOR KIDS DAILY PSALMS DAILY PROVERBS DAILY LECTIONARY DAILY CHRONOLOGICAL