Hi everyone! Greetings to you on the 9th day of 2016.
Welcome to all of you who have started following the DBRP since January 1. This is the third full year of the DBRP, and the first year for using the GNT in the podcasts. There are several versions of the GNT in YouVersion, and some are more nicely formatted than others. If you are following along, I am using the version labeled GNTD, which is marked as the ‘US version’.
I am so pleased that a number of you have already joined and contributed to our Facebook group! Several members have shared little glimpses of how God’s Word is making a difference for them. Thanks for several people who have left a word of thanks after finishing one whole year of listening to the DBRP. Several posts have shared the verse-pictures that are made in the YouVersion reading app. Those pictures always catch my attention and encourage me. They represent little clues as to how God is working through His Word. (See the episode notes for pointers on how to easily make and post verse-pictures to our Facebook group.) Being a member of the Digging Deeper Facebook group will give you an opportunity to be encouraged, and to pray for and encourage others. The group also provides a good way for me to share things I will not share in the podcasts— such as statistics about the DBRP, prayer requests for our family, and news about our Bible translation ministry in Indonesia.
I am looking for 2-3 people who will manage and moderate the Facebook group. This wouldn’t take much time. We just need someone who can take a look at the group daily. Secondly, I would like a list of any group members who are spiritually mature and who would be willing to correspond with anyone who sends in questions of a personal nature. If you are willing to help in either of the two ways just mentioned, please send a private message to me in Facebook. See the episode notes for the link to me on Facebook. (My page is https://www.facebook.com/philip.c.fields.)
One of the faithful listeners from 2015 wrote to me just the other day, saying that she suddenly felt the Holy Spirit’s nudging her to pray for me. She warned me to be vigilant against spiritual attack. So I want to share something I have never said in a news podcast before: Yes, please include me in your prayers from time to time! Please pray for Gale (who has chronic health concerns) and also for me for both physical and spiritual health. I send out prayer updates by e-mail about every 2 months. If you would like to receive these updates, there is a link for joining our list at dailybiblereading.info and the Our Story page.
Our middle child, Rachel, will be home from East Africa in March for a short home assignment. And her younger sister, Hannah, with her family are back from their time of service in Pakistan. Hannah is due to give birth to her third child at the end of March. Lord willing, my first trip to Indonesia will start in April. Here are some prayer requests for our work in Indonesia:
- Please pray that God would lead Indonesian Christians to become our partners in distributing the Plain Indonesian New Testament in rural areas where there are no bookstores.
- Please pray for our 4-member team working on translating the Old Testament into Plain Indonesian. Please pray for others who may join this team soon.
- Please pray that Indonesians would catch the vision for increasing the understanding of God’s Word in Indonesia— especially among the hundreds of ethnic groups, so that they pray for, partner with, and support the OurLanguage Bible Organization. (Indonesian web site: http://albata.info.)
God’s Word is the TRUTH, and His truth is a transforming power. I am so glad that the Lord led you to find the Digging Deeper Daily podcasts. To Him be the glory for what happens among us this year!
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How-to information:
There are some cool features in the YouVersion Bible reading app that I have only just begun to use. If you click on a verse, you have six very useful options— including highlighting verses and writing comments. I particularly like the third option, the one for making a verse-picture. The pictures are easy to make and provide an eye-catching way to share meaningfully with your friends on social media. The backgrounds provided within the app are quite nice, and now you can also upload background images from your own device’s picture gallery. Then you set the size, color, and location of the verse text. The results are often so artistic that your friends will re-share your creations.
Please share your YouVersion verse-pictures with the Daily Bible Reading Podcast community at this address: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DBRPdiggingdeeper/
First, visit that link and click the “Join group” button on the right side of the title picture! (It may take a day or two before I get around to approving you as a member.) Then when you mark a verse or make a verse-picture, after you share it in your normal fashion, please click the share button again. Choose Facebook. Note that the default choice on the top line will be to share “On your own timeline.” Click the little triangular button next to the words “On your own Timeline,” and pick to share “To a group.” If you have already joined the DBRPdiggingdeeper group, you will be able to choose it there. It’s quick and easy to share!
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