Forgivin' Livin' Daily Podcast
Our podcasts are 5-8 minutes in length. We create these messages using one or two brief verses from the Bible that come from a devotional book. Our purpose is to help you hear the grace of Jesus in these verses so that your life may find its grounding in Christ alone. It is this grounding in grace that makes forgivin’ livin’ your way of freedom.
07/30/2026
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00(Carmelcast) The Power To Endure (Daniel 11:32; Rev 3:7,10) (Discipleship)
Our Ukrainian pastor and wife, Ivan and Zhenya Lemak, are in the midst of a terrible time of endurance as they serve Christ and His Kingdom in Sumy, Ukraine. They continue to minister creatively. They took 40 teenagers to a 7 day camp in July. Many of the children lost their parents. Some were injured. Some of them have been studying online for 7 years... because their schools were bombed. Each of them needs to find Jesus to give them the right path for their lives. Please pray for the ongoing blessing for these youth as they return home for the hard battle of standing firm for Jesus in the midst of a terrible war. They all need a deeper relationship with their Lord. We know this time with other young adult believers was life changing. They got to know Christ, the Hope of our lives! Remember to party for the persecuted believers around the world.
07/29/2026
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00(Prayer League) The God Who Suffers With You (Ps 42:3; Phil 1:13 14) (Faithfulness)
We are thankful this summer that each week members of the Prayer League have introduced us to ministry around the world that is shaped by the prayerful commitment of its members. The League has thousands of members who keep praying for those like the people we have met this summer. All of us are encouraged to become members of this league of people who are willing to pray. You can join a community of Prayer League members on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of each month as the photo above states. To be included just send an email to the League at mobilize@wmpl.org to receive an invitation as we ask for the nations (Psalm 2:8) and pray for harvest workers (Luke 10:2). We have been remembering the persecuted church this week. These Tuesday meetings would give you the opportunity to pray for those suffering for the faith of Jesus Christ wherever they are in the world. We all know that we may be next on someone’s list. But for now, we can also pray for others. Please invite someone to join you in this prayer ministry. Just send them the email address, mobilize@wmpl.org.
07/28/2026
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00(Irishcast)Thankfulness From A Grateful Heart (Psalm 44v8 Eph 5v19) (Grace)
God has to create the heart in us that is capable of overflowing with thankfulness. King David knew this as he shared these words in Psalm 51. “Create in me a clean heart oh God.” God is the one who needs to do the work. God has to give us the new heart that is able to overflow with the love of God. In Jeremiah 24:7, God promises us that He will give us this heart. “I will give them a heart to know me, that I am the LORD, and they shall be my people and I will be their God, for they shall return to me with their whole heart.” Where is your heart today? Do you know what it means to have the heart given by God that overflows with blessings? “Ask and it shall be given to you,” Jesus says. Ask today. Jesus came into this world to give all of us a heart transplant so that we might love the worlds as Jesus has loved us. Let Jesus love the world through you.
07/27/2026
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00Righteous People Are Free From Judging (Psalm 34:15; Matt 27:19) (Justification)
Dreams! Have you ever prayed for people to have dreams that leads them to faith in Jesus Christ? My friendship with Muslim Background Believers (MBB) began with Tass Saada whom I met in Jericho while visiting there with a tour group. Our friendship grew when he returned to live in Kansas City. I then became friends with both Tass and Karen. Through them I learned a great deal about what happens when a person has a dream that opens them up to Jesus. And as a result he or she commits, his or her life to Jesus while living in a country that is hostile to following Jesus Christ. During Covid, I was part of a daily online prayer ministry that connected us with several Jesus followers who once were Muslims. In many cases, Jesus appeared to these people in a dream. The outcome of the dream was their lives were changed. Now they knew the Living God but this truth came at a price of losing connections with most of the relatives living around them. Our teacher at Mount Carmel two weeks ago was speaking on Islam, Judaism and Christianity. He said we should be praying for these people who are persecuted believers. He said we should also be praying for God to use dreams to open their minds to Jesus. If you are willing to pray for persecuted Christians, here is a site that has the names of people who need our prayers. https://www.prisoneralert.com
07/26/2026
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07/25/2026
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00(Mission Cast) Like Father Like Children:Comforters (Psalm 68:5 6; 2 Corinthians 1:3) (Identity)
Jeff and Mim ground today’s mission cast in Isaiah’s declaration of God as the eternal, unrivaled King and Redeemer before turning to Psalm 68:5-6, which pictures this same sovereign God tenderly resettling orphans, widows, and prisoners into family and prosperity. We then move to 2 Corinthians 1:3, where Paul, writing amid deep affliction, blesses God as the "Father of mercies and God of all comfort" whose consolation is meant to overflow into others' lives. The episode draws these threads together into a single missional insight: God does not merely comfort individuals privately but settles them into a community of comfort, calling hearers—especially across a multicultural, multigenerational shared congregation—to extend the mercy they've received to the solitary, homebound, and afflicted around them. We both share personal examples.
07/24/2026
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00A Week Of Amazing Promises And Fulfillment From Our God (Job 9:10; 2 Cor 4:14) (Hope)
Just scroll through the verses from this week’s “Daily Texts” and see how good God your Father is to you. It is more than you can think of or imagine. And this Father God is not only doing wondrous things for us in this life but consider what is promised for us in the next. 1 Corinthians 2:9 But, as it is written, “What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him.” So hold onto your bootstraps because your Heavenly Father isn’t done surprising you with wonders. But these won’t be the wonders of this world, instead these will be the wonders of the new heavens and the new earth. Created for you to enjoy. This God who delights in you is preparing an amazing experience that is out of this world…and it is!
07/23/2026
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