Day 116: David and Abigail (2025)

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🗓️ 26 April 2025

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Summary

Fr. Mike reflects on the relationship between David and Abigail, and how the Lord calls David to be a better man through Abigail. Where has God put these types of relationships in our lives? Today's readings are 1 Samuel 25 and Psalm 63.

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0:00.0	Hi, my name's Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Bible in a year podcast, where we
0:07.9	encounter God's voice and live life through the lens of scripture. The Bible in a year podcast is brought to you by
0:12.8	Ascension. Using the great adventure Bible timeline, we'll read all the way from Genesis to Revelation
0:17.9	discovering how the story of salvation unfolds and how we fit into that
0:21.1	story today. It is day 116, and today we are reading one chapter from Samuel again, 1st Samuel
0:26.6	chapter 25, the death of Samuel and the rise, well, the next step in David's life. We're also
0:33.8	praying from the book of Psalms, and we're praying Psalm 50, sorry, 63, my goodness.
0:40.0	If you want to download your own Bible in a year reading plan, you can get that at essentialpress.com
0:44.2	slash Bible in a year, and you wouldn't even need me to say this.
0:47.0	I would know right away, you would know right away that what we're praying is Psalm 63 today.
0:52.3	Goodness gracious.
0:53.2	We're also reading from the revised
0:54.6	standard version, the second Catholic edition. I'm using the Great Adventure Bible from
0:58.3	Ascension. If you want to also subscribe to this podcast, you can. You have my
1:02.0	permission to do that if you'd like. Once again, as I said, it is day 116. We're reading
1:06.8	1st Samuel chapter 25. We're praying Psalm 63. 1st Samuel chapter 25 we're praying Psalm 63 first Samuel chapter 25 death of
1:15.1	Samuel now Samuel died and all Israel assembled and mourned for him and they buried him in his
1:22.3	house at Rama David and Abigail then David rose and went down to the wilderness of Paran.
1:29.7	And there was a man in Maun whose business was in Carmel.
1:33.0	The man was very rich, and he had 3,000 sheep and a thousand goats.
1:36.7	He was shearing his sheep in Carmel.
1:38.9	Now, the name of the man was Nabal, and the name of his wife, Abigail.
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