Day 100 of Heart Type 365. I am your Bible study friend Kenoy. Welcome to the Heart Dive podcast.

We did it. A hundred days, you guys. How many of you all have been here since day one? Let me know in the comments. Put up a celebration sign, the little... I wish I had one of those little things. You know what I'm talking about? So, we just want to celebrate being here consistently. We have now made it a habit three times over to be in the Word of God every single day. And you know what? Even if you are here for just the second day in a row, or even the first, we celebrate that as well because there's no better place to be than in the presence of God. He dwells in our hearts, but it is in his word where we are going to draw even closer to him. So congratulations to you all. I'm excited that we get to do this life together. So if you could help us out by hitting that little thumbs up button, if you are celebrating with us today that we've made it to 100 days.

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when she's already in REM. So I just wanted to give you that heads up, because sometimes people are

like, wait a minute, where's the heart checks? Where's the email? So if it comes a day late,

it's just because it is my fault. And we appreciate your patience in allowing her to then wake up

and have a cup of coffee before

she gets to work. And speaking of patience, another thing that might happen that you might see

is that whenever a video drops, if you click on it right away, there may not be sound or closed

captioning. So you might need to give it a few minutes and even refresh your browser or exit

out and come back a few minutes later

so that the sound can catch up.

It's just something that happens on the back end on YouTube.

So hopefully that helps you guys out.

And today we will be reading 1 Samuel chapters 9 through 12.

We are being introduced to Israel's first king, King Saul. Reading from the ESV by Crossway translation, but before we begin, let's go ahead and pray.

Heavenly Father, we love you. We thank you for being our father, our king, our friend, our companion, our healer.

You are everything that we need at any time.

We're so grateful that we can come to you to open up your word, to have the freedom, to be able to worship you. We know that some of us have a greater freedom than others. But more than anything, Lord, we're just grateful for this time that we get to spend together as a family. I pray that you will, as we open up this word, speak to our hearts individually. Will your Holy Spirit do a work within us?

That can't even be taught by word. Your spirit, Lord, is able to minister to us in ways that no one

could ever on this earth. And so I just pray, Lord, that we will be open and receptive to that teaching

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