Day 212: God's Instrument (2025)
The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
Ascension
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🗓️ 31 July 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Fr. Mike highlights the works of King Cyrus, who we met yesterday, and how he is able to contribute to the will of God without actually knowing him. Cyrus not only shows us that no soul is ever too far for God's grace, but that God makes all things new, and is able to bring beautiful blessings from the most desperate situations. Today's readings are Isaiah 45-46, Ezekiel 6-7, and Proverbs 12:9-12.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Bible in a year podcast, |
| 0:07.6 | where we encounter God's voice and live life through the lens of scripture. |
| 0:10.8 | The Bible in a year podcast is brought to you by Ascension. |
| 0:13.6 | Using the great adventure Bible timeline, we'll read all the way from Genesis to Revelation, |
| 0:17.5 | discovering how the story of salvation unfold and how we fit into that story today. It is day 20012. We're reading from Isaiah chapter 45 and 46, also Ezekiel, chapter 6 and 7, and Proverbs chapter 12, verses 9 through 12. The Bible translation that I'm reading from, as always, is the revised standard version, second Catholic edition. I'm using the Great Adventure Bible from Ascension. if you want to download your own bible in a year reading plan you can visit ascensionpress |
| 0:40.4 | com slash bible in a year you can also subscribe to this podcast by clicking on and subscribe and receiving |
| 0:45.4 | daily episodes and updates and all those kinds of things that we do it is day two hundred and |
| 0:49.6 | twelve as i said we are now in isaiah, 45 and 46, Ezekiel chapter 6 and 7 and Proverbs chapter 12 |
| 1:01.5 | verses 9 through 12. |
| 1:05.5 | The book of the prophet Isaiah chapter 45, Cyrus, God's instrument. |
| 1:14.3 | Thus says the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have grasped, to subdue nations before him and uncover the loins of kings, to open doors |
| 1:20.2 | before him that gates may not be closed. I will go before you and level the mountains. I will break in pieces |
| 1:26.5 | the doors of bronze and cut asunder the bars of iron. I will break in pieces at the doors of bronze and cut |
| 1:28.1 | asunder the bars of iron. I will give you the treasures of darkness and the hordes in secret places. |
| 1:34.2 | That you may know that it is I, the Lord, the God of Israel, who call you by your name. |
| 1:39.4 | For the sake of my servant, Jacob, and Israel, my chosen, I call you by your name. I surname you, though you do not |
| 1:46.5 | know me. I am the Lord, and there is no other. Besides me, there is no God. I clothe you, though you do |
| 1:54.1 | not know me, that men may know from the rising of the sun and from the west that there is none besides me. |
| 2:00.1 | I am the Lord, and there is no other. I |
| 2:03.0 | form light and create darkness. I make well-being and create woe. I am the Lord who do all these |
| 2:09.3 | things. Shower, O heavens, from above, and let the skies rain down righteousness, let the earth open |
| 2:15.5 | that salvation may sprout forth, and let it cause |
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