Day 166: Responding in Faith (2026)

Mike Schmitz· Host0:00

[gentle music] Hi, my name's Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Bible in a Year podcast, where we encounter God's voice and live life through the lens of Scripture. The Bible in a Year podcast is brought to you by Ascension. Using the Great Adventure Bible timeline, we'll read all the way from Genesis to Revelation, discovering how the story of salvation unfolds and how we fit into that story today. It is day 166. We are reading five chapters once again, kind of like yesterday. Kind of a long one, kind of a slog, but it's gonna be awesome because we're reading I Kings chapter seventeen and eighteen. We're getting introduced to our buddy Elijah the prophet. And also II Chronicles chapters eighteen and nineteen, hearing more about Jehoshaphat. Remember that good king in the south? We're also praying and reading Song of Solomon chapter five as always. The Bible translation that I'm reading from 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.com/bibleinayear. And if you want to subscribe to this podcast, you can do that, and you can receive daily episodes every single day as we put out an episode every single day. As I said, we're in I Kings chapters seventeen and eighteen, II Chronicles chapters eighteen and nineteen, and Song of Solomon, right smack dab in the middle with Song of Solomon chapter five. The First Book of Kings, chapter seventeen. Elijah's prophecy of a drought. Now Elijah the Tishbite, of Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, "As the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall be neither dew nor rain these years, except by my