A Friend at Midnight | Audio Reading | Our Daily Bread Devotional | July 30, 2025
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| 0:00.0 | I no longer call you servants because a servant does not know his master's business. |
| 0:05.8 | Instead, I have called you friends. |
| 0:08.8 | John 15, verse 15. |
| 0:12.8 | Welcome to this daily encouragement from our daily bread. |
| 0:17.2 | A friend at midnight was written and read by Sheridan Voisey. |
| 0:23.7 | John chapter 15 verses 9 to 17. |
| 0:28.0 | As the father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. If you keep my commands, |
| 0:35.4 | you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my father's commands and remain in his love. |
| 0:40.8 | I have told you this so that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be complete. |
| 0:46.3 | My command is this. |
| 0:48.0 | Love each other, as I have loved you. |
| 0:50.6 | Greater love has no one than this, to lay down one's life for one's friends. |
| 0:55.0 | You are my friends if you do what I command. |
| 0:58.0 | I no longer call you servants because a servant does not know his master's business. |
| 1:02.0 | Instead, I have called you friends. |
| 1:05.0 | For everything that I learned from my father I have made known to you. |
| 1:09.0 | You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed |
| 1:13.1 | you so that you might go and bear fruit, fruit that will last, and so that whatever you ask |
| 1:18.5 | in my name the father will give you. This is my command. Love each other. |
| 1:26.5 | A friend at midnight. |
| 1:29.3 | Who can you call at midnight when everything has gone wrong? |
| 1:33.3 | This question shook me when I first heard it years ago. |
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