A Nonanxious Presence
Our Daily Bread Podcast
Our Daily Bread Ministries
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2026
⏱️ 4 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Helping you connect with God. Every day. Every way.
Read along with today’s devotional: https://www.odbm.org/en/devotionals/devotional-category/a-nonanxious-presence
Want to get Our Daily Bread’s daily devotionals delivered to your inbox or mailbox? Subscribe for free here: https://odbm.org.
Our Daily Bread Ministries helps millions of people connect with God each day. For more than 75 years, our purpose has remained the same: to reach people with the life-changing wisdom of the Bible.
All Scripture from the New International Version, unless otherwise noted.
SUPPORT Our Daily Bread
Your generous support helps us make the life-changing wisdom of the Bible understandable and accessible to people around the world. https://donations.ourdailybread.org/intm9.html?motivation=INTM9
More Podcasts from Our Daily Bread:
Discover the Word: https://www.discovertheword.org
God Hears Her: https://www.godhearsher.org/podcast
Ways To Connect With Us:
Facebook: https://facebook.com/ourdailybread
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ourdailybread/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ourdailybread
Print Subscription: https://odb.org/getprint
App: https://odb.org/mobile-resources
Web: https://odbm.org
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | In peace, I will lie down and sleep. |
| 0:04.1 | Psalm 4.8. |
| 0:07.7 | Welcome to today's encouragement from our daily bread. |
| 0:11.8 | A non-anxious presence was written by John Blaze and read by Stephen Tabor. |
| 0:21.7 | Psalm 4 |
| 0:22.7 | Answer me when I call to you, my righteous God. |
| 0:28.4 | Give me relief from my distress. |
| 0:31.0 | Have mercy on me and hear my prayer. |
| 0:34.2 | How long will you people turn my glory into shame? |
| 0:41.0 | How long will you love delusions and seek false gods? |
| 0:49.1 | Know that the Lord has set apart his faithful servant for himself. The Lord hears when I call to him. |
| 0:54.8 | Tremble and do not sin when you are on your beds. Search your hearts and be silent. |
| 0:57.8 | Offer the sacrifices of the righteous and trust in the Lord. |
| 1:02.9 | Many Lord are asking, Who will bring us prosperity? |
| 1:07.4 | Let the light of your face shine on us. |
| 1:10.3 | Fill my heart with joy when their grain and new wine abound. |
| 1:15.0 | In peace, I will lie down and sleep. |
| 1:18.5 | For you alone, Lord, make me dwell in safety. |
| 1:25.4 | A non-anxiousence, written by John Blaze. |
| 1:30.0 | In his 1985 book, Generation to Generation, Family Therapist and Rabbi Edwin Friedman |
| 1:36.7 | introduced the phrase, a non-anxious presence. |
| 1:40.5 | Friedman's thesis, later articulated in a failure of nerve, is that the climate of contemporary |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Our Daily Bread Ministries, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Our Daily Bread Ministries and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.