A Prayerful Posture | Audio Reading | Our Daily Bread Devotional | October 18, 2025
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🗓️ 18 October 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Jehoshaphat bowed down with his face to the ground in worship before the Lord. |
| 0:06.5 | 2 Chronicles 20 verse 18. |
| 0:11.8 | Welcome to this daily encouragement from our daily bread. |
| 0:16.5 | A prayerful posture was written and read by Tom Felton. |
| 0:22.1 | 2 Chronicles chapter 20, verses 5 through 12. |
| 0:27.3 | Then Jehoshaphat stood up in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem at the temple of the Lord |
| 0:32.6 | in front of the new courtyard and said, Lord, the God of our ancestors, are you not the God who is in heaven? |
| 0:41.6 | You rule over all the kingdoms of the nations. Power and might are in your hand, and no one can |
| 0:48.4 | withstand you. Our God, did you not drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel and give it forever to the descendants of Abraham your friend? |
| 0:59.7 | They have lived in it and have built in it a sanctuary for your name, saying, |
| 1:05.5 | If calamity comes upon us, whether the sword of judgment or plague or famine, we will stand in your presence |
| 1:13.3 | before this temple that bears your name and will cry out to you in our distress, and you will |
| 1:19.3 | hear us and save us. But now here are men from Ammon, Moab, and Mount Sear, whose territory you would not allow Israel to invade |
| 1:30.8 | when they came from Egypt, so they turned away from them and did not destroy them. |
| 1:37.2 | See how they are repaying us by coming to drive us out of the possession you gave us as an |
| 1:43.0 | inheritance. |
| 1:48.0 | Our God, will you not judge them? For we have no power to face this vast army that is attacking us. |
| 1:52.0 | We do not know what to do, but our eyes are on you. |
| 1:57.0 | A prayerful posture. A lengthy battle with a chronic illness had taken its toll on Jimmy. |
| 2:07.9 | Though he desired to spend time with God each morning, praying to him and meditating on the |
| 2:12.9 | scriptures, he couldn't find a way to position his body in his chair that wasn't painful. |
| 2:18.7 | He shifted from side to side, but there was no relief. |
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