Calling Our Heavenly Father | Audio Reading | Our Daily Bread Devotional | July 4, 2024
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🗓️ 4 July 2024
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to today's encouragement from the Our Daily Bread Devotional. |
| 0:10.1 | My name is Mike Whitmer, and I titled today's reading, Calling Our Heavenly Father. |
| 0:16.2 | Minutes after U.S. President Harry Truman announced the end of World War II. A phone rang in a small |
| 0:22.5 | clapboard house in Grandview, Missouri. A 92-year-old woman excused herself to take the call. Her |
| 0:30.1 | guest heard her say, Hello? Yes, I'm all right. Yes, I've been listening to the radio. Now, you come and see me if you can. |
| 0:42.2 | Goodbye. The elderly woman returned to her guest. That was my son, Harry. Harry's a wonderful man. |
| 0:51.2 | I knew he'd call. He always calls me after something that happens is over. |
| 0:57.0 | No matter how accomplished, no matter how old, we yearn to call our parents, to hear their |
| 1:05.0 | affirming words, well done. We may be wildly successful, but will always be their son or daughter. |
| 1:13.8 | Sadly, not everyone has this kind of relationship with their earthly parents. |
| 1:19.4 | But through Jesus, we all can have God as our father. |
| 1:23.6 | We who follow Christ are brought into the family of God, for according to Romans 8, the Spirit |
| 1:30.3 | you received brought about your adoption to sonship. We're now heirs of God and co-heirs |
| 1:36.5 | with Christ. We don't speak to God as a slave, but now have the freedom to use the intimate |
| 1:42.3 | name Jesus used in his hour of desperate need. |
| 1:46.6 | Abba, Father. |
| 1:48.8 | Do you have news? |
| 1:51.3 | Do you have needs? |
| 1:53.3 | Call the one who is your eternal home. |
| 2:07.9 | Today's Our Daily Bread Devotional Scripture reading is from Romans chapter 8, verses 12 through 21. |
| 2:17.3 | Therefore, brothers and sisters, we have an obligation, but it is not to the flesh to live according to it. |
| 2:20.9 | For if you live according to the flesh, you will die. |
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