Feed the Need | Audio Reading | Our Daily Bread Devotional | August 21, 2025
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🗓️ 21 August 2025
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| 0:00.0 | No one claimed that any of their possessions was their own, but they shared everything they had. |
| 0:06.8 | Acts chapter 4 verse 32. |
| 0:11.8 | Welcome to this daily encouragement from Our Daily Bread. |
| 0:16.0 | Feed the Need was written and read by Elisa Morgan. |
| 0:21.5 | Acts chapter 4 verses 32 through 37 |
| 0:25.2 | All the believers were one in heart and mind. |
| 0:30.2 | No one claimed that any of their possessions was their own, |
| 0:33.3 | but they shared everything they had. |
| 0:35.8 | With great power, the apostles continued to testify to the |
| 0:39.5 | resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and God's grace was so powerfully at work in them all that there |
| 0:45.5 | were no needy persons among them. From time to time, those who owned land or houses sold them, |
| 0:53.0 | brought the money from the sales, and put it |
| 0:55.3 | at the Apostle's feet, and it was distributed to anyone who had need. |
| 1:01.0 | Joseph, a Levite from Cyprus, whom the Apostles called Barnabas, which means son of encouragement, |
| 1:08.5 | sold a field he owned and brought the money and put it at the |
| 1:12.2 | apostles' feet. Feed the need. Lisa and Freddie McMillan own a unique restaurant in |
| 1:22.3 | Bruton, Alabama. They offer a full hot meal to all who stand in line, at no charge. This couple has invested |
| 1:31.5 | from their own savings to make a difference for senior citizens who often go without meals |
| 1:37.0 | and rarely enjoy a restaurant experience. A donation box receives contributions. Lisa says, sometimes we find nothing in there. |
| 1:47.4 | Sometimes a thank you note. |
| 1:49.3 | Sometimes $1,000. |
| 1:52.0 | Always we have everything we need. |
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