God, Our Safe Place | Audio Reading | Our Daily Bread Devotional | July 26, 2025
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| 0:00.0 | The name of the Lord is a fortified tower, the righteous run to it, and are safe. |
| 0:06.2 | Proverbs 18, verse 10. |
| 0:08.9 | Welcome to this daily encouragement from our daily bread. |
| 0:13.1 | God, our safe place, was written by Jennifer Benson Schultt and read by Rochelle Traub. |
| 0:22.6 | Proverbs chapter 18 verses 10 through 11. |
| 0:26.2 | The name of the Lord is a fortified tower, the righteous run to it and are safe. |
| 0:31.8 | The wealth of the rich is their fortified city. |
| 0:35.2 | They imagine it a wall too high to scale. |
| 0:41.2 | God, Our Safe Place, written by Jennifer Benson Schultt. |
| 0:46.8 | We'd been driving for 15 hours, and it was late at night when a tornado alert jolted us |
| 0:52.7 | to attention. The warning said we should take |
| 0:55.4 | cover immediately. As if on cue, lightning exploded in the sky and wind pressed against our car |
| 1:02.7 | windows. We sped off the highway and parked near a concrete hotel building. Sprinting inside, |
| 1:09.6 | we were thankful to find shelter. |
| 1:12.4 | Trouble reminds us, we need a safe place to stay. Proverbs 1810 says, |
| 1:19.5 | The name of the Lord is a fortified tower, the righteous run to it and are safe. |
| 1:25.8 | Theologians tell us the phrase, the name of the Lord means the entirety of |
| 1:30.9 | who God is. All his attributes provide security as we hide ourselves in him. Because God is kind, |
| 1:40.6 | he welcomes us. Because he's good, he listens to us. Because he's love, he empathizes with us. |
| 1:49.6 | But God isn't just another way to cope with problems. He's more than a quick fix or a distraction. |
| 1:57.5 | Taking refuge in him means choosing his help over everything else. |
| 2:03.7 | We can run to him in prayer, meditate on Scripture, or surrender to the Holy Spirit in times of stress and anxiety. |
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