God's Wise Purposes | Audio Reading | Our Daily Bread Devotional | February 20, 2024
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🗓️ 20 February 2024
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread. |
| 0:09.3 | I'm Bill Crowder and I titled our reading, God's Wise Purposes. |
| 0:14.9 | The United Kingdom brims with history. |
| 0:18.2 | Everywhere you go, you see plaques honoring historic figures or commemorating |
| 0:22.9 | sites where important events occurred. But one such sign exemplifies the droll British sense of |
| 0:29.2 | humor. On a weathered plaque outside a bed and breakfast in Sandwich England, a message reads, |
| 0:35.6 | On this site, September 5, 1782, nothing happened. |
| 0:42.8 | Sometimes it seems to us that nothing is happening regarding our prayers. |
| 0:47.3 | We pray and pray, bringing our petitions to our father with expectation that he'll respond, |
| 0:53.3 | right now. |
| 0:54.7 | The psalmist David expressed such frustration when he prayed in Psalm 13. |
| 0:59.8 | How long, Lord, will you forget me forever? |
| 1:02.9 | How long will you hide your face from me? |
| 1:05.7 | We can easily echo those same thoughts. |
| 1:08.5 | How long, Lord, before you respond. |
| 1:13.5 | However, our God is not only perfect in his wisdom, but also in his timing. David was able to say, I trust in your unfailing love. My heart |
| 1:21.7 | rejoices in your salvation. Ecclesiastes 311 reminds us, God has made everything beautiful in its time. |
| 1:31.4 | The word beautiful means appropriate or a source of delight. |
| 1:36.2 | God may not always respond to our prayers when we'd like him to, but he's always working out his wise purposes. |
| 1:43.8 | We can take heart that when he does answer, it will be right and good and beautiful. |
| 1:55.0 | Today's our daily bread devotional scripture reading is Psalm 13. |
| 2:00.4 | How long, Lord, will you forget me forever? How long will you |
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