Growing Strong in God | Audio Reading | Our Daily Bread Devotional | October 24, 2025
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🗓️ 24 October 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Fight the battle well, holding on to faith and a good conscience. |
| 0:06.3 | 1 Timothy 1, verses 18 through 19. |
| 0:12.6 | Welcome to this daily encouragement from our daily bread. |
| 0:17.0 | Growing strong in God was written by Bill Crowder and read by West Ward. |
| 0:23.5 | 1 Timothy chapter 1 verses 12 through 20. |
| 0:27.3 | I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has given me strength, that he considered me |
| 0:33.4 | trustworthy, appointing me to his service. |
| 0:37.1 | Even though I was once a blasphemer and a persecutor and |
| 0:41.1 | a violent man, I was shown mercy because I acted in ignorance and unbelief. The grace of our Lord |
| 0:49.1 | was poured out on me abundantly, along with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus. |
| 0:56.3 | Here is a trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance. |
| 1:01.0 | Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the worst. |
| 1:07.0 | But for that very reason, I was shown mercy so that in me the worst of sinners Christ Jesus might |
| 1:13.1 | display his immense patience as an example for those who would believe in him and receive |
| 1:20.1 | eternal life. Now, to the king eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen. |
| 1:31.0 | Timothy, my son, I am giving you this command in keeping with the prophecies once made about you, |
| 1:37.0 | so that by recalling them, you may fight the battle well, holding on to faith and a good conscience, |
| 1:43.9 | which some have rejected, and so |
| 1:46.3 | have suffered shipwreck with regard to the faith. Among them are Hymenius and Alexander, |
| 1:53.7 | whom I have handed over to Satan to be taught not to blaspheme. |
| 2:01.1 | Growing Strong in God, written by Bill Crowder. |
| 2:06.0 | As a boy, I loved reading stories about pirates. |
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