Growth Through Pain | Audio Reading | Our Daily Bread Devotional | December 3, 2025
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| 0:00.0 | It was good for me to be afflicted so that I might learn your decrees. |
| 0:06.9 | Psalm 119, verse 71. |
| 0:11.8 | Welcome to this daily encouragement from our daily bread. |
| 0:16.0 | Growth through pain was written by Marvin, and read by Wes Ward. |
| 0:22.3 | Psalm 119, verses 65 through 72. |
| 0:27.4 | Do good to your servant, according to your word, Lord. |
| 0:31.8 | Teach me knowledge and good judgment, for I trust your commands. |
| 0:37.4 | Before I was afflicted, I went astray, but now I obey your |
| 0:41.7 | word. You are good, and what you do is good. Teach me your decrees. Though the arrogant have |
| 0:49.2 | smeared me with lies, I keep your precepts with all my heart. Their hearts are callous and unfeeling, |
| 0:57.6 | but I delight in your law. It was good for me to be afflicted so that I might learn your decrees. |
| 1:06.3 | The law from your mouth is more precious to me than thousands of pieces of silver and gold. |
| 1:14.1 | Growth Through Pain, written by Marvin Williams. |
| 1:19.3 | The brain is remarkably small, but stress can make it even smaller. |
| 1:25.3 | Recent research has revealed that cumulative stress can shrink the |
| 1:30.1 | prefrontal cortex, the part of the brain responsible for managing emotions, impulses, and |
| 1:36.6 | social interactions. This shrinkage is linked to anxiety and depression, highlighting the toll that a lifetime of stress can take. |
| 1:47.6 | But there's good news. The brain's plasticity allows it to heal through intentional practices |
| 1:54.3 | like exercise, meditation, and meaningful relationships. The psalmist in Psalm 119 understood this idea of growth and healing |
| 2:05.1 | after facing stress and hardship, saying, it was good for me to be afflicted so that I might learn |
| 2:13.2 | your decrees. Affliction, though painful, became the psalmist's teacher, taking us from being |
| 2:21.4 | astray from God to choosing to obey His Word. The psalmist expresses gratitude for his bitter medicine |
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