In God's Presence
Our Daily Bread Podcast
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🗓️ 30 January 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider its ways and be wise. Proverbs 6.6. |
| 0:08.5 | Welcome to this daily encouragement from our daily bread. |
| 0:12.9 | In God's presence was written by Adam R. Holtz and read by Stephen Tabor. |
| 0:21.6 | Proverbs chapter 6 verses 6 through 11. |
| 0:26.6 | Go to the ant, you sluggard, consider its ways and be wise. |
| 0:31.6 | It has no commander, no overseer, or ruler. |
| 0:35.6 | Yet it stores its provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest. |
| 0:40.7 | How long will you lie there, you sluggard? When will you get up from your sleep? |
| 0:46.1 | A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest, and poverty will |
| 0:52.7 | come on you like a thief, and scarcity like an armed man. |
| 0:59.9 | In God's Presence, written by Adam R. Holes. In 1692, Brother Lawrence's work, the practice of the |
| 1:09.0 | presence of God, was first published. |
| 1:11.7 | In it, he described how he invited God into his mundane daily activities. |
| 1:17.4 | Brother Lawrence's words still challenge us to prayerfully seek God in everything we do, |
| 1:23.5 | like mowing the yard, getting groceries, or walking the dog. |
| 1:31.1 | Each day, I take our dog Winston for a walk. |
| 1:33.4 | My goal for him is to exercise. |
| 1:34.7 | Winston's goal? |
| 1:36.7 | Sniffing, everything. |
| 1:40.0 | Calling this time a walk is a generous fiction. |
| 1:42.7 | More often, we're going for a stop. |
| 1:48.1 | Lately, instead of getting frustrated by a lack of forward progress i've been asking god to help me see these moments as a reminder that life is a lot like walking a dog we experience |
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