It Takes Two | Audio Reading | Our Daily Bread Devotional | October 14, 2025
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🗓️ 14 October 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Two people are better off than one, for they can help each other succeed. |
| 0:05.7 | Ecclesiastes 4.9 |
| 0:08.6 | Welcome to this daily encouragement from our daily bread. |
| 0:12.7 | It Takes 2 was written by Dave Brannon and read by Stephen Tabor. |
| 0:22.1 | Ecclesiastes chapter 4, verses 8 through 10. |
| 0:26.3 | There was a man all alone. |
| 0:28.7 | He had neither son nor brother. |
| 0:31.2 | There was no end to his toil. |
| 0:33.4 | Yet his eyes were not content with his wealth. |
| 0:36.9 | For whom am I toiling, he asked. and why am I depriving myself of enjoyment? |
| 0:42.6 | This too is meaningless, a miserable business. |
| 0:47.4 | Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor. |
| 0:52.2 | If either of them falls down, one can help the other up. But pity anyone |
| 0:57.7 | who falls and has no one to help them up. It Takes 2, written by Dave Brannon. |
| 1:08.3 | Climbing Jamaica's Duns River Falls is an exhilarating experience. Water cascades over the smooth |
| 1:15.0 | rocks of the falls on its way to the Caribbean. It's a challenge as climbers battle the waters |
| 1:20.6 | flow to make their way to the top. For a teenager named JW, it's a near impossibility. He's He's sight impaired, with only a pinhole view of the world. |
| 1:30.3 | But J.W. was determined to climb, and his friend Josiah was willing to team up with him. |
| 1:36.3 | Josiah was J.W.'s eyes, telling him which slippery rocks to avoid and where to put his hands and feet. |
| 1:43.3 | And J.W. was Josiah's heart, |
| 1:46.4 | showing him what courage looks like. So much of life is like that daunting climb. We shouldn't |
| 1:53.4 | walk it alone. King Solomon points us to that truth in Ecclesiastes chapter four. Two people |
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