Joyful Resilience
Our Daily Bread Podcast
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🗓️ 29 December 2025
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| 0:00.0 | I will rejoice in the Lord. |
| 0:03.0 | I will be joyful in God, my Savior. |
| 0:06.3 | Habakkuk 318. |
| 0:08.5 | Welcome to this daily encouragement from our daily bread. |
| 0:13.0 | Joyful resilience was written by Marvin Williams |
| 0:16.0 | and read by Wes Ward. |
| 0:21.9 | Habakkuk chapter chapter 3, verses 16 through 19. |
| 0:26.7 | I heard and my heart pounded, my lips quivered at the sound. |
| 0:32.5 | Decay crept into my bones and my legs trembled. |
| 0:36.6 | Yet, I will wait patiently for the day of calamity to come on the |
| 0:40.9 | nation invading us. Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, |
| 0:47.2 | though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the |
| 0:53.4 | pen and no cattle in the stalls, yet I |
| 0:56.7 | will rejoice in the Lord. I will be joyful in God, my Savior. The sovereign Lord is my strength. |
| 1:06.0 | He makes my feet like the feet of a deer. He enables me to tread on the heights, for the director of music |
| 1:13.7 | on my stringed instruments. |
| 1:18.9 | Joyful Resilience, written by Marvin Williams. Scientists studied the resilience of 16 societies worldwide, including the Yukon and Australian |
| 1:33.0 | Outback. They analyzed thousands of years of archaeological records, tracing the impact of famines, |
| 1:41.4 | wars, and climate. One factor stood out, the frequency of downturns. |
| 1:48.5 | One would think that they would weaken societies, but the researchers found the opposite to be |
| 1:53.6 | true. Instead, they found that societies that faced frequent hardships, developed resilience, |
| 2:00.4 | bouncing back faster from future challenges. |
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