Living for Jesus
Our Daily Bread Podcast
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🗓️ 20 February 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Jesus died for us, so that whether we are awake or asleep, we may live together with Him. |
| 0:07.0 | 1 Thessalonians chapter 5, verse 10 |
| 0:10.0 | Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread. |
| 0:15.0 | Living for Jesus was written by Monica LaRose and read by Tony Collier. 1 Thessalonians chapter 5 verses 12 through 23. |
| 0:25.6 | Now we ask you, brothers and sisters, to acknowledge those who work hard among you, |
| 0:32.6 | who care for you in the Lord and who admonish you. |
| 0:36.6 | Hold them in the highest regard, in love, because of |
| 0:40.1 | their work. Live in peace with each other, and we urge you, brothers and sisters, warn those who |
| 0:46.3 | are idle and disruptive. Encourage the disheartened. Help the weak. Be patient with everyone. Make sure that nobody pays back wrong for wrong, |
| 0:57.5 | but always strive to do what is good for each other and for everyone else. Rejoice always, |
| 1:04.5 | pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus. Do not quench the Spirit. Do not |
| 1:14.4 | treat prophecies with contempt, but test them all. Hold on to what is good, reject every kind of evil. |
| 1:22.5 | May God Himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul, and body |
| 1:30.3 | be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. |
| 1:36.3 | Living for Jesus, written by Monica LaRose. |
| 1:41.3 | In 2023, Kenyan police intervened to end what's being called the Chicola Massacre, |
| 1:47.9 | in which hundreds died after following occult leader's directions to starve themselves to meet |
| 1:53.2 | Jesus. The leader had allegedly promised he too would leave Earth in this way after his followers |
| 1:59.4 | did. After his arrest, he denied ever teaching this. |
| 2:03.6 | The tragedy is a troubling example of how dangerous it is to blindly trust those, claiming to be spiritual leaders. |
| 2:11.6 | Cult members were so deceived that they resisted those who came to save them from starvation. One survivor described getting |
| 2:19.1 | addicted to the leader's teachings. Jesus Christ is the true leader of those who trust in him. |
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