Made for Community
Our Daily Bread Podcast
Our Daily Bread Ministries
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🗓️ 18 March 2026
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| 0:00.0 | A chord of three strands is not quickly broken. |
| 0:05.0 | Ecclesiastes 4 verse 12. |
| 0:10.0 | Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread. |
| 0:13.0 | Made for Community was written by Alison Keita and read by Rochelle Trubb. |
| 0:25.4 | Ecclesiastes chapter 4, verses 8 through 12. |
| 0:29.0 | There was a man all alone. |
| 0:31.3 | He had neither son nor brother. |
| 0:37.0 | There was no end to his toil, yet his eyes were not content with his wealth. For whom am I toiling, he asked, |
| 0:40.1 | and why am I depriving myself of enjoyment? This, too, is meaningless, a miserable business. |
| 0:48.1 | Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor. If either of them falls down, one can help the other up. |
| 0:58.0 | But pity anyone who falls and has no one to help them up. Also, if two lie down together, |
| 1:05.9 | they will keep warm, but how can one keep warm alone? Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. |
| 1:14.6 | A cord of three strands is not quickly broken. |
| 1:18.6 | Made for Community, written by Alison Keeta. |
| 1:24.6 | When my husband Alan and I decided to move across the country to Philadelphia to further |
| 1:30.3 | his education, I didn't have a job lined up, and we had no idea how we would afford student |
| 1:37.3 | housing. |
| 1:38.3 | On a Sunday, shortly before we were to leave, a church acquaintance introduced us to a former student of the university Alan was to attend who knew of an affordable apartment. |
| 1:50.0 | Then, before we left, a workmate gave me the name of a contact at a Christian ministry. |
| 1:56.0 | God answered our prayers and gave us opportunities, including an apartment and a job through his people. |
| 2:05.4 | Friends and family helped us move and ushered us on with prayer. |
| 2:10.5 | The author of Ecclesiastes wrote about the benefits of not going through life alone. |
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