Mercy and Grace | Audio Reading | Our Daily Bread Devotional | August 30, 2021
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🗓️ 30 August 2021
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to today's encouragement from your friends at Our Daily Bread. |
| 0:10.4 | The devotional for today is titled Mercy and Grace, and it was written by James Banks. |
| 0:16.7 | A stately sunflower stood on its own in the center of a lonely stretch of National Highway, |
| 0:22.6 | just a few feet from the fast lane. As I drove past, I wondered how it had grown there with no other |
| 0:29.3 | sunflowers visible for miles. Only God could create a plant so hardy it could thrive so close to |
| 0:36.0 | the roadway in the gray gravel lining the median. |
| 0:39.2 | There it was, thriving, swaying gently in the breeze, and cheerfully greeting travelers as they |
| 0:44.8 | hurried by. The Old Testament tells the story of a faithful king of Judah who also showed up |
| 0:51.3 | unexpectedly. His father and grandfather had enthusiastically served other gods. |
| 0:58.1 | But after Josiah had been in power for eight years, while he was still young, |
| 1:03.4 | he began to seek the God of his father, David. He sent workmen to repair the temple of the Lord, |
| 1:09.2 | and as they did, they discovered the book of |
| 1:11.2 | the law, the first five books of the Old Testament. |
| 1:14.9 | God then inspired Josiah to lead the entire nation of Judah to return to the faith of their |
| 1:20.6 | ancestors, and they served the Lord as long as Josiah lived. |
| 1:25.9 | Our God is the master of unanticipated mercies. |
| 1:30.6 | He's able to cause great good to spring up unexpectedly out of the hard gravel of life's most |
| 1:36.9 | unfavorable circumstances. |
| 1:39.6 | Watch him closely. |
| 1:40.9 | He may do it again today. |
| 1:48.6 | Thank you. closely, he may do it again today. Now let's turn our attention to God's Word, and we'll go to Second Chronicles, |
| 1:53.6 | chapter 34, verses 1 through 8. |
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