Operating with Prayer | Audio Reading | Our Daily Bread Devotional | May 4, 2023
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🗓️ 4 May 2023
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to today's encouragement from the Our Daily Bread Devotional. |
| 0:09.7 | Our reading titled Operating with Prayer was written by Jennifer Benson Schultt. |
| 0:15.8 | When my son needed orthopedic surgery, I was grateful for the doctor who performed the operation. |
| 0:22.7 | The doctor, who was nearing retirement, assured us he'd helped thousands of people with the same |
| 0:28.6 | problem. Even so, before the procedure, he prayed and asked God to provide a good outcome. And I'm so |
| 0:36.3 | grateful he did. In Second Chronicles chapter 20, |
| 0:41.3 | Jehoshaphat, an experienced national leader, prayed too during a crisis. The three nations had |
| 0:48.3 | united against him, and they were coming to attack his people. Although he had more than two |
| 0:53.7 | decades of experience, he decided |
| 0:56.1 | to ask God what to do. He prayed, we will cry out to you in our distress, and you will hear us and |
| 1:02.7 | save us. He also asked for guidance, saying, we do not know what to do, but our eyes are on you. |
| 1:10.6 | Jehoshaphat's humble approach to the challenge |
| 1:13.1 | opened his heart to God's involvement, which came in the form of encouragement and divine |
| 1:18.4 | intervention. No matter how much experience we have in certain areas, praying for help develops |
| 1:24.7 | a holy reliance on God. It reminds us that he knows more than we do, |
| 1:29.8 | and he's ultimately in control. It puts us in a humble place, a place where he's pleased |
| 1:36.0 | to respond and support us no matter what the outcome may be. |
| 1:48.8 | Today's Our Daily Bread Devotional Scripture reading is from Second Chronicles Chapter 20, verses 1 through 12. |
| 1:52.2 | After this, the Moabites and Ammonites with some of the Meyunites came to wage war against |
| 1:58.2 | Jehoshaphat. |
| 2:00.1 | Some people came and told Jehochefat, |
| 2:02.6 | a vast army is coming against you from Edom. |
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