Precious to God | Audio Reading | Our Daily Bread Devotional | December 17, 2025
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🗓️ 17 December 2025
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| 0:00.0 | You are precious and honored in my sight. |
| 0:05.0 | Isaiah 43.4. |
| 0:08.4 | Welcome to this daily encouragement from our daily bread. |
| 0:12.7 | Precious to God was written and read by James Banks. |
| 0:25.4 | Isaiah chapter 43, verses 1 through 7. |
| 0:30.4 | But now this is what the Lord says. |
| 0:34.7 | He who created you, Jacob, he who formed you Israel. Do not fear, for I have redeemed you. I have summoned you by name. You are mine. |
| 0:43.8 | When you pass through the waters, I will be with you, and when you pass through the rivers, |
| 0:50.2 | they will not sweep over you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned. The flames will not set you ablaze. |
| 1:00.6 | For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I give Egypt for your ransom, |
| 1:09.4 | Cush and Sabah in your stead, since you are precious and honored in my |
| 1:15.5 | sight, and because I love you, I will give people in exchange for you, nations in exchange for your |
| 1:24.1 | life. Do not be afraid, for I am with you. I will bring your children from the east |
| 1:32.0 | and gather you from the west. I will say to the north, give them up, and to the south, do not hold them |
| 1:39.7 | back. Bring my sons from afar and my daughters from the ends of the earth, |
| 1:45.9 | everyone who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made. |
| 1:58.3 | Precious to God. |
| 2:06.1 | The painting hung on the wall of a home for years, unnoticed and forgotten, |
| 2:15.0 | until one day it fell. When it was taken to an art restorer for repairs, he discovered it was a long-lost Rembrandt masterpiece titled The Adoration of the Magi. |
| 2:20.6 | It had been thought that only copies of the work remained, but here was the original. |
| 2:27.0 | Suddenly the paintings value skyrocketed to hundreds of millions of dollars. |
| 2:34.5 | The Bible paints another picture of underestimated value and forgotten worth. |
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