Resting in God | Audio Reading | Our Daily Bread Devotional | December 19, 2025
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🗓️ 19 December 2025
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| 0:00.0 | The night before Herod was to bring him to trial, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, Acts 12, 6. |
| 0:08.6 | Welcome to this daily encouragement from our daily bread. |
| 0:12.9 | Resting in God was written by Leslie Coe and read by Stephen Tabor. |
| 0:21.7 | Acts chapter 12, verses 5 through 11. |
| 0:25.9 | So Peter was kept in prison, but the church was earnestly praying to God for him. |
| 0:31.5 | The night before Herod was to bring him to trial, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, |
| 0:36.7 | bound with two chains, and sentry stood guard at the |
| 0:39.9 | entrance. Suddenly, an angel of the Lord appeared, and a light shone in the cell. He struck Peter on the |
| 0:46.9 | side and woke him up. Quick, get up, he said, and the chains fell off Peter's wrists. Then the |
| 0:53.6 | angel said to him, Put on your clothes and sandals, |
| 0:57.0 | and Peter did so. Wrap your cloak around you and follow me, the angel told him. Peter followed him |
| 1:03.7 | out of the prison, but he had no idea that what the angel was doing was really happening. He thought he was |
| 1:10.3 | seeing a vision. They passed the |
| 1:12.7 | first and second guards and came to the iron gate leading to the city. It opened for them |
| 1:18.5 | by itself, and they went through it. When they had walked the length of one street, suddenly |
| 1:24.2 | the angel left him. Then Peter came to himself and said, |
| 1:28.5 | Now I know without a doubt that the Lord has sent his angel and rescued me from Herod's |
| 1:35.3 | clutches and from everything the Jewish people were hoping would happen. |
| 1:42.3 | Resting in God, written by Leslie Coe. |
| 1:46.6 | My neighbor Sam returned home one night without his car. |
| 1:50.6 | It was stolen, he told his wife, then added, I'm going to sleep. |
| 1:54.9 | I'll sort it out tomorrow. |
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