Seeds of Faith | Audio Reading | Our Daily Bread Devotional | May 1, 2023
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🗓️ 1 May 2023
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread. |
| 0:08.6 | I'm Kirsten Holmberg, and I titled Today's Devotion, Seeds of Faith. |
| 0:16.6 | Last spring, the night before our lawn was to be aerated, a violent windstorm blew the seeds off |
| 0:24.2 | our maple tree in one fell swoop. So when the aerating machine broke up the compacted soil by pulling |
| 0:31.3 | small cores out of the ground, it planted hundreds of maple seeds in my yard. |
| 0:45.8 | Just two short weeks later, I had the beginnings of a maple forest growing up through my lawn. |
| 0:57.4 | As I frustratedly surveyed the misplaced foliage, I was struck by the prolific abundance of new life a single tree had spawned. |
| 1:03.6 | Each of the miniature trees became a picture for me of the new life in Christ that I, |
| 1:07.1 | as merely one person, can share with others. |
| 1:13.6 | We each will have countless opportunities to give the reason for the hope that we have in the course of our lives. When we suffer for what is right with the hope of Jesus, it's |
| 1:20.6 | visible to those around us and might just become a point of curiosity to those who don't yet know God |
| 1:26.6 | personally. If we're ready when |
| 1:29.6 | they ask, then we may share the seed through which God brings forth new life. We don't have |
| 1:37.0 | to share it with everyone all at once in some kind of spiritual windstorm. Rather, we gently and respectfully drop the seed of faith into a heart |
| 1:47.4 | ready to receive it. Today's Our Daily Bread Devotional Scripture reading is from 1st Peter |
| 1:57.9 | 3, verses 8 through 16. Finally, all of you, be like-minded, be sympathetic, |
| 2:07.3 | love one another, be compassionate and humble. Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult. |
| 2:14.8 | On the contrary, repay evil with blessing. Because to this you were called so that you may |
| 2:21.6 | inherit a blessing. For whoever would love life and see good days must keep their tongue from evil |
| 2:27.7 | and their lips from deceitful speech. They must turn from evil and do good. They must seek peace |
| 2:33.9 | and pursue it. For the eyes of the Lord are on the evil and do good. They must seek peace and pursue it. |
| 2:35.5 | For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous and his ears are attentive to their prayer. |
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