Small Beginnings
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🗓️ 6 February 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Who dares despise the day of small things, since God's eyes will rejoice when they see the chosen capstone in the hand of Zarubabel. |
| 0:09.0 | Zechariah 4, verse 10. |
| 0:12.0 | Welcome to this daily encouragement from our daily bread. |
| 0:16.0 | Small beginnings was written and read by Kirsten Holmberg. |
| 0:21.6 | Zechariah Chapter 4, verses 1 through 10. |
| 0:25.6 | Then the angel who talked with me returned and woke me up, like someone awakened from sleep. |
| 0:31.6 | He asked me, What do you see? |
| 0:34.6 | I answered, I see a solid gold lamp stand with a bowl at the top and seven |
| 0:40.4 | lamps on it, with seven channels to the lamps. Also, there are two olive trees by it, one on the right |
| 0:48.7 | of the bowl and the other on its left. I asked the angel who talked with me, what are these, my lord? He answered, |
| 0:56.7 | do you not know what these are? No, my lord, I replied. So he said to me, |
| 1:02.9 | this is the word of the Lord to Zirubabel, not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, |
| 1:11.8 | says the Lord Almighty. |
| 1:20.2 | What are you, Mighty Mountain? Before Zarubabel, you will become level ground. Then he will bring out the capstone to shouts of God bless it, God bless it. Then the word of the Lord came to me. |
| 1:27.2 | The hands of Zarubabel have laid the foundation |
| 1:29.6 | of this temple. His hands will also complete it. Then you will know that the Lord Almighty has sent |
| 1:36.7 | me to you. Who dares despise the day of small things since the seven eyes of the Lord |
| 1:43.9 | that range throughout the earth will rejoice when, since the seven eyes of the Lord that range throughout the earth |
| 1:45.5 | will rejoice when they see the chosen capstone in the hand of Zarubabel. |
| 1:53.5 | Small beginnings. |
| 1:56.5 | In 1848, engineer Charles Ellett Jr. puzzled over how to begin the process of constructing |
| 2:05.3 | the first bridge over the Niagara Falls Gorge. |
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