Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread.

Today's reading titled The Jesus Chair was written by Dave Brannon.

When my friend Marge met Tammy at a Bible study meeting, she noticed that they seemed

to have little in common, but Marge befriended a Bible study meeting, she noticed that they seemed to have little in common.

But Marge befriended her, and she learned a valuable lesson from her new friend.

Tammy had never been to a Bible study, and she was having a hard time understanding something

the other women in the study talked about, that God communicated with them, something

she'd never experienced. She's so desired to hear

from God that she took action. Later, she told Marge, I set aside an old wooden chair, and every time

I study my Bible, I ask Jesus to come sit in it. Then Tammy explained that whenever a verse stood

out to her, she would write

out the verse in chalk on the chair. It's become her special Jesus chair, and she's filled

it up with God's messages to her directly from the Bible. Marge says, the Jesus chair has changed

Tammy's life. She's growing spiritually because Scripture is becoming personal.

In John 8 while speaking to Jewish believers, Jesus said,

If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples.

Then you will know the truth and the truth will set you free.

Let's hold to his teaching, whether it means writing

his words on a chair, memorizing them, or seeking to put them into action. The truth and

wisdom of Christ's messages help us grow in him and set us free.

Today's Our Daily Bread devotional scripture reading is from John chapter 8 verses 27 through 32.

They did not understand that he was telling them about his father.

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