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OUR DAILY BREAD READING (Published Daily by Our Daily Bread Ministries) MARCH 11, 2023 READ: 1 Samuel 16 (Focus vs.14–23) MEMORY VERSE “David would take up his lyre and play. Then relief would come to Saul.” 1 Samuel 16:23 BACKGROUND When five-year-old Bella was hospitalized for cancer in North Dakota, she received music therapy as […]

OUR DAILY BREAD READING (Published Daily by Our Daily Bread Ministries) MARCH 9, 2023 READ: Deuteronomy 6 (Focus vs. 4-9) MEMORY VERSE “Write [these commandments] on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.” Deuteronomy 6:9 BACKGROUND As I scanned my social media feed in the aftermath of the 2016 flood in southern Louisiana,

OUR DAILY BREAD READING (Published Daily by Our Daily Bread Ministries) March 8, 2023 READ: Psalm 68 (Focus vs. 1-14) MEMORY VERSE “The Lord announces the word, and the women who proclaim it are a mighty throng.” Psalm 68:11 BACKGROUND In 2020, celebrations marked the one hundredth anniversary of the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment

OUR DAILY BREAD READING (Published Daily by Our Daily Bread Ministries) MARCH 7, 2023 READ: Luke 22 (Focus vs. 31–34 & 54–62) MEMORY VERSE “When you have turned back, strengthen your brothers.” Luke 22:32 BACKGROUND Raj had trusted Jesus as Savior in his youth, but soon afterward, he drifted from the faith and led a

OUR DAILY BREAD READING (Published Daily by Our Daily Bread Ministries) READ: 2 Chronicles 35:20–27 MEMORY VERSE “[Josiah] would not listen to what Necho had said at God’s command.” 2 Chronicles 35:22 BACKGROUND Back when I was driving to college and back home again, the road to our house in the desert seemed painfully dull.

OUR DAILY BREAD READING (Published Daily by Our Daily Bread Ministries) READ: Psalm 1 MEMORY VERSE “Blessed is the one . . . who meditates on his law, day and night.” Psalm 1:1–2 BACKGROUND When Andrew and his family went on safari in Kenya, they had the pleasure of watching a variety of animals frequenting

OUR DAILY BREAD READING (Published Daily by Our Daily Bread Ministries) READ: Matthew 11 (Focus vs. 28–30) MEMORY VERSE “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.” Matthew 11:28 BACKGROUND The restless soul is never satisfied with wealth and success. A deceased country music icon could testify

OUR DAILY BREAD READING (Published Daily by Our Daily Bread Ministries) READ: Numbers 22:21–31 MEMORY VERSE “Then the Lord opened the donkey’s mouth.” Numbers 22:28 BACKGROUND Jack knew how to put trains on the right track. In nine years of work, he never missed a track switch as locomotives drew near the Uitenhage, South Africa,

OUR DAILY BREAD READING (Published Daily by Our Daily Bread Ministries) READ: Acts 9 (Focus vs. 36–42) MEMORY VERSE All the widows stood around [Peter], crying and showing him the robes and other clothing that Dorcas had made. Acts 9:39 BACKGROUND In the last few days of my dad’s life, one of the nurses dropped

OUR DAILY BREAD READING (Published Daily by Our Daily Bread Ministries) READ: Acts 5 (Focus vs. 17–21, 25–29, 41–42) MEMORY VERSE “Day after day, . . . [the apostles] never stopped teaching and proclaiming the good news that Jesus is the Messiah.” Acts 5:42 BACKGROUND In an interview, a musician who’s a believer in Christ