Our Daily Bread Devotional 26 August 2022 ODB Today Titled Just Ask!

DAILY BREAD DEVOTION OF THE DAY, FRIDAY 26TH AUGUST 2022

Read today’s Our Daily Bread Devotional 26 August 2022 ODB Today titled Just Ask! for our spiritual daily bread for growth and development today.

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TOPIC: JUST ASK!

Our Daily Bread Devotional 26th August 2022 ODB Today || Bible Verse

You do not have because you do not ask God. – James 4:2

Our Daily Bread Devotional 26 August 2022 ODB Today || Today’s Scripture & Insight: Philippians 4:4–7

READ || Our Daily Bread Devotional 26 August 2022 ODB Today || INSIGHT

The gleeful shouts arising from our basement came from my wife, Shirley. For hours she’d wrestled with a newsletter project, and she was ready to be done with it. In her anxiety and uncertainty about how to move forward, she prayed for God’s help. She also reached out to Facebook friends and soon the project was completed—a team effort.

While a newsletter project is a little thing in life, small (and not so small) things can bring about worry or anxiousness. Perhaps you’re a parent walking through the stages of childrearing for the first time; a student facing newfound academic challenges; a person grieving the loss of a loved one; or someone experiencing a home, work, or ministry challenge. Sometimes we’re needlessly on edge because we don’t ask God for help (James 4:2).

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Paul pointed the followers of Jesus in Philippi and us to our first line of defense in times of need: “Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God” (Philippians 4:6). When life gets complicated, we need reminders like the one from the hymn “What a Friend We Have in Jesus”: