Devotional Song: … GO TO THIS LINK … Please take the time to take in a YouTube of song and lyrics from Lauren Daigle singing … Trust In You … powerfully singing of our trust in God’s mercy and grace … no matter what!
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Highlight Verse[s]: Lamentations 3:22-23 [NLT] … 22 The faithful love of the Lord never ends! His mercies never cease. 23 Great is His faithfulness; … His mercies begin afresh each morning.
… God’s faithful mercies never cease and they are new every morning … really every moment.
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Highlight Passage [context]: Lamentations 3:1-3,13-24 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Jeremiah lays out God’s faithfulness … to be there for us no matter what we face with His mercies new every morning.
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Reference Passage : … Proverbs 3:5-6 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… We must overcome our own prejudices and expectations and simply trust in God.
Reference Passage : … Romans 8:28 [NLT] … 28 And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are the called according to His purpose for them.
… Tough one to live out, given the challenges of life, … but nonetheless truth!!
Reference Passage : … 2 Corinthians 12:9-10 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Paul, challenged by his human weakness, listens to Jesus’ answer to give us the grace we need to overcome our humans weaknesses.
My Devotional Journal: Today's ODB author, Elisa Morgan, uses a personal reflection to illustrate how we must trust in God’s timing and His ways rather than on our own expectations. The ODB author writes … After wrapping the tree with clear twinkle lights, I tied pink and blue bows on its branches and christened it our “Hope for a Baby” Christmas tree [see photo]. My husband and I had been waiting for a baby through adoption for more than four years. Surely by Christmas!
Every morning I stopped at the tree and prayed, reminding myself of God’s faithfulness. On December 21 we received the news: no baby by Christmas. Devastated, I paused by the tree that had become a symbol of God’s provision. Was God still faithful? Was I doing something wrong? …
I left the tree standing well beyond Christmas and continued my morning prayer. At last, on Easter weekend, we received our baby girl. God is always faithful, though not necessarily on our timeline nor always according to our desires.
It’s Christmas time; … a time of joyful expectations and hopeful desires. However, as in the ODB story, sometimes it can be a time where we’re forced to trust in God rather than in our own, very human, expectations.
As in the ODB entry, we may have to wait on God’s timing rather than on our human desire clock; because, though truths like the highlight passage or all of the reference verses may be true, it can be hard to wait on God’s timing at times, can’t it?
But wait we must, … trusting in God’s faithfulness and His desire to ALWAYS do what’s best for us.
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My THANKFULNESS: … Oh Abba Father, … thank You, Lord, … for Your faithful mercies and grace … always there for my good.
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My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, … King Jesus, … I pray, Lord, that all reading here trust that God’s mercies will always be for our good, even when we have trouble with His timing. … Amen
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