Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in a YouTube video of song and lyrics from Steven Curtis Chapman singing his song… His Strength Is Perfect … poignantly singing of how our God provides His strength to cover our inherent weaknesses.
Fresh water outside Jerusalem (see post)
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Highlight Verse[s]: Isaiah 22:11 [ESV] ... 11 You made a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool. But you did not look to him who did it, or see him who planned it long ago.
… We can do all we can to shore up our weaknesses; but there will always be weaknesses from which we need God’s protection.
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Highlight Passage [context]: Isaiah 22:8-11 [ESV] ... USE THIS LINK ...
… God warns God’s leaders to look to the Lord to cover their human weaknesses, which would always be there when they were trying to protect Jerusalem.
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Reference Passage : … Proverbs 3:5-6 [ESV] … USE THIS LINK …
… God, thru Solomon, exhorts believers to trust the Lord especially when we know we are weak and vulnerable.
Reference Passage : … 2 Corinthians 12:9 [ESV] … 9 But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
… Jesus assures us, thru Paul, that He is always there with His empowering grace to cover our human weaknesses.
Reference Passage : … 1 Peter 5:6-7 [ESV] … 6 Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, 7 casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.
… Are we willing to humble ourselves enough to bring our anxieties to God?
My Devotional Journal: Today's ODB author, David H Roper, illustrates how God’s empowering grace is available to us when we humble ourselves to surrender our weaknesses to the Lord. … The ODB author wrote: There’s a natural spring that rises on the east side of the city of Jerusalem. [See Photo] In ancient times it was the city’s only water supply and was located outside the walls. Thus it was the point of Jerusalem’s greatest vulnerability. The exposed spring meant that the city, otherwise impenetrable, could be forced to surrender if an attacker were to divert or dam the spring.
King Hezekiah addressed this weakness by driving a tunnel through 1,750 feet of solid rock from the spring into the city where it flowed into the “Lower Pool” (see 2 Kings 20:20; 2 Chronicles 32:2–4).
We all have our personal and inherent weaknesses, don’t we? As humans, as Hezekiah in the references above, we do all we can to cover our weaknesses; but as the linked songs and God’s word declares (in 2Cor. 12:9), God’s strength is there for us when we’re humbly willing to come to Him for His empowering grace.
As we move into 2020, I pray we’re humble enough and willing to take our cares to a caring God (see 1Peter 5:6-7) and receive His empowering grace to carry us onward for His glory.
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My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh Abba Father, ... thank You, Lord, … for always being there for us with your enabling/empowering grace.
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My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... I pray, Lord, that all reading here will join me today, to take our weaknesses and concerns to the Lord whenever our weaknesses let us know that we need God’s strength. … Amen
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