October 10, 2023… Seeking to Know God …

October 10, 2023… Seeking to Know God …   

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...   Please take the time to take in this song with lyrics from Paul Baloche singing … Open the Eyes of My Heart …  Poignantly and powerfully singing of how we Christians can - AND SHOULD - seek to know our God more intimately every day.  

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Highlight Passage: … Ephesians 1:16-17 [NLT] … 

16 I have not stopped thanking God for you. I pray for you constantly, 17 asking God, the glorious Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, to give you spiritual wisdom and insight so that you might grow in your knowledge of God   

… Paul prays for fellow Christians for God to give them (and us) more Spirit-led knowledge of God.       

              

Highlight Passage (Context): … Ephesians 1:15-23  [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK …  

… The Apostle Paul writes to fellow Christians that he prays for them to seek to know Christ more intimately.                                                                                                                                

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Reference Passage: …  Psalms 119:105 [NLT] … 

105 Your word is a lamp to guide my feet and a light for my path. 

… King David sings of how God gives us His word to know the Lord and give light to our path in life. 

Reference Passage: …  Proverbs 8:17 [NLT] … 

17 “I love all who love Me.  Those who search will surely find Me. … “ 

… God’s promise, thru Solomon, that all who love and search to know God will find Him.

Reference Passage: …  John 17:3 [NLT] … 

3 And this is the way to have eternal life—to know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, the one you sent to earth. 

… Jesus prays that to know Him and follow Him is to have eternal life. 

Reference Passage: …Hebrews 4:12 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Go=’s word shows how powerful it is in seeking to know and follow God’s will.  

Reference Passage: … 2Peter 3:17-18 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… The Apostle Peter teaches fellow Christians (and that’s us too) that we must grow in our knowledge of our Lord to be able deal with the troubles of life.        

                                                                              

My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Xochitl Dixon… AT THIS LINK … tells of a premature baby, named Christopher Duffey, delivered in 2001 with many disabilities as he grew and thrived.  However, though blind and autistic, at age ten, Christopher was able to sing “Open the Eyes of My Heart,” (see linked song)  in his church.   

And that song, linked for my readers to hear above, as well as the Scriptures above, calls all Christians to seek to know our Lord more intimately thru His word so that we can grow to become more like our Lord and Savior every day.  And that’s why you find me here daily, … 

using Our Daily Bread to delve into God’s word and to get to know my Savior more intimately and to follow Him more closely … day-by-day.  Is that your goal too?!     

My THANKFULNESS ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for showing me how to know you, Lord, thru Your word.                               

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … to seek and find Your way in life, Lord, by knowing You more intimately thru Your word..     … Amen

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