December 31, 2023 … My Resolution Into 2024

December 31, 2023 … My Resolution Into 2024   

Devotional Son: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...  Please take the time to take in this song with lyrics from Matthew West and Jenn Johnson singing … I Trust Jesus …  Poignantly and yet powerfully singing of how we, as Christians, are called to trust and follow Jesus  … ALWAYS!  

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Highlight Passage: …  Hebrews 13:21  [ESV] … 

21 May He produce in you, through the power of Jesus Christ, every good thing that is pleasing to Him. 

… The Author of Hebrews pray for fellow Christians to be endowed with God’s righteousness.    

Highlight Passage (in context)  … Hebrews 13:12-21  … USE THIS LINK … 

… The Author of Hebrews prays for fellow believers in Christ for God to give them (and us) His power to do His will no matter the oppression they (we) might face .                                      

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Reference Passage: … Psalm 139:23-24 (NLT] …  USE THIS LINK … 

… King David sings of God leading him (and us) on God’s path of righteousness. 

Reference Passage: … Matthew 5:6  (NLT] … 

5 God blesses those who hunger and thirst for justice (or righteousness) , … for they will be satisfied. 

… Jesus, teaches His followers (and us) that God will bless those who seek fo follow Him in righteous living.   

Reference Passage: … Matthew 6:33  (NLT] … 

33 Seek the Kingdom of God above all else, and live righteously, and He will give you everything you need.

… Jesus, in the same Sermon on the Mount teaches His followers (and again, us) that God will supply all the needs of those who seek after righteousness.       

Reference Passage: …  Philippians 3:9  (NLT] … 

9  …  I no longer count on my own righteousness through obeying the law; rather, I become righteous through faith in Christ. For God’s way of making us right with himself depends on faith.  

… Paul gives witness to how he (and all Christians) must seek to obey and follow Him in faith.   

  

Reference Passage: … 2Timothy 3:16-17  (NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… The Apostle Paul teaches fellow Christians that they (we) have been given God’s word to be able to seek after and follow God’s will and to give God glory by the way we live our lives.      

         

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread Author , Arthur Jackson -  AT THIS LINK -   tells of city officials in Detroit on New Year’s Eve in 2000 opening a time capsule and finding a wish (or prayer) from the Mayor of Detroit in 1900 who said,   “May we be permitted to express one hope superior to all others . . . [that] you may realize as a nation, people, and city, you have grown in righteousness, for it is this that exalts a nation.”  

The heart - and desire - of that Mayor, for the people of his city, was very much in tune with the Heart of our Lord, Jesus, when He preached to His followers in the Sermon on the Mount (see Matt 5:6 and 6:33) … that they then seek after God’s righteousness above all else and to follow Him to achieve that righteous living.  And as we obey and follow Him by His word (see 2Tim. 3:16-17), we will be blessed by God, …  giving us all we need in life, … especially as we walk into the new year. To me, that’s a good deal … a very good deal!!  So, you’ll find me here again tomorrow in 2024, seeking to follow my Lord and live by His call for me to seek His righteousness thru His word.  

How about you; … will you come with me in this pursuit into 2024?  

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for showing me how to live my life by following You, thru Your word, even more closely into the new Year. 

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray. again today, that all reading here will join me, … to follow You more closely, Lord, in 2024.    … Amen  

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