January 10, 2024… Calling Us To Pray

January 10, 2024…  Calling Us To Pray  

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...  Please take the time to take in this song with lyrics from Doe  singing … When I pray …  Strongly singing of how we are called to pray to God when we are overwhelmed in life..  

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Highlight Passage: … Nehemiah 1:4  [NLT] … 

4 When I heard this, I sat down and wept. In fact, for days I mourned, fasted, and prayed to the God of heaven. 

… When learning of the despair in Jerusalem of the exiled Jews, Nehemiah mourned by fasting and praying to God for God’s restoring favor (i.e., God’s grace).       

Highlight Passage (in context): … Nehemiah 1:1-11 … USE THIS LINK … 

… When Nehemiah, the Babylonians king’s cupbearer, grieving that God’s exiled were not doing well back in Jerusalem, fasted and prayed for God to give him favor to go back and help to rebuild the walls in Jerusalem.                                              

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Reference Passage: … Jeremiah 29:11-12 (NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… God promises, thru Jeremiah, of His deliverance and restoration when God’s people repent of their (our) sin and pray to Him for His mercy/grace.  

Reference Passage: … Matthew 6:6-8 (NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Jesus teaches His followers how to pray.  

Reference Passage: … Mark 11:24 [NLT] … 

24 I tell you, you can pray for anything, and if you believe that you’ve received it, it will be yours.. 

… Jesus also teaches about the power of humble prayer.  

Reference Passage: … Philippians 4:6-7 {NLT] … 

6 Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done. 7 Then you will experience God’s peace, which exceeds anything we can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus.  

… The Apostle Paul teaches of the power of prayer when Christians are seeking God’s peace to take away our fears and worries.        

Reference Passage: … 1Timothy 2:1-2 (NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… The Apostle Paul teaches Timothy (and us) to pray for God’s promised peace.                    

        

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread Author , James Banks -  AT THIS LINK -  - tells of Abraham Lincoln’s call for his nation to pray:  “It is the duty of nations as well as of men to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God: to confess their sins and transgressions in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon.”

Well, as we read in today’s ODB entry, … under the stresses of leading a nation, seeking peace in a civil war, President Lincoln called His fellow countrymen to fast and pray.  And the ODB entry today also, thru the Scriptures above, calls on God’s faithful to humbly pray for God’s restoring peace, … showing also that God promises to hear any/all humble and faithful prayers.  

So, my fellow Christian readers … let’s pray, … today and on into all our tomorrows !!!         

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for hearing all my prayers.                  

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray. again today, that all reading here will join me, … to pray for Your restoring grace, Lord.   … Amen  

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