January 12, 2024 … Surrender In Service

January 12, 2024 … Surrender In Service  

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...  Please take the time to take in this song with lyrics from Carrie Underwood singing … I Surrender All …  Poignantly singing of how we, as Christians. surrender our all to serve our Lord. 

Surrendered to serve Christ ... 

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Highlight Passage: … Genesis 39:23 [NLT] … 

23 The keeper of the prison did not look into anything that was under Joseph’s authority, because the Lord was with him; and whatever he did, the Lord made it prosper. 

… While Joseph was imprisoned, the Lord was with Joseph and prospered him in all he did to serve God.         

Highlight Passage (in context) … Genesis 39:19-23 … USE THIS LINK … 

… Joseph’s life was a testimony of success in serving The Lord.                                             

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Reference Passage: … 1Samuel 12:24 [NLT] … 

 24 But be sure to fear the Lord and faithfully serve Him. Think of all the wonderful things He has done for you.  

… God, thru Samuel to God’s people, charging them (us) to serve God faithfully, remembering all He has done for them (us).         

Reference Passage: … Proverbs 3:5-6 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

…God leads our way when we’re willing to surrender our ways to trust and serve Him with  ALL our hearts. 

Reference Passage: … Romans 12:1 [NLT] … 

12 And so, dear brothers and sisters, I plead with you to give your bodies to God because of all he has done for you. Let them be a living and holy sacrifice—the kind He will find acceptable. This is truly the way to worship Him.   

… Paul pleads with fellow Christians to give over their (our) bodies to become a living sacrifice to God’s service.  

Reference Passage: … 1Corinthians 15:58 [NLT] … </b>

58 So, my dear brothers and sisters, be strong and immovable. Always work enthusiastically for the Lord, for you know that nothing you do for the Lord is ever useless.    

… Paul also exhorts fellow Christians to be strong in service to the Lord. 

Reference Passage: … Colossians 3:23-24 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

…And finally, once again, Paul charges Christians (that’s us too) to work for God willingly in all that they (we) do.                       

        

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread  Author , Amy Boucher Pye -  AT THIS LINK -  relates a story of a young man, named Reza, who, in a refugee camp in the Middle East, was given a Bible which led him to Christ.   And then, Reza went on to become a worker for a relief agency, inspired by the life of Joseph in the Bible, … reaching out to serve God by becoming a worker in  that agency, serving others in that same refugee camp. 

And if my readers have taken in the linked song and meditated on the Scriptures above, you (we) will see that ALL, who’re surrendered in faith to serve Christ, are called to become a living sacrifice, … serving The Lord  in all we do.  >>> But are we, … will we?            

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for giving me the opportunity to serve You, Lord, today … and tomorrow.                    

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray. again today, that all reading here will join me, … to surrender our lives, Lord, to serve You.   … Amen  

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