January 14, 2024 … Seeking God’s Peace

January 14, 2024 … Seeking God’s Peace 

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...  Please take the time to take in this song with lyrics from the group Gateway Worship singing … Give Me Your Peace …  Poignantly and powerfully singing of how we, as Christians. seek God’s peace by seeking to follow Christ.    

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Highlight Passage: … Isaiah 26:3 [NLT] … 

3  You will keep in perfect peace who trust in You, … all whose thoughts are fixed on You! . 

… God promises to give His peace to ALL who focus their (our) thoughts on God.         

Highlight Passage (in context): … Isaiah 26:3-7 … USE THIS LINK … </b>

… God’s promise, thru Isaiah, of His peace by focusing our thoughts on the God of all glory.        

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Reference Passage: … Psalms 63:1-4 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  </b>

…King David sings of seeking God’s glory and His peace in times of trial or trouble.             

Reference Passage: … Psalms 139:23-24 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

…King David’s prayer in song for God to purge any thoughts which do not honor Him, yielding His path to glory and peace. 

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: … Philippians 4:6-7 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

…The Apostle Paul exhorts fellow Christians to take all our worries and cares to God and find His peace.   

Reference Passage: … 2Timothy 1:7 [NLT] … 

7 For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline.    

… Paul teaches Timothy (and us) that our fears never come from God, but from Satan, because God seeks to give us His peace and love …  and our self control thru His strength.          

        

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread Author , Winn Collier -  AT THIS LINK -   tells the story of a Scottish Pastor in a horse-drawn carriage, traveling down a dangerous road along a steep cliff and noting the carriage driver cracking a whip to help the horses attend to the road and not the precipice ahead. 

And that’s a life picture of what we need to do when we face a dangerous road ahead; and that is to put our attention and focus on God rather than our own trying situation.   And if my readers today have taken in the linked song and on truth of the Scriptures above, we will see that God promises His peace when we attend to God’s promises and not on our trying times.          

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for Your peace when I surrender to follow You.  

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray. again today, that all reading here will join me, … to focus our thoughts on Your peace, Lord, as we see the dangerous road ahead. … Amen  

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