January 25, 2024 … Really, God?!!  

<b><u>Devotional Song</u>: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...   http://tinyurl.com/39m2z5z5  …  Please take the time to take in this song with lyrics from Elevation Worship singing …Your Plans For Us …  poignantly, yet powerfully, singing of the goodness of God’s plans for His people. 

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Highlight Passage: … Esther 4:14 [NLT] …

14  If you keep quiet at a time like this, deliverance and relief for the Jews will arise from some other place, but you and your relatives will die. Who knows if perhaps you were made queen for just such a time as this?”. 

 … Esther learns from her cousin, Mordecai, that God had her exactly where she could serve the Lord. 

Highlight Passage (in context): … Esther 2:3-4, 12-17 … USE THIS LINK … 

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Esther+2%3A3-4%2C+12-17&version=NLT

…God’s plan for Esther leads her to the King’s harem and God’s calling to be the queen to the King.                                                            

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Reference Passage: … Proverbs 16:9, 19:21 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …

… God, thru Solomon’s Proverbs, shows that God’s plans and purpose will always prevail over our plans <b>(see photo)</b>. 

Reference Passage: … Isaiah 55:8-9 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… shows, thru Isaiah, that God’s thoughts and His plans will always prevail over man’s ways. 

Reference Passage: … Jeremiah 29:11  [NLT] …   

11 For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.  …  

… God’s promise to His people, thru Jeremiah, that His plans for His people will always be good for them (us).     

Reference Passage: … Matthew 6:25-34 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Jesus teaches to avoid worrying about the necessities of life because God will provide them.  

Reference Passage: … Romans 11:33-36 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … </b>

… The Apostle Paul teaches truth to fellow Christians that God’s thoughts and provisions may be confusing to mankind, but they (we) can trust that all things come from God and are good for those who believe in God’s power to provide for His beloved people.     

        

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread  Author , Tom Felton -  AT THIS LINK -   tells of being somewhat confused by incurring cancer at a time when he and his family were experiencing victories for God’s kingdom thru the mission work where they had been called to serve.     

But the ODB author remembered how Esther’s faith prevailed (see highlight passages) in very precarious times; and that God’s word (see above) shows us that God’s ways may be perplexing at times; but they are aways good for those who believe in God’s power and provision.  I’m in for God’s planning, … how about you?       

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for providing me with Your plans for my life, for which I’m seeking to follow thru Your word.        

My Prayer Today:  Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray. again today, that all reading here will join me, … to continually seek to follow Your plans, Lord, for our lives today … and tomorrow.      Amen  

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