April 20, 2024 … Family Peace Matters …

April 20, 2024 …  Family Peace Matters …      

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...  Please take the time to take in this song with lyrics from Charity Gayle singing … I Speak Jesus …  Poignantly and powerfully singing of how we Christians must live and speak Christ’s truth into our lives for others to see Him in the way we live as Your family.

Family peace matters !! ... 

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Highlight Passage: …Hebrews 12:14  [NLT] … 

14 Work at living in peace with everyone, and work at living a holy life, for those who are not holy will not see the Lord            

… God reminder and charge to do all we can, in the family of God, to pursue peace and holiness.                                             

Highlight Passage (in context): … Hebrews 12:14-17 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

… God’s charge, thru the Author of Hebrews, to pursue peace and holiness within the family of God.                                             

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Reference Passage: … Deuteronomy 6:1-25 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK  … 

…God, thru Moses, calls for God’s children to be obedient to God’s commands … ALWAYS!!   

Reference Passage: …  Matthew 5:9 [NLT] …   

9 God blesses those who work for peace,  for they will be called the children of God.   

… Jesus teaches the truth of God blessings those who pursue peace in the family of God.       

Reference Passage: …  John 14:27, 16:33 [NLT] …   USE THIS LINK … 

… Jesus assures His disciples in the Upper Room, the night of His betrayal that He will overcome all the trials of this world with His peace.         

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

… Paul teaches fellow Christians to take their (our) worries/concerns to God in thankful prayer to find His peace which guards the hearts of His chosen, faithful, followers. 

Reference Passage:  …  Colossians 1:19-20 [NLT]  … USE THIS LINK …  

… Paul also teaches faithful followers of Christ that our Lord made peace with everything and everybody thru His blood, shed on the cross, and the faith that the family of God have in God’s saving grace. 

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread  Author, Elisa Morgan -  AT THIS LINK -  tells of her siblings and family gathering for an uncle’s funeral and their grandmother, who could not speak due to a past stroke, calling the author’s siblings to join together to pursue peace and reconciliation … TOGETHER … because family unity matters in the family of God.    

And if my readers today have taken in the linked song and meditated on God’s calling in the Scriptures provided above, I’m pretty sure you’ll be convicted - as am I - to do more to bring our Christian led families TOGETHER to pursue God’s peace as ardently as we can.                         

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for giving me Your charge and Your enabling grace, Lord, to bring peace within the family of God. 

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray. again today, that all reading here will join me today, … to do all we can, Lord, to seek Your peace within Your Family.  … … Amen

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