May 11, 2024 … Stay on God’s Course …

May 11, 2024 …  Stay on God’s Course    …      

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...  Please take the time to take in this song with lyrics with Matthew West and Jenn Johnson singing … I Trust Jesus … Poignantly singing of how we Christians must trust God and stay the course in following Jesus.     

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Highlight Passage: … 1Samuel 28:7 [NLT] … 

7 Saul then said to his advisers, “Find a woman who is a medium, so I can go and ask her what to do.”            

…  King Saul breaks his oath to rid all of Israel of those (i.e., mediums) who consult the dead.                                                          

Highlight Passage (in context): … 1Samuel 28:3-10 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

… King Saul breaks his pronounced course to rid the land of mediums and those who consult the dead by calling on a medium in Endor.                                                                    

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Reference Passage: … Psalms 1:1-6, 119 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

… King David sings of God blessing those who stay the course and faithfully follow His word.   

Reference Passage: … Proverbs 3:5-6, 4:25 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … </b> 

… God’s promise, thru Solomon, of God blessing those who trust in God and faithfully follow His will and His 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 promises, thru Jeremiah, that the Lord has a master plan for God’s people to follow … ALWAYS!!    

Reference Passage: … Philippians 3:13-14 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK ...  

… The Apostle Paul relays God’s promise to bless those who look ahead and faithfully follow God’s ways to which The Lord is calling us to follow.                 

Reference Passage: …Hebrews 12:1-2 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… The Author of Hebrew relays God’s charge to keep our eyes focused faithfully on the road of life The Lord has marked, thru His word, to follow.  

My Devotional Journal: Today’s  Our Daily Bread  Author, Tom Felton -  AT THIS LINK  -   describes the meaning behind a scene from J.R. Tolkien’s classic work The Fellowship of The Ring, where the primary character is charged to follow the course set before him.      

And today’s ODB entry, thru the passages shared from God’s word above, as a calling from God’s truth to stay the course God has set before us to faithfully follow His will and His ways.  BUT - and there’s always a “BUT,” isn’t there? - God is calling us to stay HIS course, isn’t He?   And He challenges us, asking thru His word, are we staying His course?  Or, are we, like Saul in the highlight passage, balking … to follow our own, selfish, ways?  Oh, how I pray NOT!                                                                       

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, …for giving me Your path to follow, Lord.      

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray. again today, that all reading here will join me today, … to surrender and faithfully follow Your course, Lord, … today and ALWAYS.  … Amen

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