June 14, 2024 … Searching For Deeper Faith…

June 14, 2024 … Searching For Deeper Faith…       

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...  

…  Please take the time to take in this song with lyrics from Matthew West and Jenn Johnson singing … I Trust Jesus … Poignantly singing of how, in the midst of trials, we Christians must trust Jesus. 

Trusting In Jesus ... 

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Highlight Passage: … Mark 5:34  [NLT] … 

34 And He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace. Your suffering is over.”           

…  Jesus tells the bleeding woman, who had come to Him in faith for Jesus’ healing powers that it was the woman’s faith which healed her.                                                                                    

Highlight Passage (in context): … Mark 5:21-34  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

… John Mark relates the story of Jesus healing the bleeding woman who sought Jesus healing grace in faith.                                                                                        

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Reference Passage: … Matthew 17:20 [NLT] …  

20 “You don’t have enough faith,” Jesus told them. “I tell you the truth, if you had faith even as small as a mustard seed, you could say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it would move. Nothing would be impossible.” 

… Jesus teaches His disciples (and us) that it is faith which calls on God to move the mountains of challenge in our lives. .  

Reference Passage: … Romans 1:17, 10:17 [NLT] …USE THIS LINK … 

… Paul shows (i.e., teaches) fellow Christians (us too) that faith in God’s good news which gives believers God’s empowering grace.     

Reference Passage: …Hebrews 11:1, 6 [NLT] …USE THIS LINK … </b> 

… God, thru the Author of Hebrews, relates that it is our faith in God which the Lord turns into HIs enabling and empowering grace.      

Reference Passage: … 1John 5:4 [NLT] … 

4 For every child of God defeats this evil world, and we achieve this victory through our faith.. 

… John shows fellow Christians that is our faith in Christ which gives us victory over the world’s power in this life.         

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread Author, Arthur Jackson  -  AT THIS LINK  -related leading a Bible study where two of the attendees told of challenges in their lives which caused their faith to wane; but that day the study group heard about God’s grace healing the bleeding woman who sought out Jesus in faith.  And after the study, the ODB author showed how the mood of the participants was one of JOY and HOPE.     

And if my readers have taken in linked song and meditated on the Scripture above, I pray you are as uplifted as I was this morning,  … remembering that God so desires to give His enabling and empowering grace to those who have the faith to seek it thru our relationship with Christ.      

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for giving me Your power today to lift me up.        

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I praying today that those who read with me here will join me today to seek and thank You, Lord, for Your healing and empowering grace.     … Amen

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