June 19, 2024 … Free At Last!! …
Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in this song with lyrics from Hope Darst singing Set Free … powerfully singing of how we are set free from the chains of sin and shame by our faith in Christ’s finished work on the cross.
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Highlight Passage: … Exodus 3:10 [NLT] …
10 Now go, for I am sending you to Pharaoh. You must lead my people Israel out of Egypt.”
… God calls Moses to go to Pharaoh and demand the freedom of God’s chosen people in Egypt.
Highlight Passage (in context): … Exodus 3:1-10 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… God calls on Moses at the burning bush to go and set God’s people free from slavery in Egypt.
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Reference Passage: … Psalms 118:5 [NLT] … </b>
5 In my distress I prayed to the Lord, and the Lord answered me and set me free.
… God’s Psalmist, likely King David, declares that God delivered him (and us) to freedom from his (and our) oppression. .
Reference Passage: … Isaiah 61:1-2 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… The prophesy of the coming Messiah Who would set God’s chosen from the captivity of their (our) sin.
Reference Passage: … Luke 4:18-21 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Jesus declares that the Prophesy of Isaiah 61:1-2 was fulfilled in Himself.
Reference Passage: … Acts 10:38 [NLT] …
38 And you know that God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power. Then Jesus went around doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him.
… The Apostle Peter share the good news of God’s deliverance to the Gentiles, declaring that there is freedom from our sin by believing in Christ’s finished work the cross thru the Holy Spirit in Him.
Reference Passage: … 2Corinthians 3:17 [NLT] …
17 For the Lord is the Spirit, and wherever the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
… The Apostle Paul teaches that anyone who receives God’s Spirit by faith in Christ as the Messiah is freed from their (our) sin.
Reference Passage: … Galatians 5:1 [NLT] …
1 So Christ has truly set us free. Now make sure that you stay free, and don’t get tied up again in slavery to the law.
… Paul warns fellow Christians to stay free from our sin nature thru our faith in the Spirit given us by God’s sanctifying grace.
Reference Passage: … 1John 3:1 [NLT] …
7 See how very much our Father loves us, for He calls us His children, and that is what we are! But the people who belong to this world don’t recognize that we are God’s children because they don’t know Him.
… The Apostle John shows Christian’s that we are God’s Children as long as we know and seek His love/grace.
My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread Author, Winn Coller - AT THIS LINK - writes of what it must’ve been like for slaves in Texas when General Gordon Granger, following the orders of President Lincoln, who earlier had pronounce all slaves free by the Emancipation Proclamation, declared that all slaves held captive in Texas be set free.
And all I ask of my readers today into take in the linked song and say a prayer of thanksgiving, remembering … and living out … the reality of what the Scriptures above declare … that ALL who believe in Christ as Lord and Savior have been set free from our sin nature.
Free at last, today, … and always, … my friend!!
My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for setting me free from myself.
My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I’m praying today that those who read with me here will join me to declare our thanks for setting us free from our shackles of sin, Lord. … Amen
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1 comment:
Amen !
Kjetil!
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