June 20, 2024 … Finding Hope In Bad Times …

June 20, 2024 … Finding Hope In Bad Times  …       

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...   Please take the time to take in this song with lyrics from Don Moen singing God Will Make A Way … powerfully singing of how our God can - and will - make a way where there seem to be no way.   

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Highlight Passage: … Lamentations 3:22-23  [NLT] … 

22   The faithful love of the Lord never ends! His mercies never cease.  23  Great is His faithfulness;  His mercies begin afresh each morning.            

…  God’s promise, thru Jeremiah, of God’s mercy being there for God’s people and new every morning … ALWA’yS.                                                                                          

Highlight Passage (in context)d: … Lamentations 3:19-26  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … </b> 

… Jeremiah pronounces hope by trusting in God even when God’s people were captive in Babylon.                                                                                             

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<b><u>Reference Passage:</u> … Psalm 34:17-20 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … </b> 

… King David sings of trusting in God’s protection of His sovereign protection for His chosen people ALWAYS …

Reference Passage: … Isaiah 41:10 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

… God’s promise, thru Isaiah, of His continual protection of His chosen people.      

Reference Passage: … Matthew 11:28-30 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Jesus calls for His disciples and followers to yoke our weakness to His strength when times get tough.      

Reference Passage: … 2Corinthians 1:8-9, 4:8-9 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… The Apostle Paul testifies to God giving him - and all of God’s faithful - God’s protection and guidance, even in trials and troubles.      

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

… Paul exhorts fellow Christians to avoid worrying about anything; but rather praying with a thankful heart to God Who will provide His peace in troubled times.  

Reference Passage: … 1Peter 5:7 [NLT] …  

7 Give all your worries and cares to God, for He cares about you.  

… Peter calls on fellow Christians to give ALL their (our) cares to God because He cares for the well being and protection of all His chosen people.     

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread  Author, Karen Huang-  AT THIS LINK  -  told of a friend, … Susan, … who found hope by reading in the Bible from Jeremiah in His writings to God’s people who were captive in Babylon,…  especially reading of God’s promises in Lamentations 3:22-23 … see Highlight passages.       

And then, no matter what my readers here today are facing, I’m praying that “Y’ALL” (as we say here in the South of the USA) take in the linked song; and really meditate deeply on  the Reference Scriptures shared above, to show us all that God will truly, as Don Moen sings, … “make a way when things may seem to be no way.”   

Personally, in the trials I face today, … I’m holding out to trust in my God.  Yeah, I know … once again I ask, “How about you?!”        

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for giving me Your strength as I face today.   

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I’m praying today that those who read with me here will join me to be lifted up by Your promises, Lord, to provide us with Your mercy and strength today and then again tomorrow.       … Amen

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