July 2, 2024 … The Fire of God’s Protection …

July 2, 2024 … The Fire of God’s Protection   …   

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...   Please take the time to take in this song with lyrics from the group Casting Crowns singing God of All My Days … poignantly singing of how we Christians can go to and rely on God for His proactive and healing grace.  

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Highlight Passage: …  Leviticus 23:40  [NLT] …

40 On the first day gather branches from magnificent trees — palm fronds, boughs from leafy trees, and willows that grow by the streams. Then celebrate with joy before the Lord your God for seven days.           

…  God’s instructions, thru Moses on how to celebrate God’s love/grace in a feast of Tabernacles, building tents from palm fronds.                                                                            

Highlight Passage (in context)  … Leviticus 23:33-43  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… God instructs Moses to tell His people how to come together annually to celebrate their faith in God’s covenant with a feast of seven day, building tents to celebrate God’s protective grace.  

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Reference Passage: … Deuteronomy 31:6  [NLT] … 

6 So be strong and courageous!  Do not be afraid and do not panic before them. For the Lord your God will personally go ahead of you. He will neither fail you nor abandon you.”  

… Moses, realizing he is about to die and knowing that he would not be able to lead the people into the Promised Land, instructs God’s people, … declaring that God will ALWAYS protect His people.     

Reference Passage: … Psalm 46:1  [NLT] …  

1 God is our refuge and strength, ALWAYS ready to help in times of trouble. 

… God’s Psalmist sings of God’s promise to ALWAYS help His people in times of trouble.

Reference Passage: … Proverbs 18:10  [NLT] …  

10 The Name of the Lord is a strong fortress; … the godly run to Him and are safe. 

… God’s word, compiled by Solomon, on God being a strong fortress to protect God’s people.   

Reference Passage: … Isaiah 54:17  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… God’s promise, thru the Prophet Isaiah, to protect His faithful remnant of faithful believers.

Reference Passage: … Romans 8:28-31  [NLT] … USE THIS  LINK … 

… The Apostle Paul shows fellow Christians that God is ALWAYS there to protect them (us). .  

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread Author, Tim Gustafson -  AT THIS LINK  -  told of camping with his family when he was a child and the ODB author’s father telling him to keep the camp fire burning at night to protect the family from wild animals.          

in Israel’s biblical history, God’s people always had an annual campout in the Feast of Tabernacles, where they would build tents and light fires, showing their faith in God to keep His eternal covenant and to ALWAYS be there and with God’s fires burning to protect His chosen people.  And today’s ODB entry asks us - God’s chosen - whether we’re keeping the fires of our faith burning <b>(See photo)</b> which, according to God’s word above, will ALWAYS protect us with God’s grace.   

What are we doing TODAY to keep God’s protective fires burning?          

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for giving me Your promise of Your protective grace.     

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I’m praying today that those who read with me here will join me to rely on Your fires of grace which always burn to protect us, Lord.   … Amen

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