July 3, 2024 … Life-Changing Formula   …    

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...   Please take the time to take in this song with lyrics from Ally Dowling and Daniel Hagen singing Your Word … poignantly singing of how we Christians are called to follow God’s truth through His word.  

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Highlight Passage: …  Psalms 119:16  [NLT] … 

16 I will delight in your decrees and not forget Your word.            

…  King David sings of man’s continual pursuit of truth in God’s word being God’s formula for success in life.                                                                            

Highlight Passage (in context): … Psalms 119:9-20  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

… God reveals His formula for the pursuit of success is the pursuit of His truth.                           

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Reference Passage: … Joshua 1:8  [NLT] … 

8 Study this Book of Instruction (i.e., God’s word) continually.  Meditate on it day and night so you will be sure to obey everything written in it. Only then will you prosper and succeed in all you do.  

… God reveals to Joshua (and to all who pursue God) the Lord’s formula for success in carrying out God’s calling, which is to meditate on and follow God’s word … “day and night.” .     

Reference Passage: … Proverb 3:5-6  [NLT]  … USE THIS LINK …  

… Solomon reveals that God will reveal HIS way to glory by trusting and following Him.  

Reference Passage: … Matthew 7:7  [NLT] … 

7 “Keep on asking, and you will receive what you ask for. Keep on seeking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened to you.  

… Jesus teaches that His followers (i.e., disciples) must ”keep on keeping on” in their pursuit of God’s way to glory.     

Reference Passage: …John 8:31-32  [NLT] …  

31 Jesus said to the people who believed in Him, “You are truly my disciples if you remain faithful to my teachings. 32 And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”  </i>

… Jesus teaches His surrendered followers that staying true to HIs teaching and His way will lead to freedom from self. 

Reference Passage:… John 17:17  [NLT] … 

17 Make them holy by your truth; teach them your word, which is truth..  

… Jesus prays for His faithful followers … that God’s word teach them to follow God’s way to glory.  

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread Author, Xochitl Dixon -  AT THIS LINK  -  told of giving Bibles to a church youth group and over a decade later one of those students, told her and the ODB author’s husband of how his use of the Bible had transformed his life.            

And that is truly the message of today’s ODB entry; … that God provides His word with His formula for success in carrying out God’s will for our lives.  And if my readers have taken in the linked song and the Scriptures shared above, I pray today that we all have a discipline of being in God’s word daily and following its truth as we Christians seek to carry out God’s calling for our lives.  

What is God’s word saying to you and me today?            

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

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I’m praying today that those who read with me here will join me to seek out Your way, Lord, thru Your word … i.e.,  from Your perfect “GPS” … today…   … Amen

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