July 8, 2024 … Serving Jesus Serving Others …

July 8, 2024 … Serving Jesus Serving Others   …   

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...  Please take the time to take in this song with lyrics from Danny Gokey singing Love God and Love People … powerfully singing of how loving God is loving others.  

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Highlight Passage: … Matthew 25:40 [NLT] …

40 “And the King will say, ‘I tell you the truth, when you did it to one of the least of these my brothers and sisters, you were doing it to me!’   

… Jesus teaching His disciples (and us) that serving others is serving our Lord.   

    

Highlight Passage (in context): … Matthew 25:31-46  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Jesus teaches His disciples of God’s judgment on those who refused to serve Him by serving others.                                                                                                           

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Reference Passage: … Isaiah 1:17  [NLT]  … 

Learn to do good.  See justice.  Help the oppressed.  Defend the cause of orphans.  Fight for the rights of widows.   

… God’s commands, thru Isaiah, for believers to help others in need.           

Reference Passage: … Mark 10:45  [NLT] … 

45 For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve others and to give His life as a ransom for many.”.  

… Jesus teaches His disciples about why He came to be born as a man and that was to serve others, … even to give His life for others .       

Reference Passage: … John 15:12  [NLT] … 

12 This is my commandment: Love each other in the same way I have loved you.”  

… Jesus commands His disciples to love others they way He loved them (ua).   

Reference Passage: … Romans 12:10 [NLT]  … 

0 Love each other with genuine affection, and take delight in honoring each other.  

… The Apostle Paul exhorts fellow Christians to love each other … ALWAYS!! 

Reference Passage: … Galatians 6:2 [NLT]  …  

 2 Share each other’s burdens, and in this way obey the law of Christ.   

… Paul shows fellow Christians that bearing the burdens of others is following Christ’s law of love.        

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread  Author, Amy Boucher Pie -  AT THIS LINK  -  relates the story of how Elizabeth Fry in the early 1800s, was appalled at how horribly women were treated in women’s prisons.  And so, Fry devoted her life to improving the conditions for any/all women who were imprisoned in those days.            

And if my readers have taken in the linked song and the Scriptures above (as I pray you have), we all certainly should be convicted to live our lives as Jesus lived His; … to serve those who are oppressed and in need.   I certainly am so convicted; … HOW ABOUT YOU?                   

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for calling me, as Your servant, to serve others.  

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I’m praying today that those who read with me here will join me to reach out and serve others as You, Lord, have served us.   …   Amen

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