Aug 2, 2024… Faith Of A Child…

Aug 2, 2024… Faith Of A Child…    

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take time to hear Matt Boswell and Matt Papa leading in worship and poignantly singing With Simple Faith, which calls on all to come to Jesus with childlike faith and be saved.  

To Jesus with childlike faith ... 

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Highlight Passage: … Luke 18:16 [NLT] … 

16 Then Jesus called for the children and said to the disciples, “Let the children come to me. Don’t stop them! For the Kingdom of God belongs to those who are like these children.   

… Jesus teaches His Disciples of the faith of little children is valued by our God.                       

    

Highlight Passage (in context): … Luke 18:15-27  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Jesus teaching His disciples that the lives and faith of the little children mean as much to Him as the older ones.                                                                                                                             

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Reference Passage: … 1Samuel 3:7-10 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK  

… Samuel, as a boy is called by God to serve the Lord as His prophet.    

Reference Passage: … Proverbs 22:6 [NLT] …  

6   Direct your children onto the right path, and when they are older, they will not leave it.  

…  Godly parents are called to guide their children along the right - and Godly - path of faith.                      

Reference Passage: … Matthew 18:1-3  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Jesus teaches His discipline (and us) that it takes faith like that of a child to enter God’s kingdom.    

Reference Passage: … Mark 10:13-16  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Mark, as did Luke in the Highlight passage, shows Jesus’ disciples that it takes faith like that of a little child to enter God’s kingdom.  .  

Reference Passage …1Timothy 4:12  [NLT] …   

12 Don’t let anyone think less of you because you are young. Be an example to all believers in what you say, in the way you live, in your love, your faith, and your purity.   

… The Apostle Paul teaches Timothy that his young age will not deter him from sharing Christ with others.  

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread  Author, Dave Brandon -  AT THIS LINK  -   tells of how the ODB author’s granddaughter, Elaina, having seen a video of an orphanage in Guatemala at the age of seven; and who pursued that dream with her parents for years, .. ultimately going to the orphanage several times, years later, with her parents, serving God’s kingdom with childlike faith..         

That ODB story and the Scriptures shared above tell us how much God values and honors the faith and dreams of even the youngest among us.  And according to God’s word, again shared above, we who see/hear the faith and dreams of our young, should not do ANYTHING  to hinder that fait, and rather go forth to serve God with childlike faith.  The question is … ARE WE?          

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for calling me out of my life of sin to be born-again and to serve You with childlike faith    

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I’m praying that those who read with me here will to hold on to our childlike faith in serving You, Lord, today.   … Amen

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