Monday, August 26, 2024

Aug 26, 2024 … Blessings In the Dessert

Aug 26, 2024 … Blessings In the Dessert 


 Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...   to hear Laura Story, with music and lyrics, singing Blessings, and revealing that many of God’s greatest blessings are often veiled and disgusted in the desert experiences of life.


Thru the deserts of life ... 

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Highlight Passage: … Deuteronomy 2:7 [NLT] … 

For the Lord your God has blessed you in everything you have done. He has watched your every step through this great wilderness. During these forty years, the Lord your God has been with you, and you have lacked nothing.” 

  God shows Moses God’s blessing over His people as they wandered in the wilderness and deserts of life, . blessing them all the way - for 40 years - with protection and provisions.                                        

Highlight Passage (in context): … Deuteronomy 2:1-7 NLT] … USE THIS LINK 

Moses recalls how God led His people for 40 years in the wilderness and deserts of life, protecting and providing for them all the way.                                                                                  

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Reference Passage: … Exodus 3:1 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK   

… God leads Moses into the wilderness to find God in the burning bush on the Mountain of God.        

Reference Passage: … Deuteronomy 32:10 [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK … 

…Moses recalls how The Lord watched over God’s people in the desert as they wandered in the wilderness. .                         


Reference Passage: … Isaiah 43:19  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK   

… God promises, thru Isaiah, to show His people thru the wasteland and the wilderness.       


Reference Passage: … Ezekiel 34:25  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK   

… God reminds His people, thru Ezekiel, of His covenant with His faithful to protect them in the wildest places in the desert wilderness.


Reference Passage: … Matthew 4:1-11  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK   

… God, the Father, watches over Jesus in the wilderness and uses God’s word to protect our Savior against Satan’s temptations.   


My Devotional JournalToday’s Our Daily Bread  Author, Alyson Kieda -  AT THIS LINK    as a young Christian, searching for grand and glorious spiritual experiences to grow in her relationship with God, learned, …  in reading the writings of  Lina AbuJamra. that Christians grow the most from walking thru the wildernesses and deserts of life.   


And I challenge my readers today to take the time to hear the linked song by Laura Story and to meditate on the Scriptures shared above, which remind us that God’s strongest lessons often come from dealing with life’s trials and temptations, … i.e., we gain the greatest growth experiences from walking thru the deserts of life.  The question is … do we look for the blessings of life which are often disguised in the deserts and from the wilderness experiences we encounter?               

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for  helping me grow closer to You thru the wilderness experiences of my life.            

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I’m praying that those who read with me here will join me to go gladly thru the deserts of life …  to grow closer to You Lord, than ever before.    Amen

 

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Blogger Not: Everyday during this year, my daily devotional blogs are influenced by the reading and study of the online devotional blog entitled “Our Daily Bread,” distributed online via email by RBC Ministries.  If you GO TO THIS LINK on the date of my blog, you can read/study the ODB blogs; or you can subscribe to the blog via email at that site.

2 comments:

Kjetil said...

Amen!%
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