Nov 23, 2024 … Encourage One Another …

Nov 23, 2024 …  Encourage One Another   …     

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK  ...   Please take the time to take in this song with lyrics with the group Casting Crowns singing … If We Are The Body … calling for all Christians to join with one another to become the unified “Body of Christ.”    

Working TOGETHER for God's kingdom ... 

   

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Highlight Passage: …  Hebrews 10:23-24 [NLT] … 

23 Let us hold tightly without wavering to the hope we affirm, for God can be trusted to keep His promise. 24 Let us think of ways to motivate one another to acts of love and good works …         

…  Christians are charged to work TOGETHER and motivate one another to share love and good works.                                                       

Highlight Passage (in context) … Hebrews 10:19-25 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

… God’s call, thru the Author of Hebrews, for Christians to join TOGETHER in faith to be led by God’s Spirit.                                                                     

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Reference Passage: … Psalms 133:1 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …

… King David writes and sings of believers living and working TOGETHER for God’s glory.      

Reference Passage: … Proverbs 27:17 [NLT] … USE THIS  LINK ...

… Solomon shows that friends working in unity sharpen one another..  

Reference Passage: … Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …   

… Solomon teaches fellow believers to work TOGETHER and magnify their efforts.                

Reference Passage: … Matthew 18:20 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

… When believers come TOGETHER, following the Lord, He is ALWAYS present with them.      

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

… The Apostle Paul teaches on the power we have when we Christians come TOGETHER and serve the Lord in unity as the Body of Christ.  

Reference Passage: … 1Corinthians 1:10 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK ... 

…  Paul also calls on fellow Christian to work in harmony with one another following God’s ways to glorify God.    

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread  Author , Sheridan Voysey -  AT THIS LINK  - writes of the relationship between two early church “fathers,”  Gregory of Nazianzus and Basil of Caesarea, who came together to set aside their individual notoriety to work in unison their entire lives, which, of course, gave them more power from their united efforts than they would have individually.   

And that immediately raises the question if we - in Christ’s body - the Church - are coming together to serve God’s kingdom with more power, working TOGETHER, than we could ever have working on our own (hear the linked song).  So, what can we do today to come TOGETHER with other Christians to serve the Lord with His power working thru a unified Church.  

                                                                    

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, …for showing me how I can work with fellow Christians to magnify our power for Your Kingdom.  

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray. again today, that all reading here will join me today, … to work with one another for Your glory and Your kingdom.    … Amen

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