Sunday, December 01, 2024

Dec 1, 2024 … Live Like Christ

Dec 1, 2024 … Live Like Christ      


Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...   Please take the time to take in this song with music and lyrics and Phil Wickham singing The Jesus Way … calling on Christians to live like Jesus lived. 



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

And you yourself must be an example to them by doing good works of every kind. Let everything you do reflect the integrity and seriousness of your teaching           

  In mentoring Titus, Paul charges him and fellow Christians to live with Christlike integrity. 


Highlight Passage (in context): … Titus 2:6-8  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK 

… Paul exhorted Titus to live like Jesus lived in order to avoid worldly criticism.                            

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Reference Passage: … Romans 12:1-2 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK 

  The Apostle Paul calls on fellow Christians to become living sacrifices in following Christ, avoiding living like the world lives.     


Reference Passage: … 1Corinthians 11:1 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK

… The Apostle Paul confidently calls on fellow Christians to follow his example and to imitate the way Christ lived HIs life.      


Reference Passage: …Galatians 2:20 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK ... 

… Once again Paul exhorts his fellow Christians to live in ways that honor Christ.  


Reference Passage: … Ephesians 4:1, 29 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK   

… And finally,  the Apostle Paul teaches truth that God’s Spirit is remaking all Christians to be like Christ. 


Reference Passage: … Philippians 1:6 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK  

… God, thru the Apostle Paul, also charges His people - i.e., born-again Christians - to be thankful in ALL situations.  


Reference Passage: … 1John 2:6 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK   

… The Apostle John also charges fellow Christians to live their (our) lives as Jesus lived. 

  

My Devotional JournalToday’s Our Daily Bread  Author -  Dave Brandon … AT THIS LINK  - told of how an award winning athlete, Charlie Ward, lived a life, expressing openly that he wanted the way he lived to honor Jesus Christ.  


And if my readers, … here today, … have taken in the linked song and meditated on the Scriptures shared above, I would think that many - if not all of you - are convicted. as am I, that we have a long way to go to live lives which honor our Lord.  But as Phil Wickham sings, I’m committed to follow THE JESUS WAY today and then trying even harder tomorrow.  How about you?       

                                                                    

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, …I’m so grateful that you’ve given me Your word as my “GPS” to follow you, Lord, … all the way to Your glory. 

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray. again today, that all reading here will join me today, … to do what we can today and tomorrow to follow You, Lord; and to live for Your glory.        … Amen


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