May 10 2025 … Surrendered Faith …

May 10 2025 … Surrendered Faith  …   

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...   Please take the time to hear music and lyrics with The Maranatha Singers singing  … Great Is Thy Faithfulness, calling for Christians to hold strong in their (our) faith when encountering trials.

Praying for Shloh's healing .. 

Highlight Passage: …  1Peter 1:7 … [NLT] … 

7 These trials will show that your faith is genuine. It is being tested as fire tests and purifies gold — though your faith is far more precious than mere gold. So when your faith remains strong through many trials, it will bring you much praise and glory and honor on the day when Jesus Christ is revealed to the whole world.             

…  Peter assures fellow persecuted Christians that the trials they (we) endure are the tests of our faith in Christ.         

           

Highlight Passage (in context): … 1Peter 1:3-9  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

… Peter shows fellow persecuted Christians to withstand the suffering in this life with enduring faith in Christ. .                                                                             

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Highlight Passage (in context): … Proverbs 3:5-6  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

… God, thru Solomon, charges believers to trust in God - thru faith - to show believers the way thru the trials of this life.

Reference Passage: … John 16:33  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Jesus shows that His disciples (that’s you and me too) will encounter suffering in this world but the He, our Lord, has overcome the world.    

Reference Passage: … Romans 8:18 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… The Apostle Paul assures fellow Christians that what we endure in this life cannot compare to the glory we will experience in Heaven.   

Reference Passage:  …1Corinthians 10:13  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Paul also assures fellow Christians that God will use trials to build out faith in His goodness.                       

Reference Passage: …  2Corinthians 4:16-17 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …

… Paul reiterates his teaching to fellow Christians that the suffering we endure not is to prepare us for the glory will share with Christ forever.

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

… Jesus’ brother James teaches fellow Christians that we need to consider the trials/troubles in life with joy as opportunities to serve our LORD.      

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread Author - Xochitl Dixon … AT THIS LINK     … related a personal story of how a friend, named Sethie who had a 3YO son, Shiloh, who was desperately ill and showing no active brain waves (see photo),   And yet, his mother, Sethie, expressed, “I know God can heal Shiloh and let him come home with us. I’m also at peace if God heals him by taking him to heaven.”  Now that’s the kind of enduring and deep faith that is called for in the linked song and the Scriptures shared above. 

And I’m stopping to pray - right now as I write this - that all of my fellow Christians, reading here with me, look at the troubles and trials we face with joy, knowing that God is using these challenges to grow our faith to a level like that was related in today’s ODB entry.   And don’t we know, .. HE IS !!!   

         

My Thanksgiving: … Oh, King Jesus, thank You, … for growing my faith thru the trials I’m facing right now! 

 

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray, … again today, … that all of us reading here, are building our faith thru the trials You, Lord, are allowing us to face today.     … AMEN

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