May 15 2025 … My “GPS”   …   

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...   Please take the time to hear music and lyrics with Amy Grant singing … Thy Word, singing from Ps 119:1-5 that God’s word leads us in life by God’s perfect “GPS.”

Photo below … God’s Word - My “GPS”   …     

Highlight Passage: …  2Corinthians 12:9 … [NLT] … 

9 Each time he said, “My grace is all you need. My power works best in weakness.” So now I am glad to boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ can work through me.             

…  Paul quotes Jesus teaching him that the ‘thorn” was given to Paul to humble him  to be able to see and follow God’s direction.             

           

Highlight Passage (in context)  … 2Corinthians 12:1-10  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… The Apostle Paul relates his story of receiving a thorn in the flesh and recognizing that Jesus was using that painful experience as a teaching “tool’ - like a ‘GPS” - to guide him in life.              

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Highlight Passage (in context): … Psalms 119:105 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK ...  

… King David sings of using God’s word as a light for our path in life.

Reference Passage: … Proverbs 3:5-6 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …

…Solomon calls on all believers to trust that God will ALWAYS show His way in life for those who trust and follow Him.

Reference Passage: … Isaiah 40:8 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… God’s promise, thru the Prophet, Isaiah, of the power and permanence of God’s truth.  

Reference Passage: … John 16:13  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Jesus promises to His disciples that He would send them His Spirt to guide them (and all Christians) to follow God’s truth (ie., thru God’s word).                         

Reference Passage: …  Romans 15:4 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …

… God’s word (i.e., the entire Bible) was given to us to be like a perfect ‘GPS” to guide us in all aspects of life. 

Reference Passage: …  2Timothy 3:16-17 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Paul mentors Timothy, and teaches all Christians, in the power of God’s word to lead us in life.   

 

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread Author - Monica La Rose … AT THIS LINK      … Shared how Medieval Theologian, Thomas Aquinas, who joined a Monastic order, which was dedicated to prayer and knowing God through the study of God’s word; and just months before his death Aquinas wrote, “I can no longer write, for God has given me such glorious knowledge that all contained in my works are as straw.” 

And the ODB Author today goes on to cite the experience of the Apostle Paul’s, writing of his experience with a so-called “thorn-in-the-flesh,”  which opened his spiritual eyes to God’s glory and His grace, quoting Jesus in 2Cor.12:9; and allowing Paul to realize and acknowledge that he actually needed the painful “thorn” to be able to be humbled enough to see God’s ways and follow the Lord, … Who was leading him to glory.  Personally, that’s where I want to go and I’ve discovered that I need to use God’s word as my Spirit-led “GPS,” all the way to Heaven.   Are you with me today?  

My Thanksgiving:… Oh, King Jesus, thank You, … for leading me to follow You all the way to glory thru Your word, Lord. 

 

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray, … again today, … that all of us reading here, will willingly use Your word, Lord, as our “GPS,” leading us to follow Your ways today … and tomorrow, and all the way to Glory.   … AMEN

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