May 19 2025 … Doing Life TOGETHER …

May 19 2025 … Doing Life TOGETHER   …   

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...   Please take the time to hear music and lyrics with Chris Tomlin and Russell Dickerson singing … Together, about Christians coming together and working … TOGETHER …  for God’s glory in community.

Highlight Passage: …  Ecclesiastes 4:10  … [NLT] … 

10   If one person falls, the other can reach out and help. But someone who falls alone is in real trouble.           

…   Solomon teaches the importance of living life in community, helping one another in times of trial or trouble.            

           

Highlight Passage (in context)  … Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

… Solomon’s wisdom on living and doing life in community, sharing all the burdens in life.           

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Highlight Passage (in context)  … Proverbs 19:17 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Solomon shows that helping others in need is lending to the Lord, Who always repays those with His love and grace.

Reference Passage: … John 13:34-35 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Jesus teaches that Christians must love and serve one another, showing all that we are Christ’s disciples..   

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

… Paul calls on fellow Christians to show love for one another.                          

Reference Passage: …  Philippians 2:3-5  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Paul also teaches truth that we Christians live and help one another with the attitude of Christlike love.  

Reference Passage: …  1Thessalonians 5:11 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …

… Finally, the Apostle Paul exhorts fellow Christians to encourage and edify each other.  

Reference Passage: …  Hebrews 10:24-25 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… God’s word, thru the Author of Hebrews, calls on fellow Christians to motivate one another to come together in unity, helping each other as we wait for Christ’s return.

    

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread Author - Patricia Raybon  … AT THIS LINK       … shares a story of a young woman, named Meggie, who had been involved with substance abuse for over 10 years when she encountered - and was led to Ben, another recovering addict who was a counselor for a group called “Stone Soup,” which was a community of addicts, living and working together to encourage and edify one another, just as God’s word describes in the Scriptures shared above.  

And oh how I agree with the premise and pertinent message from today’s ODB entry; … because, for almost three decades now, I’ve been called to lead a Christian ministry call “Battle Plan Ministry”, which helps Christian men seek to follow Christ by walking and lifting one anther up in Christian community - (see the ministry link at  battleplanministries.org ),  And I pray that all reading with me here are led and uplifted in your life, as Solomon wrote about in the Highlight passage, to live TOGETHER by sharing Christ’s love in the community of His church.  

My Thanksgiving: … Oh, King Jesus, thank You, … for giving me Your power, Lord, to help other Christians work TOGETHER for Your glory.  

 

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I praise You, … again today, Lord. … for giving us, Your followers, Your enabling grace,  to lift each other up today. … Amen

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