May 30 2025 … Lifted UP …

May 30 2025 … Lifted UP    …   

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...   Please take the time to hear music and lyrics with Josh Groban singing… You Raise Me UP,  uplifting Christians with the truth that our God lifts us up when we’re feeling down and out.

Christ in the Abyss ... 

  

Highlight Passage: … Psalms 69:15  … [NLT] … 

5 Don’t let the floods overwhelm me, or the deep waters swallow me, or the pit of death devour me.            

…   David prays and pleas for God’s uplifting power.       

           

Highlight Passage (in context): … Psalms 69:1-15  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… King David prays in song for God to lifts him out of the pits of despair.                                       

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Highlight Passage (in context)  … Psalms 27:1 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

… King David prays in song, recognizing that it is God who protects him and lifts him up when he is down.

Reference Passage: … Isaiah 41:10 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… God promises, thru Isaiah, to give His strength and to hold believers up in times of trial.

Reference Passage: …  Romans 8:28  (NLT) …  USE THIS LINK …

… The Apostle Paul assures fellow Christians that ALL things work together for their (our) good.

Reference Passage: …  Philippians 4:6-7 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Paul teaches fellow Christians to take our concerns to God in prayer with thankful hearts.    

Reference Passage: …  2Timothy 1:7 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Paul teaches Timothy (and all Christians) that God’s Spirit give us God’s strength and sound thinking to overcome our fears. 

Reference Passage: … Titus 3:4-5 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …

… The Apostle Paul assures Titus, and all  fellow Christians, especially those who’re persecuted, that God’s power has given them (us) His power to lift them (us) up.

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread Author - Sheridan.Voysey  …  AT THIS LINK    … Told about the remarkable underwater bronze statue of Christ near San Fruttuoso Abby, off the northwest coast of Italy.  Most of us have experienced being in the depths at some point in our lives; and the statue reminds us the our Lord is there with us,… just as it is depicted in the Scriptures shared above. 

Maybe some of my readers here today are there, …  in the depths of trial or struggle today.   If so, … take heart; … because as He promises in His word, … our God is there to lift us up.  It’s His promise; and I believe Him; … do you?

My Thanksgiving: … Oh, King Jesus, thank You, … for lifting me up when I feel under water. 

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I praise You, … again today, Lord. … for lifting us up with Your enabling grace    … Amen

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