June 15, 2025 … Redeemed & Restored …

June 15, 2025 … Redeemed & Restored …  

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...   Please take the time to hear music and lyrics with Big Daddy Weave singing… Redeemed, showing that our Lord is a redeeming and restoring Savior.

Highlight Passage: … Isaiah 44:23 … [NLT] … 

23 Sing, O heavens, for the Lord has done this wondrous thing. Shout for joy, O depths of the earth! Break into song, O mountains and forests and every tree! For the Lord has redeemed Jacoband is glorified in Israel.         

…  God extends His covenant promise of redemption to Jacob, God’s sinful people.      

           

Highlight Passage (in context): … Isaiah 44:21-25 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… God, thru Isaiah, tells of His mercy and grace to His people, redeeming their sinfulness to return to God with His grace..   

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Reference Passage: … Psalms 130:7 (NLT) …  USE THIS LINK … 

… The Psalmist, likely King David, gives voice to God’s people striving to reach for God’s redemptive care.  

Reference Passage:… Matthew 20:28 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Jesus teaches His Disciples that He came into he world to give His life as a ransom for mankind’s sin.

Reference Passage: … 1Corinthians 1:30 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

…  The Apostle Paul assures fellow Christians of being made right with God, redeeming them (us) from their (our) sin. 

Reference Passage: … Galatians 2:20 (NLT) …  USE THIS LINK … 

… The Apostle Paul testifies how his life was transformed by God’s grace when he (Paul) surrendered to God’s redeeming grace.

Reference Passage: …Ephesians 1:7 (NLT) …  USE THIS LINK … 

… The Apostle Paull shows fellow Christians that God is so rich in kindness that He offers HIS redeeming grace to anyone who believes in Him.

Reference Passage: … Colossians 1:13-14 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Paul also teaches that Christ, with His redemptive grace, purchased our freedom from sin on the cross. 

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread Author - Tim Gustafson… AT THIS LINK      … related a true story of two parents, Amy and Alan, who had a daughter, Jem, who was diagnosed at birth with a rare genetic condition which their doctor said would likely take the life of the child in weeks or months.  But the parents took Jem home, believing in their God for healing.  And six years later they returned to the same doctor, who admitted that he had been wrong about his earlier prognosis.  But now Jem was discovered to have a tumor, which, when they did surgery to remove the tumor, had disappeared.  Jem had become a benefactor of a redemptive and restoring miracle from God.  

And today there may be some, reading here with me today, that are confronting the need for God’s redeeming and restoring grace (see photo).  Well, my dear fellow Christian brother or sister, … our redeeming/restoring God is just a prayer away.   So, let’s pray!!  

My Thanksgiving: … Oh, King Jesus, thank You, … for dying on the cross to redeem me and all who believe in You as our King.

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I praise You, … again today, Lord. … as we face the need for Your redemptive grace, Lord.  … Amen

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