July 8, 2025… Desperate Prayers    …  

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...  Please take the time to hear music and lyrics with Dallas Holm singing… Rise Again,  Assurance from Jesus that He will rise again from death to life. 

Highlight Passage: … John 11:23  … [NLT] … 

23 Jesus told her, .“Your brother will rise again.” 

…  Jesus assures a grieving Martha that her brother, Lazarus, will rise again from death.       

           

Highlight Passage (in context): … John 11:1-7, 17-23  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

… Jesus responds to the desperate prayers of Martha and Mary for Lazarus.          

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Reference Passage: … Psalms 50:15  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

…  God promises, in song, to hear our prayers and rescue His children. 

Reference Passage: … Psalms 91:14-15  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

…  Likely Moses sings of God hearing the desperate prayers of His people for protection.

Reference Passage: … Jeremiah 29:10-14  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

…  God, thru Jeremiah, promises to rescue his desperate people from their exile to Babylon. 

Reference Passage: … Romans 15:13 (NLT) …  USE THIS LINK … 

… The Apostle Paul’s prayer for fellow Christians for God to fill his faithful people with peace and power in their (our) trials.   

Reference Passage: …  Ephesians 1:3 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

…Paul assures fellow Christians that God has blessed them to be united with Christ.  

Reference Passage: …1Thessalonians 5:23 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

…The Apostle Paul teaches truth to fellow Christians about God keeping His chosen blameless until the Day Christ comes again.

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread Author - Kenneth Petersen  … AT THIS LINK     … wrote about a friend, Kathy, who collapsed while working with her daughter and flatlined at the hospital; and the family was summoned, informed that Kathy was dying; but the desperate prayers of the family were answered as Kathy was revived and lived.  

The incident apparently reminded the ODB author of the biblical story of the Sisters of Lazarus calling on Jesus to come and heal their brother who was dying (see Highlight passage).  But Jesus delayed several days and when He came to Martha and Mary, their brother had been dead for four days.  But, as we’ve all likely read in Scripture, Jesus promised that Lazarus would be raised from the dead.  And he was, … foreshadowing Jesus being raised from the dead to save mankind from their (our) sin. 

Do any of my readers have any desperate prayers? Well, my friends, offer them up to God.  He hears us.  He answers us.  He protects us.  He loves us!  … ALWAYS!!!   

My Thanksgiving: … Oh, King Jesus, thank You, … for hearing our prayers, Lord, . ALWAYS!!  

 

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I praise You, … again today, Lord. … for hearing our desperate prayers and providing us with Your protection and provision … ALWAYS!!     … Amen

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