Aug 24, 2025 … Always Here With Me …

Aug 24, 2025 … Always Here With Me  …

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...    Please take the time to hear music and lyrics with Don Marsh, and a praise chorus, singing… Surely The Presence of the Lord Is In This Place,  … declaring the reality of God”s omnipotence in the life of faithful believers. 

 

<b><u>Highlight Passage </u>: …Genesis 28:16 … [NLT] … </b>

<i> 16 Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, <b> “Surely the Lord is in this place, and I wasn’t even aware of it!”   </b></i> 

… God reveals His presence and His power to Jacob in a dream.      

<b><u>Highlight Passage (in context) </u> … Genesis 28: 10-17 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …</b> 

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2028%3A10-17&version=NLT

… Jacob wakes up from a dream in which God reveals His presence and His power to Jacob.

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<b><u>Reference Passage:</u> … Psalms 139:7-10 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …</b> 

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalms%20139%3A7-10&version=NLT

… King David reveals in song that we, who believe in Him as Lord, can feel God’s presence EVERYWHERE in there (our) lives; and there is NOWHERE where we can go to hide from God’s presence.

<b><u>Reference Passage:</u> … Proverbs 15:3 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …</b> 

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%2015%3A3&version=NLT

…Solomon’s wisdom reveals God’s omnipresence in the lives of believers. 

<b><u>Reference Passage:</u> … Isaiah 57:15  {NLT] … USE THIS LINK …</b> 

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2057%3A15&version=NLT

…  God reveals His presence in the hearts of those who humble themselves to pursue and follow the Lord.   

<b><u>Reference Passage:</u> … Jeremiah 23:23-24  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …</b> 

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2023%3A23-24&version=NLT

… God, thru Jeremiah, to His faithful believers, declares His presence EVERYWHERE in His creation. 

<b><u>Reference Passage:</u> …  Matthew 18:20  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …</b> 

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2018%3A20&version=NLT

… God promises His presence WHENEVER believers gather in His Name. 

<b><u>Reference Passage:</u> … Colossians 1:17 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …</b> 

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Colossians%201%3A17&version=NLT

… The Apostle Paul teaches truth about God’s presence and watch care in and over ALL of His creation.  

<b><u>My Devotional Journal</u>:</b> Today’s Our Daily Bread Author, Winn Collier … <b>AT THIS LINK</b> https://www.odbm.org/en/devotionals/devotional-category/god-is-everywhere      … relates the true story of Joshua Bell, one of the most heralded violinist in the world, putting on a baseball cap and T-shirt and setting up to play His 3.5 million dollar Stadivarious violin in a subway station in Washington, DC; and as Bell played some of the most complex pieces he had played the night before a large concert hall to the applause of thousands, no one in the subway station recognized him and only a few people dropped any money in the hat Bell had placed where has playing.      

And Winn Collier, the author today’s ODB entry, was using this story to illustrate how we, who believe in Jesus as our Lord and Savior, too often walk thru life not recognizing God’s omnipotent presence.  Personally, every time I start each day, ,,, as today, … by going into God’s word, as I did today , journaling from His truth, I become very aware of God’s enabling grace to show me His presence and His power in my life.  

Actually, I’m feeling His presence as I write these words   And how COOL IS THAT!!  … What about you, my fellow Christian?   How do you seek and recognize God’s presence in your life?   

<b><u>My Thanksgiving</b></u> … Oh, King Jesus, thank You, … Lord … for being here with me EVERY DAY !!! 

 

<b><u>My Prayer Today</u>:</b> Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I praise You, … Lord. … for showing up again today . and every day!! …  … Amen

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