Aug 29, 2025 … Lost And Found …

Aug 29, 2025 … Lost And Found    …

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...   Please take the tme to hear music and lyrics with the worship group, The Nashville Singers,  singing… Surely the Presence of the Lord,  … joyfully of the presence of the Lord being in the hearts of all who are born-again believers. 

Once Lost ... Now Found in my heart ... 

Highlight Passage: …  2Samuel 6:12  … [NLT] … 

12 Then King David was told, “The Lord has blessed Obed-edom’s household and everything he has because of the Ark of God.” So David went there and brought the Ark of God from the house of Obed-edom to the City of David with a great celebration.

… God’s people celebrated along with David when David brought the Ark of the Covenant back to His people in the City of David..    

Highlight Passage (in context): … 2Samuel 6:1-2, 6-16 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… David moves the Ark of the Covenant back to its place in the Tabernacle in the City of David, bringing God’s prurience back to His people.    

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Reference Passage: …Exodus 33:14  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

… God promises Moses (and all believers in Messiah) his rest.    

<b><u>Reference Passage:</u> … Psalms 16:11  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …</b> 

…King David sings of sensing God’s presence in his heart.

Reference Passage: … Jeremiah 29:13  {NLT] … USE THIS LINK …       

…  God’s promise, thru Jeremiah, to His people that if they (we) look for Him, they (we) will find Him. 

Reference Passage: … John 14:16  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Jesus promises His disciples (and all of us who are born-again in Christ) that He will end His Spirit to reside in their (our) hearts..    

Reference Passage: … Revelation 3:20 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… God reveals, thru John, that all we, who are born-agin Christians, have to do is open the door of our hearts for God’s presence in His Spirit to fellowship with them (us).  .  

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread Author, Alyson Kieda  … AT THIS LINK    … related a story of how the author’s Pastor, at a fall men’s retreat, took her son to a cabin in the woods where a replica of the lost Ark of the Covenant had been placed for them to bring the copy back to the retreat gathering.  It was a way for the Pastor to illustrate what David did in 2Samuel 6 (see Highlight passage); and that is to bring God’s presence in the Ark of the Covenant back to the City David from where it had been captured and stored.

It was a way for the ODB author to teach the reality that God’s presence now resides in the hearts of any/all born-again Christians who’ve surrendered their hearts, believing in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.  A little over 40 years ago, I brought God’s “Ark” into my heart. And now He resides in me … ALWAYS and FOREVER.   Is He in Your heart?   If not, I’m here - at billbb13@icloud.com - to bring God’s Ark to your heart.        

My Thanksgiving: … Oh, King Jesus, thank You, … Lord … for being with me always and forever. 

 

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I praise You, … Lord. … for giving us Your spirit to reside and abide in our hearts forever.  … Amen

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