Sept 5, 2025 … Fences For Freedom …

Sept 5, 2025  … Fences For Freedom    …

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...   Please take the time to hear music and lyrics with Josh Baldwin singing… There Is Freedom,  … calling for Christians to live in the freedom found in following Christ. 

Fences for God's play ground ... 

  

Highlight Passage: …Deuteronomy 5:33 … [NLT] … 

33 Stay on the path that the Lord your God has commanded you to follow. Then you will live long and prosperous lives in the land you are about to enter and occupy..  

… God’s lays out the boundaries for His children to follow in life.

Highlight Passage (in context)  …  Deuteronomy 5:28-33 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

… God, thru Moses, shows His children the boundaries they are to follow FREELY  in life, . i.e, God’s word and His Law.… 

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Reference Passage: …  Joshua 1:8  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

… God promises Joshua (and all believers as His children) success and prosperity WHEN they (we)  follow His will, given freely to all in God's word.

Reference Passage: … John 8:32  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

…  God, thru the writing of The Apostle John, teaches truth that knowing and following Jesus is the way to freedom … i.e., by following Him and His ways.

Reference Passage: … Romans 8:2  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

…  Paul shows fellow Christians that we are freed from the power of sin when we belong to and follow Christ  

Reference Passage: …2Corinthians 3:17 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Paul teaches truth that freedom is found in following God’s Spirit 

Reference Passage: …  Galatians 5:13-14 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Paul also shows fellow Christians that we find God’s freedom in living for and loving others as Christ did for them (us). 

Reference Passage: … James 1:25  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …

… James, the brother of Jesus, declares that following God’s Law sets us from self and sin.

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread Author, Elisa Morgan … AT THIS LINK     …relates how social researchers discovered that children in a school without playground boundaries tended to gather in clusters close to the school during recess.  However, when fences were placed around the playground area (see photo), the children ventured away from the school, inside the fences, and interacted more freely. 

The research and playground fencing actually provided the children more freedom to play than when there were no clear-cut boundaries;  and it illustrated, for the ODB author, why God has provided clear-cut boundaries for His children, ,,, i.e., what is outlined in the Highlight and Reference passages above.  We have God’s freedom to roam with His security when we - His chosen children - see and observe His boundaries, … found in His word.  

Personally, that’s why you find me, here every day, seeking God’s will, thru the fencing of His word, and playing freely within the boundaries He provides for me as one of His children.   How about you?   Do you feel free to play in God’s playground today? 

My Thanksgiving: … Oh, King Jesus, thank You, … Lord … for tor giving me Your fences, found in Your word, for me to play freely during Your designated recess time that we call  “LIFE.”     

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I praise You, … Lord. …for giving Your children clear fences to play freely during the recess time that we have in life.  … Amen

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