Dec 20 2025 … God With Us …

Dec 20 2025 …  God With Us … 

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...      and PLEASE take the time to listen to music and lyrics, from the group, The Afters, singing God Is With Us … calling on Christians to have faith that God is with us, … no matter what we face in life.

Highlight Passage: … Matthew 1:23 … [NLT] …  

23 …  “Look! The virgin will conceive a child! She will give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel, which means ‘God is with us.’”   

… Matthew shows that Jesus was born to fulfill the prophesy of Isaiah that God would be born of a virgin and would be “Immanuel,” God with us. 

Highlight Passage in Context:  Matthew 1:18-25 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Matthew writes God’s truth about Jesus being born to be “Emmanuel,” … God with us!  

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Reference Passage: … Deuteronomy 31:6 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… God promises to be with and protect His people  … ALWAYS … as they were about to enter the promised land. 

Reference Passage: …  Psalms 23:4 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… King David sings of knowing that God was ALWAYS with him, even through the “valley of the shadow of death.”

Reference Passage: …  Isaiah 41:10 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …

… God, thru the Prophet Isaiah, promises to be with His people …  ALWAYS . and to provide them (us) with His strength.  

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

… Jesus promises His followers to be with them (us) ALWAYS!

Reference Passage: … 1Corinthians 3:16 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… The Apostle Paul teaches truth that Christians are the “Temple" of God with The Lord dwelling in them (us).

Reference Passage: … Hebrews 13:5 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… God, thru the Author of Hebrews, teaches (quoting from Deut. 31:6) that His chosen ones (i.e, Christians) are not to rely on money for security but to trust that God will never leave or abandon them (us).  

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread from Bill Crowder …  USE THS LINK   …  wrote how Henry David Thoreau once call a “city” as a place where many people are “lonesome together.”   And the ODB author went on to list a few songs from the his youth, like “Only the Lonely,”  and “Eleanor Rigby,” which were songs of my youth as well, … songs which described people who were so, so lonely.  And the ODB author went on to describe the loneliness experienced by the planet during the more recent pandemic.  And Crowder closed by saying that perhaps loneliness is the “universal pandemic.” 

And tho I’m not a betting man, I would - in my mind - wager that many of my readers here today are experiencing loneliness; or maybe you recall a time in your life when God seemed far away - if not absent. Well, we all may empathize with how loneliness feels, and right now, I’m going thru some physical challenges which make God seem farther away.  But He’s not; and my faith and my confidence in God’s word <b>(see Scriptures shared above)</b> lift me up, … KNOWING that God is with me.  Yeah, … even IN ME, …  always there to show me THE way, … HIS WAY, ,,, in life.   He’s with us today!  … And I’m praying you, as I do, feel His presence. 

<b><u>My Thanksgiving:</b></u> … Oh, King Jesus, thank You …Lord, … for being there with me . today … and tomorrow. …

<b><u>My Prayer Today</u>:</b> Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, … thank You for being here with us today, Lord.  … Amen

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