Dec 9 2025 … Being Christ’s Church …

Dec 9 2025 …  Being Christ’s Church … 

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...      and PLEASE take the time to listen to music and lyrics, from Matthew West singing Holy Forever …  exhorting Christians to come TOGETHER to be His church FOREVER.  

Christ's Church coming TOGETHER for His glory ... 

Highlight Passage: … Acts 2:47 … [NLT] … 

47 … all the while praising God and enjoying the goodwill of all the people. And each day the Lord added to their fellowship those who were being saved. 

… Early believers in Christ as Lord came TOGETHER to worship Him and live for His glory as His Church.

Highlight Passage in Context:  Acts 2:36-47  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Peter preaches at Pentecost of God’s Spirit coming to call ALL who believe in Jesus as Lord to be a part of His Body, The Church.

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Reference Passage: … Matthew 16:18 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …

… Jesus declares to Peter that He, as Lord, would build His church which would prevail against all forces in the world.

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

… The apostle Paul teaches truth and exhorts fellow Christians to come TOGETHER as His church to worship Him and to witness of His glory.  

Reference Passage:… Romans 10:9 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Paul preaches truth that anyone who believes in Christ as Lord and gives witness to that faith to others will be saved.  

Reference Passage: … 1Corinthians 12:13 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… The Apostle Paul teaches truth about anyone believing on Christ as Lord becoming part of His Body, the Church and sharing in His Spirit.

Reference Passage: … Ephesians 1:22-23 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …

… Paul also teaches of the Church becoming one Body under the Lordship of Jesus as The Christ.

Reference Passage: … Revelation 21:2 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …

… God gives John the revelation of God’s Body, The Church, coming down as Christ’s bride, adorned for glory for the Bridegroom.

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread Author, Anne Cetas …  USE THS LNK    …  related how she, as a child, was playing with her neighbor friends when they overheard neighbors having a worship service in their neighborhood home, which turned out to be a baptism service and to which the neighbors invited her and her friends to witness.

And this became the first illustration of Christ’s church coming TOGETHER to worship and witness their faith for the ODB author, who, as is witnessed in the linked Scriptures above, is the worldwide expression of The Church of Jesus Christ in the world today.  I pray that all who are reading with me here have become part of that Church.   I certainly am.  How about you? 

My Thanksgiving: … Oh, King Jesus, thank You …Lord, … for inviting me to be part of Your Church … now and forevermore.

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, … building Your Church for all who believe in and worship You as Lord today.  … Amen

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Blogger Note:  Everyday during this year, my daily devotional blogs are influenced by the reading and study of the online devotional blog entitled “Our Daily Bread,” distributed online via email by RBC Ministries.  If you GO TO THIS LINK on the date of my blog, you can read/study the ODB blogs; or you can subscribe to the blog via email at that site.