April 26 2026 … Rebuilt and Restored …

Apr 26 2026 …  Rebuilt and Restored  … 

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...     and PLEASE take the time to listen to music and lyrics from Leeland and Stephen McWhirter singing God of My Restoration … giving witness in song to the restoration brought about in the life of a broken sinner by the God of all grace.

Restoring Notre Dame Cathedral ... 

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Highlight Passage: … Ezra 3:7… [NLT] 

…  7 Then the people hired masons and carpenters and bought cedar logs from the people of Tyre and Sidon, paying them with food, wine, and olive oil. The logs were brought down from the Lebanon mountains and floated along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea to Joppa, for King Cyrus had given permission for this. 

… Ezra tells of God’s people working together to restore God’s temple in Jerusalem after their return from Exile in Babylon.  

Highlight Passage in Context:  Ezra 2:68, 3:1,7 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Ezra documents the restoration of God’s Temple when God’s people returned to Jerusalem after 70 years of exile in Babylon.

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Reference Passage: … Psalms 51:12 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… King David prays in song for God to restore him to a repentant and restored follower of Christ.

Reference Passage: … Jeremiah 30:17 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… God promises His broken people, thru Jeremiah, to heal their wounds.

Reference Passage: … Joel 2:25-26 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… God also promises His people, thru the Prophet Joel, to restore His broken people.

Reference Passage: … Acts 3:19-21[NLT] … USE THIS LINK …

… The Apostle Peter calls on fellow Christians to repent and receive God’s restoring grace.

Reference Passage: … 1Thessalonians 5:11  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… The Apostle Paul exhorts fellow Christians to encourage and edify one another.     

Reference Passage: … 1Peter 5:10 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …

… The Apostle Peter also encourages fellow Christians to share in God’s grace/glory by building each other up through faith in Christ.

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread from Kristen Holmberg …  USE THIS LINK    … told about recent efforts by Christians, working together to rebuild the Notre Dame Cathedral, which had almost been destroyed in a recent mammoth fire.  The restoration - <b>(see photo)</b> - and the Scriptures shared above illustrate and describe God’s promises to rebuild and restore His church which has been devastated by the sin of God’s people. 

And I am one who has been restored and rebuilt from an atheist to a surrendered and repentant believer in Christ by God’s grace.  And I pray the same for you.  

My Thanksgiving: … Oh, King Jesus, thank You …Lord, … for rebuilding me as Your temple.

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, … thank You, Lord, for rebuilding and restoring Your church through Your grace.   … Amen

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