Aug 11 2026 … Our Bodies For Christ

Aug 11 2026 … Our Bodies For Christ 

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK …    and PLEASE take the time to listen to music and lyrics from the group,  Casting Crowns singing … If We Are the Body … calling all Christians to become the Body of Christ, using our bodies to honor Him.

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Highlight Passage: … 1Corinthians 6:19-20 [NLT]

…  19 Don’t you realize that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, Who lives in you and was given to you by God? You do not belong to yourself, 20 for God bought you with a high price. So you must honor God with your body. 

… Paul exhorts fellow Christians to honor God with their (our) bodies.  

Reference Passage: …  1Corinthians 6:12-20  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

…  The Apostle Paul calls fellow Christians to use their (our) bodies to honor God with their (our) service to/for Him. 

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Reference Passage: …  Leviticus 19:28 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …      

…  God’s word, thru Moses, commands God’s people to avoid marking or disfiguring the body in any way.  

Reference Passage: Psalms 139:13-14 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …        

… King David thanks God for making his body so wonderfully in the womb of his mother.

Reference Passage: …  Matthew 10:28  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Jesus, sending HIs disciples out to witness to Him among the people, called on them (us) to fear only God Who can bring those who reject Him to hell.

Reference Passage: … Romans 12:1-2 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

…  The Apostle Paul teaches that Christians are to become living sacrifices of service to God. 

 

Reference Passage: …  1Corinthians 3:16-17  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Paul also teaches that born-again Christians become the Temple of God, surrendering our bodies to sacrifice for God.

Reference Passage: … 1Corinthians 9:27 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… The Apostle Paul gives witness to training his own body to serve The Lord like an athlete prepares for a race.   

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread from Adam R Holz …  USE THIS LINK        writes of a time when he had rented a car to travel in Los Angeles and found himself driving more carefully than usual through the busy LA traffic because he was afraid to damage the rental car that was not his.  And the incident reminded the ODB author of the reality that our bodies, as Christians, are not our own; … but they have been purchased for eternity by Christ, dying on the cross to save those who believe in Him as Lord.

And that’s what the group, Casting Crowns, sings about in the linked song and the Scriptures shared above declare … that we, who believe in Christ as Lord … have become the Body of Christ and are called by God to honor The Lord with our own bodies.   And I’m going to do all I can today to do just that.   Are you with me?  

My Thanksgiving: … Oh, King Jesus, thank You … for giving me a body that I can use for Your glory.

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, … thank You, Lord, … for giving those of us, who’ve surrendered our lives to You, to become Your body in this world.   … Amen

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