Sept 16, 2025 … Shining His Light …

Sept 16, 2025  …  Shining His Light   … 

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...   Please take the time to hear music and lyrics with the group, Elevation Worship’s,  singing… Snine A Light,  … Calling on Christians to shine God’s light in to a dark world.

Highlight Passage: … Romans 12:21 … [NLT] … 

21 Don’t let evil conquer you, but conquer evil by doing good..  

… The Apostle Paul exhorts fellow Christians to overcome evil by doing good. 

<b><u>Highlight Passage (in context) </u> …  Romans 12:14-21 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …</b>  

…  Paul teaches fellow Christians how they (we) must live to shine the light of Christ into a very dark world. 

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Reference Passage: …  Psalms 119:105 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… King David poetically writes of God’s work lighting the way to go in life. 

Reference Passage: …  Matthew 5:14-16 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Jesus, in His Sermon on the Mount, calls on His faithful followers to become the light of Christ shining into a dark world.

Reference Passage: …John 8:12 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

  Jesus charges His faithful followers - i.e., those who believe in Him as Lord - to be His lighthouse <b>(see photo),</b> in this dark world. 

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

…  Jesus calls ALL faithful followers to be His witnesses of light to the world …to those who need to reflect His purpose (hear the linked song).    .

Reference Passage: …Ephesians 5:8 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Paul calls on fellow Christians to live as “people of light.”  

Reference Passage: …  1Peter 2:9  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

…  declares that Christians become ambassadors of God’s goodness and light a dark world. 

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread Author, Unpublished online - Winn Collier  … AT THIS LINK… wrote of how Hugh Lofting, the author of the whimsical and joyful Doctor Doolittle tales  to give children some light as the world emerged from WW1.  It was a good example of what the linked song and the Scriptures shine forth in God’s word shared above. 

And if my readers here today have invested a few minutes to take in the linked song and meditate a bit on god’s word, I think you will see, as I did, that we Christians are to become lighthouses of God’s  direction in life, rather than become lost in the darkness of this world or drown in our own selfish desires.   Personally, i’m trying - right here - as I write these words to shine God’s light for all to see  His His direction to follow.   Do you see God’s light shining on the path ahead?   Let’s all follow His light!

My Thanksgiving: … Oh, King Jesus, thank You, … Lord … for shining the light of Your truth for me to follow today … and then again tomorrow.  

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I praise You, Lord. … for shining Your light thru  us to become Your lighthouses of your purpose in the darkness which surrounds us.  … Amen

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Passtor 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 viaemail at that site.

Sept 15, 2025 … Taking The Shot …

Sept 15, 2025  …  Taking The Shot   … 

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...     Please take the time to hear music and lyrics with Steve Green singing… People Need The Lord,  … Calling Christians to share Christ’s saving grace with many who need Salvation.

Highlight Passage: … Matthew 28:19 … [NLT] … 

19 Therefore, <b>go and make disciples of all the nations,</b> baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.  … 

… Jesus calls all faithful believers in Christ as Messiah and Lord to GO and make new disciples with His authority and God’s Spirit to guide them.

Highlight Passage (in context): …  Matthew 28:16-20 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

…  Jesus, before He re-enters heaven, after the Resurrection, commissions His disciples and faithful followers to GO and make more disciples in the Name and Authority of Christ.

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Reference Passage: … Isaiah 52:7 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… God, thru Isaiah, declares His blessing on those who share the good news of His peace and His glory with others.   

Reference Passage: …  Mark 16:14-15  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Jesus appears to His disciples after the resurrection and calls them to go and share the good news of His salvation to EVERYONE…

Reference Passage: …John 15:8 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Jesus, in the upper room, the night before His death, calls on His Disciples to go and be fruitful in His Name and for His glory. 

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

…  Jesus calls ALL faithful followers to be His witnesses to the world …to those who need salvation (hear the linked song).  .

Reference Passage: … Romans 10:14-15 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Paul quotes from Isaiah 52:7 (cited above) that God blesses those who’re willing to go and share God’s saving grace with others.

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

… Paul confidently calls all to imitate him because he imitates Christ.  

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread Author, Unpublished online - Patricia Raybon  … AT THIS LINK   … related a delightful story of how the coach of the local middle-school basketball team had to strongly and receptively had to call his player to overcome their fear of shooting the ball.  They would willingly pass and dribble the ball but were hesitant to “go for it” and shoot.  And when they finally did it, of course, made all the difference, allowing them to win a few games.   

The story, the ODB author, felt illustrates what is brought out in the linked song and the Scriptures shared above; … that people need the Lord and His saving grace; but they will not hear of God’s love unless we, His disciples, are willing to “go for it” and share the Gospel with those who need The Lord,  … and that, of course, is EVERYONE.   I - for one - am going to take “the shot” today when I get the ball to shoot.  How about you? 

My Thanksgiving: … Oh, King Jesus, thank You, … Lord … for passing the Gospel ball to me to take the sharing shot today.      

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I praise You, Lord. … for calling us to share Your saving grace with any/all who need You 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 “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.

Sept 14, 2025 … Jesus - My Good Shepherd …

Sept 14, 2025  …  Jesus - My Good Shepherd   … 

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...    Please take the time to hear music and lyrics with Don Moen singing… Psalm 23,  … Covering King David’s song about Christ as our Good Shepherd.  

Jesus is our Good Shepher ... 

Highlight Passage: … Isaiah 40:11 … [NLT] … 

11 He will feed His flock like a shepherd.  He will carry the lambs in His arms, holding them close to his heart. …  

… God, thru Isiah, promises to be The Good Shepherd, treating His chosen people as His sheep.

Highlight Passage (in context)  …  Isaiah 40: 10-11, 29-31 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

…  God, thru Isaiah, promises to treat His chosen ones like a Good Shepherd, feeding and protecting His sheep.

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

… King David sings of his God being his Good Shepherd, watching over and protecting David like a shepherd would his flock.  

Reference Passage: …  Psalms 100:3  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… The Psalmist, likely King David, sings of God’s people being like the sheep of His pasture, protecting them (us) like as a Good Shepherd would His flock.

Reference Passage: …Matthew 9:36 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Matthew writes of Jesus having compassion on those he encountered, comparing Him to a shepherd caring for his sheep. 

Reference Passage: … Luke 15:4-7 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

…  Luke reports that Jesus used a parable of a shepherd being will to leave his flock to find one lost lamb, being like Jesus willing to seek out any who are lost from His flock.  .

Reference Passage: …  John 10:11, 14 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Jesus says He IS our “Good Shepherd.”   

Reference Passage: … Hebrews 13:20 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… The Author of Hebrews writes of Jesus being the Good Shepherd Who cares for His sheep.  

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread Author, Unpublished online - Lisa M Samra  … AT THIS LINK   … wrote of being in a neonatal ICU unit, surrounded by all of the advanced equipment used to keep distressed new-borns alive, and the ODB author being impressed by a mother whom the doctors felt needed to caress her baby close to the mother’s heart as the best medicine to give her child the best chance to thrive.   

And Lisa M Samra, the ODB author, went on to say that this was a profound and powerful human picture illustrating how Jesus was - and IS - our compassionate Good Shepherd, described in the Scriptures shared above, holding His sheep close to His heart (see photo); and caring for all those Who were - and are -  chosen to be in His flock.   I’m one of those sheep in my Lord’s flock   Are you?

My Thanksgiving: … Oh, King Jesus, thank You, … Lord … for being my Good Shepherd, … holding me close to Your heart.      

My Prayer Today:  Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I praise You, Lord. … for ALWAYS being our Good Shepherd.   … 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.

Sept 13, 2025 … He Provides Our Needs …

Sept 13, 2025 …  He Provides Our Needs   … 

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...    Please take the time to hear music and lyrics with Don Moen singing… God Will Make A Way,  … Assuring us that God will show us a way - HIS WAY - when we, many times, can’t see where to go in life.

Highlight Passage: … Exodus 16:12 … [NLT] … 

12 “I have heard the Israelites’ complaints. Now tell them, ‘In the evening you will have meat to eat, and in the morning you will have all the bread you want. Then you will know that I am the Lord your God.’”

… God, thru Moses, promises His chosen people His provision of manna to feed them.

Highlight Passage (in context): …  Exodus 16:11-16 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

…  God, thru Moses to HIs grumbling and complaining people wandering in the wilderness and seeking to find God’s promised land, give His promise of His mercy and grace by feeding them in the wilderness.

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Reference Passage:… Lamentations 3:22-23 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …

...  Jeremiah relays God’s promise to HIs people of God’s mercy and enabling grace which is new everyday for His chosen people.

Reference Passage: …  Mark 6:33-44  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… John Mark documents God’s mercy in the miracle Jesus performed  being able to feed several thousand people with just a few loaves of bread and two fishes, … God multiplying the food to feed the many who had gathered to hear Jesus’ words. 

Reference Passage: …Romans 8:28 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Paul teaches truth about God providing all true Christians need … for their (our) good and God’s glory. 

Reference Passage: … Philippians 4:19 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

…  The Apostle Paul also assures fellow Christians that God, Who supplies Paul’s needs will provide for them (us).  .

Reference Passage: … 1Peter 2:9  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… The Apostle Peter shows oppressed Christians how they (we) have been granted by God’s grace to be able to walk out from the darkness of sin into God’s glorious light. 

Reference Passage: …  1Revelation 7:15-17 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… God reveals thru John God’s promise of eternal provision and protection when we join Him in glory.    

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread Author, Unpublished online - John Blase  … AT THIS LINK      … wrote about a singer-songwriter, Jane Kristen Marczewski, who was known as “Nightbride” by her fans.  The singer wrote about her up-and- down life after being diagnosed with breast cancer and God’s provision of support from many as she dealt with the return of the cancer after months of remission.  

Many of us may have experienced God’s mercy and HIs provision of enabling grace as did the song-writer in the ODB story.  God certainly showed His people his mercy and provision as they wandered in the wilderness for 40 years prior to entering the Promised Land (see Highlight passage - and meditate on the Reference Scriptures shared above).  Right now, …  I’m going thru some ups-and-downs in my life, both physically and spiritually; … but I see God’s mercy sustaining me along the way.   I pray that you’re seeking - and finding - God’s grace as you deal with your life today.  Seek it, my friend, … it’s there … ALWAYS!  

My Thanksgiving: … Oh, King Jesus, thank You, … Lord … for showing off Your mercy and grace again today; … praying for it to be there tomorrow; .. and I know it will be.      

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I praise You, Lord. … for uplifting us with Your mercy and grace again 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