April 28 2026 … God Sees ALL …

Apr 28 2026 …  God Sees ALL  … 

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...       and PLEASE take the time to listen to music and lyrics from Rachel Barrentine and Josh Wright singing The God Who Sees … showing that our God sees ALL … ALWAYS.

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Highlight Passage: … Psalms 121:8 … [NLT] 

…  8 The Lord keeps watch over you as you come and go, both now and forever.  

… Showing our faith that God watches over His people ALWAYS. 

Highlight Passage in Context:  Psalms 121 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… God’s Psalmist, likely David, sings a song of Accent for God’s people to sing as they travel upward to worship God in His Holy Temple..

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Reference Passage: … Genesis 16:13 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Hagar calls The Lord, “El Roi,” “the God Who sees” her in her time of need.

Reference Passage: … Job 34:21 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Job, in all his trials/troubles, recognizes and confesses that his God watches over all. 

Reference Passage: … Psalms 119:18 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …

… King David sings a prayer for God to open his eyes to God’s truth through His instructions (i.e., God’s word).

Reference Passage: … Proverbs 15:3 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Solomon declares that our God watches over EVERYTHING … ALWAYS! 

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

… Jesus promises Christians to ALWAYS be with them as they (we) carry out His “great commission.” 

Reference Passage: … Hebrews 4:13  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… The Author of Hebrews declares that NOTHING is hidden from the eyes of our Lord.

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread from Xochitl Dixon …  USE THIS LINK     … wrote about a friend, named Trina, who was searching for her lost bible where she had put tickets to a concert she desperately wanted to attend.  And Trina’s son accused her of suffering from FOMO, “fear of missing out.”  Finally, her husband came in with the bible, showing that Trina had left it in the car.

And sometimes we Christians, can show our lack of faith that God watches over our lives, seeing all and ALWAYS knowing our needs.  And our “FOMO” can, … and often does, … show up in times like that.  I personally identify with that and give witness to my lack of faith when I fail to recognize that our God watches over me - and all Christians - seeing everything … ALWAYS … and knowing our needs … ALWAYS!  How about you?   Are you with me as we know our God is watching over us?  

My Thanksgiving: … Oh, King Jesus, thank You …Lord, … for watching over me … ALWAYS.  

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, … thank You, Lord, for ALWAYS watching over Your chosen ones. … 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.

April 27 2026 … Our Potter, His Clay …

Apr 27 2026 …  Our Potter, His Clay  … 

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...    and PLEASE take the time to listen to music and lyrics from Jim Reeves singing Have Thine Own Way, Lord … hymn declaring that God is the Potter and we Christians are His clay..

Shaped again today on The Potter's wheel ... 

 

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Highlight Passage: … Jeremiah 18:4… [NLT] 

…  6 “O Israel, can I not do to you as this potter has done to his clay? As the clay is in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand.  

… God, thru Jeremiah, illustrates His work to shape His people as He, The Lord, desires.  

Highlight Passage in Context:  Jeremiah 18:1-6 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Jeremiah describes God’s people as clay in The Potter’s (i.e., God’s ) hands.

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Reference Passage: … Psalms 138:8 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… King David declares in song that God is carefully and faithfully shaping his life.

Reference Passage: … Proverbs 3:5-6, 19:21 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… God’s wisdom, thru Solomon, showing God’s way will prevail for those who trust in Him. 

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

… The Apostle Paul teaches truth to fellow Christians about how God causes ALL things in their (our) lives to be for their (our) good and His (God’s) glory.

Reference Passage: … Ephesians 2:10 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… The Apostle Paul also calls on fellow Christians that they (we) are His masterpiece, created by Him for HIS purposes.

Reference Passage: … Philippians 1:6  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… The Apostle Paul assures fellow Christians that they (we) are being reshaped by God’s Spirit into God’s image.

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

… Paul teaches Timothy, and all Christians, that it is His purpose to show God’s grace thru Timothy (or any Christian). .

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread from Kenneth Petersen …  USE THIS LINK    … wrote about Adelaide Pollard, a humble missionary to Africa, whom we know little about, except that she wrote a hymn entitled “Have Thine Own Way, Lord,” which is still sung my singers like Jim Reeves; and is linked for my readers above, declaring that we Christians are the clay in the hands of God, … our Potter, … Who shapes us for His work and His glory.

And that’s how I see myself, ever since I turned my life over to be shaped by The Lord over 40 years ago as the clay in His hands (see photo) as the Scriptures above describe and declare.  How about you?  Is that how you see yourself?  

My Thanksgiving:… Oh, King Jesus, thank You …Lord, … for shaping my life as the clay on Your Potter’s wheel.

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, … thank You, Lord, for shaping us for Your glory.  … 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.

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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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.

April 25 2026 … More Like Christ …

Apr 25 2026 …  More Like Christ  … 

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...      and PLEASE take the time to listen to music and lyrics from Zach Williams singing Less Like Me … calling on Christians to grow to become more like Jesus, humbly serving others.

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Highlight Passage: … Philippians 2:4-5… [NLT] 

…  4 Don’t look out only for your own interests, but take an interest in others, too.  5 You must have the same attitude that Christ Jesus had. 

… Paul cals on fellow Christians to do all we can to become more like our Lord Jesus, humbly serving others.   

Highlight Passage in Context:  Philippians 2:3-8 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Paul exhorts fellow Christians to empty themselves and become more like Christ, Who humbled Himself to become a servant, … even dying to save mankind.

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Reference Passage: … Matthew 11:29 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Jesus calls on His followers/disciples to become like Him, being humble and gentle in serving others.

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

… Paul calls on fellow Christians to become more like Christ, becoming living servants of The Lord and avoiding becoming like the world.

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

… Paul also exhorts other Christians to imitate Christ like he does in his life.

Reference Passage: … Galatians 2:20 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …     

… Paul testifies that He was transformed to become more like Christ when he died to his ole selfish ways and chose to be more like his Lord.

Reference Passage:… Ephesians 2:10  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… God creates us (Christians) to become God’s workmanship in the world carrying out God’s purposes in the good works we do in and thru Him.     

Reference Passage: … 1John 2:6 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… The Apostle John teaches truth that Christians should live as Jesus lived if they (we) claim to be followers of Christ.

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread from Katara Patton…  USE THIS LINK    … wrote about visiting a friend in a hospital who announced to a group of physicians discussing her case that she needed to go to the bathroom but was not able to do so; and a young, inexperienced doctor, calmly found a urinal and was lauded by the lead physician for simply doing what was necessary to help the patient.  

It’s an example, illustrating what Zach Williams sings in the linked song and the Scriptures teach above … that we, as surrendered disciples of Christ, need to be more like our Lord and humbly serve others as HE did.   I’m doing all I can to be more like my Lord today.  How about you?   

My Thanksgiving: … Oh, King Jesus, thank You …Lord, … for helping me grow to be more like You today.

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, … thank You, Lord, for showing Your chosen how to be more like You today … and even more tomorrow.   … 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.