Devotional Song: … GO TO THIS LINK … Please take the time to take in a YouTube video of images and lyrics from Don Men leading in worship and singing … God Will Make A Way … poignantly declaring how God will make a way for His children no matter how desperate life seems. … And THEN TO THIS LINK to hear Phillips, Craig, and Dean singing their song, He’ll Do Whatever It Takes, showing how God’s Spirit does all our Lord can to seek out, redeem, and remake lost ones like you and me.
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Highlight Verse[s]: Isaiah 62:11 [NLT] …
11 The Lord has sent this message to every land: “Tell the people of Israel, ‘Look, you Savior is coming. See He brings His reward with Him as He comes.’ ”
… The Prophesy of Christ’s final coming for His Bride.
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Highlight Passage [context]: Isaiah 61:1-2, 62:1-12 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Isaiah’s prophesy of God searching, finding, and bring His Bride to Himself.
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Reference Passage #1 [NLT] : … Jeremiah 29:10-13 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… The Prophet tells of the Messiah seeking out, finding, and bringing His beloved Bride to Himself.
Reference Passage #2 [NLT] : … Luke 15:1-7, 19:10 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Jesus, the Good Shepherd, came to seek out His lost sheep. That’s you and me!!
My Devotional Journal: Today's ODB author, Kirsten Holmberg, related a personal story illustrating what it’s like to seek out a loved one who is difficult to find. The ODB author wrote: Every Saturday our family lines the edges of the race course to cheer on my daughter as she runs with her high school cross-country team. After crossing the finish line, the athletes stream out to rejoin their teammates, coaches, and parents. Crowds engulf the finishers—often more than 300 of them—making it difficult to find one person among so many. We scan the crowd excitedly until we find her, eager to put our arms around the one athlete we came to watch: our much-loved daughter.
I pray that all reading here with me know and believe the truth that our Redeemer and Lord seeks and saves His lost children, … our Good Shepherd, Who searches for and brings His wayward lambs to Himself. And having been one of those lost sheep whom my Lord came after and saved, I am one who knows to what lengths our Good Shepherd will go to find His lost ones and to rescue us for Himself.
And if you’ve taken in the linked songs above, I’m sure you’re glad that our Lord, as the “Good Shepherd,” is sometimes called the “Hound of Heaven,” … as He will do, as Phillips, Craig, and Dean sing, “whatever it takes” to bring His lost ones, redeemed and reshaped, to Himself.
Do I sense readers joining me in a resounding “HALLELUJAH!!”?
My Prayer Today: Abba Father, … King Jesus, … We are blessed to be saved by Your dogged pursuit to search out and rescue Your lost sheep. … Amen
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