Devotional Song: … GO TO THIS LINK … Please take the time to take in a YouTube video of images and lyrics from The Getty’s singing their song … Speak O Lord … poignantly singing of how God’s truth showers us with His love and His light.
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Highlight Verse[s]: Nehemiah 8:8 [NLT] … 8 They read from the Book of the Law of God and clearly explained the meaning of what was being read, helping the people understand each passage.
… When the people heard God’s word, they were taken with joy and God’s love for them.
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Highlight Passage [context]: Nehemiah 8:5-12 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… God’s word was read to the people rebuilding His temple and they were brought to tears in joy from God’s message to them.
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Reference Passage : … Psalm 119:73-74 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK ...
… Reading and meditating and following God’s word gives us joy and direction.
Reference Passage : … Isiah 55:11 [NLT] … 11 It is the same with my word. I send it out, and it always produces fruit. It will accomplish all I want it to, and it will prosper everywhere I send it.
… God’s word always produces His fruit when we follow it.
Reference Passage : … 2 Timothy 3:16-17 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … God’s word is God Breathed and everything we need for life. My Devotional Journal: Today's ODB author, Tim Gustafson, used a story about soldiers writing home to illustrate the personality and character revealed in letters. The ODB author wrote: Far from home and training for World War II, American recruits in basic training turned to humor and correspondence to cope with the challenges they faced. In one letter home a young man described the vaccination process with wonderful exaggeration: “Two medical officers chased us with harpoons. They grabbed us and pinned us to the floor and stuck one in each arm.” Yet one soldier began to realize that humor could only take him so far.
Then he received a Bible. “I enjoy it very much and I read it every night,” he wrote. “I never realized you could learn so much from a Bible.”
This soldier likely realized that when he read the Bible he was reading God actually writing a letter to him and giving him direction in life. Certainly, we see the character and personality of the letter writer coming out when we read letters from friends or loved ones, especially those we haven’t seen or heard from in a long time.
Well, … when God’s people returned to Jerusalem from their Babylon captivity, as we read in the Bible in Nehemiah’s journal, Ezra and the Priests read God’s word from the Book of the Law to them; and they were overwhelmed with God’s love pouring forth from His word (see highlight passage).
And that’s why you find me here, every morning, letting God reveal Himself thru His love letter TO ME, … as God does for anyone who’ll read His word with an open and believing heart. God’s word is His love letter to His family; and as Isaiah said, when we meditate on God’s word, it will always produce fruit for His purposes (see Is. 55:11).
So, … will you join me to let God shower you with His love and His light thru His love letter to us?
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My THANKFULNESS: … Oh Lord, Jesus, thank You for Your word which lights my path everyday.
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My Prayer Today: Abba Father, … King Jesus, … Precious Spirit … Shine Your light on my path, Lord, thru Your word. … Amen
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