Devotional Song: … GO TO THIS LINK … Please take the time to take in a YouTube video of a live performance by the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir singing … More Than Enough … poignantly singing how our God’s grace is way sufficient to meet our needs.
Babushka Lady on the Grassy Knoll in Dallas
=============Highlight Verse[s]: Acts 2:36 [NLT] … 36 “So let everyone in Israel know for certain that God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, to be both Lord and Messiah!”
…Peter, the disciple who had denied Jesus, preaches truth … that Jesus IS Christ, the Son of God, … the Messiah.
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Highlight Passage [context]: Acts 2:22-36 [NLT] …USE THIS LINK …
… Peter, who had bolted from Jesus and denied him thrice, preached boldly of the resurrected, living Savior at Pentecost.
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Reference Passage : … Isaiah 41:10 [NLT] … 10 Don’t be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be discouraged, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you. I will hold you up with My victorious right hand.
… We never need to run in fear because we children of the Living God.
Reference Passage : … John 20:19 [NLT] … 19 That Sunday evening the disciples were meeting behind locked doors because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders. Suddenly, Jesus was standing there among them! “Peace be with you,” He said.
… And these fearful Disciples were never the same after this moment of confirmation of the Living Messiah.
Reference Passage : … Ephesians 6:10 [NLT] … 10 A final word: Be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power.
… God’s Spirit speaking thru Paul, exhorts us to stand strong in our relationship with Christ.
My Devotional Journal: Today's ODB author, Bill Crowder, used a mysterious figure present at the JFK shooting to illustrate how fear causes us to run and hide from others or ourselves. The ODB author wrote: The “Babushka Lady” is one of the mysteries surrounding the 1963 assassination of US President John F. Kennedy. Captured on film recording the events with a movie camera [see photo], she has proven to be elusive. This mystery woman, wearing an overcoat and scarf (resembling a Russian babushka), has never been identified and her film has never been seen. For decades, historians and scholars have speculated that fear has prevented the “Babushka Lady” from telling her story of that dark November day.
This lady is not the only one who bolted in fear at the killing of a leader. Jesus’ disciples - all of them - bolted in fear after the crucifixion, confused and fearful of what the Jewish leaders and the Romans might do to them (see John 20:19). But we know that after Pentecost and the coming of God’s Spirit to all of them, they became warriors for the Gospel, standing strong for their Savior, Jesus, as the Messiah.
The question today: Are we standing strong as a disciple of Christ? Or are we cowering into our selves and bolting when we have opportunities to use our witness/testimony to declare His majesty?
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My THANKFULNESS: … Oh Lord, Jesus, thank You for giving me Your strength to cover my weakness.
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My Prayer Today: Abba Father, … King Jesus, … Precious Spirit … May I stand strong when You give me the opportunity to be Your witness. … Amen 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.
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