Devotional Song: … GO TO THIS LINK … Please take the time to take in a YouTube video of images from the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir singing … Friend of A Wounded Heart … poignantly singing of a Friend of friends … One Who will always be there for us in times when we need a true friend.
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Highlight Verse[s]: Isaiah 44:2 [NKJV] … 13 So they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief was very great.
… Job’s friends showed great compassion for his loss/pain.
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Highlight Passage [context]: Job 2:7-13 [NKJV]… USE THIS LINK …
… At the outset of Job’s trials, his friends were there for him with compassion and love.
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Reference Passage : … Lamentations 3:22-23 [NKJV] … USE THIS LINK …
… God’s mercies and His faithfulness are for all time to His children … He is a true friend.
Reference Passage : … Isaiah 26:3-4 [NKJV] … USE THIS LINK …
… God, thru Isaiah, gives us his friendship of peace and how we can find it from Him.
Reference Passage : … 1 Peter 5:6-7 [NKJV] … USE THIS LINK …
… When we humble ourselves before His throne of grace, He can care for our needs.
My Devotional Journal: Today's ODB author, Lisa Samra, relates a story about a true friend being there when her friend was hurting. The ODB author wrote: I read about a mom who was surprised to see her daughter muddy from the waist down when she walked in the door after school. Her daughter explained that a friend had slipped and fallen into a mud puddle. While another classmate ran to get help, the little girl felt sorry for her friend sitting by herself and holding her hurt leg. So, the daughter went over and sat in the mud puddle with her friend until a teacher arrived.
They say we know we have a friend when that one is there when we need them. Job certainly needed friends when God allowed Satan to create so much pain in his life; and three such friends were there for Job, sitting with him silently when he was grieving his loss/pain. Yes, we know that these friends later blunted the sincerity of their friendship by giving Job bad advice; but in today’s highlight passage, they were there for him when he was at his worst and need them the most.
Do you have a friend - a REAL FRIEND - who’d always be there for you when you might be down and out? If you’re a Christian, you do. And as the Brooklyn Tab sings in the linked song, He’s the “Friend of a Wounded Heart.”
So, if you need a friend, go to Him and receive His peace today (see reference passages above).
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My THANKFULNESS: … Oh Lord, Jesus, thank You for being my Friend.
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My Prayer Today: Abba Father, … King Jesus, … Precious Spirit ... O Lord, … I pray all reading here find peace in the perfect friendship we have with You today.
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