Devotional Song: … GO TO THIS LINK … Please take the time to take in a YouTube video of images and lyrics from Zach Williams singing … Chain Breaker … poignantly singing of how our surrender to King Jesus will set us free from past shackles of sin.
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Highlight Verse[s]: Colossians 2:21-22 [NKJV] … 21 And you, who once were alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled 22 in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy, and blameless, and above reproach in His sight - …
… Once shackled in sin … now set free by our faith in Him.
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Highlight Passage [context]: Colossians 1:13-23 [NKJV]… USE THIS LINK …
… Paul, teaching Christians that we have been set free from the bondage of our flesh and sin as we are reconciled with Jesus by our faith in His finished work on the cross.
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Reference Passage : … John 8:32-26 [NKJV] … USE THIS LINK …
… Jesus on the freedom from our sin/self we find in Christ and walking in His Spirit.
Reference Passage : … John 15:1-8 [NKJV] … USE THIS LINK …
… We become fruitful in Christ when we allow Him to prune away self and our faith allows us to abide in Him.
My Devotional Journal: Today's ODB author, Amy Boucher Pye, uses a story about a young boy with CP who was non-communicative, … who was set free to communicate with others. The ODB author wrote: A boy born with cerebral palsy was unable to speak or communicate. But his mother, Chantal Bryan, never gave up, and when he was ten years old she figured out how to communicate with him through his eyes and a letter board. After this breakthrough, she said, “He was unlocked and we could ask him anything.” Now Jonathan reads and writes, including poetry, by communicating through his eyes. When asked what it’s like to “talk” with his family and friends, he said, “It is wonderful to tell them I love them.”
If you were reading with me here yesterday, my blog focused on walking free from past bondage to sin as we surrender to an abiding relationship with Christ (SEE THIS LINK). And if you didn’t take this post in, you may want to use that link and go back and hear the Nicole Nordeman song and read what God gave me to share.
But today I was led by the ODB entry (see link below and the story above), and I believe by God’s Spirit, … to be reinforced by another reminder that our faith relationship with Christ breaks us from past shackles of sin and selfishness and allows us to become fruitful as we abide in the Vine, Who is Christ (see John 15 passage). Because the more solid that abiding relationship we have with Christ becomes, the freer we become to serve Him as His disciples.
So, once again today I exhort any reader to take the time to hear the powerful/poignant song by Zach Williams linked above, which describes the “Chain Breaker” … the One Who has set us free from from the shackles of self with His finished work on the cross.
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My THANKFULNESS: … Oh Lord, Jesus, once again, thank You for setting me free from the bondage of myself.
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My Prayer Today: Abba Father, … King Jesus, … Precious Spirit … Help me to abide more closely in You today than yesterday … and even more tomorrow than today! … 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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