Devotional Song: … GO TO THIS LINK … Please take the time to take in a YouTube of song and lyrics from Crowder and Tauren Wells singing … All My Hope Is In Jesus … poignantly singing of how we must put all our hopes in Christ no matter the storms we face in life.
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Highlight Verse[s]: Isaiah 43:2 [NLT] … 2 When you go through deep waters, I will be with you. When you go through rivers of difficulty, you will not drown.
… God’s promise of His uplifting strength when we’re engulfed by the storms of life.
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Highlight Passage [context]: Isaiah 43:1-7 [NLT]… USE THIS LINK …
… God, thru Isaiah, promises His people His uplifting strength in the storms of their captivity.
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Reference Passage : … Proverbs 3:5-6 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… God promises His guidance if we trust in Him.
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.
… When we feel weak and threatened, God promises to give us His strength.
Reference Passage : … Matthew 8:23-27, Mark 4:35-41, Luke 8:22-25 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Jesus shows His power to His disciples to save them from the storms of life … IF … they have faith in Him.
Reference Passage : … Hebrews 13:5 [NLT] … 5 … “I will never fail you. I will never abandon you.” [Quote from Deut. 31:6,8]
… God’s promise that He will never leave or forsake His own.
My Devotional Journal: Today's ODB author, Kirsten Holmberg, used a personal story to illustrate how we must trust in God’s deliverance and care in the storms of life. The ODB author wrote: The rafting guide escorted our group to the river’s edge and directed us all to put on life jackets and grab paddles. … [see photo]
… Sometimes life feels like a white-water rafting trip, one that contains more rapids than we might like.
I think all readers here would agree that life can seem like a white-water river rafting trip at times, can’t it? And no matter how well trained or prepared we are - as we should be - the storms can be threatening. And it’s in those times, as it was for Jesus’ disciples in such a storm [see references above], that they learned what Crowder sings about in the linked song … that “all our hope is in Jesus.”
God promises never to forsake us [see Heb. 13:5 (from Deut. 31:6,8)]; but do we have faith in that promise when we encounter the rough storms of life (see Prov. 3:5-6 and Is. 41:10)?
Today, some who read here may be in their own white-water ride of emotions. I pray that we all can have the faith that Jesus is in our boat and has control of any storm we encounter. But besides the scriptures above, … remember and live on the truth of Romans 8:28 (And I hope you have that one memorized and internalized!).
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My THANKFULNESS: … Oh Lord, Jesus, thank You for the hope I have in You … ALWAYS!!
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My Prayer Today: Abba Father, … King Jesus, … O Lord, help me to ride out this storm today with You in my boat! … Amen
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