Devotional Song: … GO TO THIS LINK … Please take the time to take in a YouTube of images and lyrics from the group Avalon singing … Everything To Me … poignantly singing of the reality that Jesus becomes all we need and trusting in Him provides us with all we need.
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Highlight Verse[s]: Matthew 6:33 [NLT] … 33 Seek the Kingdom of God above all else, and live righteously, and He will give you everything you need.
… Jesus commanding us to seek God and His kingdom first - always - because He is the one who supplies all we need.
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Highlight Passage [context]: Matthew 6:25-34 [NLT]… USE THIS LINK …
… Jesus teaches His followers on how we must trust God, our Father, to supply all our needs.
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Reference Passage : … Proverbs 3:5-6 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… We must trust God to show us His way - THE WAY - thru lift.
Reference Passage : … Philippians 4:19 [NLT] … [see photo] 19 And this same God who takes care of me will supply all your needs from his glorious riches, which have been given to us in Christ Jesus.
… God, thru Paul, assures Christians that He will supply all our NEEDS.
Reference Passage : … James 1:17 [NLT] … 17 Whatever is good and perfect is a gift coming down to us from God our Father, Who created all the lights in the heavens. He never changes or casts a shifting shadow
… God, thru James, assures Christians that everything we have or ever desire comes from God and that He never change.
My Devotional Journal: Today's ODB author, James Banks, uses a reference to his past in learning to trust God for everything in his life, just as we should as Christians. When I was a teenager I sometimes challenged my mother when she tried to encourage me to have faith. “Trust God. He will take care of you,” she would tell me. “It’s not that simple, Mom!” I would bark back. “God helps those who help themselves!”
But those words, “God helps those who help themselves” are nowhere to be found in Scripture. Instead, God’s Word teaches us to depend on Him for our daily needs. Jesus tells us, “Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?” (see highlight passage).
Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount, from which today’s ODB is highlighted, was tough for the people on that hillside near Capernaum to hear; and it’s tough for us to follow today trustingly, isn’t it? Because God in these passages above is teaching us to trust Him for EVERYTHING, … not just some things… but for EVERYTHING [hear the linked song today].
And when we do, in the Scriptures above, our God promises to supply all that we need. The question to me today is … Do I REALLY trust Him?
And perhaps that’s the question for any of us.
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My THANKFULNESS: … Oh Abba Father, thank You, Lord, … for Your promise of providing all we need as Your children.
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My Prayer Today: Abba Father, … King Jesus, … I pray, Lord, that I live gratefully live, trusting You for all my needs. … 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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