Devotional Song: … GO TO THIS LINK … Please take the time to take in a YouTube of song and lyrics from Chris Tomlin singing … A Good Father … poignantly singing reality of having and holding on to our good, GOOD FATHER.
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Highlight Verse[s]: Psalm 63:1 [NKJV] … 1 O God, You are my God; early will I seek You; my soul thirsts for You; my flesh longs for You in a dry and thirsty land where there is no water.
… David could reflect on the love of Yahweh, His Heavenly Father in the most fearful of times.
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Highlight Passage [context]: Psalms 63 [NKJV]… USE THIS LINK …
… David, running away from Saul at the threat of David’s life, he remembers His loving Heavenly Father.
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Reference Passage : … Psalm 119:55 [NKJV] … 55 I remember Your name in the night, O Lord, and I keep Your Law.
… God’s word helps us to remember and follow Him when we are are in the darkness of life.
Reference Passage : … Mark 14:36 [NKJV] … 36 And He said, “Abba, Father, all things are possible for You. Take this cup away from Me; nevertheless, not what I will, but what You will.”
… In the most fearful and faithful time of His life on earth - in the garden of Gethsemane - Jesus cries out to His “Abba Father”
Reference Passage : … Romans 8:14-16 [NKJV] … USE THIS LINK …
… All of God’s elect, in the family of God, can cry out to our “Abba Father” when we are afraid or oppressed.
My Devotional Journal: Today's ODB author, Xochitl Dixon, used a personal story about her son to describe how we can remember our “Abba Father” when we feel fearful or anxious. The ODB author wrote: When our son, Xavier, was younger, business trips often pulled my husband away from home. Though his father called often, there were rough nights when the calls alone didn’t comfort Xavier. To help soothe our son when he felt he needed his dad, I’d pull out our photo albums as he prepared for bedtime. I’d point out the images that showed them spending time together and ask, “Do you remember this?”
Memory after memory encouraged our son, who often said, “I have a good daddy.”
Before David, the anointed King-to-be assumed the actual role as King, he was pursued by the then reigning King, Saul; and David’s life was threatened; and in Psalm 63 he cries out in song to His loving “Abba Father” … the good Heavenly Father David remembered from when He had delivered David from Goliath and had been with him all those years in the dark nights of the wilderness when he was a shepherd boy. And his cries to a loving Heavenly Father were the same kind of cries that our Savior even called out in the Garden of Gethsemane, … crying out to His “Abba Father.”
And He’s the same “Abba” we should remember and cry out to when we’re feeling fearful or oppressed by life’s circumstances. Yes, dear one, … as Chris Tomlin sings … we really do have a “good, good Father,” … don’t we?
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My THANKFULNESS: … Oh Lord, Jesus, thank You for ALWAYS being a loving Abba Father.
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My Prayer Today: King Jesus, … O Abba Father, … stay by my side in these perilous times. … Amen
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