Devotional Song: … GO TO THIS LINK … Please take the time to take in YouTube with song and lyrics from Ryan Stevenson singing his song … Eye of the Storm … powerfully singing of how God can - and will - provide us with His peace even in the storms of life.
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Highlight Verse[s]: Psalm 16:1, …11 [NLT] … 1 Keep me safe, O God, for I have come to you for refuge. … 8 I know the Lord is always with me. I will not be shaken, for He is right beside me. … David recognized his God was the source of all peace in his life.
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Highlight Passage [context]: Psalm 16:1-11 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… King David knew that any/all peace he experienced came from God.
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Reference Passage : … Isaiah 26:3 [NLT] … 3 You will keep in perfect peace all who trust in you, all whose thoughts are fixed on you!
… God’s prescription for peace is only found when we can take our eyes off of self and focus on the Savior.
Reference Passage : … Proverbs 3:5-6 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… God, thru Solomon, shows that we will only find peace in our lives when we fully trust God’s guiding direction.
Reference Passage : … Matthew 11:28-30 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Jesus offers us His peace … IF … we’re willing to come to Him for it … seek it from Him in obedience … and share it with others.
Reference Passage : … Philippians 4:6-7 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… God, thru Paul, gives us another prescription for peace in our lives which is found thru prayer with a thankful heart.
My Devotional Journal: Today's ODB author, Monica Brands, uses a personal story to illustrate how our God can provide inexplicable peace, even in the midst of dire situations. The ODB author writes … It always amazes me the way peace—powerful, unexplainable peace (Philippians 4:7)—can somehow fill our hearts even in our deepest grief. I experienced this most recently at my father’s memorial service. As a long line of sympathetic acquaintances passed by offering their condolences, I was relieved to see a good high school friend. Without a word, he simply wrapped me in a long bear hug. His quiet understanding flooded me with the first feelings of peace within grief that difficult day, a powerful reminder that I wasn’t as alone as I felt.
When we encounter the storms of life, Ryan Stevenson, in today’s linked song, points us to the only way to find peace; and it is actually Jesus’ invitation and the truth of God’s word which leads us there. And as King David sung about it in Psalm 16 and Isaiah prophesied in Isaiah 26:3, God’s unfathomable peace can only be found in a deep and abiding relationship with Him. Our focus on Christ in the midst of the storms of life, … i.e., trusting Him no matter what, … is the ONLY way to receive His peace in the midst of turmoil. We get to choose and … as the attached photo proclaims …
NO GOD — NO PEACE … KNOW GOD — KNOW PEACE! …
Personally I choose the latter!!
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My THANKFULNESS: … Oh Abba Father, … thank You, Lord, … for the grace and peace you provide me when the storms of my life buffet me.
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My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, … King Jesus, … I pray, Lord, that all reading here can, and will, join me to pray for God to give us His peace 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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