Devotional Song: … GO TO THIS LINK … Please take the time to take in a YouTube video with the group Anointed singing … God Is All Around Us … poignantly singing of how Our Lord is ALWAYS there for us in times we feel overwhelmed by life.
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Highlight Verse[s]: Psalm 125:2 [NLT] … 2 Just as the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the Lord surrounds his people, both now and forever.
… God is ALWAYS there for His children.
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Highlight Passage [context]: Psalm 125:1-5 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… We can never be where God is not.
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Reference Passage : … Psalms 121:1-2 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Our help comes from the Lord ALWAYS.
Reference Passage : … Proverbs 3:5-6 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Trusting in to show us the way … HIS WAY!
Reference Passage : … Matthew 28:20b [NLT] … And be sure of this: I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”
… Jesus will ALWAYS be there for us.
Reference Passage : … Hebrews 13:8 [NLT] … 8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
… We can rely on our Lord ALWAYS because He never changes.
My Devotional Journal: Today's ODB author, Patricia Raybon, uses a remembrance of a friend’s dilemma to illustrate God’s surrounding grace. The ODB author wrote … In a busy airport, a young mother struggled alone [see photo]. Her toddler was in full tantrum mode—screaming, kicking, and refusing to board their plane. Overwhelmed and heavily pregnant, the burdened young mother finally gave up, sinking to the floor in frustration, covering her face, and starting to sob.
Suddenly six or seven women travelers, all strangers, formed a circle around the young mother and her child—sharing snacks, water, gentle hugs, and even a nursery song. Their loving circle calmed the mother and child, who then boarded their plane. The other women returned to their seats, not needing to discuss what they had done, but knowing their support had strengthened a young mother exactly when she needed it.
Ever been there, friend? Oh, maybe not pregnant with a screaming child in an airport, … but overwhelmed in some way by life’s demands, feeling that God has left you. Maybe you’re there now, like that mother in the airport, … just at wits end with the circumstances of life; … or maybe you can recall such a circumstance where God showed up in the help from loved ones, or even strangers, as in the ODB story, to show you that the love of God is ALWAYS there for us if we just trust Him and reach out for help [see Psalm 121 & 125].
But often, when we’re overwhelmed with life, we let our feelings or our pride blunt our recognition that the Lord never changes (Heb. 13:8); and that we can look to His always present love/grace to help us thru the moment [see Matt. 28:20b].
So, perhaps someone out there needs to reach out for help from God today from those around us; … or we need to be the Lord’s agent of grace to help someone in need of God’s love today. We just need to remember that, as the group Anointed sings, “God IS all around us!”
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My THANKFULNESS: … Oh Abba Father, … thank You, Lord, … for ALWAYS being there for us.
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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 reach out for help if we’re overwhelmed … or to help someone see that God’s love surrounds us. … 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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