Devotional Song: … GO TO THIS LINK … Please take the time to take in a YouTube video with images and lyrics from the group Hillsong singing … The Steadfast Love of the Lord Never Ceases … poignantly singing of how God’s love and merry are never ending.
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Highlight Verse[s]: Genesis 1:12 [NLT] … 12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
… God created the flowers for His glory and saw that they were good.
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Highlight Passage [context]: Psalm 103:13-22 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Life is fleeting; but God’s love is never ceasing.
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Reference Passage : … Deuteronomy 31:6 [NLT] … 6 Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the Lord your God goes with you; He will never leave you nor forsake you.”
… We need not fear because, as Moses promised Joshua, God’s love and mercy will ALWAYS be there for us.
Reference Passage : … Lamentations 3:22-23 [NLT] … 22 Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for His compassions never fail. 23 They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness.
… God’s mercy and love never fail us. They are new every morning.
Reference Passage : … Hebrews 13:8 [NLT] … 8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
… Since Jesus [i.e., God] never changes, … neither does His love for us.
Reference Passage : … 1John 4:15-16 [NLT] … SEE THIS LINK …
… Since God is love and never changes, we can always rely on His love.
My Devotional Journal: Today's ODB author, Xochitl Dixon, used a natural word picture of the greatness of God’s glory seen in His creation. The ODB author wrote … My youngest grandson is only two months old, yet every time I see him I notice little changes. Recently, as I cooed to him, he looked up at me and smiled! And suddenly I began crying. Perhaps it was joy mixed with remembering my own children’s first smiles, which I witnessed so long ago, and yet it feels like just yesterday. Some moments are like that—inexplicable.
Anyone, like yours truly, who’s been so blessed, as in the attached photo, to hold an infant grandchild, or a parent holding their first child, has actually seen the love of God in the eyes of that loving child. And tho life’s moments are fleeting, as David sung about in the highlight Psalm 103, God’s love and mercy are new every morning (see Lam. 3:22-23). And, since our Lord never changes (see Heb. 13:8), neither will his love ever cease [see 1John 4:15-16].
So, … I pray today that all who read here KNOW, … beyond a shadow of doubt, … that God’s love, mercy, and grace, will ALWAYS be there for us; and that, even as God, thru Moses, promised Joshua (see Deut. 31:6), God’s love will FOREVER be there for us since He will never leave us, nor forsake us.
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My THANKFULNESS: … Oh Abba Father, … thank You, Lord, … for Your love, which is ever lasting, … for Your mercy, which is new every morning.
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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 receive God’s everlasting, never ceasing, love, mercy and grace. … Amen
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