Devotional Song: … GO TO THIS LINK … Please take the time to take in a YouTube video with song and lyrics from the group Anointed singing … God Is All Around Us … poignantly singing of how we can trust that God all around us, seeing/hearing all, and covering us with His love and grace.
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Highlight Verse[s]: 2 Chronicles 16:9 [NLT] … 9 The eyes of the Lord search the whole earth in order to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him. What a fool you have been! From now on you will be at war.”
… Hanani, the Prophet, proclaims what King Asa will reap for not relying on God.
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Highlight Passage [context]: 2 Chronicles 16:7-9 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… King Asa failed to look to God for guidance, trying to do battle on his own.
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Reference Passage : … Proverbs 3:5-6 [NLT] … 5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding. 6 Seek His will in all you do, and He will show you which path to take.
… No matter our circumstances, we must depend on God and follow His ways.
Reference Passage : … Lamentations 3:22-23 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… God’s mercies - and His grace - are there for us … ALWAYS!!
Reference Passage : … Romans 8:28, 31 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… These truths show that God will always be there - for our good - no matter what we face.
My Devotional Journal: Today's ODB author, Elisa Morgan, used a personal remembrance to illustrate how we can trust in God to watch over us ALWAYS. The ODB author wrote … Early in the morning, I quietly pad past a family-room window overlooking a wilderness area behind our house. Often, I notice a hawk or owl perched in a tree, keeping watch over the area. One morning I was surprised to find a bald eagle boldly balanced on a high branch, surveying the terrain as if the entire expanse belonged to him. [see photo] Likely he was watching for “breakfast.” His all-inclusive gaze seemed regal.
That’s a good word picture illustrating how God, in His omniscience and omnipotence, watches over us ALWAYS, just as He did King Asa in the highlight passage for today’s ODB. However, King Asa lost sight of God’s watchcase and decided, in doing battle, to use his own ways, rather than following God. And the King learned from Hanani, the Prophet, that when we go it on our own, not following God’s lead, bad things can result.
And that’s whet the reference passages, linked and copied above, tell us. But the question is - ALWAYS - do we believe these truths and continually look to let God lead us, knowing that He is always going to lead true believers in His ways, … for our good. … ALWAYS!!
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My THANKFULNESS: … Oh Abba Father, … thank You, Lord, … for being there ALWAYS … seeing/hearing all things … with your mercy and grace ALWAYS available to those who humbly follow You.
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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 seek God’s ways today … and tomorrow. … Amen
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