Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in a YouTube video of song and lyrics from Steven Curtis Chapman singing His Strength Is Perfect ... poignantly singing of how God can - and will - give us His strength when ours seems to be gone and to enable us.
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Highlight Verse[s]: Genesis 6:9 [NKJV] ... 9 This is the genealogy of Noah. Noah was a just man, [a]perfect in his generations. Noah walked with God.
... All God needed to see about Noah was that he was a man who was willing to walk with the Lord and serve Him.
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Highlight Passage [context]: Genesis 6:8-19 [NKJV] ... USE THIS LINK ...
… Noah was qualified to build an Ark, but God saw that Noah was qualified to serve Him.
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Reference Passage : … Exodus 3:10-17 [NKJV] ... USE THIS LINK ...
… Moses didn’t feel up to his calling as deliverer; but he had to learn that God always is able to give us what we need if He calls us to serve Him.
Reference Passage : … Judges 6:11-16 [NKJV] ... USE THIS LINK ...
… Gideon certainly didn’t see himself as God’s warrior; … but God did!
Reference Passage : … Job 1:1 [NKJV] ... 1There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God and shunned evil.
… No man could endure what Job endured under Satan’s attack; but God saw a man who could, a man who was blameless and walked with God.
Reference Passage : … Proverbs 3:5-6 [NKJV] ... USE THIS LINK ...
… When we don’t see what God sees in us to move forward, we must trust His calling to be His enablement.
My Devotional Journal: Today's ODB author, Jennifer Benson Schuldt, uses a personal story of how we often feel when we’re called by God into the future (see photo). … The ODB author wrote: A technology-consulting firm hired me after college although I couldn’t write a line of computer code and had very little business knowledge. During the interview process for my entry-level position, I learned that the company did not place high value on work experience. Instead, personal qualities such as the ability to solve problems creatively, exercise good judgment, and work well with a team were more important. The company assumed new workers could be taught the necessary skills as long as they were the kind of people the company was looking for.
The ODB author, in her testimony, expresses a feeling that some real giants of the faith had when they were first called by God to serve Him (see photo)…
… There was Noah, a farmer, who was called to build an Ark and save mankind (see highlight passage).
… There was Moses, when he was called to be God’s agent of delivery in Exodus 3.
… There was Gideon, who saw himself as a coward and the least in God’s eyes but was chosen to be God’s warrior (see Judges 6).
… And there was Job, in whom God saw the strength to undertake Satan’s attacks (see Job 1).
Years ago, I had a mentor who often said to me, “Bill, … If God calls you to a task, He will enable you to do it with His grace.” And that’s what I see in those men of God in the passages above.
So, what do we see God calling us to do … where we may feel what is said in the attached photo? … “Yes, BUT!”
If God calls us forward, we need to move forward and live out the Nike logo - “Just do it!!” … Because … if God has called us forward, we must trust Him (you know …Prov. 3:5-6) and know that His calling is His enablement.
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My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh Abba Father, ... thank You, Lord, ... for giving us Your grace to empower us to move forward in Your will.
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My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... I pray, Lord, that all reading here will join me to “JUST DO IT” if God’s will calls us forward. … Amen
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