Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in a YouTube video of images and lyrics from the group Third Day singing a contemporary version of Blessed Assurance ... poignantly singing of how we, who are born again in Christ, can look forward to Him coming again and taking His Bride to be with Him in glory.
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Highlight Verse[s]: Acts 1:9 [NKJV] ... 9 Now when He had spoken these things, while they watched, He was taken up, and a cloud received Him out of their sight.
… Jesus ascends into the heavens with His promise to leave us with His Spirit and to return for His Bride.
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Highlight Passage [context]: Acts 1:1-11 [NKJV] ... USE THIS LINK ...
… Many in the day of Jesus leaving the earth, witnessed His departure.
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Reference Passage : … John 14:1-3 [NKJV] … USE THIS LINK …
… Jesus promises His Disciples (and all who are in Him) that He is preparing a place for us to be with Him forever.
Reference Passage : …1Thessalonians 5:9-11 [NKJV] ... 9 For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, 10 who died for us, that whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with Him. … 11 Therefore comfort each other and edify one another, just as you also are doing.
… Until our Lord comes again for His Bride, we are to comfort one another.
Reference Passage : … Revelation 19:6-8 [NKJV] … USE THIS LINK …
… God, thru John’s vision, reveals that one day in glory, having prepared ourselves for His coming as our Bridegroom, we, His Bride, will join Him at the wedding feast of the Lamb of God, … to be with Him forever.
My Devotional Journal: Today's ODB author, Anne Cetas, compares having a loved one leave for a time to what those who witnessed Jesus ascend into the clouds must’ve felt like. … The ODB author wrote: My niece, her four-year-old daughter Kailyn, and I had a wonderful Saturday afternoon together. We enjoyed blowing bubbles outside, coloring in a princess coloring book, and eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. When they got in the car to leave, Kailyn sweetly called out the opened window, “Don’t forget me, Auntie Anne.” I quickly walked toward the car and whispered, “I could never forget you. I promise I will see you soon.”
In Acts 1, the disciples watched as Jesus was “taken up before their very eyes” into the sky (v. 9). [see photo] I wonder if they thought they might be forgotten by their Master.
And Jesus’ inner Disciples, and a number of other believers, who witnessed the ascension of Jesus into the clouds (see photo), must’ve wondered if they would experience His promised return for them. But oh what an unforgettable moment that must’ve been. However, not until God’s Spirit came to all believers at Pentecost did these new Christians realize what the group Third Day sings in the linked song … that they (we) have God’s blessed assurance that Jesus was theirs (and ours) FOREVER!!
So, revel with me - with a resounding PTL!!! - that our Bridegroom will return for His Bride … maybe even today!!
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My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh Abba Father, ... thank You, Lord, ... for Your promised return to take us to be with You forever.
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My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... I pray, Lord, that all reading here will join me, to praise the Lord for His promised return. … Amen
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