Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in a YouTube video of images and lyrics from Robin Mark singing … All to Jesus I Surrender … poignantly singing of how we who follow Jesus must surrender our all to Him.
Relentless Faith
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Highlight Verse[s]: Mark 5:34 [ESV] ... 34 And He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace, and be healed of your disease.”
… The woman’s faith-pursuit of a healing touch from Jesus gave her the Lord’s empowering grace to heal her.
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Highlight Passage [context]: Mark 5:25-34 [ESV] ... USE THIS LINK ...
… The woman, bleeding and desperate, relentlessly pursue a touch from Jesus.
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Reference Passage : … Proverbs 3:5-6 [ESV] … USE THIS LINK …
… God, thru Solomon’s exhortation, calls us to surrender our all to the Lord.
Reference Passage : … Luke 9:23 [ESV] … 23 And He said to all, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. …”
… Jesus calls on His followers to deny our selves and surrender all to Him.
Reference Passage : … 2Corinthians 12:9 [ESV] … 9 But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. … Jesus teaches Paul, and us, that His grace is sufficient for us to deal with the “thorns” of life.
My Devotional Journal: Today's ODB author, Arthur Jackson, uses an example of a sculpture to illustrate how we need to have relentless faith to pursue our Lord. … The ODB author wrote: Artist Doug Merkey’s masterful sculpture Ruthless Trust features a bronze human figure clinging desperately to a cross made of walnut wood. He writes, “It’s a very simple expression of our constant and appropriate posture for life—total, unfettered intimacy with and dependency upon Christ and the gospel.”
That’s the kind of trust we see expressed in the actions and words of the unnamed woman in Mark 5:25–34. [See photo]
That woman in the highlight biblical example had the kind of relentless faith that we need, didn’t she? It’s the kind of faith that expresses complete surrender to Jesus [see linked song]. The question for us from today’s ODB entry simply is: “Are we willing to pursue our Lord with an ‘I Surrender All’ faith?”
Because our nature is generally to try to do it on our own or pursue worldly remedies first, isn’t it? But, … if we will relentlessly pursue our Lord as did the woman in the photo, we can receive a touch of God’s empowering grace today; and be able to receive His power to cover our weakness (see Luke 9:23 and 2Cor 12:9). It’s all a matter of completely trusting the Lord (see Prov. 3:5-6).
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My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh Abba Father, ... thank You, Lord, ... for being there with Your empowering grace when we’re willing to surrender ourselves to You.
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My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... I pray, Lord, that all reading here will join me today, to do our all to die to self and surrender to the grace and power of our Lord. … Amen
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