Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from the group Building 429 singing We Won’t Be Shaken … poignantly singing of how we, as God’s children, need to walk unafraid - unshaken - because of God’s protection.
Protected by God's Wings
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Highlight Verse[s]: Isaiah 43:2 [NLT] ... 2 When you go through deep waters, I will be with you. When you go through rivers of difficulty, you will not drown. When you walk through the fire of oppression, you will not be burned up; the flames will not consume you.
… God promises that He will watch over and ultimately deliver His people from distress.
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Highlight Passage [context]: Isaiah 43:1-7 [NLT] ... USE THIS LINK ...
… God, thru the Prophet, Isaiah, promises the deliverance and ultimate protection of His chosen ones.
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Reference Passage : … Psalms 5:11, 34:19 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… King David sings of God’s protective covering over His chosen children.
Reference Passage : … John 10:28-30 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Jesus promises that no one or any force can take a born-again Christian out from under the protection of God, the Father.
Reference Passage : … John 16:33 [NLT] … 33 I have told you all this so that you may have peace in Me. Here on earth you will have many trials and sorrows. But take heart, because I have overcome the world.”
… Jesus declares to His Disciples (and to us) that we will have troubles in this world but HE has overcome them all.
Reference Passage : … 1Corinthians 10:13 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… God’s promise, thru Paul, that no temptation, trial, or trouble will overcome those who are saved and faithfully follow the Lord.
Reference Passage : … 1Thessalonians 5:23-24 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Paul assures fellow Christians of God’s faithful protection
My Devotional Journal: Today's ODB author, Winn Collier, uses a story of a movie which illustrates soldiers protecting each other to illustrate God’s protection of His chosen ones. … The ODB author wrote: The movie The Free State of Jones tells the US Civil War story of Newton Knight and some Confederate deserters and slaves who aided the Union Army and then resisted slaveholders after the war. Many herald Knight as the hero, but two slaves first saved his life after his desertion. They carried him deep into a secluded swampland and tended a leg wound he suffered while fleeing Confederate forces. If they’d abandoned him, he would have died.
There are many great stories from the annals of war of soldiers saving or protecting their fellow warriors in battle. But they don’t come even close to the reality of God’s protective covering and protection of His children as in the Scriptures above. And I’ve always loved the picture of God’s covering wings of protection illustrated by the mother dove covering her chicks in the attached photo, … just like our God protects us.
Yes, we can - and we will - go thru temptations, trials, and troubles in this life. But we can, as Christians, … and we should … never fear, because of God’s repeated promise, in both the Old and New Testaments, of God’s covering of protection [see Scriptures above]. And I pray that all reading here, as we live thru these trying times of peril, have that confidence in our Lord, Who covers us with His wings of protection.
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My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh Abba Father, ... thank You, Lord, … for covering me with Your wings in these viral times.
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My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... I pray, Lord, that all reading here will join me to move forward with confidence in these trying times as our God covers us with His wings of protection. Amen
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