Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from Meghan Baird leading in worship and singing … Show Us Christ … poignantly singing a prayer of going to God and asking for Him to show Himself to us in faith.
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Highlight Passage : … 2Kings 5:13 [NLT] ... 13 But his officers tried to reason with him and said, “Sir, if the prophet had told you to do something very difficult, wouldn’t you have done it? So you should certainly obey him when he says simply, ‘Go and wash and be cured!’”
… Naaman exhorted to respond in faith and receive healing from God.
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Highlight Passage [context] : … 2Kings 5:1-14 [NLT] ... USE THIS LINK …
… The story of Naaman’s hesitancy to ask and receive healing in faith from God’s messenger, Elisha. =============
Reference Passage : … Psalm 37:4-5 [NLT] ... USE THIS LINK …
… When we’re able to delight ourselves in our relationship with the Lord, we can ask what we desire and He will provide.
Reference Passage : … Proverbs 3:5-6 [NLT] ... USE THIS LINK …
… Seek His ways, … YES! … But only when we’re surrendered to trust Him … no matter what happens thereafter.
Reference Passage : … Matthew 7:7-8 [NLT] ... 7 “Keep on asking, and you will receive what you ask for. Keep on seeking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks, receives. Everyone who seeks, finds. And to everyone who knocks, the door will be opened.
… Jesus’s command to ask of Him so that we can receive from Him.
Reference Passage : … James 1:5-6 [NLT] ... 5 If you need wisdom, ask our generous God, and He will give it to you. He will not rebuke you for asking. 6 But when you ask Him, be sure that your faith is in God alone. Do not waver, for a person with divided loyalty is as unsettled as a wave of the sea that is blown and tossed by the wind.
… When we go to God for the desires of our hearts, we must ask, … not wavering in faith.
Reference Passage : … 1John 5:14-15 [NLT] ... USE THIS LINK …
… We can have confidence in taking our questions to God because we know He hears and responds when we ask in obedience to His will.
My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Patricia Raybon, AT THIS LINK uses a story of a person with blindness who was healed to see again by simply asking the right question of the right doctor. And sometimes we need to realize that’s the approach we need to take with God when we’re seeking for the desires of our hearts.
If you, as I have today, taken in the linked song and meditated on the Scriptures above, maybe we need to realize that God invites us to bring our deepest quandaries to Him. And not only that, … He promises to be there to hear and to provide us with His healing/empowering grace … when - but ONLY WHEN - we come to Him with unwavering faith and trust.
I pray we can do that today!!
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My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh Abba Father, ... thank You, Lord, … for being there to hear my questions today.
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My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... I pray, Lord, that all reading here will join me, … to humbly take our deepest questions to God in faith … deep and abiding faith. Amen
Blogger Note: Everyday during this year, my daily devotional blogs are influenced by the reading and study of the online devotional blog entitled “Our Daily Bread,” distributed online via email by RBC Ministries. If you GO TO THIS LINK on the date of my blog, you can read/study the ODB blogs; or you can subscribe to the blog via email at that site.</ span>
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