Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from Leeland singing … Waymaker … poignantly singing how we must choose to make God our WayMaker in life.
Letting Our Guide Show the Way !!
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Highlight Passage : … Psalm 32:5 [NLT] ... 5 I entrust my spirit into Your hand. Rescue me, Lord, for You are a faithful God.
… David gives it all over to God’s faithful/guiding hand.
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Highlight Passage [context] : … Psalm 32:1-11 [NLT] ... USE THIS LINK …
… King David relies on God to lead him, restore him, and give him the strength to move on.
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Reference Passage : … Proverbs 3:5-6 [NLT] ... USE THIS LINK …
… As we travel down the whitewaters of life’s river, we must trust in letting God’s Spirit be our guide.
Reference Passage : … Isaiah 58:11 [NLT] ... 11 The Lord will guide you continually, giving you water when you are dry and restoring your strength. You will be like a well-watered garden, like an ever-flowing spring.
… God’s promise, thru Isaiah, to always be our guide … when we chose to let Him.
Reference Passage : … Luke 9:23 [NLT] ... 23 Then He said to the crowd, “If any of you wants to be my follower, you must give up your own way, take up your cross daily, and follow me.
… Jesus commands His disciples to let go of our way and follow His … no matter how tough the waters get.
Reference Passage : … 2Corinthians 12:9-10 [NLT] ... USE THIS LINK …
… Paul knew, when he was weak, to let God’s empowering grace lead him thru the rough waters of life.
Reference Passage : … 1Peter 5:6-7 [NLT] ... 6 So humble yourselves under the mighty power of God, and at the right time He will lift you up in honor. 7 Give all your worries and cares to God, for He cares about you.
… Peter wanted fellow Christians being persecuted to humble ourselves and let God be our guide.
My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Adam R Holz, AT THIS LINK uses a story of six rookie rafters being guided by an experienced river guide (see photo) to illustrate how we must surrender and follow God’s guidance in life to negotiate the rough waters ahead.
It’s a good picture of life, don’t you think? And that’s what King David wrote about in the highlight passage of Psalm 32 after he had gone thru the rough waters of sin involving Bathsheba and the murder of her husband. … And David’s rafting thru over a year of him covering up the sin before he was outed by Nathan and confessed his sin (see Psalm 51) showed the King he had to TOTALLY surrender and follow God’s guiding hand.
David wanted God’s people to know from that song that following the Lord, as our WayMaker (hear today’s linked song), is the only way to negotiate the rough waters of selfishness and sin brought about by being surrounded by others who are trying to make it through the whitewaters of life by going it on their own.
So, I pray that all reading here take in the truths of God’s guiding light, i.e. His word [see reference passages above], and let our God guide us thru rough waters … today in these viral times … or maybe farther down the whitewaters of life.
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My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh Abba Father, ... thank You, Lord, … for being my Guide … ALWAYS!
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My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... I pray, Lord, that all reading here will join me, … to humbly yield to God’s way as we negotiate the rough rivers we’re going thru these days. Amen
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