Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from the group Hillsong singing … Who You Say I Am … poignantly singing of how all born-again Christians are children of King Jesus and heirs to His throne of grace.
Highlight Passage : … John 1:12-13 [ESV] ... 12 But to all who did receive Him, who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God, 13 who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.
… We who know Jesus as King and Lord, are reborn into His family and become heirs to His throne.
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Highlight Passage [context] : … John 1:9-14 [ESV] ... USE THIS LINK …
… God, thru John’s gospel, promises that any/all who receive Jesus as Lord are reborn into the family of God and become heirs to the King’s throne of grace.
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Reference Passage : … John 14:21 [ESV] ... 21 Whoever has My commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.”
… Jesus is manifest in those who truly believe Him and obey His commands (i.e., His word).
Reference Passage : … Romans 8:14 [ESV] ... 14 For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.
… If we are led by the Spirit of God, we are sons of God.
Reference Passage : … 2 Corinthians 6:17-18 [ESV] ... USE THIS LINK …
… Paul exhorts us, as fellow Christians, to be separate from the word because we have been selected out as sons and daughters of God, the Father, … heirs to the throne of King Jesus.
Reference Passage : … Galatians 3:25-29, 4:7 [ESV] ... USE THIS LINK …
… God’s promise, thru Paul’s teaching, that our faith in Christ has allowed us to become free from the guardian of the Law and now heirs of the promise of God’s throne.
My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Linda Washington, AT THIS LINK writes of the succession to the British throne to illustrate how some in that line are unknown to the world but still heirs to the throne.
And the ODB author was trying to illustrate how we, as born-again Christians, have been separated out from the lost world, by our faith in the Lordship of King Jesus. And now, in this faith walk, we become heirs to the King’s throne of grace and part of the family of God. And in that role, … tho we may be obscure witnesses to God’s grace, we must now represent our King, Jesus, with the way we live in obedience to Him (see John 14:21).
And reading the exhortations and promises of God thru the Apostle Paul above (see Pauline reference passages), I pray we realize that we are now born-again children of God; and we live our lives, separate from the world, as representatives and witnesses of our King Jesus.
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My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh Abba Father, ... thank You, Lord, … for taking me into the family of God as an heir to Your throne.
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My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... I pray, Lord, that all reading here will join me, to live our lives today as heirs to the throne of our King Jesus. … Amen
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