Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... …lease take the time to take in song and lyrics from the group Selah singing … Press On … poignantly singing of how we must, as soldiers for Christ, press on in the battles of life.
Onward and upward for God's glory !!!
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Highlight Passage : … Judges 6:14 [ESV] ... 14 And the Lord turned to him and said, “Go in this might of yours and save Israel from the hand of Midian; do not I send you?”
… Gideon learns from The Lord, Himself, that God’s calling is His enablement.
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Highlight Passage [context] : … Judges 6:1-16 [ESV] ... USE THIS LINK …
… Gideon, a lowly farmer, is called to be God’s “mighty warrior.”
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Reference Passage : … Romans 8:28 [ESV] ... 28 And we know that for those who love God ALL THINGS work together for good, for those who are called according to His purpose.
… No matter what we encounter, it’s for our good and our Lord’s glory.
Reference Passage : … 1Corinthians 15:58 [ESV] ... 58 Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.
… Our work for God’s kingdom and His glory is never in vain.
Reference Passage : … Galatians 6:9 [ESV] ... 9 And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.
… God, thru Paul, exhorts Christians to not grow weary in doing good.
Reference Passage : … Philippians 3:13-14 [ESV] ... USE THIS LINK …
… Paul had learned - and exhorts fellow Christian - to press onward … again, no matter what!
My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, James Banks, AT THIS LINK - https://odb.org/2020/07/25/plod-on - wrote of the persistence of William Carey, who was called to be a missionary; and, tho unschooled, learned many languages to be able to translate scripture for those he was called, as a missionary, to bring the Gospel.
And then the ODB author used the biblical story of Gideon [in the highlight passage], whom God called, tho Gideon considered himself inadequate, to become God’s “mighty warrior” and to go up against the mighty Midianites, the enemies of God. Gideon learned that as long as God was with him, he could persist and win God’s battles. And that’s the message the Apostle Paul repetitively exhorted fellow Christians to learn (see Pauline passages above) … that nothing we are ever called to do for the Lord and for God’s kingdom will ever be in vain; and that we must “Press On,” as Selah sings in the linked song.
Oh, how I needed to take in this message today! Perhaps you, like me, become discouraged at times and need to remember that God’s calling is His enablement … for any task we’re called to do for His kingdom, … no matter what it is!! So, let’s press on today … for our good and His glory!
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My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh Abba Father, ... thank You, Lord, … for Your calling to press on for Your kingdom today.
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My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... I pray, Lord, that all reading here will join me, to “keep on keeping on,” plodding upward and onward (see photo) for God’s glory. … Amen
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