Sept 19, 2024 … Finding God’s Joy in Creation

Sept 19, 2024 … Finding God’s Joy in Creation

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...   

… Please take time to hear Brian Doerksen, with music and lyrics, singing Creation Calls, of how we find God’s joy and peace by looking into God’s creation.    

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Highlight Passage: … Psalms 16:11 [NLT] … 

11 You will show me the way of life, granting me the joy of Your presence and the pleasures of living with You forever.  

…David sings of finding joy with God’s presence and the eternal hope of being with The Lord forever.        

    

Highlight Passage (in context): …  Psalm 16 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

… King David sings of God granting him with the joy of God’s promise of He’s eternal presence.                                                                                  

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Reference Passage: … Psalm 19:1, 118:24 … [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

…  King David sings of God’s creation declaring that every day is a day we can rejoice and be glad of God’s presence.  

Reference Passage: …  Isaiah 26:3-4 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

… God’s promise, thru Isaiah in song of The Lord proividing his pest to those tho trust in God’s eternal strength and stability.                       

Reference Passage: … John 16:20-22 [NLT] …  USE THIS Link …  

… Jesus after confusing His disciples in the Upper Room, promises He will give them joy when he returns from the dead, alive to ge with them forever.   

Reference Passage: … Philippians 4:4-7 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

…  fellow Christians that they (we) can find God’s peace and joy by bringing all  our cares and worries to the Lord in prayer with a thankful heart.  

Reference Passage: … James 1:2-4  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

…  James, the brother of Jesus, teaches fellow Christians how do deal with troubles, when our faith is tested by trials so that we can find God’s joy and peace.                 

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread  Author, Patricia Raybon  AT THIS LINK  -  related the story of how an emergency physician, who felt overwhelmed by the death all around him in the ER of a hospital during the COVID pandemic.  So the doctor found peace and joy by taking pictures of snowflakes (see photo), … finding peace from the trials of life by seeing God’s beauty in His creation.  And that’s what Brian Doerksen sings about in the linked song, which I’m praying that you all have taken time to hear.  .

     

And it’s what God shares with us …  to seek (and find) joy, being seen in the Joy God had created for us to see - and trust Him  - in God’s word, which is shared above.  And I’m praying right now that all who read with me here today are finding some joy and God’s peace by seeing God’s glory all around us in His creation; and by trusting that The Lord will take away our stresses when we look all around us to see the glory our Lord has created for us.        

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for leading me thru this world and on to Your glory.      

My Prayer Today:Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I’m praying that those who read with me here will take time to see the Joy of Your creation, Lord, which You have created for us us to see and find more of Your joy in our lives.    …  Amen

 

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