Oct 7, 2024 … Rely On God’s Power

Oct 7, 2024 …  Rely On God’s Power 

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... </b>  

… Please take time to hear Steven Curtis Chapman, with music and lyrics, singing <b><i>His Strength Is Perfect</b></i>, abut relying in God’s strength when we are weak.                      

    

Highlight Verse: … Zechariah 4:6 [NLT] …  

6 Then he said to me, “This is what the Lord says to Zerubbabel: It is not by force nor by strength, but by my Spirit, says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.  

… God reminds King Zerubbabel to rely on Yahweh’s power and not on his own strength .   

Highlight Passage (in context): … Zechariah 4:1-7 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

… God’s Prophet, Zechariah, reminds King Zerubbabel to look, in faith, to rely on 

God’s strength in times of trouble.                                                                                                    

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Reference Passage: … Psalms 18:2, 20:7 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

… King David sings of relying on God’s strength and power in times of trial or trouble.  

Reference Passage: … Proverbs 3:5-6 … [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …   

…  God’s wisdom, thru Solomon, on following God’s power and direction by trusting in God.      .                              

Reference Passage: … Isaiah 41;13  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …   

…    God declares thru Isaiah that believers can rely on God to lift them (us) up in times of weakness.   

Reference Passage: … Romans 8:11 [NLT] …  USE THIS Link …  

 …The Apostle Paul declares to fellow, born again Christians that God’s Spirit power is in all Christians to give them (us) power in our weakness.          

Reference Passage: …1Corinthians 10:13 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …   

…    Paul also teaches fellow Christians that they (we) can rely on God to show us the way thru and around the trials in their (our) lives.  

Reference Passage: … Philippians 4:6-7 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …   

…   Again Paul shows Christians that they (we) can take their (our) troubles to God, ini thankful prayer, seeking God’s peace.              

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread  Author, Karen Huang -  AT THIS LINK  -relates a true story about a young Christian man, Andrew van der Bilk, working for a Christian group which delivers Bibles to those in countries where Christianity is banned, being confronted by border guards where Andrew prayed that God would blind the guards to the bible he had in his Volkswagen.  And finding that the guards ignored by God’s protective grace.  .     

Today - or soon - we may find ourselves needing God’s mercy or grace in some trial or trouble in which we find ourselves.  The question is will we have the faith to take our challenge to God for God’s strength when we’re in a time of our weakness. I pray we do!  .  

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, …for Your strength, Lord, when we feel weak or troubled.               

My Prayer Today:  Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I’m praying that those who read with me here will join me to pray, with a thankful heart, for Your strength, Lord, when we find ourselves in a time of trouble.    … Amen

 

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