Dec 15, 2024 … Leaving A Legacy

Dec 15, 2024 … Leaving A Legacy    

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...   Please take the time to take in this song with music and lyrics with Nichole Nordeman singing … Legacy … declaring the Christian’s desire to build and leave a legacy of Christlikeness behind for others to follow. 

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Highlight Passage: …  2Timothy 1:5 [NLT] … 

5 I remember your genuine faith, for you share the faith that first filled your grandmother Lois and your mother, Eunice. And I know that same faith continues strong in you           

… Paul remembers how Timothy’s faith was well grounded in him from Timothy’s mother and grandmother.              

Highlight Passage (in context) … 2Timothy 1:1-5 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… The Apostle Paul writes of Timothy’s faith which was well grounded in him by his mother and grandmother.                                                                   

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Reference Passage: … Deuteronomy 6:4-9 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

…   God’s commands to pass on a legacy of living for God to the next generation.                         

Reference Passage: … Psalms 112:1-3 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… God’s psalmist, likely King David, sings of passing along Godliness to future generations.   

Reference Passage: … Proverbs 22:6 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Solomon calls on believers to pass along lessons of Godliness to the next generation.                   

Reference Passage: … Matthew 6:20-21 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Jesus teaches His followers to store up treasures from heaven, .. leaving a legacy of Christlike living for others to follow.  

Reference Passage:  … 2Timothy 4:6-8 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …   

… Paul testifies to the legacy of faith he has left by the way he lived his life.   

Reference Passage: … 3John 1:4 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

… John declares that there is no greater joy in his life than than to know that his children are living in Godly ways.     

  

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread  Author -  Alyson Kieda … AT THIS LINK  -  writes about her grandson, declaring to the family as they sat around reading,  “I’m just like Grandma. I love to read!”  And the ODB author reflected on how important it was to leave a family legacy of faith as Nichole Nordeman sings about in the linked song.

And I’m here again today, journaling my faith and praying that I can leave a legacy of faith in Christ for my family to follow into their … our … future.  What about you?    

                                                                    

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … thank You, Lord, showing me how to follow You and leaving a legacy of faith for my family to follow.  

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray. again today, that all reading here will join me, … to do all we can to leave a legacy of faith and Christlikeness for our families to follow.      …  Amen

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