Dec 23, 2024 … Battling TOGETHER

Dec 23, 2024 … Battling TOGETHER  

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...  Please take the time to take in this song with music and lyrics with Chris Tomlin and Russell Dickerson singing … Together … reminding Christians that we never walk alone in this life.

Lifting each other up ... 

Highlight Passage: … Hebrews 10:24 [NLT] … 

24 Let us think of ways to motivate one another to acts of love and good works.           

… Christians are admonished to work TOGETHER and motivate one another to love and good works.                   

Highlight Passage (in context): … Hebrews 10:19-25  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

… God, thru the Author of Hebrews, calls on Christians to work TOGETHER and encourage one another with love and good works.                                                  

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Reference Passage: … Psalms 133:1 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

…  As Jews ascended to Jerusalem for holy days, King David, sings of God being pleased when believers live and work TOGETHER.                                    

Reference Passage: … Proverbs 27:17 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Solomon shares God’s wisdom on God sharpening friends who work TOGETHER.                 

Reference Passage: … Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …

… Solomon also shows that two, working TOGETHER, are always stronger than one working alone, and three TOGETHER even better.                         

Reference Passage:… Matthew 18:20 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

…  Jesus teaches that Christians coming TOGETHER in the church to resolve conflict will ALWAYS be joined by God’s Spirit . <b> just as Chris Tomlin sings in the linked song …</b>        

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

… the Apostle Paul pleads with fellow Christians to live and work TOGETHER in harmony.  

 

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread  Author -  Sheridan Voysey  … AT THIS LINK   …  Sheridan Voysey, today’s ODB author, describes two celebrated early church (4th century)  leaders, Gregory of Nazianzus and Basil of Caesarea, who could’ve competed and been recognized individually.  However, the two form a brotherhood and worked closely TOGETHER to foster and encourage others to forge a Christlike way of living. 

And if my readers take the time to take in the linked song and meditate deeply on the Scriptures shared above, I think you’ll all be convicted, as was I, to do all we can … TOGETHER, with our fellow brothers and sisters IN CHRISTS, to foster Christlike living … EVERY DAY!        

                                                                    

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … thank You, Lord, for calling Your Church to work TOGETHER for God’s glory.      

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray. again today, that all reading here will join me, … to work in unity, as Your Church, strengthened by Your Spirit, to work for Your glory.       …  Amen

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