Dec 4, 2024 … Restored by Christ

Dec 4, 2024 … Restored by Christ      

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...  Please take the time to take in this song with music and lyrics and Matthew West singing … Restored … showing that God promises to restore those who have faith in HIs promises of restoration.  

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Highlight Passage: …  1John 1:2 [NLT] … 

2 This One Who is life itself was revealed to us, and we have seen Him. And now we testify and proclaim to you that He is the one Who is eternal life. He was with the Father, and then He was revealed to us.           

…  John declares that God has restored those who believe in Christ, Who is life eternal.    

Highlight Passage (in context): … 1John 1:1-10  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… God’s proclamation, thru John the Baptist, of the life of all believers to eternal life with God, restored by God’s Son, Who is life.                                                  

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Reference Passage: … Job 42:10 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …

…   God completely restored Job when he learned to forgive and pray for his misguided friends       

Reference Passage: … Jeremiah 30:17 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… God’s promise, thru Jeremiah, to restore the life and health of His outcast people.          

Reference Passage: … Joel 2:25-26 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

… God’s promise to restore God’s people COMPLETELY.       

Reference Passage:… Mark 11:24 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

… Jesus teaches His disciples (and all believers) that faithful, born-again believers, will be able to be restored by their faith in Christ. 

Reference Passage: … Acts 3:19-21 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …   

… Peter reminds God’s faithful of His promise to restore God’s chosen and faithful people who repent of their (our) sins by faith in Christ as Messiah and Lord.

Reference Passage: … 1Peter 5:10 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

… The Apostle Peter reminds Christians of the Lord’s promise to restore His chosen faithful.  

  

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread  Author -  /Tim Gustafson … AT THIS LINK  -   wrote of the attempts of robots and human volunteers which were destroyed by the horrible nuclear disaster in Chernobyl, Russia.  It is a picture of what is lost by mankind’s sin and what it takes to let God restore mankind.  It is the story of what God will do, as in the Scriptures shared above, to restore mankind from our breach of faith in God as Lord and King.  

And the question which arises out of our “Chernobyl” of sin becomes …  are we willing to repent of our sin and be restored, as God’s word promises, … in order to be and live with our Lord FOREVER?  I’m in; … how about you?          

                                                                    

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … thank you, Lord, for Your promise to restore me and all who come to You in faith.  

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray. again today, that all reading here will join me, … to surrender and let You, Lord, restore us as You have promised.         … Amen

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