Jan 16, 2025 … Trusting God Always

Jan 16, 2025 … Trusting God Always   

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...   Please take the time to take in this song with music and lyrics with Chris Brown singing … Trust In God … testify to God’s faithful protection and guidance ALWAYS. 

Highlight Passage: … Exodus 14:13-14 [NLT] … 

13 But Moses told the people, “Don’t be afraid. Just stand still and watch the Lord rescue you today. The Egyptians you see today will never be seen again. 14 The Lord Himself will fight for you. Just stay calm.”           

… Moses tells God’s people to cast aside their fears and trust in God’s deliverance.     

Highlight Passage (in context): … Exodus 14:5-14 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

…How Moses, when God’s people had been delivered from bondage in Egypt balked in fear, told them to fear not and trust God for protection.                                                               

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Reference Passage: … Psalm 37:4-5 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …

,,, King David calls on believers to commit all to God’s faithful protection and guidance.   

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

 … God’s promise, thru Solomon, that God will show the way to those who trust Him to lead them (us).                                     

Reference Passage:… Isaiah 41:10 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …

… God, thru Isaiah, promises to give strength to His people (that’s us too) when they (we) are weak.     

Reference Passage: … Matthew 6:25 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Jesus, in His sermon on the mount to His followers, promising God’s faithful protective guidance.          

Reference Passage: … Romans 8:28 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… The Apostle Paul teaches Christians that ALL THINGS work together for the good of His born-again Christians and for His glory.        

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

… Paul also exhorts fellow Christians to pray with thankful hearts for God to watch over them (us) … ALWAYS!                  

 

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread  Author -  Mike Wittmer  … AT THIS LINK  - tells of a young Pastor, named Mark, whose young son died suddenly while kicking a ball with his dad.  Mark still grieves over the loss; but sees that the horrible loss helped him to be more compassionate towards others.  And then the ODB author quotes A.W. Tozer, who wrote … “It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply.”   

Personally, I agree with Tozer’s observation.  How about my readers?  Today, we many face some really trying or troubling circumstances.   But how will we react or respond?  Do we agree with all the biblical wisdom in the Scriptures quoted above; or will we desire to bolt and run into our own, sinful or selfish, ways of looking at life’s challenges.   I pray we take in and follow the wisdom in the linked song, trusting that our loving Lord will give us His enabling grace to strengthen us today … and ALWAYS! 

 

My Thanksgiving: … Oh, King Jesus, thank You , Lord, for giving me Your faithful promises of Your strength when I am feeling so weak, … as I am right now.  

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray. again today, that all reading here will join me, … to seek Your strength, Lord, and Your enabling grace when we’re feeling down and out.      …  Amen

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