Jan 2, 2025 … Restoration Is God’s Promise

Jan 2, 2025 … Restoration Is God’s Promise 

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...   Please take the time to take in this song with music and lyrics with Matthew West singing … Restored … promising God’s hope of restoration.  

Highlight Passage: … Isaiah 51:3 [NLT] … 

3 The Lord will comfort Israel again and have pity on her ruins.  Her desert will blossom like Eden, her barren wilderness like the garden of the Lord. Joy and gladness will be found there. Songs of thanksgiving will fill the air.           

… God, thru Isaiah, promises eternal restoration to God’s chosen people, Israel.                      

Highlight Passage (in context): … Isaiah 51:1-6  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

… The promise of restoration by God, … restoring the nation of God’s promised Messiah.          

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

… After all Job went through, He was restored by God  …                                     

Reference Passage: … Psalm 51:12 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …

… King David, after his sins before God, prays for restoration to God … just as we should!!                      

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

… God declares , thru the Prophet, Joel, repeats of His promise to restore Israel. 

Reference Passage: … Habakkuk 3:17-18 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Habakkuk’s faith in God’s restoring powers of salvation no matter what happens to us in this life. 

Reference Passage: … John 16:33 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …

… Jesus’ promise to His disciples that (and us), tho they (we0 would encounter great trials/trouble in this world, … that HE, Jesus, had (has) overcome the world.          

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

… Peter shares the truth of God’s restoring grace to His chosen people, i.e., to all who have faith in Christ as Lord.      

 

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread  Author -  Winn Collier … AT THIS LINK  -   In anticipation of the likely damage and deathly destruction of hurricane Laura from 150+/hour winds, one Louisiana sheriff in a dire warning declared, “Please evacuate. But if you choose to stay and we can't get to you, write your name, address, social security number, and next of kin and put it in a Ziploc bag in your pocket. Praying that it does not come to this.” 

And in looking at where this world is headed, one might see that kind of warning being posted for us.   “BUT” … and it’s a really big BUT … taking in the linked song and believing - <u>as I do</u> - in the restoration and salvation promise of God for those who believe and follow our Lord; … we may face worse winds that those of Hurricane Laura, but those who believe and follow our Lord will be restored just like God restored Job (see Job 42:10).  I choose to be one of those; … how about you?                                                                                

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … thank You, Lord, for Your promise to restore me and to join you in glory.         

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray. again today, that all reading here will join me, … to await the glorious promise of Your restoring grace, Lord.        …  Amen

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