Feb 11, 2025 … God … In Hot Pursuit

Feb 11, 2025 … God … In Hot Pursuit  

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...    Please take the time to take in this song with music and lyrics with Matthew West singing … Chosen …  declaring how God pursues His chosen to save and protect them (us).  

He pursues His lost lambs ... 

 

Highlight Passage: … Ezekiel 34:11 …[NLT] … 

11 “For this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I myself will search and find my sheep.,  </i>          

… God, thru Ezekiel, promises to pursue His lost sheep (i.e., His sinful people).       

Highlight Passage (in context): … Ezekiel 34:11-16 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… God promises. thru Ezekiel, to His captive people that He, like a GOOD SHEPHERD will pursue and save His chosen, but sinful, people..                                                                            

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Reference Passage: … Psalms 23:1-6 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… King David sings of God, like a Good Shepherd, watching over and protecting His sheep.               

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

…God, thru Solomon, pursues His people to trust in God and to lead us in life.  

Reference Passage: … Isaiah 40:11 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Isaiah, God’s Prophet, teaches truth to God’s people that the Lord watches over His people like a good shepherd.  

Reference Passage: … Luke 15:1-7 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …

… Jesus, in a parable, teaches the religious leaders how God pursues His people like a Good Shepherd pursuing a lost sheep <b>(see photo)</b>. 

Reference Passage: … 2Timothy 4:18 NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Paul prays and shows Timothy that God pursues him … to bring Paul into God’s kingdom.    

Reference Passage: … 1Peter 5:4 NLT] … USE THIS LINK …

… Peter shows fellow Christians that Jesus, The Great Shepherd, will come again for His flock. 

                              

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread Author - Leslie Koh … AT THIS LINK     … related the story of a young man, named Evan, who struggled with an addiction which caused him to think … How can I be worthy of His love? But God pursued Evan, using young friends in his church to show Evan that God loved him and pursued him like God’s word taught (see the Scriptures above).  

And i’m living proof of that reality as well.  Years ago, I was rejecting God, as an angry and addicted atheist, who God used new friends to run after me.  And I finally gave in to what is brought out in today’s ODB entry, the linked song, and the references to God’s word shared today.  Oh, …  how I pray you, my readers, believe these truths.   Because God is running after you, too!                          

          

My Thanksgiving: … Oh, King Jesus, thank You, … for running after me with Your love and grace.

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray. … again today, … that all reading here will join me, … to praise God for pursuing us to follow You always, Lord. … Amen

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