Feb 21, 2025 … Pick Yourself Up

Feb 21, 2025 … Pick Yourself Up 

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...   Please take the time to take in this song with music and lyrics with Zach Williams singing … Less Like Me, calling on Christians to do more to live like Jesus lived.

  

Highlight Passage: … Proverbs 24:16 …[NLT] … 

16 The godly may trip seven times but they will get up again, … but one disaster is enough to overthrow the wicked.          

… Solomon shows that if the truly righteous fall, they pick themselves (ourselves) up again to follow God’s will and His ways.         

Highlight Passage (in context): … Proverbs 24:15-22 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

… God, thru Solomon, calls on believers to get back up when they fall away from God’s lead.      

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Reference Passage: … Joshua 1:8 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… God charges Joshua [and all believers] to obediently follow God’s word to be successful in what God calls His followers (us) to do.    

Reference Passage: … 1Samuel 15:22 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… God, thru Samuel’s prophesy, shows that steady obedience to God’s voice (i.e., His word) is better than sacrifices offered up daily to God.   

Reference Passage: … Matthew 7:21 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Jesus preaches that only those who actually, <u>and obediently</u>, follow God’s will and HIs word will enter God’s kingdom.    

Reference Passage: …  John 14:15, 21, 23 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …

… Jesus shows that those who truly love Him as Lord will follow - and obediently do - what He says

Reference Passage: … Romans 6:16  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Paul teaches fellow Christians that His followers become slaves to what they do and follow obediently.    

Reference Passage: … James 1:22  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… James, Jesus’ brother, calls on fellow Christians, to become doers of God’s word, not just hearers. 

                            

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread Author - Nancy Gavilanes … AT THIS LINK     … told of being enthralled, at a young age, with the artistry and athletic skill in figure sacking.  And later, in taking lessons to learn some of the skills of the sport, the ODB author learned that one of the most basic elements of the sport was learning how to fall and get back up again, which she had to do often as she learned how to skate. 

And that’s an important thing we all need to learn about life, isn’t it; … that is, to experience the many falls we will have in life, and to get back up and stay on track to follow what our Lord calls us to do to become more like Him.   The question really is whether we truly love God enough to hear what He says (primarily thru His word) and to get back up when we fall (and we will!) and obediently follow the Lord.  That’s why I’m here today and will be tomorrow.   How about you?                                 

My Thanksgiving: … Oh, King Jesus, thank You, … for ALWAYS being there with Your enabling grace which gives me Your strength to help me get back up when I fall. .  

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

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