Feb 23, 2025 … Rooted In Living Waters

Feb 23, 2025 … Rooted In Living Waters 

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...    Please take the time to take in this song with music and lyrics with Kristyn and Keith Getty singing … Living Waters, showing of how Christians can drive and be refreshed by God’s “living waters,” .,, thru His Spirit and His word.

Rooted by God's Living Waters .. 

Highlight Passage: … Psalms 1:3 …[NLT] … 

3 They [i.e., God’s chosen] are like trees planted along the riverbank, bearing fruit each season.Their leaves never wither, and they prosper in all they do.          

… David shows that God’s faithful followers will flourish and grow..       

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

… The Psalmist, likely King David, shows how one who is rooted in God’s Spirit (i.e., HIs living water) will thrive while sinners and mockers of God will wither and die on the vine of life.              

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Reference Passage: … Genesis 1:26 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Moses relays to God’s chosen people how mankind was made in the image of God.   

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

… God, to Joshua, give His prescription for how to thrive in life … i.e., to consume God’s truth (ie., His word) daily.   

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

… Solomon shows that trusting and following God’s will and His ways is the way to thrive in life.  

Reference Passage: …  John 7:37-38 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Jesus, thru God’s word, declares that anyone who comes to and follows Him will be able to thrive from his Living Waters (i.e., thru God’s Spirit). 

Reference Passage: … Ephesians 3:16-18  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… The Apostle Paul prays for fellow Christians are strengthened by God’s Spirit to grow and thrive in God’s Spirit.    

                            

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread Author - Karen Pimpo … AT THIS LINK       … related a story about Bill, an aging man in the ODB author’s church who lived alone and no longer was able to drive, relying on fellow church members to help him get his groceries, medicines, and other necessities. But Bill said he still lived a full life spending his days praying for relatives and friends, listening to Christian music in his home, and studying God’s word.   

It’s the kind of life, promised by God’s word above and the linked song about God’s living waters, which are provided to born-again believers thru God’s Spirit and His truth (i.e., God’s word). And that’s why you find me here each morning praying and praising God as I partake of God’s truth thru His living word.  And I pray that my readers here today are planted close to and partaking of God’s living waters.  If so, you will live forever!                       

          

My Thanksgiving: … Oh, King Jesus, thank You, … for allowing me, Lord, to drink from Your living waters every day.  

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray, … again today, … that all reading here will join me, …  to seek out and drink from Your living waters, Lord.    … Amen

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