Mar 23, 2025 … Be Still and Know God

Mar 23, 2025 … Be Still and Know God   

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...   Please take the time to take in this song with music and lyrics with Cece Winans singing … Be Still And Know,  declaring that God’s presence overcomes our fears, knowing that God is ALWAYS with us.

Highlight Passage: … John 6:68 …[NLT] … 

10   “Be still and know that I am God!  I will be honored by every nation. I will be honored throughout the world.”    </i>          

…  God, thru HIs Psalmists, declares that all become still in HIs presence and power.               

Highlight Passage (in context): … Psalms 46 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

… God’s Psalmists declare that God’s presence will overcome all chaos in our world.                  

===========           

Reference Passage:… Exodus 14:13-14 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… As Pharaoh comes in pursuit of God’s people escaping Egypt, Moses calms God’s chosen to be still and watch as God presence will rescue them.

Reference Passage: … Psalms 37:7 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …</b> 

… King David sings of calling on God’s people to BE STILL in God presence, setting aside all worries and fears.  

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

… God, thru the Prophet Isaiah, assures God’s people never be afraid because God will ALWAYS be present to provide His strength and protection.  

Reference Passage: …  Lamentations 3:24-26  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… God’s promise, thru Jeremiah, of His protection for those wait on Him.

Reference Passage: …  Matthew 11:28-30 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …

… Jesus invites any/all believers to yoke themselves (ourselves) to His strength and enabling grace, providing rest for their (our) souls.

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

… The Apostle Paul calls on fellow Christians to set aside their (our) fears and to go to God in thankful prayer for His protective peace.

                            

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread Author - Adam R Holz … AT THIS LINK    … writes of loving the idea in Psalms 46:10 of being still in order to know of God’s presence in our lives.   However, the ODB author reminds his readers of how difficult, in today’s busy, digital, world, it is to find the time and place to be quiet in God’s presence.  But when we can, … and do, … find a quite place of solitude, and take in God’s word (see Scriptures shared above) God promises believers of His presence, power, and protection, … especially when we are fearful or under the pressures in this world.  

I have a place every morning when I wake, to get alone with God, pray in His quiet presence, and consume His promises by studying His word and being led by Our Daily Bread devotionals.  And I’ve been using this discipline almost daily (other than occasional health difficulties) for will over two decades now, to find God’s peace by following God’s word.   

Do you have a quiet place to go DAILY to be with God, allowing HIs promised peace to give You hope and direction?   I’m stopping to pray that you do. … Because, … if you don’t,  …  Satan and his world will pursue and surround you as Pharaoh did with God’s people at the Red Sea.  But if you can have that place to be with God in quiet; and let Hm show you His peace and presence, … you will know Him and He will give you HIs strength to deal with the worries of this world.   Anybody up for that?!!  

         

My Thanksgiving: … Oh, King Jesus, thank You, … for giving me Your peace everyday when I come to You thru Your word.                        

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray, … again today, … that all reading here will join me, …  to quietly find You again today, Lord, through Your word. … AMEN

=============

Blogger Note:  Everyday during this year, my daily devotional blogs are influenced by the reading and study of the online devotional blog entitled “Our Daily Bread,” distributed online via email by RBC Ministries.  If you GO TO THIS LINK on the date of my blog, you can read/study the ODB blogs; or you can subscribe to the blog via email at that site.