Mar 28, 2025 … Following God’s Will

Mar 28, 2025 … Following God’s Will  

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...  Please take the time to take in this song with music and lyrics with Phil Wickham singing … The Jesus Way,  calling on all Christians to choose to follow God’s will and Jesus’ way.

Following the Jesus Way ... 

 

Highlight Passage: … James 4:15 …[NLT] … 

15 What you ought to say is, “If the Lord wants us to, we will live and do this or that.”           

…  James calls on fellow Christians to look for and follow God’s will for our lives..               

Highlight Passage (in context): … James 4:13-17 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

…  Jesus’ brother calls on Christians to set aside their (our) egos and follow God’s will.                

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

…Solomon’s call for believers to seek to trust and follow God’s will with ALL their (our) heart and to avoid leaning on our own ways in life.

Reference Passage: … Jeremiah 29:11-13 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

…God, thru Jeremiah, promises to listen to and give those who pray to follow God’s plans in life </b>(see photo)</b>.

Reference Passage: …   Matthew 6:33  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Jesus Himself calls on all followers to seek and follow Him and to seek the Kingdom of God.

Reference Passage: …  John 5:30  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Jesusshows His followers that everything He thinks, says or does is in line with His Father’s will.

Reference Passage: …  Ephesians 5:15-17 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… The Apostle Paul teaches fellow Christians that they (we) should always seek and follow the will and ways of God in the demands and circumstances of life.

Reference Passage: …  1Peter 5:7 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …

… Peter instructs fellow Christians that they (we) are to bring ALL their (our) cares and worries to God, Who ALWAYS cares for His chosen ones.

                        

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread Author - Karen Huang … AT THIS LINK -     … related a personal story of her confidence in her work of a plan she had developed; … but how she let her pride get in the way of surrendering her plan to God’s, confessing that she wondered if “her plan” was really God’s plan.  

And today’s ODB entry and the various Scriptures shared above; … AND the linked song … ALL describe how we need to take our will and our ways in life, seeking to trust God to see that our plans, and our ways, are in accord with God’s.  That’s why I’m here … right now … and once again, daily, into God’s word as led by today’s entry from Our Daily Bread, seeking to have my steps in life follow those of my Savior (again see photo) as God uses His word to become my perfect “GPS.”  Are you with me again today as we follow Jesus’ steps all the way to glory?

         

My Thanksgiving: … Oh, King Jesus, thank You, … for showing me THE way, … Your way, …  to go in life again today.

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray, … again today, … that all reading here will join me, …  to follow, as Phil Wickham sings, “The Jesus Way,” in life today and then again tomorrow.   … AMEN

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