June 26, 2025 … Our #1 Choice !! …

June 26, 2025 … Our #1 Choice !!   …  

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...  Please take the time to hear music and lyrics with Clay Crosse, Bob Carlisle, and Bebe Winans singing… I Will Follow Christ,  showing that Christians must make the choice to ALWAYS follow Christ.

Choosing HIS way as our PRIORITY way in life ... 

Highlight Passage: … Mark 1:38 … [NLT] … 

38 But Jesus replied, “We must go on to other towns as well, and I will preach to them, too. That is why I came.”           

…  Jesus shows why His mission of sharing the Gospel was His #1 priority coming to be with them (us).

           

Highlight Passage (in context): … Mark 1:35-39  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

… Mark shows Christ’s Disciples choosing to follow Him … anywhere and everywhere.    

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Reference Passage: … Proverbs 3:5-6, 16:3  (NLT) …  USE THIS LINK …

…Solomon with Godly wisdom, calling God’s chosen to trust and follow The Lord in ALL we do.  

Reference Passage: … Matthew 6:31-33 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

…   Jesus shows His followers (and all Christians) to <u>seek first</u> the Kingdom of God.  

Reference Passage: …Matthew 6:26-33 (NLT) …  USE THIS LINK … 

… Jesus teaches, in His Sermon on the Mount, that His followers should recognize and trust that God will provide all their (our) needs.

Reference Passage: … Romans 12:1-2 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… The Apostle Paul teaches that Christians should become living sacrifices in serving the Lord, avoiding following the ways of the world.

Reference Passage: … Galatians 2:20 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Paul also witnesses to fellow Christians how his life was transformed to Christlikeness when he chose to die to self and live for Christ.  

Reference Passage: … Colossians 3:1-4 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …

… Paul also exhorts fellow Christians to surrender our lives to follow and live for Christ  

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread Author - Karen Huang  … AT THIS LINK       … related a story about a young Christian, named Jose, who was invited to address a prestigious national Christian leadership conference.  However, Jose refused because he felt that the preparation and travel time involved would take away from a project which he felt God had called him to serve the Lord.  The story illustrated, for the ODB author,  the kind of priority choices we Christians must make to adhere to our calling as Christians in the challenging world in which we live.      

Today, my fellow Christian readers, we’re going to confront a lot of demands from the world, trying to avoid and to escape the temptations and trials which Satan will put before us.  But if my readers have taken in the linked song and meditated on the Reference Scriptures above, I believe, you, as I was, will be convinced and directed to seek out and choose to follow God’s will - and His ways - as our priority #1 way to serve the Lord.  

My Thanksgiving: … Oh, King Jesus, thank You, … for showing me Your way to follow You, Lord, through Your word. 

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I praise You, … again today, Lord. … as You show us THE WAY to follow You, Lord, to Your glory.    … Amen

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