Jan 22 2026 … Longings Fulfilled …

Jan 22 2026 … Longings Fulfilled … 

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...       and PLEASE take the time to listen to music and lyrics from Cece Winans singing Goodness of God … showing ALL Christians of God’s goodness for which we all long.

Jesus longs for His lost lambs ... 

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Highlight Passage: … Revelation 21:3 … [NKJV] …  

3 I heard a loud shout from the throne, saying, “Look, God’s home is now among His people!  He will live with them, and they will be His people. God Himself will be with them. …” 

… God’s Spirit, thru the Apostle John’s vision, declares God’s longing to be with His chosen people fulfilled FOREVER.

Highlight Passage in Context:  Revelation 21:1-4 [NKJV] … USE THIS LINK … 

… God reveals the Throne of the New Jerusalem (i.e., Heaven) to the Apostle John.

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

… God thru Moses, says to His people, enslaved in Egypt, that He would free them from their oppression and claim them as His own.

Reference Passage: … Deuteronomy 4:28-29 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… God thru Moses, prophesies that God’s chosen people will go astray for a time; but will come back, seeking to repent and follow The Lord, Who will gladly long to accept them.

Reference Passage: … Psalms 63:1 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… King David sings, … for all believers, … of his (and our) longing for God as does a thirsty man in the desert where there is no water.  

Reference Passage: … Luke 15:7 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Luke quotes, from Jesus’ parable of the lost sheep, how there is celebration among God’s angels anytime one of God’s chosen repents and surrenders to come home to Him forever

Reference Passage: … John 17:1-26 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Jesus prays that His Father will use Him to reclaim His Father's chosen ones.

Reference Passage:… Hebrews 8:10 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… God, thru the Author of Hebrews, declares His New Covenant, which reclaims God’s longed for and chosen people … FOREVER.

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread from Sheridan Voysey …  USE THIS LINK   … Writes of the 17th century mathematician and theologian, Blaise Pascal, describing an “infinite abyss” in the heart of mankind that only God could fill.  And there was Saint Augustine who prayed that the heart of man is “restless until it rests in You (i.e., “God).”   And and finally King David, who sung that his heart (as is ours) longs for God as someone in a dry and thirsty land where there is no water. 

And having taken in the linked song and meditated on the Scriptures shared herein, I totally identify with Pascal or Augustine or King David, … that I am one who longs for the time when I will be with my Lord forever.  And, the “love hole that God put in my heart, will be filled by Him forever.  Oh, how I am comforted to know that our God longs for us, His chosen ones, even more than we (I) long to be with Him.  

So I ask you … TODAY … do you long for what is promised in God’s word  … that one day God will fill that longing in our hearts for glory?   Oh, I do!!!  … How about you?!   

My Thanksgiving: … Oh, King Jesus, thank You …Lord, … for calling me to fill Your longing for me.      

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, … thank You, Lord, for giving us Your word to describe Your longing to be with Your own.    … Amen

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