April 21 2026 … Lost and Found …

Apr 21 2026 …  Lost and Found … 

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...    and PLEASE take the time to listen to music and lyrics from the group Hillsong Worship singing The Lost Are Found … praising God for seeking out the lost for He reigns over His kingdom forever.

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Highlight Passage: … Luke 15:9 … [NLT] 

…  9 And when she finds it, she will call in her friends and neighbors and say, ‘Rejoice with me because I have found my lost coin.’ 

… Jesus relates a story of a woman seeking and finding a lost coin to illustrate how God celebrates finding the lost.   

Highlight Passage in Context:  Luke 15:8-10 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Jesus tells a parable of a woman seeking to find a lost coin.

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Reference Passage: … Matthew 28:19-20 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Before His ascension into heaven and after the resurrection, Jesus calls on His faithful disciples to go and make disciples of the lost in our world.

Reference Passage: … Luke 19:10 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Jesus declares to a crowd of people that He, as the Son of Man, had come to seek out the lost for His Kingdom.

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

… Jesus teaches His disciples that they (we) will receive power from God’s Spirit, as His disciples, to go and seek out the lost in our world. 

Reference Passage: … Romans 6:22-23  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Paul teaches truth to fellow Christians about our faith in Christ’s finished work on the cross freeing them (us) from the curse of death to find eternal life.     

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

… The Apostle Paul gives witness to him finding eternal life in His faith in Christ when he died to himself.

Reference Passage: … 2Peter 3:14-15 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… The Apostle Peter credit’s Paul for calling Christians to use the time they (we) have been given to share the Gospel with the lost in our world.

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread from Nancy Gavilanes …  USE THIS LINK     … writes about losing an earring from jewelry her father had purchased for her from Amazon tribes on a special trip they had taken years earlier.  However, the ODB author related the joy when her sister found the missing piece of jewelry which meant so much to her.  

And that story reminded me of the joy my wife and I had when her lost engagement diamond was found shortly after we were horrified to find it being lost.  So that ODB entry and the reference to Jesus’ parable of the lost coin in Luke 15 (see Highlight passage), really rang true to me as our Lord was trying to show in that parable that our God searches long and hard to find and save those who are lost and are willing to repent and come to Him as their (our) Savior.

I sure am so-SO grateful that our Lord pursued me and gave me a chance to confess, repent, and come to Him for His saving grace.  How about you?     

My Thanksgiving: … Oh, King Jesus, thank You …Lord, … for seeking me out for Your saving grace.  

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, … thank You, Lord, for diligently seeking out Your lost souls and being willing to patiently allow us to repent and come to You. … Amen

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