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Thursday, March 21, 2024 |
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Today God says:
"Heaven is your home".
He promises me:
"Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to myself; that where I am, there you may be also". (John 14:1-3)
My response to the word:
There is a lot of truth to the song that says, "This world is not my home; I'm just a-passin'' through. My treasures are laid up somewhere beyond the blue. The angels beckon me from heaven's open door, and I can't feel at home in this world anymore". Heaven is my future home. I look forward with joy to the time when I will be able to join the heavenly host before God's throne in saying, "Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come".
My prayer:
Heavenly Father, thank you for my heavenly home, which Jesus has already prepared for me. I look forward to His return. In heaven, worshipping you will be my greatest joy, as it already is.
Today's scriptures:
"The Lord will rescue me from all harm and will take me safely to His heavenly kingdom". (2 Tim. 4:18 GW) "You have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, to the heavenly Jerusalem. You have come to tens of thousands of angels joyfully gathered together". (Heb. 12:22 GW) "We have been born into a new life which has an inheritance that can't be destroyed or corrupted and can't fade away. That inheritance is kept in heaven for you". (1 Peter 1:4 GW) "I heard every creature in heaven, on earth, under the earth, and on the sea singing, "To the One who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be praise, honour, glory, and power for ever and ever". (Rev. 5:13 GW)
Quote for today:
Death may be the King of terrors …. But Jesus is the King of kings. (D L Moody)
On this day:
"Scriptures are taken from the King James Bible or those marked (GW) are from the God's Word Translation, used with permission".
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On 21st March 1747, on a slave ship bound for England, during a violent storm at sea, English sea captain John Newton, 22, was dramatically converted to a living faith. It was more than a "foxhole religion," as Newton soon abandoned the sea, and from 1764 until his death (43 years later), he devoted his life as a clergyman in the Anglican Church. His hymn Amazing Grace is still popular today.