WE’RE GOING TO HEAR HIS WORD!

SONG DEVOTIONAL

Beloved, what a privilege and joy it is to gather together each Sunday morning with God's people and sing with great anticipation, “We're going to hear His Word! Hallelujah, preach it, brother; we're going to hear God's Word!” Dear friend, God’s faithful blood-bought disciple should come to God's house with a hungry heart, ready to listen, ready to learn, anticipating great fellowship and worship! Almighty God's precious desire is for us to let His Word do a wondrous work deep within our hearts, to bring us ever closer to Him in Spirit and truth! Jesus great prayer for us was, “Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth” (John 17:17). Beloved, Almighty God's Word is absolutely crucial and essential for our spiritual growth and discipleship under Jesus our shepherd!

Biblical preaching is far more than just simply receiving biblical information. As the Word of God is faithfully proclaimed, the Holy Spirit takes its truth and applies it very personally to our hearts. He is continually in agape love, teaching us, correcting us, encouraging us, convicting us, strengthening our faith, renewing our minds, and continually conforming us into the very image of our precious Savior until we see Him face to face! Like the believers in the Book of Acts, we should gladly receive the Word and continue steadfastly in doctrine, fellowship, breaking of bread, and prayers (Acts 2:41–42). When we come to God’s house expectantly, Almighty God is more than ready to speak to us through His written Word to change the way we live and to conform us to the dear image of His precious Son! How wonderful is that, dear friend!

Beloved, ultimately our excitement about hearing God's Word leads us to the ETERNAL Word of God, Jesus Christ Himself! He is the ETERNAL Word who became flesh and dwelt among us (John 1:1,14). Therefore, every faithful sermon, every Bible study, every Sunday School lesson, and every personal time in Scripture should draw our hearts closer and closer to Him. Beloved, we do not merely want to know more about the Bible; an intellectual understanding of the Bible will never do any good for us without an abiding relationship to our True Vine. On the contrary, we want to know and possess our precious Lord Jesus more deeply; we want to by faith abide in Him more faithfully, and become more like Him! That beloved is called abiding discipleship! Jesus has called us to leave our nets and to become his abiding disciples and learners, not mere Christians. There are way too many “Christians” today and not enough disciples. So let us, beloved, enter into the House of the Lord with great joyful expectation and hungry hearts: why? For We're going to hear His Word!

KEY SCRIPTURES

John 1:1–4, 14
John 17:17
Acts 2:41–42
Romans 10:17
2 Timothy 3:16–17
2 Timothy 4:2
Hebrews 10:24–25

DEVOTIONAL QUESTIONS

Do I come to hear God's Word with a joyful, hungry, and teachable heart, or am I just playing church?
Am I simply just hearing the Word, or am I allowing the Holy Spirit to apply the Word of truth to my daily life?
Is my time in God's Word and under faithful biblical preaching drawing me closer to Jesus, the ETERNAL Word of God, or am I just going through the heartless motions of a non-abiding Christianity?

PRAYER

Precious Heavenly Father,

Give Your servant a hungry, passionate, desirous, and teachable heart to receive Your precious Word. Please use its faithful preaching through the power of Your Spirit to disciple me, change me, and draw me ever closer to my precious Jesus.

We praise You and thank You in Jesus' precious name; even so, come, Lord Jesus. Amen.

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MY JESUS, ’TIS OF THEE

SONG DEVOTIONAL

Beloved, “My Jesus, ’tis of Thee” is the grateful song of a redeemed heart looking back upon the wonder of Almighty God's saving grace. As those once ETERNALLY lost in our sins and trespasses, as those once ETERNALLY separated from the RIGHTEOUSNESS of Almighty God, and without any hope in this fallen world, we had nothing within ourselves that could EVER redeem or rescue us (Gal. 1:4, Eph. 2:1-3). Yet our Heavenly Father first agape loved us, then drew us toward His precious Son, and through the glorious ETERNAL Gospel of Jesus Christ opened our eyes to our desperate need for Jesus, the propitiation and Savior of the world. Beloved, “We love him, because He first loved us” (1 John 4:19). Dear friend, what amazing grace from our ETERNAL RIGHTEOUS Creator! A lost sinner bound by death, to a brand new creation and a blood-bought child of Almighty God (2 Cor. 5:17-21)!

Beloved, as the child of God reflects upon their ETERNAL deliverance and their pilgrim journey through this fallen world, their heart overflows with glorious thanksgiving to their Savior and agape lover of their soul! The wondrous reality is that at the cross Jesus became our ETERNAL Savior, our ETERNAL RIGHTEOUSNESS, our ETERNAL Faithful Shepherd, our ETERNAL life, and our ETERNAL hope! Through faith in Jesus, we have now passed from ETERNAL death and separation unto ETERNAL life! We have now received the ETERNAL forgiveness of sins, and have been brought into the glorious family of God. We can now cry with all our being, “Abba, Father! Abba, Father!” Beloved, the more we begin to understand what we once were and what Almighty God has ETERNALLY given and made us in His precious Son, the more our hearts should overflow with praise, song, and thanksgiving for His incomprehensible goodness and amazing grace.

Beloved, “My Jesus, ’tis of Thee” becomes the testimony of our entire pilgrim journey. From sinner to saint, from ETERNAL death to ETERNAL life, from ETERNALLY lost to ETERNALLY found, and from a child of death and darkness to a child of life, light, and God; all was made possible by the Person and work of Jesus Christ! Dear friend, our precious Savior, who ETERNALLY saved us, continues now to disciple, shepherd, and transform us daily until that glorious day when we see Him face to face (1 John 3:1-3). Therefore, Beloved, with hearts filled with gratitude, let us sing of His goodness today and throughout all ETERNITY: My Jesus, ’tis of Thee, all things are now possible!

KEY SCRIPTURES

John 6:44
John 3:16–17
Ephesians 2:1–10
Romans 8:15–17
1 John 3:1–3
1 John 4:19
Colossians 1:12–14

DEVOTIONAL QUESTIONS

When I remember my ETERNALLY lost condition, how does it deepen my gratitude for Almighty God's ETERNAL salvation in Jesus?
How have I seen the faithfulness and goodness of my precious Savior throughout my life’s pilgrim journey?
Does my daily life reflect the thanksgiving and joy of someone who has gone from a lost sinner to a beloved child of God?

PRAYER

Dear Heavenly Father,

Thank You for loving me, drawing me to Your precious Son, and giving me ETERNAL Life through Jesus, my Savior. May my heart and life continually sing with wondrous gratitude for Your amazing grace and faithfulness to me.

We praise You and thank You in Jesus' precious name; even so, come, Lord Jesus. Amen.