Gods Sign Post W/ Dana Christensen - EP 632 - Perseverance - 5/8/2025

A daily bible study to draw us closer in our relationship with GOD through our Savior Jesus Christ in prayer and reading the word of GOD.
****************************************
365 Devotions on the Power of Prayer
1 Thessalonians 5:5, 8-10 NIV
5) You are all children of the light and children of the day. We do not belong to the night or the darkness.
8) But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, putting on faith and love as a breastplate, and the hope of salvation as a helmet.
9) For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.
10) He died for us so that, whether we are awake or asleep, we may live together with him.
--------------------------------------------------
1 Thessalonians 5:5, 8-10 NKJV
5) You are sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness.
8) But let us who are of the day be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet the hope of salvation.
9) For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
10) who died for us, that whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with Him.
***************************************
Life Lessons from Hebrews
Lesson #5 - Perseverance
Hebrews 6:1–7:28
—------------------------------------------
Further Reading:
To Complete 2 Peter during this 3-part study, read 2 Peter 2:1-22.
For more Bible passages about perseverance, read Acts 20:24; Romans 5:3–4; 1 Timotny 4:16; 2 Timothy 2:12; Hebrews 10:36; James 1:2–4, 12; 5:11; and Revelation 2:2–3.
***************************************
PRAYING THE NAMES OF GOD:
Week #27: EMMANOUEL - IMMANUEL
Key Scripture’s : Matthew 1:22-23

Understanding the Name:
THe name Immanuel (im-ma-nu-AIL) first appears in Isaiah 7:14 as part of a prophetic word that Isaiah spoke to King Ahaz of Judah (the southern kingdom) at a time when Aram and Israel (the northern kingdom) had formed a coalition against Assyria. The prophet Isaiah counseled Ahaz hot to join in their uprising against Assyria, he urged Ahaz to trust in the Lord. Then the prophet invited Ahaz to ask the Lord for a sign to confirm the prophetic word, but the king refused.
In response to Ahaz’s refusal to trust God, Isaiah proclaimed: “THerefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will be with child and give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel” Isaiah 7:14 NIV.

Matthew’s gospel recalls Isaiah’s prophecy, applying it to the child who would soon be born to Mary (Matthew 1:22-23). The sign given hundreds of years earlier was meant for all God’s people. Infact, the Bible is nothing if not the story of God’s persistent desire to dwell with his people. In Jesus, God succeeded in a unique way, becoming a man in order to same the world not from the outside, but from the inside. Immanuel, God with us, to rescue, redeem, and restore our relationship with him.