3-Days of Choosing Peace – Day 3

How to take what God had you get started continue beyond you? We can’t do it alone or it will end with us. We can’t do it alone or we will be robbing others of God’s calling on their lives. We can’t do it alone or it won’t be able to become everything that God has planned, purposed, and desired for it to be. So today we need to ponder what growth, expansion, and more looks like. How we can best network. How we can bring others into the network.

As we consider this, let’s turn to today’s devotional and see what we can pick up and be the dads God desires and created us to be.

Scripture for Today’s Devotional:

God’s Word is a lamp unto our feet and a light unto our path. God’s Word is a love letter from God to each of us. God’s Word is useful to teach us what is true and to make us realize what is wrong in our lives. God’s Word corrects us when we are wrong and teaches us to do what is right. Everything in the Scriptures is God’s Word. All of it is useful for teaching and helping people and for correcting them and showing them how to live.

Let’s be the dads who lean in on God to better understand the plans and thoughts God has for us! Let’s be the dads who seek to accomplish God’s plans for us that includes peace and well-being, not disaster! Let’s be the dads who cling to God and His plans because they are good and to give us hope and a future! Let’s be the dads who don’t give up because we know that God can do all things! Let’s be the dads who don’t give up because God’s thoughts and purposes cannot be restrained! Let’s be the dads who seek counsel from God! Let’s be the dads who persevere because we know that God’s counsel stands forever! Let’s be the dads who pursue God because we know that His thoughts and plans of His heart will last through all generations! Let’s be the dads who trust God rather than leaning on our own understanding! Let’s be the dads who realize that we can come up with a lot of plans but that we need God to help lead us and guide our steps! Let’s be the dads who turn to God because we want to accomplish His plans and purposes more than our own!

Today’s devotional has been provided to us by HarperCollins/Zondervan/Thomas Nelson!

Reading through today’s devotional, here are some takeaways for me: (check out the devotional on your own too to see if you pick up other nuggets, and please share your findings in the comments)

For more information, please visit: https://www.thomasnelson.com/p/i-choose-peace/

Takeaways from Today’s Devotional:
”Waiting on God? He’s worth the wait!”

• Let’s be the dads who will wait upon the Lord!
• Let’s be the dads who know that when we wait upon the Lord, He will renew our strength!
• Let’s be the dads who are ok waiting upon the Lord because we know that He keeps his promises!
• Let’s be the dads who are seeking and sharing the stories of how God is and has been and always will be trustworthy!
• Let’s be the dads who are seeking and sharing how our prayers and the prayers of others have been answered!
• Let’s be the dads who are seeking and sharing how our dreams and the dreams of others have been fulfilled!
• Let’s be the dads who are at peace while we are still waiting for answers to our prayers or our dreams to be fulfilled!
• Let’s be the dads who help others be at peace while they are still waiting for answers to their prayers or their dreams to be fulfilled!
• Let’s be the dads who know and help others to know that God is a promise keeper and will pull through in the end!
• Let’s be the dads who put God first in our prioritization of all things!
• Today’s devotional speaks to this when it says “He will fix this mess and bring me peace”!
• Let’s be the dads who spend time in and meditate on God’s Word so that we can know and understand as today’s devotional tells us: “God loves His people, even though His people run away and pursue their own desires. Apart from God, they find there is only pain, disappointment, and ultimately death. God never gives up on his people. (He won’t give up on you.) He sent his one and only Son, Jesus, to build the bridge back to him. Jesus died a gruesome death on a cross, was buried, and rose again three days later. In his resurrection, he accomplished the defeat of death itself, the ultimate enemy of us all.”
• Today’s devotional closes with the following thought and challenge:
  • “Whatever your struggle, whatever your pain, God has it beat.He has a plan. I have told him often how I wish he would tell me more of his plan. I would like more of an explanation for some of the hardship I’ve faced. I’m sure you would too. But I can say, and I’ll say it with the chorus of Seconds who have also shared their stories: he can still be trusted.
    • We have seen him.
    • We have touched him.
    • We have heard his voice.
    • We have found his peace while we wait for the day.
    • Trust Jesus.
    • Choose peace.”
• Today’s devotional closes out with sharing addition resources to help us find peace no matter where we are and what we are going through:
  • “Learn more about finding peace through your struggle with the book I Choose Peace , featuring stories from Chip and Joanna Gaines, Kathie Lee Gifford, Shawn Johnson and more.”