Today Our Daily Bread Hebrews 13 ++

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Hebrews 13:1-25
Concluding Words
1Continue to love each other with true Christian love. F59 2Don't forget to show hospitality to strangers, for some who have done this have entertained angels without realizing it! 3Don't forget about those in prison. Suffer with them as though you were there yourself. Share the sorrow of those being mistreated, as though you feel their pain in your own bodies.
4Give honor to marriage, and remain faithful to one another in marriage. God will surely judge people who are immoral and those who commit adultery.
5Stay away from the love of money; be satisfied with what you have. For God has said,
"I will never fail you. I will never forsake you." F60
6That is why we can say with confidence,
"The Lord is my helper, so I will not be afraid. What can mere mortals do to me?" F61
7Remember your leaders who first taught you the word of God. Think of all the good that has come from their lives, and trust the Lord as they do.
8Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. 9So do not be attracted by strange, new ideas. Your spiritual strength comes from God's special favor, not from ceremonial rules about food, which don't help those who follow them.
10We have an altar from which the priests in the Temple on earth have no right to eat. 11Under the system of Jewish laws, the high priest brought the blood of animals into the Holy Place as a sacrifice for sin, but the bodies of the animals were burned outside the camp. 12So also Jesus suffered and died outside the city gates in order to make his people holy by shedding his own blood. 13So let us go out to him outside the camp and bear the disgrace he bore. 14For this world is not our home; we are looking forward to our city in heaven, which is yet to come.
15With Jesus' help, let us continually offer our sacrifice of praise to God by proclaiming the glory of his name. 16Don't forget to do good and to share what you have with those in need, for such sacrifices are very pleasing to God.
17Obey your spiritual leaders and do what they say. Their work is to watch over your souls, and they know they are accountable to God. Give them reason to do this joyfully and not with sorrow. That would certainly not be for your benefit.
18Pray for us, for our conscience is clear and we want to live honorably in everything we do. 19I especially need your prayers right now so that I can come back to you soon. ®MDSU¯20-21And now, may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, equip you with all you need for doing his will. May he produce in you, through the power of Jesus Christ, all that is pleasing to him. Jesus is the great Shepherd of the sheep by an everlasting covenant, signed with his blood. To him be glory forever and ever. Amen.
22I urge you, dear brothers and sisters, F62 please listen carefully to what I have said in this brief letter.
23I want you to know that our brother Timothy is now out of jail. If he comes here soon, I will bring him with me to see you.
24Give my greetings to all your leaders and to the other believers there. The Christians from Italy send you their greetings.
25May God's grace be with you all.
FOOTNOTES:F59: Greek with brotherly love. F60: Deut 31:6, 8. F61: Ps 118:6. F62: Greek brothers.
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~Lena’s Journalin’ Today~
As I read through this, this morning, I see the action of trust in God over and over again.
When we really love one another, we have to trust God
When we are hospitable to a stranger, we really have to trust God.
In order to have compassion on one who is being punished, we have to trust God.
When we honor another human being in marriage and we don’t violate their trust and we stay faithful, even when they make mistakes and act human, we have to trust God.
In order to not put our desires and security in money, we have to trust God
In order to follow men who follow Christ, we have to trust God
To do what a human has written as a command or a suggestion to do, it takes trust in God.
To live a life of sacrifice before God and to share your sacrificial life with others, you must trust God….
Trusting God is almost harder at times than trusting a person, we see people and we don’t physically see God. Yet we have a hard time trusting people who we do see, because we weigh out their actions as worthy of our trust or not.
God has shown Himself to man over and over again, in physical evidences to gain our faith and trust.
If we don’t trust God and we can’t trust man, we are trusting ourselves, and that can be dangerous.
Given the choices and the alternatives, I think it would be good for us all to step out in faith, which is pleasing to God, and go ahead and “blindly” trust Him, for what He’s said to trust Him on.
This is why it is so important to get words from God that are alive to us, and grab a hold of them, search out their meanings, post them up for reminders, and trust God to fulfill them.
Faith and trust go together.
Look at the Strong’s definition of this Hebrew’s word for Trust:

Strong's Number: 3982
peiðqw Original Word
Word Origin peiðqw

a primary verb
Transliterated Word
Phonetic Spelling Peitho

pi'-tho
Parts of Speech TDNT
Verb 6:1,818
Definition persuade
to persuade, i.e. to induce one by words to believe
to make friends of, to win one's favour, gain one's good will, or to seek to win one, strive to please one
to tranquillise
to persuade unto i.e. move or induce one to persuasion to do something
be persuaded
to be persuaded, to suffer one's self to be persuaded; to be induced to believe: to have faith: in a thing
to believe
to be persuaded of a thing concerning a person
to listen to, obey, yield to, comply with
to trust, have confidence, be confident
Translated Words
KJV (55) - be confident, 2; believe, 3; have confidence, 6; misc, 7; obey, 7; persuade, 22; trust, 8;
NAS (52) - assure, 1; confident, 3; convinced, 7; followed, 2; have confidence, 2; having confidence, 2; listen, 1; obey, 3; obeying, 1; persuade, 4; persuaded, 8; persuading, 1; put confidence, 1; put...confidence, 1; put...trust, 1; relied, 1; seeking the favor, 1; sure, 2; took...advice, 1; trust, 2; trusted, 1; trusting, 1; trusts, 1; urging, 1; win...over, 1; won over, 2;

Daily Repetitive Verses:

Proverbs 27:17-19
17 You use steel to sharpen steel, and one friend sharpens another. 18 If you care for your orchard, you'll enjoy its fruit; if you honor your boss, you'll be honored.
19 Just as water mirrors your face, so your face mirrors your heart.
Psalm 122:1
1 When they said, "Let's go to the house of God," my heart leaped for joy.