{"id":185,"date":"2025-05-03T00:08:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T07:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smilegodlovesyou.org\/devotionals\/?p=185"},"modified":"2025-05-02T20:07:40","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T03:07:40","slug":"gods-grace-day-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smilegodlovesyou.org\/devotionals\/gods-grace-day-3\/","title":{"rendered":"God\u2019s Grace \u00a0 Day 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

God\u2019s Grace \u00a0 Day 3
\nThe Lord bless you and watch, guard, and keep you;
\nThe Lord make His face to shine upon and enlighten you and be gracious (kind, merciful, and giving favor) to you;
\nThe Lord lift up His [approving] countenance upon you and give you peace (tranquility of heart and life continually).
\nNumbers 6:24-26<\/em><\/p>\n

Message:
\n<\/u>The Lord told Moses to tell his brother Aaron and his sons to bless the Israelites by saying the above verses.\u00a0 The Lord was telling Moses, Aaron and his sons that He, the Lord, wanted to bless the people this way.\u00a0 He wanted to watch over them, guard them and keep them from harm. He wanted to shine His face upon them to enlighten them.\u00a0 He wanted to show them His grace, by being kind, merciful and giving them favor.\u00a0 He wanted to show His approval of them and give them His peace continually.<\/p>\n

This is still the Lord\u2019s heart for us.\u00a0 He does not change.\u00a0 His is the same today as He was then.\u00a0 He wants to bless us, His people, with all these same things.<\/p>\n

Praise Him!\u00a0 Give thanks to Him!\u00a0 Rejoice that we have such a gracious, loving Lord.<\/p>\n

\u00a92023\u00a0 SGLY Ministry\u00a0 www.smilegodlovesyou.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

God\u2019s Grace \u00a0 Day 3 The Lord bless you and watch, guard, and keep you; The Lord make His face to shine upon and enlighten you and be gracious (kind, merciful, and giving favor) to you; The Lord lift up His [approving] countenance upon you and give you peace (tranquility of heart and life continually)….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[149],"tags":[1164,74,3,150,158,2547,2548,3303,165,30,32,1973],"class_list":["post-185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gods-grace","tag-bless","tag-blessings","tag-daily-devotionals","tag-gods-grace","tag-gracious","tag-guard","tag-keep","tag-may-2025","tag-numbers-624-26","tag-sgly-ministry","tag-smile-god-loves-you","tag-watch"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smilegodlovesyou.org\/devotionals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/GG-3-Numbers-6.24-26.jpg?fit=500%2C435&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":182,"url":"https:\/\/smilegodlovesyou.org\/devotionals\/gods-grace-day-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":185,"position":0},"title":"God\u2019s Grace \u00a0 Day 2","author":"SGLY Devotionals","date":"May 2, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"God\u2019s Grace \u00a0 Day 2 And the Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed, \"The Lord! the Lord! a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving-kindness and truth,\"\u00a0 Exodus 34:6 Message: In today\u2019s verse we see Moses experiencing God\u2019s grace as he was being called up\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "God's Grace"","block_context":{"text":"God's Grace","link":"https:\/\/smilegodlovesyou.org\/devotionals\/category\/gods-grace\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"GG-2-Exodus-34.6","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smilegodlovesyou.org\/devotionals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/GG-2-Exodus-34.6.jpg?fit=500%2C435&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":188,"url":"https:\/\/smilegodlovesyou.org\/devotionals\/gods-grace-day-4\/","url_meta":{"origin":185,"position":1},"title":"God\u2019s Grace \u00a0 Day 4","author":"SGLY Devotionals","date":"May 4, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"God\u2019s Grace \u00a0 Day 4 Therefore the\u00a0Lord\u00a0will wait, that He may be\u00a0gracious to you; And therefore He will be exalted, that He may have mercy on you. 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