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09/05/2026

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09/01/2026

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❤️ WHAT IS THE MOST PRECIOUS NAME YOU HAVE EVER SPOKEN?

There are names that bring back memories.

Names that make us smile.

Names that bring tears to our eyes.

👉 But there is one Name unlike every other name.

A Name for the morning and the darkness of night.

A Name for the mountaintop—and the valley.

A Name for the day we were saved—and a Name to cling to when we take our final breath.

✝️ JESUS.

JESUS… JESUS…

❤️ THERE’S JUST SOMETHING ABOUT THAT NAME!

📖 Motivation & Inspiration Devotion #138

✍️ By Randy L. Buoy

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✝️ A TRINITY OF TRUTH ABOUT THE NAME OF JESUS

Three passages of Scripture tell us something wonderful about the precious Name of Jesus.

First—WHY HE WAS GIVEN THAT NAME.

📖 Matthew 1:21 (KJV)

“And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.”

Before Bethlehem.

Before the miracles.

Before Calvary and the empty tomb—

God declared His Name:

❤️ JESUS.

And Scripture immediately connects that Name with His mission:

“…for he shall save his people from their sins.”

✝️ JESUS CAME TO SAVE!

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🙏 SECOND—THERE IS SALVATION IN NO OTHER NAME.

📖 Acts 4:12

“Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.”

Not the name of a preacher.

Not the name of a church.

Not the name of a religion.

There aren’t many Saviours.

There is ONE.

✝️ His Name is JESUS!

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👑 THIRD—EVERY KNEE WILL ONE DAY BOW AT HIS NAME.

📖 Philippians 2:10–11

“That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;

And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.”

Think about that!

The Name spoken by Mary as she held that little Baby—

JESUS.

The Name mocked by men as He hung upon the cross—

JESUS.

The Name proclaimed after the stone was rolled away—

JESUS.

❤️ What a Name!

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🎶 THERE’S JUST SOMETHING ABOUT THAT NAME

There is a beautiful old Bill and Gloria Gaither song built around that simple thought:

🎵 “Jesus, Jesus, Jesus…”

There’s just something about that Name.

Those words have a very personal meaning to me.

❤️ My mother-in-law spent her final days in hospice while living in our home.

Each evening I would come home from work and see the physical changes.

Her face grew thinner.

Her body grew weaker.

😔 Day by day, the evidence before our eyes told us that her earthly journey was coming to an end.

But there was something death couldn’t take from her.

❤️ She knew Jesus. She had His Name securely locked in her heart!

I would come home and say:

“Mom, you know what we’re going to say?”

And with that weak, crackly voice, she would answer:

“I know, Randy.”

Then I’d say:

“Let’s say it together. One…two…three…”

And together we would say:

🙏 “I KNOW HE CARES FOR ME.”

Sometimes we’d laugh.

Sometimes we’d cry.

Sometimes we’d hug.

But we’d say it again:

❤️ “I KNOW HE CARES FOR ME.”

All the physical evidence seemed to say that life was slipping away.

But faith said something greater:

Jesus was still there.

Sometimes I would begin singing:

🎵 “Jesus, Jesus, Jesus…”

She would raise her hand into the air.

A tear would come to her eye.

And she’d say:

❤️ “Yes. There’s just something about that Name.”

Oh, my friends—

THERE REALLY IS.

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🙏 When everything is going well—

JESUS.

⛈️ When the storm begins to rage—

JESUS.

⛰️ On the mountaintop or down in the valley—

JESUS.

😔 When you’re weary and don’t know what else to pray—

JESUS.

✝️ When you’ve sinned and need forgiveness—

JESUS.

And when this earthly life is almost over—

❤️ IT’S JESUS.

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✍️ THE PRECIOUS NAME OF JESUS

Jesus in the morning and throughout the day,
On the mountaintop, and when I pray.

Jesus in the valley, when I am strong,
Jesus when I’m weary, and when I am wrong.

And when this life is over,
And I cross to Heaven’s shore,

I’ll see the face of Jesus—
And dwell with Him forevermore!

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❤️ My mother-in-law’s body was failing.

But she knew:

“I KNOW HE CARES FOR ME.”

Why?

✝️ Because she knew Jesus.

And why can I face tomorrow, the valley, and even death itself?

❤️ Because I know Jesus.

✝️ JESUS. JESUS. JESUS.

🙌 THERE’S JUST SOMETHING ABOUT THAT NAME!

And one of the first songs many of us ever learned still says it so simply:

🎵 “Jesus loves me, this I know—
for the Bible tells me so.”

🙏 May God bless us, everyone!

— Randy L. Buoy

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✝️ DO YOU KNOW JESUS CHRIST AS YOUR SAVIOUR?

The Bible tells us that Jesus Christ died for our sins, was buried, and rose again.

Salvation isn’t something we earn through religion, good works, or trying to become good enough.

It is God’s gift of grace received through faith.

📖 “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved.” —Acts 16:31

Friend, the Name we have been talking about throughout this devotion is the Name you can call upon today to have your sins forgiven and to obtain eternal life:

❤️ Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.

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08/15/2026

Good morning, friends! ☀️💛
May your day begin with a grateful heart, be filled with little blessings, and end with something that makes you smile. God bless you today and always. 🙏🌷

07/29/2026

Psalm 23 is the most memorized passage in the entire Bible.
It is read at every funeral. Whispered at every bedside. Recited by people who have never opened a Bible in their lives.
And almost nobody knows what any of it actually means.
“The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want."
Every Christian can finish the rest from memory. The green pastures. The still waters. The valley of the shadow of death. The rod and the staff. The table. The overflowing cup.
Beautiful poetry. Familiar words. Profound comfort.
And every single line is describing something specific, physical, and real that most modern readers have never been told.
Because we do not know what a shepherd actually did.
David did. He was one. And he was not writing poetry. He was writing a job description.
Here is what Psalm 23 actually says when you understand what a first-century Middle Eastern shepherd did for his sheep.
“He makes me lie down in green pastures."
Sheep do not lie down voluntarily. They are prey animals wired for constant anxiety. A sheep will not rest unless it is free from fear, free from friction with other sheep, free from parasites, and free from hunger.
A shepherd who makes his sheep lie down has solved every source of anxiety in their lives. They are not resting because they chose to. They are resting because he made it safe enough to stop running.
"He leads me beside still waters."
Sheep are terrified of moving water. Their wool absorbs water and they drown. A shepherd never leads his flock to a rushing stream. He finds a calm pool or physically dams a stream with rocks to create still water.
He reshapes the environment so his sheep can drink without dying.
“He restores my soul."
The Hebrew word for "restores" is yashuv. It means "to turn back" or "to bring back." It is the word used for a shepherd who goes out, finds a sheep that has wandered off a cliff or into a thicket, and carries it back on his shoulders.
It is not a metaphor. It is a rescue operation.
“Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death."
This is not a metaphor either. There is a real valley near Jerusalem — a narrow, steep-walled ravine between Jerusalem and the Dead Sea. Predators hid in the shadows of the cliff walls above.
The only path to green pasture went directly through the place where death waited.
“Your rod and your staff, they comfort me."
Two different tools. The staff has a crook — used to pull sheep out of crevices and guide them back to the path. The rod is a weapon. A short, heavy club used to fight wolves, lions, and bears.
The sheep are not comforted by a walking stick. They are comforted because their shepherd is armed and has already proven he will kill for them.
“You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies."
This is not a dinner table. The Hebrew word for "table" refers to a flat, elevated grazing area — a plateau. Shepherds scouted these tablelands in advance, clearing poisonous plants, killing snakes, and driving predators from the edges.
The shepherd did not remove the enemies. He fed his sheep in front of them.
“You anoint my head with oil."
Shepherds poured oil on their sheep's heads because flies and gnats would burrow into the sheep's nasal passages and lay eggs, causing infection and sometimes death. The oil created a barrier the insects could not pe*****te.
Anointing was not a ceremony. It was protection from the things that would destroy them from the inside.
"My cup overflows."
At the end of the day, the shepherd counted his sheep through a narrow gate one at a time, inspecting each one for wounds, thorns, and parasites. If a sheep was injured, he poured oil and water from his cup into the wound.
An overflowing cup meant the shepherd had more than enough to treat every injury. No wound would be ignored.
Every single line. Every image. Every phrase. David was describing what a real shepherd physically did for real sheep in the real hills outside Jerusalem.
And a thousand years later, Jesus stood up and said, "I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep."
He was not borrowing a metaphor. He was claiming the job description David had written.
The shepherd who solves every anxiety. Who reshapes the river. Who carries them home. Who walks them through the valley. Who fights with a weapon. Who feeds them in front of their enemies. Who protects them from the inside. Who treats every wound.
That is Psalm 23.

07/22/2026

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