Berry Patch Devotions in 2021 - Day 121
Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from the group Rend Collective singing … Christ Lives In Me … poignantly singing of Christians need to surrender to the reality that Christ’s empowering grace lives in the lives of all truly born-again believers.
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Highlight Passage: Ephesians 3:16 [ESV] …
16 [Paul prays] … that according to the riches of His glory He may grant you to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in your inner being, …
… Paul prays for fellow Christians that they consume and use God’s empowering grace which dwells in true, born-again believers.
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Highlight Passage [Context]: … Ephesians 3:13-21 [ESV] … USE THIS LINK …
… God, thru Paul, so wants fellow Christians (like you and me) to grasp the power, thru God’’s grace, that we have to empower us to live like Christ.
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Reference Passage: … Romans 8:10 [ESV] …
10 But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
… Paul declares clearly that although we still deal with sinful bodies that we can and will pursue righteousness because Christ dwells in born-again believers.
Reference Passage: … 2Corinthians 13:5 [ESV] …
5 Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or do you not realize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you fail to meet the test!
… God, thru Paul, wants all Christians to realize that our Lord lives in the lives of those who are truly surrendered to God’s Spirit.
Reference Passage: … Galatians 2:20 [ESV] …
20 I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
… Paul repeats to Christians - repetitively - that all true, born-again, believers have Christ dwelling in their (our) hearts.
Reference Passage: … Colossians 1:27 [ESV] …
27 To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
… Paul showing that even the Gentiles would find Christ dwelling in their (our) hearts when they come to truly believe and follow The Lord.
My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Amy Boucher Pay, AT THIS LINK … related how the ODB author’s daughter simply, but elegantly, understood that Jesus was dwelling inside of “her tummy,” which gave her daughter great peace to sleep at night.
How often did the Apostle Paul desire that fellow believers would grasp that truth as did that little girl? We read it over-an-over again in His epistles to various fellow Christians (see Pauline passages above), don’t we? And God’s word, thru these truths, wants all of us - as born-again believers - to be crucified with our Lord, and holding on to the reality that the same power which raised Jesus from the dead which now dwells in the hearts of any/all who would surrender and allow God’s empowering grace to dwell and work in/thru us.
I pray that we all are truly surrendered to that truth today.
My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh Abba Father, ... thank You, King Jesus, … for being in me to give me Your power and Your peace today … and tomorrow.
My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … to capture our Lord’s peace, knowing that He dwells in our hearts today, … Amen
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