Berry Patch Devotions in 2021 - Day 245
Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from The Gettys singing … Speak O Lord … poignantly singing of how we Christians desire to live out the truth of God’s word.
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Highlight Passage </u>: 2Timothy 3:16-17 [NLT] …
16 All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, 17 that the man of God[a] may be complete, equipped for every good work.
… God’s word is all we need to guide our path to righteous living.
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Highlight Passage [Context]: … 2Timothy 3:16-17 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Paul helping Timothy (and us) realize the perfect power of God’s word to lead us in all we encounter in this life.
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Reference Passage: … Psalm 19:7 [NLT] …
7 The law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple;
… King David sang of God’s word giving us God’s wisdom to follow in life.
Reference Passage: … Psalm 119:106 [NLT] …
105 Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
… King David sang of God’s word being the light that guides us in life.
Reference Passage: … John 17:17 [NLT] …
13 When the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all the truth, for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak, and He will declare to you the things that are to come.
… God’s Spirit is given to the Lord's born-again believers to guide us, thru His word, wherever we go in life.
Reference Passage: … John 17:17 [NLT] …
17 Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth..
… Jesus prayed (and now prays) that we, His Church, would be sanctified by following His truth.
My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Kirsten Holmberg, AT THIS LINK … tells of a friend creating a stained-glass window, receiving a box of glass pieces and learning that the glass pieces were from WW2 and when assembled made a beautiful window (see photo).
And the ODB author used the story to illustrate that truth from God’s word often comes in pieces, which, when taken in and assembled with the help of God’s Spirit, give us all we need to traverse this life in preparation for the next. That’s the message of the Scriptures above and the linked song by The Gettys. So, I pray the readers taken them in and mediate on their direction.
I’ve come to realize the truth of God’s word and the guidance of God’s Spirit to be the light which leads me in my life (see Ps 119:105). God’s word is His perfect “GPS” (i.e., God’s Positioning System) to guide me. In truth, God’s word is all I really need to make it thru this life in preparation for the next (see highlight passage). Jesus prayed that for us (see John 17:17; and so that’s all we need to have confidence in His “GPS.”
My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for giving me Your “GPS” to guide me down the roads of life.
My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … to follow Your word, Lord, … today and all our tomorrows. … Amen
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Blogger Note: Everyday during this year, my daily devotional blogs are influenced by the reading and study of the online devotional blog entitled “Our Daily Bread,” distributed online via email by RBC Ministries. If you GO TO THIS LINK on the date of my blog, you can read/study the ODB blogs; or you can subscribe to the blog via email at that site.
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