November 2, 2022 … Holding On To Truth …

Berry Patch Devotions in 2021 - Day 306 

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...  Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from the group Mercy Me singing … Word of God Speak … powerfully singing of how we Christians need God’s truth - His Word - to lead us in life. 

God's word lead us in life ... 

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Highlight Passage: …  Psalm 19:7  [ESV] …  

7 The instructions of the LORD are perfect, reviving the soul.  The decrees of the LORD are trustworthy, making wise the simple.   

… King David shows that we can trust God’s word to lead us to follow His ways.                                                  

Highlight Passage (Context): …  Psalm 19:7-14 [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK … 

…  King David sings that believers in the Lordy can trust God’s word                                             

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Reference Passage: …  Psalm 119:105 [NLT] … 

105 Your Word is a lamp to guide my feet and a light for my path.

… King David sings of how can trust to use God’s word to lead us thru life.    

Reference Passage: …  Isaiah 55:11 [NLT] … 

11 It is the same with my word.  I send it out, and it always produces fruit.  It will accomplish all I want it to, and it will prosper everywhere I send it.

… God, thru Isaiah, promises that His word will accomplish His purposes when we use it to be fruitful in life. 

Reference Passage: …  Matthew 4:4 [NLT] … 

 4 But Jesus told [Satan], “No! The Scriptures say ‘People do not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”  

… Jesus quotes from Deuteronomy 8:3 to show Satan that following God’s word feeds our minds with the Lord’s truth.      

Reference Passage…  2Timothy 3:16-17 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Paul shows fellow Christians that God’s word was given to us to help us grow into Christlikeness - IF/WHEN we follow it.  

Reference Passage: …  Hebrews 4:12 [NLT] … 

12 For the word of God is alive and powerful. It is sharper than the sharpest two-edged sword, cutting between soul and spirit, between joint and marrow. It exposes our innermost thoughts and desires.

… The Author of Hebrews shows us the power of God’s word to transform and change us. 

                                                                                

My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, James Banks … AT THIS LINK …  tells of how His uncle, a dairy farmer, ran a rope line from brass rings tied to the barn door from his home to follow during the winter, allowing his uncle to get to the cows for milking when there was a blizzard.      

This story and the ODB entry today asks us what we follow when we encounter the “blizzards” of life?   And personally, as evidenced by my posting these journal entries DAILY for the past 13 years here on this blog site, I’m surrendered to use God’s word as my life-line to follow when I encounter a blizzard and have trouble seeing where to go.  

And if my readers have taken in the scriptures above and believe their truth, as I do, you will be using God’s word as your daily life-line … just like the farmer, in the ODB entry, used that rope to lead him to his cows in the blizzard.                                    

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for giving me the life-line of Your word to follow today and onward to tomorrow.  

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … to use the life-line of Your word, Lord, to follow as we encounter the blizzards of life.   …  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.