Berry Patch Devotions in 2023 - Day 16
Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from the group Hillsong leading in worship and singing … Here I Am To Worship … poignantly singing of how we must come into God’s presence with a heart to humbly worship our Lord by following His light and serving Him with our lives.
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Highlight Passage: … Isaiah 58:6 [NLT] …
6 ... No, this is the kind of fasting (i.e., worship) I want; Free those who are wrongly imprisoned; lighten the burden of how who work for you. Let the oppressed go free, and remove the chains that bind people.
… God, thru Isaiah rebuked those from God’s chosen people who went thru the motions of fasting and worship for selfish reasons.
Highlight Passage (Context): … Isaiah 58:1-12 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… God rebukes those who go thru the motions of fasting and worship to God, but do so for selfish gain.
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Reference Passage: … Psalms 29:2 [NLT] …
2 Honor the LORD for the glory of His name. Worship the LORD in the splendor of His holiness.
… God, thru King David ’s song, calls on His people to humbly worship the Lord because of His glory and holiness.
Reference Passage: … Matthew 5:6 [NLT] …
6 God blesses those who hunger and thirst for justice, for they will be satisfied.
… Jesus preaches that God blesses and satisfies those who who hunger and thirst for righteousness.
Reference Passage: … John 4:23-24 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Jesus teaches the Samaritan woman (and all true seekers after God’s righteousness) to worship the Lord in Spirit and in truth by the way we live our lives.
Reference Passage: … Romans 12: 1 [NLT] …
6 And so, dear brothers and sisters, I plead with you to give your bodies to God because of all he has done for you. Let them be a living and holy sacrifice—the kind he will find acceptable. This is truly the way to worship him..
… Paul pleads with fellow Christians to join him to live lives as living sacrifices of worship to our Lord.
Reference Passage: … Philippians 2:3-5 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… The Apostle Paul teaches fellow Christians to take on the attitude of humility, modeled by Jesus, to humbly serve the Lord to reaching out to look out of the interests of others before self.
My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Karen Pimpo … AT THIS LINK … writes, on this Martin Luther King day here in the USA, how Dr. King’s widow carried on her’s husband’s ministry to honor God by seeking after righteousness and justice in this world.
Dr. King’s life, … tho a sinner like you and me, … was lived to humbly emulate his Savior, Who calls on all Christians to live lives which become living sacrifices to the glory of God, seeking humbly to served the Lord, as He served us. And I’m stopping to pray today that I do all I can do to serve my Lord by the way I seek to worship Him by reflecting His light of humble worship by the way I live. Is that the Light of worship that you follow today?
My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for calling me to live a life of worship to/for Your Kingdom, Lord.
My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … to do all we can to reflect Your light of humble service to others today, Lord. . … Amen
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1 comment:
Amen...!!
Kjetil!-
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