January 30, 2023 … Going On Empty ? …

Berry Patch Devotions in 2023 - Day 30 

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...  Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from Steven Curtis Chapman singing  … His Strength Is Perfect … poignantly singing about how sometimes we have to wait for answers from God when we pray for Him to move to lift us up.  

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Highlight Passage: … Isaiah 40:31a [NLT] … 

31 But those who trust in the LORD will find new strength. …  

… God promises new strength, thru Isaiah, to whose who trust in HIM.                                                                                      

Highlight Passage (Context): …  Isaiah 40:28-31 [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK … 

…  God, thru Isaiah, promises to give His chosen people His strength when they (we) are weakened.  

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Reference Passage: … Isaiah 41:10 [NLT] … 

10 Don’t be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be discouraged, for I am your God.I will strengthen you and help you. I will hold you up with my victorious right hand.</i> 

… God’s promise, also thru Isaiah, to give His chosen people strength w hen they feel weak. 

Reference Passage: … Habakkuk 3:17-19 [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK … 

… Habakkuk, moving from confusion to confidence in God, discovers that no matter what we go thru, God provides us with HIS strength and HIS joy.                

Reference Passage: … Matthew 11:28-30  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… When Christians are willing to surrender and yoke ourselves to Christ, He will give us His strength to move thru the trials of life.            

Reference Passage: … 2Corinthians 12:9-10  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Paul trusted Jesus’ promise of the Lord’s empowering and sufficient grace when he felt to weak to deal with his thorn in the flesh.    

Reference Passage: … 2Timothy 1:7 [NLT] …

7 For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline.  

… God’s promise from Paul to Timothy and us that He NEVER give us fear; but rather His power when we’re feeling weak.     

                                                                             

My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Kimya Loder … AT THIS LINK …   tells of a nurse friend who felt overwhelmed and weakened, treating so many very ill patients during the COVID pandemic; and encouraging her nurse friend to lean on her faith in God, which she did, finding new strength and even more power to carry out what she knew to be a calling from God.       

And it’s quite possible that some of my readers are feeling their tanks to be “out of gas” right now as you tackle some of the life-draining challenges which we’re facing these days.  And I, for one, am lifted up by the truth of the linked song and the Scriptures brought out above.  How about you?  

So, I’m praying that we fill up our tanks with God’s empowering grace today - and tomorrow - and let God’s strength give us the power to move on for His glory.        

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for providing me with Your strength again today.            

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … to move forward with Your strength, Lord, … even when I’m feeling weak.       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.