January 4, 2023 … Seeing New Ways Ahead …

Berry Patch Devotions in 2023 - Day 4 

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...  Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from Don Moen singing  … God Will Make A Way … poignantly, yet powerfully, singing of God’s plan to give us new vision and victory in His way and His timing    

Seeing God's way more clearly ... 

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Highlight Passage: … Isiah 43:19 [NLT] …  

19 For I am about to do something new. See, I have already begun! Do you not see it?I will make a pathway through the wilderness. I will create rivers in the dry wasteland. 

…Isiah brings God’s promise of deliverance and newness to His people in captivity.                                                                               

Highlight Passage (Context): … Isaiah 43:18-21 [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK … 

… God, thru Isaiah, to His people captive in Babylon, promises a new life ahead of freedom and wellness.                                                                                                                                           

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Reference Passage: … Proverbs 3:5-6 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… God’s promises, thru Solomon, that God will show the way, … HIS WAY, … when we trust in Him to lead us. 

Reference Passage: … Jeremiah 29:11 [NLT] … 

11 For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.  

… God’s promises of restoration and deliverance to God’s chosen people in captivity       

Reference Passage: … Lamentations 3:22-24 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

…God’s promise, thru Jeremiah, that His mercies are new every morning, …  so, our hope is ALWAYS in the Lord … no matter what we face in life.          

Reference Passage: … Ephesians 4:21-24 [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK … 

… Paul confidently assures fellow Christians, many of whom were persecuted, that in Christ we can put on His new nature and follow the ways of His Spirit thru life with new vision and understanding.     

Reference Passage: … Philippians 3:12-14 [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK … 

… Paul shows his confidence in forgetting what he had struggled with in the past … to look forward, with new vision, to follow where the Lord was leading him … and God’s faithful . to the glorious eternal future He has for us for His chosen ones.   

                                                                             

My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Katara Patton… AT THIS LINK …   told of getting new glasses and how she found joy in being able to see friends clearly in church where they had been blurry in the past (see photo).   

And if my readers have listened to the hopeful linked song and meditated on the Scriptures above, I’m praying that we all see more clearly how God so desires for His beloved (that’s us, my Christians friend!!) to follow the hope and promise He has for those who’ve surrendered to follow His plan and His ways as we move on into this new year and the rest of our lives.  

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for giving me clear sight of where You are leading me, Lord.          

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … to let You, Lord, give us clear sight to follow You into our future.       Amen

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