Berry Patch Devotions in 2023 - Day 52
Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from Steve Green singing… Guard Your Heart … poignantly and powerfully singing of the desperate need for all Christians to protect our Spiritual well- being by filtering what we perceive thru the truth of God’s word to protect our minds and our hearts.
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Highlight Passage: … Proverbs 4:23 [NLT] …
23 Guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life.
… Jesus rebukes the Pharisees and religious leaders for letting their man-made traditions from getting in the way of honoring God with their lives.
Highlight Passage (Context): … Proverbs 4:20-27 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Solomon teaches his son (and us) from God’s wisdom on how to guard our hearts from those things we see and feel which can bring us down Spiritually in life.
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Reference Passage: … Psalm 51:10, 139:23-24 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Kind David knew of his vulnerability to his own flesh and desperately prayed to God to guard his heart and mind to be able to follow God’s will and His ways
Reference Passage: … Psalms 119:9-11 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… King David also recognized that hiding God’s word in His heart was the best way to guard his heart against our Spiritual enemies in this world. .
Reference Passage: … Romans 12:2 [NLT] …
2 Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.
… Paul recognized and taught fellow Christians (that’s us now!) to avoid following the ways of the world, which, if followed, would lead us to sin and destruction.
Reference Passage: … Philippians 4;6-8 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Paul showed fellow Christians how to avoid spiritual destruction and to find God’s peace; and that it by thinking on things which bring Godly wisdom and give us the peace of God in our prayers.
Reference Passage: … Colossians 3:1-5 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Paul again warns and teaches fellow Christians to do battle to protect our minds and hearts by thinking on Godly things rather than the things of the world or the flesh.
My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Kirsten Holmberg … AT THIS LINK … tells of Andrew Wald, a Hungarian-born mathematician, who helped the US realize that the best way to fortify the American bombers during WW2 was to fortify the engine, which, if damaged, would bring the planes down.
And, with the reality that we are in a Spiritual battle - 24/7 - we Christians are charged and warned by God’s word (see Scriptures above) to do all we can to guard our hearts from the attacks of the Devil and the world upon our Spiritual engines - <b>OUR MINDS</b>! … And God’s word above shows us - as well as the linked song - that filtering what we see and experience thru our senses must be protected and filtered thru God’s truth (i.e., His word) so that God’s Spirit can guard and protect our hearts
Oh how I pray today that we’re doing all we can to protect our minds/hearts from the mind-blowing warfare we will face today.
My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for giving us Your truth, Lord, to guard our hearts in battle today … and tomorrow.
My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … to hide behind the protection of God’s truth, protecting us from the arrows of our enemies again today. … Amen
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1 comment:
Amen!-
Kjetil
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