March 12, 2023 … Disciples of Peace …

Berry Patch Devotions in 2023 - Day 71 

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...   Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from The Heritage Singers singing … Wonderful Peace … poignantly singing the old hymn which calls on Christians to do all we can in Christlike living to live at peace with the world. 

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Highlight Passage: … Romans 12:18 [NLT] … 

18 Do all you can to live at peace with everyone.   

…The Apostle Paul’ charge for us Christians to do all we can to live at peace with EVERYONE..         

Highlight Passage (Context): … Romans 12:17-21 [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK …  

…Paul exhorts fellow Christians to do all they (se) can to be at peace with EVERYONE.      .       

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Reference Passage: …  Proverbs 25:21-22 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… God, thru Solomon, calls on believers to do all we can to be at peace with even our enemies.  

Reference Passage: …  Isaiah 26:3 [NLT] … 

3 You (LORD) will keep in perfect peace ALL who trust in You, . ALL whose thoughts are fixed on You!  

… God’s prescription for finding peace in this dark world.

Reference Passage: …  Matthew 5:9 [NLT] … 

9 God blesses those who work for peace, for they will be called the children of God. 

… Jesus teaches that truth that God blesses those who work for peace in this world. 

Reference Passage: …  Philippians 4:6-7 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Paul shows fellow Christians how to find peace in their lives.  

Reference Passage: …  James 3: 15-17[NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… James reaches fellow Christians that living with Godly wisdom will engender peace in this world.                 .                 

                                                                                                            

My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Bill Crowder … AT THIS LINK …   Tells of the leader of an African nation who had established a delicate balance of peace with Israel and other enemies of Israel, who, when asked how the leader’s country had done that, said,  “We choose our friends. We do not encourage our friends to choose our enemies [for us].”      

It’s difficult to find - and maintain - peace with others in this contentious and sin-darkened world, isn’t it?  But that’s what our God, thru many sources in His word, demands, doesn’t He?</b>.  And from the few biblical sources brought out in the Scriptures above, God gives his call for peace and His prescription to find and maintain that peace in our lives and in this world.  

Oh how I pray that we, as disciples of Christ, are doing all we can to be God’s peacemakers in our personal and interpersonal world.                                            

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for giving me Your Spirit and Your word to help me be a Christlike disciple of peace. .

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … to reach out as peacemakers for Your glory today, Lord. …  Amen                 

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