March 13, 2023 … Running With God …

Berry Patch Devotions in 2023 - Day 72 

Devotional Song:: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from the group Hillsong Worship singing … I Will Run To You … poignantly and powerfully singing how we Christians must run the race laid out laid out for us by God, … running to win the race for God’s glory.   

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Highlight Passage: …Hebrews 12:1 [NLT] … 

1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a huge crowd of witnesses to the life of faith, let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so easily trips us up. And let us run with endurance the race God has set before us..

…God’s word calls God’s faithful to run the race of life with perseverance and endurance. .         

Highlight Passage (Context): … Hebrews 11:39-12:3 [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK …  

…God shows how faithful Christians run the race of life God has set before u s.       .                   

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Reference Passage: …  Isaiah 40:31 [NLT] … 

31 But those who trust in the LORD will find new strength.  They will sore on wings like eagles.  They will run and not grow weary.  They will walk and not faint.   

… God’s promise, thru Isaiah, to provide strength to those who run the race of life trusting in God to lead them (use) to the finish line. 

Reference Passage: …  Matthew 24:13 [NLT] … 

13 But the one who endures to the end will be saved.. 

… Jesus teaches of things to come in the end times when those endure to run with Christ in the race of life will be saved.  . 

Reference Passage: …  1Corinthians 9:24-27 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Paul shows fellow Christians that they (we) must prepare for and run the race of life to finish well, running to win, for/with Jesus.    

Reference Passage: …  2Timothy 4:7-9 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …

… Paul shows Timothy - and al Christians - that he ran the race of life with faith and endurance . as he expected Timothy - and all Christians - to follow his lead. 

                                                                                                            

My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Monica La Rose … AT THIS LINK … told of an inspiring young Ukrainian runner who, before running in an event - but after her country was invaded - declared, “We are all running to the best of our abilities a marathon called life. Let’s run it these days even better than that. With something that never dies in our hearts.”

And that’s the attitude all of us who follow Christ, Who leads us in this are of life, to prepare for this race and by following the course laid out by God’s Spirit to follow our Lord to the finish line to be with Him in glory. 

Common … run with me today!!                                              

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for charting the course I run with and for You today, Lord.  .

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … to follow the course our Lord has laid out for us to run in life.   …  Amen                 

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