March 29, 2023 … Seeking God’s Ways …

Berry Patch Devotions in 2023 - Day 88 

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...  Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from the group Eleventh Hour Worship singing … Your Plans For Us … poignantly singing of how we Christians should do all we can to seek out and follow God’s good plan for our lives. 

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Highlight Passage: … Exodus 2:10 [NLT] … 

10 Later, when the boy was older, his mother brought him back to Pharaoh’s daughter, who adopted him as her own son. The princess named him Moses, for she explained, “I lifted him out of the water.”  

…God’s plan was to deliver Moses to live to become God’s deliverer.                        

Highlight Passage (Context): …  Exodus 2:1-10 [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK …  

… Pharaoh had a plan to kill al the first born in Egypt; but God had a another plan for the life of Moses.    .                   .                     

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

… God call, thru Solomon, to seek and trust and follow God’s ways, avoiding doing life our own way.       

Reference Passage: … Isaiah 55:8-9 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… God, thru Isaiah, teaches His people to seek after and follow God’s ways, which are way beyond our own. 

Reference Passage: … Jeremiah 29:11-14 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… God promises, thru the Prophet, Jeremiah, that once day the LORD will reveal His plans and His will to His people thru a Messiah, … Whom we know now is Jesus.  

Reference Passage: … Romans 8:28 [NLT] … 

28 And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them..

… Paul teaches fellow Christians that all things in the lives of His faithful disciples are for their (our) good and His glory. 

Reference Passage: … Ephesians 2:10 [NLT] … 

10 For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.

… Paul also teaches truth that it was God’s plan to make His faithful disciples to do His good work for His glory.   

                                                                                                               

My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Tim Gustafson … AT THIS LINK …  relates the wonderful story of two Polish sisters who were abandoned during WW2 by their Jewish mother to save their lives from the holocaust.  And 80 years later, from DNA testing, they were reunited.   

And this story led the ODB author to remember the biblical story of Moses’ mother (see Highlight passage) led by God to give over her baby to be adopted by Pharaoh’s daughter, … illustrating the truth of the Scriptures above that God’s ways often are way above our understanding (see Isaiah 55:8-9); but are always for the good of those who trust in the Lord and seek to follow His ways (see Prov 3:5-6 and Rom 8:28).  

Oh, how I pray that all reading with me here are doing all we can to use God’s word to seek out and follow His ways for our lives, … rather than trying to find our own way down the road of this life.  My friend, our God wants us to see out and follow HIS WAYS and not our own.   Common, … my fellow Christians; … as the Nike slogan calls out … Let’s <b>“JUST DO IT!!”</b>                                                      

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for showing me, thru Your word, how to follow Your will and Your ways, Lord.       

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … to do all we can to seek out and follow Your ways, Lord, rather than do life on our own.         …  Amen               . 

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