April 20, 2023 … Keep On Keeping On

Berry Patch Devotions in 2023 - Day 110 

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...   Please take the time to take in song and lyrics  from Steve Green singing … People Need The Lord … poignantly, yet powerfully singing of we Christians are called to so all we can to share God’s “Good News” with all who need to hear of God’s saving grace. 

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Highlight Passage: … Philippians 3:13-14 [NLT] … 

13 No, dear brothers and sisters, I have not achieved it, but I focus on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead, 14 I press on to reach the end of the race and receive the heavenly prize for which God, through Christ Jesus, is calling us. 

… Paul shares his desire, and the calling for all Christians, to press on in God’s calling to “share the “good news” of the Gospel forward..          

Highlight Passage (Context): … Philippians 3:12-16 [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK …  

… The Apostle Paul shows his desire to  press on - no matter what - toward his calling and mission to share the Gospel wherever God leads us Christians..                                .                  

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Reference Passage: … 1Corinthians 9:23-27 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… The Apostle Paul testifies of his desire to spread the Good News to every9one who needs God’s saving grace and calls on fellow Christians to join him to run that same race to win for Christ,   

Reference Passage: … 2Corinthians 11:22-33 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Paul documents what he was willing to endure, showing fellow Christins of his persistence to go forward in God’s calling for all Christians to share the Gospel. 

Reference Passage: … Matthew 28:19-20 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Jesus’ call and commissions for ALL CHRISTIAN to do all we can to go forth, sharing the Good News of the Gospel with those who need the Lord’s saving grace.  

Reference Passage: … Philippians 1:6 [NLT] … 

6 And I am certain that God, Who began the good work within you, will continue his work until it is finally finished on the day when Christ Jesus returns.

… Paul’s confidence that God is calling all Christians to submit to God’s remake of His chosen disciples into the image of our Lord..  

 

Reference Passage: … 2Timothy 4:6-8 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… At the end of his life, Paul testifies to Timothy - and us too - that he had done all he could to go forth in the calling to bring the Good News to others who needed God’s saving grace.     

                                                                                                                         

My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Leslie Koh … AT THIS LINK …   tells of being on an exercise run and not being familiar with the path the author was taking and stopping another runner, coming the other way, to learn whether the path the ODB author had take was the right one.   

We’re all called, as born-again Christians (see Matthew 28:19-20), to a path in running the race of life to follow our Lord and to seek to win His prize as we share God’s good news, thru His Gospel, to any/all who would receive the prize of His saving grace,  And as my readers take in this call from the linked song and from the Apostle Paul’s example (see Scriptures above), may we join him to do all we can to “keep on keeping on” as the Lord calls us all to run His race to win the prize Jesus has waiting for us at the finish line of life.  

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for giving me the endurance and power to run this race of life for Your prize, Lord.        

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … to run with You and for You, Lord, in this Gospel race for Your glory. …  Amen               . 

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