May 2, 2023 … Abundant Living

Berry Patch Devotions in 2023 - Day 122 

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...    Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from Seth Condrey singing … Abundantly More … poignantly and powerfully singing of how surrendering our lives to believe in and follow Christ leads to living an eternally abundant life. 

Abundant Life Promised by God's Word ... 

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Highlight Passage: … John 17:3 [NLT] … 

3 And this is the way to have eternal life—to know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, the one you sent to earth.  

… Jesus prays to His Heavenly Father for those who come after Him in faith … to live abundant lives for what HE, King Jesus, was about to do on the cross to give all who believe in Him eternal life.                  

Highlight Passage (Context): … John 17:3-12 [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK …  

… Jesus prays His Priestly pray for all who come to believe in His finished work on the cross for the salvation of mankind. .                                      .                     

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Reference Passage: … Genesis 1:26-27 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… God creates mankind to have a glorious relationship with God … forever !!        

Reference Passage: … Habakkuk 3:17-19 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… A confused Prophet, Habakkuk, comes to realize that as God is sovereign over all, there is nothing in life which can steal his eternal life with his (our) God.     

Reference Passage: … John 10:10 [NLT] … 

10 The thief’s purpose is to steal and kill and destroy. My purpose is to give them a rich and satisfying life.. 

… Jesus preaches truth to His disciples and followers (and us now) that He had been sent by God the Father to defeat Satan’s attempt to destroy our lives as believers and to give born-again Christians a fulfilled and abundant life.           

Reference Passage: … Philippians 4:11-13 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Paul encourages fellow Christians to seek after contentment and peace by relying and leaning on Christ for our strength .   

Reference Passage: … 1John 2:24-25 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… God, thru the Apostle John, teaches truth that those who remain faithful to follow the Lord will experience an eternal relationship with our Triune God.   

                                                                                                                         

My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Karen Pimpo … AT THIS LINK … wrote of how the subject of the book and movie Tuck Everlasting conveys the message, thru the main character, Anus Tuck, that life is more than just enduring and searching for what the world offers.  

Today our world tries to get us to believe that health and happiness are the keys to abundant living.  But if you’ve taken in the linked song and the Scriptures above, we see that the only key to abundant living is what Jesus prayed about in the Garden (see highlight passage)  the night before He went to the cross to save mankind. 

Abundant living and eternal life with God is only found in a deep and abiding love relationship with Christ, … believing in King Jesus as the only way to find that eternal life promised by our Lord.  I pray all who read with me here have found that life, pursuing it today and for eternity.     

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for calling me to live for and following You, Lord, forever.    

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … to live our lives for and follow You, forever, Lord.   …  Amen               . 

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