Berry Patch Devotions in 2023 - Day 124
Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from The Collinsworth Famiily singing … I Pray … poignantly singing of our way of dealing with life’s challenges as Christians is to humbly come to our Lord and pray..
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Highlight Passage: … 2Chronicles 20:3 [NLT] …
3 Jehoshaphat was terrified by this news and begged the Lord for guidance. He also ordered everyone in Judah to begin fasting.
… King Jehoshaphat knew that the only strategy for his country to use in deal with impending war was to go to God, fasting and praying for the Lord for His help.
Highlight Passage (Context): … 2Chronicles 20:1-12 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… King Jehoshaphat learned of impending war from the enemies of Judah and immediately called on God’s people to fast and pray to the Lord for His help. .
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Reference Passage: … 2Chronicles 7:14 [NLT] …
14 Then if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sins and restore their land.
… God’s promise to His people to provide for their rescue if they would humbly come to Him and pray for restoration or deliverance.
Reference Passage: … Psalms 116:1-2 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… God, likely thru King David, sings of God hearing our prayers … ALWAYS.
Reference Passage: … Romans 8:26 [NLT] …
26 And the Holy Spirit helps us in our weakness. For example, we don’t know what God wants us to pray for. But the Holy Spirit prays for us with groanings that cannot be expressed in words.
… Paul teaches us to pray to God for HIs strength, especially when we’re feeling weak or unable to act.
Reference Passage: … Philippians 4:6-7 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Paul exhorts fellow Christians to take their (our) anxieties to God, humbly praying for God’s peace, which it is God’s promise to provide.
Reference Passage: … James 4:6-10 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… James, the brother of Jesus, teaches fellow Christians, from <b><u>Prov 3:34</b></u> that God opposes the proud but gives His enabling grace thru the prayers of His humble disciples.
My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Jennifer Benson Schuldt … AT THIS LINK … wrote of her son needing orthopedic surgery and being bolstered in confidence by a very experienced surgeon who told the author he had done thousands of these procedures successfully in the past and also would be praying for God to help him do the surgery.
God promises in HIs word (see Scriptures above) that He will lift up His humble followers when they (we) need God’s enabling grace and are willing come to Him humbly in prayer. Personally, I could use some of His grace today. How abut you? So, I’m going to be doing what the Collinsworth sing about in the linked song and God’s word calls me to do in the Scriptures cited above and that is to humbly pray for God’s help.
My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for ALWAYS being there for me when I come to you in prayer.
My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … to pray humbly to You, Lord, when we’re in need of Your grace. … Amen .
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1 comment:
Amen...!-
Kjetil
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