May 6, 2023 … Gratitude and Praise

Berry Patch Devotions in 2023 - Day 126 

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...   Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from Brandon Lake singing … Gratitude … poignantly singing of how we Christians need to be singing our praise and thanks continually in gratitude for God’s love and grace. 

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Highlight Passage: … Luke 17:18 [NLT] …

18 Has no one returned to give glory to God except this foreigner?”.   

… Jesus declares that only one of ten lepers who had been healed by Jesus returned to offer his gratitude and that one, who received Jesus’ saving grace, was a foreigner, … a Samaritan.                      

Highlight Passage (Context): … Luke 17:11-19 [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK …  

… Jesus heal 10 lepers but only one, a Samaritan, returns to praise Jesus as Lord with gratitude for His healing grace.                                         .                     

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Reference Passage: … Psalms 136 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… The Psalmist repeats, over and over again, of God’s people expressing their (our) thanks to God for His love which endures FOREVER.  

Reference Passage: … Ephesians 5:20 [NLT] … 

20 And give thanks for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.   

… Paul charges fellow Christians to give our thanks and praise to God for EVERYTHING in our lives.

Reference Passage: …Colossians 3:15-17 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Paul exhorts fellow Christians to continually offer up their (our) praise and gratitude for what our Lord has done for us.   

Reference Passage: … 1Thessalonians 5:18 [NLT] … 

18 Be thankful in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you who belong to Christ Jesus.   

… Paul teaches that true believers in Christ must offer up their (our) praise and gratitude for in all circumstances.                     

Reference Passage: … Hebrews 12:28 [NLT] … 

28 Since we are receiving a Kingdom that is unshakable, let us be thankful and please God by worshiping him with holy fear and awe.   

… God, thru the Author of Hebrews, charges all Christians to be thankful thru living lives of gratitude for allowing faithful and grateful believers into God’s kingdom. 

                                                                                                                         

My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Poh Fang Chia … AT THIS LINK …  wrote of a 110 meter hurdler in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics who was so grateful for the assistance of an Olympic employee, who helped the Jamaican runner get to the Tokyo stadium on time so that Hansle Parchment, the runner who had missed his bus to the Olympic stadium, could win his event.  

And this story, along with the Scriptures above, illustrate how we, who have so much more to be thankful for, thru Christ’s shed blood on the cross, certainly must be willing to do all we can to show our praise and gratitude … ALWAYS … to God for His saving and sanctifying grace.  So, will my readers join me today to offer up a genuine Hallelujah as we take in Brandon Lake’s joyous linked song?   

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for giving me and all my fellow Christians Your grace, Lord, which saves us for eternity.      

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … to offer up our gratitude and praises for Your saving grace, Lord.   …  Amen               . 

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