June 14, 2023 … Our Risks and God’s Rewards …

Berry Patch Devotions in 2023</u> - Day 165 

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 how so many out there in the world need to hear and be saved by the Gospel.  

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Highlight Passage: … Hebrews 10:39 [NLT] … 

39 But we are not like those who turn away from God to their own destruction. We are the faithful ones, whose souls will be saved..

… God’s call to faithful believers who’re willing to share the Gospel and their (our) faith with others who need the Lord’s saving grace. .                   

                         

Highlight Passage (Context): … Hebrews 10:39, 11:32-40 [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK … 

… The Author of Hebrews chronicles what it takes to be faithful in sharing the Gospel and the trials encountered in being ambassadors of the Good News.                                                .         

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Reference Passage: … Psalms 91:14-16 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… God’s promise in song of His protection and salvation for those who are faithful to Him in times of trouble or trial.  

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

… Trusting in God - ALWAYS - as He leads us faithfully represent Him to others, no matter what we face.   

Reference Passage: … Matthew 9:37-38 [NLT] … </b>

37 He said to h\His disciples, “The harvest is great, but the workers are few. 38 So pray to the Lord who is in charge of the harvest; ask him to send more workers into his fields.” 

… Jesus calls on His disciples (and us now), to pray for more to go into the world to share the Gospel to all those who need salvation. 

Reference Passage: …John 16:33 [NLT] … 

33 I have told you all this so that you may have peace in me. Here on earth you will have many trials and sorrows. But take heart, because I have overcome the world.”. 

… Jesus promises His disciples (and us) that we need not fear what we see in the world because HE has overcome the world.  

Reference Passage: … 2Corinthians 11:24-27 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Paul shows what he was willing to endure to share the Gospel with others, especially the Gentiles who desperately need God’s good news of grace for salvation.               

                                                                                                                          

My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Arthur Jackson … AT THIS LINK …  wrote about Jimmy, a young, faithful Christian, who texted back to friends the trials he and his faithful friends had gone thru to share Christ in a poor region of the world, experiencing a great deal of social unrest.  Yet, Jimmy and his friends faithfully went forward to share God’s grace  with those people who desperately needed to hear the saving message of the Gospel.  

And the ODB story reminded me of what Paul went thru to share God’s saving good news with the lost (see 2Cor. 11 above); and God’s call on our lives in His great commission - see and memorize Matt 28:19-20 on your own.  And so, what are we willing to endure to be an Ambassador of God’s saving grace today    

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for giving me Your enabling grace to be Your ambassador of grace.     

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … to surrender to be servants of Your grace, Lord, by sharing Your good news of salvation with those who need You today.  … AMEN 

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