June 3, 2023 … God’s Everlasting Arms …

Berry Patch Devotions in 2023 - Day 154 

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...   Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from Chris Rice singing … Leaning On the Everlasting Arms … poignantly and powerfully singing of how we Christians can ALWAYS trust in God’s everlasting arms to hold us in times of trial. 

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Highlight Passage: …Psalm 139:7 [NLT] … 

7 I can never escape from Your Spirit! I can never get away from Your presence!   

… David’s trust that he can NEVER be out of God’s reach.                

                         

Highlight Passage (Context)</u>: … Psalms 139:1-12 [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK …  </b>

… King David sings of trusting in God’s eternal  … everlasting … reach.                                       

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Reference Passage: … Psalm 37:5 [NLT] … 

5 Commit everything you do to the LORD.  Trust Him and He will give you your heart’s desire. 

… Again King David sings of trusting God 

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

5 Trust in the LORD with ALL your heart; and do not depend on your own understanding . 6  Seek His will in ALL you do, and He will show you which path to take. 

… God, thru Solomon, charges God’s people to trust in God will forever lead us when we trust Him.      

Reference Passage: … Isaiah 41:10 [NLT] … 

10 Don’t be afraid, for I am with you.  Don’t be discouraged, for I am your God.  I will strengthen you and help you.  I will hold you up with my victorious right hand.   

… God, thru the Prophet Isaiah, promises to give us His strength when we feel too weak in life.  

Reference Passage: … Matthew 28:20b [NLT] …

20b And be sure of this: I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”   

… Peter calls on persecuted and troubled Christians to unite and come together, living in the love of Christ. 

Reference Passage: … Romans 8:38-39 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Paul assures fellow Christians that NOTHING can separate Christians from God’s love.                                                                                                                         

My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Xochitl Dixon … AT THIS LINK …   writes about feeling God’s presence and strength even in a moment of helplessness of visiting the author’s nephew in prison.  

Have any of my readers ever felt out of God’s reach, … maybe even for a moment, like the ODB author writes above.  But if you’ve taken in the linked song and meditated on the Scriptures above, we, who know Christ as our Messiah and Savior, know - beyond a shadow of doubt - with our faith and trust in our Lord - that, as King David, sings in Psalms 37 and 139, there’s nowhere we can go to escape God’s love, mercy, and grace. … NO WHERE!!  Jesus even promised that to us, didn’t He?!  See Matthew 28:20b. 

So, let’s go forth today, knowing - and declaring - that our God’s arms are simply too long to escape His grasp today …. and ALWAyS!  

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, …for holding on to me today … and ALWAYS!        

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … to rest in the assurance of Your loving arms, Lord, again today    … AMEN 

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