August 13, 2023 … To ALL Who Will Hear …

Berry Patch Devotions in 2023 - Day 226 

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...   Please take the time to take in song and lyrics with Steve Green singing … People Need The Lord … Poignantly, yet, powerfully, singing of how our so many lost people need to hear and respond to the Gospel in order to be saved from their sin.  

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Highlight Passage: … 1Corinthians 9:22 [NLT] … 

22 When I am with those who are weak, I share their weakness, for I want to bring the weak to Christ. Yes, I try to find common ground with everyone, doing everything I can to save some. 

… Paul shares his Gospel sharing strategy with fellow Christians.                                    

                         

Highlight Passage (Context): … 1Corinthians 9:19-23 [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK …  

… Paul shows fellow Christians His ministry strategy of becoming a Christlike slave to different kinds of people so that they would listen to the Gospel and surrender to Christ to be saved.         

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Reference Passage: … Matthew 28:19-21 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  </b>

… We Christians are commissioned by Jesus, Himself, to take the Gospel to all nations.      

Reference Passage: … 1Corinthians 8;3-12 [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK  …

… Paul teaches and warns fellow Christian not to do anything to damage our witness to the lost.  

Reference Passage: … Romans 13:8 [NLT] …  </b>

8 Yes, everything else is worthless when compared with the infinite value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For His sake I have discarded everything else, counting it all as garbage, so that I could gain Christ  

… The Apostle Paul shows that nothing other than the love of Christ is worth anything in our lives.              

Reference Passage: … Philippians 3:8 [NLT] …  </b>

8 Yes, everything else is worthless when compared with the infinite value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have discarded everything else, counting it all as garbage, so that I could gain Christ .  

…Once again Paul teaches of knowing and loving Christ must be shared with others.             

     

Reference Passage : … James 2:8 [NLT] …  

8 Yes indeed, it is good when you obey the royal law as found in the Scriptures: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”

… James cites Leviticus 19:18, .. God’s law of love for all to share with others.      

                                                                                                                                         

My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Bill Crowder… AT THIS LINK …  related the story of Mary Slessor, who moved in with the people of the African nation of Calabar (now Nigeria) in order to learn their language and culture so that she would to be able to share the Gospel with these native people more effectively.  And if we take in and meditate on the Scriptures above, … we - as ambassadors of Christ -  are to do all we can to share God’s love and the good news of Christ’s grace with any and all who will listen and be saved by the Lord’s love/grace.                    

What can we do to get to know and open up ways to share Christ’s love/grace with others, especially doing all we can, like Mary Slessor, to get to know and share life with those who are not like us?   What can we do to get out of our close circle of life and share God’s good news with others … not so much like ourselves?  Isn’t that want Jesus called on us to do in His great commission (see Matt. 28:19) ?         

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for calling on all Your disciples to share Your love with others who need Your saving grace (see linked song). 

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … to share You, Lord, with any/all who will listen to our testimony of Your saving grace.  … AMEN 

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