August 18, 2023 … Come TOGETHER In Worship …

Berry Patch Devotions in 2023 - Day 231 

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...   Please take the time to take in this song with lyrics from Casey J singing … The Gathering … powerfully singing of how we Christians need to come TOGETHER with one agenda that is to worship our Lord.  

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Highlight Passage: … Deuteronomy 16:16 [NLT] … 

16 “Each year every man in Israel must celebrate these three festivals: the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Harvest, and the Festival of Shelters. On each of these occasions, all men must appear before the Lord your God at the place he chooses, but they must not appear before the Lord without a gift for Him.. 

… God commands His people to gather for three times annually in festival of worship.                                                         

Highlight Passage (Context): …Deuteronomy 16:9-16 [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK …  

… God, thru Moses, describes the three annual festivals of worship that the Lord commands His people gather corporately to worship Him.                                                              .                     

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Reference Passage: …Matthew 18:20 [NLT] …  

20  For where two or three gather together as my followers, I am there among them.”  

… Jesus promises to be present in or with any group of believers who gather to worship the LORD.      

Reference Passage: … Acts 2:42-47 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

… After the resurrection, God’s people came TOGETHER to worship the Lord in corporate worship. 

Reference Passage: …1Corinthians 14:26 [NLT] …  

26 Well, my brothers and sisters, let’s summarize. When you meet together, one will sing, another will teach, another will tell some special revelation God has given, one will speak in tongues, and another will interpret what is said. But everything that is done must strengthen all of you.  

… The Apostle Paul instructs fellow Christians to gather in carry our corporate worship in an orderly manner.

Reference Passage: … Colossians 3:16 [NLT] …  

16 Let the message about Christ, in all its richness, fill your lives. Teach and counsel each other with all the wisdom he gives. Sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs to God with thankful hearts  

… The Apostle Paul instructs fellow Christians come TOGETHER to teach and counsel one another and worship with Lord with spiritual songs and hymns.    

Reference Passage: … Hebrews 10:24-25 [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK … 

… God’s people are charged to come TOGETHER often to encourage one another and to worship in a corporate  setting.                        

                                                                                                                                         

My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Kirsten Holmberg  … AT THIS LINK …   reports that results of studies of many festivals and corporate gatherings in the UK and the US and concluded that 63% of those attending large corporate gatherings and festivals had a “transformative” experience via these gatherings.     

But if my readers have taken in the linked song and meditated on the Scriptures above, it is God’s promise … thru His perfect word … that 100% of those who come TOGETHER to worship God and encourage one another will benefit from such gatherings, … even, as Jesus promises in Matthew 18:20 that groups as small as 2 or 3 who gather in God’s Name will experience His presence.  I like those God-ordained odds, don’t you?!  

So, let’s gather together as fellow Christians and worship the Lord, encouraging one another, ASAP !!!             

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for Your promise to be ALWAYS be there with us when my fellow Christians gather together to worship You.  

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … to experience Your presence when we fellow Christians gather TOGETHER to worship You.   … AMEN 

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