May 8 2025 … Rooted In Christ …

May 8 2025 … Rooted In Christ …   

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...   Please take the time to hear music and lyrics with Kerrie Roberts singing  … Rooted,  showing that those who are rooted in Christ will grow and be fruitful for His glory.

Highlight Passage: …  Ephesians 3:17-19 … [NLT] … 

17 Then Christ will make his home in your hearts as you trust in him. Your roots will grow down into God’s love and keep you strong. 18 And may you have the power to understand, as all God’s people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love is.             

…  Paul prays for his fellow Christians … that they be given God’s power to grow and be fruitful for God’s glory.        

           

Highlight Passage (in context): … Ephesians 3:14-21 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

… The Apostle Paul prays for his fellow Christians that they put down roots of trust in Christ that they would become fruitful in serving Him.                                                                              

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Reference Passage: … Genesis 1:28  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… God blessed Adam and Eve and placed them in the garden to tend the ground and anything therein to be fruitful.    

Reference Passage: … Psalms 1:1-6  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… God’s song, likely by King David, of His blessing on those whose roots of faith in Christ go deep and produce much fruit.                    

Reference Passage: … Jeremiah 17:7-8 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… God, thru Jeremiah, blesses those who establish their roots of faith in The Lord, Who will make them fruitful, producing much fruit. 

Reference Passage: …  John 15:16 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Jesus shows His disciples that He chose them (and us) to be fruitful for the Lord.    

Reference Passage: …  Galatians 5:22-23 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Paul shows the fruit the Lord expects from those who have their roots of faith in Christ.   

Reference Passage: …  Colossians 1:10 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Paul also shows fellow Christians that God will use them (us) to produce good fruit for God’s glory. 

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread Author - Amy Boucher Pie … AT THIS LINK     … wrote of how South African Pastor Andrew Murray taught how the fruit tree arborists in his native country would trim diseased limbs from the fruit trees, allowing the roots to go deeper so that the trees could produce more fruit.           

And if my readers have taken in the linked song and meditated on the Scriptures shared above, all of us can become more fruitful as we serve God’s kingdom - if and when - we allow our roots of faith to go deeper into God’s soil of goodness and grace.  Because when we do, we will produce more fruit for God’s glory (see Galatians 5:22-23)   And I certainly desire that for my life; … how about you?      

         

My Thanksgiving: … Oh, King Jesus, thank You, … for planting Your roots in me to go deep into the soil of Your goodness, and allowing me to grow and be fruitful in Your kingdom. 

 

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray, … again today, … that all of us reading here, will allow Your roots of faith to go deep in Christ so that we may grow and be fruitful in serving You, Lord.  … AMEN

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