Sept 24, 2020 … Unending Mercies

Berry Patch Devotions in 2020 - Day 268 

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...     Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from Chris Rice singing … Great Is Thy Faithfulness … poignantly singing the old hymn of God’s faithfulness to be there with His mercies and grace … ALWAYS!

New and fresh mercies today !!! 

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Highlight Passage:  Nehemiah 9:17b [ESV] ... 

17b … But you are a God ready to forgive, gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and did not forsake them.

…    God’s people are reminded of God’s forgiving and merciful character.  

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Highlight Passage [Context]: …   Nehemiah 9:17, 27-31  [ESV] ... USE THIS LINK … 

…  Ezra preaches to God’s remnant of believers - from God’s word - about God’s never-ending mercy and grace extended to the repentant believers. 

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Reference Passage: …  Lamentations 3:22-23  [ESV] …   USE THIS LINK ... 

… God, this time thru Jeremiah, reminds God’s people of the unending love and forgiving grace of our merciful God. 

Reference Passage: …  Romans 10:9-13  [ESV] … USE THIS LINK ...  

… God’s promise - thru Paul - to save ANYONE who’s willing to repent and believe in Christ’s finished work on the cross to save sinners. 

Reference Passage: …  Ephesians 2:4-10  [ESV] …  USE THIS LINK ... 

… Paul preaches about the never-ending grace, mercy, and forgiveness of our God for those willing to repent and receive God’s saving and sanctifying grace. 

Reference Passage: …  Hebrews 4:16  [ESV] …   

16 Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need. 

… God reminding me, and all born-again believers, of our ability to find God’s grace when we seek it out with repentant hearts. 

Reference Passage: …  1John 1:9  [ESV] …   

9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 

… Our God is ALWAYS willing (and able) to forgive us and cleanse us from our sins when we’re willing to confess and repent before His throne of grace and mercy.

My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Julie Schwab, AT THIS LINK  relates a story about a college student who regretted not taking the opportunity to share with a professor - likely lost - about the never-ending saving grace of our God. 

I’ve been there and had those feelings of regret in the past when I blew an opportunity to share with an obviously lost soul about the wondrous grace of our merciful God … sung about by Chris Rice in the linked song and from the truths proclaimed in the Scriptures above. 

But now I’m older and hopefully bolder; … and if God puts anyone in front of me today whom I perceive as a lost soul, I pray I would share my story of God’s saving grace. And oh how I pray that any of us would share of God’s unending love/mercy today if that opportunity comes into our lives.    

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh Abba Father, ... thank You, Lord, … for Your never-ending and eternally forgiving mercy and grace.

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... I pray, Lord, that all reading here will join me today, to share of God’s unending love and grace if we see anyone whom we feel may need God’s mercies.    .… Amen

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