Oct 22, 2020 … Anywhere and Everywhere

Berry Patch Devotions in 2020 - Day 296

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...    Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from Steve Green singing … People Need The Lord … powerfully singing of how Jesus calls us, as His disciples, to be willing to go anywhere to share His gospel with others who need Him 

We all need the Lord ... anywhere and everywhere ... 

 

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Highlight Passage:  Matthew 28:19:20[ESV] ... 

19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

…   Jesus' charge to all Christians to do all we can to bring the Gospel and God’s truth to any/all who need it.  

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Highlight Passage [Context]: …  Matthew 28:16-20 [ESV] …  USE THIS LINK … 

… Christ’s “great commission” to any/all disciples … to GO and make disciples 

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Reference Passage: …   Isaiah 53:6 [ESV] … 

6  All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way; and the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.  

…  God, thru the Prophet, shows that we have ALL gone astray; but it is God’s plan to lay all those stray sheep on The Messiah and for His called ones (that’s us as Christians) to bring His gospel to the world of lost sinners.   

Reference Passage: …  Romans 3:23, 6:23 [ESV] …  USE THIS LINK … 

… Since all mankind is condemned by our sin, we ALL are in need of God’s saving grace. 

Reference Passage: …   Acts 1:8 [ESV] … </b>

8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”

…  Christ calls and empowers His disciples to be His witnesses to all the world.  

My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Patricia Raybon, AT THIS LINK  writes of a Colorado Pastor who took the Great Commission seriously and discovered a laundromat near his church where his partitioners could go and share prayer and God’s love with others (see photo). 

What does Christ’s so-called “Great Commission” (see Matt. 28:19-20) mean to us?  And as Christians, are we, as Christ’s disciples, taking the Lord’s call to be his witnesses seriously (see Acts 1:8)?   Because, … as Steve Green sings in the linked song, … people need the Lord (ALL PEOPLE as the Rom 3/6 passages tell us).  

Pastor Chad in the ODB story took Christ’s call at His word and did all he could to take the Gospel to that Colorado laundromat.  So, … are we ALL feeling that commission from our Lord to “GO” and make disciples and to teach them what God brings to us in His word? …   I pray so today.     

 

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh Abba Father, ... thank You, Lord, … for calling us to be Your witnesses today … and all days.  

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... I pray that all reading here will join me today to GO and to be Christ’s witnesses, … sharing His love/grace with any who might need it.    … Amen

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