Berry Patch Devotions in 2020 - Day 297
Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from Michael W Smith singing … His Love Endures Forever … powerfully singing of God’s faithful promise that His love endures FOREVER.
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Highlight Passage: Psalm 136:1, 26 [ESV] ...
1, 26 Give thanks to the God of heaven, for His steadfast love endures forever. </i>
… First and last (and every stanza) declares our thankfulness that ”God’s love endures forever…”
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Highlight Passage [Context]: … Psalm 136 [ESV] … USE THIS LINK …
… God’s people declare strongly and repeatedly that ”God’s love endures forever…”
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Reference Passage: … Jeremiah 31:2-3 [ESV] … USE THIS LINK …
… God’s promise, thru Jeremiah, that His love is EVERLASTING.
Reference Passage: … John 14:21 [ESV] …
21 Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.”
… Jesus declares to His 12 Disciples (and to all born-again believers) that we show our love for Him by our belief in and our obedience to His truth.
Reference Passage: … Romans 8:38-39 [ESV] … USE THIS LINK …
… Paul believes in the truth that NOTHING can separate the born-again believer who trusts in the EVERLASTING love of Christ.
Reference Passage: … 1John 4:16 [ESV] …
16 So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. </i>
… God, thru the Apostle John, declares the truth that we must come to trust and believe in God’s ENDURING love.
My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Mart DeHaan, AT THIS LINK relates a cute story about a young boy blurting out a loud and embarrassing outburst in a quiet movie, … declaring ”NICE SHOT”, when in the movie Bambi’s mother was killed by a hunter in the famous Disney classic.
The young boy enthusiastically believed what he said, … especially since his dad was an avid hunter; and he was willing to loudly declare his beliefs for all to hear, … no matter what other people might think. And that raises the question if we Christians, believing what we say we do from God’s word about God’s enduring love (see Scriptures above), are willing to declare loudly … for all to hear - as is repeated over and over in Psalm 136 … our thanks for God’s EVERLASTING love.
No, … the real question is … DO WE BELIEVE IT? … And, as the Apostle Paul declared in Rom 8:38-39, do we believe that NOTHING can separate us from God’s love? Oh, how I pray we do!!
My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh Abba Father, ... thank You, Lord, … for Your promise of Your everlasting love.
My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... I pray that all reading here will join me to give thanks today for God’s everlasting love and then to show that love for our Lord by our obedience to His word. … Amen
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Blogger Note: Everyday during this year, my daily devotional blogs are influenced by the reading and study of the online devotional blog entitled “Our Daily Bread,” distributed online via email by RBC Ministries. If you GO TO THIS LINK on the date of my blog, you can read/study the ODB blogs; or you can subscribe to the blog via email at that site.
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