Berry Patch Devotions in 2020 - Day 316
Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from Big Daddy Weave singing … Redeemed … powerfully singing of how God’s mercy grace can redeem any sinner who confesses and repents and comes back home to our Lord/Savior.
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Highlight Passage: Zechariah 10:9 [ESV] ...
9 Though I scattered them among the nations, yet in far countries they shall remember me, and with their children they shall live and return.
… God promises that He will return His scattered people to their Home with Him.
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Highlight Passage [Context]: … Zechariah 10:6-12 [ESV] … USE THIS LINK …
… God’s promise to the exiled in Babylon that the Lord would redeem His people and bring them “back home.”
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Reference Passage: … Psalm 40:16-17 [ESV] … USE THIS LINK …
… King David sings of the deliverance offered by our great God to any sinner who returns to receive the great grace of salvation.
Reference Passage: … Luke 15:20-24 [ESV] … USE THIS LINK …
… Jesus’ parable of the prodigal love of the Father for His prodigal sinning son … showing God’s grace a love for any who return to Him for His redemption and restoration <b>[see photo]</b>.
Reference Passage: … John 17:9-11 [ESV] … USE THIS LINK … </b>
… Just before the cross, Jesus prayed that His Father would keep all His Father had brought to The Son, praying that the lost and found would be kept safe for Jesus’ return to take them HOME with Him.
Reference Passage: … 1John 1:9 [ESV] …
<i> 9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. </i>
… God promises to cleanse ANY AND ALL sin from those who’re willing to humbly confess and repent and receive God’s redemptive grace.
My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Winn Collier, AT THIS LINK writes about a Korean War Veteran, who had been declared dead for two years during that conflict, but ultimately was released from prison and returned joyously to his home and family.
And the ODB entry immediately reminded me of Jesus’ parable of the so-called “prodigal son,” [see Luke 15] who returned to His Prodigal Father’s redeeming love and grace after years of sinful living. And having been one who lived 22 years of my life mired in sinful living and one who was gracefully redeemed, as Big Daddy Weave sings in the linked son, I identify closely with the story of the returning “prodigal.”
And I pray that all reading here have come back home to the Father and have received His wondrous, prodigal grace and love; … and I also pray that we’re out there in the world sharing our story of God’s redeeming grace with others.
If not, … COME BACK HOME, fellow Christian!! God’s prodigal love and grace will be yours.
My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh Abba Father, ... thank You, Lord, … for lavishing Your redeeming love on me.
My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... I pray that all reading here will join me to go out today and share our witness of God’s redeeming grace with others. … 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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