Berry Patch Devotions in 2020 - Day 308
Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from Kim Hill singing … Psalm One … poignantly singing a song of God’s blessing on those who are planted to be fruitful for God's delight and His glory.
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Highlight Passage: Psalm 1:3 [ESV] ...
3 He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers.
… Blessed is the man who is planted deeply in the soil of God’s truth and becomes fruitful for His glory.
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Highlight Passage [Context]: … Psalm 1 [ESV] … USE THIS LINK …
… A song honoring God’s blessing on those who’re planted deeply into God’s word to become fruitful for God’s glory.
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Reference Passage: … John 15:1-8 [ESV] … USE THIS LINK …
… Jesus shows His disciples how they must be connected to (i.e., “abiding in”) Him to become fruitful.
Reference Passage: … Matthew 12:33 [ESV] …
33 “Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree bad and its fruit bad, for the tree is known by its fruit.
… Jesus shows that the way we live will show our fruitfulness or NOT …
Reference Passage: … Galatians 5:22-23 [ESV] … USE THIS LINK ...
… The fruit of God’s Spirit for the Christian who abides in Christ.
Reference Passage<>: … 2Peter 1:5-8 [ESV] … USE THIS LINK ...
… Peter teaches God’s truth on what it takes to become fruitful in God’s kingdom and for His glory.
My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Patricia Raybon, AT THIS LINK writes of an Australian Agronomist, Tony Rinaudo (see photo), who showed Africans in the desert how to make small trees grow to be fruitful even in the driest of climates.
And Rinaudo’s success in showing how to make trees thrive and be fruitful in the desert is a good life picture of the message of Psalm One, sung by Kim Hill in the linked song, … where God’s Psalmist shows how God blesses those with fruitfulness for God’s glory who are planted deeply into God’s truth [i.e, His word].
And Jesus repeated those truths when our Lord taught that we must abide in Him and live out lives of Christlikeness to be fruitful in His Spirit … just as He and the Apostles taught (see reference passages above).
Our challenge from today’s ODB entry is … what are we doing in our lives to connect more deeply into the soil of God’s truth to become more fruitful in the way we live? That’s why I’m here daily, setting my roots more deeply into the truth of God’s word and praying to be more fruitful. What about you?
My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh Abba Father, ... thank You, Lord, … for setting me on a course of more fruitfulness.
My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... I pray that all reading here will join me today to live our lives to be more fruitful for Your kingdom and for Your glory. … Amen
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