Berry Patch Devotions in 2020 - Day 363
Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from Matthew West singing … Restored … powerfully singing of how God’s promise of restored love is realized in Christ.
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Highlight Passage: Jeremiah 33:6-7 [ESV] ...
6 Behold, I will bring to it health and healing, and I will heal them and reveal to them abundance of prosperity and security. 7 I will restore the fortunes of Judah and the fortunes of Israel, and rebuild them as they were at first.
… God’s promise, thru Jeremiah, to His exiled people that He would restore them completely.
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Highlight Passage [Context]: … Jeremiah 33:6-11 [ESV] … USE THIS LINK …
… God’s promise to the remnant of believers in Babylon of restoration.
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Reference Passage: … Hosea 6:1 [ESV] …
1 … “Come, let us return to the Lord; for He has torn us, that He may heal us; … He has struck us down, and He will bind us up.
… God promises, thru Hosea, to rebuild what He has torn down.
<Reference Passage</u>: … Joel 2:25 [ESV] …
25 I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, …
… God promises, thru Joel, to rebuild what the years have consumed.
Reference Passage: … Acts 3:19-21 [ESV] … USE THIS LINK …
… A New Testament call to remember the promises of God, thru the Prophets of old (see above) that repentance in Christ will bring the restoration the Lord has promised.
My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Amy Boucher Pye, AT THIS LINK tells of a young South African who was into drugs and built a metal building so that he and others could party. But he came to know Christ and was led, in repentance and restoration, to rebuild the building into a church (see photo) to honor and express God’s healing grace.
And at a time of brokenness, when God’s people were exiled in Babylon, God sent Prophets (see OT passages above) to show that a time was coming when the Lord would send a Messiah to rebuild and restore His people. And that One, of course, is our Messiah, … King Jesus, … Who has come, and will come again, to restore His church and lead us to His glory.
All we need to realize and recognize is that we must repent of our sinful selves and follow our Savior to His restored glory [see Acts 3:19-21]. And that is my prayer for all reading here with me today.
My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh Abba Father, ... thank You, Lord, … for Your promises and the here-and-now reality of Christ’s restoration of Your kingdom.
My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... I pray that all reading here will join me, to walk in repentance, following You, Lord, … to Your promised restoration. … Amen
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