Berry Patch Devotions in 2020 - Day 52
Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from The Martins singing … The Promise… Poignantly singing of how all born-again Christians experience the fruitfulness of God’s promises - if/when - we live, knowing and trusting in those promises.
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Highlight Passage: 2Peter 1:4 [ESV] ...
4 … by which He has granted to us Hs precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire.
… Peter shows those who have been transformed by God’s saving grace that we must live under God’s wondrous promises to partake of His sanctifying grace.
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Highlight Passage [Context]: … 2Peter 1:1-8 [ESV] … USE THIS LINK …
… Peter encourages fellow Christians to live under the magnificent promises of God.
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Reference Passage: … Isaiah 43:2 [ESV] …
2 When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you.
… God’s promise, thru Isaiah, that God will be with us no matter what we go thru.
Reference Passage: … Jeremiah 29:11 [ESV] …
1 For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare[a] and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
… God’s promise of a glorious living hope for His people. That’s us Christians too!!
Reference Passage: … John 14:1-3, 27 [ESV] ... USE THIS LINK … </b>
… Jesus promises His disciples (and us) that He has prepared a home for us in heaven, ,,, a place of eternal peace.
Reference Passage: … Philippians 4:19 [ESV] …
19 And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
… Paul shows fellow Christians God’s promise that He will provide us with all that we need.
My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Monica La Rose, AT THIS LINK … … tells of a prison program from Bard College which helped prisoners in a NY high security prison find hope and dignity, promising them a transforming education while in prison.
We too, in the shackles of our sin nature, have a wondrous hope for our eternal future, with the promises of God to never leave us and to provide us with all we need in this Christian life <b>(see Scriptures above)</b>. The questions become …
#1 Do we know God’s promises from His word?
#2 Do we believe those promises?
#3 Do we live by those promises?
Because if we do - and I pray we do, … we will live entirely different lives <u>IN CHRIST</u> than we would on our own and in the flesh.
My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh Abba Father, ... thank You, Lord, … for Your promises, which I live to recognize and realize everyday.
My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … to live undergirded and uplifted by the promises of God. … 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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