Mar 24, 2021 … Working TOGETHER …

Berry Patch Devotions in 2021 - Day 83 

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...  Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from the group Casting Crowns singing… If We Are The Body…  powerfully singing of how we Christians, as His Body, must work TOGETHER to build His kingdom.  

Working TOGETHER in God's garden ... 

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Highlight Passage:  1Corinthians 3:9 [ESV] ... 

9 For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's field, God's building. 

… Paul shows us that, as Christ’s Body, we work His field TOGETHER.   

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Highlight Passage [Context]: …  1Corinthians 3:5-9 [ESV] …  USE THIS LINK … 

… Paul shows fellow Christians that we must work together tending God’s field of souls.   

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Reference Passage: … Proverbs 27:17 [ESV] …  

17 Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another 

…  God, thru Solomon, shows us that two working TOGETHER is always more powerful than one working alone. 

Reference Passage: … Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 [ESV] …  USE THIS LINK … 

…  God, again thru Solomon, shows how two working TOGETHER are always better than one working alone. 

 

Reference Passage: … Matthew 18:19-20 [ESV] …  

19 Again I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything they ask, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven. 20 For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.”  

…  Jesus shows that God, the Father, works in/thru believers who come TOGETHER to work in His Name and for His glory 

Reference Passage: … Hebrews 10:24-25 [ESV] …  USE THIS LINK …  

…  God, thru the Author of Hebrews, shows us how we must work TOGETHER as Christ’s body to do HIS work in HIS kingdom.  

My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Jennifer Benson Schuldt, AT THIS LINK …   showed how a community of volunteers worked together to move all the books in a bookstore from one location to another, demonstrating the value of people working TOGETHER to get a task accomplished so much more effectively than one doing the job alone. 

God’s word (see Scriptures above) often demonstrates the power of the Body of Christ coming TOGETHER to work in God’s kingdom.  Paul, in the highlight passage, uses the word picture of many coming TOGETHER in a garden (see photo) to plant and water and harvest as Christ’s Body (His church) should do in God’s field of souls.  And that’s what the group Casting Crowns pleas in the linked song … for us to come TOGETHER, as the Body of Christ, to do HIS work in HIS field [i.e., HIs Kingdom]. 

And I pray we do just that today, … because as you can see above, the operant word is ”TOGETHER;” and it’s God’s promise that anytime we gather TOGETHER … to work TOGETHER in HIS Name and for HIS glory, we’ll be able to do so much more than we can do on our own.  

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh Abba Father, ... thank You, Lord, … for giving me a job to do in Your garden today, working TOGETHER with fellow Christians, for Your glory.   

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … with fellow Christians today … to work TOGETHER in Your field of souls.  

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