Berry Patch Devotions in 2021 - Day 206
Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from Steven Curtis Chapman singing … One True God … Poignantly singing of how serve the one true God Whose words are ALWAYS true and how He honors our honesty.
God's promise to Abram ... more than the stars ...
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Highlight Passage: Genesis 15:5-6 [NIV] …
5 Then the Lord took Abram outside and said to him, “Look up into the sky and count the stars if you can. That’s how many descendants you will have!”
6 And Abram believed the Lord, and the Lord counted him as righteous because of his faith.
… Abram believed God’s illogical promises and God counted Abram’s faith as righteous.
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Highlight Passage [Context]: … Genesis 15:1-7 [NIV] … USE THIS LINK …
… Abram believed God, though the Lord’s promises were beyond
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Reference Passage: … Proverbs 3:5-6 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… God will lead those who put their trust in and follow God, … even beyond our own understanding.
Reference Passage: … Proverbs 12:22 [NLT] …
<i> 10 The Lord detests lying lips, but He delights in those who tell the truth. </i>
… God delights in and honors those who are honest with Him.
Reference Passage: … John 8:32 [NLT] …
32 And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
… Jesus teaches on the freedom God provides when we know Him and are willing to be truthful with God.
Reference Passage: … 1Peter 3:10-12 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Peter quotes from Ps 34:12-16, teaching God’s truth to oppressed fellow Christians that God sees/hears all we say/do and honors those who turn away from evil and speak the truth.
My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, James Banks, AT THIS LINK … tells of couple who learned from their doctor that they could not conceive and give birth; and who, thru prayer to God and consulting their Pastor, opened themselves to God leading them to an adopted child.
And then the ODB author shared the biblical story (see highlight passage) where Abram opened himself to believe God’s illogical promise that a man well beyond child-bearing age could be chosen by God to have descendants greater in number than the stars (see photo). And God honored Abram’s faith, whom God renamed as “Abraham,” to become the “father” of God’s chosen nation of people.
And it is God’s delight to honor those who come to the Lord, seeking truth, and then trusting God’s call to share His truth with others. The question from today’s ODB entry challenges us to be willing to be humble in seeking God’s truth and then being open/honest with God, to believe His truth, from His word; and then to share it with others <b>(see Scriptures above)</b>.
My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for giving me Your truth in Your word to follow to Your freedom.
My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … to humbly and honestly seek the truth from God and then to follow it today. … 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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