Berry Patch Devotions in 2021 - Day 233
Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from Micah Tyler singing … Never Been A Moment … powerfully singing of how there’s never been a moment in our lives when we’re not covered by God’s love, grace, and peace.
Highlight Passage: Psalm 107:29-30 [NLT] …
19 He calmed the storm to a whisper and stilled the waves. 30 What a blessing was that stillness as he brought them safely into harbor!
… A prophesy in song of the Messiah calming the storms for believers in the midst os the storms of life.
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Highlight Passage [Context]: … Psalm 107: 1-3, 23-32 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … </b>
… The Psalmist writes of God’s presence and peace in the midst of the storms.
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Reference Passage: Isaiah 26:3 [NLT] …
2 You will keep in perfect peace all who trust in You, all whose thoughts are fixed on You!
… God’s promise, thru Isaiah, to give His peace to those who trust in snd seek the Lord’s way in life.
Reference Passage : Isaiah 41:10 [NLT] …
1 Don’t be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be discouraged, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you. I will hold you up with my victorious right hand.
… God’s prophesy and promise, thru Isaiah to His people (and that’s us, too!) of God’s strength when we, who believe in and follower the Lord, are feeling weak or fearful.
Reference Passage: … Matthew 8:23-27, Mark 4:35-41, Luke 8:22-25 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK ...
… Three parallel Gospel stories of Jesus calming the waters of a raging storm.
Reference Passage: … Philippians 4:6-7 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK ...
… God, thru Paul, provides Christians with a way to seek and find peace in life.
Reference Passage: … Hebrews 4:16 [NLT] …
16 So let us come boldly to the throne of our gracious God. There we will receive his mercy, and we will find grace to help us when we need it most.
… When we need God’s empowering grace in life, as Christians, the Lord promises to provide be there for us.
My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Alyson Kieda AT THIS LINK … writes of a missionary being shipwrecked during a journey and, making their way safely to land, the survivors found a Bible washed up on shore; and when it dried, they read Psalm 107 (see highlight passages) where God promises to be with believers in the midst of the storms (i.e., trials and troubles) of life. And God’s word helped the missionary and the others find peace in the midst of their troubles, just as His truth can give us peace in our trials now.
And my regular readers may think me somewhat lazy today because many of the Scriptures quoted/linked above are the same as those I used yesterday in my journaling of the ODB entry yesterday. That is, save one, … which are the three Gospel stories (in Matthew 8, Mark 4, and Luke 8) of Jesus calming the waters to save the disciples in the storm on the Sea of Galilee.
May I assume that readers here have sometime have been dealing with a raging storm. Maybe you are now as I am, … going thru chronic, sometimes debilitating pain. Maybe you’ve gone thru the loss of a loved one or maybe severe financial troubles. But as someone said, … “we’ve all either gone thru the storm, are in the storm, or will soon be going thru a storm.” And so, I pray we all hear the linked song and meditate deeply on the scriptures above to have peace, knowing that our Lord will always be there to take us thru the storm, even if the storm takes us home, where the waters will always be as Jesus spoke and calmed the waters.
My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … thank You, Lord, for calming the waters of the sea of pain I’m dealing with now.
My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … to trust and rely on our God’s promise of His peace and power in the midst of our storms. … 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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