Monday, November 01, 2021

November 1, 2021 … Ringing the Bell of Hope …

Berry Patch Devotions in 2021 - Day 305 


Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...   Please take the time to take in a song and lyrics from Darlene Zschech and the group Hillsong singing … Shout To The Lord … poignantly singing of our we should be singing our praises to our God everyday, celebrating His greatness.  


Joyfully ringing the victory bell !!! 


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Reference Passage: … Psalm 47:1, … 6  [NLT] …   

Come, everyone! Clap your hands! Shout to God with joyful praise!  Sing praises to God, sing praises; sing praises to our King, sing praises! 

…Shouting for joy in praise to our Almighty God !!   

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Highlight Passage [Context]: …  Psalm 47 [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK … 

… The Psalmists proclaim and sing praises to our Almighty God.        

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Reference Passage: … Psalms 95:1-3 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK  

… God, thru the Psalmist, calls on His people to sing praises to the Lord,  our Great King.  


Reference Passage: … Psalm 150 [NLT] …   USE THIS LINK … 

… Let everything that has breath … PRAISE THE LORD !!!   


Reference Passage: … Colossians 3:16 [NLT] …  

16 Let the message about Christ, in all its richness, fill your lives. Teach and counsel each other with all the wisdom he gives. Sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs to God with thankful hearts.  

… Paul exhorts fellow Christians (that’s us too!) to praise God ALWAYS with thankful hearts and Spirit-filled songs.   


Reference Passage: … Hebrews 13:15 [NLT] …   

15 Therefore, let us offer through Jesus a continual sacrifice of praise to God, proclaiming our allegiance to His name. 

… God charges His beloved followers to continually offer up praises to His Name. 


My Devotional JournalToday's Our Daily Bread author, Kirsten Holmberg, AT THIS LINK  … tells of a young lady, named Darla, who, after 30 difficult chemo treatments, rang the cancer-survivor bell in the hospital with joy for being declared CANCER FREE.  


And in seeing the attached photo, I think one can sense the joy that Darla must’ve felt at that moment.  And that is the kind of joy that God’s word (see Scriptures above) calls us - in the Old and New Testaments - to express  to our God with joyful and thankful singing, … expressing the joy we feel continually in knowing that our God has saved us from our sin and prepares a place for us in glory. 


Do I sense you joining me in a robust HALLELUJAH as you read this, knowing that we follow and serve a wondrous Savior Who died that we might join Him in eternal glory?     


My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … and HALLELUJAH !!! 

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, …  to sing praises to You, Lord, our victorious God, … along with the linked song above.  … 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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