Berry Patch Devotions in 2021 - Day 315
Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in a song and lyrics from Mandisa singing … Good News … powerfully singing of how we, as true disciples of Christ, are called - and must be ready at all times - to share the “Good News” of Christ with a dying, decaying, and very lost world.
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Highlight Passage: … Acts 13:32-33 [NLT] …
32 “And now we are here to bring you this Good News. The promise was made to our ancestors, 33 and God has now fulfilled it for us, their descendants, by raising Jesus. This is what the second psalm says about Jesus: ‘You are my Son. Today I have become your Father.
… Paul quotes from Psalm 2:7 to show the Jews that God had come in the form of His Son, Jesus, the Christ to fulfill the Good News of the Messiah coming to free His people from their (our) sin.
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Highlight Passage [Context] : … Acts 13:32-39 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
…, Paul, called and empowered by God’s Spirit, preaches the “Good News” to Jews and Gentiles in Antioch, showing them that in Christ, God’s kingdom had come for all who believe in Jesus as Messiah.
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Reference Passage: … Psalm 96:3 [NLT] …
3 Publish His glorious deeds among the nations.Tell everyone about the amazing things He does.
… God, thru the Psalmist, calls on any/all of His chosen people to go forth and declare the wondrous Good News of God’s mighty works.
Reference Passage: … Matthew 28:19-20 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
…Jesus, Himself, commissions all born-again believers to go and share the Good News of salvation thru the Messiah with the whole world.
Reference Passage: … Romans 1:16 [NLT] …
6 For I am not ashamed of this Good News about Christ. It is the power of God at work, saving everyone who believes—the Jew first and also the Gentile.
… The Apostle Paul was called and compelled to share God’s Good News with any/all he encountered in his missionary journeys.
Reference Passage: … 1Peter 3:14-15 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Peter exhorts fellow Christians, even those who are pressured/persecuted to be ready to share God’s Good News with others.
My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Sheridan Voysey, AT THIS LINK … writes of John Steinbeck being called to write a novel in 1941, which he did in the book, ”The Moon Is Down” (see photo), the book being distributed to Europeans as Hitler’s nazi domination was spreading. The Novel gave good news of hope to Europeans with the message that help was coming for them.
And the parallel with the message of God’s “GOOD NEWS” being spread to the the lost world in the first century by men like Paul and Peter is obvious. These men were called and empowered by God’s Spirit to bring the Gospel message to people were lost in their sin and dominated by enslavement to the evil powers of Rome in their day. And, as we read in the Scriptures above and the linked song, we are called … and we are empowered by God in His great commission and the writings of Peter (see Matt 28:19-20 and 1Pet 3:15) to be ready and willing to share God’s glorious good news … maybe even today if we’re given an opportunity.
No doubt we’re called; but are we ready?!
My THANKFULNES: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for giving me opportunities - maybe even today - to share Your “Good News” with others.
My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … to take Your opportunities to share Your good news with others - maybe today!! … Amen
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