Berry Patch Devotions in 2021 - Day 328
Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... </b> Please take the time to take in a song and lyrics from Clay Crosse, Bob Carlisle, and Bebe Winans singing … I Will Follow Christ … powerfully singing of how we Christians must CHOOSE to follow Christ’s will, seeking His way, thru His word.
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Highlight Passage: … Psalm 62:5 [NLT] …
5 Let all that I am wait quietly before God, for my hope is in Him.
… Paul shows Timothy (and us) that God’s word is our GPS in life, and by following God’s truth we stay on track.
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Highlight Passage [Context]: … Psalm 62 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… King David commits to seek and follow God’s will … no matter what!
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Reference Passage: … Deuteronomy 28:1 [NLT] …
1 “If you fully obey the Lord your God and carefully keep all His commands that I am giving you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the world.
… God’s promise, thru Moses, of His blessing, protection, and guidance … IF … His people will exercise their free will and follow His commands.
Reference Passage: … Proverbs 3:5-6 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… God, thru Solomon, promises to lead and guide us to His will and His ways if we but trust and follow Him.
Reference Passage: … Luke 9:23 [NLT] …
23 Then He said to the crowd, “If any of you wants to be my follower, you must give up your own way, take up your cross daily, and follow me.
… Jesus shows the way we must choose to deny our selfish ways to follow Him.
Reference Passage: … John 14:15, 21 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Jesus clearly commands those who love Him - i.e., His true disciples - to obey His commands and to follow Him.
My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, David H Roper, AT THIS LINK … acknowledges how difficult it is to follow God’s will. However, … as surrendered, born-again, disciples of Christ, we simply must use our free will to CHOOSE to, as Jesus commanded in Luke 9:23 … to deny our way by surrendering to follow God’s will.
As a reader, using your free will today to read my words here, can I get a witness - of “AMEN” - that you seek, as I do, to do what is sung in the linked song or was sung by King David in the highlight verse (i.e., Ps 62:5); and that is to quietly choose to follow our Lord?
I think we’d all agree with the premise that seeking and choosing to follow God’s will is very, VERY, VERY challenging. But we have been given a free will to follow our Lord’s will, haven’t we? … So as the old NIKE motto declares, … let’s JUST DO IT today and choose to follow Christ because we love our Lord and want to follow His ways rather than our own (see Prov. 3:5-6 and Luke 9:23 and John 14:21)
My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, …for giving me Your empowering grace to be able to follow You today.
My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … to seek to find and follow Your will for us 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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