Berry Patch Devotions in 2021 - Day 329
Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in a song and lyrics from Don Moen singing … Give Thanks … poignantly singing of how we Christians need to be coming to God 365-24/7 with a thankful heart because of what Jesus has done for us with His saving/sanctifying grace.
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Highlight Passage: … Colossians 4:2 [NLT] …
2 Devote yourselves to prayer with an alert mind and a thankful heart.
… Paul charges fellow Christians to pray continually, coming to God’s throne of grace with a thankful heart.
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Highlight Passage [Context]: … Colossians 4:2-6 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Paul, from prison, exhorts fellow Christians (that’s us too!) to be in continual prayer … with a thankful heart … for all that Christ has done for us, sharing that thankfulness with others at every opportunity.
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Reference Passage: … Psalm 106:1 and 107:1 [NLT] …
1 Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good! His faithful love endures forever..
… A song of thankfulness for our good God.
Reference Passage: … Lamentations 3:22-23 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… God continually shows His faithful love and mercy to those who who follow Him faithfully.
Reference Passage: … Ephesians 5:20 [NLT] …
20 And give thanks for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
… Paul charges fellow Christians to give thanks for EVERYTHING in the Name of our Lord, King Jesus.
Reference Passage: … Philippians 4:6-7 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Paul shows fellow Christians how to overcome anxiety … i.e., to bring our cares to God in prayer with a thankful heart.
My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Bill Crowder, AT THIS LINK … … quotes Seneca, the ancient philosopher, who had been reprieved from an unjust death sentence, who wrote, . “homicides, tyrants, thieves, adulterers, robbers, sacrilegious men, and traitors there always will be, but worse than all these is the crime of ingratitude.” …
Today is our national “Thanksgiving” holiday here in the USA, … set aside to remind us how grateful we should be for the freedoms and God-bestowed blessings we enjoy. But do we really have the grateful hearts which God’s word calls us to embrace 365-24/7 (see Scriptures above)?
So many of the OT Psalms <b>(like the two cited above)</b> call us to have a thankful heart. And in the NT, the Apostle Paul, often writing from unjust imprisonment (as with the highlight passage), exhorts fellow - free - Christians to conquer the anxieties of life by bringing our cares and concerns to God <u>with a grateful heart</u> (see Phil 4:6-7).
But … on this Thanksgiving Day, can we - or WILL WE - do what Don Moen sings in the linked song [see also 1Peter 5:7 on your own]?
My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, …for Your grace, which You give to me EVERY DAY - 24/7!!
My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … to express our thanks today to You, Lord, for Your love, mercy, and grace which are new to us every day! … Amen
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