Berry Patch Devotions in 2021 - Day 310
Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in a song and lyrics from Chris Tomlin singing … Good, Good Father … poignantly singing of how come to know God as a good, good Father, … in fact our “Abba Father.”
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Highlight Passage: … Luke 23:46 [NLT] …
46 Then Jesus shouted, “Father, I entrust my spirit into your hands!” And with those words He breathed His last.
… Jesus gave Himself over to His Heavenly Father and died.
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Highlight Passage [Context]: … Luke 23:44-46 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Luke reports Jesus’ final words from the cross, when our Lord entrusted His spirit to His Abba Father.
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Reference Passage: … Psalm 68:5 [NLT] …
5 Father to the fatherless, defender of widows—this is God, whose dwelling is holy.
… King David recognizes and sings of God being our Father of fathers.
Reference Passage: … Isaiah 64:8 [NLT] …
8 And yet, O Lord, You are our Father. We are the clay, and You are the potter. We all are formed by Your hand.
… The Prophet, Isaiah, recognizes God as the Father Who shapes us into the images of His Son.
Reference Passage: … 1Corinthians 8:6 [NLT] …
6 But for us, There is one God, the Father, by Whom all things were created, and for Whom we live. And there is one Lord, Jesus Christ, through Whom all things were created, and through Whom we live.
… Paul helps fellow Christians realize that we live and serve the one and only God, Whom we know as our Abba Father.
Reference Passage: … Ephesians 1:3, 4:6 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Paul helps fellow Christians (us too!) to realize that we follow our Lord and our Heavenly Father as our Abba Father.
Reference Passage: … 1John 3:1 [NLT] …
1 See how very much our Father loves us, for He calls us His children, and that is what we are! But the people who belong to this world don’t recognize that we are God’s children because they don’t know Him.
… God. thru Christ’s love, shows us how much our Abba Father loves His children.
My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Elisa Morgan, AT THIS LINK … writes of a couple who lost their child to SIDS and came to realize that their Heavenly Father had taken their child and would watch over their child as HE, their Abba Father still watched over them.
And I pray that all reading here with me have taken in the linked song and meditated on the Scriptures above, … all of us being comforted by the truth and reality of God’s Fatherly love toward us as His children.
My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for ALWAYS being our Abba Father.
My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … to get to know You, Lord, as our Abba Father. … 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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