December 19, 2021 … He Listens - He Remembers …

Berry Patch Devotions in 2021 - Day 353 

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...   Please take the time to take in a song and lyrics from the group Vinesong singing … God Answers Prayer … poignantly singing of our God hears and answers our Prayers. 

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Highlight Passage: … Genesis 30:22  [NLT] …   

22 Then God remembered Rachel’s plight and answered her prayers by enabling her to have children. 

…Paul shows Timothy (and us) what it takes to receive Jesus’ crown of glory from serving Him in this life.                                  

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Highlight Passage [Context]: … Genesis 30:1-2, 22-24 [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK … 

… God shows in the lives of Jacob and Rachel that He hears, He knows best, and He answers prayers.                              

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Reference Passage: … Psalm 33:13-15 [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK … 

…God shows, thru the Psalmist, that He knows all, hears all, and cares for all who pray to Him. 

Reference Passage: … Psalm 116:1-2 [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK … 

…God shows, thru the Psalmist, that He bends down to hear the sincere and humble prayers of His faithful. 

Reference Passage: … Ephesians 3:19-20 [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK … 

… Paul teaches and explains for fellow Christians just how we will grow to trust our Lord, … much more than we could ever understand or comprehend. 

Reference Passage: … 1Peter 5:7 [NLT] …  

7 Give all your worries and cares to God, for He cares about you. 

… Peter, to oppressed and fearful Christians, exhorting them to bring their fears and cares to God, Who ALWAYS cares for them (and us).  

Reference Passage: … 1John 3:20 [NLT] … 

20 Even if we feel guilty, God is greater than our feelings, and He knows everything.

… God, thru John, shows that God knows everything about us.    

      

My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Patricia Rayon, AT THIS LINK …  reports being brought to tears watching a YouTube piece showing the body of a large African church crying out to God in prayer, … “God Remember US!”  And it reminded the ODB author of Rachel crying out to God in desperation to have a child; and God hearing and remembering her pleas (as we read in Genesis 30, the highlight passage).        

 

And I stop today to pray that all reading with me here will join me to call out to our Lord in prayer and rise above any feelings of despair today.  And if we believe in what the linked song sings and in what the Scriptures above declare, we will know that our God knows all about our circumstances and He hears all our prayers with a loving heart … far beyond anything we could ever imagine. 

So, dear one, let’s go Him!!  Let’s pray to Him; because He listens and He cares.                           

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for Your loving heart as I bring my concerns to You today. 

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, …  to bring all our cares to You, Lord, knowing that You care for us.     … 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.