Berry Patch Devotions in 2021 - Day 25
Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in a song and lyrics from Jackie DeShannon singing … What the World Needs Now … singing of how the world so desperately needs the love of God.
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Highlight Passage: … 1John 4:16 [NLT] …
16 We know how much God loves us, and we have put our trust in His love. God is love, and all who live in love live in God, and God lives in them..
… God’s love dwells in anyone who loves and lives for the Lord.
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Highlight Passage [Context]: … 1John 4:10-21 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… God, thru John, promises His everlasting - perfect love to any/all who know and love our Lord.
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Reference Passage: … Psalm 86:15 [NLT] …
8 But you, O Lord, are a God of compassion and mercy, slow to get angry and filled with unfailing love and faithfulness.
… David sings a prayer, showing the extent of God’s love and mercy for His chosen ones.
Highlight Passage [Context]: … John 3:16-17 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… God’s love for us was (and is) so great that He was willing to die of us.
Highlight Passage [Context]: … John 13:34-35 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Jesus commands His Disciples in the upper room the night before His betrayal to love one another as He has loved them.
Reference Passage: … Romans 5:8 [NLT] …
8 But God showed His great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners.
… Even tho mankind were (and are) sinners, Christ love was so great He died for us sinners.
My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Anne Cetas, AT THIS LINK … tells of a college professor who taught a college course online and made sure to wish his class his best at the end of class. But one student - to her classmates one day responded by saying, “I love you;” and from that day onward, the class created a “love you chain,” which created a strong bond of togetherness in the class.
That’s what love - real-deal love … Godlike love … can do. And it’s the kind of love that our Lord showed all of us who have come to know Him as Lord and Savior, isn’t it? The Apostle John wrote about God’s love extensively in His gospel and in His letters (see John’s scriptures above); and He even washed their feet in the upper room the night before His betrayal and death to show how any of His disciples - yes, even us latter day disciples - can … and must … show others when we have His love dwelling in us as born-again believers.
So, I pray we respond to the call of the linked popular song from the 60s and reach out in our lives to show God’s love, which is so needed in our world, to others today.
My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for giving us Your love to share with others today.
My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … to do all we can to share Your love with someone 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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