May 3, 2022 … Headed Home …

Berry Patch Devotions in 2021 - Day 123 

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...  Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from Jennifer Hudson singing … Jesus Promised Me A Place … powerfully singing of how we, who are born-again in Christ are promised a place in Heaven. 

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Highlight Passage [Context]: …  Psalm 62:8 [NLT] …  

8 O my people, trust in him at all times, pour out your heart to Him, for God is our refuge.  

… King David sings of His Lord being the refuge for all God’s faithful followers.                            

Highlight Passage [Context] : … Psalm 62:1-8 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… David sings of God being His eternal refuge and home.                                                              ===============                

Reference Passage: … John 14:1-3 [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK … 

… Jesus, in the upper room, promise His 12 disciples to come to them from heaven to take them (and all believers) to be with Him forever.  

Reference Passage: … 2Corinthians 5:8 [NLT] … 

8 Yes, we are fully confident, and we would rather be away from these earthly bodies, for then we will be at home with the Lord. 

… Paul shows fellow Christians that, when we die, born-again believers will be absent from the body but present - AT HOME - with the Lord … forever!       

Reference Passage: … Philippians 3:20-21 [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK … 

… Paul assures fellow born-again Christians that we will have an eternal home in heaven. 

 

Reference Passage: … Revelation 21:3-4 [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK … 

… God reveals to all true believers what it will be like when they (we) are when they (we) are with the Lord in our heavenly home.                                                                           

 

My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Anne Cetas… AT THIS LINK …  made reference to the story of Anne, the main character in the book series, Anne of Green Gables, who was an orphan longing for and finally finding a home with an older couple who adopted her and showed Anne that she was loved and cared for.        

And that story is a picture from literature of all born-again Christians who have come from being lost orphans, but being adopted into the family of God and will have an eternal home in heaven.  And so, I’m praying, as I write this, that all reading here with me realize that no less than Jesus Himself has promised His disciple [and that’s you/me too] an eternal home with Him forever.  

So take in that promise in Jennifer Hudson’s linked song and the Scriptures above; and realize that we, who love and follow Jesus today are headed home to be with Him forever.  Do I sense and share a strong “HALLELUJAH?”       

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for calling me home to be with You forever.            

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, …  to praise and thank You, Lord, for Your promise to take those of us who love You home to be with You in heaven one day.       Amen 

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