Berry Patch Devotions in 2021 - Day 173
Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... take the time to take in song and lyrics from Matt Redman singing … I Will Offer Up My Life… poignantly singing of how we Christians can offer up our lives as iiving sacrifice in helping others as Christ gave of Himself for us.
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Highlight Passage [Context]: … 2Corinthians 8:14 [NLT] …
14 Right now you have plenty and can help those who are in need. Later, they will have plenty and can share with you when you need it. In this way, things will be equal.
… Paul shows how Christians who have an abundance should share with those in need.
Highlight Passage [Context]: … 2Corinthians 8:1-5, 13-15 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Paul sharing with fellow Christians about the joy the Macedonian Christians found in giving to help others in need.
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Reference Passage: … Proverbs 19:17, 22:9 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… God, thru Solomon, shows that God honors those who share with others out of their abundance. .
Reference Passage: … Luke 6:38 [NLT] …
38 Give, and you will receive. Your gift will return to you in full—pressed down, shaken together to make room for more, running over, and poured into your lap. The amount you give will determine the amount you get back.”
… Jesus teaches on God’s providence for those who’re willing to give to others.
Reference Passage: … Romans 12:1 [NLT] …
1 And so, dear brothers and sisters, I plead with you to give your bodies to God because of all he has done for you. Let them be a living and holy sacrifice—the kind He will find acceptable. This is truly the way to worship him.
… Paul begs fellow Christians to make their (our) lives a living sacrifice - as Christ did for us - as a way to worship our Lord.
Reference Passage: … Galatians 6:2 [NLT] …
2 Share each other’s burdens, and in this way obey the law of Christ.
… Paul shows that sharing one another’s burdens is the way to fulfill the “law” of Christ to love one another.
Reference Passage: … Philippians 2:4-5 [NLT] …
4 Don’t look out only for your own interests, but take an interest in others, too. 5 You must have the same attitude that Christ Jesus had.
… Paul shows that we take on the attitude of Christ when we look out of the interests of others.
My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Kirsten Holmberg … AT THIS LINK … shows how a school district packaged their left-over lunch food and gave it to needy kids to take home, … to children whose families were in need of feeding their children.
And I pray that all reading here with me today, by taking in the linked song and meditating on the Scriptures above, will get the same message of urgency as I did from today’s ODB entry. And then I pray we take seriously this calling from the Lord to give/help others by the way we live our lives today … and tomorrow.
My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for giving me more than I need so that I can worship You by helping others.
My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … to share with others from Your abundant grace, Lord. … 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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