Berry Patch Devotions in 2021 - Day 175
Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... </b> … take the time to take in song and lyrics from the group 4Him singing … The Message …powerfully singing of how we Christians must follow God’s Spirit and receive - in faith - the power of God to share with others as His Message of truth and salvation.
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Highlight Passage [Context]: … 1Corinthians 1:18 [NLT] …
8 The message of the cross is foolish to those who are headed for destruction! But we who are being saved know it is the very power of God.
… God giving up His Son to save all who would believe on Him may seem foolish to unbelievers; but it is the power of God for all He has chosen to save.
Highlight Passage [Context]: … 1Corinthians 1:18-25 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… God’s plan of salvation, by giving up His Son on the cross to save mankind from our sin, seems foolish to many who cannot see and receive God’s saving grace. ===============
Reference Passage: … Proverbs 3:5-6 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… God, thru Solomon, promises to give guiding grace and protectively lead those who COMPLETELY trust in The Lord’s saving grace.
Reference Passage: … Isaiah 53:6 [NLT] …
6 All of us, like sheep, have strayed away. We have left God’s path to follow our own. Yet the Lord laid on Him the sins of us all.
… God lays out His plan of faith, thru Isaiah, to save all who have strayed away from God to come back to Him by believing in The Messiah’s saving message of grace.
Reference Passage: … John 14:6 [NLT] …
6 Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me.
… Jesus declares to a doubting Thomas and to His disciples that believing and following Him, thru all that was about to take place on the cross, is the ONLY way to glory in heaven.
Reference Passage: … 1Peter 2:21-25 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Peter shows oppressed fellow Christians that any, who believe in the power of the cross, are called to carry His message of salvation to any/all who will receive in the power of Christ on the cross … so The Lord can save those who would believe in Jesus as the Messiah.
My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Alyson Kieda … AT THIS LINK … relates a story of a a young man, Zhang, who was raised in a “no God, no religion” home. But later, fleeing his government, which was seeking to arrest him for protesting, was led to an illiterate farmer who had a copy of the book of John and asked Zhang to read it to the farmer. And in doing so, Zhang, came to saving faith in Christ.
For over two decades I called myself an “agnostic,” refusing to believe in anything that other Christian friends would share with me. But finally, God, thru those friends, got me to see the truth and my surrender to believe in my Savior, Who died for me, has changed my life to a place, as the group 4Him sings in the linked song, where sharing God’s message of changing grace can - AND WILL - transform the lives of any/all who will receive - in faith - the power of the message of the Cross.
Oh how I pray that all reading my words here have surrendered in faith to God’s plan to give His Son to save all who would believe in Him. And I pray that those who’ve received God’s message of saving grace will be sharing that message of salvation with any and all who will hear of God’s saving grace.
My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for giving Your Son to die on the cross to save me.
My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … to thank You, Lord, for dying on that cross to save any of us who believe in You. … Amen
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