June 5, 2022 … Google OR God??

Berry Patch Devotions in 2021 - Day 156 

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...   Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from the group Santus Real singing … Confident … powerfully singing of of the hope we seek thru our confidence in Christ.  

Confidence in Our God ... 

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Highlight Passage [Context]: …  1John 5:14 [NLT] …  

14 And we are confident that He hears us whenever we ask for anything that pleases Him. 

… All born-again disciples in Christ should have confidence that Our God hears our prayers when we pray in His Name.        

Highlight Passage [Context]: … 1John 5:13-15 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

…God, thru John, teaches the truth about our confidence that our God hears our prayers and provides for the needs of those who believe in Him.                                                                        

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Reference Passage: … Psalm 37:5 [NLT] …  

5 Commit everything you do to the Lord. Trust him, and He will help you.

… King David sings of his trust and confidence in our God. 

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

… A Psalmist sings of being confident that God ALWAYS bends down to hear the prayers of His faithful followers.  

Reference Passage: … Isaiah 41:10 [NLT] …  

10 Don’t be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be discouraged, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you. I will hold you up with my victorious right hand. 

… God, thru the Prophet Isaiah, shows that we can have confidence that he will lift us up when we, who believe in Him, are weak or downhearted. 

Reference Passage: … Romans 15:13 [NLT] …  

13 I pray that God, the source of hope, will fill you completely with joy and peace because you trust in Him. Then you will overflow with confident hope through the power of the Holy Spirit. 

… Paul prays that fellow Christians will have the same hope and peace that he, Paul, had found by trusting in Christ.

Reference Passage: … 2Corinthians 3:4-5 [NLT] …  

4 We are confident of all this because of our great trust in God through Christ. 5 It is not that we think we are qualified to do anything on our own. Our qualification comes from God. 

… Paul helps fellow Christians to have confidence in our God.        .     

                                                                                 

My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Poh Kimya Loder  … AT THIS LINK …   reports the results of a 2018 British study which showed that adults in the UK consulted their cell phones at least very 12 minutes for information or advice. And the ODB author felt that those results were likely conservative for how often most of us check our digital devices during the average day.         

     

And when we take in the results of that British study and then we consider the linked song and the Scriptures above, I’m struck with the challenge of just how much I - or we - really trust and have confidence in our God.  How about it, my fellow Christians, … whom do we trust more these days, … Google or God?        

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, …for ALWAYS being there to hear my prayers.                   

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, …  to go to You, Lord, knowing that You will always be there to hear us.   Amen 

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