Berry Patch Devotions in 2021 - Day 189
Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from Carrie Underwood singing … Oh How I Love Jesus … poignantly singing of how Christians come to love Jesus because He first loved us.
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Highlight Passage [Context]: … Luke 22:19 [NLT] …
19 He took some bread and gave thanks to God for it. Then He broke it in pieces and gave it to the disciples, saying, “This is my body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.”
… Jesus shares His love with us every time we share His table with remembrance of what He did for us on the cross.
Highlight Passage [Context]: … Luke 22:14-20 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Jesus shows how much He loves His disciples by share the Passover meal with them the night before He would die for them. ===============
Reference Passage: … Numbers 28:11-31 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Thru commands to God’s people, thru Moses, God instructs people to show their love for The Lord thru food offerings and sacrifices.
Reference Passage: … Psalm 23:5 [NLT] …
5 You prepare a feast for me in the presence of my enemies. You honor me by anointing my head with oil. My cup overflows with blessings.
… King David sings of God showing His love for His children by sharing a feast of love for us.
Reference Passage: … Ephesians 2:10 [NLT] …
10 For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things He planned for us long ago.
… Paull shows us, his fellow Christians, that our good works show our love for the Lord which He prepared for us to do
Reference Passage: … Revelation 19:6-8 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… God reveals to us, thru John, that we are His Bride preparing ourselves now for the wedding feast of the Lamb of God by doing all the things He loves.
My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Elisa Morgan … AT THIS LINK … shared a story about being at a birthday dinner where the mother of the birthday girl prepared a meal with all the favorite foods for her daughter’s birthday, including a luscious white chocolate raspberry cake (see photo), … knowing that favorite foods always say, ”I love you.”
If you were served all your “fave” foods on your birthday, especially your favorite cake, wouldn’t you feel loved? Of course you would. And the night before He was to die on the cross, Jesus served up a meal that we, as His disciples, can share over and over and over again to show our love for our King Jesus; and that is the bread and the wine (or juice), lovingly remembering what our Lord did on the cross for all who would believe in His finished work on the cross.
So, let’s all remember that our sharing our love for our Lord by doing what He loves (that is, our good works), we are preparing ourselves for the wedding feast for our Messiah (see Revelation 19:6-8). And what a feast of love it will be !!
My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … help me to get ready for Your wedding feast, Lord, by serving up Your good works today.
My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … to show our love for You, Lord, by serving up Your good works. … 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 to the blog via email at that site.
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