Berry Patch Devotions in 2023 - Day 85
Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from Michael W Smith singing … Friends … poignantly singing of how friends who are friends as Christians are as close as the love of brothers or sisters.
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Highlight Passage: … 1Samuel 18:3 [NLT] …
3 And Jonathan made a solemn pact with David, because he loved him as he loved himself..
…Jonathan’s covenant of friendship with David was closer than a brother.
Highlight Passage (Context): … 1Samuel 18:1-4 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Jonathan, Saul’s oldest son, had a special covenant friendship with David, doing all he could to protect David’s life from Saul’s jealousy and hatred. .
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Reference Passage: … Proverbs 18:14, 27:27 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… God, thru Solomon, calls on His children to be fiends with one another that sharpens each other to be closer than brothers.
Reference Passage: … Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK ..
… Solomon teaches that believers stand together as close friends, … protecting one another.
Reference Passage: … John 15:13 [NLT] …
13 There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.
… Jesus teachers His disciples the value of a Christlike friendship.
Reference Passage: … 1Thessalonians 5:11 [NLT] …
11 So encourage each other and build each other up, just as you are already doing.
… The Apostle Paul exhorts fellow Christians to lift up and encourage one another in the closeness of Christlike friendships.
Reference Passage: … Hebrews 10:25-25 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK ..
… God’s charge, thru the Author of Hebrews calls on Christians to come together to lift each other up and encourage one another in Christlike love and friendship.
My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Marvin Williams … AT THIS LINK … tells of special caves in Northern Spain where the farmers once gathered after the harvest to share their friendships and a close communion of togetherness.
And then the ODB author used the friendship of David and Jonathan in the Old Testament (see Highlight Passage) to illustrate the type of friendship all believers should have and share with one another. And if my readers have taken in the lovely song by Michael W Smith and the Scriptures above, I think you’d agree with the call has on the hearts of all Christians to have and promote close and Christlike friendships in our lives so that we can lift each other up in times of trial just as David and Jonathan did.
Do you have friendships like that? I’m blessed to have my wife as my best friend and many others who pray for me and would die for me … just as I would for them. Oh, how I pray you have friends like that!!
My THANKFULNESS:... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for giving me a total “REBOOT” in my life thru Your love and grace
My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … to care for the friendships You’ve brought into our lives, Lord, to reflect Your love for us. … Amen .
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1 comment:
Yes! Amen!
Kjetil
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