April 4, 2023 … Always Abiding In Christ …

Berry Patch Devotions in 2023 - Day 94 

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...   Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from Matt Maher singing … Abide With Me … poignantly and powerfully singing of how we Christians muse abide in Christ by following His word to be fruitful in our lives. 

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Highlight Passage … John 15:4 [NLT] … 

4 Remain in me, and I will remain in you. For a branch cannot produce fruit if it is severed from the vine, and you cannot be fruitful unless you remain in me. …  

… Jesus commands His Disciples that they (and we) must abide in Him to be fruitful in life.                              

Highlight Passage (Context): …  John 15:1-11 [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK …  

…Jesus teaches His disciples of the necessity of abiding in Him so as to be fruitful in their (our) lives.                         .                     

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Reference Passage: … John 8:31-32 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Jesus teaches born-again Christians that only those who’re faithful to His teachings will be set free from their (our) selfish sin nature.    

Reference Passage: …Romans 8:8-10 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

…Paull teaches fellow Christians that only those controlled by God’s Spirit will abide in Christ thru His word and be right with God.  .  

Reference Passage: …Galatians 2:20, 5:22-23 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

…Paull also teaches fellow Christians that only those who die to self and abide in Christ will produce the fruit of the Spirit. 

Reference Passage …  1John 2:24, 3:24 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… God’s Spirit, thru John’s teaching, shows that only those who remain in fellowship with the Lord, thru His word, will remain steadfast and faithful, abiding in Christ.           

                                                                                                            

My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Winn Collier … AT THIS LINK …   … tells of the author’s family taking in a black rescue cat, which they named Juno; and having to carefully train Juno that the cat’s new home was a safe place where Juno could ALWAYS feel confident to be fed with love and good food.       

And if my readers have taken in the linked song and the Scriptures above, I hope you feel, as I do, that our abiding relationship with Christ will ALWAYS allow us to be fruitful, … allowing us to thrive in God’s Spirit, having been called to be disciples of our Lord. 

That’s why you find me here, beginning each day, being fed with God’s truth and abiding in the Lord’s love and grace.  And I pray you’re experiencing God’s abiding grace and growing in the fruitfulness of His Spirit.                                                        

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for leading me to be fruitful in Your Name and for Your glory, Lord.   

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … to be fed by God’s nourishing truth and growing in fruitfulness for Your glory, Lord.     …  Amen             . 

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