Feb 6, 2025 … Called To Cultivate

Feb 6, 2025 … Called To Cultivate  

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...    Please take the time to take in this song with music and lyrics with Brian Doerksen singing … Creation Calls …  on how God calls those He created to tend His creation. 

Working in His garden again today ... 

Highlight Passage: … Genesis 2:5 …[NLT] … 

When the Lord God made the earth and the heavens, 5 neither wild plants nor grains were growing on the earth. For the Lord God had not yet sent rain to water the earth, and there were no people to cultivate the soil.          

… God creates a garden for mankind to tend   

Highlight Passage (in context): … Genesis 2:4-9 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… God creates a garden in His creation for man to work.                                                               

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Reference Passage: … Psalms 19:1 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… We look around and see all that God has created for us to watch over.              

Reference Passage: … Proverbs 3:5-6 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …

… God. thru Solomon, shows that trusting God’s will and seeking His way will lead away from self and toward God’s calling for us in life.

Reference Passage: … John 6:44 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …

… Jesus shows that no one is called to follow Him who is not chosen by The Heavenly Father to serve The Lord. 

Reference Passage: … Romans 12:1-2 NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… The Apostle Paul teaches fellow Christians that we are to become living sacrifices to serve Him and to avoid being called by the world to serve self and Satan.  

Reference Passage: … 1Corinthians 7:17 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …

… The Apostle Paul exhorts fellow Christians to live and work wherever they are called to serve the Lord during our lives.   

Reference Passage: … 2Thessalonians 1:11 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …

…  Paul also exhorts fellow Christians to pray, asking God to empower them (us) to serve and follow the Lord in whatever He prompts us serve.      

                              

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread  Author -  Matt Lucas … AT THIS LINK     … today’s ODB author, Matt Lucas, told of how he and his wife built their first home together on a simple plot of muddy ground and had to work hard to plant shrubs and trees to fit into he countryside around them.

And the ODB entry today prompted me to remember, … and acknowledge, … that God calls us all - like He did Adam and Eve in the original Garden, to tend to the place we are planted - i.e. God’s creation - doing all we can to honor God with our stewardship of what He has given us.  Do you feel the calling?                          

          

My Thanksgiving: … Oh, King Jesus, thank You, … for calling me to tend to my little plot of Your garden (see photo)  

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray. … again today, … that all reading here will join me, … to work hard today in Your garden, Lord.    … Amen

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