7/28/2010
7:23:10 AM
SPIRITUAL
DIARY
My
Worship Time Focus: Distress
Bible
Reading & Meditation Reference: 1Samuel 30:1-6a
Message of the verses: “1 ¶
Then it happened when David and his men came to Ziklag on the third day,
that the Amalekites had made a raid on the Negev and on Ziklag, and had
overthrown Ziklag and burned it with fire; 2
and they took captive the women and all who were in it, both small and
great, without killing anyone, and carried them off and went their way. 3 When David and his men came to the city,
behold, it was burned with fire, and their wives and their sons and their
daughters had been taken captive. 4 Then
David and the people who were with him lifted their voices and wept until there
was no strength in them to weep. 5 Now
David’s two wives had been taken captive, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess and Abigail
the widow of Nabal the Carmelite. 6 Moreover David was greatly distressed because
the people spoke of stoning him.”
It
was because the Lord had not allowed David to be in the upcoming fight between
the Philistines and the Israelites that he had to return to his home in Ziklag,
and when he got there he found that the city was burned and all of the women
and children were gone. Could this be a
message from the Lord showing David to get back to the Promised Land of Israel
and get out of the enemy territory? It
was by the mercy and grace of the Lord that none of the women and children was
killed by the Amalekites, because David had killed all of the women and
children when he raided the cities of the Amalekites while he was living in
Ziklag.
When
David and his men were returning from the Philistines they come upon their city
and find that it was burned to the ground and all of their women and children
were gone they all began to weep and the most disturbing thing to David was
that the men were talking of stoning David.
David was their leader and so the leader was the one who would be blamed
for something like this. David was
greatly distressed.
Spiritual meaning for my life today: I think about how leaders have to take the
good and the bad when things go well and when things go bad. When I am used of the Lord to bring a message
to the people at Grace Baptist and things don’t go well I am the one to be
blamed because of my lack of getting the message across to them, and when
things go well then the story is in reverse.
Being distressed is not something
that is pleasant, for that was the feeling that I got when I left the meeting
yesterday morning, distressed and disappointed, and yet I need to trust the
Lord to do a work and not trust me to do the work that the Lord wants to
accomplish.
My
Steps of Faith for Today:
1.
I need to put
on the spiritual armor this morning because I know that I am in a battle. I put on the belt of truth, the breastplate
of righteousness, the shoes of the gospel of peace, and take up the shield of
faith, and put on the helmet of salvation, and take up the sword of the Spirit,
which is the word of God.
2.
Continue to learn contentment.
3.
Trust the Lord to guide my path.
Memory verses
for the week: 1Thes.
4:1-6
1 Finally then,
brethren, we request and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received
from us instruction as to how you ought to walk and please God (just as you
actually do walk), that you excel still more.
2 For you know what commandments we gave you by the authority of the
Lord Jesus. 3 For this is the will of
God, your sanctification; that is that you abstain from sexual immorality; 4
that each of you know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and
honor, 5 not in lustful passions like the Gentiles who do not know God;
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