7/30/2010
9:44:17 AM
SPIRITUAL
DIARY
My Worship Time Focus: Victory
Bible Reading
& Meditation Reference: 1Samuel 30:16-20
Message
of the verses: “16 When he had brought him down, behold, they
were spread over all the land, eating and drinking and dancing because of all
the great spoil that they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from
the land of Judah. 17 David slaughtered
them from the twilight until the evening of the next day; and not a man of them
escaped, except four hundred young men who rode on camels and fled. 18 So David recovered all that the Amalekites
had taken, and rescued his two wives. 19
But nothing of theirs was missing, whether small or great, sons or
daughters, spoil or anything that they had taken for themselves; David brought
it all back. 20 So David had captured
all the sheep and the cattle which the people drove ahead of the other
livestock, and they said, ‘This is David’s spoil.’”
There was surely a change of heart
from David’s men who first wanted to stone him, and then afterwards when they
had rescued all of their wives and children and they gathered much booty they
said to David, “This is David’s spoil.”
There are lessons to learn from this
dark episode in the life of David, and the lessons that he learned I too can
learn for there are plenty of dark things going on in my life at this
time. I will go over these lessons in the
next portion of this SD.
Spiritual
meaning for my life today: There are
a number of steps that David followed in order to get from where his men wanted
to stone him until his men said that the spoils were David’s. David did not blame others for his trouble,
but he drew strength from the Lord, as the Lord encouraged him. It takes courage to face a crisis and that
courage must come from the Lord. It
takes wisdom in a crisis to know what to do and that wisdom came from the Lord
as David sought Him. It also takes
strength in a time of crisis and David got his strength from the Lord to win
this battle. It takes faith to step out
in a crisis to do all of those things and David had had his faith in the
Lord. Psalm 37:5 gives insight into what
happened to David and can happen to me as I follow this plan: “Commit your way to the Lord, trust also in
Him, and He shall bring it to pass.”
My Steps of
Faith for Today:
1.
These words
from Psalm 37:5 are good steps of faith to take for today and every day,
especially when going through difficult times.
2.
Be protected by the Spiritual Armor, the belt of
truth, the breastplate of righteousness, the shoes of the gospel of peace, the
shield of faith, the helmet of salvation, and the Sword of the Spirit.
3.
While going through the crisis’ in life remember the
lesson that Paul learned while he went through many crisis’ and that is “learn
to be content.”
4.
Trust the Lord to direct my path.
7/30/2010 10:16:08 AM
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