SPIRITUAL
DIARY
Date:
02-14-03
My
Worship Time Focus: God’s answered prayer
for Jesus
Bible
Reading & Meditation Reference: Hebrews 5:7
1. Message of the verse: “In the days of His flesh, He offered up both
prayers and supplications with loud crying and tears to the One able to save
Him from death, and He was heard because of His piety.” (NASB)
“While Jesus was here on earth, He offered prayers and pleadings, with a
loud cry and tears, to the One who could deliver Him out of death. And God heard His prayers because of His
reverence for God.” (NLT)
First I
want to give the definition of the word “from” as used in the NASB where it
says “from death.” “1) Out of, from, by,
away from.” Dr. Wiersbe says that this
verse refers to the prayer that Jesus prayed in the garden of Gethsemane and
that His prayer was that His Father would save Him out of death, as the NLT
interprets it. In other words Jesus was
praying that His Father would resurrect Him from the dead, which is exactly what
He did for Him.
Spiritual
meaning for my life today: God answers
prayer as seen in this verse where He answered the prayers of Jesus while He
was on earth in a human body. There are
sometimes when one has to go through pain and suffering before God answers
their prayer. My prayer would be that
when I have to go through pain that I would receive the grace to endure.
The Word of God was challenging to me as I read it today.
My Steps of Faith Today: I really want this group of men to stay together and to continue to study
God’s Word and principles from it. My
prayer is that God would do this and that He would mold us into a small group
that will do His will and that will bring honor and glory to Him as He uses us
for the cause of Christ.
Memory verse for the week: Colossians 4:5
Be wise in the way you act toward
outsiders; make the most of every opportunity.
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