SPIRITUAL
DIARY FOR 05-12-03
My
Worship Time Focus: God is Trustworthy
Bible
Reading & Meditation Reference: Hebrews 10:23
Message
of the verse: “23 Let us hold fast
the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful;”
(NASB) “Without wavering, let us hold tightly to the hope we say we have, for
God can be trusted to keep his promise.”
(NLT)
This verse
is another of the things that we as believers should do in light of all that
Jesus Christ has done for us, and that is we are to hold fast, without
wavering, to our hope, and the reason that we are to do this is because God is
the One who has promised and He is faithful.
As stated in other entries of my “spiritual diary” the word in the Greek
that is translated hope is a noun and so it is not used in terms of a wish that
may or may not come true, but it is used as something certain, and I believe
the most noted term is in Titus where Paul speaks on the hope of the return of
Christ at the rapture. This is one of the
believer’s hopes that are certain and in light of these hopes that are our
promises we as believers should go about the work of the Lord.
Spiritual
meaning for my life today: As I
think of this verse in light of the troubles of our investments I can be
certain of one thing and that is that God is faithful, and that my hope is in
my Faithful God who has given many promises to believers that pertain to this
situation that we are in. I must say
that the Lord has used this situation in order to get the attention of many who
are in the same boat, and I do believe that we all of us come out of this that
the ones who know that the Lord is in control of this and trust Him to work it
out for His glory and our good will grow and learn the most. I pray for both Gary and Andy who are in the
middle of this situation that the Lord would continue to bring about His will
for them, that He would give the peace that passes all understanding to Gary,
and that He would use this to work a work of maturity and revival in the heart
of Andy so that Andy will be used of God in a new and fresh way.
The Word of God was exactly what I needed to hear this
morning.
My
Steps of Faith Today: I
trust the Lord in our financial trouble that we are going through, and I also
trust the Lord to get me thought the nervousness and fear that I have
concerning our retreat, and I also trust the Lord to get us all safely to the
house in West Virginia, and that God will use this retreat to bring about a
wonderful work in all of our lives. I
would pray that He would bless Dan as he ministers the Word of God to us over
the next few days. I pray that all of us
would prepare ourselves to draw near to the Lord by having our hearts and our
minds clean of any sin so that we can learn from the Lord and fellowship with
Him and each other.
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