SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 9/28/2019 11:54 AM
My Worship Time Focus: PT-1 “The Preparation: Strength In The Lord”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Ephesians
6:10
Message of the
verse: “10
Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might.”
In our last SD, at the end of it we
saw the outline to which we will be looking at verses 10-13, and today we
finally began to look at these verses in a way that we hope will be helpful to
our walk with the Lord.
One of the things that I do not
always do well is preparation, something that my wife and her family members
are experts in, and this is something that I need to focus on in a better
way. Why? Well the effective Christian life is
preparation. John MacArthur states “The unprepared believer becomes
the defeated believer who seeks to serve the Lord in his own wisdom and power. The strength of the Christian life is
dependence on God, being ‘strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His
might.’ Any other strength proves to be
impotent.” I have highlighted a part of
MacArthur’s quote and one of the things that I think about that goes along with
this part of His quote is to be filled with the Holy Spirit so that I will not
be a defeated believer trying to figure out things on my own.
We have learned many things from the
book of Ephesians, things that as believers we need to be reminded of. We learned that as believers we are in
Christ, and are one with Him. We learned
this towards the beginning of the book.
We learned that His life is our life, and that His power is our power,
and then we learned that His truth is our truth. We also learned that His way is our way, and
then Paul goes on to say in this section that His strength is our strength.
Now because today is Saturday and my
SD’s are usually shorter on both Saturday and Sunday I will close with a
quotation from John MacArthur that we all need to think about and then, Lord
willing, in our next SD I will finish this section.
“The Lord’s strength is always more
than sufficient for the battle. When
Jesus told the church at Philadelphia, ‘I have put before you and open door
which no one can shut, because you have a little power, and have kept My word,
and have not denied My name’ (Rev. 3:8), He was affirming that even a little
power was enough to preserve them, because it was the Lord’s supernatural
power. Our own strength is never strong
enough to oppose Satan, but when we are ‘strong in the Lord,’ even a little of
His strength I sufficient to win any battle.
‘I can do all things through Him who strengthens me,’ Paul said (Phil.
4:13). It is not the amount of the strength we have
that is important—only its source.”
In our last SD we began a new
section in “Love in Action,” called “Changing Lives by Encouraging Your
Friends,” and the first Scripture verses from that section we will look at
today:
Two are better than
one….For if they fall,
one will lift up his
companion.
But woe to him who is
alone when he falls,
for he has no one to help
him up.
Ecclesiastes 4:9, 10
9/28/2019 12:23
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