SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 1/11/2018 9:45 AM
My Worship Time Focus: Peter Was
Fruitful
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Acts 9:42
Message of the verse: “42 It became known all over Joppa, and many believed in the Lord.”
This will be a very short SD, but everything in the Word
of God is important to read and study.
When we look at the miracles in the Word of God we know
that God has a greater purpose than just doing the miracle itself. One of the problems with what is going on in
the church today is what is called the “health and wealth gospel.” This is not the gospel that is taught in the
Word of God, for in the Word of God I read things like Mt 10:35 ‘For I have come to ‘set a man against his
father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her
mother-in-law.’” Many believers
throughout the church age have died for the cause of Christ, and so this shows
me that those who teach the health and wealth gospel, demanding that God give
us health and wealth are not those who have taken much time studying their
Bibles. I am not saying that God does
not want us to be healthy, but God can use illness and poorness for His purpose
in our lives to draw us closer to the Lord, to grow in His grace and in the
knowledge of Christ. So when I read a
passage like Acts 9:42 I see that there was a great purpose in the healing of
Dorcas as we read that because of this miracle many believed in the Lord.
We have mentioned earlier in our study of Acts that at
the beginning of the church God used miracles as confirming signs that the
gospel is true. Not only that but He
also used them to authenticate that the apostles were His messengers, and so as
we look at verse 42 we see that God used the raising of Dorcas as the spark for
the salvation throughout the city she lived in.
As we look at this last part of the 9th
chapter of Acts, the part that goes back and focuses on Peter, we see two
miracles that he did and we see many coming to a saving faith in the Lord Jesus
Christ. John MacArthur writes “There is no saving faith
without conversion, no true belief without repentance and transformation.” This is what happened to those spoken of in
the last part of the 9th chapter of Acts, and by the way we saw that
in the first part as Saul became a believer.
Spiritual meaning
for my life today: I have to trust
the Lord when things that are going on in my life are difficult, knowing that
God works all things out for my good and for His glory in my life.
My Steps of Faith for Today: Continue to trust the Lord in my preparation
for teaching on the church at Philadelphia in our Sunday School class.
Memory verse: Psalm 143:10 “Teach me to do Your will, For
You are my God; Let Your good Spirit lead me on level ground.”
Answer to yesterday’s Bible
question: “Save that which was lost.”
Today’s Bible
question: “Who said ‘With the jaw of an
ass have I slain a thousand men’?”
Answer in our next SD.
1/11/2018 10:08 AM
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