SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 11/20/2024 8:40 AM
My Worship Time
Focus: PT-3
“Appreciation”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference:
2 Timothy 1:3a
Message of the verse: “I Thank God whom I serve with a clear conscience the way my forefathers did.”
I continue writing from this section of Scripture
thinking about something that I just reread from my Spiritual Diary of August
2011 from the book of Nehemiah. You see
my wife and I were living in Hawaii at the time, on the island of Kauai and
were about to leave there and go home. I
was remembering the times when we were living in Aruba and working for my
brother-in-law there and also while in Kauai.
While in Aruba the Lord gave me a great ministry as I was able to speak
at the church that I attended a number of times and we made some great friends
while there who were also believers. It
seemed to me like I was doing what the Lord wanted me to do and was happy
living on that little island of Aruba.
While in Hawaii, as I mentioned in that blog post from Nehemiah I was
not sure how the Lord was going to use me as it was different from Aruba. Well it was on the island of Kauai that
towards the end of our time there that I was moved by the Spirit of God to
begin to post my Spiritual Diaries on the internet beginning two blogs, and as
I look back I have to believe that that was what the Lord had in mind for me to
do. That was a lot of years ago and for
the most I have been faithful in writing and posting my Spiritual Diaries onto
the internet and over the last couple of years this ministry that began in
Kauai has reached all across the world as there have been more than 560,000
views around the world in the past 23 months.
I suppose that the Spirit of God was preparing me to do this right when
I left Kauai as it was on that last month that we were there that I begin to
post my Spiritual Diaries onto my two blogs.
Now in the book of Nehemiah and in the 4th chapter of that
great book that I was going over this morning that as the Jews were beginning
to build the walls around Jerusalem they were brought great ridicule from their
enemies, which one realizes that Satan was behind what was going on. I believe that the enemy of my soul is
causing me great temptation as I continue to write my Spiritual Diaries and
post them to my blogs, temptations that I have fallen to, and yet I know in my
heart that I am doing what the Lord has called me to do, and that call to write
Spiritual Diaries for many, many years and then that call to put them onto my
blogs is what I desire to do for the cause of Christ and that is why temptation
is so strong at this time. By the grace
of God and through His Word and His Spirit I will overcome these temptations
and continue to write my Spiritual Diaries and put them onto my blogs so that
the Spirit of God will continue to use them in the way He desires.
This is all that I am going to post today, something that
I believe is very important, something that I needed to realize that it is
Satan and his hoards of demons who are tempting me, but by God’s grace I will
continue to do what he called me to do by putting my Spiritual Diaries onto my
blogs that began with the book of Nehemiah many years ago in Hawaii.
Spiritual meaning for my life today: I desire to
do what I do for the cause of Christ through the power of the Holy Spirit and
that what I do will bring glory to my Savior and Lord.
My Steps of Faith for Today: Continue to,
through the power of God’s Spirit to overcome temptations and do what He has
called me to do.
11/20/2024 9:02 AM