MORNING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 10/12/2026
9:07 AM
My
Worship Time Focus:
Intro to
Luke 9:10-17; The Compassionate Lord”
Bible
Reading & Meditation Reference: Luke 9:10-17
Message of the verses: “10When the apostles
returned, they gave an account to Him of all that they had done. Taking them
with Him, He withdrew by Himself to a city called Bethsaida. 11But the crowds
were aware of this and followed Him; and welcoming them, He began
speaking to them about the kingdom of God and curing those who had need of
healing.
Five Thousand Fed
12Now the day was ending, and the twelve came and said to
Him, “Send the crowd away, that they may go into the surrounding villages and
countryside and find lodging and get something to eat; for here we are in a
desolate place.” 13But
He said to them, “You give them something to eat!” And they said, “We
have no more than five loaves and two fish, unless perhaps we go and buy food
for all these people.” 14(For
there were about five thousand men.) And He said to His disciples, “Have them
sit down to eat in groups of about fifty each.” 15They did so, and
had them all sit down. 16Then
He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, He blessed
them, and broke them, and kept giving them to the disciples to
set before the people. 17And
they all ate and were satisfied; and the broken pieces which they had left over
were picked up, twelve baskets full.
John MacArthur writes the following in his
introduction to these verses mentioned above:
“The Lord Jesus Christ performed countless miracles throughout His
earthly ministry. In addition to the
three dozen recorded in the Gospels, Jesus performed many other miracles on an
almost daily basis (cf. Mark 6:2; Luke 19:37; John 2:23; 3:2; 6:2; 7:31; 11:47;
12:37; 20:30; 21:25; Acts 2:22). Throughout His ministry, Jesus constantly
demonstrated His divine power over demons, disease, death, and nature.”
(cf. Mark 6:2; Luke 19:37; John 2:23;
3:2; 6:2; 7:31; 11:47; 12:37; 20:30; 21:25; Acts 2:22).
“2 And on the Sabbath he began to teach in the
synagogue, and many who heard him were astonished, saying, "Where did this
man get these things? What is the wisdom given to him? How are such mighty
works done by his hands?”
“37 As he was drawing near—already on the way
down the Mount of Olives—the whole multitude of his disciples began to rejoice
and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works that they had seen,”
“23 ¶ Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover
Feast, many believed in his name when they saw the signs that he was doing.”
“2 This man came to Jesus by night and said to
him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do
these signs that you do unless God is with him.”
“2 And a large crowd was following him, because
they saw the signs that he was doing on the sick.”
“31 Yet many of the people believed in him. They
said, “When the Christ appears, will he do more signs than this man has done?”
“47 So the chief priests and the Pharisees
gathered the council and said, "What are we to do? For this man performs
many signs.”
“37 ¶ Though he had done so many signs before them,
they still did not believe in him,”
“30 Now Jesus did many other signs in the
presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book;”
“25 Now there are also many other things that
Jesus did. Were every one of them to be written, I suppose that the world
itself could not contain the books that would be written.”
“22 "Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus
of Nazareth, a man attested to you by God with mighty works and wonders and
signs that God did through him in your midst, as you yourselves know”
“The news of the Lord’s miracles had
spread all throughout Galilee. Galilee
was a relatively small region, measuring about fifty miles from north to south
and twenty-five miles east to west. Its
villages were mostly clustered around the Sea of Galilee, including Jesus’
adopted hometown of Capernaum (Matt. 4:13).”
(Matt. 4:13)
“13 And leaving Nazareth he went and lived in
Capernaum by the sea, in the territory of Zebulun and Naphtali,”
“Jesus had
grown up in that region, in the nondescript village of Nazareth, and He even
returned there to preach the gospel but was viciously rejected (Luke 4:16-30).”
(Luke 4:16-30)
“16 And he came to Nazareth, where he had been
brought up. And as was his custom, he went to the synagogue on the Sabbath day,
and he stood up to read. 17 And the
scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. He unrolled the scroll and found
the place where it was written, 18
"The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim
good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and
recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, 19
to proclaim the year of the Lord’s
favor." 20 And he rolled up the
scroll and gave it back to the attendant and sat down. And the eyes of all in
the synagogue were fixed on him. 21 And
he began to say to them, “Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your
hearing.” 22 And all spoke well of him
and marveled at the gracious words that were coming from his mouth. And they
said, “Is not this Joseph’s son?” 23 And
he said to them, “Doubtless you will quote to me this proverb, ‘Physician, heal
yourself.’ What we have heard you did at Capernaum, do here in your hometown as
well.” 24 And he said, "Truly, I
say to you, no prophet is acceptable in his hometown. 25 But in truth, I tell you, there were many widows
in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heavens were shut up three years and
six months, and a great famine came over all the land, 26 and Elijah was sent to none of them but only
to
Zarephath,
in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow. 27 And there were many lepers in Israel in the
time of the prophet Elisha, and none of them was cleansed, but only Naaman the
Syrian." 28 When they heard these
things, all in the synagogue were filled with wrath. 29 And they rose up and drove him out of the
town and brought him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, so
that they could throw him down the cliff. 30
But passing through their midst, he went away.”
“By
ministering extensively in Galilee, the Lord was demonstrating His rejection of
Israel’s religious leadership, headquartered in the south in Jerusalem and
Judea. Galilee was a region scorned by
the religious leaders and other Judeans as an uncouth, backwater region, from
which nothing good could come (John 1:46, 7:41, 52). Jesus’ choice of it affirmed the apostasy of
Israel’s leadership.”
(John 1:46, 7:41, 52)
“46 Nathanael said to him, “Can anything good
come out of Nazareth?” Philip said to him, “Come and see.”
“41 Others said, "This is the Christ."
But some said, "Is the Christ to come from Galilee?”
“52 They replied, “Are you from Galilee too? Search
and see that no prophet arises from Galilee.”
Spiritual Meaning for my Life
Today: Last night in our evening service
there was a different man giving the message and at the end of the service he
asked that we make a decision about how we can better serve the Lord. As many of you know my family has been going
through some difficult situations as my wife passed away on the 29th of
July and then my grandson was in a motorcycle wreck which took much of his left
arm and much of his right leg. It has
been very hard on all of us, but because it was my wife of almost 53 years it
has been much more difficult on me. The
following is what I wrote on a card to help me get through these difficult
situations. “I purpose in my heart to
trust the Lord through these trials that I am going through.” God knows what I need and He never makes a
mistake.
10/12/2026
9:42 AM
