SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 8/6/2013
7:56 AM
My Worship Time Focus: God’s power
versus man’s authority PT-1
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Daniel
6:12-13
Message of the
verses: We begin the third main
point in Dr. Wiersbe’s outline for the sixth chapter of Daniel remembering that
the forces we are seeing in this sixth chapter often will be seen in different
settings in life, settings like our families, our churches or even in our job
locations (corporations), and finally can be seen in our governments.
Daniel accused (Daniel 6:11-12): “12
Then they approached and spoke before the king about the king’s
injunction, "Did you not sign an injunction that any man who makes a
petition to any god or man besides you, O king, for thirty days, is to be cast
into the lions’ den?" The king replied, "The statement is true,
according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which may not be revoked."
13 Then they answered and spoke before
the king, "Daniel, who
is one of the exiles from Judah, pays no attention to you, O king, or to
the injunction which you signed, but keeps making his petition three times a
day.’”
We have already mentioned that Daniel prayed three times
a day to the Lord with his window open towards Jerusalem, and that Daniel was
80+ years old and so he had done this for a long time and had seen some amazing
answer’s to his prayers, and so it is no surprise that he continued doing this
same thing. “6 Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and
supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. 7 And
the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, will guard your hearts and
your minds in Christ Jesus.” Paul wrote
these words to the Philippian church, and we know from our study of Daniel that
he too believed this.
I wonder what when through the mind of Darius when these
men came to tell him about Daniel’s disobeying of the new law that the king
signed. Do you suppose the first thing
he thought of was that he had made a grave error in signing this law because he
knew that Daniel prayed to the Lord three times a day? I think that the king knew that he had egg on
his face but did not know how to wash it off.
God would take care of this and in doing so would bring glory to
Himself, and Darius would know that Daniel’s God was the One true God.
Some quotes from Dr. Wiersbe on this section: “As they take their stand for what is right
and what the Lord has commanded them to do, God’s people in every age have been
falsely accused, cruelly persecuted, and unjustly killed. ‘Yes, and all who desires to live godly in
Christ Jesus will suffer persecution’ (2Tim. 3:12, NKJV). The Puritan preacher Henry Smith said, ‘God
examines with trials, the devil with temptations and the world with
persecutions.’ Another Puritan, Richard
Baxter, said that God’s people should be more concerned that they deserved the
persecution than that they be delivered from it, because deserving it would be
evidence of their faithfulness to the Lord.”
Spiritual meaning
for my life today: I believe that
persecution will soon come upon those who live in our country, and my prayer is
that I will not waver from my trust in the Lord.
My Steps of Faith for Today: Proverbs 3:5-6.
Memory verses for the
week: Psalm 46:1-9
1 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in
trouble. 2 Therefore we will not fear
though the earth should change and though the mountains slip into the heart of
the sea; 3 though its waters roar and foam, though the mountains quake at its
swelling pride. Selah. 4 There is a river whose streams make glade
the city of God, the holy dwelling place of the most high. God is in the midst of her, she will not be
moved, God will help her when morning dawns.
6 The nations make an uproar, the kingdoms tottered; He
raised His voice, the earth melted. 7
The Lord of hosts is with us, the God of Jacob is our stronghold. Selah.
8 Come behold the works of the Lord, who wrought desolations in the
earth. 9 He makes wars to cease to the
end of the earth; He breaks the bow and cuts the spear in two; He burns the
chariots with fire.
Answer to yesterday’s Bible
Question: “Simon Peter” (Luke 5:5).
Today’s Bible
Question: “In what city did Paul and
Silas sing in jail at midnight?”
Answer in tomorrow’s SD.
8/6/2013 8:30 AM
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