SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 2/10/2014
10:20 AM
My Worship Time Focus:
Reviewing Daniel PT-3
We will continue our review of the book of Daniel in
Today’s SD. Just wanted to mention that
today’s SD is number 999, so Lord willing we will do number 1000 tomorrow.
Daniel Studied the Word of God and He Believed It. I have already mentioned that Daniel was a
student of the Word of God, and now we can go into a more detailed look at this
subject.
We know that Daniel had a wonderful and successful prayer
life, and it had to be linked with the study of the Word of God for it to be as
effective as it was. I have a book that
is called “All the Promises in the Bible,” and this book tells of the many
promises that God has in His Word, promise that we need, and should pray back
to God. Daniel did this for He knew what
was written in the book of Jeremiah and so He prayed to the Lord over what he
found out was in that book. Dr. Wiersbe
writes about what an old saint said when asked which was more important prayer
of Bible study, and the answer that he gave was a very intelligent answer when
he asked which was more important to a bird, his left wing or his right
wing. Needles to say that the answer was
that both were important in order for the bird to fly, and both prayer and the
study of God’s Word are important so that we can walk with the Lord and be used
by Him.
Daniel had an understanding of Spiritual Warfare: A few months ago we looked at the tenth
chapter of Daniel and in that chapter we saw the importance of spiritual
warfare as the angel Gabriel was delayed in his coming to Daniel to show him a
vision that God wanted him to see and here, a vision that takes up most of the
last three chapters of the book of Daniel.
Gabriel had to have assistance from Michael to fight against what was a
strong demon, and after he gave the vision to Daniel he had to return to the
fight. Paul writes: “For our struggle is not against flesh and
blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of
this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly
places (Eph. 6:12).” Frank Peretti wrote
a book a few years back entitled “This Presence Darkness,” and the book portrayed
something similar that happened to Daniel in a modern story. I believe that the things like Peretti wrote
about and what Daniel wrote about are happening all over this world each and
every day. I also believe that this
shows the necessity for believers to be praying for the nation that they live
in and also making sure that they have the “Spiritual Armor” on that Paul
writes about in Ephesians 6:10-18.
Dr. Wiersbe writes: “Daniel 10 is a key chapter for prayer
warriors, people who wrestle in prayer (Col. 4:12) and seek under God to tear
down the strongholds that block God’s truth from getting into the minds of
unbelievers (2 Cor. 10:1-6).” “1 Now I,
Paul, myself urge you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ-I who am meek
when face to face with you, but bold toward you when absent! 2 I ask that when
I am present I need not be bold with the confidence with which I propose to be
courageous against some, who regard us as if we walked according to the flesh. 3
For though we walk in the
flesh, we do not war according to the flesh, 4 for the weapons of our warfare are not of the
flesh, but divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses. 5 We are
destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge
of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ, 6
and we are ready to punish all disobedience, whenever your obedience is
complete.” Some believers think that
warfare praying is not the right thing to do and others do too much of it in
ways that are not Scriptural. Paul
prayed this way, and if he did it then we should do it too. Dr. Wiersbe goes on to talk about the
experiences he had when he was Pastor at the Moody Church in Chicago: “When I was pasturing the Moody Church in
Chicago, I met regularly with three ministerial friends, and together we
devoted ourselves to warfare praying. By
faith, we sought to attack Satan’s strongholds and open the way for the Word of
God to change the lives of people in trouble.
God gave us many wonderful victories in ways that we could never
imagined.”
Spiritual
meaning for my life today: I know that as a believer that Satan tries to
stop me from doing the things that God wants me to do. I have had stronger temptations to fight
against in the power of the Lord and His Word since I began to put my Spiritual
Diaries onto the Web. Spiritual battles
that I sometimes fall too, but continue to fight against by God’s power and His
Word. I cannot give up, but must
continue to stand so that the Word of God can be seen in places that I probably
will never visit. I pray that God will
give me victory each and every day, and give me wisdom in order to continue to
fight the good fight.
My Steps of Faith for Today: Continue to
fight the good fight.
Memory
verses for the week: Philippians 2: 5 Have this attitude in yourselves which was
also in Christ Jesus, 6 who, although He
existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be
grasped,
Answer
to yesterday’s Bible question: “In a
stable because there was no room in the inn.”
(Luke 2:7) This is the answer to
the question “where in Bethlehem was Jesus born?” This question and answer comes from a game I
have called “Bible Challenge,” and I do not always, though most times, agree
with their answers. I believe that Jesus
was born in a cave in Bethlehem, a very important cave where the Passover Lambs
were born. Jesus is the Lamb of God who
takes away the sins of the world, and that is why I believe He was born in that
cave.
Today’s
Bible question: “Who said ‘Separate me Barabbas
and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them’?”
Answer
in our next SD.
2/10/2014
11:50 AM
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