MORNING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 6/12/2026
9:27 AM
My
Worship Time Focus: “The
Setting”
Bible
Reading & Meditation Reference: Luke
6:12
Message of the verse: It was at this time that He went off to
the mountains to pray, and He spent the whole night in prayer to God.
There are time when I think Satan
gets involved with me writing my
Spiritual Diaries, or perhaps it is just me who can do some very dumb
things. At any rate last evening, and
this is not the first time it has happened to me, instead of clicking on save
to save by SD, I put copy which makes the entire SD go away, and so this
morning I had to rewrite last evening’s SD.
I waited to this morning to do it because I was a little, or a lot upset
last evening. At any rate this morning’s
SD will be a short one.
“The word time does not refer
to calendar time, such as a specific day, week, or month, but is a general term
for season, era, or period. It describes
here the time of Christ’s intensifying conflict with the scribes and Pharisees. They first appeared in Luke’s account in 5:17,
and their hostility toward Jesus quickly manifested itself (v. 21). Since that first incident, their opposition
to Him had been steadily escalating (v. 30; 6:2, 7, 11). In view of that mounting hostility, which
would culminate in His execution less than two years later, the time had come
for Jesus to choose the men who would carry on His earthly ministry after His
death. He knew that they needed
intensive preparation and training in the time remaining before the cross for
their roles as His official representatives.
“Recognizing the critical importance
of His choice of them men Jesus went off to the mountain alone to
pray (cf. 5:16).”
(cf. 5:16)
“16 But he would withdraw to desolate places and
pray.”
“The
specific mountain of which the Lord prayed is not known, but there were many in
the vicinity of the Sea of Galilee. In
His humanity, having set aside the independent use of His divine attributes (Phil
2:5-8), Jesus sought the Father’s will in choosing the Twelve.”
(Phil 2:5-8)
“5 Have this mind among yourselves, which is
yours in Christ Jesus, 6 who, though he
was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped,
7 but emptied himself, by taking the
form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in human form, he humbled
himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.”
“So
important was this decision to the future course of redemptive history that
Jesus spent the whole night in prayer to God. Dianuktereuon (meaning, ‘to spend
the whole night’) appears only here in the New Testament. It denotes an activity that continues
throughout an entire night. The Greek
phrase translated in prayer to God is an unusual construction, and could
be translated ‘in prayer of God.’ Jesus spent
the long hours of darkness in unceasing, fervent, persevering,
inter-Trinitarian prayer to the Father before selecting the twelve apostles.”
Spiritual
meaning for my life today: First I would have loved to hear that prayer
conversation that Jesus had with His Father.
Wonder if they had different choices to go over, but probably not. Perhaps the prayers for the Apostles were
about getting them ready to do this all important job of getting the Church
started. This was an awesome responsibility
and certainly was in good hands.
My
Steps of Faith for Today: I have heard of people spending the night in
prayer before and one of them, I don’t remember his name was involved in a
prayer meeting in Russia right before the Soviet Union was to collapse were out
in the woods hiding and praying the entire night.
I was praying for an hour about
getting money for our church members to pray that we get enough money to pay
the loan off for the church, and also giving $100,000 collected to get
they Dye translation of the Bible translated.
Praying is difficult work, and yes it is work because one’s mind can
wonder when you are praying. I am trying to be more consistent in praying for
my wife’s cancer problem and as stated it is hard work.
6/12/2026
9:55 AM
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