PT-2 "Being Loyal To The Truth" (2 John 7-8)

 

EVENING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 5/4/2025 4:45 PM

 

My Worship Time                                                         Focus:  PT-2 “Being Loyal To The Truth”

 

Bible Reading & Meditation                                                           Reference:  2 John 7-8

 

            Message of the verses:  “7 For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the antichrist. 8 Watch yourselves, that you do not lose what we have accomplished, but that you may receive a full reward.”

 

            I realize I did not get too far with my Spiritual Diary on these verses and so I will try and get further now as I write this SD.  It seems that the things that I am writing about in 2 Timothy at this time are similar to the things that John wrote in his second letter.  Not really surprising because they are all in the Bible and also second Timothy was the last letter that Paul wrote before he was killed for the cause of Christ, and 2 John was the last epistle that he wrote as I am not sure if Revelation was after he wrote his letters or not, but if memory serves me correct Revelation was the last letter that he wrote.

 

            John MacArthur begins his comments on these two verses by talking about love as he writes “Biblical love does not imply a naïve, uncritical, undiscerning acceptance of anyone who claims to represent Jesus Christ. Thus, having stressed the importance of love, John immediately set limits on it.  Believers cannot, in the name of love, embrace any of the many deceivers who have gone out into the world.  Followers of the true Christ cannot love antichrists; those who are committed to biblical truth cannot have fellowship with those who pervert it (cf. 2 Cor. 6:14-15).  Deceivers translates the plural form of planos, which literally means ‘a wanderer’ (the English word ‘planet’ derives from it).  In this case, it refers to those who wander from the truth of Scripture; who corrupt it; who lead others astray from it; who are impostors (Paul called such people ‘false brethren’ in 2 Cor. 11:26 and Gal. 2:4; cf. Jude’s description of them as ‘wandering stars’ headed for the ‘black darkness’ of eternal judgment [v. 13]).”

 

            Now we get into some issues that can be difficult to really understand when it comes to love.  I think of the verse that tells us that we are to be in the world but not of the world, and this to me, is something that I think goes along with how we are to treat unbelievers, especially those who are in what can be described as cults.  The Bible tells us not to allow those who belong to cults into our home, for they can have the wrong kind of influence on us who are truly believers.  I think of another Scripture reference that is going through my mind and that is actually from the OT book of Malachi 1:1-3 which says “1 The oracle of the word of the LORD to Israel through Malachi. 2 “I have loved you," says the LORD. But you say, "How have You loved us?" "Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?" declares the LORD. "Yet I have loved Jacob; 3 but I have hated Esau, and I have made his mountains a desolation and appointed his inheritance for the jackals of the wilderness.’”  Now we will look at Romans 9:13 “Just as it is written, "JACOB I LOVED, BUT ESAU I HATED.’”  Paul is quoting from the passage in Malachi.  

 

            I am going to now quote the meanings of the word “hate” from both verses, as the one from Malachi is in Hebrew and the one in Romans is in Greek, first Hebrew:

 

08130 שָׂנֵא‎ sane’ saw-nay’

 

a primitive root; v; [BDB-971a] {See TWOT on 2272 }

 

AV-hate 136, enemies 3, enemy 2, foes 1, hateful 1, misc 3; 146

 

1) to hate, be hateful

1a) (Qal) to hate

1a1) of man

1a2) of God

1a3) hater, one hating, enemy (participle) (subst)

1b) (Niphal) to be hated

1c) (Piel) hater (participle)

1c1) of persons, nations, God, wisdom  

 

3404 μισέω miseo mis-eh’-o

 

from a primary misos (hatred); v; TDNT-4:683,597;  {See TDNT 497 }

 

AV-hate 41, hateful 1; 42

 

1) to hate, pursue with hatred, detest

2) to be hated, detested

 

            I am going to have to do some more thinking and also some more studying on this subject of love and then I will put what I find out onto another Spiritual Diary then.

 

5/4/2025 7:20 PM

           

PT-2 "Opposers of the Truth" (2 Tim. 3:8-9)

 

SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 5/4/2025 2:23 AM

 

My Worship Time                                                              Focus: PT-1 “Opposers of the Truth”

 

Bible Reading & Meditation                                                 Reference:  2 Timothy 3:8-9

 

            Message of the verses:  “8 Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men of depraved mind, rejected in regard to the faith. 9 But they will not make further progress; for their folly will be obvious to all, just as Jannes’s and Jambres’s folly was also.”

 

            I realize that I did not get too far into looking at these verses, but I put some things on that SD that speak of Jannes and Jambres, things that I don’t think that I knew before, and although I am not sure if they tell exactly who these men were, it was good to get someone else’s opinion, as I always thought they were the two men who did Satanic miracles in Egypt, but perhaps I watched the movie “The Ten Commandments” too many times. 

 

            MacArthur writes that “Those false teachers were men of depraved mind. The Greek word behind depraved mind is a perfect passive participle, indicating an established, continuous, and unalterable condition.  It was of such reprobates that Paul declared ‘And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper,…and, although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also give hearty approval to those who practice them’ (Rom. 1:28, 32).”  I remember when I was about 16 years old, which would have been in 1963 and the thing then was to smoke cigarettes. I was kind of just puffing on them, but then I learned to inhale the smoke which when you first begin to do it, it kind of makes you a little high.  (Now remember I did not become a believer until I was almost 27 years old.)  At any rate I was talking to a friend of mine who was older than I was and told him about this experience and he encouraged me to continue doing that practice.  I realize that this was kind of innocent compared to what I am writing about, but none the less it makes the point.

 

            MacArthur continues “Because they had rejected the faith, they were themselves rejected by God as regards the faith.  Adokimos (rejected) was used of metals that did not pass the test of purity and were discarded.  The word also was used of counterfeits of various sorts.  The fact that the men were rejected as regards the faith makes clear that Paul was speaking of individuals within the church who claimed to be Christians but were not.”

 

            Now someone may be reading this Spiritual Diary and think that they are a Christian, but maybe they are not.  I find that when asking a person if he or she is a believer that if they really are do not get upset over that question, but if they are not then they usually do get upset.  Paul writes at the end of his second letter to the Corinthians the following: “5 Test yourselves to see if you are in the faith; examine yourselves! Or do you not recognize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you — unless indeed you fail the test? 6 But I trust that you will realize that we ourselves do not fail the test.”  Now how does one test to see if they are a true believer?  The best way that I can answer that is to look back at when you thought you became a believer and go over it.  First of all one has to confess that they are a sinner, and the reason that we sin is because we were born with a sin nature that was given to us because of what Adam and Eve did in the garden when they first sinned as seen in Genesis chapter three.  After confessing that you are a sinner then you have to realize that in and of yourself there is nothing that you can do to become a believer on your own.  Next realize that Jesus Christ came to earth in order to take your place on the cross, and in the last three hours He was on the cross God took all of the punishment due you and put it on Christ.  Therefore ask the Lord to save you believing that what He did on the cross was for you.  Ok then keep an eye on yourself to see if there is any difference in the way you are living your life. Examine yourselves! Or do you not recognize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you — unless indeed you fail the test?

 

Lord willing you will pass the test.

 

5/4/2025 3:34 PM     

 

PT-1 "Being Loyal to the Truth" (2 John 7-8)

 

EVENING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 5/3/2025 10:23 PM

 

My Worship Time                                                         Focus:  PT-1 “Being Loyal To The Truth”

 

Bible Reading & Meditation                                                           Reference:  2 John 7-8

 

            Message of the verses:  “7 For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the antichrist. 8 Watch yourselves, that you do not lose what we have accomplished, but that you may receive a full reward.”

 

            As I look at verse seven I can see that the problems that we have in our world today, problems with deceivers has not changed much from the time when sin first entered our universe.  I can’t explain how it was that someone who was created by God and was perfect became a sinner when sin had not even been defined then, but Lucifer who became Satan who was perfectly made by God turned his back on God and tried to usurp power over God.  I believe this is explained in two of the prophets, Ezekiel, and Isaiah and the explanation can be summed up in five “I will’s.”   

 

“The 5 ‘I Wills’ of Satan” Compiled by Rev. George F. Parsons Let us consider the five "I WILLS" of Lucifer as found in Isaiah 14:1314: 1)

 

"I WILL ASCEND INTO HEAVEN." Lucifer wanted to mount up or scale to the heavens. He desired to occupy the highest heavens:  to probe, and to penetrate the kingdom of the infinite God. He wanted to have a very HIGH position!

 

2) "I WILL EXALT MY THRONE ABOVE THE STARS OF GOD." Lucifer’s position and service before God’s throne was not enough. He wanted a throne from which he could exercise final authority and make decisions pertaining to the angelic host ("the stars of God"). He wanted to rule over all the angels. God had made him an exalted angel, but Lucifer wanted to be exalted even more. (He was not content to shine as the "morning star";  he wanted to shine as the star of stars--with a brilliance that would far outshine all the other stars (even as the sun’s brightness makes all the other stars fade away so that you cannot even see them during daylight hours).

 

3) "I WILL SIT ALSO UPON THE MOUNT OF THE CONGREGATION." He desired to sit or be enthroned in the highest place having all the angelic assemblies in submission to him. He wanted to be the center of attention. He wanted to be IDOLIZED by all.

 

4) "I WILL ASCEND ABOVE THE HEIGHTS OF THE CLOUDS." "Clouds" are often used in the Bible to speak of the glory of God (see Matthew 24:30; Acts 1:9; Rev. 1:7). Lucifer coveted God’s glory for his own.  He failed to acknowledge that his glory and beauty all came from and was dependent upon God. In his sinful pride, Lucifer wanted a glory that would impress and dazzle all creatures.

 

 5) "I WILL BE LIKE THE MOST HIGH." He wanted to be EQUAL with God and to take God’s place as Possessor and Ruler of all. He wanted to become a completely independent creature, responsible to no one.”

 

            The following comes from Ezekiel 28:11-19 and it too speaks of Satan.

 

            11 Again the word of the LORD came to me saying, 12  "Son of man, take up a lamentation over the king of Tyre and say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD, "You had the seal of perfection, Full of wisdom and perfect in beauty. 13 “You were in Eden, the garden of God; Every precious stone was your covering: The ruby, the topaz and the diamond; The beryl, the onyx and the jasper; The lapis lazuli, the turquoise and the emerald; And the gold, the workmanship of your settings and sockets, Was in you. On the day that you were created They were prepared. 14 “You were the anointed cherub who covers, And I placed you there. You were on the holy mountain of God; You walked in the midst of the stones of fire. 15 “You were blameless in your ways From the day you were created Until unrighteousness was found in you. 16 “By the abundance of your trade You were internally filled with violence, And you sinned; Therefore I have cast you as profane From the mountain of God. And I have destroyed you, O covering cherub, From the midst of the stones of fire. 17 “Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty; You corrupted your wisdom by reason of your splendor. I cast you to the ground; I put you before kings, That they may see you. 18 “By the multitude of your iniquities, In the unrighteousness of your trade You profaned your sanctuaries. Therefore I have brought fire from the midst of you; It has consumed you, And I have turned you to ashes on the earth In the eyes of all who see you. 19 “All who know you among the peoples Are appalled at you; You have become

terrified And you will cease to be forever."’"

 

            Lord willing I will continue looking at the verses from 2 John 7-8 further in tomorrow evening’s Spiritual Diary.  Look at these verses from both Isaiah and Ezekiel and it will help explain how sin entered into the universe, and then in the 3^rd chapter of Genesis we see because Adam and Eve sinned and this is how it entered into the human race.  From that moment in Genesis 3 we get the background of how all of these cults began and are still going on today.  In the seven year tribulation period, which takes place soon after the rapture it will come to a climax with the return of Jesus Christ from heaven to end it.

 

5/3/2025 10:50 PM

 

PT-1 "Opposers Of The Truth" (2 Timothy 3:8-9)

 

SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 5/3/2025 8:42 AM

 

My Worship Time                                                                      Focus:  “Opposers of the Truth”

 

Bible Reading & Meditation                                                 Reference:  2 Timothy 3:8-9

 

            Message of the verses:  “8 Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men of depraved mind, rejected in regard to the faith. 9 But they will not make further progress; for their folly will be obvious to all, just as Jannes’s and Jambres’s folly was also.”

 

            This is actually the only time that these names, Jannes and Jambres are mentioned in the Bible, but we can see that these two opposed Moses.  So it is pretty safe to say that these two men were magicians who did some of the things that God did, that is copying His miracles like turning water into blood, that are seen in the book of Exodus.  There came a time that these magicians could not duplicate the miracles done through Moses and then they tried to get Pharaoh to let the people go, but it was in the plan of God that he did not let them go until the death of all first born in Egypt who did not put the blood onto their doors.  MacArthur writes “Because Jannes perhaps means ‘he who seduces’ and Jambres ‘he who takes rebellion,’ those may have been symbolic names given to these men at a later time.  Jewish tradition holds that they pretended to convert to Judaism in order to subvert Moses’ divine assignment to liberate Israel from Egypt, that they led in making and worshiping the golden calf while Moses was on Mt. Sinai receiving the Law from God, and that they were slaughtered by the Levites along with the other idolaters (see Ex. 32).  That possibility is consistent with Paul’s warning about false leaders who corrupted the church from within.  Just as those two men opposed Moses in his teaching and leading ancient Israel, so those men in Ephesus also opposed the truth of the gospel.

 

            “If Jannes and Jambres were indeed among the Egyptians magicians, Paul may be warning that, similarly, these men in the early church also might perform magical feats.  They may have been like the ‘false Christs and false prophets [who] will arise’ in the last days, ‘and will show great signs and wonders, so as to mislead, if possible, even the elect’ (Matt. 24:24; cf. 2 Thess. 2:9).”

 

            Paul taught many things about what will happen in the end times, and remember that the “end times” actually began with the resurrection of Jesus Christ, but most of the time when we see the words “end times” it is spoken about what will happen during the tribulation period, which is actually the last seven years of Daniel’s prophecy found in Daniel 9:24-27, a prophecy that I have gone over many times in writing my Spiritual Diaries, and a prophecy that is possible to begin to be happening as one looks at what is going on in the world today.  All that remains for it to begin is the Rapture of the Church which Paul wrote about in 1 Corinthians 15:51-58, and also in Paul’s letter to the Thessalonians 4:13-18: 13 But we do not want you to be uninformed, brethren, about those who are asleep, so that you will not grieve as do the rest who have no hope. 14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus. 15 For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. 16  For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. 17  Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall always be with the Lord. 18  Therefore comfort one another with these words.” It is my belief that because the Lord used these end times events in order to cause me to come to Christ a little over 51 years ago, that that is the things that I truly enjoy in studying the Scriptures and as said I can see that the events in our world that are going on are similar to the things that will take place during the tribulation period then it is my joy to write about them in my Spiritual Diaries and then put them onto my blogs so that people who read them can look around and see that the Bible is true, and that because it is true that unbelievers will look at these events and trust the Lord Jesus Christ as their Savior and Lord and miss the awful events of the tribulation period, which is the most horrible time that will ever happen on planet earth.  In fact the Lord said if He did not return when He will return that the whole earth will be destroyed.

 

Spiritual Meaning for my Life Today:  Remember there is much evil in this world we are living in, and so tell the truth of the Gospel so salvation will come to those who accept the Lord as their Savior and Lord.

 

My Steps of Faith for Today:  Continue to write the truth and post in onto my blogs so those who read it can grow in grace as believers and those who are not can come to Christ as Savior and Lord.

 

5/3/2025 9:30 AM

PT-2 "Loving in the Truth" (2 John 5-6)

 

EVENING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 5/2/2025 9:58 PM

 

My Worship Time                                                                    Focus:  PT-2 “Loving in the Truth”

 

Bible Reading & Meditation                                                           Reference:  2 John 5-6

 

            Message of the verses:  “5 Now I ask you, lady, not as though I were writing to you a new commandment, but the one which we have had from the beginning, that we love one another. 6 And this is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.”

 

            I will look at what John MacArthur has to say about these verses as I pick up where I left off on the 27^th of April which was two days before I stopped writing Spiritual Diaries because of my wife’s cancer surgery.

 

            “But through the commandment John spoke of was from one perspective an old one, viewed from another it was new.  In 1 John 2:8 John wrote, ‘On the other hand, I am writing a new commandment to you, which is true in Him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true Light is already shining.’  There are three senses in which the commandment is new.  First, love is ‘true in Him’; that is, it has now been perfectly modeled in a human life by the Lord Jesus Christ. In his gospel John wrote concerning Christ’s love, ‘Having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end (lit., ‘perfectly,’ ‘completely,’ or ‘to the fullest measure’) (John 13:1).  Jesus offered Himself as an example of how to love when He said, ‘A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another.  By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another’ (John 13:34-35; cf. 15:13; Phil. 2:5-9).  Paul exhorted believers to ‘walk in love, just as Christ also loved you and gave Himself up for us’ (Eph. 5:2).”  There are different works in the Greek for love that are found in the Scriptures and agape is the kind of love that God has for His children. 

 

            “Christians also have a new understanding of love through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.  As John pointed out in his first epistle, it is only possible for us to love ‘because He first loves us’ (1 John 4:19; cf. Eph. 3:16-19). Paul wrote in Romans 5:5 that ‘the love of God has been poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.’  The supernatural love is one aspect of the fruit of the Spirit (Gal. 5:22); thus Paul could write that believers are taught by God to love one another’ (1 Thess. 4:9).

 

            “Finally, the commandment to love is new in that it belongs to the new age inaugurated by the coming of Christ.  We now live in the spiritual kingdom (Luke 17:20-21), which is growing (Luke 13:18-20) into the glorious millennial kingdom to be established when Christ returns, and after that the eternal kingdom.  During this present spiritual kingdom ‘the darkness is passing away and the true Light is already shining’ (1 John 2:8).  The ‘true light’ is Jesus Christ (cf. John 8:12; 9:5; 12:35), through whom God has ‘rescue[d] us from this present evil age’ (Gal. 1:4) and ‘from the domain of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved son’ (Col. 1:13).  We are blessed ‘with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ’ (Eph. 1:3), including divine supernatural love, which is a way of life for those in the kingdom of Jesus Christ.

 

            “The defining characteristic of love is that we walk according to His commandments.  Love and obedience are inseparably linked, as Jesus made clear in John 14:15 when He declared, ‘If you love Me, you will keep my commandments’ (cf. vv. 23-24; 15:10).  Believers manifest their love for God by their obedience to Him.  In his first epistle, John wrote, ‘For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments’ (1 John 5:3).  The Old Testament also views obedience to God as the ultimate expression of love for Him.  In Deuteronomy 11:1 Moses commanded Israel, ‘You shall therefore love the Lord your God, and always deep His charge, His statutes, His ordinances, and His commandments.”  Moses successor, Joshua, gave Israel a similar charge:  Only be very careful to observe the commandment and the law which Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, to love the Lord your God and walk in all His ways and keep His commandments and hold fast to Him and serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul’ (Josh. 22:5).  Love and obedience are also linked in such Old Testament passages as Exodus 20:6; Deuteronomy 5:10; 7:9; 30:16; Nehemiah 1:5; and Daniel 9:4).

 

            “Repeating himself to stress the importance of this truth, John wrote, This commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning that you should walk in it.  Those who truly love will walking obedience to biblical truth and vice versa.”

 

AV-love 169, lover(s) 19, friend(s) 12, beloved 5, liketh 1, lovely 1, loving 1; 208

 

1) to love

1a) (Qal)

1a1) human love for another, includes family, and sexual

1a2) human appetite for objects such as food, drink, sleep, wisdom

1a3) human love for or to God

1a4) act of being a friend

1a4a) lover (participle)

1a4b) friend (participle)

1a5) God’s love toward man

1a5a) to individual men

1a5b) to people Israel

1a5c) to righteousness

1b) (Niphal)

1b1) lovely (participle)

1b2) loveable (participle)

1c) (Piel)

1c1) friends

1c2) lovers (fig. of adulterers)

 

            This is the word love which is found in Deuteronomy 11:1, which comes from my online Bible dictionary.

 

5/2/2025 10:43 PM

 

 

 

             

 

 

PT-2 "Captors of the Weak" (2 Tim. 3:6-7)

 

SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 5/02/2025 10:12 AM

 My Worship Time                                              Focus:  PT-2 “Captors of the Weak”

 Bible Reading & Meditation                                          Reference:  2 Timothy 3:6-7

             Message of the verses:  “6 For among them are those who enter into households and captivate weak women weighed down with sins, led on by various impulses, 7 always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.”

            I think that the best thing to do is to finish this section by quoting from John MacArthur’s commentary and then making a few comments after that.

            “Often moving from one false teacher or group to another, such women are always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.  If they have been reared in the church, they are especially susceptible to ideas that purport to be Christian.  But their ignorance of Scripture and their sinful living make them utterly undiscerning and defenseless against unbiblical and ungodly precepts.  They are continually learning about everything except the knowledge of the truth.”  The knowledge of the truth is the most important thing a believer can learn and understand for without it, as seen with these women, they may think they are religious, but they are not true believers.  “Because legalism deals only in outward performance, it is very attractive.  Many such women, and men as well, are glad to find a way that promises to make them right with God simply by adhering to certain outward forms and conforming to certain behavioral standards.

          “Epignosis (knowledge) refers to deep understanding, comprehension, and discernment, not merely awareness of factual truths.  It is and for which our Lord interceded on our behalf: Sanctify them in the truth; Thy word is truth’ (John 17:17).  In fact, God ‘desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth’ (1 Tim. 2:4, emphasis added; cf. 2 Tim. 2:25; 2 Peter 3:9).  Reflecting that divine love, Paul sought the salvation even of those who were in opposition’ to the gospel, hoping that, perhaps God [would] grant them repentance leading to the knowledge of the truth’ (2 Tim. 2:25).”

            Let us think for a moment of this verse above which I have highlighted and talk a bit about it.  Now what I am going to write about are two different people, two disciples of Jesus Christ that I hope will make this highlighted verse more understandable.  As one looks at the crucifixion of Jesus Christ which in the last couple of weeks has been preached and written about simply because of the celebration of Resurrection Sunday, some call Easter.  Before Jesus went to the cross Peter said that He would never forsake Jesus, but he did and stated that he did not know Him.  Now before that happened Judas betrayed Jesus by receiving 30 pieces of silver to do so.  Judas went out and hanged himself because of the guilt of betraying an innocent Man.  He did not repent with the knowledge of the truth in order to be saved.  Now Peter was already a believer, but felt very guilty for betraying the Lord, but because Peter was a believer Jesus brought him back into fellowship with Him.  This is seen in the 21^st chapter of John’s gospel.  Repentance leading the knowledge of the truth must come from the Lord otherwise it is not true repentance.

            Spiritual meaning for my life today:  I am thankful for January 26, 1974 for that is the day the true repentance came into my life and the Spirit of God convicted me of my sins and saved me, and that was the greatest day of my life.

            My Steps of Faith for Today:  I desire to tell others of the truth of the Gospel, and that is a big reason that the Lord has led me to write my Spiritual Diaries and then put them onto my two blogs, and it is the Spirit of God who sends them around the world for the cause of Christ.

5/2/2025 10:35 AM

 

Update on my wife's surgerey

 My wife got home from the hospital after a long day and a half in the hospital in which she underwent a 4 hour surgery to help rid her body of cancer.  Praise the Lord that the surgeon was happy with the results of her surgery.  We knew in advance that there were three possible ways that this would turn out.  The third one we did not want at all, and the second one was better than the third one, but the best was the first result, and Praise the Lord that is what happened.  She is in a lot of pain but that is getting better and so all in all we are very pleased with her results so far, and pray that the Lord will give us great wisdom for further treatment.  Please continue to pray for her body to heal.  Thanks in advance.