I am going to try to preach for the first time since my surgery, at youth meeting next week but not sure if physically I will be able. JoBeth will arrive back in the states next wednesday and we will, Lord willing, finally get to see each other again, after nearly 2 months. This recovery has been hard and long and honestly I have a long way to go but these first two months have been exceptionally long without JoBeth. I have to be honest and say I have fought some moments of depression and discouragement. I went to visit a man who is also fighting a long term physical situation and he said, I keep trying to go forward but sometimes it seems I make a quarter inch at a time. I tried to encourage him but in my heart I understood, for at times I feel I have made no progress forward at all. I have simply called the day a success if I did not go backward. I took a very short, slow walk tonight and as I did the Lord brought to my mind, Pro 24:10 If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small. As tears came to my eyes, i once again begged the Lord for His strength, for through His strength we cannot fail. To whatever extent I am weakening, to that extent I am fighting in my own strength and my strength will faint. Therefore, I must recognize my times of weakening and flee to the Lord for His strength for His strength is not small and will never faint.Ps 29:11 The Lord will give strength unto his people; the Lord will bless his people with peace. If you are weakening, use what strength you have to run to the Lord, for He will give strength. It is my desire that Ps 71:16-18 would be my life and testimony. I am trying diligently to pray for you, I ask that you might pray as I preach Monday, that God would give me His strength. Ps 71:16 I will go in the strength of the Lord God:I will make mention of thy righteousness, even of thine only.17 O God, thou hast taught me from my youth: and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works.18 Now also when I am old and gray headed, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come.
Posted on: Fri, 04 Jul 2014 02:47:36 +0000