Wednesday 28 August 2024
2 Timothy 2
English Standard Version
A Good Soldier of Christ Jesus
1 You then, my child, be strengthened by the grace that is in Christ Jesus, 2 and what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men,[a] who will be able to teach others also. 3 Share in suffering as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. 4 No soldier gets entangled in civilian pursuits, since his aim is to please the one who enlisted him. 5 An athlete is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules. 6 It is the hard-working farmer who ought to have the first share of the crops. 7 Think over what I say, for the Lord will give you understanding in everything.
8 Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, the offspring of David, as preached in my gospel, 9 for which I am suffering, bound with chains as a criminal. But the word of God is not bound! 10 Therefore I endure everything for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory. 11 The saying is trustworthy, for:
If we have died with him, we will also live with him; 12 if we endure, we will also reign with him; if we deny him, he also will deny us; 13 if we are faithless, he remains faithful—
for he cannot deny himself.
2 Peter 1:12-21
English Standard Version
12 Therefore I intend always to remind you of these qualities, though you know them and are established in the truth that you have. 13 I think it right, as long as I am in this body,[a] to stir you up by way of reminder, 14 since I know that the putting off of my body will be soon, as our Lord Jesus Christ made clear to me. 15 And I will make every effort so that after my departure you may be able at any time to recall these things.
Christ's Glory and the Prophetic Word
16 For we did not follow cleverly devised myths when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty. 17 For when he received honor and glory from God the Father, and the voice was borne to him by the Majestic Glory, “This is my beloved Son,[b] with whom I am well pleased,” 18 we ourselves heard this very voice borne from heaven, for we were with him on the holy mountain. 19 And we have the prophetic word more fully confirmed, to which you will do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts, 20 knowing this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone's own interpretation. 21 For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.
ObservationThe LORD is speaking to me over 2 matters today in 2 Timothy 2 to endure suffering.Last night when Randy and I prayed, we cried out to GOD how waiting can be torture, we prayed for GOD to help us to wait as we suffer torture, and today GOD is saying: 3 Suffer hardship with me, as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. 6 The hard-working farmer ought to be the first to receive his share of the crops. 7 Consider what I say, for the Lord will give you understanding in everything. It is amazing how GOD wants us to labor in our faith with prayers and in trusting in HIS WORD, and relying on HIM so that we understand what HE is doing and find rest in HIS faithfulness. The 2nd thing GOD is telling me today is how he is confirming HIS WORD regarding Stephen because HE brought up the WORD again in Isaiah 42 and Matthew 12 which is written also as a reminder in 2 Peter 1:17 “This is my beloved Son,[b] with whom I am well pleased,” I am suffering because of HIS promise to me and even when I try to escape the promise, HE knows my weakness, HE knows I do not want to endure but here I am receiving HIS confirmation without even me asking it because HE knows I want to depart from the Promise of a chosen husband that caused me such pain and suffering.
ApplicationYES GOD! I will endure the suffering. And I will continue to wait for this Promise to be fulfilled by praying and suffering along with praying because it hurts me so much when I cannot see yet what GOD is saying. I know that GOD will prove HIMSELF to be true because HE is the TRUTH, but it is just so hard to find joy in waiting, to find peace, to find rest in waiting. I am still groaning in my Spirit afraid of being disappointed and hurt again because of the possibility that GOD will one day tell me, we are changing the plan. I have already set my heart to the Promise which is HIS plan, and then I have to let it go again. Can I just let go already??? But when HE continues to remind me about the Promise, HE is not allowing me to let go, HE wants me to pray and pray and wait and suffer but HE can do anything HE wants because HE is GOD and if I am HIS child, I will not question HIS ways because HIS ways are high and unfathomable. GOD is also kind, because HE helps me understand why HE is changing the plan. I believe GOD is teaching me not to love the Promise more than HIM or else I will end up once again being tested like Abraham to kill my Isaac. I already had when HE asked me to lay down my desire to marry a foreign Israeli Man. I already had.
PrayersDear AVI,O GOD of Mercy, Justice and Grace, O KING of Glory, HOLY HOLY HOLY, Blessed are YOU O GOD My GOD, my everything! Please KING JESUS take away all my desires for any worldly thing and let me desire only YOU. Do YOU want me to live as a monk? As a missionary??? So take away any desire I have to have a family, O GOD have I not been asking this of YOU ever since??? But see my heart O GOD, YOU Have placed in this heart a desire for a loving Husband and to take care of a family. O GOD, if these desires are not YOUR will for me take it away, I have prayed this prayer for the longest time, but YOU have not taken these desires away. I am praying O GOD do not let me be a Leah to a husband like Jacob. I want to be an Osnat to a Joseph, I want to be loved by a man who cares about YOUR Kingdom work on earth. Thank YOU for reminding of Yosef, I will wait for that man whom YOU have shown me ever since, a man who loves YOU, humble and contrite in heart, because when I think of Yosef, my heart is comforted. When I think about Stephen, I am insecure and unloved so I pray for Stephen O GOD, that YOU will save him because he is not yet the man YOU are saying I will be married to. I pray that YOU will continue to knock on his heart and speak to him day and night, fill him with YOUR HOLY GHOST and YOUR unfailing love. Let Stephen Yu experience YOU O GOD, let him encounter YOU, I pray this even for his mother and siblings. I pray for his spirit to encounter YOU O GOD, supernatural encounter the way YOU have encountered me even before. I pray send people to minister to him O GOD send people, please KING JESUS have YOUR way in Stephen's heart and soften his heart to seek YOU and follow YOU all the days of HIS life. Help me KING JESUS to have faith in what YOU have told me what YOU have revealed to me and do not let this revelation trouble me anymore, let it lead me to growing in trusting YOU more. I pray for everything O GOD even Cherry to feel secure and erase her negative feelings she is feeling at work. I pray that she will be a beacon of light to our office. Thank YOU GOD for YOUR Grace and faithfulness to my family and for always protecting us O GOD. Please KING JESUS have YOUR way in Jaja Gulfan's life, please encounter her, please release her from captivity, please set her free from the bondage of adulterous relationship with her boyfriend. Please KING JESUS I pray for her soul to be saved in the knowledge and in the LOVE of JESUS CHRIST who loves her more than anyone could ever love her. I pray O GOD for YOUR grace to fill us always all our days until YOU come for us YOUR Bride. For YOU deserve all the glory honor and praise O GOD.
In the Name of YESHUA Amen!
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