For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.
2 Corinthians 4:17
This was a sparse month for my journal...
2 Corinthians 4:17
This was a sparse month for my journal...
The going has been hard. There was one trial after another... On the evening of April 3rd my beloved and faithful typewriter died. It just stopped working, and no amount of fixing by some of the inmates who are skilled at making broken things start to work again, was successful at bringing my typewriter back to life. One by one they shook their heads and told me there was nothing they could do. My machine was dead, and that's all!
Fortunately, the Lord was faithful to provide, and my Christian brother, Jesse, ordered another one for me from a company in the Midwest. This new typewriter arrived on April 16th.
Prior to its arrival I was on my knees every day as I waited for it to come. Ha! And when my new machine came I quickly took it into my prison cell. I immediately prayed over it, asking the Lord to bless it and keep it working. I had my own private "Dedication Service" with just me, the Lord, and my new typewriter present. Thus far, it is still working.
Then, from this moment I had to tackle two weeks of letters. I was behind with my mail. So I had to set my journal aside for a little bit.
Furthermore, at the start of April, I came down with the flu. It hit me hard and fast. Then it seemed to go away in a few days, only to come back at the end of the first week with a vengeance. It lasted more than a week this time. I couldn't seem to do much other than lay on my bunk. I had to push myself to do my work assignment.
Now, with this month coming to a close, I am still in recuperation. The flu is ninety percent gone, but I can still feel some of it in me. I am not yet at my full strength. Very odd! But this is the way the month has gone.
However, there were also some good spiritual victories. I did get the opportunity to glorify the Lord during the interview with ABC's 20/20 program. This interview should be aired in May.
Then the Lord made a way for me to share my testimony through some dear friends at "Our Father's Persistent Love Ministry" (Oakhurst, New Jersey) who went to Puerto Rico for two weeks. And Judge Robert Alexander shared my testimony up in Watertown, New York.
I also got a lot of letters written to my brethren in Africa. And most of all, without my typewriter, I actually got to spend more time in God's word. I had a great time reading Isaiah Chapter 53 every day this month as I meditated on the Jewish Passover which just passed, and how the Lord Jesus was indeed the sacrificial Lamb of God this chapter prophesied about.
So no matter what I may have gone through during April 2001, the fact is, I am always in victory through my Lord Jesus Christ (1 Corinthians 15:57).
D.B.
Fortunately, the Lord was faithful to provide, and my Christian brother, Jesse, ordered another one for me from a company in the Midwest. This new typewriter arrived on April 16th.
Prior to its arrival I was on my knees every day as I waited for it to come. Ha! And when my new machine came I quickly took it into my prison cell. I immediately prayed over it, asking the Lord to bless it and keep it working. I had my own private "Dedication Service" with just me, the Lord, and my new typewriter present. Thus far, it is still working.
Then, from this moment I had to tackle two weeks of letters. I was behind with my mail. So I had to set my journal aside for a little bit.
Furthermore, at the start of April, I came down with the flu. It hit me hard and fast. Then it seemed to go away in a few days, only to come back at the end of the first week with a vengeance. It lasted more than a week this time. I couldn't seem to do much other than lay on my bunk. I had to push myself to do my work assignment.
Now, with this month coming to a close, I am still in recuperation. The flu is ninety percent gone, but I can still feel some of it in me. I am not yet at my full strength. Very odd! But this is the way the month has gone.
However, there were also some good spiritual victories. I did get the opportunity to glorify the Lord during the interview with ABC's 20/20 program. This interview should be aired in May.
Then the Lord made a way for me to share my testimony through some dear friends at "Our Father's Persistent Love Ministry" (Oakhurst, New Jersey) who went to Puerto Rico for two weeks. And Judge Robert Alexander shared my testimony up in Watertown, New York.
I also got a lot of letters written to my brethren in Africa. And most of all, without my typewriter, I actually got to spend more time in God's word. I had a great time reading Isaiah Chapter 53 every day this month as I meditated on the Jewish Passover which just passed, and how the Lord Jesus was indeed the sacrificial Lamb of God this chapter prophesied about.
So no matter what I may have gone through during April 2001, the fact is, I am always in victory through my Lord Jesus Christ (1 Corinthians 15:57).
D.B.