In retrospect this has been another difficult month…
There were lots of trials and much weariness. However, my spirit is strong, even though my body is weak and drained. But by God's strength, I am pressing on and trusting in the Lord. And there were some wonderful spiritual victories, too.
I am always victorious because it is the Holy Spirit who sustains me. My Defender, the Lord Jesus, fights all my battles. He is my Shield and Buckler, my Rock and Refuge, and even my Strong Tower. Nevertheless, it seems that these days I am going from trial to trial, and tribulation to tribulation with few or no breaks in between.
Yet I am also going from glory to glory. As the apostle Paul has said in the Bible, “For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight in glory” (2 Corinthians 4:17).
And only a short while ago I finished a letter to a Native American friend, and brother in Christ, who lives on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota. He also seems to be undergoing many struggles. So I tried to encourage him with the encouragement I got from God. I have been making intercessory prayers for him, as well as for those who are living on reservations across the United States and Canada. I prayed that the Holy Spirit would do a special and deep work in the hearts of Native Americans.
May God's Spirit continue to convict of sin, and to open hearts to receive and believe the everlasting and unchanging Gospel of Jesus Christ. Amen!
D.B.
I am always victorious because it is the Holy Spirit who sustains me. My Defender, the Lord Jesus, fights all my battles. He is my Shield and Buckler, my Rock and Refuge, and even my Strong Tower. Nevertheless, it seems that these days I am going from trial to trial, and tribulation to tribulation with few or no breaks in between.
Yet I am also going from glory to glory. As the apostle Paul has said in the Bible, “For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight in glory” (2 Corinthians 4:17).
And only a short while ago I finished a letter to a Native American friend, and brother in Christ, who lives on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota. He also seems to be undergoing many struggles. So I tried to encourage him with the encouragement I got from God. I have been making intercessory prayers for him, as well as for those who are living on reservations across the United States and Canada. I prayed that the Holy Spirit would do a special and deep work in the hearts of Native Americans.
May God's Spirit continue to convict of sin, and to open hearts to receive and believe the everlasting and unchanging Gospel of Jesus Christ. Amen!
D.B.