A single day in your courts is better than a thousand
anywhere else! I would rather be a gatekeeper in the house of my God than live
the good life in the homes of the wicked.
I love this Psalm and today I guess it has a deeper meaning
than ever before. We journey this life and each day has its challenges and
sometimes those challenges can really be a serious bump in our path. I woke
this morning realising that my journey is going to be tough, and the enemy does
not attack things that he likes, he attacks the thing he does not like. It dawned
on me how important the things are that God placed on my heart and how much
satan must hate it.
In the last two years I started writing this blog again after
my first divorce and all the battles I faced in my second marriage, and I realise
that I touch so many lives each day because thousands read my blog and I did not
even realise it until a few weeks ago. Then I have the prayer groups at work,
my street ministry and homecells. Each of these is simply because I said, “Here
I am, Lord, send me”.
Ever since then I have been accused of the most horrible things.
A criminal case was opened against me stating I molested my daughter and I have
been fighting this battle for almost a year and it seems as if it just gets
harder. Every good thing seems to take two steps back. So, I realised the more I
commit to the Lord and the calling to spread the gospel the more intense the
attacks.
It reminds me again and again today of these words Jesus
said in Matthew 16 - Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone desires to
come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. For
whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for
My sake will find it. For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole
world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his
soul? For the Son of Man will come in the glory of His Father with His angels,
and then He will reward each according to his works”.
When we follow Jesus and we take up our cross we will face
many battles, and the enemy will do anything in his power to stop that. I wrote
to you a few days ago on lukewarm Christians and that we must be on fire for
the Lord.
Today I say and speak this “A single day in your courts is
better than a thousand anywhere else”. A single day working and doing what God
asks us to do is better than all the money and possessions in this world. Even if
I have to walk through this valley every day, I will do so for God is for me
and who can be against me. He who is in me is much, much greater than he who is
in this world. My prayer is simply this, “When they (me and you) walk through
the Valley of Weeping (challenges), it will become a place of refreshing
springs (a place of joy and praise). The autumn rains will clothe it with
blessings (God will reign in it all and we will be set free and we will have
victory)”.
Have an awesome day, my friend. Jesus loves you more than you
can ever imagine and He will make a way where it seems impossible.
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