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"Strengthen
Your Brothers"
Message summary: Today let us seek opportunities to help those around us to find strength in God.
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"And Saul's
son Jonathan
went to David
at Horesh and
helped him
find strength
in God" (1
Samuel 23:16).
“And the Lord
said, ‘Simon,
Simon, behold,
Satan hath
desired to
have you, that
he may sift
you as wheat.
But I have
prayed for
you, Simon,
that your
faith may not
fail. And when
you have
turned back,
strengthen
your
brothers’”
(Luke
22:31,32).
"And after you
have suffered
a little
while, the God
of all grace,
who has called
you to His
eternal glory
in Christ,
will Himself
restore,
confirm,
strengthen,
and establish
you. To Him be
the power
forever and
ever. Amen" (1
Peter
5:10,11).
Our first daily text is found deep in one of the harder to read sections of the Old Testament (at least for me). It is a spiritual gem concerning a very unlikely friendship. Jonathan was Saul's son. Saul was trying to kill David. Yet Jonathan and David were friends and in today's first text he did that which we value in a friend, something that is an essential part of encouragement: he helped David find strength in God.
Today’s second text expresses an intense time in Peter’s own life. There had been a dispute among the disciples as to which of them was considered the greatest. Incredibly, this took place during the Last Supper only hours before the Son of God, the greatest among them, would humble Himself to the death of the cross!
Jesus addressed Simon Peter by name, “Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat". In other words Jesus tells Peter, Satan wants to toss you and scatter you, and also to cast you out much like wheat is separated from the chaff.
"But I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith may not fail". What a blessing this prayer must have been to Peter. But the text continues, "and when you have turned back", as we know a short time later he did temporarily fail when he denied the Lord during His most crucial time. But Jesus knew he would turn back to Him.
Then
Jesus told
him, "strengthen
your brothers".
And that's
what Peter
did,
demonstrating
leadership
after the
resurrection,
then in the
early church
and finally
through his
two letters we
have in the
Bible.
He
writes a
powerful
benediction in
his first
letter, "And
after you have
suffered a
little while,
the God of all
grace, who has
called you to
His eternal
glory in
Christ, will
Himself
restore,
confirm, strengthen,
and establish
you. To Him be
the power for
ever and ever.
Amen" (1 Peter
5:10,11).
Today
let us seek
opportunities
to help those
around us to
find strength
in God.
Be encouraged today, Hebrews 3:13
Stephen & Brooksyne Weber
Daily
prayer:
Father, I pray
for a
spiritually
sensitive
heart that I
might be a
representative
of Your
indwelling
Spirit to
those who have
distressing
needs. Develop
in me a
discerning
heart that I
might seek out
those in need
of Your
strength just
as Jonathan
did with David
and later
Peter in the
early church.
While I don't
have all the
answers I do
know that Your
Word brings
light,
direction, and
confidence as
we must
navigate
through the
twists and
turns in our
sojourn here
below. We
offer
ourselves to
You to be a
blessing to
others as we
might pray
with them,
write them a
note of
encouragement,
listen with an
understanding
heart, share
a
scripture(s)
of guidance or
encouragement,
lend a hand
where needed.
We want to do
this in the
name of Jesus
in whose name
we pray. Amen.
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