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Joey's Journal - September 18, 2006

Heavenly Father, I give You all praise and glory for another day here on earth to live Your Word. May I be worthy to live today a life with patience, gentleness, humbleness and forgiveness to the people I will interact with. Lord, may Your wisdom be on me as I reflect on Your Word and may the words I record in my journal be Your words. I thank You for the protection, provision and guidance for me and my loved ones. May we always remember that all these come from You. May my thoughts, works, joys and sufferings I offer at Your feet be acceptable and pleasing to You. Strengthen me Lord, during wavering times in trusting Your ways. All these I pray in the Name of Jesus. Amen.

My Reading – Psalm 43

Your light and your truth will guide me

O God, take up my cause! Defend me against these ungodly people. Rescue me from these unjust liars. For you are God, my only safe haven. Why have you tossed me aside? Why must I wander around in darkness, oppressed by my enemies? Send out your light and your truth: let them guide me. Let them lead me to your holy mountain, to the place where you live. There I will go to the altar of God, to God – the source of all my joy. I will praise you with my harp, O God, my God!

Why am I discouraged? Why so sad? I will put my hope in God! I will praise him again – my Savior and my God!

My Reflection - I often wonder during times of weakness and frailty that these happen when my focus on God becomes lukewarm. These are times when my human reasoning struggles with ‘just taking that leap of faith’ and trusting the ways of God. These are our trials and challenges; especially when things do not work out for our benefit; or when we feel that God is distant to us and doesn’t answer our prayers.

When the pain and suffering come sometimes too heavy for us to bear, do we buckle down from the load of the struggle and just lose all hope? Do we complain to our Lord because we feel discouraged and sad that He is not giving us our needs? Or, do we lose faith and trust in Him because He has allowed some tragedy to happen in our lives or to our loved ones? A lot of times we feel this way. This is why in times like these, we need to seek God even more, who is our light from whom all good things come. Have we ever thought that God is not answering our prayers because He has something much better planned for us? He is not distant from us but we, thinking this way, have distanced ourselves from Him. Our belief in Him and His truth will always give us hope. We hope in the Risen Lord who died for our sins because of His love and compassion. After having done this for us, what more are our prayers of material possessions worth for us? They can’t compare to our being delivered and saved from the enemy and our restoration with the Father.

My Prayer – Lord God, let me always seek Your light and Your truth. May I never lose hope in Your Ways even through heavy trials and difficult challenges. May I stand firm in my belief in Your provision and be contented in my blessings. May I affirm that You are my Protector from all evil and trust in Your plan for me. I pray all these in Jesus’ Name. Amen.

by Joey B.

Joey's Journal - September 17, 2006

Lord God, I thank You for being with us and watching over us last night. Thank You for giving the children a good night’s sleep and rest for the nannies. This morning, I offer You my thoughts, works, joys and sufferings; may they be acceptable and pleasing to You. May Your wisdom be with me as I continue to record my reflections starting with Book Two of Psalms. Lord, may You guide my thoughts to what You intend for me to say. I pray that my focus will be on You and that You will take away all anxieties and distractions that the evil one tempts me with and strengthen me to stand up and rebuke these traps. All these I pray. Amen.

My Reading - Psalm 42

I thirst for God, the living God

As the deer pants for streams of water, so I long for you, O God. I thirst for God, the living God. When can I come and stand before him? Day and night, I have only tears for food, while my enemies continually taunt me, saying, ‘Where is this God of yours?’ My heart is breaking as I remember how it used to be: I walked among the crowds of worshippers, leading a great procession to the house of God, singing for joy and giving thanks – it was the sound of a great celebration!

Why am I so discouraged? Why so sad? I will put my hope in God! I will praise him again – my Savior and my God! Now I am deeply discouraged, but I will remember your kindness – from Mount Hermon, the source of the Jordan, from the land of Mount Mizar. I hear the tumult of the raging seas as your waves and surging tides sweep over me. Through each day the Lord pours his unfailing love upon me, and through each night I sing his songs, praying to God who gives me life.

‘O God my rock,’ I cry, ‘Why have you forsaken me? Why must I wander in darkness, oppressed by my enemies?’ Their taunts pierce me like a fatal wound. They scoff, ‘Where is this God of yours?’ Why am I discouraged? Why so sad? I will put my hope in God! I will praise him again – my Savior and my God!

My Reflection – What a fitting simile (figure of speech) comparing a deer’s thirst for water and King David’s thirst for the living God! Just as the deer seeks water after escaping the traps of a predator, we also seek our Father’s living water after combating the enemy. Yes, the spiritual warfare with the enemy is very frequent because he is relentless and trying to derail us from the righteous path. We stumble and fall because of our human weaknesses but, if we have our Father’s living water in us, meaning the Holy Spirit, we will not grow ‘thirsty’ but be ‘stronger’ to fight the temptation from the evil one. The enemy will not have a stronghold on us if we are focused on God’s righteousness. No matter how strong his traps are through evil desires and thoughts, if we are dedicated to following the Ways of God, we will be triumphant over the enemy. So, it is good to thirst for the living God!

My Prayer – Lord, let me seek You. Let me long for You. And, let me thirst for You. During those times, I struggle with thoughts and desires planted by the evil one, let me yearn more of You and Your unfailing love and compassion. Let Your suffering and eventful death on the Cross remind me that You delivered me from my sins; You have forgiven me and that You await my restoration in Your presence. As I go through my remaining years, may I only seek and thirst for You, O living God. All these I pray in Jesus’ Name. Amen.

by Joey B.

Joey's Journal - September 16, 2006

Gracious Father, I offer You all my thoughts, works, joys and sufferings of this day. May they be acceptable and pleasing to You. May Your wisdom and guidance be with me as I reflect on Your Word. Lord, let my day be filled with Your grace of patience, humility, mercy and love for the people I interact with. May I try to follow Your Ways showing kindness and forgiveness to those who offend and hurt me. And, my I completely submit to Your authority leaving the controls of my life to You. Praise and glory be always with You.

Father God, I thank You for the protection, provision and guidance in our lives. May Your angels continue to watch over Joel in school and Joshua at home and shield them from all mishaps and illnesses. May Your healing hand be with my wife to be restored spiritually to You and be guided to submit to You. Take care of all who are dear to me and keep them safe and sufficiently provided for. All in the Name of Jesus I pray. Amen.

My Reading - Psalm 41

The Lord protects the poor and keeps them alive!

Oh, the joys of those who are kind to the poor. The Lord rescues them in times of trouble. The Lord protects them and keeps them alive. He gives them prosperity and rescues them from their enemies. The Lord nurses them when they are sick and eases their pain and discomfort. ‘O Lord,’ I prayed, ‘have mercy on me. Heal me, for I have sinned against you.’ But my enemies say nothing but evil about me. ‘How soon will he die and be forgotten?’ they ask. They visit me as if they are my friends, but all the while they gather gossip, and when they leave, they spread it everywhere. All who hate me whisper about me, imagining the worst for me. ‘Whatever he has, it is fatal,’ they say. ‘He will never get out of that bed!’ Even my best friend, the one I trusted completely, the one who shared my food, has turned against me.

Lord, have mercy on me. Make me well again, so I can pay them back! I know that you are pleased with me; for you have not let my enemy triumph over me. You have preserved my life because I am innocent; you have brought me into your presence forever. Bless the Lord, the God of Israel, who lives forever from eternal ages past. Amen and amen!

My Reflection – I must confess that there were times I was in the hospital that my pride got a stronghold on me and I struggled with the thoughts that did not please God. As David lamented on this psalm ‘ Lord, have mercy on me. Make me well again, so I can pay them back!’ Evil thoughts came to my mind like, if I were not in Surabaya, this accident wouldn’t have happened; if I stayed in the city and didn’t work that day; this wouldn’t have happened and, lastly, if I had put my safety belt on and watched the road ahead of me, I wouldn’t be in this situation in the hospital, unable to move. Why was I posted in Surabaya? Was it because of what I did or didn’t do for the company that resulted to being posted there? These were the thoughts that I had to struggle with and they were not pleasing God at all.

When I finally repented of my many complaints and submitted myself to the Lord, it dawned on me that the Lord allowed these things to happen for the greater glory of His Name. It wasn’t until I said, ‘Lord, I have complete trust in Your Ways and the purpose You have in my life’, did I picture what I had to do to please and glorify our Father. The Lord pointed out for my being involved with the church’s Special People Ministry; to speak and testify to fellow wheel-chair bound people of God’s love and compassion to them, and to edify and motivate them to know He has not forgotten them. They must continue to seek the Father and obey His Will and His blessings will be with them. He will not forsake His children!

My Prayer – Father God, we oftentimes forget that You want nothing but the best for us. Yet, in our material world, we would rather strive for earthly gains like financial security, notoriety in our careers or healthy bodies. We fail to recognize that You would want us to give glory to Your Name by living godly lives and testifying of Your goodness and blessings bestowed on us. You are the great provider, the greater healer and our faithful Father, who gives all these blessings to us. No wonder we fail to recognize that all these come from You and not from our own doing. May we submit to You and thank You for the many blessings You have given us. All these in Jesus’ Name. Amen.

by Joey B.

Joey's Journal - September 15, 2006

Heavenly Father, I give You my thoughts, works, joys and sufferings of today and pray that they are pleasing and acceptable to You. May I have complete focus on You as I reflect on Your Word; not my words but Your Words will I record in my journal. Lord, I thank You for Your protection, provision and guidance. A special thank You for giving us a good and spiritually charged cell meeting last night. The brothers were all touched by Your Word on submission to Your authority and opened their hearts to obeying Your Law and Your delegated authority.

Lord, I continue to ask for Your protection and guidance on Joel as he is in school. Keep Your angels at his side always and keep him safe from mishaps and unruly behavior. I also pray that You guide Annabel as she prepares to start a new business. May You give her wisdom and manifest Your glory to her so that she will give You full control of her life. You only want the best for her and us, Lord. Lastly, may You keep me focused to You. All in the Name of Jesus. Amen.

My reading – Psalm 40

Your Law is Within My Heart

I waited patiently for the Lord to help me, and he turned to me and heard my cry. He lifted me out of the pit of despair, out of the mud and the mire. He set my feet on solid ground and steadied me as I walked along. He has given me a new song to sing, a hymn of praise to our God. Many will see what he has done and be astounded. They will put their trust in the Lord. Oh, the joys of those who trust the Lord, who have no confidence in the proud, or in those who worship idols. O Lord my God, you have done many miracles for us. Your plans for us are too numerous to list. If I tried to recite all your wonderful deeds, I would never come to the end of them.

You take no delight in sacrifices or offerings. Now that you have made me listen, I finally understand – you don’t require burnt offerings or sin offerings. Then I said, ‘Look, I have come. And this has been written about me in the scroll; I take joy in doing your will, my God, for your law is written on my heart.’ I have told all your people about your justice. I have not been afraid to speak out, as you, O Lord, well know. I have not kept this good news hidden in my heart; I have talked about your faithfulness and saving power. I have told everyone in the great assembly of your unfailing love and faithfulness. Lord, don’t hold back your tender mercies from me. My only hope is in your unfailing love and faithfulness. For troubles surround me – too many to count! They pile up so high I can’t see my way out. They are more numerous than the hairs on my head. I have lost all my courage.

Please, Lord, rescue me! Come quickly, Lord, and help me. May those who try to destroy me be humiliated and put to shame. May those who delight in my trouble be turned back in disgrace. Let them be horrified by their shame, for they said, ‘Aha! We’ve got him now!’ But may all who search for you be filled with joy and gladness. May those who love your salvation repeatedly shout, ‘The Lord is great!’ As for me, I am poor and needy, but the Lord is thinking about me right now. You are my helper and my savior. Do not delay, O my God.

My Reflection – When we proclaim Jesus as our Lord and Savior, we do not only acknowledge Him as our God but also follow His Will. And, when we follow His Will asking us to give Him service, we think of our responsibility of proclaiming the Good News to all, especially unbelievers. Can we honestly say we are doing this service to God? Or, are we simply going to hold on the Good News for ourselves? Jesus and His followers took on the ministry of proclaiming the truth and belief in God’s plan for us, living godly lives, obeying His laws and being restored back in His Father’s Holy Presence.

Are we able to truly say like David did in his psalm that ‘I take joy in doing Your Will, my God, for Your law is written in my heart’? More often than not, our sin of disobedience to His law is what we do and we succumb to Satan’s subtle temptation. If we take joy in ’obeying’ God’s Will then there will be no place for the evil one to trap us. He knows our hearts hold firm in being godly and doing righteous things. Because of this, the Lord takes delight in our lives and He continually blesses us and makes us prosper. Do you take joy doing the Will of God? If not, let us ask His help to remind us that obeying His Will is required for entrance in His Heavenly Kingdom.

My Prayer – Lord God, I take joy in dong Your Will! I want to be deserving or worthy of Your unfailing love and compassion. Too numerous are the times when I have disobeyed You. Enough is enough! I resolve that I will take Your laws to my heart and obey them with great joy all the days of my life. Father, I long to be restored back to You and be seated at Your Heavenly Banquet that You have prepared. May Your Holy Spirit remind me of this purpose in my life. All these I pray in the Mighty Name of Jesus. Amen.

by Joey B.

Joey's Journal - September 14, 2006

Dear Father God, I give You thanks and praise for taking care of our needs, for watching over us and for leading us to a more godly path. Your grace sustains us each day as we live our lives on this earth full of lawlessness and disobedience to Your Word. Lord, continue to hold the faithful ones dear and near to Your heart. They only long to do Your Will and to follow Your Ways. For these, may Your hand be on them, strengthen them with Your grace of peace, and equip them with Your Words as they share the Good News. Father, may Your blessing be upon me as I focus on You and Your Word on the book of Psalms. Keep us all safe and protected today. All these in Jesus’ Name. Amen.

My reading - Psalm 39

Remind me that my days are numbered, my life is fleeing away

I said to myself, ‘I will watch what I do and not sin in what I say. I will curb my tongue when the godly are around me.’ But as I stood there in silence – not even speaking of good things – the turmoil within me grew to the bursting point. My thoughts grew hot within me and begun to burn, igniting a fire of words: Lord, remind me how brief my time on earth will be. Remind me that my days are numbered, and that my life is fleeing away. My life is no longer than the width of my hand. An entire lifetime is just a moment to you; human existence is but a breath.’

We are merely moving shadows, and all our busy rushing ends is nothing. We heap up wealth for someone else to spend. And so, Lord, where do I put my hope? My only hope is in you. Rescue me from my rebellion, for even fools mock me when I rebel. I am silent before you; I won’t say a word. For my punishment is from you. Please, don’t punish me anymore! I am exhausted by the blows from your hand. When you discipline people for their sins, their lives can be crushed like the life of a moth. Human existence is as frail as breath.

Hear my prayer, O Lord! Listen to my cries for help! Don’t ignore my tears. For I am your guest – a traveler passing through, as my ancestors were before me. Spare me so I can smile again before I am gone and exist no more.

My Reflection – As I read the first paragraph of this psalm, my thoughts are of how much we long to live godly lives and do away with sin. Yet, because of our human frailties and the temptations of the evil one, we resort back to our sinful ways and disobey God over again. This is why we have to seek God’s help and strength to withstand the evil one’s traps and rebuke him. We are to realize that we are mocking God if we keep repeating the same sin over again.

Often times, we live our lives here on earth like it is our permanent home. We strive and yearn for material possessions like wealth, physical beauty or healthy lives that we will all leave behind when we are called by God. The question each of us has to ask ourselves is ‘are we ‘building’ our lives for earth, or for God’s Kingdom? And, if we don’t change our sinful ways, we won’t have a chance to live a permanent life with God in heaven.

by Joey B.

Joey's Journal - September 13, 2006

Father in Heaven, I thank You for giving us the protection from the evil that is out there and lift our heads to focus to You. Thank You for the provision that You have provided sufficiently for us. Most of all, I thank You for Your guidance in living my life more close to You. I commit to Your hands our son, Joel as he is in school; may You watch over him and keep him safe, attentive and obedient. Thank You for the protection over my wife and bringing her safely home last night. May You manifest Your glory to her. May You also watch over us as we live our day. Guide my thoughts continually in my reflection of the book of Psalms. All in the Name of Jesus I pray. Amen.

My Reading - Psalm 38

My guilt overwhelms me – it is a burden too heavy to bear.

O Lord, don’t rebuke me in your anger! Don’t discipline me in your rage! Your arrows have struck deep, and your blows are crushing me. Because of your anger, my whole body is sick; my health is broken because of my sins. My guilt overwhelms me – it is a burden too heavy to bear. My wounds fester and stink because of my foolish sins. I am bent over and racked with pain. My days are filled with grief. A raging fever burns within me, and my health is broken. I am exhausted and completely crushed. My groans come from an anguished heart.

You know what I long for, Lord; you hear my every sigh. My heart beats wildly, my strength fails, and I am going blind. My loved ones and friends stay away, fearing my disease. Even my own family stands at a distance. Meanwhile, my enemies lay traps for me; they make plans to ruin me. They think up treacherous deeds all day long. But I am deaf to all their threats. I am silent before them as one who cannot speak. I choose to hear nothing, and I make no reply. For I am waiting for you, O Lord. You must answer for me, O Lord my God. I prayed, ‘Don’t let my enemies gloat over me or rejoice at my downfall.’ I am on the verge of collapse, facing constant pain. But I confess my sins; I am deeply sorry for what I have done. My enemies are many; they hate me though I have done nothing against them. They repay me evil for good and oppose me for I stand for the right. Do not abandon me, Lord. Do not stand at a distance, my God. Come quickly to help me, O Lord my savior.

My Reflection - David’s lament on receiving God’s anger and discipline because of his sin should bring back memories of our sins. The subtlety of the devil’s temptation in us makes us think that this disobedience to God’s will is a small thing or something we can get away with because it is not too serious. How wrong we are to think this! Disobedience or sin no matter how small, is still a sin against our Father. Yes, we will feel His anger just like when our earthly fathers were angered at our disobedience to their instructions and we get the punishment, i.e., spanking when we were toddlers, grounding or reduction in allowance when we were teens.

When we sin against God, we feel the guilt once we realize our disobedience and we have a great burden in our hearts. We try to hide from, make excuses or reason out to God just like Adam and Eve did but the thought of this offence against God weary us down. But, God with all His love and compassion for us, gives us a chance to confess and repent of our transgressions in order to bring us back closer to Him. There will be consequences for our disobedience and we will have to bear them. But again, the Father wants us to do away with our sinful ways and rebuke the evil one who tempts us. He still offers His outstretched hand for us to hold on to Him and as we walk again the righteous path. Are we ready to take His hand and walk the path leading back to Him?

My Prayer – Father in Heaven, I ask for Your forgiveness of my sinful ways. I confess and repent for the sins of disobedience to Your Will. Please show Your mercy on me and those who ask for Your forgiveness. May I stand firm to rebuke the traps of the evil one no matter how subtle they are. May Your Holy Spirit be with me to strengthen and reinforce my thoughts with only of Jesus’ death on the cross because He wanted me to live. May I continue to walk a path of righteousness that would eventually lead to the Father. All in the Name of Jesus. Amen


by Joey B.