Dock

Friday Training: 
Spent all day doing carpentry work and painting and hauling iron pipes around. No actual training today as I was toast.




Thursday Training:


4 hours spent putting in my dock with my dad (hard manual labor, carrying 8 foot wood dock sections, iron pipes and 16 foot pipe sections, pounding pipes into the sand ect...)

Daily Report:
Wake Up: 5:30 am
Daily Reading: Philemon
Devotion: Streams in the Desert
Everything is possible for him who believes (Mark 9:23)

God is always seeking to teach you the way of faith. Your training for a life of faith requires many areas of learning, including the trial of faith, the discipline of faith, the patience of faith, and the courage of faith.

Genuine moral fiber is developed by enduring the discipline of faith. When you have made your request to God, and the answer still has not come, what are you to do? Keep on believing His word! Never be swayed from it by what you may see or feel. Then as you stand firm, your power and experience is being developed, strengthened, and deepened. When you remain unswayed from your stance of faith, even in view of supposed contradictions to God's Word, you grow stronger on every front.

God will often purposely delay in giving you His answer, and in fact the delay is just as much an answer to your prayer as is the fulfillment when it comes.

Think for example of Joseph, whom the Lord was training for the throne in Egypt. Psalm 105:19 says, "the Word of the Lord tried him." It is not the prison life with its hard beds or poor food than "tried him" but the word of the Lord. The words God spoke into his heart in his early years, concerning his elevated place of honor above his brothers, were the words that were always before him. He remained alone in prison, in spite of his innocence, andwatched others being released who were justly incarcerated. Yet he remembered God's words even when every step of his career made fulfillment seem more and more impossible.

These were times that tried his sould, but they were also the times of his spiritual growth and development. Then when word of his release form prison finally came, he was found ready and equipped for the delicate task of dealing with his wayward brothers. And he was able to do so with a love and a patience only surpassed by God Himself.

No amount of persecution will try you as much as experiences like these---ones in which you are required to wait on God. Once He has spoken His promise to work, it is truly hard to wait as you see the days go by with no fullfillment. Yet it is this discipline of faith that will bring you into a knowledge of God that would otherwise be impossible.