Wednesday night bible study – thank you Lord. I love being in church. I love how I feel and just want that feeling to last forever. When I walk out of the chapel I have a smile of my face a mile wide, my spirit is peaceful, calm and full of joy. I don’t have a care in the world. My problems are a million miles away and they don’t really belong to me because I have released them all to Him.

Tonight we had a guest minister. To the naked eye he was a slim Billy Graham; with the spiritual ear and eye he was the Lord’s servant through and through. From the minute he started speaking until the end of the evening I was mesmerized. I couldn’t stop nodding, my spirit was in complete agreement with the Word, the scriptures read like a story. I had complete understanding. It was like he was speaking totally to me.

I have been asking questions about how to deepen my relationship with the Lord. I want His will to be revealed to me and I want to know what He would have me do. Tonight I heard Him loud and clear. I got a lot of answers. I have a starting point and that’s a lot more than I had before the service.

Tonight’s sermon was based on Luke 17: 20 & 21 – “And when he was demanded of the Pharises, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.”

The kingdom of God is within each one of us! We have to establish kingdom territory wherever we go – home, work, car; everywhere. We are the kingdom of God.

In Romans 14:17 – “For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.”

Amen! Righteousness is right standing before God.

Daniel 1:8 - “But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king’s meat…”  He purposed in his heart not to compromise his beliefs. Daniel was a Jew through and through and nothing was going to come between him and God. Not even the king’s new decree. Daniel 6:10 – “Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house…he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.”

He had been taught at an early age to pray three times a day; to meditate on God’s law day and night and he lived it and was blessed by it to excel in his life by being second in command.

We don’t need to conform to the world but transform through the Word of God. We need to excel in the world in everything that we do as God’s followers. We need to become disciplined in spending time with Him in his Word, in prayer and supplication and in service to our fellow man.

Meditate on the Word, get on your knees and spend face time with the Lord. Let Him reveal his purpose for you.

Daniel 2:34-35 & 44 – “…God is cutting out a stone (building up an army of Christians) that will smote the great idols of the world and fill the whole earth; 44 – “And in the days of of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed:… and it shall stand for ever.”

Revelation 11:15 – We know the end even before it gets here! “We will win the battle…the kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever”

I brought the CD. I’ve listened to it twice. Today was one of the best I’ve had in a while. I’m setting a goal to purpose my life much like Daniel. I want to be closer to the Lord so that the feelings I have on Sunday and Wednesday will be with me Sunday through Saturday and my thirst for his Word will be unquenchable.

I am at the crossroads and I’m ready to move forward. I wonder where this path will lead.