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Book Description:
“The Second 40 Days” is Part 18 of The Book Of Benjamin Kareth series: “Throughout our journey with God in this life we are faced with times of solitude and obscurity. This book chronicles a period of 40 days in the year 2022 of my journey. God is teaching me more and more about discipleship and what that looks like on a daily basis. Walking with Him and walking in the Holy Spirit are daily, moment by moment actions. This journey as a follower of Jesus Christ is a lifestyle, a new life, His way. Join me for this part of my journey.
A Glimpse Inside:
Chapter 12: Day 12
July 22nd, 2022, 11:13am – The Farm, Meridian, TX, USA:
This morning, I am feeling reflective and pensive. Thoughtful of life and God and family and friends, both past and present. What a wonderful life this is! Even in my darkest days on this earth I loved being alive. Since I was a boy, I’ve always thrived in the ups and downs of my life. Through the years there was always this sense in me of excitement and adventure in every single moment of every single day. It’s always been tangible to me. And somehow, it’s very hard to explain… to express whatever this is in me.
But my thought today is that maybe it’s my awareness of God’s eternal presence in every moment. He is always present with me. Always here… in this moment. Not once in my entire life have I ever felt Him far. Yes, I’ve sensed the wide gap that my own willful sins put between His likeness and mine, but even still I’ve felt Him there waiting and watching and loving. Always.
I’m alone here. In this trailer. I wake into silence, and I go to sleep in silence. But He is always here with me. He wraps me in this blanket of His love.
He holds me and all His children in His hands outside of time… in eternity. When we receive Jesus as our lord and savior… we are born again. Born to new life in eternity. We are taken from a temporal and dead existence to an eternal and spiritual eternal life. What a wonderful mystery this is?! And it’s hidden from those who are not born again… but revealed in full to those that are. Blessed assurance.
Chapter 19: Day 19
July 29th, 2022, 7:13am – The Farm, Meridian, TX, USA:
This morning, I asked God to give me something to write about here, because I’m not feeling like writing or feeling anything particularly at all. I didn’t sleep well last night. I’m tired. It seems I have a million thoughts running through my head and my body hurts a bit. Faith! … where are is that faith of mine today?!…
So let me just pray… I believe that prayers are powerful, even written prayers travel the winding and eternal realms of His kingdom that are outside of time and space. A prayer written today retains its eternal power not because of me at all, but because of who is doing the answering of that prayer…
Father, here I am again this morning. Broken before you. Lacking motivation and direction. I feel so weak today and in pain. My faith feels weak and tired. In Jesus Name I ask for an infusion of your life to fill me right now. I ask for grace and mercy. I ask for peace to flood the halls of my heart. I ask for all the voices of the accuser to be silent. I ask for your angels to be sent to surround me and provide ministry and protection to my spirit and soul. Father, forgive me for my failings. Jesus, son of David, have mercy on me. And I life up the reader to you right now, not in my time, no, but in their time. In the moment they are reading this I ask that your eternal, infinite Holy Spirit would fill them to overflowing with grace, mercy, power, and comfort. God, ask many times as they read this, I ask that you would bless them. Bless their body and mind and heart. Bless their family and friends and ministries. Bless their going and their coming. Bless all the things that you’ve planned for them to do. And Father bring them safely home to you. In Jesus name I ask and pray. Amen and amen.
Chapter 27: Day 27
August 6th, 2022, 2:49pm – The Farm, Meridian, TX, USA:
What if I just stopped and did nothing more for God on this earth in this lifetime I’ve been given? Then it wouldn’t matter at all. The work would still be done.
But I am blessed to enter what God has uniquely created me to be and do on this earth in this temporal lifetime. I look back at the books God has enabled me to write about Him and if for no other reason than to bless me I am grateful for them. And I am thankful and forever grateful for all the people I’ve ever known or met in my lifetime, each one so beautiful.
Did you know that I have a photographic memory? I remember most of my life in bright, vivid pictures. Like living movies my whole life can be played back at any time. What an odd gift this memory of mine is. But I’m grateful for it. I can remember clearly all the amazing moments I’ve had with God throughout my life, and I think that it is those memories that ignite my passionate pursuit of Him more and more. He is my God and I belong to Him. What more could I want or ask for?
Right now, in this moment, alone in this trailer, in the middle of Texas, with no car… I am content. I know I’m right where God has me and when He is ready, He will send me out again. But I’m grateful for this time here. To soak in His presence. To grow and wrestle and experience Him here in this solitude, in this obscurity.
What is next? No clue. I honestly don’t want to know. Doesn’t matter. I’ll continue to listen, and I’ll obey when the time comes. For now, I’m here.
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