You ever hear something, read something or see something and then find that exact same thing coming up in an unrelated conversation just a little while later?
This happened to me yesterday. And the something was David Brainerd.
I was just talking about his life with someone last week.
Then in our class on spiritual disciplines Sunday night our reading from Donald Whitney included two lengthy excerpts from Brainerd.
Finally, to cap it off, Carly shared with me that she was reading something about David Brainerd’s life with a high school girls Bible study which Amy and Amy wrote.
David Brainerd wrote this in his journal on Wednesday, April 28, 1742. It describes the power of prayer, silence and being alone with God.
I withdrew to my usual place of retirement in great peace and tranquility; spent about two hours in secret duties and felt much as I did yesterday morning, only weaker and more overcome. I seemed to depend wholly upon my dear Lord, wholly weaned from all other dependences. I knew not what to say to my God, but only lean on His bosom, as it were, and breathe out my desires after a perfect conformity to Him in all things. Thirsting desires and insatiable longings possessed my soul after perfect holiness. God was so precious to my soul that the world with all its enjoyments was infinitely vile. I had no more value for all the favor of men than pebbles. The Lord was my ALL; and that He overruled all greatly delighted me. I think my faith and dependence upon God scarce ever rose so high. I saw Him such a fountain of goodness that it seemed impossible I should distrust Him again, or be any way anxious about anything that should happen to me.