![]() ![]() He thought about the story told in Acts when Paul and Silas were in jail. I tried to lose myself in the Bible, but the words blurred to my eyes and I couldn’t make any sense of them.”įinally, Bennett had an epiphany, a revelation of sorts. But the clock seemed to move in slow motion. I thought if I could just doze off, this will pass by morning. “I tried everything I knew to pull out of it – all to no avail. “I believed everything Satan said,” he admitted. You wrote about joy and yet now you are filled with despair. ‘What a hypocrite! You wrote, Don’t Be Afraid, and yet you are more afraid now than you’ve ever been. ‘You call yourself a Christian,’ he said. Then he threw his most effective dart at me – Doubt. Every time I tried to ‘look on the bright side’, I ended up imaging a very dark future. ![]() Every thought I turned toward heaven bounced back to me as if it were made of brass. He struck a more critical part of my being – my joy, my confidence, my hope. “That had been accomplished for him by the chemo. ![]() “He didn’t strike me physically,” Bennett wrote. He mentioned one particular night when he “bottomed out”. He hides in the bushes waiting for any sign of weakness and then he strikes.”īennett admitted that his faith became weak in the loneliness that is associated with bone marrow transplants. “I am convinced,” he told his readers, “that our enemy stalks us exactly in the way the Bible describes him, a roaring lion. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas – the first of three.īennett wrote about his experiences on his website, Roger Bennett’s Midnight Meditations. He fought it valiantly, but realized that the disease was winning, so he decided to take a stand and underwent a bone marrow transplant at the M. He had leukemia, which he thought was in remission, only to see it rage back in his life with vengeance. The last several years were not particularly easy ones for Bennett. Unfortunately, he succumbed to cancer in 2007 after an 11-year battle. Roger Bennett was a Southern Gospel piano player and songwriter who made a living serving the Lord in the ministry of music. Many of you probably did not know Roger Bennett. It’s one of God’s principles that work when we apply it. I always thought that statement was nothing more than a way to get me to sing the praise choruses that so many of our churches use now. If you go to church with any regularity, you may have heard your music minister say, “God inhabits the praises of his people”. This devotion is the #1 devotion on my website, and why not. “But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel.” (Psalm 22:3)Ī note from Mike: My website,, features over 600 devotions and over a year’s time, these 600 devotions are read almost 1 million times a year. ![]()
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