This last year, I was struggling with the reality of God. I had so many questions I was never able to ask before, and as I was able to ask them, some more doubt crept in, Though it seems scary, God used it solely for His glory!
Judges 6:36:40: Then Gideon said to God, “If you will save Israel by my hand, as you have said, behold, I am laying a of wool on the threshing floor. If there is dew on the fleece alone, and it is dry on all the ground, then I shall know that you will save Israel by my hand, as you have said.” And it was so. When he rose early next morning and squeezed the fleece, he wrung enough dew from the fleece to fill a bowl with water. Then Gideon said to God, “Let not your anger burn against me; let me speak just once more. Please let me test just once more with the fleece. Please let it be dry on the fleece only, and on all the ground let there be dew.” And God did so that night; and it was dry on the fleece only, and on all the ground there was dew.
Through all of my questioning, I was encouraged to lay out a fleece before God, like Gideon. To ask God to show me He is real. I was given an example of a man who laid out a fleece and asked God to reveal himself to him by making it snow, and it did! (In Southern Cali.) But I decided that if I was going to ask God to reveal himself to me, it would have to be something really BIG!
My fleece was that God would show me He was real, and that He truly loves me, by healing my
friend. I wanted her to be off her medication, and the doctors say that all her blood levels were normal! I wanted to see a living miracle. I wasn’t going to tell anyone what I asked for, and I remember asking my friend “Do you think it can be something big, like really big?” Her answer was “I think so, I don’t think there is a certain requirement for what you ask.” So I continued to have Faith that God would heal her. I eventually told my friend what I prayed for, and the day I told her, she said she felt such a peace about it, that she quit taking her medication! I was scared for her when she first shared that with me, but also continued trusting the Lord. I just knew she would be healed. She shared a verse with me one day a verse that the Lord gave her in a very awesome way! (You know one of those I-am-going-to-open-the-Bible-and-whatever-is-there-let it-speak-to-me-verses. Ha) It is a verse I will never forget, especially with the memories of that day. The verse is, Isaiah 7:11 (The Message) “Ask for a sign from God. Ask anything. Be extravagant. Ask for the moon!” And, that is just what I did!
2 months later, my friend was still off of her medication, and feeling great! She had never been off of it for more than 3 days w/ out feeling the effects and having to go back on it. Her doctor told her she would be on it for the rest of her life.
Then, something terrible happened. She had a miscarriage, that is one of the things that can happen when she is off of her medication. Well, I was feeling really bad, like it was my fault, I gave her false hope and then this happened. I thought God didn’t answer my prayer fully. She was still off her medication, doing better, but not miraculously healed. I continued to pray.
Nearly 3 months later, I called my friend, and she told me she got blood work done and was still off her medication, and all her blood levels were 100% normal! WOW!!! He heard me! He answered my prayer, He loves me and He is soooo real!!! Praise God that He answered my prayer, He did not have to! I was asking the God of the universe the creator of all things, to ‘prove’ that He is real. What in the world! BUT, He knows my heart, and my heart was longing so bad to see this in my own life, up close and personal. I am still in awe that God heard me!
Friday, July 20, 2012
Saturday, March 24, 2012
John 5:18
JESUS IS EQUAL WITH GOD
He was calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God" (Not making himself God)
He was calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God" (Not making himself God)
The healing at the pool on the Sabbath
John 5:1-7
All Jesus expected from this man was for him to obey. This man's obedience w/out restraint was all it took to truly be healed! Faith and Jesus :)
God is always working, and therefor, so is His son, He is able to do nothing apart form His Father! Such an amazing thing. So much depth to this, a human mind can not comprehend, let alone write about the revelation in it.
All Jesus expected from this man was for him to obey. This man's obedience w/out restraint was all it took to truly be healed! Faith and Jesus :)
God is always working, and therefor, so is His son, He is able to do nothing apart form His Father! Such an amazing thing. So much depth to this, a human mind can not comprehend, let alone write about the revelation in it.
Jesus heals an officials son
John 4:46-54
Seems as though some people feel they need/want a miracle to believe while others just need faith to believe. I don't know if that was just for then, or for now too. I feel like people always ask for miracles, but we don't really need it, because the miracle is plain to see, in creation itself...hmm..
Seems as though some people feel they need/want a miracle to believe while others just need faith to believe. I don't know if that was just for then, or for now too. I feel like people always ask for miracles, but we don't really need it, because the miracle is plain to see, in creation itself...hmm..
Jesus and the woman of Samaria
John 4:1-44
So cool that Jesus broke the barrier by going directly through Samaria when most Jews avoid it and go around it completely, this in itself shows how compassionate Christ is. Then for Him to talk to an adulterous Samaritan woman, shows even more compassion, and love for outcasts, the lost ones, the "last" ones... Jesus loves ALL people, not just the Jews!
Unlike Nicodemus, the woman at the well, actually acted on what Jesus shared with her. Jesus cam to save the sick, Nicodemus was sick too, but He had a different focus...himself, not Christ!
She was an outcast, and yet Jesus cam to her and loved her. She accepted it as truth and ran to tell everyone. She had received the living water, the Holy spirit through Christ, and she was never thirsty again!
Before the disciples received the Holy spirit, they did not even understand what Jesus was saying. When they received it, their eyes were opened. Still the same way today, unless we have the spirit, we have no understanding of scripture.
So cool that Jesus broke the barrier by going directly through Samaria when most Jews avoid it and go around it completely, this in itself shows how compassionate Christ is. Then for Him to talk to an adulterous Samaritan woman, shows even more compassion, and love for outcasts, the lost ones, the "last" ones... Jesus loves ALL people, not just the Jews!
Unlike Nicodemus, the woman at the well, actually acted on what Jesus shared with her. Jesus cam to save the sick, Nicodemus was sick too, but He had a different focus...himself, not Christ!
She was an outcast, and yet Jesus cam to her and loved her. She accepted it as truth and ran to tell everyone. She had received the living water, the Holy spirit through Christ, and she was never thirsty again!
Before the disciples received the Holy spirit, they did not even understand what Jesus was saying. When they received it, their eyes were opened. Still the same way today, unless we have the spirit, we have no understanding of scripture.
John the Baptist exalts Christ
John 3:22-36
A person can not receive even ONE thing unless it is given to him from heaven!
Everything you and I have, every little thing, every big thing, every spiritual gift, salvation, children, friends, parents, EVERYTHING is from Him, and He deserves thanks! Even the things given to us that our flesh can not see as good, they are from Him and eternally are good and perfect gifts! He will use those things ultimately for His glory! Let us be as Job who says, the Lord gives, and the Lord takes away, blessed be the name of the Lord!
A person can not receive even ONE thing unless it is given to him from heaven!
Everything you and I have, every little thing, every big thing, every spiritual gift, salvation, children, friends, parents, EVERYTHING is from Him, and He deserves thanks! Even the things given to us that our flesh can not see as good, they are from Him and eternally are good and perfect gifts! He will use those things ultimately for His glory! Let us be as Job who says, the Lord gives, and the Lord takes away, blessed be the name of the Lord!
Friday, March 2, 2012
For God so loved the world
John 3:16-21
Condemn:To pronounce to be wrong; to judge; to sentence.
Christ did not come to tell people they were wrong, to judge them. He cam to tell people He loved them, and wanted to save them.
Isn't it our job to do the same.? How often do we fall into the trap of judging, or debating/arguing someones point. Are we then doing it out of love, or something else. Our desires as followers of Christ should be to be more like Him! In that, instead of looking upon sinners or rather the unsaved like they are scum, let's remember that God created them too, they are His beautiful perfect creation. His fine masterpieces!When he created them saw that it was good! Lets see them as good, as lost sheep, looking for their way home, for their Father, their protector, provider, lover. That's all they are, just like us w/out Christ.
They need a savior, you don't! You already have Him! Now reach out to the ones who don't! God came to heal the sick (not the healthy) He came to save the sinner! (Not the saint) As His saints lets follow in His footsteps and realize we are healthy because of His spirit in us, we are saved! Lets reach out and be His hands and feet, for as we know, we were created in His image, now let's reflect it! :)
(19) You can not walk in the light and the dark! You are either in or you are out! Light makes dark go away, dark does nothing to light, but make it brighter! (Priase the Lord) Don't be afraid of being exposed, it's better to walk in the light, that in darkness for eternity! We are not the light, but like John, we too can bear witness about the the light! :)
Condemn:To pronounce to be wrong; to judge; to sentence.
Christ did not come to tell people they were wrong, to judge them. He cam to tell people He loved them, and wanted to save them.
Isn't it our job to do the same.? How often do we fall into the trap of judging, or debating/arguing someones point. Are we then doing it out of love, or something else. Our desires as followers of Christ should be to be more like Him! In that, instead of looking upon sinners or rather the unsaved like they are scum, let's remember that God created them too, they are His beautiful perfect creation. His fine masterpieces!When he created them saw that it was good! Lets see them as good, as lost sheep, looking for their way home, for their Father, their protector, provider, lover. That's all they are, just like us w/out Christ.
They need a savior, you don't! You already have Him! Now reach out to the ones who don't! God came to heal the sick (not the healthy) He came to save the sinner! (Not the saint) As His saints lets follow in His footsteps and realize we are healthy because of His spirit in us, we are saved! Lets reach out and be His hands and feet, for as we know, we were created in His image, now let's reflect it! :)
(19) You can not walk in the light and the dark! You are either in or you are out! Light makes dark go away, dark does nothing to light, but make it brighter! (Priase the Lord) Don't be afraid of being exposed, it's better to walk in the light, that in darkness for eternity! We are not the light, but like John, we too can bear witness about the the light! :)
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