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If It Be Your Will

Posted in Healing, Jesus, Love, Prayer, Salvation, The Righteous on February 24, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Jesus was going throughout all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every kind of disease and every kind of sickness among the people.  Matthew 4:23

“These signs will accompany those who have believed: in My name they will cast out demons, they will speak with new tongues; they will pick up serpents, and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”  Mark 16: 17-18

Many times when we pray for the sick we usually begin by saying “God if it be your will…”  What we are really asking “is it God’s will to heal the sick everytime?”

When Jesus was on the earth He only did what He saw the Father in Heaven do.  We know that Jesus healed everyone who came to Him that needed healing.  He healed every kind of disease and sickness.

Jesus died for our sins and through Him we have salvation and the redemption of our sins. But Jesus also came to heal the sick and commissioned us to continue the work of healing to sick.

Jesus demonstrated God’s perfect will.  It was the Father’s will to heal the sick then and it is still His will today.  That is why He sent His Son Jesus to die for our sins – for eternal life; to bless us and live life to its fullness.

It is not only God’s will to heal but it is our mandate as believers to heal the sick.  God is no respecter of persons.  He wants to heal both believers and unbelievers.  It is the kindness of God that brings about repentance, and it is through that kindness and love that healing comes.

We should be confident when we pray for the sick that it is God’s will to heal.  God is able and willing to heal all those who come to Him.  The real question is “are we willing to accept His healing?”

To be continued…

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The Pain of Remaining the Same

Posted in government, The Father, The Righteous on February 5, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Now the time that the sons of Israel lived in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years. Exodus 12:40

2All the sons of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron; and the whole congregation said to them, “Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! Or would that we had died in this wilderness! 3“Why is the LORD bringing us into this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will become plunder; would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?” 4So they said to one another, “Let us appoint a leader and return to Egypt.” Numbers 14:2-4

Most people know the following quote: “A person will remain the same until the pain of remaining the same is greater than the pain of change.”  I was thinking about this after seeing an article about how our country needs to return to the ways of the past.  There is a conservative movement to return to the way things were because people do not like the changes that are taking place and they remember what it used to be like and want to return to those “good old” days.

The same happened with the children of Israel.  They did not want to face the wilderness or the unknown between the land of Egypt and the land of promise.  When things got difficult in the wilderness they would gripe and complain and say that they would have been better off in Egypt.  They spent 430 years under the Egyptians and cried out to God for deliverance; but when God sent Moses to deliver them and they ended up in the wilderness, they wanted to return to oppression of Egypt.  They did not like the change.

It is never God’s will for us to remain the same.  God wants us to grow and mature in our faith and walk with Him.  We can’t be afraid of change.  If we do not change, we cannot grow and experience all that God has for us.  Even when looking at the state of our country the answer is not in looking back but in looking forward and having a vision for the future.

However, when we are in the unknown it is easier to reflect on what we do know even if that past situation brought us pain.  So let it not be that the only time we are willing to change is when the “pain of remaining the same is greater than the pain of change.”  Change does not have to be painful but we should embrace it and realize that God is always looking to take us to another level of faith and glory.

So if you are going through a difficult time right now, don’t look back to Egypt; hold onto the promise of God and know that the best is yet to come.  That is what happened with Israel – they went from the bondage of Egypt, to the wilderness, and into the promise land that flowed with milk and honey.  Your promise land is ahead never behind.

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White as Snow

Posted in Crucified, Grace, Jesus, Knowing God, Love, Salvation, Sin, The Righteous on February 1, 2011| Leave a Comment »

“Come now, and let us reason together,” says the LORD, “Though your sins are as scarlet, they will be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they will be like wool.”  Isaiah 1:18

Here in New England we have had several snow storms and there is snow everywhere.  Before the snow could melt from one storm another storm came bringing more snow.  There are piles of snow all over the place and many people are tired of all this snow. So today I began to reflect on the meaning of snow and its relevance in the bible.

Snow represents purity.  Snow is very bright and brings a cleansing to the environment.  When snow falls it is so pretty and makes everything it touches look beautiful and new.  A tree without its leaves that is dormant in the winter seems to come alive when there is snow piled on its branches and trunk.  However, once the snow plows and salt trucks come and plow the snow it becomes very dirty and almost looks like dirt on the sides of the road.  It doesn’t take much to ruin the whiteness and brightness of snow.  But in the Kingdom the opposite happens.

When we were sinners our sins were red as crimson.  Red is a very strong color.  It is a primary color.  If you have a red stain on a white shirt it is very hard to remove that red stain.  Even if most of the stain is gone your eye is still drawn to that spot.  But in the Kingdom when a sinner accepts Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior their sins become white as snow.  They become pure just like the snow when it falls from the sky and covers the area.  Think about it – once our sins were so evident and red; however, since the death and resurrection of Jesus they are now like wool, white as snow.

So the next  time you see the snow fall or you are looking out your window at all the snow covering your neighborhood, think of Jesus and what His death on the cross did for us – we all became white as snow.  This is how God sees His children as pure as the new fallen snow.

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