Archive for January, 2009

Published by admin on 30 Jan 2009

CREATURES OF HABIT

  Have you ever wished you could wipe your slate clean and start all over?  Many times in my past I went through traumatic experiences and heartaches, and many of them were of my own doing.  And of course, each day brought the remembrance of those experiences, and whether or not I realized it, they would shape how I would live my day.   The hope that things would get better someday was about all that kept me going sometimes.  Maybe you could call it “denial”, but something deep inside me really wanted things to be different.  I’d think, today will be better, but somehow that day would end up being just like every other day.  Why is that? Continue Reading »

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Published by admin on 23 Jan 2009

COME, TAKE THE WATER OF LIFE FREELY

When I asked Christ Jesus to save me back in July of 1993, and He said He had also healed me, and called me into the ministry, I still had all the symptoms of cancer in my body. Immediately after church on the day I got saved, I went to a hospital where one from the congregation I attended was dying of a blood disease, who was not expected to live through the afternoon. I told him, I just asked Jesus to save me, and He said He had also healed me.  So I’ll pray for you, and God will heal you, too.  And He did, right then and there, and the man is healthy to this day.  Boy!  That was easy!  The Lord told me then He had given me a ministry to heal the sick, so I’ve been about that ever since. Continue Reading »

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Published by admin on 16 Jan 2009

GOD’S PLAN FOR HEALING

People often ask me what kind of plan they need to follow in order to receive healing.  Actually, the plan I used to get well was quite simple.  Most people tell me if it was really that easy, everyone would get well, but the fact they don’t all get well shows me that they are ignoring the obvious truths of the Word of God, and trying to add something to it.  Let me point out something very important.  Jesus plus whatever wisdom we can come up with equals failure every time.  It isn’t “Jesus plus…”  or “the Word of God plus…(doctor, medicine, herbs, whatever). …”  It’s the Word of God or NOTHING.  God doesn’t need your doctor’s help, or your medicine’s help, or any of your bright ideas, either for that matter.

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Published by admin on 09 Jan 2009

THEY’RE ALL HIS CHILDREN

      While visiting at another church recently, I noticed the diversity in styles of worship.  The worship leader sang the same song it seemed like hours, and it sounded more like a woman in labor, than it did a worship song.  Truthfully, I was glad when it was over.  Then she proceeded to give a “word” that was merely a continuation of the above.  Worship continued.  Next to me was a man standing without any shoes on, saying nothing, with his arms outstretched.  Another lady read something she wrote, put to song.  Another lady’s lips were moving and she was shaking, but not a sound came out.
  Some like to dance when they worship.  Some REALLY like to pick ‘em up and put ‘em down, know what I mean?  Some even like to tear out of the back door and run through the woods, jumping over stuff,  shouting out praises to God at the top of their lungs. Continue Reading »

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Published by admin on 02 Jan 2009

COUNT IT ALL JOY

There is some really good advice given to us in James 1:2-5,
My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.  But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.  Is God trying to tell us we are lacking in these areas? 
I don’t know of anyone, including myself, that counts it all joy when trials come, so we have a ways to go in that area.  However, it doesn’t have to be that way, at least not as far as God is concerned.
Does He know something we don’t?  Is it really possible to “count it all joy” when you can’t find anything to be joyful about?  Yes, it is, and I’ll tell you how.  Well, at least I’ll tell you how I have to do it. 

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