Left to Tell, by Immaculee’ Ilibagiza A few weeks ago a sister sent me an email forward about a survivor of the Rwandan genocide, Immaculee’ Ilibagiza, and how God had preserved her through the horrors there. I did a little research and knew there […]
Tag: Faith
Straighten up, and be healed
When we have a problem, obstacle or hindrance in the spirit, the answer is not to coddle ourselves or adjust downward into permanent workaround mode. The answer is to face the problem square-on. Yes, it may be painful for a season. But that pales in comparison to the pain of a life lived at a subsistence level of accommodation and mediocrity.
Evolution thrown for a loop
If you didn't believe - or didn't know - what the Bible says here, what hope did you have? None. But if you took God at his word, and believed Him rather than the medical scientists, and took your stand for your healing, you may have been laughed at by sophisticates, but you would have had hope. You would have filled your mind with positive, hopeful, expectant thoughts. You would have prayed affirmations aloud, according to Mark 11, where Jesus tells us to pray believing that we are, right now, as we are praying, receiving. You would be filling your soul with the reality of your healing even before that healing was manifest to the natural eye.
Authority
According to the Great Commission, our task is to take God's sovereign authority into all creation, reclaiming it for Him. God has delegated all authority to Christ, who in turn has delegated it to us. Thus, when we are praying and working within God's will, that infinite authority fully backs us up. That is why the gates of hell cannot prevail against the obedient church. The key to the victory is that the church must in fact be obedient to the word.
Made like us, so we could be like Him
Had Jesus come merely to repopulate the earth with godly seed, none of the issues the devil had raised in his rebellion would have been resolved. And the new race could have fallen just as easily as had the first. But Jesus didn’t come to replace, He came to redeem. The Incarnation is only half the story, the other half being the Cross.
Learning to trust
The question is, how does one trust God? Failing in that will keep one in a holding pattern. We need to trust God, for if we trust God, we will be open to Him. And if we are open to Him, we are going to hear from Him. And if we hear from Him, we are going to be empowered.
The religious American (updated 12/11)
Pew has an interesting new survey out today on religious beliefs and practices. Like it or not, post-modernism is here. Structures are meaning less and less, and function more and more. Americans are more likely to attend church outside their denominations than before. One-fifth […]
