Just Wondering

Just wondering if its wrong for me to really desire to see a miracle or any supernatural move of God?

I really want to see someone healed and get up out of their wheelchairl.

I really want to see someone delivered from demons.

I really want to see something miraculous.

Christ Casts Out The Devil

This is a clip from the greatest depiction of the life of Christ ever made..........Jesus of Nazareth.

The Wickedness Of This World

Just open your eyes and look around and you will see the corrupt nature of mankind and his sinful, self centered nature.

The evangelical Lutherans voted to allow openly gay people to serve as pastors.

There are a lot of Catholics out there who openly defy the church's teachings on birth control and abortion.

The above two examples beautifully point out the selfish desires of people who don't want to live by the standards of Christianity, but want to pull Christianity down into the gutter with them.

Hebrews 13:8....."Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever."

God is unchanging and unmovable.

Churches must stand like a rock on Biblical teaching and people need to realize that God and his values are bigger then they could ever hope to be.

It is the height of arrogance and it is a foolish folly to even think to make the church conform to the standards of this corrupt and fallen world.

When churches of any denomination cater to the whims and lusts of sinful human nature, they are committing de facto Satan worship.

The bible clearly says that Satan is the prince of this world.

The Pastor's Cat

This is a supposedly true story.

A pastor had a kitten that climbed up a tree in his backyard and then was afraid to come down. The pastor coaxed, offered warm milk, etc.

The kitty would not come down. The tree was not sturdy enough to climb, so the pastor decided that if he tied a rope to his car and drove away so that the tree bent down, he could then reach up and get the kitten.

That's what he did, all the while checking his progress in the car. He then figured if he went just a little bit further, the tree would be bent sufficiently for him to reach the kitten. But as he moved the car a little further forward, the rope broke.

The tree went "bong!" and the kitten instantly sailed through the air-out of sight.

The pastor felt terrible. He walked all over the neighborhood asking people if they'd seen a little kitten. No. Nobody had seen a stray kitten. So he prayed, "Lord, I just commit this kitten to your keeping," and went on about his business.

A few days later he was at the grocery store, and met one of his church members. He happened to look into her shopping cart and was amazed to see cat food. This woman was a cat hater and everyone knew it, so he asked her, "Why are you buying cat food when you hate cats so much?"

She replied, "You won't believe this," and then told him how her little girl had been begging her for a cat, but she kept refusing. Then a few days before, the child had begged again, so the Mom finally told her little girl, "Well, if God gives you a cat, I'll let you keep it."

She told the pastor, "I watched my child go out in the yard, get on her knees, and ask God for a cat. And really, Pastor, you won't believe this, but I saw it with my own eyes. A kitten suddenly came flying out of the blue sky, with its paws outspread, and landed right in front of her."

Never underestimate the Power of God and His unique sense of humor.

Besetting Sins

 ¹Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, (Hebrews 12:1, King James Version)

Why do some sins dog us so persistently?

Why do they cling to us with such a fierce tenacity?

Perhaps its because that is where we are the weakest and that is where Satan will come at us.

I know that since I came back to God, some sin habits went away, but others remain.

It really is disheartening at times.

Salvation Is Eternal

 ¹⁴I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him. (Ecclesiastes 3:14, King James Version)

 ²⁸And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. (John 10:28, King James Version)

We are saved by the grace and mercy of a loving God.

A God who sent his only son to die a horrible death as a sacrifice for our sins.

A God who loves filthy sinners like us enough to offer up his holy and righteous son whom he loves is not going to play some kind of shell game with our souls.

Those who think that salvation can be lost are entrapped in the saved by works mentality.

Yes, it is possible to drift away from God.

I did it for many years.

But God's love, grace, and mercy are unchangeable and unmoving.

God's Healing

When one thinks of God healing people of disease, its easy to think of all the people who die of cancer, heart disease, and the other big maladies, then wonder where was God then?

God can and certainly does heal people of the big ones, but to fully appreciate God's healing touch, just think of all the times you've succumbed to the flu, or food poisoning, or the common cold. Perhaps it was a tooth abscess, a sprained ankle, or a broken limb.

God has healed you numerous times. Just take a moment and think about it.

Why do some people not get healed and eventually die? I wouldn't even begin to try and guess God's will in that regard.

But all I know is what the Bible says...........all things work together for good for those who love God.