Today in Sunday School we were talking about some amazing things that God is doing...healing and prophetic words and that got us started on fears. What do you fear? What is it that makes you afraid to trust God and believe that the things that happened in the New Testament could and should be happening today?
I know mine...what if I felt lead to pray for someones healing and it didn't happen? What if I prayed and prayed and God didn't answer the way I think He should? What would that do to my faith? Do I even have a faith?
I know of people who have prayed for healing and God has healed. I also know people, godly people who have prayed for healing and God has not healed them. I know those who were not healed have been used greatly to show how God uses us even in our pain and sickness.
But...
I want to know God deeper. I want to know God's power in my life. I want to see people come to faith and set this world on fire with the knowledge of a real and awesome God.
So I will start to lay aside my fears, with God's help. I will be obedient to Him, no matter what.
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Sunday, October 3, 2010
My heart did a Leap Today.
When I hear of someone who has come a little closer to God, my heart leaps and sometimes...usually I shed a few tears.
Today that happened.
Today that happened.
Saturday, October 2, 2010
Does God Need to be Defended?
How often do we try to defend God and His workings around us?
We try to put Him in a box, within our understanding and make Him make sense to us.
Is He suppose to make sense to us? Are we, in our limited understanding of this awesome God suppose to understand everything or anything that He does?
How do we finite beings wrap our brains around an infinite God?
We who can't see anything past the present try way too hard to make sense of things that only the God of the universe; who sees past, present and future all at once, knows.
Now, what do I do with this?
Does it make me want to pray? Since God is going to do what He is going to do anyway.
Does it make me fearful? Like some unknown force is at work and I am just a pawn in it's play.
or
Do I find comfort in the fact that I don't have to have all the answers? I know that God knows, and that's enough.
Can I rest in the knowing that God wants what is best for me? This does not mean what I think is the best for me.
Do I know that God desires a relationship with me, and in that relationship comes conversation and listening, on both parts?
Do I trust this being I call God Almighty?
Do I serve Him as a slave, with the have too hanging over my head? Or do I serve Him as a servant, who has chosen to do as He asks?
We try to put Him in a box, within our understanding and make Him make sense to us.
Is He suppose to make sense to us? Are we, in our limited understanding of this awesome God suppose to understand everything or anything that He does?
How do we finite beings wrap our brains around an infinite God?
We who can't see anything past the present try way too hard to make sense of things that only the God of the universe; who sees past, present and future all at once, knows.
Now, what do I do with this?
Does it make me want to pray? Since God is going to do what He is going to do anyway.
Does it make me fearful? Like some unknown force is at work and I am just a pawn in it's play.
or
Do I find comfort in the fact that I don't have to have all the answers? I know that God knows, and that's enough.
Can I rest in the knowing that God wants what is best for me? This does not mean what I think is the best for me.
Do I know that God desires a relationship with me, and in that relationship comes conversation and listening, on both parts?
Do I trust this being I call God Almighty?
Do I serve Him as a slave, with the have too hanging over my head? Or do I serve Him as a servant, who has chosen to do as He asks?
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