It Just Can’t Get Any More Simple
Here is a simple-to-the-max revelation concerning God's desire to heal you. It is found in these three verses. Matthew 4:23 "And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people." NOTE - Jesus healed ALL types and variants of sickness and disease. The word "all" appears 4,664 times in the Bible and in each case, be it in the original Hebrew or Greek, the word literally means all. REVELATION - No sickness or disease was exempt from God's healing power. Matthew 9:35...
Before and After
To me, today's television commercials fit into one of these categories - out and out funny, somewhat blah and a waste of my time, information providers, and lastly just offensive. With little effort, you too could possibly quickly place current commercials in each of these categories, right? Here's my take on one of the most offensive types of commercials that I dislike with a passion - the before and after commercials. Why? They are incredibly deceptive. The products that I am talking about promise incredible hair growth or rapid weight loss or miraculous wrinkle reduction, right? But, on...
The Me in the We
I absolutely, 100%, without exception know this to be a fact. When I am included in a photo taken of a group of people, the first thing (not the second or third thing) that I do when I am shown the picture is to mentally zoom in and search the picture for my three favorite people - me, myself, and I. That is exactly what I did when I saw this photo of my Aunt Oleta's 101st birthday celebration last month. Now don't go and get sanctimonious on me because you know that you do the very same thing, don't you! We all want to see what I call "the me in the we"! This "the me in the we" is a...
Power-Packed Hands
This week, my challenge has been to memorize the following two scriptures. "Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery." 1 Timothy 4:14 "Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee by the putting on of my hands." 2 Timothy 1:6 In this challenge, I find myself this week quoting these two scriptures shortly after I awaken in the morning, several times throughout the day, and then again just before I fall asleep. Believe me when I write that this memorization challenge...
The Answer for a Sighing, Crying, Dying World
Some time ago, while taking my daily walk and listening to the ministry of John Osteen (Joel Osteen's father), I heard and later wrote down in the margin of my Bible the following statement by Pastor Osteen - Heaven is too real, Hell is too hot, Time is too short, and Eternity is too long. Can you capture the enormity and urgency of that statement? We live in a sighing, crying, dying world that needs the message of the gospel N-O-W. Time is of the essence. We have absolutely no time to waste. The children in our schools, the youth in our universities, the neighbors in our communities, the...
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