Life pushes and pulls us to the brink of disaster. Lovers of life will tell you they tire, but press on despite its hardships.
Yet their nights are darker than the blackness that sits deep within any imaginable place.
Bring me down to that place. Show me wonder that will never upset. What pleasure will not be exhausted before I am satisfied? How much sin must I don before living takes place?
Before time God set what is and isn't. The repercussions of truth echo through the ages, and scientific deduction and induction may last forever and yield nothing of it.
Here is truth. There is nothing new under the sun. Everything that is has been before. There is no new Malady for Mankind, and there is still but one irresistible cure.
Jesus Christ is that cure. He has come as the bread of life. He has come that all might have life. He has come that all might be saved.
He has come that we might have more life and live it more abundantly. That truly when I thirst it may be quenched through him. When I hunger I may be filled in him. That when I tire I find strength in him. There is no hope for mankind outside of the blood of Christ.
Truth is found in the weighing process. I have tested the weight of God's word and found its truth overwhelming. That God is completely Holy set apart from us, and truly only someone set apart from us could fix a problem that is so near.
That the Son of God would from afar place himself near to fix our malady for no other reason than Love speaks wonders about the ways of God.
Even if God wiped us off the face of the earth He would still be just as Holy, Just and Good, and unmistakably so.
According to rights we are dead, but Christ satisfied the need for such a sacrifice that we might live. Yet so many live a life saturated with death. Oh That you would Live!
To discover that Life is not tacking good deeds onto your plans and aspirations. To understand that Life is from God and he is Life. To comprehend what pleases him and his completely holy goodness. For mountains as far as they reach to the skies will never be anything more than God has allowed, but to place ourselves in the good graces of the lord that we would Love as he Loves, Live as he Lives, Breath as he Breaths. That we would escape ourselves and the eminent death that lives within us. Oh that we would be born again not breathing the air of this world, but the with the breath of God.
Not of this world. Not chasing after satisfaction. But chasing after the will of the Father that he might tend his Children with the blood of Christ.
Resurrect the Dead
That they might be in Christ to never die. Live with life so abundant that the dead will know.
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Saturday, March 20, 2010
Dance it Around Town!
When looking around at all the wonderful lives that have blessed my own there is a constant reminder of how different my life is and was. These differences used to enrage, frustrate and complicate situations to no end. Comparisons of lives always seemed to give others a longer stick, better everything, yet now praising the Lord is all the comes to mind.
There is no doubt life has played a little differently as compared with others, but looking back they were all (mostly all good decisions). Example: Far before any of my friends started to even think about girls they entered my domain, and never did action follow. Sometimes regret entered as a result, however if response had ensued to date any of these females the world definitely would have blotted out much of my foundation.
Something that God has blessed this humble life of mine with is a truly awesome foundation. Two Loving parents, a wonderful house, strong community, great education, siblings and dog that make up this God dipped life I've lived for the past 18 years. Perhaps I wasn't always a Christian, but like my parents told me "the word of God was put into your heart at a young age and you can't ignore it once you've heard it" (it was a summation really)
Looking back having a girlfriend seemed like such a big deal, and so did a lot of other things. Yet it was a complete waste of time for most of those people, caused a lot of emotional scarring or pain, led to drama, divisions among friends and most of all put something before God that should never have been (not all cases but a majority).
God continues to show how being a virgin of so many things has really allowed him to shine through in those areas. Not to say having a girlfriend, for example, is by any means a bad thing, but realize that God recognizes the sacrifice of allowing him into such an intimate position. When trust conquered desire He was given room to work, and side-stepped a host of mistakes.
At the time it was merely following family rules or thinking things through logically, but now it is consciously making the decision, knowing why and thanking the Lord for his Love and Grace.
All our lives are so blessed. It's a matter of seeing it. Like Balaam's donkey that wouldn't move past the angel in the old testament, so Balaam beat his donkey repeatedly. Then the donkey accidentally steps on his foot, breaking it, and gets an even worse beating. At the end of the pummeling of this poor creature balaam looks up sees the angel of the Lord with a sword and knows it would have killed him if not for the donkey.
Those things that I wanted so badly would have killed me, but maybe I just got off with a broken toe or something.
That's why I Dance it Around Town!
There is no doubt life has played a little differently as compared with others, but looking back they were all (mostly all good decisions). Example: Far before any of my friends started to even think about girls they entered my domain, and never did action follow. Sometimes regret entered as a result, however if response had ensued to date any of these females the world definitely would have blotted out much of my foundation.
Something that God has blessed this humble life of mine with is a truly awesome foundation. Two Loving parents, a wonderful house, strong community, great education, siblings and dog that make up this God dipped life I've lived for the past 18 years. Perhaps I wasn't always a Christian, but like my parents told me "the word of God was put into your heart at a young age and you can't ignore it once you've heard it" (it was a summation really)
Looking back having a girlfriend seemed like such a big deal, and so did a lot of other things. Yet it was a complete waste of time for most of those people, caused a lot of emotional scarring or pain, led to drama, divisions among friends and most of all put something before God that should never have been (not all cases but a majority).
God continues to show how being a virgin of so many things has really allowed him to shine through in those areas. Not to say having a girlfriend, for example, is by any means a bad thing, but realize that God recognizes the sacrifice of allowing him into such an intimate position. When trust conquered desire He was given room to work, and side-stepped a host of mistakes.
At the time it was merely following family rules or thinking things through logically, but now it is consciously making the decision, knowing why and thanking the Lord for his Love and Grace.
All our lives are so blessed. It's a matter of seeing it. Like Balaam's donkey that wouldn't move past the angel in the old testament, so Balaam beat his donkey repeatedly. Then the donkey accidentally steps on his foot, breaking it, and gets an even worse beating. At the end of the pummeling of this poor creature balaam looks up sees the angel of the Lord with a sword and knows it would have killed him if not for the donkey.
Those things that I wanted so badly would have killed me, but maybe I just got off with a broken toe or something.
That's why I Dance it Around Town!
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Taking off my coat makes me cold,
but as long as I am holding onto its warmth for myself
I have no way of sharing it or giving it.
Instead of giving it to someone else I might even fight over it, as opposed to giving to those who have asked for it.
In some scenarios I might even stock pile coats and wear multiple ones.
At first the coat is warm.
Then it gets comfortable.
Before lickety has split body and mind forgets there is a coat.
And slowly, very slowly it begins to get hot.
Such is our predicament.
I have no way of sharing it or giving it.
Instead of giving it to someone else I might even fight over it, as opposed to giving to those who have asked for it.
In some scenarios I might even stock pile coats and wear multiple ones.
At first the coat is warm.
Then it gets comfortable.
Before lickety has split body and mind forgets there is a coat.
And slowly, very slowly it begins to get hot.
Such is our predicament.
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Adventures In God
Adventures In God
by
John G. Lake
A Classic
Harrison House
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Copyright 1981 by Harrison House, Inc.
This information is taken from a time stained book that I found lying around my parent's house.
Truly God wished for me to find it. Not quite sure what it's all about, but I've read 50+ pages into it tonight, and it seems to be a collection of testimonies from a man named John G. Lake.
Here is the Foreword and a few testimonies from the book. They are powerful, yet these beginning few are pretty weak compared with the rest of the book.
"Foreword
John Graham Lake was a man of prayer and commitment.
To better understand the quality of his life, you willl want to read his consecration to God at the close of this book.
At the Lake Healing Rooms in Spokane, Washington, 100,000 healings were recorded in five years. Dr. Ruthlidge of Washington, D.C., called Spokane the healthiest city in the world as a result of Lake's Healing Rooms.
John G. Lake was born March 18, 1870, at St. Mary's, Ontario, Canada. While he was still a child , his parents moved to the United States.At the age of 21, he became a Methodist minister, but later chose to start a newspaper instead of accepting a church ministry.
After his marriage, Lake's wife entered into a prolonged illness, but was miraculously delivered under the ministry of John Alexander Dowie in April, 1898. This experience forever altered the direction of John G. Lake's life and ministry.
All that he accomplished as a result of his intense regard for the Word of God stands as an example to all Christians of what is possible for any person who will believe and act on the Scriptures.
Adventures In God
I found God as a boy, so for years- 50 of them almost- I have been walking in the light of God, understanding fellowship with Him and listening to His Voice.
I want to call to your attention some of the things Christians enjoys that others miss.
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A dear man received an injury that caused his death in a motor accident not far from Beaverton. The day after this man was killed, I was visiting some friends in Beaverton an they told me of his injury. After our visit, my wife and I were driving into the city. As we were coming up one of the highways, a Voice said, 'Pull onto the left of the road and stop.'
Don't you know that Voice, Christian heart? That Voice is so common that I never even spoke of it to my wife.
The left side is the wrong side of the road, and you are breaking the traffic law to be there. But I have listened to that Voice so many years that I have learned in most cases to obey it. Jesus said, 'My sheep know my voice.' (John 10:27)
(The thought I am trying to bring to you, dear friends, is the value of konwoing the Lord and what communion with God means. Salvation is not just something God gives you that is going to bless you after you die; it is having the presence of the Lord now. God has promised to the Christian the guidance and direction of the Holy Spirit.)
I pulled onto the left-hand side of the road, ran the wheel of my car close into the ditch, and stopped. Immediately, I heard the grinding of a great truck coming around the curve. I had not seen it before. Instead of coming normally, it was coming down the driver's left-hand side of the road at a 45-degree angle. The truck had gone out of control and was covering the whole road!
If I had been on my side of the road, it would have sideswiped me and pushed me over the bank. A 100-foot drop down! But I was on the other side when the great thing swept past me.
The truck went 50 to 100 feet beyond me, struck a rough spot in the road, and righted itself. The driver got the truck under control and went on.
Dear friends, men in the Word of God were guided by the Voice of God. God talked to them. This is the inner thing of real Christian experience, the reason men seek by the grace of God to enter into the real heard of God -- into the real soul of Jesus Christ -- into the place where He lives within you -- where His Voice speaks in you heart.
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I was sitting one day in the home of the DeValeras in Krugersdorp, South Africa, When a man arrived who had traveled all over the country. He had been following me from place to place, trying to catch up with me. he suffered a sunstroke which had affected his mind and he also had developed a large cancer.
He came into the house and proved to be a friend of the family.
In a little while a six-year-old child who had been sitting near me went across the room, climbed on the man's knees, put her hands on the caner on his face, and prayed.
I saw the cancer wither. In half an hour, the thing had disappeared. The wound was still there, but in a few days it was healed.
After the child had laid her hands on top of his head, he arose, saying, 'Oh! The fire that has been in my brain has gone out,' and his mind was normal.
Power belongeth unto God (Ps. 62:11). The simplest soul can touch God and live in the very presence of God and in His power."
There are quite a few testimonies that he records in this book. In the preface it states that there is no chronology to the book, but that these merely are his personal records.
I implore believers to get this book. Reading testimony after testimony is incredible. Even one incident of doctors monitoring his brain cells and those of someone being healed. All the ways that God has used this man are so incredible.
by
John G. Lake
A Classic
Harrison House
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Copyright 1981 by Harrison House, Inc.
This information is taken from a time stained book that I found lying around my parent's house.
Truly God wished for me to find it. Not quite sure what it's all about, but I've read 50+ pages into it tonight, and it seems to be a collection of testimonies from a man named John G. Lake.
Here is the Foreword and a few testimonies from the book. They are powerful, yet these beginning few are pretty weak compared with the rest of the book.
"Foreword
John Graham Lake was a man of prayer and commitment.
To better understand the quality of his life, you willl want to read his consecration to God at the close of this book.
At the Lake Healing Rooms in Spokane, Washington, 100,000 healings were recorded in five years. Dr. Ruthlidge of Washington, D.C., called Spokane the healthiest city in the world as a result of Lake's Healing Rooms.
John G. Lake was born March 18, 1870, at St. Mary's, Ontario, Canada. While he was still a child , his parents moved to the United States.At the age of 21, he became a Methodist minister, but later chose to start a newspaper instead of accepting a church ministry.
After his marriage, Lake's wife entered into a prolonged illness, but was miraculously delivered under the ministry of John Alexander Dowie in April, 1898. This experience forever altered the direction of John G. Lake's life and ministry.
All that he accomplished as a result of his intense regard for the Word of God stands as an example to all Christians of what is possible for any person who will believe and act on the Scriptures.
Adventures In God
I found God as a boy, so for years- 50 of them almost- I have been walking in the light of God, understanding fellowship with Him and listening to His Voice.
I want to call to your attention some of the things Christians enjoys that others miss.
---------------------------
A dear man received an injury that caused his death in a motor accident not far from Beaverton. The day after this man was killed, I was visiting some friends in Beaverton an they told me of his injury. After our visit, my wife and I were driving into the city. As we were coming up one of the highways, a Voice said, 'Pull onto the left of the road and stop.'
Don't you know that Voice, Christian heart? That Voice is so common that I never even spoke of it to my wife.
The left side is the wrong side of the road, and you are breaking the traffic law to be there. But I have listened to that Voice so many years that I have learned in most cases to obey it. Jesus said, 'My sheep know my voice.' (John 10:27)
(The thought I am trying to bring to you, dear friends, is the value of konwoing the Lord and what communion with God means. Salvation is not just something God gives you that is going to bless you after you die; it is having the presence of the Lord now. God has promised to the Christian the guidance and direction of the Holy Spirit.)
I pulled onto the left-hand side of the road, ran the wheel of my car close into the ditch, and stopped. Immediately, I heard the grinding of a great truck coming around the curve. I had not seen it before. Instead of coming normally, it was coming down the driver's left-hand side of the road at a 45-degree angle. The truck had gone out of control and was covering the whole road!
If I had been on my side of the road, it would have sideswiped me and pushed me over the bank. A 100-foot drop down! But I was on the other side when the great thing swept past me.
The truck went 50 to 100 feet beyond me, struck a rough spot in the road, and righted itself. The driver got the truck under control and went on.
Dear friends, men in the Word of God were guided by the Voice of God. God talked to them. This is the inner thing of real Christian experience, the reason men seek by the grace of God to enter into the real heard of God -- into the real soul of Jesus Christ -- into the place where He lives within you -- where His Voice speaks in you heart.
--------------------------------------------
I was sitting one day in the home of the DeValeras in Krugersdorp, South Africa, When a man arrived who had traveled all over the country. He had been following me from place to place, trying to catch up with me. he suffered a sunstroke which had affected his mind and he also had developed a large cancer.
He came into the house and proved to be a friend of the family.
In a little while a six-year-old child who had been sitting near me went across the room, climbed on the man's knees, put her hands on the caner on his face, and prayed.
I saw the cancer wither. In half an hour, the thing had disappeared. The wound was still there, but in a few days it was healed.
After the child had laid her hands on top of his head, he arose, saying, 'Oh! The fire that has been in my brain has gone out,' and his mind was normal.
Power belongeth unto God (Ps. 62:11). The simplest soul can touch God and live in the very presence of God and in His power."
There are quite a few testimonies that he records in this book. In the preface it states that there is no chronology to the book, but that these merely are his personal records.
I implore believers to get this book. Reading testimony after testimony is incredible. Even one incident of doctors monitoring his brain cells and those of someone being healed. All the ways that God has used this man are so incredible.
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