Why hasn't He healed me yet?

Again a post from a different blog.  This one was written recently.


I have met many people during my life that, I think, have the mental image of God's healing as being like a roulette wheel.  God does it when God wants to and it has nothing to do with us and how we pray, what we pray, or when we pray.  This is far from the truth.  First I have to ask the question, how many people did Jesus pray with to be healed?  Careful with the answer to this question because it is easy to jump to the "all of them" answer but that is not correct.  Jesus did not pray WITH anyone (that we know of) for healing, He lived in constant "prayer" to, communication with, God so that when someone came to Him asking for healing He just spoke it into existence.  "Your faith has healed you" is one of the things we see Jesus saying regularly and He meant exactly what He said.  The one asking for healing didn't have to repeatedly go to Him asking for healing, they asked Him once and then thanked Him (by rejoicing) for the healing.


I have been asked by someone very close to me why she has not been healed if God wants them to be and some of this may or may not be a part of the reason why they haven't been healed. I don't know.  This is my attempt at an answer but in no way am I trying to limit God.  God doesn't fit inside a box and I don't want to even make an attempt at putting Him there.  That being said here goes.

I have heard many Chirstians "pray" for healing, and honestly if these prayers came to me the way I have heard them I would turn off the eardrums and not pay them any attention, why do we think God is any different.  You have heard these prayers also, they typically involve the words "if it be Your will" and sound more like that annoying kid in the grocery store who is pitching a fit because mom won't buy that box of  flavored sugar they call cereal, or the toy they saw on the shelf 2 isles back.  Frankly if my children behaved that way I would walk away, around the corner and wait for the child to realize I'm not even standing there any more, much less paying attention to what they are doing.  I would think that God sees those prayers the same way and "walks away" when these are said in this manner.  If your child asks in a pleasant tone and doesn't pitch a fit when you say "maybe" then you are more likely to give the child what they want.  Especially if it lines up with what you want for your child, right?  I propose that God is the same way, if we ask once, with the right attitude and with the correct understanding that it IS His will that we be healed ( How many people did Jesus heal? ALL OF THEM!!!), and then continue to thank Him and praise Him for the answer to our prayers He will answer them favorably.

Let's look at another situation that DELAYS the answer to prayer.

I forget who it was nor do I have the Biblical address but there was a man in the Bible who asked for something from God and got his answer in a matter of moments, he asked again for something different and it took ( I think ) 3 months (maybe 3 weeks I don't remember, great time to get in the Word).  When the angel who came to deliver the second answer was asked why it took so long he explained that he got held up by the prince of Persia (satan) and that the archangel Michael had to come free him before he could deliver the answer.  Did God answer the prayer when He heard it? Yes, but stuff got in the way of the answer being delivered.  Do you have anything that is "in the way" of your answer?  Unforgivness, bitterness, strife, anger(toward God or other people), and resentment(grudges) can all get in the way of our prayers being answered, these are all tools of satan uses to rob us of our blessing.  They create "static" in the signal.  Have you ever been on the fringe of a really good radio station and have to stop at a red light?  What happened?  The static from the overhead power lines overpowered the radio station's signal. What do we do?  We inch the car forward until the static breaks and our station is heard again, right?  God's "signal" works the same way except the static is often a result of something that we are holding onto inside of ourselves that we shouldn't.

Remember that satan only has 1 tool at his disposal, deception, also known as lies.  That's it, that is the only thing he has left to work with, Jesus took everything else away from him at the cross.  Don't believe the lies of satan, they are just that, lies.  If God's word says that He is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow(it does by the way) and God promised, even once, healing for every believer, He promised it more than once but let's say it is only there once, then His promise is still there, it is still active and as much in force today as it ever was or ever will be.

Speaking of lies, let's get this one out of the way right here....

There is a "church" doctrine alive in some churches that says that we don't need the power of the Holy Spirit (the spiritual gifts explained in 1 Corinthians 12 and in other places) today because we have the printed Bible, this is nothing more than an excuse that man has come up with to explain away the lack of the miraculous working within the church, yet another lie of satan. Remember God's saying He is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow?  This "doctrine" is one of satan's attempt at distorting truth. If He performed miracles and healed people yesterday (in the first century) and not today, or tomorrow then He is NOT the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow and we need to throw out everything we believe.  This "theology" has gotten in the way of God for long enough and it is time to get rid of it!

Even as I type this I can point to miraculous healings (yes, more than one) that have taken place within my own home, and others that I have witnessed first hand....MIRACLES ARE HAPPENING TODAY!!!!

What do you need from God today?  We all need something, I KNOW I do.  Let's ask Him once today, examine our own hearts to see if there is something that will get in the way, and then praise Him for the answer.  Even if it doesn't show up immediately and the M.D.'s give us negative reports, keep thanking and praising Him for your healing, you will see results.

I will warn you though, there will come a point where you are ready to give up...This is the point of decision, and your break through relies on your decision to keep praising or not.  If you stand on the promise of healing and continue to thank God for your healing in spite of your feelings then your break through is probably right around the corner!

I am in no way saying that God doesn't use medicine and physicians to heal, He does.  That may be the answer to your prayer, God gave us the knowledge of how our bodies work and how to use modern technology to fix many problems with-in the human body.  There's nothing wrong with going to the Dr, taking medication,or having surgery, but that should be the second thought.  Faith filled, Spirit led prayer and the expectation of God to answer those prayers should be the first one.

Oh one more thing....Don't tell God how big your mountain is. Tell your mountain how big your God is!!!

We ALL need to remember that we have a part to play in this thing called the Christian life.

We should walk as Christ walked:

Breathe the aroma of God
Walk in Christ's footsteps
Listen to the voice of God, and
Obey what He tells you to do!!!!

Comments are open, let me know what you think.  I will tell you I have heard most of the scripture used to prove me wrong before and most of it has to ripped from it's context to prove me wrong.  If you can give me scripture (keeping it in its correct context) telling me I'm wrong I will entertain a revisit.  Now, I will challenge you....go prove me correct.

A few scriptures that I use to base my beliefs on (shouldn't need context to understand but feel free to look them up and put them into context for yourself,  In my opinion they are able to stand on their own):

1 Peter 2:24 "Who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness-- by whose stripes you were healed." 

 James 5:14-15 "Is any sick among you? Let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him."

 Mark 16:17-18 "And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name . . . they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover." 

 Romans 8:32 "He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?"   Does the "all things" statement not include physical healing?

Matthew 6:9-10 "Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done on Earth as it is in heaven."  This is part of the prayer that Christ told the disciples to model.  Do sickness and disease exist in Heaven?  If God's will is to "be done on Earth as it is in heaven" and He doesn't allow sickness and disease in Heaven, why would He allow it here?  I know this argument already, It's here so He must allow it....NO!! we allow it, look at the next verse in my list:

Matthew 18:18 "Verily I say unto you, whatsoever you shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever you shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven."  Bind= to forbid,  Loosed= to allow,  Whatsoever= all inclusive, everything.  We have a part to play, we have to allow God to work on Earth because he gave man dominion over the earth (see Adam and Eve's story in Genesis 2 and 3)

 Acts 5:16 "Also a multitude gathered from the surrounding cities to Jerusalem, bringing sick people and those who were tormented by unclean spirits, and they were all healed."  This is the same thing Christ did and it is happening after His death, burial, and resurrection through the hands of His disciples (which is what we are called to be)...

Why shouldn't these things be happening today...

Hebrews 13:8 tells us that "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever!"

May God bless each and every one of you with long, healthy, prosperous lives.

The Lost Bible

Another post from a different blog.  The events happened sometime in March 2012.


How does a Bible get "lost"?   Read on and find out hoe this Bible taught me about God's love, Grace and mercy.

I was leaving a friends house around 9 pm on a Wednesday night not long ago when I saw an object laying in the middle of the road.  It was dark, the road has been faded by the sun to a dull grey and this object was brown...it would not normally be obvious but on this night it might as well have been painted safety yellow with reflective stripes.  I DON'T stop to pick up things off the side of the road, I just don't.  That night was different, something urged me to stop...STOP, rewind that thought....not something, the Holy Spirit prompted me to stop.  I walked back to pick up this item and find it is a Bible in a nice brown zipped leather case.  Once again my thought was "Yes, Sir".  I look through the Bible and the only identification I can find is a check made out to a church...in North Carolina and I am in a town several hours away.  How did this Bible end up here and how am I going to get it home?  I remembered seeing people in a church parking lot just a short distance up the road so I start my search there.  No one knows the person whose name is printed on the check.  Strike one.  I look up the church the check is made out to and place a call expecting to get an answering machine (it's after 9:30pm).  Someone answered the phone.  I explain the events of the night and they inform me that not only do they know this person but that he leads the Chinese service at the church on Sunday nights.  They look up a phone number for me and we say goodnight.  I am still wondering how this Bible got this far from home on a Wednesday night.  I place a call to the phone number the church gave me and get the answering machine.  I leave a message and wait.  3 or 4 days later I get a call from the owner of this Bible who tells me that her husband works in a large city about an hour away from me and that he leads a Chinese Bible study on Wednesday nights at a church here in town.  I let them know that I am going to leave the Bible in the church office here and that he can pick it up there the following Wednesday night.  She thanks me and asks me for my address so she can send me a thank you note, which I tell her is unnecessary.  She insists so I give it to her.  A few days later (it may have been close to a month, I am not good at keeping up with time) I get a package from her.  Included in this package is a short note which spoke volumes to me and brought tears to my eyes as it reminded me of just how much God truly does love us.

Here is the note:

  Dear Mr. ________,

I truly appreciate your selfless act of random kindness.  You have blessed me in so many ways.  You heard the prompting to stop your car in the middle of the road and picked up my Bible; you took the time to call ________ _______ Church to find my phone number and called me right away; you spent the time to make the trip to _________ __ _______ Church to leave the Bible in the office…..All these are God’s grace.  All these are God’s way of speaking to me, through your gracious acts that He cares. If he cares enough for letting me recover my Bible, He cares even more for the everyday challenges in my life and those sometimes heart wrenching situations in my life. (And in your life too, I hope you see that as well.)  Your selfless act of random kindness encouraged me and set a good example for me.  You have been a channel of blessing, I hope and pray that I can be too.

I missed using my Bible for quiet time with the LORD. (I’m still waiting for my husband to bring it back to N.C.)  My ragged Bible may not be worth anything to anyone else, but so comforting to me when I see all those highlighted Word that had spoken to me.  And in the future when I hold it, it will always remind me that it was something lost but found, of God’s grace and your kindness.

You have truly blessed me by your obedience to Him.  I can only pray and hope that He will bless you in return in so much more ways and in many more folds.  I hope you will enjoy the music CD I enclosed.  I am not familiar with the music group, but I like the title.

Easter is this weekend.  I wish you and your loved ones much blessings in our Resurrected Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, and a very Happy Easter!

Sincerely,

_____ ____

My wife and I have been saying for a while now that we need to get more Christian music for our car when we travel.  The CD she enclosed is by Mercy Me.  According to the note she doesn’t know anything about the group and could not have known that it is one of my favorite groups…but God knows.

The title of the album is more fitting than I could have imagined…."The Generous Mr Lovewell"

The dryer

I am consolidating 3 different blogs into one location, this is an entry copied from one of those.  The events described here happened some time during November 2011.

Enjoy!


My wife was on Facebook the other day and noticed a post from a friend.  She was talking about not being able to keep up with laundry because her dryer wasn't working correctly.  Because I can usually fix stuff like that she mentions it to me and we went to bed.  The next morning we get up and are on the way out the door when my wife confirms what I have been thinking all morning...I need to go fix the dryer.

When I get to the dryer I hear a terrible noise coming from it.  I let it run for a few minutes, open the door to stop it and try to restart it...nothing.  This leads me to the conclusion that the motor in the unit will have to be replaced.  The parts for the dryer cost more than the dryer is worth (close to $270) and frankly the folks who own the dryer couldn't afford to replace it.

Now the events of the rest of the day are quite interesting.

A short back story needs to be told here.  I have been going to a men's Bible study night almost every week for about a year now.  Within this group there have been some very strong friendships made, more than a few prayers answered, marriages restored, and more than one healing happen before our eyes.

Back to the dryer.

On my way home from looking at this dryer I pass a gas station that is less than 2 blocks from my house.  At this gas station is one of the guys in my Bible study group so I turn around and stop to talk for a minute.  During the course of the conversation he tells me that he is not real sure how to get home from this gas station, he has never been to this part of town before.  He then asks me a very pointed question..."What have you been doing TODAY?"  I did not give this question much thought at the time, although I told him what I had been doing that morning.

At this point he tells me that he has a dryer that does still work but doesn't heat and that if I think I can fix it I am welcome to come get it.  Now, I drive a Toyota van and cannot get a full size dryer inside but I do have a utility trailer at the house.  Do you remember where this gas station is?  That's right, about 2 blocks from my house.  Remember, he doesn't know how to get home?  What did we do, run to my house, get my trailer, and lead him home.

I get the dryer on the trailer and go back by this ladies house, explain the happenings of the day, and let her know that I will be bringing her "new" dryer to her early the next week.  She begins to cry.  She lost her mom not long before this and turns out she has been having some major issues with one of her 5 kids as well.  She was beginning to get discouraged.  She explained that on her list of "important" things the dryer was near the bottom of the list but that this has renewed her hope and her faith.  She shared with me some details that I am not going to share here, but God showed her (and me) that he cares about even the things we see as small.

I took this "new" dryer home and fixed it for less than $20.00 and in less than 30 minutes, delivered it Monday afternoon.

In this chain of events I have found a God that IS concerned about our everyday lives, He DOES interact with us on a daily basis, and He WILL guide your every step if you will let Him, and He DOES keep each and every promise given in the Bible...IF we will open the door and get out of the way...how do we open that door...quit begging God to do something and do what he says....speak HIS WORD to your problems.

Read the Bible and believe it...never mind what you have been taught all your life, lay your old teaching aside and read your Bible again for the first time, this time ask God for His revelation of what He meant when He wrote it....I guarantee it won't be what you have been taught.   The Bible says He walks with us daily, It says He orders our steps, and gives us good gifts.  This family found out about the good gifts first hand, and I found out what it was like to have God order my steps through the day....it was truly AWESOME!!!

A new outlook!

I have found 2 "new" friends. Yes, I put the word NEW in quotes for a reason. They are not new friends, they are old friends I just had not meet, our meeting was scheduled and I thank God Himself for the "appointment". This couple have been such a blessing to me and opened my eyes to the depth of the power of the more than one "Kingdom principles".

One of those is the principle of the spoken word. Up untill our meeting I was aware of the fact that the spoken word CAN change things but was unaware as to the strength of those words.

During a testamony given during a Bible study session I became aware that we can speak to ANY situation, large or small, and those words are used for something. The spoken word releases one of 2 "Kingdoms", either God's or Satan's. If we, as humans, speak things which line up with the Bible those words are used for positive change, if those words are negative then Satan's "kingdom" uses those words for the negative.

I hear many Christians who have been speaking negative lately, quite a few something like this "I think I am coming down with....", and they do. I have also witnessed others claiming the healing promised by Scripture at the first sign of symptoms...and the healing manifests itself.

The physical world (the sun, planets, and stars) were spoken into existence from the spiritual world. The spoken word created light, water, plants, animals, even us, from nothing. This alone means that we live in a world that is controlled ultimately by the spoken word. If we speak demons(mental health issues, sickness, ect) into our lives, or our children's lives then that is what will manifest, if we speak life and health into our lives this also will manifest itself.

I have found a "new" language around my house. One of positive blessings, of health, and life.

Things that shape our self image

I was reminded the other day of how much other peoples words can shape our self image. I would like to caution all parents to be very careful with the words you say to your children when dealing with their challenges, the wrong word spoken can have a drastic impact on their lives.


I have spent sometime lately trying to remember things from my childhood. I don't want to sound negative, but I don't remember much of the positive stuff from my childhood. Sure I remember the birthday parties and the youth ralies, the afternoons spent riding 4-wheelers with the cousins, and the time spent in Florida(the beach and Orlando). What I also remember with more vivid detail are the not so nice moments, I'm not going into detail with them here but let's just say they were there.


No my parents were not abusive, or were they? The most vivid detail I remember about many of my moments with dad is him yelling at me, for what? I honestly don't remember but I remember him yelling at me a lot. It seemed like I could do nothing right in his eyes, and in some respects I still haven't heard anything from him except negative comments about the way I do things, my expectations of my kids, my way of discipline, and my lack of self image. I am now a grown man and have been dealing with this stuff for many years. My wife and I are in marriage counseling and this aspect of my relationship with my father has surfaced as part of the problem, I have resigned myself to a point of either don't try or fail, that success is not possible for me.

This is a cycle that is furthered by the fact that my father is a very successful business man, having owned multiple businesses over the course of my life and managed to build a nice, more than comfortable lifestyle for himself and my mother, while me and my wife struggle to keep the bills payed and food on the table (while having to occasionally ask for $$ help from HIM).

I'm sick of this cycle, I'm tired of the rat race, it's time to disconnect from this cycle and move on, but how? How do you "reprogram" a human mind, a computer is easy, format the hard drive and reload the new operating system, but how do you do that with the human computer? You can't just wipe the hard drive, you somehow have to get the "corrupt" data out and replace it with new data without damaging the person further..This has proven to be a formidable task.

I've found myself getting bitter and lashing out about things I cannot change lately as I try to come to terms with this stuff. How do I mount this problem without becoming depressed? How do I move forward with the memories of the past laying so heavy in my mind? How do I find time among 4 kids, a wife, and a full time job to squeeze in time to reflect with enough time left over to rest?

I find myself at the point of falling into depression and it is scaring me. I fell into depression once already in life and ended up in the drug and alcohol abuse for a period of about a year and a half, not a place I want to revisit.

My counselor said to try to bring back the memories, I have made effort but I have managed to push them so far down that I can't get them out, I remember the yelling but I can't recount the individual instances, I found the box but I can't find the individual "film". Not only that but I am still dealing with this stuff on a daily basis from him even today, I still use that "box". No he is not yelling anymore, but the belittlement continues even today. How do you take things out of a box you are still putting stuff into?

How do I break free from this prison? HOW DO I REPROGRAM?

The Grocery Store

I received a note yesterday about A very special store that I would like to share with you.


I was walking down life's highway not too long ago
I saw a sign that read HEAVEN'S GROCERY STORE
As I got a little closer, the door came open wide,
And when I came to myself, I was standing inside.

I saw a host of angels, they were standing everywhere,
One handed me a basket and said, "My child, shop with care"
Everything a christian needed was in that grocery store
And all you couldn't carry, you came back for the next day for more

First I got some PATIENCE, LOVE was on the same row,
Further down was UNDERSTANDING, you need that everywhere you go
I got a box of WISDOM, a bag or two of FAITH,
I just couldn't miss the HOLY GHOST, for it was all over the place

I stopped to get some STRENGTH and COURAGE to help me run this race,
By then my basket was getting full, but I remembered I needed some GRACE,
I didn't forget SALVATION, SALVATION has always been free,
so I tried to get enough to save both you and me.

Then I started up to the counter to pay my GROCERY bill,
For I thought I had everything to do my MASTER'S WILL

As I went up the aisle I saw PRAYER and just had to put that in,
For I knew when I stepped outside, I would run right into SIN.

PEACE and JOY were plentiful, they were on the last shelf,
SONGS and PRAISES were hanging near, so I just helped myself,
Then I said to the angel, "Now how much do I owe?"
He just smiled and said, just take them everywhere you go.
Again I smiled at Him and said, "How much do I really OWE?"
Then he smiled again and said:

MY CHILD! JESUS PAID YOUR BILL A LONG LONG TIME AGO.




Now I don't know about you but I have never thought about some of those things as being a gift but looking back over life I can honestly say that God and only God could put patience in my life. If any of you knew me you would know that patience is not my strong suit, and any patience that I have demonstrated over the years has been God inspired.

I think that we can all agree that Grace, the Holy Ghost, Faith and Wisdom have all been attributed to God's Gifts before but I think some Christians have begun to take some of these for granted, I know I had.

TIME FOR A SHOPPING TRIP!!

I'm Trying to Understand.

I'm trying to understand something and I hope that writing it out here may help, forgive me while I think "out loud" for a few minutes.

I'm looking into the whole Creation vs. evolution debate, the thing is the "age" of the earth by "scientist" is several billions years old and they can't tell us how it came to be. The bible tells us that God created it and biblical scholars have said that the earth is only around 6-8 thousand years old.

Now we know that when God created Adam he created him at a point of maturity in life, the animals that were created were not newborns, the plant life was probably already at the point of reproducing. Now if God has the ability to create a mature being, would it really be a long stretch to believe He created the earth itself with a few years of age on it already??

Ok now that we've settled that one let's look at the "fossil record". While I will not argue the fact that these fossils do actually exist, I will argue the same point about those that I did about the age of the earth. If, at the point of creation Adam had cut down one of the mighty oak trees God had just created would he have found the age rings inside the tree? I would venture to say yes. While God could have made the trees without the rings wouldn't it have confused man and his science for one of those trees to be cut down and the "unringed" portion of the tree be 2 feet across followed by the growth rings for the next few years? Same thing with the fossil record, if they had not been put there by God himself how would we know about the cycles that the earth goes through?

Just some of my thoughts on the matter. I have been watching the Discovery channel lately and it has been pushing the evolution myth lately!!

Life Will Soon Be....THE SAME or DIFFERENT?

Let it be known that life as we know it will soon be the same. Interesting point isn't it, I'm sure you are saying "huh?" Let me assure you that life tomorrow will be very much the same as life was today. That being said I can also assure you that life tomorrow can be very different than life was today. How you may ask? Well let's explore that concept a little.

Life today was full of problems, disappointments, heartache, and pain right? Well let me introduce a friend of mine. This is Jesus, by simply accepting the sacrifice He made for you and the fact that you need help in dealing with the problems of life He can make tomorrow a much different experience than you have had at any time in your life up to this point. The only thing you have to do to accept this is to ask Him to forgive you of the sins of the past and begin the journey of discovery. This journey of discovery will take you to places of joy, peace, and happiness. It will also take you into the depths of self revelation, a place where your innermost thoughts and desires will be revealed.

There will be trouble as well but as long as you keep your eyes on Christ he will bring you through it. As I have experienced many many times, if God brings you to it He will bring you through it.

Christ was sent to earth to reconcile the relationship that God had with Adam at the time of creation. This relationship was one of love, respect, and admiration. It was the relationship of father and son. It displays the excitement that I witness on my children faces when I come home from work on Saturday afternoon. This is the relationship He wants to have with us.

Let me ask a question, in our "young and stupid" years, did your earthly father ever help you out of a pinch? Mine has for me quite often, both physically, financially, and emotionally. Do you think he would have done that if you were not speaking to him?
I propose that God is the same way. How, you may ask? Because His Word says so, Psalm 91:1-4
"He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall remain stable and fixed under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, He is my Refuge and my Fortress, my God; on Him I trust. For then He will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence"

This passage is the opening to one of the greatest promises God has ever made to man, If we examine the context of verses 2, 3, and 4 we find that the promise made here is conditional upon our satisfying verse 1, "He who dwells in the secret place".


If I may be so bold, I'm going to ask you to do some reading. No I'm not giving a test on this later, I just hope that I have piqued your interest a little. Point your browser over to WWW.BIBLE.COM and look up Psalms chapter 91.

May you find the happiness your heart desires and the peace you soul has been desperate for.

As the Technology Grows

I am wondering as I sit here tonight if we have become so reliant on the government, physicians, and scientist to tell us what we need that we have lost touch with the inner person, the voice of common sense, the spirit that God placed in us all to determine what we need. I am reminded of this by my wife's reaction to any one of our children getting a fever. The first thing she wants to do is call the MD. In the old days there was prayer and waiting to see what became of the fever, many times the MD visit was unnecessary as the fever passed as a result of prayer. Now fever passes upon the "take two and call me in the morning" of a MD.

I have a question. Is it harder to live in faith today than it was in times gone by? I bring that question up because I have wondered this myself. Today we have "instant gratification" from microwaves, so called smartphones, the internet, instant medicine these things have polarized us to having our needs met here and now. We no longer know the blessings of having to wait for what we want/need. In times gone by we did not have instant anything, we had to grow your own food in the backyard raise our chickens for eggs, milk the cow before we could eat our Wheaties. Our physicians covered multiple cities and towns, if we needed him we had to go find him. Now we have food that is chemically and genetically modified, cooked with radio waves, multiple Dr's in town prescribing chemically engineered drugs, and shortening life spans. In the past, people, many times, lived longer than we are living today. The food we ate then was natural, unmolested, and "raw", the food we get off the grocery store shelves today have ingredients that we cannot pronounce, are chemically treated, genetically modified, and artificially colored.

I have to ask, if the God of the universe created the plants and animals that we use for food and medicine, are we really improving the quality of that food when we modify what the creator made? All my teaching through school and church taught me that God is perfect and made His creation perfect, what makes us think we can make it better?

Does anyone else see the correlation here?

I think I'm going to start purchasing more of my families food from the local market, I may even try to find a "family farm" to purchase from.

I realize that earthly Dr's are needed in some cases but, thinking along the same lines as the food issue above, most of the medication used today is labeled with all kinds of side effects. Many times the side effects are worse than the problem for which we are taking the medication, maybe we need to stop going to the pill pushers(M.D.s) and look to the great Physician a little more.

Has our reliance on God really waned to this point?

I am reminded of multiple biblical stories such as that of Abraham and Sarah. God promised them a son, Sarah couldn't wait for Gods timing and sent her maidservant to be with Abraham. Not God's plan. Finally, in Gods timing, they had a son. This is the spiritual history of man, God speaks a promise, man tries to speed the process up, fails miserably, then God not only fixes the problem but then delivers on His promise, in His time. Then there was the bleeding woman whose faith healed her as the result of a mere brush of Christ's garment, the Canaanite woman who came in search of Christ to heal her daughter, the Roman centurion who came looking for Christ's healing for his child, there are many more stories of healing both from Christ's life and the miracles done by the disciples after Christ's death.

The Great Physician is still working in peoples lives today, with the birth of 2 of my children my wife went through childbirth with no pain medications at all, with one of my children she did not even get the I.V. port that was "required" because, in tune with our prayers, we got to the hospital with in minutes of birth. I'm not claiming to be any more in tune with God than you are, we just stood on the promise of peace in a time of extreme discomfort.

I AM IN NO WAY SUGGESTING THAT I AM MEDICALLY TRAINED IN ANY WAY!!!

IF YOU DESIRE TO STOP TAKING YOUR MEDICATIONS PLEASE DO SO UNDER THE DIRECT SUPERVISION OF A TRAINED AND LICENSED PHYSICIAN!!

I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE IN ANY WAY FOR ANY ACTIONS YOU TAKE UPON THE READING OF THIS PAGE. I ONLY WANT YOU TO THINK ABOUT THE SUBJECT MATTER, ANY ACTIONS THAT YOU TAKE BASED UPON THAT THOUGHT PROCESS IS ENTIRELY YOUR RESPONSIBILITY.

Looking back.

I recently found some pictures from my youthful years. I have a few found memories of that period in life, but the thing I remember most about my younger years is the fact that my father was always out of town on business. He worked for a management company that had multiple properties in several states and he was the only employee from the home office that made the rounds of those properties, every property at least once a month. At one time there were as many as 8 or 9 properties scattered out over about 5 or 6 states. Yeah, dad was gone a lot.

I'm glad our other father is not that way, He will always be with arms reach, He doesn't leave us, we let go of him. God, in His infinite wisdom, designed each one of with the ability to chose whether we wanted to accept Him and live within the peace that comes from a relationship with Him or to reject Him and live life in turmoil and bitterness. I have for the past few months visited yet again the place of, not rejection of God, indifference toward God only to find myself missing out on the happiness and peace that I know comes from Him. With in that place there also creeps in a little indifference that invades the home life,between husband and wife, between parents and children, a sense of confusion that shows a lack of concern....AND IT HAS SCARED THE HELL OUT OF ME...literally.

We got up this morning and started getting the kids ready for church and one of my daughters decided she wanted to fuss and cry about everything. I got frustrated with the situation and told my wife something to the effect "I'm not worried about church you just go, take the rest of the kids and I will stay home with her so she can go back to bed." Not a smart thing to do on my part. My wife popped back with one of those rhetorical comments that while the words are directed at me she wasn't directing the comment in my direction, "We never do any thing as a family anymore you need to just move out!"

I had some time this afternoon to my self as my kids went somewhere with g-ma and my wife went shopping, so I came back here and started reading some of my early posts here. I'm not sure what you think, but my reaction to those posts were something to the effect "Well at least I was smart at some point in my life."


I never thought about it quite like this in the past, but a relationship with Christ is just like any other relationship with any other person, they take work and communication, something I lost sight of, not just in my relationship with Christ but my relationship with my wife as well. Well I'm going to bed tonight with a different view of things...again.

I hope I have given you something to think about my good readers.

My dear readers it is time for me to retire for the night. God's phone is open and He would love to hear from you, I knew He is celebrating over me right now.