How you doin? I
have a HUGE praise today. Stacey has tolerated me for 6 years of
marriage as of today. If anyone believes that miracles are things of the
past... I'm here to testify that your theology is well off the mark.
Praise God for Stacey, marriage, our marriage and our family. I can
honestly say that I've never received anything so clearly from God then
Stacey as my wife. She is truly a gift and blessing from God. She's off
to work, but not before we did devotions. We read Luke 15 today. Luke 15
is 3 parables. I love the one about the lost son, or as I like to call
it, "The awesome Father and the 2 nitwits".
14 After he had spent everything, there was a severe famine in that whole country, and he began to be in need. 15 So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him to his fields to feed pigs. 16 He longed to fill his stomach with the pods that the pigs were eating, but no one gave him anything. (Luke 15:14-16)
14 After he had spent everything, there was a severe famine in that whole country, and he began to be in need. 15 So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him to his fields to feed pigs. 16 He longed to fill his stomach with the pods that the pigs were eating, but no one gave him anything. (Luke 15:14-16)
This sounds like a description of the world to me. The world without God.
17 “When he came to his senses, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have food to spare, and here I am starving to death! (Luke 15:17)
When
he came to his senses", really stood out to me today. It made me think
of awakening or waking up. You know how when you first wake up in the
morning you can't see right, hear right, talk, think, taste, or feel
right. But after you've been awake for while all those things right
themselves. You come to your senses. It's like our senses are always
there and in the same spot and we walk, come, and awake to them. DIG
IT!!!!!!!
20 So he got up and went to his father.“But
while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled
with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him
and kissed him.
(Luke 15:20)
his verse always brings on the "Sonny".
The
son comes up with this repentant & humble plan to approach his
father. "But while he was still a long way off", the father was, "filled
with compassion". COME ON!!!!!!! We can all relate to being a long way
off. I heard a sermon on this parable that pointed out that in those
times, fathers didn't run due to the robes they wore and that by hugging
and kissing the son, the father publicly forgave him and reestablished
his son as an heir to his estate. RAD!!!!!!! After Saturday's
visitation, I can't stop thinking about how beautiful Jesus is. He is
love. He is glorious. He is a perfect reflection of the Father. We heard
a sermon from Bill Johnson last night on IBethel TV and he spoke of
this. He said that we shouldn't loose sight of the fact that God is
good... really good. Bill also said something he's been saying a lot
lately, "I don't want one thought in my mind about myself that's not in
God's mind about me". DIG IT!!!!!!!
Come to, walk to, awake to your Spiritual senses today.
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