How you doin? God
hasn't healed my toes. It looks like surgery will go through. This will
be rationalized as God's plan for me. I do believe His plan can be
different then His will. The 6 weeks recovery time from surgery seems to
be a set up. I had a word come to me this morning that this next 6
weeks is a "stop taking your medicine" moment. When God healed me of my
arthritis, I had been praying for months. One day I asked Him why He
wasn't healing me and He said as clear as day, "you're still taking your
medicine". I stopped taking my medicine and am still arthritis free 3
months later. I believe I have a call of ministry and worship on my
life. I believe God will be using this time away from the "medicine" of
worldly resources to teach how to use the resources of Heaven. The
resources of Heaven are necessary for us to step into and walk in our
destiny of ministry and worship. There will be more on this at some
point. 2 Corinthians 1 today.
I'm trying not to over look the 1st two chapters in this book, because of my love for chapter 3. So far so good. Verses 3-4, "Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, 4 who
comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any
trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God." Rick Warren
said, "God is not concerned with our comfort... He is concerned with our
character". I believe Rick was trying to reconcile hardships in our
lives. I think this is wrong teaching. God is compassionate and
comforting. The Holy Ghost that lives in me is called the "comforter".
Human understanding is limited. We as people tend to give God credit for
stuff that isn't His. I've learned not to thank God for my trials and
tribulations, but to thank Him for sustaining and comforting me through
them. I believe that sin, particularly drinking, caused the arthritis
that caused the weakness in my foot that caused the dislocation of my
toes. God doesn't get the credit for my sin. However, God will sustain
me through this situation. He is comforting me with the thought of time
spent with Him. God can bring good out of bad. He's in the business of
redemption and reconciliation. COME ON!!!!!!!
Verse 12, "Now
this is our boast: Our conscience testifies that we have conducted
ourselves in the world, and especially in our relations with you, in the holiness and sincerity that are from God.
We have done so, relying not on worldly wisdom but on God’s grace." I
love what God is teaching me about conscience. My conscience of His
grace instead of my sin. That's a good word. The wisdom of the world is
all about sin and death and attempts to avoid them on my own. I've
already proven to myself beyond a shadow of a doubt that I will fail...
on my own. I want to boast that my conscience testifies that I've
conducted myself "in the holiness and sincerity that are from God". COME
ON!!!!!!!
Verses 20-22, "For
no matter how many promises God has made, they are “Yes” in Christ. And
so through him the “Amen” is spoken by us to the glory of God. 21 Now it is God who makes both us and you stand firm in Christ. He anointed us, 22 set his seal of ownership on us, and put his Spirit in our hearts as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come."
YES & AMEN!!!!!!! That's going to be on my mind all day. "Seal of
ownership", "Spirit in our hearts", and "guaranteeing what is to come".
WOW!!!!!!! What is to come? For me, that is the revelation of the
fullness of Christ in me. COME ON!!!!!!! Using and relying on the
resources of Heaven. AWESOME!!!!!!! Say "YES & AMEN" to the deposit
of the Spirit in your heart today.
PS
Please pray for me and Stacey to be attuned to the Spirit of revelation
to reveal the resources of Heaven to us during this time away from
worldly resources.
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