Repetitious Lessons

Hi, it's me. If anyone still reads this, well, you're dedicated fan club I'd have given up by now.

I'll probably post more on my vacation about how things go (I was invited to comete in the National Fine Arts Competition for Assemblies of God churches). I may even post some stuff about school, pressure, witnessing, and the downside to being emo... as soon as I see what that's like....

But right now I have a different topic. I want to talk to you about repetitive lessons (I think I spelled that wrong, idk).

Don't hate it when your mom/dad tells you to do something over and over again? And when you get sick of it and blurt out, "OK! I GOT IT!" they always say, "If I don't remind you, you'll forget." That same thing can happen in your walk with God.

Lets's say your walking with Gdod and you stumble. God tels you what you hit and says, "look out for that hooker next time we go down Life Avenue." So go on and it happens again... and again... and again...

God keeps having to remind you of the trouble she's causeing and you keep having to say you're sorry. I have a feeling that God dislikes telling you to stop just as much as hate hearing mom and dad warn you like a broken record player.

There's a saying, it's "Live and Learn". Live life walking down Life Avenue (8,374,938 miles to go!) bump into that hooker and then Learn to say no.

"So what do we do? Keep on sinning so God can keep on forgiving? I should hope not! If we've left the country where sin is sovereign, how can we still live in our old house there? Or didn't you realize we packed up and left there for good? That is what happened in baptism. When we went under the water, we left the old country of sin behind; when we came up out of the water, we entered into the new country of grace—a new life in a new land"

-Romans 6:1 (theMESSAGE)

Healing Still Comes

I have two friends (well, more than two total but today we focus on just two). Their names are Gospel and Zach.

Gospel held a revival at my church last thursday. At this revival people were healed, prophesied over, and given spiritual blessings. God's presence met us that night in a way I'll never forget. During the worship portion of the evening, Gospel encouraged us to seek after God, to really press in on the Kingdom of Heaven. As we did we began to feel Heaven touch earth as our voices combined with the angels and we lifted these words to Heaven:

Holy, holy, holy

Is the Lord God almighty

Who was and is, and is to come!

With all creation I sing

Praise to the King of Kings

And I will adore you!

That was "The Revelation Song" a song recorded in the Bible that the angels will sing for eternity! How awesome it was to join them and lift God up!

After that Gospel had his friend and fellow prayer warrior, Tasha, hand him his little journal. From that journal he read off spoken words. These are random things that God reveals to Gospel as he's praying or thinking about the upcoming service. Among this long list was dental miracles, family struggles, diabetes, and more. Those who needed prayer for one or more of the listed struggles or sicknesses took the first step of faith by coming up to the platform and creating a line. Gospel went through the line and God worked through Gospel's prayers.

Gospel describes it like this: "I do the praying and believing and God takes it from there. That's what Jesus did, he laid hands on people said 'you're healed' and they were! you see that all through the book of Matthew."

Gospel claims no power of his own he knows that what he's doing is interceding, praying on another's behalf. Moses did this same thing for Israel many times, and Jesus does that for us now.

"I'm doing what Jesus told me to do, to 'lay hands on the sick and the needy'."

We are disciples of Jesus the second we receive Jesus as our personal Lord and Savior. Jesus told his disciples (us) that we would do greater things in His name than he did while he was with us!

"Believe me: I am in my Father and my Father is in me. If you can't believe that, believe what you see—these works. The person who trusts me will not only do what I'm doing but even greater things, because I, on my way to the Father, am giving you the same work to do that I've been doing. You can count on it. From now on, whatever you request along the lines of who I am and what I am doing, I'll do it. That's how the Father will be seen for who he is in the Son. I mean it. Whatever you request in this way, I'll do."

-John 14:11-14 (the Message)

Jesus said it plain as day there. We can and will do great things because of Jesus in us.

About my friend Zach, I hope this helps answer his questions. But as to why some people don't get healed Gospel replied "I don't know, that's God's part." We have to pray and know that God will do as He sees fit.