So many of us really do need God to interfere and to heal in our lives, our memories, our present times and our futures. Nothing wrong with that!
Needing God is nothing to be ashamed of, In fact it is perfection itself. It would be the saddest thing of all if any of us went through life without discovering that we need God. Every blessing - Mike
I hope this is interesting for you – in the OT it seems generally regarded by Moses etc that God's greatest work was getting his people free of slavery. The biggest thing was the Exodus. Pre-Jesus the nation understood salvation slightly differently than we do – they understood it to be a work of God that sets us free from those things which enslave us.
It may be today that we sometimes have a somewhat smaller view of salvation, that it's something that happens when we die, a setting free from enslaving sin and death. But Biblical salvation also concerns our being set free from what might enslave us in everyday life.
The enemy has come to steal and kill and destroy but Jesus has come that we might have abundant lives. Jesus asks us to pray that the kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven. On earth? Jesus knew that salvation is for now. It is a trusting in Jesus that prepares the way for his setting us free from those things which enslave our lives.
I'm not sure if a few unsightly freckles quite make the grade, but if a part of your life has overtaken the whole then now's the time to speak with the God of the burning bush who set the children free from the slavery of Pharaoh!
Every blessing - Mike
Do you know, I've been quite struck lately by the number of my fellow Christian leaders who appear to keep their trust in God's works inside the limits of scientific understanding. If science doesn't understand something then that 'something' cannot be from God, either, so they say! If some extraordinary kingdom healing occurs it's too easy to think to oneself, 'I wonder then if the original diagnosis was wrong?'
Mind you, science has always been slightly suspicious of what it doesn't understand and a lot of we Christians seem a bit suspicious as well. I recently published a witness statement from a husband whose wife became happily pregnant and gave birth very successfully and healthily, and all this was years after she had her womb surgically removed. The examining surgeon reported later that he could "find no evidence of the original procedure"! Do you like that?
Well, one or two leading churchmen announced it could not be so as healing miracles are only a speeding up of natural processes. In this case science says, "No womb, no babies".
If healing is only a speeding up of natural mechanisms I wonder how those lovely ones feel about Incarnation, Virgin birth, transfiguration and Resurrection?
I wish we could learn that science was invented by God, not God invented by and restricted within science! My God really can do anything!
Please from now on let's not restrict God to doing only what we understand. He can do anything! All blessings you need - Mike
