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Monday, April 14, 2014
Doctors are God's Gift to Us
Is it lack of faith to use doctors or meds to help in times of illness?
I DON'T THINK SO!
If we are to take the idea that using doctors or meds is a lack of faith in God's power to heal, then let's take it to it's ultimate extreme to determine truth.
First, we see no mandate in the word to never use doctors since Luke was a physician. Physicians use meds, it is an integral part of their job to reduce the suffering of an ailing person and even aid in the healing process.
Just because some people abuse meds does not make the meds wrong. Some people abuse food too, but they will not survive without it.
To say that we lack faith to use doctors, is no different than saying we lack faith when we take our car to the repair man when it breaks.
Do we lack faith when we hire a plumber to fix a broken pipe, or do we lack faith because we mow the grass when it gets too tall. Perhaps we should have faith that the grass will not grow too tall, or that it will chop itself off when it does.
Do we lack faith by taking in life giving food, after all couldn't God sustain our bodies without our doing anything to give it what it needs?
Everything we do should be done in faith. When we have a medical problem, we should pray, go to the doctor if needed and let the Lord guide his hands as he uses his God-given knowledge to help us.
When our car breaks we seek those who have the knowledge to repair it.
When the grass grows we mow it.
When our body gets hungry we feed it and when something breaks in our bodies that we have no knowledge to fix, we go to the physician who has been trained, to help us.
Let's not use the excuse of faith as a tool to glorify self, while neglecting the reasonable things to do to take care of business.
I DON'T THINK SO!
If we are to take the idea that using doctors or meds is a lack of faith in God's power to heal, then let's take it to it's ultimate extreme to determine truth.
First, we see no mandate in the word to never use doctors since Luke was a physician. Physicians use meds, it is an integral part of their job to reduce the suffering of an ailing person and even aid in the healing process.
Just because some people abuse meds does not make the meds wrong. Some people abuse food too, but they will not survive without it.
To say that we lack faith to use doctors, is no different than saying we lack faith when we take our car to the repair man when it breaks.
Do we lack faith when we hire a plumber to fix a broken pipe, or do we lack faith because we mow the grass when it gets too tall. Perhaps we should have faith that the grass will not grow too tall, or that it will chop itself off when it does.
Do we lack faith by taking in life giving food, after all couldn't God sustain our bodies without our doing anything to give it what it needs?
Everything we do should be done in faith. When we have a medical problem, we should pray, go to the doctor if needed and let the Lord guide his hands as he uses his God-given knowledge to help us.
When our car breaks we seek those who have the knowledge to repair it.
When the grass grows we mow it.
When our body gets hungry we feed it and when something breaks in our bodies that we have no knowledge to fix, we go to the physician who has been trained, to help us.
Let's not use the excuse of faith as a tool to glorify self, while neglecting the reasonable things to do to take care of business.
God Said it and I Believe Him
Acts 17:29
"Being then the children of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and thought of man."
Perhaps if we got this message out every time we see a picture of a man depicting Christ, eventually others would get used to the idea that these are idols and stop posting these pictures.
Every time I see one this verse in Acts comes to mind. How seriously do we take God's Word? Is everything in it subject to our own cultural thinking?
God told us things to give us wisdom, so that we do not dishonor Him. Perhaps we should just believe Him when He tells us something in His Word.
"Being then the children of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and thought of man."
Perhaps if we got this message out every time we see a picture of a man depicting Christ, eventually others would get used to the idea that these are idols and stop posting these pictures.
Every time I see one this verse in Acts comes to mind. How seriously do we take God's Word? Is everything in it subject to our own cultural thinking?
God told us things to give us wisdom, so that we do not dishonor Him. Perhaps we should just believe Him when He tells us something in His Word.
Demanding From the Lord is Serious Business!
Those who say they have "claimed" things in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, lack understanding of the Word when it comes to prayer.
We have no right to command our Lord to do anything. If we come to Him in humility seeking His will, then we wouldn't dare demand or command anything from Him.
Proverbs 15:33 "The fear of the LORD is the instruction for wisdom, And before honor comes humility."
Psalm 95:6 "Come, let us worship and bow down, Let us kneel before the LORD our Maker."
http://www.gotquestions.org/Word-Faith.html
We have no right to command our Lord to do anything. If we come to Him in humility seeking His will, then we wouldn't dare demand or command anything from Him.
Proverbs 15:33 "The fear of the LORD is the instruction for wisdom, And before honor comes humility."
Psalm 95:6 "Come, let us worship and bow down, Let us kneel before the LORD our Maker."
http://www.gotquestions.org/Word-Faith.html
Sunday, April 13, 2014
It Is Not Difficult
It Is Not Difficult
The truth is that Christ paid the penalty for sin that we owed, all that is necessary for that debt to be counted to our account is to place our faith in Him. Then Christ will come into us and seal us with His Holy Spirit, change us into a new creation, and keep us until He comes for us while continuing to cleanse us.
The truth is that Christ paid the penalty for sin that we owed, all that is necessary for that debt to be counted to our account is to place our faith in Him. Then Christ will come into us and seal us with His Holy Spirit, change us into a new creation, and keep us until He comes for us while continuing to cleanse us.
Future Telling is Divination
I attended a "prophesy session", years ago. I was invited by a neighborhood friend.
Not realizing what a prophesy session was, I thought we were going to learn prophesy from the Bible, instead what I found was devilish silliness perpetrated by a seer, claiming to be a prophet.
As the so called prophet was acting foolishly telling jokes and entertaining the congregation, he would point into the audience to choose people to prophesy about their lives.
I began shaking my head in disgust, he then pointed at me to come forward to tell me what will happen next in my life. I said no, he then proceeded to prophesy that my son was going to commit suicide, my son was sitting next to me.
My son never did commit suicide, interestingly enough we were the only people in the place who got a negative or dangerous prophesy, everyone else was told wonderful things about their future.
The seer in the pulpit was a devil, and the foolish people in the pews were lining up to have their future told by this man who claimed to be a prophet of God.
I couldn't believe my eyesm that so many in the small town of 7000 were mesmerized by this wicked man. Since that time I have seen more and more of this foolishness on the internet.
Those who are not acquainted with their Bibles are being deceived by these masters of manipulation.
God forbade the telling of futures, it is called divination.
Galatians 5:19-21
"19 Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are: immorality, impurity, sensuality,
20 idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, disputes, dissensions, factions,
21 envying, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these, of which I forewarn you, just as I have forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God."
Not realizing what a prophesy session was, I thought we were going to learn prophesy from the Bible, instead what I found was devilish silliness perpetrated by a seer, claiming to be a prophet.
As the so called prophet was acting foolishly telling jokes and entertaining the congregation, he would point into the audience to choose people to prophesy about their lives.
I began shaking my head in disgust, he then pointed at me to come forward to tell me what will happen next in my life. I said no, he then proceeded to prophesy that my son was going to commit suicide, my son was sitting next to me.
My son never did commit suicide, interestingly enough we were the only people in the place who got a negative or dangerous prophesy, everyone else was told wonderful things about their future.
The seer in the pulpit was a devil, and the foolish people in the pews were lining up to have their future told by this man who claimed to be a prophet of God.
I couldn't believe my eyesm that so many in the small town of 7000 were mesmerized by this wicked man. Since that time I have seen more and more of this foolishness on the internet.
Those who are not acquainted with their Bibles are being deceived by these masters of manipulation.
God forbade the telling of futures, it is called divination.
Galatians 5:19-21
"19 Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are: immorality, impurity, sensuality,
20 idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, disputes, dissensions, factions,
21 envying, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these, of which I forewarn you, just as I have forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God."
Who Claims to be a Prophet of God?
Beware of those who claim to be Prophets of God! Anyone who says they "have a word from the Lord for you", tell them not to speak. If God wants to tell us something He will tell it directly to us.
Deuteronomy 18:10-12 “anyone who practices divination or tells fortunes or interprets omens, or a sorcerer or a charmer or a medium or a necromancer or one who inquires of the dead, 12 for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord.”
Jeremiah 27:9-10 “So do not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your dreamers, your fortune-tellers, or your sorcerers, who are saying to you, ‘You shall not serve the king of Babylon.’ 10 For it is a lie that they are prophesying to you, with the result that you will be removed far from your land, and I will drive you out, and you will perish.”
Jeremiah 14:14-16 “The prophets are prophesying lies in my name. I did not send them, nor did I command them or speak to them. They are prophesying to you a lying vision, worthless divination, and the deceit of their own minds. Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the prophets who prophesy in my name although I did not send them, and who say, ‘Sword and famine shall not come upon this land’: By sword and famine those prophets shall be consumed. And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem, victims of famine and sword, with none to bury them—them, their wives, their sons, and their daughters. For I will pour out their evil upon them.”
Deuteronomy 18:20-22
“a prophet who presumes to speak a word in my name that I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die.’ And if you say in your heart, ‘How may we know the word that the Lord has not spoken?’— when a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, if the word does not come to pass or come true, that is a word that the Lord has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously. You need not be afraid of him.”
Deuteronomy 18:10-12 “anyone who practices divination or tells fortunes or interprets omens, or a sorcerer or a charmer or a medium or a necromancer or one who inquires of the dead, 12 for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord.”
Jeremiah 27:9-10 “So do not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your dreamers, your fortune-tellers, or your sorcerers, who are saying to you, ‘You shall not serve the king of Babylon.’ 10 For it is a lie that they are prophesying to you, with the result that you will be removed far from your land, and I will drive you out, and you will perish.”
Jeremiah 14:14-16 “The prophets are prophesying lies in my name. I did not send them, nor did I command them or speak to them. They are prophesying to you a lying vision, worthless divination, and the deceit of their own minds. Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the prophets who prophesy in my name although I did not send them, and who say, ‘Sword and famine shall not come upon this land’: By sword and famine those prophets shall be consumed. And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem, victims of famine and sword, with none to bury them—them, their wives, their sons, and their daughters. For I will pour out their evil upon them.”
Deuteronomy 18:20-22
“a prophet who presumes to speak a word in my name that I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die.’ And if you say in your heart, ‘How may we know the word that the Lord has not spoken?’— when a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, if the word does not come to pass or come true, that is a word that the Lord has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously. You need not be afraid of him.”
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