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| Topic Started: May 28 2004, 08:40 PM (6 Views) | |
| Stace4Jesus | May 28 2004, 08:40 PM Post #1 |
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My brother is sick. When Kay had a toothache, she was in pain. I was helpless. I had to sit and watch the pain chew in on her. I feel helpless with my brother's illness. I pray, but still hear of the pain and fear that wraps itself around him, stealing from him the vigor and zeal to press on, scaling the mountains for our Lord. So, while my sisters and brothers suffer the pain that is inflicted upon them, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day, I have kept allowing myself to be drawn into senseless earthly battles that may seem to be important, but really, they are meant to steal the health and testimony of our Lord Jesus. Many of us have seen the miraclous healing of the Lord, and many of us have seen the Lord change lives because of these miracles. We have cried for joy with them as they come into the realization that the Lord Jesus loves them enough to heal their pain ridden bodies. Daniel 9:21 says, "While I was praying, Gabriel, the man I has seen in the first vision, came to me in my EXTREME WEARINESS, about the time of the evening offering." I do believe the Lord allows us to go to the point of extreme weariness and exhaustive points in our minds, wills, and emotions before descending upon us in His great power to accomplish His purpose and desires He has place on our hearts. I believe He brings us to a place of desperation to where we are consumed, totally, with a hunger that nothing else will satisfy except those things He has placed in us. And, oh, it is not a cheap hunger, and He does not feast us early. The higher the call, the deeper the hunger and desperation. I believe this is the only place where the Lord can meet us.. at that point of "I will die without it.. I will die unless I get it." This is not something that happens over night. It may begin overnight, but it takes a while to sift through our "instant" success syndromes we have picked up in our culture. Our Lord knows each of us through and through. He knows what it is that will really break us. He knows how far to push us, press us, drive us, and how much hunger He can place within us. It all begins with an answer to His call to be His ministers, and in this case specifically, His ministers of divine healing. Lets get real about it.. ministers of divine healing means laying hands on the sick and they get well. Yep, they get up and walk around, completely healed. This is a great and terrible thing to our enemy who has watched us as we press on toward the LORD's call. We did not call ourselves, He did. We did not invent the desire to be used by the Lord to raise the dead, HE put it in us.. all He asked of us is to say yes. We said yes. One of the ways the Lord works with us is the spiritual hunger I have mentioned. It is like He puts a desire in your heart.. ahead of you.. in your sight, and then goes behind you and starts slaming the doors closed behind you. He burns those comfortalbe bridges we would try to build to keep ourselves safe. Example.. I have awaken the past two mornings sick. Not physically, (although almost ill) because of my brother's suffering. Ask me if I care about the same things I cared about the day before. Hardly. Is the boss going to get mad at me? I don't care. (Not that I am going to do anything wrong on purpose.. and I trust the Lord to keep things in line while He is making me ill in my spirit). But I don't care about what man thinks. I don't care if the bills are paid, (although I will pay them.. you know.. walk over jot them out, mail them, and without any deep thoughts about it..) Just whatever it takes to get the job done.. I don't feel good.. I want healed... I want .. I must have.. I will obtain it.. move over, take your worldly and idle, temporal conversations elsewhere... my brother is sick.. my brother is sick. What is the difference? I mean if my brother was to go into the hospital.. wouldn't I act the same way then? Wouldn't my life take on a new deminsion? Wouldn't those things that seem important today be forgotten and put on the shelf? Well, the Lord burns the shelf. (the bridges) Those things that we once thought were important lose their flavor. It is His way.. It is His creating in us a road to His plan and path. Only He can do this.. and oh.. He does it so well. Well, I know there are many of us here on this path. On our paths that He has called us to walk, and that we have said yes to Him about. I say this to you.. keep your "yes." Don't give up because it is hard, or because it does not seem to be coming about. Don't think you have missed it.. you haven't missed it. The desires He has given you come from Him.. not you.. you did not invent them. He asked, and you said yes. He takes that yes and does His work, His way. I believe that life as we knew it is over. But, life is just beginning. So, if you are not "feeling well" .. then Praise the Lord. His will is being accomplished in your life. Do not dispair.. the path ahead of you will break forth into the Light He has promised. His "foundation" in you will stand the tests that the adversary wants to flood you with. You will stand. shalom stacie |
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