Thursday, June 23, 2011

He Wondered If God Had Forgotten About Him

“We are also seeing many miracles in our islands,” he added. “I am a doctor who fully believes in the power of prayer and divine healing.” Then he shared with me a "recent miracle" that he said took place in the life of Eydun Jacobsen, a “well-known singer and song-writer” in the Faroe Islands.

An album cover from the musician
“This took place about six week ago," said Dr. Rana. “Eydun Jacobsen is a Charismatic Christian who is about 55 years of age and is well known for his songs about loving God and following him. He is also known in other countries in Scandinavia for his songs.“But then, about six months ago, he suffered a stroke which resulted in him not being able to use his left hand, legs and he also had trouble speaking. When he had the stroke he was taken to the hospital and because the effects of it were so severe, he was kept there for several months.“After four months, they told him one Friday evening that couldn’t help him anymore. By then he was not able to use his left leg or his left hand as the fingers were paralyzed.” Dr. Rana said that the singer-songwriter was discharged and went home, but became frustrated because he couldn’t play the guitar or piano anymore. “He attends a good church that believes in miracles and on a Sunday evening shortly after leaving the hospital, and halfway through the meeting, he wondered if God had forgotten about him as he was still unable to use his limbs,” said Dr. Rana.

Friday, March 11, 2011

Why All The Earthquakes?

Jesus told us 2000+ years ago that as the times grew closer to His return than these things would happen.... "Then said he unto them, Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven. But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues, and into prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for my name's sake." Luke 21 verse 10-12 (King James Bible)

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Adam And Eve Were Tested

Adam & Eve were tested and tempted but failed the tests, Jesus was tested and tempted but passed the tests. Just as all before us have been tempted or will be tempted in the future, the question is will  we pass the tests? "And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered." Luke 4 v 1 & 2 (King James Bible)

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Shower Love

"I always hear your cry. No sound escapes Me. Many, many in the world cry to Me, but oh! how few wait to hear Me speak to them and yet to the soul, My speaking to it matters so much. My words are Life. Think then, to hear Me speak is to find Life, and healing and strength. Trust Me in all things. Love showered on all brings truly a quick return. Just carry out My wishes and leave Me to carry out yours. Treat Me as Savior and King, but also with the tender intimacy of One much beloved.

Keep to the rules I have laid down for you, persistently, perseveringly, lovingly, patiently, hopefully, and in faith, and every mountain of difficulty shall be laid low, the rough places of poverty shall be made smooth, and all who know you shall know that I, your Lord, am the Lord. Shower love." from the Two Listeners "The righteous cry, and the Lord heareth." - Psalm 34:17 King James Bible.

Oh God help me to take all the time I need to draw close to you each day, let me not be deceived into thinking I have too much to do, or a thing is so important that I have to do that rather than sit at Your feet.

Friday, February 25, 2011

Share Everything

"Silently the work of the Spirit is done. Already Love is drawing others to you. Take all who come as sent by Me, and give them a royal welcome. It will surprise you, all that I have planned for you. Welcome all who come with the love of both your hearts. You may not see the work. Today they may not need you. Tomorrow they may need you. I may send you strange visitors. Make each desire to return. Nobody must come and feel unwanted."

"Share your Love, your Joy, your Happiness, your time, your food, gladly with all. Such wonders will unfold. You see it all but in bud now, the glory of the open flower is beyond all your telling. Love, Joy, Peace, in richest abundance, only believe. Give out Love and all you can with a glad free heart and hand. Use all you can for others, and back will come such countless stores and blessings." The Two Listeners

"And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation." 2 Corinthians 5:18 King James Bible.

Every person we meet needs us to give them a word from God. Listen for direction from The Holy Spirit, He will tell you what to say or do to touch each person that comes across your path. The angels will bring them if you will be open to obey!

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Will You Endure?

"Do not forget to meet all your difficulties with love and laughter. Be assured that I am with you. Remember, remember it is the last few yards that tell. Do not fail Me. I cannot fail you. Rest in My love How many of the world's prayers have gone unanswered because My children who prayed did not endure to the end. They thought it was too late, and that they must act for themselves, that I was not going to act for them. Remember My words: "He that endureth to the end, the same shall be saved."

Can you endure to the end? If so, you shall be saved. But endure with courage, with Love and laughter. Oh! My children, is My training too hard? For you, My children, I will unlock the secret treasures hidden from so many. Not one of your cries is unheard. I am with you indeed to aid you. Go through all I have said to you, and live in every detail as I have enjoined you. As you follow implicitly all I say, success -- spiritual, mental, and physical -- shall be yours. Wait in silence awhile, conscious of My presence, in which you must live to have rest unto your souls, and Power and Joy and Peace." Two Listeners

"And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the Lord, which call thee by thy name, and the God of Israel." Isaiah 45:3 King James Bible

Monday, February 21, 2011

Can We Let Go?

Unfortunately it appears bad things do happen to good people, in God's training process. Sometimes in this process we lose something or someone we really care about and it is very hard to let go and still rejoice in The Most High God. I lost a business and the ability to get back into business and I just could not let go and get a job until I met another person who unknowingly helped me. This person talked in great detail about his son and showed me his perfectly made up bedroom waiting for his return. Turns out the son had died accidentally 8 years before, with no fault of the father. The father could not let go of the son and moved on, he talked as thought the son died yesterday, he said he would never let go and move on. I realized I needed to give up my dream of getting back into business and find a job. Ten years later after I learned how to be a good employee and what a bad boss I had been and I was able to start my own business again. Now I was a totally different more sensitive person towards my employees, suppliers and customers. "Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days." Ecclesiastes 11:1 King James Bible. Do not be afraid to give your cares to God...  "Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you." 1 Peter 5:7 King James Bible

Saturday, February 19, 2011

Be Wise As Serpents

Every person we met is an opportunity to pass on a word from God. Each servant of Mine should regard himself as an outpost for My Truths, where he must be prepared to receive My Messages, and to signal them on. This is work of great importance in My Kingdom.

Wherever you go make Me known. That was My Risen injunction, My Commission. Wherever you go establish outposts of My Empire, make contacts for Me. Make Me known to men -- sometimes by speech, sometimes in silence." Two Listeners

Thursday, February 17, 2011

When We Are Successful

When we become successful will we remember God? During the tough times, when we are at the end of our rope it is easy to cry out to the Most High God for help. But when the blessings begin to flow after the hard times of learning end, will we forget about Him or learn to seek Him when we are not in dire straights?

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

The Perfect Church

How to find the perfect church? It is not easy moving to a new area and trying to find a church, we have seen some with good or bad worship, others good or bad teaching, all were great at asking for offerings, none really demonstrated the power of God with signs and wonders. Some churches where 99% one color others were 99% another color and several were a mix of colors. All seemed to have gotten stuck some where in the reasoning stage and had lost the power and first love. One taught you do not have to choose God He chooses you, well all would be saved than, because God's desire is all should be saved. Another did not believe God heals anymore, another had become rich and powerful and forgot to seek or obey God, on and on it goes, we do not want to grow up so we find a comfortable place and then put God on a shelf and run things our way.

Trouble is if you do not want to obey God, He backs off because we do have a choice to obey God as difficult and wonderful as it often is.

"Do not expect a perfect Church, but find in a church the means of coming very near to Me. That alone matters, then the much, that is husk, falls away. Hold it of no account. Grasp the truth and find Me The True Bread Of Life. The lesson of the grain is the lesson of My Church and Me. The real life is all that matters, the outward Church is the husk; but the husk was necessary to present a life-grain to men." The Two Listeners

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Are We Seeking His Will?

Are we really seeking His will or are we doing what we want and asking Him to bless it? "Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth." John 9:31 King James Bible. As we seek God diligently in the word and prayer he will give us directions, trouble is His directions and plans are so different then what we would do. In 35 years He has never failed me, but it has hardly ever happened the way I wanted or in the time or way I would have chosen, but it has always ended up good. I learned a lot of things, my family and all that were involved learned about God in the process. Seek Him, Do What He Says!

Monday, February 14, 2011

God Loves My Dog

We had moved to a new home in a city on a busy street, my small Pomeranian dog was not used to cars or people walking around. One morning she saw a person on the other side of the street and ran down the long drive and across two lanes of traffic barking like crazy at the person. She was half way across the four lane road when the person turned and started yelling at the dog. My dog stopped turned and ran back to me. Amazingly there where no cars at that time in the street something very rare during the morning rush. How many times I have thanked God for His angels protecting her and that I was holding that dear little dog in my arms rather than any of the alternatives.

Sunday, February 13, 2011

Met Them By Accident

We know that every person we met, is part of God's plan. As we grow we know we need to pray and ask God each time we met someone, What do you have for them Oh God? We were rear ended recently and met the most wonderful family in the process. We had great fellowship at the accident site, even the policeman asked if we knew each other, he was shocked, maybe partly because we were different colors. They invited us to their church and had their church pray for us, and lots of good ideas, plans and fellowship has come from that accidental meeting. Remember to ask God each time you met someone for His advice.

Saturday, February 12, 2011

Pray For Your Car

We had a car for over 6 years, put 160,000 miles on it with no problems, we were getting ready to move across the country and could not take it with us. We talked about anyone who bought it would need to know how to pray to keep it going. A few days before we left the transmission started slipping, we lowered the priced and asked God to bring a buyer who would be able to repair it. Sure enough someone came along and purchased it and will have it repaired. How many wonderful trips we and our children have had in that car.

Monday, January 31, 2011

A Mom's Gold Medal

It is hard to find a mom these days who wants to stay home and raise her own children. It seems being a mom is out of fashion, you need to have a education, a career, a good job to be someone. I know a mom who stays home, sometimes she is the only mom home on the street and all the children of the neighborhood would go to her house after school. I know a mom who's children do not want to leave home first chance they get, I also know a mom who's children want her to be close by when they attend collage. But I saw a gold medal passed out the other day when the friends of one of her children said, "We love being friends with your kids, we have learned so much from them and the stories we have heard of you, you are the best mom we know, can we be your kids?" She took that gold medal and laid it Jesus feet, for many years ago He helped her to stop working and taught her how to live on less so that she would have more time to be with her children.

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Are We Staying Close To God?

"O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?" Galatians 3 v 1 King James Bible We need to stay close to God, by reading the bible, praying and then we need to obey what He asks us to do. It is often not easy to do what He asks, but He wants to help us! We must learn to lean into Him and then be amazed at what He does.

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Faith Is Just Trusting God

Pray daily for Faith. It is My Gift. It is your only requisite for the accomplishment of mighty deeds. Certainly you have to work, you have to pray, but upon Faith alone depends the answer to your prayers - your works.

I give it you in response to your prayer, because it is the necessary weapon for you to possess for the dispersion of evil - the overcoming of all adverse conditions, and the accomplishment of all good in your lives, and then you having Faith, give it back to Me. It is the envelope in which every request to Me should be placed.

And yet "Faith without works is dead." So you need works, too, to feed your Faith in Me. As you seek to do, you feel your helplessness. You then turn to Me. In knowing Me, your faith grows - and that faith is all you need for My Power to work.

"Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith." - Habakkuk 2:4 From The Two Listeners

Monday, January 3, 2011

God Has Not Forgotten You

"Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the LORD. Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes; For thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left; and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited. Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou confounded; for thou shalt not be put to shame: for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember the reproach of thy widowhood any more. For thy Maker is thine husband; the LORD of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called. For the LORD hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God. For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee. In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy Redeemer." Isaiah 54 verse 1-8 (King James Bible)
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Friday, December 31, 2010

He Will Make A Way!

It does not take long in a person Christian walk with God before an impossible situation arises. It will seem like there is no way out. Something seems hopeless. But it also does not take long in our Christian walk with God before we realize HE WILL MAKE A WAY! He seems to like to work in impossible situations. This scripture comes alive in these situations. God is in the business of taking the worlds deserts and turning them into flower gardens. Take every problem big or small to Him who can make a way when it seems there is no way. "Thus saith the LORD, which maketh a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters; Which bringeth forth the chariot and horse, the army and the power; they shall lie down together, they shall not rise: they are extinct, they are quenched as tow. Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert." Isaiah 43:16-19 (King James Bible)

Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled

"Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also." John 14 verse 1-3 (King James Bible)

Tuesday, December 28, 2010

The Blind Receive Their Sight

"Now when John had heard in the prison the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples, And said unto him, Art thou he that should come, or do we look for another? Jesus answered and said unto them, Go and shew John again those things which ye do hear and see: The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them. And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me." Matthew 11 v 2-6 (King James Bible)

Saturday, December 25, 2010

The Best Gifts

There is no better gift than a relationship with The Most High God, somehow he loves us and desires to teach us His ways if we will humble ourselves and obey His commands. Because from this relationship flows all blessings. Some of the greatest blessings on earth are a wonderful husband or wife, the blessing of children that love and serve God, family, friends all things that can not be purchased. Then the joy of the other things God has made, pets, nature, trees, plants, mountain ranges, oceans and beaches, they are here for us to enjoy. Last the things man has made, cars, clothes, boats, houses, vacations, jewelry, how quickly the joy of stuff passes. 

Friday, December 24, 2010

Hitler Believed Religion Had No Place

Hitler believed religion had no place in his 1,000-year Reich, so he replaced the Christian figure of Saint Nicholas with the Norse god Odin and urged Germans to celebrate the season as a holiday of the ‘winter solstice’, rather than Christmas. Read more

Thursday, December 23, 2010

Learn To Rejoice

Learn To Rejoice On This Side Of The Jordan:
Why wasn't the red sea parted and waiting for them when they got there? God had other plans, to show His power against Pharaohs army, teach the people to rejoice on this side of the Jordan, that He can be trusted. When we seem surrounded by troubles, the army behind us, high mountain ranges on either side and the raging river in front of us, REJOICE! Rejoice no matter what your situation looks like....Remember it is very easy to rejoice after deliverance. 

How different this story might have been is the people had rejoice in God their Deliverer. "And when Pharaoh drew nigh, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and, behold, the Egyptians marched after them; and they were sore afraid: and the children of Israel cried out unto the LORD. And they said unto Moses, Because there were no graves in Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness? wherefore hast thou dealt thus with us, to carry us forth out of Egypt? Is not this the word that we did tell thee in Egypt, saying, Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? For it had been better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness." Exodus 14 v 10-12 (King James Bible)

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

How Much Do You Know?

Do you know a lot about any subject? Say you are good at piano, if you are really good with lots and lots of experience how much do you think you know of all the wisdom in the world about pianos? The piano wisdom before during and after you are gone? Would you say you know 1%, 5% or 10% of all the world wide piano knowledge? No matter how much we know God knows ALL Knowledge! Why try to figure out things on your own? Why not go to Him who loves us and knows all things?

Monday, December 20, 2010

No Room For The King

"And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judaea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; (because he was of the house and lineage of David:) To be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child.  And so it was, that, while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered. And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn." Luke 2 verse 4-7 (King James Bible)

Saturday, December 18, 2010

God Visits His People

Just as God visited His people years ago, He still wait's for us to want to visit with Him. Take time everyday to sit with The Most High God, who loves you and desires to teach you His ways. "Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people, And hath raised up an horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David; As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have been since the world began:" Luke 1:68-70 (King James Bible)

Friday, December 17, 2010

Thou Shalt Call His Name JESUS

"But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost. And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins." Matthew 1:20-21 (King James Bible)

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Fear Not

"And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God. And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS. He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David: And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end." Luke 1:30-33 (King James Bible

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Who Are You Looking To For Help?

Once I heard a 4 Star General speak about the war and how his son almost died in the war, for one hour He spoke about everything including his solutions for the war but not a peep about prayer or asking God for help in the war. Afterwords I showed him this scripture. "Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain." Psalm 127:1 The King James Bible.