I have been sparked this morning by a video of the great days of old for our generation. It was a time of a movement (of God in my opinion) when healing and many mighty miralces took place. Salvation was always at the forefront of what was said and done. No matter what was going on in a movement - the men and women kept salvation at the forefront of what was being done. That may not seem as exciting as seeing a healing or some other miracle of God but it is the greatest of all miracles and they knew it. I was saved with about 10 men and women around me in a church at an old fashioned altar - shouting the devil out of me - in their understanding. And the Lord knows they were not to wrong
The thoughts that come to me is through the years I have known people and they always ask me (just because I don't do what I did in ministry as I once did) 'why don't you believe in that no more?
What comes to my mind is; it is not that I don't believe it anymore. I believe God can do anything. He can do anything he pleases according to scripture. So it is not a 'not believe' in something - it is a 'believe' in something.
The scripture is;
And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. - 2 Corinthians 12:9.
The words 'My grace is sufficient' have to be a compelling factor in the understanding of a believer. Not a unbelief but a believing. Wanting to know the sufficiency of 'My grace.'
For instance healing; I still preach healing it just comes out different but you still pray and you still believe for healing - you still believe, you just need to KNOW the sufficiency of 'My grace. Attached to that Paul said is; 'the understanding of infirmities, maladies, with the mind the body - the soul.'
Understanding the sufficiency of 'My grace' can carry a believer into the knowledge of how something "just is in God." That is a bad explanation of what I'm trying to say - but grace is the all contributing factor to the believer moving on in their understanding and growing in the Lord in Grace and the knowledge of what he would have them to know and do and more importantly - be. Amen
Thank you rockytopva.
The thoughts that come to me is through the years I have known people and they always ask me (just because I don't do what I did in ministry as I once did) 'why don't you believe in that no more?
What comes to my mind is; it is not that I don't believe it anymore. I believe God can do anything. He can do anything he pleases according to scripture. So it is not a 'not believe' in something - it is a 'believe' in something.
The scripture is;
And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. - 2 Corinthians 12:9.
The words 'My grace is sufficient' have to be a compelling factor in the understanding of a believer. Not a unbelief but a believing. Wanting to know the sufficiency of 'My grace.'
For instance healing; I still preach healing it just comes out different but you still pray and you still believe for healing - you still believe, you just need to KNOW the sufficiency of 'My grace. Attached to that Paul said is; 'the understanding of infirmities, maladies, with the mind the body - the soul.'
Understanding the sufficiency of 'My grace' can carry a believer into the knowledge of how something "just is in God." That is a bad explanation of what I'm trying to say - but grace is the all contributing factor to the believer moving on in their understanding and growing in the Lord in Grace and the knowledge of what he would have them to know and do and more importantly - be. Amen
Thank you rockytopva.