CHANCE FOR A MIRACLE
Many people wonder why God's promises are fulfilled in some people's lives in a miraculous way. And others wait in vain...
😮I thought this question only interests today's people. But no... Jesus talked about this exactly in His most important parable!
🌱The kingdom of God works like the seeds that are sown into a field. Some seeds (the Word of God) fall by the wayside and the seed of the miracle reaches neither the mind nor the heart of the person. So they only hear the Word, but do not understand it. That is why it is important that the preaching of the Word is in understandable and simple. And if someone does not understand it, they should dare to ask. So that on Tuesday we can still remember what we heard on Sunday. (It would therefore be worthwhile if the members of the congregation would also talk about the Sunday Scriptures during the week.)
🪨The stony ground means that although a person has understood the Word, it has no root in their heart. When some difficulty comes, they despair, get annoyed, expect the worst, and out of frustration, they even act meanly towards their loved ones... Yet, in the midst of difficulties, we must stop and think that God's help and promise apply to this situation as well. Then we really need to pray and confess that Jesus is Lord and Savior in this situation as well.
A person whose heart is like weedy soil is engaged in the Word, immersed in it, and believes it. But there are many things to do distract him from the Word, just as weeds suck water and nutrients from plants. The amazing thing is that these "weeds" are not necessarily sins, but for examplebwatching TV, Facebook and other social media, or even too much ministry. ❗ Through the TV we are bombarded with a lot of information that feeds unbelief or sin in us, but for the most part, the information flow is not harmful. Yet it takes up our time and fills our thoughts. If we spent our time with the Word and praise of God instead of the worries and lives of other people on TV, we would be strengthened in our relationship with God and our lives would bear a hundred times more fruit.
🌳And there is the good soil. This heart/life contains fewer worries, it is a less overloaded life, so that the Word has room to grow in the field of our hearts.
🙌 I bless you to keep the Word deep in your hearts like a treasure. Let it reach every area of your life and know that your time spent with Him will return a hundredfol.
These thoughts were inspired by the teaching of Charis Bible School.
DISEASE IS CAPTIVITY
As I was studying the Bible, I understood the depth of the burning love that God has for us and the desire to see us walk in abundant blessings.
Exodus 15:26 NIV
He said, “If you listen carefully to the Lord your God and do what is right in his eyes, if you pay attention to his commands and keep all his decrees, I will not bring on you any of the diseases I brought on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord, who heals you.”
It happened in Marah that God introduced Himself as Jehovah Rapha: He is the God who heals you. This is His name and characteristic. He turned the bitter water into sweet water using a wooden stick, which is the symbol of the cross.
God called the diseases something that is for those in Egypt. Who were the Egyptians?
⚫Those who opposed Him,
⬛who kept His people in captivity, humility, poverty and constant humiliation.
🖤Hopeless, beaten...
☠️God didn't let go of His chosen people and went to all possible extremes to save them. Finally He killed the Egyptians, because they didn't want to let go of His people.
If you come to think of the depths of God's punishment to the Egyptians and the glory of His miracles through which He saved them - you can understand, how much God was against the spiritual forces and mentality that ruled Egypt.
God never wanted us to experience diseases. Diseases belong to the darkness and the enemy. Diseases are from where God saved His people from. Diseases are captivity. They deprive people from life, from joy and the ability to bring glory to God with their whole potential.
In Job 42:10 it says that God turned the captivity of Job, when he got healed. That clearly proves that God considers disease to be captivity.
In Deuteronomy 28 we can read the list of blessings and curses. And disease can be found among the curses. Jesus purchased our freedom from the curse by becoming curse for us on the cross. (Gal 3:13)
Luke 13:11-16 the woman, who had been sick for 18 years is set free from being crippled. Jesus said she was loosed from the bond. She had also been captive.
🙌I bless you to see disease and feel God's hatred towards it. Know how much He had suffered so that you and your beloved can be free from captivity, free from satan's rule in all areas of your life. Be set free, prosper, thrive in your health and life.
This was written on the basis of Charis Bible College teachings.
WAR IN HEAVEN AND ON EARTH🌠
THE TWO KINGDOMS 🌝🌚
Christ proclaimed the kingdom of God that it is among us. But there is also a kingdom of darkness, which is evil and wants to keep people under its rule through deception. 👿
WHAT IS THE DEVIL'S GOAL?
That sins and illnesses prevent people from living freely and having a good relationship with God and people.
CHRIST'S WORK
When Christ walked on Earth, He called the devil an enemy and fought against him : He freed many people from the tyranny of evil. He healed the sick, cast out demons, and forgave sins.
Acts 10:38 NIV "You know that Jesus went around doing good and delivering those who were under the power of Satan, because God was with him."
THE DEVIL'S TYRANNY 🖤
The above verse uses the Greek word "katadunasteuo", which means to despot, oppress, exploit.
IF YOU DON'T FIGHT...
When the Pharisees wanted to forbid Christ to heal on the Sabbath, He said this:
Mark 3:4 NIV "Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do harm, to save life or to kill? But they kept silent."
In other words, Christ could not not do good. If He had let the sick continue to suffer, it would have been as if He had killed these lives. 😮Because when someone is healed, they come out from under the rule of the devil.❗ They receive life force, the power and life of Christ. But healing is also a great thing spiritually. Because those who are healed, having experienced the love of God, usually repent and gain eternal life.
So we are also in a battle, a war. If we do not heal the sick, if we just remain silent, someone dies, suffers and people do not gain the life of Christ. But if we do the will of God, people can gain life.
🙌I bless you to give life to people, and to your babies through the Words of God. May the fire of love burn even more in your hearts, do not leave people under the tyranny of sin, loneliness, illness, and confusion. In Christ we can do all things. 🎉
