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re: Under 40, You May Not Understand

AmeriKan — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:12:07 GMT

KatiRose4Him....

While you told a "hair-raising" story of the snake...we can readily see that in the many situations you mentioned from riding in the back of the truck to drinking water of unknown sources...we have a great God who looked down upon us with mercy and covered us with His shed blood of divine PROTECTION !!

I have often thought, in our ignorance, shortcomings and even negligence God was there watching over us...shielding, protecting, overshadowing...an ever-present help in time of need, even when we did not know it. He truely is Jehovah Shammah...the God who is ALWAYS THERE (Ezekiel 48:35) to meet our every need.

Growing up on a Kansas wheat farm/ranch...we were exposed to many dangers. I have often thought, "God how did we survive?" "HE WAS THERE!" Long before seat belts were standard in automobiles, my mother was always concerned about we as children plowing the fields on a tractor...any number of things could have happened. "HE WAS THERE!" Still, she insisted Dad concoct some type of seatbelt on the tractor seat so we would not fall off or fall asleep and end up "plowed under." Not that there were not some serious farming accidents...God was "ALWAYS THERE" for my family. Two particular accidents involving myself, I remember vividly. One involved a horse, the other a bull. I won't go into the gorey details but with the horse one I had a skull fracture (age 10)...we did not know it and consequently we did not go to the doctor. Many years later the skull fracture and orbital fractures were found on an MRI. Sometimes I can't wait to get to heaven to find out how God protected me by positioning the angels just right..."HE WAS THERE!"

Blessings,

AmeriKan

re: Under 40, You May Not Understand

KatiRose4Him — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:11:18 GMT

Yeah... and I don't remember anyone being alergic to 15 different types of foods, either. We drank from the garden hose, road in the back of the truck, slept outside with all the neighborhood kids in the front and back yards, swam everywhere, drank any water that seemed to look clean, cleaned fish and rinsed off in the river and ate lunch! LOL!!! And when we went hiking while camping, in CA, we drank water that had trickled down a rock and into a tin cup that WAS PROVIDED FOR ALL THE PUBLIC TO DRINK FROM! LOL!!!

I remember that trip vividly... I was five. We heard a rattle snake and the sound was bouncing off of the rocks so we couldn't figure out where it was... My dad ORDERED me to stand still and hush! A minute passed... I thought he was trying to figure out where the snake was, by listening... so I was looking up into the rocks. Just as I looked down, the snake was passing through the low brush... there was a slither mark going right around the tip of my shoe! The snake was wrapping around my foot and my dad knew it, but stayed calm and let it pass knowing that if he said anything I would jump and scream.

God was watching out for me even then. Praise Him!!

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re: Blood and Earth

AmeriKan — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:28:23 GMT

I like this, Jack, keep going with it...powerful!!

Blessings,

AmeriKan

re: What Will Our Body Be Like?

jmac — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:29:54 GMT

Thank you BlessedofGod!

re: What Will Our Body Be Like?

BlessedofGod — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:24:37 GMT

jmac, I first want to tell you that I have read several of your posts, and have been very blessed by them.

I know that we are going to have such a reunion when we personally cross over into that great promised land.

I have loved ones there now, that I anxiously desire to be with again.

To the world that we are in now, death seems so final. Praise God, we know that its just the beginning.

I can tell you are very homesick to see "Bonnie". You are such a dear sweet man.

Reading your post reminded me of a prayer meeting that I attended a couple of years ago. In this prayer meeting the spirit of intercession came upon me. I could only pray with such a intense heart breaking cry. At first I did not understand what I was praying about, and then the Lord showed me this wonderful woman of God that was at the prayer meeting. As he showed this to me in the spirit, I saw her as a palm tree. She stood tall, strong, and proud...then a gale force wind began to blow on her. As it forcifully blew upon her, I could see this palm tree begin to bow from the force of the winds. It bowed so intensly that the top of it was almost touching the earth in front of it. As I observed this, all I could think of is at any moment this tree was going to snap from the pressures of the winds. Then the Lord ministered to me that He is her strength. I felt led to tell her of what I just viewed in the spirit.

Within a few weeks, I received a phone call from her. She told me her husband had been diagnosed with brain cancer. I watched this once strong beautiful lady crumble under the pressures of the illness that attacked her husband. He passed on to glory within a few months after that.

For the first year she seemed as if she was so broken, and so weakend from this attack from the enemy. Now, being several years later, she is strong, spiritually healthy and is such a beautiful minister to those within this community who are experiencing similar circumstances. I have watched her grow so strong spiritually she is like a strong tower.

re: What Will Our Body Be Like?

AmeriKan — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 19:18:54 GMT

jmac....I don't think it is so strange for you to want to "go home," also, after your wife died. After all, when you are "one" and the other passes on to glory, then the one left here on earth is incomplete with the other half gone. I have heard this many times from others and in fact some have died shortly after their spouse died. It is a shock to one's psyche and spirit to have half of one's self "cut away" and then be expected to continue living...only by the grace of God.

Blessings,

AmeriKan

re: What Will Our Body Be Like?

jmac — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 18:51:02 GMT

Amen AmeriKan, I have to admit I was "ready" to go home after Bonnie's passing, A lot of self pity on my part. Anyway I "willed" to continue on here on earth. This may sound "unbelieving" to some, but I believe a person can will to die, I believe when Jesus died on the cross it was because "He willed" to leave His flesh body!

Anyhow I didn't mean for this blog to turn in to anything about pity on my part. I love you all and thank you for your posts, and AmeriKan you just keep "right on" posting your views, I LIKE EM!

Blessings,

Jack

re: What Will Our Body Be Like?

AmeriKan — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 15:07:42 GMT

Sorry, jmac....but you got me to going on this one. :-)

I Peter 1:7, That the TRIAL of your FAITH, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus christ.

I Peter 1 is such a glorious chapter. But trials in this life will test our faith to see what kind of faith we have...strong faith, weak faith, no faith, pseudo faith, religious faith, the Real faith of God...? Those trials will determine who and what our faith is really in...doctors, lawyers, our pastor, our praying Momma or in the supreme authority of God's holy Word that will, "quench every fiery dart of the enemy." Amen and PTL!!

And in this, God will receive all the praise and glory because, "His word will not return void but will accomplish thereunto what it was SENT TO DO."

Blessings,

AmeriKan

re: What Will Our Body Be Like?

aussiegirl — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 12:20:19 GMT

Amerikan,great response,"It is through and a knowledge of the Word that brings victory to our lives

and not the trail itself"..AMEN...

re: What Will Our Body Be Like?

AmeriKan — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 02:39:30 GMT

To put this in a more scriptural context, "Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word of God." Faith cometh NOT by trials. It took me a looong time to get this truth down in my heart and understand that I did not need trials or temptations or sickness for me to grow. Whether trials come or not, my growth is via and through the Word of God...this is God's perfect way for us to grow, learn and mature.

There are those that think you have to have been a drinker or alcoholic to help an alcoholic. Or you had to experience the SAME DIFFICULTIES as those in the world in order to be able to help them or minister to them. That just is not true...it's really a lie from the devil. Jesus walked this earth as a man, empowered by the Holy Spirit and did not sin. He did not grow by experiencing the "ways of the world." We must remember what and where our source is and that is God and His holy Word.

Abraham's trial was, "his own body was now dead." Sara's..."the deadness of her womb." But he (Abraham)staggered not at the PROMISE of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith giving glory to God." Romans 4:19-20 Abraham did not give one iouta of attention to anything but God's promise (HIS Word). And I am still learning this....

Sorry, jmac, for my little "tirade." :-)

Blessings,

AmeriKan

I think men like Smith Wigglesworth, Lester Sumrall and Kenneth Hagin are some good examples of men who did not go out and experience the ways of the world in order to be mighty men of faith.

re: What Will Our Body Be Like?

AmeriKan — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 01:05:45 GMT

This is a great post, jmac. "...significant amount of Christian growth is impossible without a certain amount of suffering." I believe there is a certain truth to that statement without being anti-Word. We are, "in this world but not of it." The fact that we are still in this present, fallen earth, means there will be a few things thrown at us before our departure. I don't believe any of the fathers of the faith, whether it be Kenneth Hagin, Kenneth Copeland, Charles Capps, Smith Wigglesworth or just whoever would not admit that in their trials of life, they grew. BUT, it was through and because of their knowledge of God's Word that brought victory to their lives....not the trial itself. In this fallen world, satan takes sickness, disease and sin to destroy us but God takes His Word to bring all that the enemy has...to nought. PTL!! If there were no trials, difficulties or challenges to confront us...why would we need God's Word...why would we need to exercise our faith? For some, their "need" for God would evaporate.

The flip side of this is...in heaven, where there is no sin and we have our perfect bodies, we will continue to grow and learn, unhindered. I need to grab a scripture for this but a certain minister of the Gospel took a little trip to heaven. While there, he met the Apostle Paul...who in turn asked, "What are they saying about 'my gospel'?" Paul further told this minister that during his time in heaven....at least close to two thousand earth years...he had never stopped learning about God and His Word!!!! What a profound statement!!!

I believe that God's purrfect (cat language, sorry, lol) way while we are here on earth, is for all of us to grow through the application of His Word and grow to a point where no trial, no temptation, no sickness or disease can begin to phase us. And where God and His Word are so preeminent in our lives that we grow only by and threw His Word. In my many years of reading, there is one person who comes to mind who very closely resembles that picture of growth and that would be Smith Wigglesworth. However, he did not arrive there over night and had to grow to that point...one amazing man of God!!!

In Jesus' earth life, he too, had trials but he showed us how we could live above them. It was His heavenly Father, Himself, that communed with Him, sometimes all night, that caused Jesus to triumph...even over the grave!!! Hallelujah!!!

Thanks Jack,

Blessings,

AmeriKan

re: What Will Our Body Be Like?

aussiegirl — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 21:52:43 GMT

Jack ,that is an excellent post,there is so many different points I could comment on,but I choose to make a comment in regard to the passing of your dear wife..Remember I shared with you about my sister's child being raised back to life in my arms..well! after that she had 2 other babies die(boys..in all she has 6 boys)I wept much when I held both those little boys in my arms..Timothy,died,3mths,before due date,Joseph,1week,before due date.I felt so empty,and full of questions..Why?How could this happen?..I don't have the answer Jack,I just had to leave it with the Lord..My sister is a Social Worker,to this very day,she still carries the pain and loss,of these babies.Do I still believe,Jesus is our healer,

absolutely,without a doubt.Jack you are an amazing man of God full of faith,I have no doubt that you would have done everything to help your wife during this sad and tragic time..you are a blessing,and great encouragement,to your CFaith family,keep posting Jmac..We love you much..Blessings Aussiegirl.