I heard a story about a guest teacher at a Bible school.  The guest teacher had come to teach on healing.  Various teachers and students had stopped him throughout his lesson with comments like: “Well, we don’t really believe in that healing stuff.”  He dug deeper in the Word and read even more scriptures about healing.  More students stopped him.  “We just don’t believe in that stuff,” they’d say.  The guest teacher paused and lifted the page of scripture he was reading from and ripped it out of the Bible, “Well then I guess we better get rid of this page.”  He went on and on, ripping out more pages about healing and other topics they disagreed with.  By the time he was done, the Bible was nothing more than a thin little book.  “Here’s your Bible,” he said.  Then he left.

Tags: authority, freedom, God's Word, healing, truth, Victory

You know why that story I shared yesterday is so huge for me?  It’s huge for me because for most of my life, I was living under this old religious lie that says: Whatever happens, happens.  And the best thing you do, as a Christian, is just keep a good attitude.  I lived under the lie that to be a Christian means you’ll have some pitiful, defeated life.  I learned that living by my emotions is ok.  And at the end of all these un-Biblical, un-Godly beliefs, they’d tack on this: But don’t worry, God’s grace is sufficient for you.  And His grace was sufficient for me, but you know what?  I still lived a defeated life as satan’s doormat.  Once I discovered what God’s Word really said and stopped listening to the doctrine of people’s experiences, I got angry.  And that anger hasn’t left.  Now I’m not talking about the sort of anger that’s based in rage and fear — I’m talking about a righteous anger towards satan and towards those religious lies that kept me in bondage for years.

Tags: God's Word, healing, relentless, Sickness, Sword, truth, Victory

For years, I straddled the fence between victory and defeat.  For years, I let the enemy push me to the ground and then drive me knee-deep through mud with a whip to my back.  I wanted so badly to see the victory of God’s Word manifested in my life.  I heard testimony after testimony but had no story of my own.  I read it all, heard it all, saw it all and believed it all.  But something was missing.  I wasn’t living it.  It’s not that I didn’t want to — I desperately wanted to, I tried to, I failed to and I even got back up to try again.  I celebrated momentary victories — even if they were later washed over by an onslaught attack from the enemy.   I felt like a 14-year-old splashing around in the baby pool while everyone else my age was jumping off the high-dive in the deep end of the big pool.

Tags: blind bartimaeus, Easter, Free, go on your way, God, God's Word, healed, healing, Jesus, Resurrection, Victory

As I mentioned before, it was T.L. Osborn’s book Healing the Sick (chapter 33) that really brought me into new revelation concerning Communion.  And when I read this excerpt nearly two weeks ago, concerning what happens (in a physical sense) as we ingest Jesus’ body (the bread) and Jesus’ blood (the wine), I about flew out of my chair:

God has installed in the human body a processing plant which we call a stomach.  The food we eat is digested there and sent out into our blood-stream.  Its chemical essence becomes flesh of our flesh, bone of our bone, skin of our skin, body of our body.  It becomes part of us (page 179, Healing the Sick).

Tags: blood of Jesus, body of Jesus, Bread, Communion, God, healing, Healing the Sick, Jesus, Juice, testimony, Wine

For years, I have been learning more and more about the significance of the blood in terms of Communion.  But it wasn’t until recently that I realized the power of the body (the bread).  And let me tell you: What I learned has changed my life.  More about that tomorrow.  First, let’s journey back to the Old Testament to remember what the body meant back then.  If you’re like me, you’re thinking — but what did it mean back then?  That was before Jesus!  I hear you, my friend.

Tags: body, body of Jesus, Bread, Communion, healing, Healing the Sick, LORD's Supper, T.L. Osborn

I don’t think there’s anything worse than a Christian being saved and adopted by God as His dearly loved son or daughter, and yet living their lives enslaved by satan’s lies, carrying around an orphan’s heart.  Below are 21 symptoms of an orphan heart, taken from a sermon I heard from my best friend’s church.

1. Abandonment
2. Rejection
3. Loneliness
4. Hopelessness
5. Worthlessness
6. Sadness
7. Mistrust
8. Hiding
9. Superficiality
10. Insecurity
11. Hypersensitivity
12. Fear
13. Poverty
14. Greed
15. Manipulation
16. Anger
17. Selectivity
18. Fantasy
19. Perception
20. Independence
21. Striving

Tags: abandonment, God, healing, independance, Jesus, loneliness, love, orphan heart, rejection, Romans 8:15, striving, worthlessness

First of all, I apologize for the new layout with the banner of a horse race.  It was not intentional at all.  Well, let me take that back.  I was so tired of my old layout that I went so far as to try to resurrect my original Word Press layout… but turns out, it didn’t remember what my old banner was.  So it was intentional.   But the horse race banner was not.

Now that I got that out, I can move on.

Tags: 2 Samuel 23, abortion, America, Barack Obama, cry, Economy, Eleazar, end abortion, God, healing, injustice, Jesus, Politics, Sickness, terrorism, The Sword, write