Today I also got two answers to prayer. One of them was also a sign. I asked God about something and I received it today. FED express!
I also heard an unbelievable testimony of healing in the family of a dear friend.
Yay, God is alive and loving.
Now I’ll work on a presentation for a project.
“What can I give back to God, for the blessings you pour out on me?”
2 He lifted me out of the slimy pit,
out of the mud and mire;
he set my feet on a rock
and gave me a firm place to stand.
3 He put a new song in my mouth,
a hymn of praise to our God.
Many will see and fear
and put their trust in the LORD.
4 Blessed is the man
who makes the LORD his trust,
Psalm 40:1-4
We’re brothers and sisters. We’re called to one glorious hope for the future. Wow, that’s powerful. Let’s hope everything and endure all, as we stribe to seek together as brothers.
I’m trying to make a habit of leaving bibel verses for my wife to find every morning. This one she’ll find tomorrow. 
I wanted to meet an online friend. We went to the same school, however I had never met him face to face. So I went to a youth meeting in his church, hoping to find him there.
I ran out of luck. So as a first timer in that church I sat alone. There was an out of town preacher, I had never seen before. After his message he stated:
“There is someone here that is back drifting. You need to come forward for prayer, otherwise you’ll stop being a Christian.”
I immediately felt struck by the message. Then, as the preacher made this statement, somebody distinctively pushed me forward in my back. I turned around to see who it was. However I was alone on the back row. Behind me was nothing but a wall.
It was a super natural push, taking all confusion away for who the message was.
But still I did not go up for prayer. And as predicted, a little later, I asked God to leave my life. And so He did. For 4 years. Then a very beautiful woman came into my life, making me again reevaluate everything in life.
That is another story…
This is just so wonderful, because the sensitivity of the Holy Spirit just makes your life so much deeper. The grass gets greener. The flowers more beautiful. Your children even more adorable. And not to forget: The wonderful peace of Jesus.
When you obtain this peace you don’t want to trade for anything. It makes your life just so incredible stress free. Free of fear. Free from worries. The peace makes you able to face things you never could face in the natural.
The sensitivity of the Spirit also lifts your compassion to new levels. News stories suddenly becomes more alive to you and real. Other peoples’ tragic situations begins to impact you on a deeper level. It’s not just news any more. It is people. It will make you cry for a world in pain.
The sensitivity also brings along new levels of joy. You’ll celebrate life. You’ll understand how precious it is.
The sensitivity of the Spirit simply tells you more of how the Father is. You’ll begin to understand what He is about. You’ll begin to understand what Love is about. The Father is Love.
Knowing our Father is all about heart to heart relationship. The driving force for man to connect to God is no longer through deeds and laws. It’s through compassion and adoration for Him.
My heart beats a little harder when I write this. Because I have fallen in love. I’ve fallen in love with the One who so desperately longs for my companion: My God.
And this is how we grasp God, after we pass the first obstacle of believing in him. Faith opens up the doors of Heaven for us. Then we need to step in by loving on Him. We find Him through this love.
Righteousness are still there. However through blood of Jesus I stand clean. Faith enclose me. It makes the Father’s anger against my sin vanish.
Now I dare to approach the throne. And left is nothing but Him, me and the love between us.
Those that seek the Father through the dead letter without understanding the foundation of love, will never get it. It’s about heart beats first. Then the deeds comes from that passion.
After all it all began with love. For so loved God the world, that He gave His only Son… Love was His ignition for taking action towards the world that had rejected Him.
I love you, my Father!
My wife and I got married back in 2001. As many other couples we wanted children. However we soon discovered that it was easier said than done.
We visited specialists in two different countries. After tests the verdict were the same: Getting pregnant naturally, was highly unlikely. The doctors stated odds of 1:100 000.
We began to talk about adopting or artificial methods. However after some thought I stated to my wife:
God is bigger than life. If He wants us to have children, odds of 1:100 000 is nothing.
A few months went by. One day while we were shopping my wife told me: You need to buy me flowers. “Mmmkay”, I thought. “She never says that, but when she asks, I need to get her really nice flowers”.
After delivering her a big nice bouquet she handed me back a small plastic bag. Inside I spotted something that looked like a thermometer. “You’re going to be a daddy”, my wife smiled.
Wow, I couldn’t believe it. Neither couldn’t our treating specialist. His mouth almost literally floored when he took a pregnancy test to see for himself.
However we weren’t in the clear. There were complications both at the beginning and end of the pregnancy. The birth was very hard. My wife was so weak, that I got seriously concerned. It all ended with the doctors sprinting out of the room with our new baby, to save him.
But God stood with us. After some minutes I could carry a nice baby boy back to my wife. I have never seen someone glow like my wife did then. It was like light glowing out of her skin.
After a couple of years we wanted more children. And the story repeated: Nothing came. After the same round to specialists in two countries, the feedback was even more devastating:
You can forget about natural pregnancy. There is 0 activity. The odds are 1:30 millions.
I still remember the talk my wife and I had after. Adoption again became a subject. And again I refused stating:
God is greater than life. If He could give us one child, He can give us two. 0 activity or not.
And this incredible true miracle happen, again. Just as my father passed away it happen. My second son crossed odds of 1:30 millions, embraced life and came to us.
My first son felt very strong for a specific name for his brother. He wouldn’t cave in to our denials. He wanted his brother to be named “Teodor”. After a while we agreed. Later we discovered that the name meant “The gift of God”. What a fitting name.
Later my wife again met our treating specialist, and he was awed learning about the second birth. Now this is a doctor that sees these kind of cases day in and day out. That he is amazed by the story says something.
And he should be awed, like we are, because the combined odds against our two children happen is 1:3 000 000 000 000. So the odds are overwhelming that there does not exist two brothers like our sons on earth today.
It’s easy to give thanks to God, when just a small gaze on our sons reminds us of such a story.
Our identity is heavenly bound, not earthly. When we said yes to Jesus, and gave our lives to Him, we left our earthly identity behind. We became divine rulers, together with our King, Jesus.
Man often connects his identity to earthly matters. This keeps us from realising our full identity in Christ.
We connect our identity to what we own. If we have a fancy watch and nice wheels, we’re valuable. If we succeed at work and have a great career, we’re valuable.
However that’s not how our King measure our value. And it’s not how he wants us to define our identity. Our identity is not bound by what people around us say.
It’s defined by inheritage. And it says that we’re children of the most high God. It says that heaven rules, while all earthly matters will not prevail.
We must not take the favor for granted. And we should not make excuses and say that blessing are just random luck coming our way.
- I don’t see the favor, you might say. But did you look for it in the small things? Did you give our Father credit for it? If you don’t see the small things, the big things won’t happen.
Do you include the things that didn’t go wrong today? E.g. today my neighbor’s car door was broken. Mine wasn’t. Favor or coincident?
Of course without the favor not all bad things would happen every day. But I’m 100% sure that I’m more accident free with the favor, than without. So when I’m reminded of it, I make sure to thank Him for that as well.
However today I not only need to give thanks for protection: God handled a rather big issue. A person went out of her way in her work duties and nagged her boss to help someone in my family. It’s one step in a prayer request I have.
It’s favor! Woho, God! I’m favored.
Thank God for His miracles! You’ll see them if you care to look.
These days Todd Bentley, from the Lakeland outpouring, are becoming more and more active in service. The revival in Florida ended more than a year ago, when issues of divorce and remarriage emerged.
After some time being completely of the radar, he reappeared under the wings of Rick Joyner in Morning Star ministries. For many months Todd has undergone a restoration process.
However now he’s relaunching his service again, step by step. First with some casts on the web. And in February he’ll hold a real life healing school at the local church. Later he’ll probably star evangelizing in different locations.
Will the body of Christ accept his reappearance as a preacher? Can we forgive what has happen?
I think those that was skeptical from the outset, still will be skeptical, no matter what Todd does. So from that perspective it doesn’t matter.
We should forgive, because that is what Christians should do. Jesus is all about second chances.
However this is also a matter of trust. Trust is built over time. I think it’s wise that they do this step by step. It will give room for trust to be built.
As for me, I don’t have anything to forgive him for. However I still forgive, and I wish him all the best getting back. I’ll pray that he’ll get it right this time.
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