Posts Tagged ‘restoration’

Suffering

Friday, December 4th, 2009
I feel the need to write something about the two different origins of suffering. Sometimes it is critical to discern the two.

Even though God allows suffering for His children, He never cast destructive curse on us. Never! Any suffering that originates from Him has a divine purpose, from the outset. And it’s driven by total love for us.

As earthly parents we from time need to set limits for our children. Sometimes we take away goodies or privileges from them, to help them grow up. This is the same with God, as the Heavenly Father.

No punishment

God does not punish us. All punishment was laid upon the shoulders of Jesus, as He step up on that cross. As long as we stay in the grace, there is no punishment.

Negative consequences from our sin is not punishment. When we allow sin power in our lives, there is consequences. It is how things work. The spiritual consequences we kill through repentance and staying in the grace. The souly consequences we kill by living in the Spirit and embracing our Heavenly identity. It brings you peace and inner balance.

Work of the devil

Any suffering that orginates from satan has no divine purpose. And the driving power is hate for us, and anything that belongs to God. This is the origin of any destructive suffering.

However God are able to even turn the works of satan, and put divine purpose into it. It does not mean that the origin of the suffering was God from the outset. It just means that God restored what the devil destroyed.

It must be really frustrating for satan to see that time and time again his hard work to destroy is turned to the good.

Not everything has purpose

Not everything that we experience as children of God has a purpose. The reason is simply that we’re not in Heaven yet, and the work of satan is very much present in the world. However God has always a plan to restore us, heal our wounds, and bring full purpose back to our lives.

We just need to hold on and keep loving our Heavenly Father.

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Can we forgive?

Thursday, November 19th, 2009
What does it take for the body of Christ to forgive preachers that have fallen in sin? When can they come back?

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.

Is it enough?

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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