Seeing The Unseen chs. 20 &21
Yo, yo, and hello! How's everyone doing today? I hope all is well. My grandmother is doing well. Her surgery went well and hopfully she'll be able to go home today.Thank you all for praying for her. Please pray she'll make a speedy recovery.
Now, let's talk about Seeing The Unseen. Are Good Angles Active In My Life (?) is the topic of chapter tweenty. Angels minister to us as Christians. The angel walking Peter out of the prison in Acts 12 is a good example of that, and a host of others in the Bible. God uses His angels to carry messages from Him to man. Another good example is when the angel Gabriel told Mary that she would carry, give birth to, and raise Jesus in Luke 1. God also uses angels to arrange blessings for humans. God answers our prayers. But sometimes we don't pray in faith. Sometimes our requests are outside His plan. Sometimes the answer is more important to us than He is. God uses angels to deliver us from harm.
The last chapter in the book is chapter twenty-one which talks about How Do God's People - Living And Dead- Help Us(?). We need to be there for eachother. Christianity is meant for community. We need to love eachother, care for eachother, and help eachother. That's what Christians do when they are in community together. Here are some ways the living help eachother. Our prayers affect eachother. In 2nd Corinthians 1:8-11 Paul talks about being in Asia and that he and his companions "... were under great pressure, far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired even of life ...". He goes on to say God got them through it to show them not to trust in themselves but in Him. And than he says "Then many will give thanks on our behalf for the gracious favor granted us in answer to the prayers of many". God saved them because people prayed for them and because they learned to trust in Him and not themselves. Also, our honesty brings healing. In James 5: 13-16 we read, "Is any of you in trouble? He should pray. Is anyone happy? Let him sing songs of praise. Is any one of you sick? He should call the elders of the church to pray over him and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will raise him up. If he has sinned, he will be forgiven. Therefor confess your sins to eachother and pray for eachother so that you may be healed. The prayer of a rightous man is powerful and effective". We must confess our sins to eachother so that we can pray for eachother. To do that, we must trust the open doors to confession. We need to pledge to eachother that we won't tell anyone else what is said between the two. We must learn that confrontation of sin prevents defeat. Now, let's look at how the dead help us. They help us by standing with us. They comfort us. There is power in a large group.
Tomorrow we'll look at the last chapter in this book which talks about how faith gives the victory. Should be good. More on that tomorrow. God bless you all in Jesus' name!
Zack
Now, let's talk about Seeing The Unseen. Are Good Angles Active In My Life (?) is the topic of chapter tweenty. Angels minister to us as Christians. The angel walking Peter out of the prison in Acts 12 is a good example of that, and a host of others in the Bible. God uses His angels to carry messages from Him to man. Another good example is when the angel Gabriel told Mary that she would carry, give birth to, and raise Jesus in Luke 1. God also uses angels to arrange blessings for humans. God answers our prayers. But sometimes we don't pray in faith. Sometimes our requests are outside His plan. Sometimes the answer is more important to us than He is. God uses angels to deliver us from harm.
The last chapter in the book is chapter twenty-one which talks about How Do God's People - Living And Dead- Help Us(?). We need to be there for eachother. Christianity is meant for community. We need to love eachother, care for eachother, and help eachother. That's what Christians do when they are in community together. Here are some ways the living help eachother. Our prayers affect eachother. In 2nd Corinthians 1:8-11 Paul talks about being in Asia and that he and his companions "... were under great pressure, far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired even of life ...". He goes on to say God got them through it to show them not to trust in themselves but in Him. And than he says "Then many will give thanks on our behalf for the gracious favor granted us in answer to the prayers of many". God saved them because people prayed for them and because they learned to trust in Him and not themselves. Also, our honesty brings healing. In James 5: 13-16 we read, "Is any of you in trouble? He should pray. Is anyone happy? Let him sing songs of praise. Is any one of you sick? He should call the elders of the church to pray over him and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will raise him up. If he has sinned, he will be forgiven. Therefor confess your sins to eachother and pray for eachother so that you may be healed. The prayer of a rightous man is powerful and effective". We must confess our sins to eachother so that we can pray for eachother. To do that, we must trust the open doors to confession. We need to pledge to eachother that we won't tell anyone else what is said between the two. We must learn that confrontation of sin prevents defeat. Now, let's look at how the dead help us. They help us by standing with us. They comfort us. There is power in a large group.
Tomorrow we'll look at the last chapter in this book which talks about how faith gives the victory. Should be good. More on that tomorrow. God bless you all in Jesus' name!
Zack
posted by Zack | 8:47 AM
1 Comments:
Beam's book was like fresh air when I first read it.
That was 10 or 12 years ago ... and I still like it.
Shalom,
Bobby Valentine
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