In 1926, my paternal grandmother was dying of typhoid fever.
The doctor told her husband that she was dying and showed him
the bluish color on her feet and legs. My dad, eight years old, stood
nearby and heard these words. Before she lapsed into a coma, my
grandmother prayed these words, "LORD, if You would see fit, let me
live to raise my three children". Around four o'clock the next evening
she awoke, her fever had broken and she would live. Not only would
she live to raise her own three children, but she lived to see our first
grandson born. He is twenty four years old, and a licensed young
minister of the gospel. Five generations followed her.
If Grandma Blakey had not read the Bible over and over as a devout
Methodist, she might not have had the faith to believe He could and
would heal her. If Grandma, as a young 20 wife, and mother to be, had
not read her Bible and prayed that if her child was a son, that the LORD
would make him a minister of the gospel, things would possibly have been
a lot different in our family today. She changed the course of history for
our family. I have gone into my living room and looked into the faces of
my grandmother and parents and with thankfulness, with tears, thanked
them for my godly heritage. What we are today is not what we have done
but choices those who went before us made for us. We have the choice to
not carry on what was bought and given to us by those who paid a price
to bring it to us. It started with Jesus Christ. His apostles and on down
from generation to generation. What have or what will the generation that
has been given to us!!!
Blessings,
Falla39
That I will be as David: "He served his generation and then he died".
__________________ For it is written, "As I live, says the Lord every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall give praise to God. (Romans 14:11- NASB)
The issue is : How many prayers does it take to get God's attention?
I think the numbers might increase OUR faith, knowing that a lot of folks are praying on behalf of a need.
THE effectual fervent prayer of A righteous MAN availeth much.
Many, many people prayed for my dad who was only 68 when he died from a brain tumor. He had been a faithful servant of God. Numerous ministers came and laid hands on him and prayed for him as well as lay people. He wasn't completely healed and raised from his sick bed in the way we might have wanted, but THROUGH his sickness there were many days that healing was there.
The late John Wimber, who was used to bring healing to many, eventually died of Cancer and a stroke, but he was praying for a sick women in his church who was dying, healing was not happening, so he asked God why? The Lord told him, John you taught how to live for me, now teach her how to die for me? Death is only a door to the saved believer, nothing to fear, yes we want to live, but it's not the end only the beginning.
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Please pray for India
My personal mission is to BRING people into a right relationship with God, GROW them up to maturity and SEND them back into the world to minister.
Ps.90:9 "For all our days are passed away in thy wrath; we spend
our years as a tale that is told,
Vs.10, "The days of our years are three-score years and ten; and if
by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength
labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
According to my KJV, Moses the man of God prayed inpart this prayer.
Moses represents the law. The old covenant. The natural. The natural
is first, then the spiritual. The new Covenant was supposed to bring in
better things, better promises. Are we limited in our faith by what was
spoken by a chosen man of God under the law! We read in the OT the
verses above, so we expect 70 yrs. or 80, etc.? I have heard people say
they won't be here long because I am already -- years old.
When a child is conceived and grows to a time when it is delivered, it
passes from one small chamber unto a much larger chamber, this world!
When it comes out of the "sac" or "skin" it is in, does that mean it dies.
Why when we come out of this "skin" we are contained in, until the time
of "delivery" do we many times lose hope. Have we not passed from death
unto life! We are dying in this world but will live eternally in the world to
come, whereever that happens to be.
Just some thoughts!
Incidentally, Ps.103 not only speaks of the benefits of forgiveness
and healing, but in verse 5 speaks the mouth being satisfied with
good things; so that thy YOUTH is RENEWED like the eagle's.
There are wonderful promises in the Word of God. Faith comes by
hearing the Word of God. If we don't EAT (consume) His Word, it
cannot benefit us. As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
We are told to be RENEWED in the spirit of our minds! If we do our
part, God will do HIS!!!!
Just some thoughts from a senior sister who never felt better in
her life, and feeling better all the time. One of these days the
inner man/woman inside will slip out of this fleshly "skin" I have
been living in, and as the old song goes:
Sweet hour of prayer, sweet hour of prayer,
May I thy consolation share,
Till, from Mount Pisgah's lofty height,
I view my home, and take my flight:
This robe of flesh I'll drop and rise
To seize the everlasting prize;
And shout, while passing thru the air,
Farewell, farewell, sweet hour of prayer.
Blessings,
Falla39
A beautiful post Sis. as are all your posts! I haven't said it before but many of the posts you have written have been an inspiration to me! God bless!
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