Faith is the key

Faith is the key to all healing. We can have faith for someone else to be healed. When the centurion came to Jesus and as him to heal his servant, Jesus had only to speak the word and he was healed because the centurion had faith. Matthew 8:10 When Jesus heard it, he marvelled, and said to them that followed, Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel. Others were healed because of their own faith. Matthew 9:22 But Jesus turned him about, and when he saw her, he said, Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole. And the woman was made whole from that hour. Mark 10:52 And Jesus said unto him, Go thy way; thy faith hath made thee whole. And immediately he received his sight, and followed Jesus in the way. Keep having faith, God said he would give us all we ask for is we only believe. John 20:27 Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing.

A Prayer for Strength

Lord, I am weary and so tired.  I need your strength to lift me up.  I have no energy and feel that the world is caving in around me.  I need you to lift me up.  I need your strength to motivate me during this dark time in my life.  Your word says in Psalm 46:1 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.  Job cried out to you in his darkest hours and knew that you were still his strength.  He knew that the troubles that had befallen him did not come from you, oh Lord, he trusted in you always.  Job 23:6 Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me.  I will stand strong like Job did.  Today, I put my trust in you and know that you are my strength that I don’t have to lean upon myself.  I will say the same thing David said in Psalm 18:1, I will love thee, O Lord, my strength.  I trust in you Lord and know that you are the one I need to lean on.  Psalm 18:2 The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.  You said that you would never leave me nor forsake me.  Psalm 22:19 But be not thou far from me, O Lord: O my strength, haste thee to help me.  I will stand strong and wait upon you Lord because I know that even when I don’t understand what is happening in my life that your ways are far above my ways and you have a reason for all things.  I will put my trust in you and wait.  Psalm 27:14 Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord.  I know lord that when I trust in you that you will lift me up.  I will praise you in the storm.  Psalm 28:7  The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.  Your word tells me to be of good courage and you will strengthen me.  I am standing upon your word and trusting in you.  I am placing all my hope in you.  Psalm 31:14 Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the Lord.  I am trusting for all my needs and that in this time of sickness you will also strengthen me and give me hope.  Psalm 41:3 The Lord will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness.  Lord, let all that I do or say be pleasing to you.  Let me not fail to thank you in all things and trust in you.  Psalm 19:14 Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength, and my redeemer.

God's Glory

Mathew 6:1 Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.
2 Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
3 But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth:

4 That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly.
The definition of "Alms" is money or food given to poor people. We as Christians have a responsibility to help those in need, but we are not to make it a public event. Everything we do should be to bring glory to God. If we help someone, then we should remember what Jesus taught in these scriptures and God will reward us. By doing what Christ taught we are laying up our treasures in heaven and if we do it any other way then our reward is brief and will fade away. I realize that many times we simply want to tell someone how good it made us feel to help someone in need, and that is a good thing because it should make us feel good, but we must not steal God's glory. When he uses one of us to help someone, then the Glory belongs to him. My prayer is that we begin laying up our treasures in heaven where moth and rust will not corrupt. Great will be our reward..

The Door

Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep. I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture. The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.  John 10:7, 9-10 KJV

Jesus Christ came into this world for one reason, to reconcile mankind to God.  From Genesis to Revelations we see Jesus.  He was there in the beginning, he will still be there in the end.  He always has been and always will be.  He is the only way to the Father and it is through him that we must go if we ever want to make it.  There are many false Gods and many false religions in the world today that have taken man down the wrong path.  The people have scales over their eyes and are blinded to the truth.  The bible teaches us that if it were possible that even the very elect would be fooled, but thank God that it is not possible.  When Jesus ascended back to the Father, he sent us the Holy Ghost.  We have never been alone and the Holy Ghost gives us enlightenment to the truth.  It is not possible to fool the Holy Ghost, that is why the elect will not be fooled by the anti-Christ.  Without the Holy Ghost to lead you, you have an empty place inside you that hungers for fulfillment.  Satan uses that against you and fills you with hatred, anger, hurt, and pain and then man in turn goes out and uses those same things against his fellowman and the cycle never ends until you realize that Jesus is the answer.  Until your heart melts and you allow him to make you whole.  Until you accept him as your savior.  It is only then that the cycle of hate will be broken and love will take it's place.  Jesus loves you and he doesn't care who you are or what you are.  He can take a heart that is black as coal and wash it clean with his blood.  He died that you might live.  He is the door and any that come in through any other way are thieves and liars.  Only those that come through the door will remain with the Father through eternity.  The others will be cast into outer darkness where there will be wailing and gnashing of teeth.  An eternity in a hell that was created for Satan and his angels, not for mankind.  You don't have to crawl in through a window, come through the door and be made whole.  If you woke up this morning and are reading this post, God is giving you another opportunity to accept the GRACE that Jesus Christ so freely offers.  May the scales fall from your eyes before it's too late.