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April 2006

“you gotta believe it”

4/29/2006 · View Comments

in quick take

And She Spoke to the Waters: this story on CBN.com tells of the miracle Lois Ryder received when she spoke to rising flood waters on the Columbia River. Ryder sums up the believer’s part in receiving a miracle: “I believe that it is really necessary to have faith. You don’t have to talk a lot; you don’t have to do a lot, but you gotta mean what you say and you gotta believe in it.”

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some thoughts on rest and peace

4/27/2006 · View Comments

in meditations

Drop thy still dews of quietness,
Till all our strivings cease;
Take from our souls the strain and stress,
And let our ordered lives confess
The beauty of Thy peace.
–John Greenleaf Whittier

Let the life of God
Fill me now
Let Your healing power
Breathe life and make me whole
And let the peace of God
Let it reign
–Darlene Zschech

This is what the Sovereign LORD, the Holy One of Israel, says:
“In repentance and rest is your salvation,
in quietness and trust is your strength“
–Isaiah 30:15 (NIV)

But I have stilled and quieted my soul;
like a weaned child with its mother,
like a weaned child is my soul within me.
–Psalm 131:2 (NIV)

Tagged as: peace, quiet, rest

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leaving behind…

April 19, 2006

I started reading Anne Graham Lotz’s I Saw the Lord a few days ago. Lotz uses the word revival to describe what she hopes to inspire; I would use the word passion. She makes an interesting point that Isaiah preached before his famed encounter with God in chapter 6, but he became passionate after seeing the Lord on His throne. As a modern counterpart to Isaiah, Lotz offers the story of Carole, whose already good life was transformed by a new vision of God and the resulting new perspective on herself. Carole states,

Revival, for me, isn’t about leaving behind what the world has to offer. It’s about leaving behind sin so that I can embrace the richer life the Lord has to offer…

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time for practice

April 18, 2006

This morning, I had to do something I was dreading. I had no good reason to dread it, but those of you who have had problems with anxiety or panic attacks know that the lack of a good reason for fear doesn’t make the fear any less real. My emotions were about to get the better of me in spite of my mind saying, “There’s nothing to be afraid of.” So, as I was on my way, I prayed. I said, “Help me, Jesus!” Immediately, I heard the Spirit tell me,…

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who is ruling your world?

April 17, 2006

From Dutch Sheet’s new book, Authority in Prayer:

Who is ruling your world? I’m not referring to the big one, as in planet earth. At least not yet. I’m talking about the world you live in every day, your personal world. I’m speaking of your home, family, job, health, dog–well, okay, maybe not your dog. God doesn’t intend that any outside force dominate you… God has given you jurisdiction over your world–under His authority, of course. He wants you–not sin, demonic powers, negative circumstances, or any other outside force–to govern it.

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are you blind?

April 17, 2006

My father was telling me recently of a friend, a godly man, who had been very sick; after receiving prayer, he had what could only be termed a miraculous recovery. Though the man was happy to be well, he had a crisis of sorts because his theology didn’t allow for God to heal in that way. He turned to Scripture to study healing and concluded that he was a fluke. He was blind to the truth–or even to the possibility of another perspective…

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Easter: all things new

April 16, 2006
On this holy day…a new people is born with whom God has sealed an eternal covenant in the blood of the Word made flesh, crucified and risen. (Pope John Paul II)

Through the cross, we have “newness of life” (Romans 6:4), an awesome fact that I often forget. Consider:

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  • Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life. (Romans 6:4)

  • Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! (2 Corinthians 5:17)…

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