peacemaker12
07-10-2004, 06:53 AM
Jesus came to destroy the works of the devil (1John 3:8)
He stayed true to His task and we must stay true to our task.
To do this we must ask ourselves this vital question: When we are dealing with the works of God and the manifestations of the supernatural power of the living God, are we dealing only with surface matters or is there such a thing as a deeper relationship?
It is easy to teach, comparatively speaking, but to take people from the classroom and go out into the arena of suffering humanity to come face to face with the works of the enemy, to put theory and theology into practice and make it work, that is another story altogether.
The ministry of miracles, healing and supernaturalism should be a natural, normal relationship in the Body of Christ. If the church of Jesus Crhist had stayed true to its task, we would have a different world today.
Jesus Christ stayed true to His task. He never deviated. HIs message was always the same: " I am come that they might have life and that they might have it more abundantly " (John 10:10), and to "destroy the works fo the devil: (1John 3:8). He never once told a person it was God's will for him to suffer or bear blindness, deafness, leprosy, lameness, or any other affliction.
Our task, then, is the one Jesus gave us and the one for which He gave the example: to meet the needs of suffering and lost humanity. That is God's work. That is our work because we are God's hands extended.
Before us sits a world whose people are sick and broken, diseased in body, mind and spirit more than ever before.
Preaching alone, no matter how ma :) gnificent, will never save the world. The hands that will possess the power to reach down and lift up the sick, broken, diseased humanity will be the hands of the persons who find the answer to the question.
"What must we do that we might work the works of God?"
Into your hands God wants to put the key of producing the proof. The key is the supernatural power of our miracle-working God. We must never be ashamed of it.
We must cultivate it and put it to work. Our lives and ministries porduce the power of God.
He stayed true to His task and we must stay true to our task.
To do this we must ask ourselves this vital question: When we are dealing with the works of God and the manifestations of the supernatural power of the living God, are we dealing only with surface matters or is there such a thing as a deeper relationship?
It is easy to teach, comparatively speaking, but to take people from the classroom and go out into the arena of suffering humanity to come face to face with the works of the enemy, to put theory and theology into practice and make it work, that is another story altogether.
The ministry of miracles, healing and supernaturalism should be a natural, normal relationship in the Body of Christ. If the church of Jesus Crhist had stayed true to its task, we would have a different world today.
Jesus Christ stayed true to His task. He never deviated. HIs message was always the same: " I am come that they might have life and that they might have it more abundantly " (John 10:10), and to "destroy the works fo the devil: (1John 3:8). He never once told a person it was God's will for him to suffer or bear blindness, deafness, leprosy, lameness, or any other affliction.
Our task, then, is the one Jesus gave us and the one for which He gave the example: to meet the needs of suffering and lost humanity. That is God's work. That is our work because we are God's hands extended.
Before us sits a world whose people are sick and broken, diseased in body, mind and spirit more than ever before.
Preaching alone, no matter how ma :) gnificent, will never save the world. The hands that will possess the power to reach down and lift up the sick, broken, diseased humanity will be the hands of the persons who find the answer to the question.
"What must we do that we might work the works of God?"
Into your hands God wants to put the key of producing the proof. The key is the supernatural power of our miracle-working God. We must never be ashamed of it.
We must cultivate it and put it to work. Our lives and ministries porduce the power of God.