My heart was really stirred this last month. I attended a meeting where an old friend of mine was ministering. He had been through some terrible things that nearly destroyed his faith. He became bitter and angry at God for the things that had happened. When I heard him, he had humbled himself and was again loving the Lord and excited about the future. Praise the Lord! However, in the process, he had come to believe that it was the Lord that caused all his problems. He had resigned himself to the "sovereignty of God."
I believe this is the worst doctrine in the church today. I know that this is a shocking statement and is near blasphemy to some people, but the way sovereignty" is taught today is a real faith killer. The belief that God controls everything that happens to us is one of the devil's biggest inroads into our lives. If this belief is true, then our actions are irrelevant, and our efforts are meaningless. What will be will be.
If we believe that God wills everything, good or bad, to happen to us, it gives us some temporary relief from confusion and condemnation, but in the long-term, it slanders God, hinders our trust in God, and leads to passiveness.
THE SOVEREIGNTY OF GOD
The word "sovereign" is not used in the King James Version of the Bible. It is used 303 times in the Old Testament of the New International Version, but it is always used in association with the word "LORD" and is the equivalent of the King James Version's "LORD God." Not a single one of those times is the word "sovereign" used in the manner that it has come to be used in religion in our day and time.
Religion has resulted in the invention of a new meaning for the word "sovereign," which basically means God controls everything. Nothing can happen but what He wills or allows. However, there is nothing in the actual definition that states that. The dictionary defines "sovereign" as, "1. Paramount; supreme. 2. Having supreme rank or power. 3. Independent: a sovereign state. 4. Excellent." None of these definitions means that God controls everything.
It is assumed that since God is paramount or supreme that nothing can happen without His approval. That is not what the Scriptures teach. In 2 Peter 3:9, Peter said, "The Lord is...not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance." This clearly states that it is not the Lord's will for anyone to perish, but people are perishing. Jesus said, "Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat" (Matt. 7:13). Relatively few people are saved compared to the number that are lost. God's will for people concerning salvation is not being accomplished.
This is because the Lord gave us the freedom to choose. He doesn't will anyone into hell. He paid for the sins of the whole world (1 John 2:2; 1 Tim. 4:10), but we must choose to put our faith in Christ and receive His salvation. People are the ones choosing hell by not choosing Jesus as their Savior. It is the free will of man that damns them, not God.
People virtually have to climb over the roadblocks that God puts in their way to continue on their course to hell. The cross of Christ and the drawing power of the Holy Spirit are obstacles that every sinner encounters. No one will ever stand before God and be able to fault Him for withholding the opportunity to be saved. The Lord woos every person to Him, but we have to cooperate. Ultimately, the Lord simply enforces the consequences of people's own choices.
God has a perfect plan for every person's life (Jer. 29:11), but He doesn't make us walk that path. We are free moral agents with the ability to choose. He has told us what the right choices are (Deut. 30:19), but He doesn't make those choices for us. God gave us the power to control our destinies.
Typical teaching on the sovereignty of God puts Jesus in the driver's seat with us as passengers. On the surface that looks good. All of us have encountered the disastrous results of doing our own thing. We desire to be led of the Lord, and teaching that nothing happens but what God wills fits that nicely. However, the Scriptures paint a picture of each of us being behind the wheel of our own lives. We are the one doing the driving. We are supposed to take directions from the Lord, but He doesn't do the driving for us.
Man has been given the authority over his own life, but he must have the Lord's direction to succeed. Jeremiah 10:23 says, "O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps." God created us to be dependent upon Him and our independence is at the root of all our problems. As if it wasn't bad enough for man to try to run his affairs independently of God and His standards, it has been made even worse by religion teaching us that all our problems are actually blessings from God. That is a faith killer. It makes people totally passive.
James 4:7 says, "Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you." This verse makes it clear that some things are from God, and some from the devil. We must submit to the things that are of God and resist the things that are from the devil. The word "resist" means, "Actively fight against." Saying "Whatever will be will be" is not actively fighting against the devil.
If a person really believed that God is the one who put sickness on them because He is trying to work something for good in their life, then they should not go to the doctor or take any medicine. That would be resisting God's plans. They should let the sickness run its course and thereby get the full benefit of God's correction. Of course, no one advocates that. That is absurd. It is even more absurd to believe that God is the one behind the tragedy.
Acts 10:38 says that Jesus healed all those who were oppressed OF THE DEVIL. It was not God who oppressed them with sickness. It was the devil. It's the same today. Sickness is from the devil, not from God. We need to resist sickness and, by faith, submit ourselves to healing, which is from God through the atonement of Christ.
I know someone is thinking, What about the Old Testament instances where God smote people with sickness and plagues? There is a lot I could say about that if I had the space, but a simplified answer to that question is that none of those instances were blessings. They were curses. God did use sickness in the Old Testament as punishment, but in the New Testament, Jesus bore our curse for us (Gal. 3:13). The Lord would no more put sickness on a New Testament believer than He would make us commit a sin. Both forgiveness of sin and healing are a part of the atonement Jesus provided for us.
Deuteronomy, chapter 28, should forever settle this question for all who believe the Word of God. The first 14 verses of Deuteronomy 28 list the blessings of God and the last 53 verses list the curses of God. Healing is listed as a blessing (Deut. 28:4). Sickness is listed as a curse (Deut. 28:22, 27-28, 35, 59-61). God called sickness a curse. We should not call it a blessing.
Knowing that God is not the author of my problems is one of the most important revelations the Lord has ever given me. If I thought it was God who killed my father when I was twelve, and some of my best friends before I was 20, if it was God who had people kidnap me, slander me, threaten to kill me, and turn loved ones against me, then I would have a hard time trusting God, if He was like that.
On the contrary, it is very comforting to know that God only has good things in store for me. Any problems in my life are from the devil, of my own making, or just the results of life on a fallen planet. My heavenly Father has never done me any harm and never will. I KNOW that.
I am not saying that there is nothing to learn from hardships. Most of you reading this article have come to the Lord because of something in your life that overwhelmed you and caused you to turn to the Lord for help. That situation was not from God regardless of the results. It was you turning to the Lord and the faith you placed in Him that turned your life around, not the hardship.
If hardships and problems made us better, then everyone who has had problems would be better for them. Those who have the most trouble would be the best. That simply is not so.
Let me illustrate this with a story about my son, Joshua. When he was only a year old, I was loading lumber on a large truck in the heat of a Texas summer. I had Joshua with me, and he was having a big time playing in the lumber yard. By mid-afternoon, he was tired and sleepy and started to lie down in the dirt for a nap. I knew his mother wouldn't like that, so I put him in the cab of the truck to lie down and take his nap.
He had been wanting to get into that truck all day, and when I put him in there, he revived. I had to roll the windows down because it was hot, and Joshua was leaning out the windows and waving at me in the side view mirrors. I told him to lie down and even gave him a spanking, but he didn't take heed. He leaned out the window too far, fell out of the cab, hit his eye on the running board and landed on his head.
I ran up to him, prayed over him, and held him until he quit crying. Then I told him that was why I told him to lie down and go to sleep and not lean out the window. I used that situation which caused him pain, to teach him, but if Joshua would have been like the sovereignty teachers of today, he would have gone out and told all his friends that his father made him fall out of that truck to teach him to obey. That's not so. I did what I could to restrain him. I would be very hurt if that's the way Joshua thought I was.
Likewise, I don't believe it blesses our heavenly Father for us to blame Him for all the problems that come into our lives. Sure, He will comfort us when we turn to Him in the midst of our problems, but He doesn't create the negative circumstances that hurt our lives.
God is sovereign in the sense that He is paramount and supreme. There is no one higher in authority or power, but that does not mean He exercises His power by controlling everything in our lives. God has given us the freedom to choose. He has a plan for us. He seeks to reveal that plan to us and urge us in that direction, but we choose. He doesn't make our choices for us.
In many instances, it is our wrong choices that bring disaster upon us. In other cases, our problems are nothing but an attack from the devil. In some cases, natural forces of an imperfect world cause us pain. Our tragedies are never the judgment or correction of God. Jesus came to give us abundant life. The devil came to steal, kill and destroy (John 10:10). Don't ever get that confused. If it's good, it's God. If it's bad, it's the devil.
This is a fundamental doctrine of Christianity that must be understood properly if you want victory in your life. Believing that God controls everything renders a person passive. Why pray and believe for something better? Whatever God wants will come to pass. That simply is not true.
The Lord is the answer to all our problems. He is not the problem.
If you would like more ministry on this pivotal point, please order my teaching entitled, "The Sovereignty of God." There is much more detail on the teaching than I was able to put into this article. This teaching will change your life.
I suggest that after you listen to it that you share it with someone else. I really believe that confusion on this subject is how Satan pushes his will off on most people. This teaching could change someone's life.
Monday, August 26, 2013
Saturday, August 17, 2013
WHAT IS FAITH???
Hebrews 11:1
KJV "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."
NIV "Now faith is the confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see."
GNT "To have faith is to be sure of things we hope for, to be certain of the things we can not see."
AMP "Now faith is the assurance (the confirmation; the title deed) of the things [we] hope for, being the proof of things [we] do not see and the conviction of their reality [faith perceiving as real fact what is not revealed to the senses].
If faith is believing in things that are unseen, then where do our limits lie? I can "not see" just about anything! The only limitations to faith are between our ears! The mind is the only battlefield for the born again Christian! Let's break off some of those lies and "limitations" today, shall we?! I have italicized the blockers I hear on a regular basis.
"What about spiritual warfare?"
The Truth is...there is no war! Revelation has been written, the war is over, we won! Just because we are still walking out time, does not change the outcome! We see that Jesus told us in Luke 10 that we have been given ALL authority to overcome the enemy! If we have all the authority, then the enemy obviously has none! The only way the enemy gets any power what-so-ever is when we give it to him! When Jesus died on the cross He said, "It is finished!" He did not say, "To be continued" or "We're almost there"! He said it's finished! Well, what does "it" mean? EVERYTHING!!! He died to take our sin, our shame, our guilt, our condemnation, our works, our sickness, our disease, our pain, even our death! He tacked everything that wasn't part of the original, Garden of Eden, plan for our lives, and destroyed it! He destroyed the works of the devil! He payed our ransom! He set us free! Free from the world, free from the enemy, and free from ourselves!
"So then why am I not living in total victory?"
Because you don't believe that you can! The Lord told us that in order to receive the kingdom, we have to be child-like! Read the Word, and believe what it says, the way it says it! No interpretations! No breaking it down! No analyzing! Children read, and they believe! If I read a fantasy book about fairies or superheroes to a small child, they would immediately start picturing it in their mind, creating vivid descriptions of what it would be like, and begin acting it out! They instantly believe that it can be real in their lives too! So why is it when we read the bible, we suppress the modern day reality of it? The gospel is the living Word! It is not meant to merely encourage or entertain us, it is meant to instruct and define us!
"Yeah, well I've tried that before."
So when did our experiences become the authority? When did our circumstances become our god? The validity of the Word is not determined by our life's experiences! Rather, our identity is determined by the Word, and out of true identity comes victorious life experiences! The Word says we are children of God! We are pure, righteous, holy, sinless, Christ-like, supernatural, powerful, spotless, blameless, free from guilt,shame,and condemnation, perfect (not lacking anything), confident, patient, kind, generous, loving, gentle, humble, compassionate, honoring, selfless, trusting, hopeful, determined, justified, glorified, worthy, chosen, and on, and on, and on! If God says that we are all these things, who are we to argue with Him?!
"No one is righteous, not even one...blah blah blah...why do I do what I don't want to do...ugh ugh ugh...if we claim to be without sin we deceive ourselves...yap yap yap..."
Do not mistake this for being disrespectful to the Word! I live and breathe Jesus, and have no existence outside of Him! My mockery is toward the religious spirit that keeps believers in unbelief! Romans 3, Romans 7, and 1 John 1 are the most misquoted chapters of the bible, in my experiences with struggling Christians! I'm not even gonna get started on Job! That's a whole separate blog! Let's kill these lies starting with Romans 3. Verse 10 starts out with "As it is written.." and goes on to quote from Psalms and Ecclesiastes. Then in verse 19 it says, "...whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law..."! WE ARE NOT UNDER THE LAW! Alright, one life sucking lie broken off... next! Romans 7. The entire chapter is talking about man's state under the law and why we were in desperate need of a Savior! Verse 1, "...the law has authority over someone, only as long as that person lives...". Verse 4, "...you also died to the law through the body of Christ...". Verse 5, "For when we WERE in the realm of the flesh...the sinful passions...WERE at work in us...". Verse 14-25, " ...I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin...what I want to do I do not do...sin living in me...good itself does not dwell...in my sinful nature...I want to do good, evil is right there with me...I delight in God's law...law of sin at work in me...wretched man...WHO WILL RESCUE ME?...THANKS BE TO GOD, WHO DELIVERS ME THROUGH JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD! To finish making "my" point I will continue into Romans 8, because after all, Paul did not write to the church of Rome in chapter and verse, but one whole letter. Romans 8:2, "...through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death." Verse 5, "Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires." Verse 9, "You, however, are not in the realm of the flesh but are in the realm of the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Christ." Any questions? This is so rock solid! The religious spirit is gonna kick rocks with this one! LOL!
Last one I mentioned was 1 John 1, verses 5-10, "...God is light. In Him there is no darkness at all...if we walk in the light...His Son, purifies us from ALL sin....if we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves...If we confess....He is faithful...and WILL...purify us from ALL unrighteousness. If we claim to HAVE NOT sinned, we make Him out to be a liar and His Word is not in us." Continuing on to chapter 2, because once again John wrote this as one solid letter without chapter and verse. 1 John 2:1-2, "...I write this to you so that you will not sin. But if anybody does sin..." John would not say, "...so that you will not sin." if it wasn't possible, and "But if..." if it was a given! We have had a blood transfusion with Christ, people! We, by our new nature, do not have to sin!...at all! ...ever! Isn't that fantastic? Jesus is Lord!
"If signs and miracles are for today, why isn't everyone healed?"
With faith as small as a mustard seed we can move mountains! It doesn't require great amounts of faith! The mustard seed is one of the smallest seeds on earth, yet grows to be huge! Here's the dilemma...it must be planted to grow! People aren't all getting healed because believers aren't all stepping out in faith to release the healing! If more Christians would get over themselves (myself included at times), and love like Christ, everyone would be healed!
"I do pray for people, but they're not all getting healed."
#1. Awesome! Great job! Keep going! Don't give up!
#2. Do not, I repeat, do not, for any reason, make up theologies or excuses for why someone didn't get healed! Jesus is Lord! He wishes for all to be saved and live abundantly! The enemy is a jerk, and sometimes we have to stomp his face several times! I don't know why...just do it! If someone that we pray for does not get healed, they need to leave us feeling as though they just had an amazing encounter with our loving Father, and not feel worse than when we found them! (Do not make yourself feel better at another's expense...their eternal destiny may depend on this one chance encounter!)
Here are some related lies...
A. It is never about the other person's lack of faith! (Lazarus had no faith to be raised from the dead!)
B. It's not about the amount of faith you have! (All it takes is a mustard seed, and you wouldn't have stepped out to pray if you didn't at least think maybe this could work!)
C. It's not about God's timing! ( He lives outside of time, and today is the day of salvation!)
D. It's not part of God's plan that they suffer to learn a lesson! (Yuck! How could anyone love a Father that would inflict them to teach them. Matthew 7:11 If you who are wicked know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give good gifts to those who ask Him.)
E. It is not like Paul's thorn in the flesh! (Jesus did not tell the disciples to heal the sick, unless of course their ailment is a thorn they have been denied removal! The thorn was a messenger of Satan, not God! In verse 10 Paul explains in detail what his weaknesses were...insults, hardships, persecutions, and difficulties! Throughout the Word we see that we are all promised these things as believers! God wants us all healed...period!)
F. It's not about the way you prayed! (Be healed, Get up, Open, Go Wash....These are all the words that Jesus and the disciples used, and they all worked! It doesn't matter what you say as long it's in love and in Jesus' name! You could say Shaka baba in Jesus' name, and someone could get healed! *I know, I've done it!* It's not us doing the healing anyways, it's Holy Spirit! Step out and make straight paths for the Lord aka a landing strip for Holy Spirit! LOL!)
"It's too hard to have faith."
My only answer for this is...NO IT'S NOT! IT'S FUN!!! I spent my entire life trying to be cool and fit in, and it was exhausting! Just be who you were created to be...be yourself! Get loose, have fun, and....
Run with me church!
*purusamor.com*
KJV "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."
NIV "Now faith is the confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see."
GNT "To have faith is to be sure of things we hope for, to be certain of the things we can not see."
AMP "Now faith is the assurance (the confirmation; the title deed) of the things [we] hope for, being the proof of things [we] do not see and the conviction of their reality [faith perceiving as real fact what is not revealed to the senses].
If faith is believing in things that are unseen, then where do our limits lie? I can "not see" just about anything! The only limitations to faith are between our ears! The mind is the only battlefield for the born again Christian! Let's break off some of those lies and "limitations" today, shall we?! I have italicized the blockers I hear on a regular basis.
"What about spiritual warfare?"
The Truth is...there is no war! Revelation has been written, the war is over, we won! Just because we are still walking out time, does not change the outcome! We see that Jesus told us in Luke 10 that we have been given ALL authority to overcome the enemy! If we have all the authority, then the enemy obviously has none! The only way the enemy gets any power what-so-ever is when we give it to him! When Jesus died on the cross He said, "It is finished!" He did not say, "To be continued" or "We're almost there"! He said it's finished! Well, what does "it" mean? EVERYTHING!!! He died to take our sin, our shame, our guilt, our condemnation, our works, our sickness, our disease, our pain, even our death! He tacked everything that wasn't part of the original, Garden of Eden, plan for our lives, and destroyed it! He destroyed the works of the devil! He payed our ransom! He set us free! Free from the world, free from the enemy, and free from ourselves!
"So then why am I not living in total victory?"
Because you don't believe that you can! The Lord told us that in order to receive the kingdom, we have to be child-like! Read the Word, and believe what it says, the way it says it! No interpretations! No breaking it down! No analyzing! Children read, and they believe! If I read a fantasy book about fairies or superheroes to a small child, they would immediately start picturing it in their mind, creating vivid descriptions of what it would be like, and begin acting it out! They instantly believe that it can be real in their lives too! So why is it when we read the bible, we suppress the modern day reality of it? The gospel is the living Word! It is not meant to merely encourage or entertain us, it is meant to instruct and define us!
"Yeah, well I've tried that before."
So when did our experiences become the authority? When did our circumstances become our god? The validity of the Word is not determined by our life's experiences! Rather, our identity is determined by the Word, and out of true identity comes victorious life experiences! The Word says we are children of God! We are pure, righteous, holy, sinless, Christ-like, supernatural, powerful, spotless, blameless, free from guilt,shame,and condemnation, perfect (not lacking anything), confident, patient, kind, generous, loving, gentle, humble, compassionate, honoring, selfless, trusting, hopeful, determined, justified, glorified, worthy, chosen, and on, and on, and on! If God says that we are all these things, who are we to argue with Him?!
"No one is righteous, not even one...blah blah blah...why do I do what I don't want to do...ugh ugh ugh...if we claim to be without sin we deceive ourselves...yap yap yap..."
Do not mistake this for being disrespectful to the Word! I live and breathe Jesus, and have no existence outside of Him! My mockery is toward the religious spirit that keeps believers in unbelief! Romans 3, Romans 7, and 1 John 1 are the most misquoted chapters of the bible, in my experiences with struggling Christians! I'm not even gonna get started on Job! That's a whole separate blog! Let's kill these lies starting with Romans 3. Verse 10 starts out with "As it is written.." and goes on to quote from Psalms and Ecclesiastes. Then in verse 19 it says, "...whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law..."! WE ARE NOT UNDER THE LAW! Alright, one life sucking lie broken off... next! Romans 7. The entire chapter is talking about man's state under the law and why we were in desperate need of a Savior! Verse 1, "...the law has authority over someone, only as long as that person lives...". Verse 4, "...you also died to the law through the body of Christ...". Verse 5, "For when we WERE in the realm of the flesh...the sinful passions...WERE at work in us...". Verse 14-25, " ...I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin...what I want to do I do not do...sin living in me...good itself does not dwell...in my sinful nature...I want to do good, evil is right there with me...I delight in God's law...law of sin at work in me...wretched man...WHO WILL RESCUE ME?...THANKS BE TO GOD, WHO DELIVERS ME THROUGH JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD! To finish making "my" point I will continue into Romans 8, because after all, Paul did not write to the church of Rome in chapter and verse, but one whole letter. Romans 8:2, "...through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death." Verse 5, "Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires." Verse 9, "You, however, are not in the realm of the flesh but are in the realm of the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Christ." Any questions? This is so rock solid! The religious spirit is gonna kick rocks with this one! LOL!
Last one I mentioned was 1 John 1, verses 5-10, "...God is light. In Him there is no darkness at all...if we walk in the light...His Son, purifies us from ALL sin....if we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves...If we confess....He is faithful...and WILL...purify us from ALL unrighteousness. If we claim to HAVE NOT sinned, we make Him out to be a liar and His Word is not in us." Continuing on to chapter 2, because once again John wrote this as one solid letter without chapter and verse. 1 John 2:1-2, "...I write this to you so that you will not sin. But if anybody does sin..." John would not say, "...so that you will not sin." if it wasn't possible, and "But if..." if it was a given! We have had a blood transfusion with Christ, people! We, by our new nature, do not have to sin!...at all! ...ever! Isn't that fantastic? Jesus is Lord!
"If signs and miracles are for today, why isn't everyone healed?"
With faith as small as a mustard seed we can move mountains! It doesn't require great amounts of faith! The mustard seed is one of the smallest seeds on earth, yet grows to be huge! Here's the dilemma...it must be planted to grow! People aren't all getting healed because believers aren't all stepping out in faith to release the healing! If more Christians would get over themselves (myself included at times), and love like Christ, everyone would be healed!
"I do pray for people, but they're not all getting healed."
#1. Awesome! Great job! Keep going! Don't give up!
#2. Do not, I repeat, do not, for any reason, make up theologies or excuses for why someone didn't get healed! Jesus is Lord! He wishes for all to be saved and live abundantly! The enemy is a jerk, and sometimes we have to stomp his face several times! I don't know why...just do it! If someone that we pray for does not get healed, they need to leave us feeling as though they just had an amazing encounter with our loving Father, and not feel worse than when we found them! (Do not make yourself feel better at another's expense...their eternal destiny may depend on this one chance encounter!)
Here are some related lies...
A. It is never about the other person's lack of faith! (Lazarus had no faith to be raised from the dead!)
B. It's not about the amount of faith you have! (All it takes is a mustard seed, and you wouldn't have stepped out to pray if you didn't at least think maybe this could work!)
C. It's not about God's timing! ( He lives outside of time, and today is the day of salvation!)
D. It's not part of God's plan that they suffer to learn a lesson! (Yuck! How could anyone love a Father that would inflict them to teach them. Matthew 7:11 If you who are wicked know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give good gifts to those who ask Him.)
E. It is not like Paul's thorn in the flesh! (Jesus did not tell the disciples to heal the sick, unless of course their ailment is a thorn they have been denied removal! The thorn was a messenger of Satan, not God! In verse 10 Paul explains in detail what his weaknesses were...insults, hardships, persecutions, and difficulties! Throughout the Word we see that we are all promised these things as believers! God wants us all healed...period!)
F. It's not about the way you prayed! (Be healed, Get up, Open, Go Wash....These are all the words that Jesus and the disciples used, and they all worked! It doesn't matter what you say as long it's in love and in Jesus' name! You could say Shaka baba in Jesus' name, and someone could get healed! *I know, I've done it!* It's not us doing the healing anyways, it's Holy Spirit! Step out and make straight paths for the Lord aka a landing strip for Holy Spirit! LOL!)
"It's too hard to have faith."
My only answer for this is...NO IT'S NOT! IT'S FUN!!! I spent my entire life trying to be cool and fit in, and it was exhausting! Just be who you were created to be...be yourself! Get loose, have fun, and....
Run with me church!
*purusamor.com*
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