Hearing

Doing What God Is Doing

Sep 2 2015

Doing What God Is Doing

John 5: I-40 (The Message Bible)
There were hundreds scattered around the alcoves. Some lame, some blind, some diseased. It was a sad sight. They were all there wanting to be healed. They believed that an angel stirred the pool every now and then, and the first one into the pool would be healed. Slowly Jesus and his disciples walked amongst the suffering. As he did so he noticed one man close to the pool. He had been lame for 38 years. Jesus seemed to know this. “Do you want to get well?” he asked. He did but no one would help him into the pool when it was stirred. Jesus said “Take up your bedroll and walk.” And he did.
A dramatic miracle happened that day. But the healing of this man provokes a question; why did Jesus heal only one  when there was a few hundred?

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God’s Table

Aug 25 2015

God’s Table

Luke 24: 13-32

Two men in our church got the same vision during a Sunday service. In it they saw a large table with all the settings in place, but there were no people at the table and there was no food on it. It was obvious to me that it was the Lord’s Table and God was calling our church to it. What was less clear was why there was no food.
During the week that followed I felt urged by the Holy Spirit to speak on this vision in church, so I took time in prayer to hear from God as to why his table was empty. As I waited on him I heard nothing, all that happened was that I got increasingly hungry. So I went to the kitchen and warmed up some food in the microwave, More

A Gentle Whisper

Jul 10 2015

A Gentle Whisper

1 Kings 19: 9-18  God was not in the earthquake; he was in the gentle whisper!

“What are you doing here?” When God asks this question you know you are in trouble; and Elijah was. He had fled to Mount Horeb to escape Jezebel’s man hunt. But this was not where God wanted him. There is panic in Elijah’s reply, “The Israelites have … put all your prophets to death … and now they are trying to kill me” (10). But Elijah did not answer God’s question. Why was Elijah at Mount Horeb?
Well God knew of course; and he exposes Elijah’s reasons in what he does next. He tells Elijah that he is about to ‘pass by’ (11). Then, as if to confirm it, he sends a powerful wind which shatters the rocks. But after the wind has died down, Elijah realizes that the Lord is not in the wind, and he is disappointed. But never mind, because God then sends an earthquake, More

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