Last Friday during a conversation with a co-worker about Healing and faith I had a light bulb moment -- not sure it will amount to a hill of beans but I am going to give it a shot.
The originating conversation is as follows. We were talking about a potential guest (for the show we work on), her name is Abby H. Abildness and the book she wrote is, Healing Prayer and Medical Care. There is a growing number of stories/cases where prayer is seen immensely improving patient's health and aiding in the treatment process. They aren't all stories of total healing from just prayer (I do believe that happens) but a lot of the cases are where the Doctors verify that prayer in tandem with medical treatment healed the patient. God is healing people everyday!
So here are all these stories of God touching people, healing them and meeting their needs. That is awesome! I believe God is totally capable of doing all of that and I believe He wants to do those things for us. Throughout my life I have heard testimonies of where God touched someone's life: either in healing, providing dramatic financial needs and growing limbs back. You know MAJOR God moments.
But none of these things where in my immediate 'bubble.'
**here comes my lightbulb connection**
It is what I would like to call THTOP: That Happens To (for) Other People.
Things like: Natural disasters, major promotions, losing TONs of weight, risking everything to following their dreams, bumping into Mr amazing--go on a couple random dates--marry him and live happily ever after and even Healing. Whatever thing it may be. They are, you know, all the things that happen to others -- "no way that will happen for me things."
What is different between me and those people that live Major God moments?
How do you put yourself in a position to grow in faith to see a dead person raised, see someone's leg grow and to see God heal the sick?
Maybe that is it--Positioning. I am not positioning myself in a place that fully relies on God to intervene and do his God thing.
Kneeling before him, giving him my life, and saying "here have at it sir."
As I wrote in an earlier post, I am praying about going to Herrnhut, Germany for 7 months with YWAM. Before I go, I have a few financial responsibilities I want to handle. Through the lense of positioning I want to re-position myself so today--In front of the world wide web I am throwing my life out as a fleece to God and asking him to saturate it and as a step of my "risking-it-all-because-He-will-step-in" move. I am giving Him the Germany excursion.
I owe roughly 3k on my car and I have about 4k in student loans. At the moment I would be able to pay off one of those. That is all before looking at the different expenses for several trips this yr and the funds for Germany. This is the plan; I pay off my loans and car, leaving Germany in God's hands.
I believe I am supposed to go in Sept--it is a step that He is leading me to take. So seeing as He is leading that direction He can most definitely provide the funds. He will have to provide the funds because I can't. Maybe that is how it is supposed to be.
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