Believe

Jesus says in John 14:12-14 "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father. And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it." What powerful words Jesus spoke to His Disciples immediately following communion. This is when Jesus was having His last moments together with His desciples before He was taken away. He was comforting them in a time of what seemed great sorrowful for them. But Jesus knew otherwise.

What I see here is an example of what we as Christians face every day. We come to a fork in the road with 2 decisioons upon us.
first, the path that comforts us with what we can physically touch and see. Because we are human, We rely on what is real to us.
second, the path with nothing other than God saying "If you will follow me I will take care of you."

Hard decision isn't it? This is how the desciples felt when they are physically seeing the what they were told for so long coming to life before their eyes. They heard what Jesus told them But were still hanging on to the fact that He was right there in front of them every day leading, teaching and doing miracles. What Jesus is telling them is that the things you see me doing, you can do but greater than I did. All you have to do is believe that it can be done and claim it in my name. I have been sitting here pondering on all the junk going on in my life forgetting the fact that I have access to the greatest power of all. Our minds work in a way that if we don't see it, we don't belive it. We are made to have the free will to choose are paths. But we have to suffer the consiquences of those choices. Which is what should teach us to lean on God more. The problem is, We like having the power to make those decisions. We can however make a decision to turn toward Him.

Jesus could heal people of leprocy, make blind people see, the mute speak, deaf to hear and brought the dead back to life. He even took 5 loaves of bread and 2 fish and multyplied it to feed 5,000 people. This is only a small portion of what he did. He is telling the desciples that they will be able to do the same things only greater. But only if you do it in my name and for my names sake. Sounds pretty dog on simple to me. But the problem is we don't BELIEVE we can do it. Jesus had to remind them several times on how to do these things. In Matthew 17 the desciples were trying to cast out a demon and couldn't. Jesus had to come along and do it. He told them in verse 20. "And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you."

We have this power here and now. Times are so jacked up right now that the physical is weighing out the spiritual. We've made the choice too many times not to allow God to work through us that things have gotten way out of hand. You cannot just run around and try to fix things by claiming this and that on everything you see. We get disappointed when we try to use it and it doesn't work that we just give up and try to figure it out out on our terms. You have got to get yourself out of the way and allow God to take control and let the perfect Diety do what it's meant to do.

YES, We can heal the sick, raise the dead and all the other miracles Jesus performed in the Bible and much much more. But it has to fall under the perfect will of God. This is our mission, to change this world through the Power of the Holy Spirit of Jesus Christ the perfect Son of God the Father in Heaven.

Matthew 28:19-20
19 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.

Our next life adventure…

Dave and I would like to take a moment and let you in on what we feel is the next adventure of our lives.... becoming foster/adoptive parents. We have talked for years about adopting a child. For a long time we thought it would be from another country. Over the last couple of years we have looked into several different options, but still were not sure the time was right.
We have a close friend that told us of a really sad situation that ended with a child having to be placed in DCS custody. Our hearts immediately broke for this child and our decision was made.... our time is now.
We have some training classes and a home study to go through before we are actually approved as Resource Parents. It’s going to be a big but very rewarding process. Please keep our family in your prayers as we move forward on this journey.