Your Favorite Scripture & How It Speaks to You

[CindyisHis]

Enacielle, was it you who has a 23 yr. old brother needing healing? One who recently, a few months ago, accepted the Lord? I can't find that thread now.

 

[Enacielle777]

Enacielle, was it you who has a 23 yr. old brother needing healing? One who recently, a few months ago, accepted the Lord? I can't find that thread now.

yes...my little brother Shawn...why do you ask?

If you are led to pray for him, have a word, anything, I would love to talk about it! I spent the entire time at the conferences I went to this weekend (both Saturday and Sunday evenings) on my face before God asking Him if there is any way He will manifest my brother's healing based upon my faith. My brother has turned his back on God, I think. He is angry, though he won't admit it. He told me I am blind because I won't see that he is sick. I told him my faith isn't based on what I see....it is based on what I know of God...and God doesn't want my brother sick...He healed him but my brother has something going on and won't deal with it and well...he stays sick...

tangent? maybe....

 

[Enacielle777]

What the Lord said to me was of a personal nature. As for what Glenda shared, that's for everyone.

Glenda Watson has a ministry in restoration, restoration for the broken in heart, those wounded in life. That's pretty much all of us, to one degree or another.

Glenda's text was from Ez. 16. She has an understanding of symbolic things in scripture, which she shared as she went. She spoke of the pain in her life and how the Lord has healed her. She spoke of forgiving the man who had murdered her husband when she was but 23 with 3 small children, after that, of marrying a man who did not love her, being divorced at 30, raising 5 children alone. For 5 yrs. she had 5 children who were all backslidden because of the pain in their own lives. She told how she overcame in all that. She has a whole heart today and leads a victorious life in Christ Jesus.

Since it was a ladies meeting, she spoke of the marriage bed. She likened the family to the tabernacle, the bedroom to the innercourt, and the marraige bed to the holy of holies. The marriage bed is holy to God, which is why He said nothing should defile it. It is a place of great intimacy, a place where there should be no fear, but open communication. The devil desparately tries to destroy that. He wants to destroy the family because he hates the family, so he will target your marriage bed.

She speaks in many nations around the world, is more orten abroad than at home. Many tell her of their own pain. She says the state of marriages in the church today is shocking. One young, beautiful lady, after leading anointed worship in a very large church, not but 30 yrs. old, came to her to say she hasn't let her husband touch her in 10 yrs. She had been the victim of satanic sexual abuse as she grew up. Both she and her husband graduated from a great Bible college and I'm sure on the outside you would think the best of them. And we should. I'm sure they are fine people. Yet, there is such pain there.

God says, "Live." That is what is in Ez. 16. This is what He says to His people, "Live."

Glenda shared so much anointed Word with us. She is powerfully anointed. If you ever get the chance to hear her, do, although in the states, she speaks mostly to hundreds in high security prisons. She also went to a place in one city, in another country that the people who lined up the meeting wouln't even go. She had been invited by the vilest, roughest, most notoriously evil gang member to come. Blood runs in the streets there every day. She was offered strong men to accompany her for her protection, but she refused. She went alone to this horrid, dangerous place to share Jesus, the wonderful, anointed Jesus. I forgot how many were there, but they were in tears and many received the Lord.

She had the priviledge of recently leading a head of a nation to the Lord, I think of Indonesia. She traveled to so many places, I've forgotten exactly where. She went because the wife of this man needed prayer. While she was there she laid hands on him and prayed. She prayed freely in English since he doesn't speak it, and he saw Jesus! He described Him to her, and she in turn to us. The man couldn't stop talking about Him for 2 hrs. He couldn't get over why Jesus would come to him when he didn't even want Him, why He would choose him when he hated Him and wanted nothing to do with Him. Oh the love of God! The man had had a pain in his heart for 2 wks. and when he saw Jesus he was healed, the pain gone.

Thank you so much for sharing this! I understand about not sharing what God said to you personally...I didn't mean to sound like I was intruding...what you shared was exactly what I meant...the message for the general audience. I will look for her name so I can see if I might be able to catch her sometime! I have friends who work in the prison system...so maybe I can catch her that way if I have to!

Thank you again for sharing!

 

[Enacielle777]

17 > so then the faith [is] by a report, and the report through a saying of God, YLT
or as the KJV puts it, faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.

Faith doesn't come out of our head. Faith does not have to worked up, not something you try to muster up in a difficult situation.

Faith comes as a result of hearing what God says. Faith will come. Listen to the Word. Read the Word. Listen to anointed teaching. How do you know if it is anointed?

Do you have more faith after hearing than before?

Faith always come when we hear what God says.

Colossians from Crosswalk.com Amplified Version:

6As you have therefore received Christ, [even] Jesus the Lord, [so] walk (regulate your lives and conduct yourselves) in union with and conformity to Him.

7 Have the roots [of your being] firmly and deeply planted [in Him, fixed and founded in Him], being continually built up in Him, becoming increasingly more confirmed and established in the faith, just as you were taught, and abounding and overflowing in it with thanksgiving.


I love this...could he spell it out any simpler how to live in fullness?!

 

[Enacielle777]

On the faith post...wow...I love scriptures on faith. I love to see how the Word talks to us about faith. I have always been one who believes anything...sell me oceanfront property in Arizona for a good price and I am there! Oh...what? No there is an ocean in AZ, right? Oh man..not again....Then God saved me and gave me discernment and I learned how to have faith in Him and yet be wise and test the spirits and know when to believe and when to doubt. He is amazing. Because of my brother, faith has been strong in my life within the past year...I want the kind of faith our speaker this weekend had..."You are blind...what is the problem...see...now let's talk about Jesus!" What?! Can you imagine that type of faith? I have Eczema (spelling?) and I would love that kind of faith to look at it and say "Be gone" and wake up in the morning and it is gone! I would love to look at my brother, spit on my hands, touch his stomach, and his ulcerative colitis is gone. I would love the faith that isn't phased by illness because I know Jesus is going to heal it anyway! The kind of faith you see overseas...the miracles and wonders that are so hard for us to stomach here!

Thank you for sharing this and reminding us!

 

[Enacielle777]

Sorry all about messing up those two posts..>I got distracted with a request to get a laundry basket in between opening the message box and posting it...so I thought I was typing my new response instead of a reply!

Sorry!

 

[CindyisHis]

Thank you so much for sharing this! I understand about not sharing what God said to you personally...I didn't mean to sound like I was intruding...what you shared was exactly what I meant...the message for the general audience.

Thank you again for sharing!

I figured that's what you meant. I didn't mean to sound so harsh. I take things too much at face value sometimes.

Love you.

 

[CindyisHis]

yes...my little brother Shawn...why do you ask?

If you are led to pray for him, have a word, anything, I would love to talk about it! I spent the entire time at the conferences I went to this weekend (both Saturday and Sunday evenings) on my face before God asking Him if there is any way He will manifest my brother's healing based upon my faith. My brother has turned his back on God, I think. He is angry, though he won't admit it. He told me I am blind because I won't see that he is sick. I told him my faith isn't based on what I see....it is based on what I know of God...and God doesn't want my brother sick...He healed him but my brother has something going on and won't deal with it and well...he stays sick...

tangent? maybe....

Oh yes, I do have something to share, which is why I was looking for you. I wanted to make sure it was your brother.

I have to share my testimony. I am homeschooling right now and don't have the time to devote to this at the moment. I will get back to this as I have the opportunity.

I can relate to your brother, almost identically in this.

 

[CindyisHis]

On the faith post...wow...I love scriptures on faith. I love to see how the Word talks to us about faith. I have always been one who believes anything...sell me oceanfront property in Arizona for a good price and I am there! Oh...what? No there is an ocean in AZ, right? Oh man..not again....Then God saved me and gave me discernment and I learned how to have faith in Him and yet be wise and test the spirits and know when to believe and when to doubt. He is amazing. Because of my brother, faith has been strong in my life within the past year...I want the kind of faith our speaker this weekend had..."You are blind...what is the problem...see...now let's talk about Jesus!" What?! Can you imagine that type of faith? I have Eczema (spelling?) and I would love that kind of faith to look at it and say "Be gone" and wake up in the morning and it is gone! I would love to look at my brother, spit on my hands, touch his stomach, and his ulcerative colitis is gone. I would love the faith that isn't phased by illness because I know Jesus is going to heal it anyway! The kind of faith you see overseas...the miracles and wonders that are so hard for us to stomach here!

Thank you for sharing this and reminding us!

Yep, just stay in the Word. Faith will grow.

It also grows by using it.

Don't be afraid to speak out God's Word. (I'm preaching to myself too.)

 

[CindyisHis]

I suffered from a skin disorder at the age of 18 that eventually crippled me for awhile. The lesions, the itching, the blisters on the soles of my feet, prevented me from being able to set any weight on them. I literally crawled to the bathroom from my bed, from the bathroom to the chair, and so on. The palms of my hands were no better. If I could have clawed all the skin off I think it may have been better.

The doctor told me there was no cure, I would have to take medication to calm my nerves all my days. I ended getting hooked on valium, becoming severely depressed, and eventually suicidal. I began to abuse the drug and took way over the daily dosage to try to heal the hurt in my heart.

When all this began I had been a Christian for about 3 years, knowing God could heal. Little did I know He would heal, that that is His desire, His will. I wasn't taught that God would heal, or how to receive His healing. All I knew was that He could. Problem was, or so I thought, He didn't. I thought God had simply chosen not to answer my prayer. So then the thoughts of doubt came, satan's divisive scheme. That's his ultimate goal you know, to get us to doubt God and His Word. I swallowed it, hook, line, and sinker. I began to think that God must not love me. Surely if He had the power to heal, and He did, He would heal me if He loved me. Or maybe I had done something horrible. If I did, I didn't know what it was.

This was the beginning of a horrible 2-3 yrs. following. Yes, the drug helped the skin problem, but I grew further and further from the Lord without even realizing it, little by little every day, by questioning His love for me.

Long story short, I recommitted my life to Him and sold out completely. What I mean is, I sought Him with all my heart. I read my Bible with a passion daily, and prayed constantly. Then I came across teaching that revolutionized my walk. I heard solid teaching, solid Word teaching that made my spirit soar. I came to realize the pack of lies I had been fed, and replaced them with the truth of God's Word.

Today I look back and I am another person. No one, no being in heaven or in earth could ever make me doubt God's love for me. Why, because He says He loves me! As for the skin problem, I take no drugs for it and I haven't had an itch from it in over 27 years. Every so often when I'm cutting lemons or tomatoes I laugh, because those things were impossible for me to handle. I laugh for joy, I laugh at the devil. I rejoice in God my Savior who has done great things for me. Why am I healed? Because He says I am healed! I receive His love by faith. I receive my healing by faith.

I believe Him, the integrity of His Word. I'm nothing great. I simply believe the One who has promised these things. We're talking about GOD. God Himself has said these things. So it is easy for me to believe. It is a decision. I can either look at my circumstance and believe it, or I can believe that which I do not yet see. Guess which one I'm choosing?

I would pray about your brother and ask the Lord how to reach Him. I would pray the Lord show Him truth. And I would be available to the Lord for anything He would choose to do through me. God knows His heart, and how to reach him.

I'm praying with you, E777. God wants to manifest His glory, His goodness, to your brother. Don't you ever give up.

 

[Davidnic]

I've always liked:

Then the Lord said, "Go outside and stand on the mountain before the Lord; the Lord will be passing by." A strong and heavy wind was rending the mountains and crushing rocks before the Lord--but the Lord was not in the wind.

After the wind there was an earthquake--but the Lord was not in the earthquake. After the earthquake there was fire--but the Lord was not in the fire.

After the fire there was a tiny whispering sound. When he heard this, Elijah hid his face in his cloak and went and stood at the entrance of the cave. A voice said to him, "Elijah, why are you here?"
1 Kings 19:11-13

It has always touched me. I sometimes read it if life is hectic and stressful before I pray. It reminds me that sometimes I need to slow down and listen for God in the peace of my heart and His love.

 

[Davidnic]

Also:

Yet, O LORD, thou art our Father; we are the clay, and thou art our potter; we are all the work of thy hand.

Isaiah 64:8

Just the peace of knowing that if I hand myself over to God He will make me into something far more wonderful than I can on my own without Him.

 

[ERice2nd]

Proverbs 18:22
"He who finds a wife finds what is good and recieves favor from the lord."

It reminds me to never take a woman for granted

 

[JoyouslyHopeful]

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[Enacielle777]

Romans 8:15

So you have not received a spirit that makes you fearful slaves. Instead, you received God’s Spirit when he adopted you as his own children. Now we call him, “Abba, Father.”

I love when people tell me that I have no mind of my own because I am a Chrisitan! I love when they say I am a freak for loving my God so much! Why? Because that means I have truly accepted the love of my Father! It means I am showing them a love they wish they could have but aren't willng to ask for! It means they are watching me and that I am planting seeds! It means I al sold out and ready to grow more!

~Shell

 

[Enacielle777]

Wow! You are a walking pep rally for inspiring one to believe! Awesome testimony!!

Thank you so much for sharing this, JH. If I read it right, you are in a similar situation as my brother in that you have been healed but it hasn't manifested itself? But he has possibly chosen to walk away and you have chosen the Hebrews 11 route! I am praying for him. I have many people my church praying. There are many of us standing on the promise in the Bible when Jesus healed the man because of his friends' faith. We are praying God will do the same for my brother..I will share tomorrow when I have time about what is at stake and why I feel so strongly about this...it is AMAZING!!!

For now, I say thank you so much for sharing. Bless you for being faithful and knowing that God has healed you because the WORD says we are healed by HIS STRIPES!

Jesus Heals a Paralyzed Man

1 When Jesus returned to Capernaum several days later, the news spread quickly that he was back home. 2 Soon the house where he was staying was so packed with visitors that there was no more room, even outside the door. While he was preaching God’s word to them, 3 four men arrived carrying a paralyzed man on a mat. 4 They couldn’t bring him to Jesus because of the crowd, so they dug a hole through the roof above his head. Then they lowered the man on his mat, right down in front of Jesus. 5 Seeing their faith, Jesus said to the paralyzed man, “My child, your sins are forgiven.”

6 But some of the teachers of religious law who were sitting there thought to themselves, 7 “What is he saying? This is blasphemy! Only God can forgive sins!”
8 Jesus knew immediately what they were thinking, so he asked them, “Why do you question this in your hearts? 9 Is it easier to say to the paralyzed man ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or ‘Stand up, pick up your mat, and walk’? 10 So I will prove to you that the Son of Man[a] has the authority on earth to forgive sins.” Then Jesus turned to the paralyzed man and said, 11 “Stand up, pick up your mat, and go home!” 12 And the man jumped up, grabbed his mat, and walked out through the stunned onlookers. They were all amazed and praised God, exclaiming, “We’ve never seen anything like this before!”

 

[Enacielle777]

Thank you so much for sharing this, JH. If I read it right, you are in a similar situation as my brother in that you have been healed but it hasn't manifested itself? But he has possibly chosen to walk away and you have chosen the Hebrews 11 route! I am praying for him. I have many people my church praying. There are many of us standing on the promise in the Bible when Jesus healed the man because of his friends' faith. We are praying God will do the same for my brother..I will share tomorrow when I have time about what is at stake and why I feel so strongly about this...it is AMAZING!!!

For now, I say thank you so much for sharing. Bless you for being faithful and knowing that God has healed you because the WORD says we are healed by HIS STRIPES!

Jesus Heals a Paralyzed Man

1 When Jesus returned to Capernaum several days later, the news spread quickly that he was back home. 2 Soon the house where he was staying was so packed with visitors that there was no more room, even outside the door. While he was preaching God’s word to them, 3 four men arrived carrying a paralyzed man on a mat. 4 They couldn’t bring him to Jesus because of the crowd, so they dug a hole through the roof above his head. Then they lowered the man on his mat, right down in front of Jesus. 5 Seeing their faith, Jesus said to the paralyzed man, “My child, your sins are forgiven.”

6 But some of the teachers of religious law who were sitting there thought to themselves, 7 “What is he saying? This is blasphemy! Only God can forgive sins!”
8 Jesus knew immediately what they were thinking, so he asked them, “Why do you question this in your hearts? 9 Is it easier to say to the paralyzed man ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or ‘Stand up, pick up your mat, and walk’? 10 So I will prove to you that the Son of Man[a] has the authority on earth to forgive sins.” Then Jesus turned to the paralyzed man and said, 11 “Stand up, pick up your mat, and go home!” 12 And the man jumped up, grabbed his mat, and walked out through the stunned onlookers. They were all amazed and praised God, exclaiming, “We’ve never seen anything like this before!”

Cindy and Joyous...sorry about that...somehow my computer jumped, so when I read the post I was reading Cindy's but when I went back to double check the message, it was Joyous! Sorry about that. My message was to Cindy.

~Shell

 

[JoyouslyHopeful]

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[JoyouslyHopeful]

Ephesians 2
8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.
10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
11 Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;
12 That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
13 But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.

As I ponder the fact that I am to remember who and where I once was... lost, having no hope without Christ, I can not help but sit in amazement of all Christ has done in my life. Thinking on all that I should remember in Ephesians it is easier to understand what it is I am to forget in Philippians.

Philippians 3
12 Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

In Ephesians 2 I am to remember who and where I was without Christ. I am to remember it is by grace through faith that I have been saved. A wonderful gift from God that I never deserved nor could I earn. Remembering I once lived without Christ humbly reminds me I was bought with a price and I am no longer my own. Remembering as instructed in Ephesians 2 keeps one humble. In Philippians 3 I am reminded that no matter how far I may think I have come in Christ ... I have not attained perfection. I am humbly reminded I should not be interested in keeping a record of spiritual attainments ...but forgetting far I have come ... press on in faith to how much farther there is still to go with Christ. So forgetting as instructed in Philippians 3 would also keep one humble.

 

[CindyisHis]

If I read it right, you are in a similar situation as my brother in that you have been healed but it hasn't manifested itself? But he has possibly chosen to walk away and you have chosen the Hebrews 11 route! I am praying for him. I have many people my church praying. There are many of us standing on the promise in the Bible when Jesus healed the man because of his friends' faith. We are praying God will do the same for my brother..I will share tomorrow when I have time about what is at stake and why I feel so strongly about this...it is AMAZING!!!

For now, I say thank you so much for sharing. Bless you for being faithful and knowing that God has healed you because the WORD says we are healed by HIS STRIPES!

Jesus Heals a Paralyzed Man

1 When Jesus returned to Capernaum several days later, the news spread quickly that he was back home. 2 Soon the house where he was staying was so packed with visitors that there was no more room, even outside the door. While he was preaching God’s word to them, 3 four men arrived carrying a paralyzed man on a mat. 4 They couldn’t bring him to Jesus because of the crowd, so they dug a hole through the roof above his head. Then they lowered the man on his mat, right down in front of Jesus. 5 Seeing their faith, Jesus said to the paralyzed man, “My child, your sins are forgiven.”

6 But some of the teachers of religious law who were sitting there thought to themselves, 7 “What is he saying? This is blasphemy! Only God can forgive sins!”
8 Jesus knew immediately what they were thinking, so he asked them, “Why do you question this in your hearts? 9 Is it easier to say to the paralyzed man ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or ‘Stand up, pick up your mat, and walk’? 10 So I will prove to you that the Son of Man[a] has the authority on earth to forgive sins.” Then Jesus turned to the paralyzed man and said, 11 “Stand up, pick up your mat, and go home!” 12 And the man jumped up, grabbed his mat, and walked out through the stunned onlookers. They were all amazed and praised God, exclaiming, “We’ve never seen anything like this before!”

No, don't worry about it. I think I may have not communicated this well.

I am completely, totally healed! I have had no itch, at all, in over 27 yrs! I can handle tomatoes and lemons, which were impossible for me to touch at one time, aggravating the condition even more. I never get even so much as a symptom of it anymore. And I take no drugs whatsoever for anything at all.

The biggest key for me in receiving healing of this particular disease was to cast all my cares on Him because He cares for me. There are two truths communicated in this scripture that were vital for me to receive.

1. He really does love me. He cares for me.
2. I need to cast my cares on Him. I worried about everything. Worry was the root cause of the disease.

God knows the root cause of each thing in our lives. He knows what lies at the root of your brother's illness. He knows the deep, hidden places of the heart.

All we need is in Him, in His Word. Nothing touches us that the Lord has not taken care of. We need to lay hold of His Word to us.

Keep standing on this scripture the Lord gave you. Be fixed, immovable, knowing the will of the Lord, and that is for your brother to be restored in his relationship to the Lord, and to be made whole, spirit, soul, and body.