Starting today August 7th, 2024, in order to post in the Married Couples, Courting Couples, or Singles forums, you will not be allowed to post if you have your Marital status designated as private. Announcements will be made in the respective forums as well but please note that if yours is currently listed as Private, you will need to submit a ticket in the Support Area to have yours changed.
yes...my little brother Shawn...why do you ask?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.
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!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.
Colossians from Crosswalk.com Amplified Version: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.
I figured that's what you meant. I didn't mean to sound so harsh. I take things too much at face value sometimes.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!
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.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....
Yep, just stay in the Word. Faith will grow.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!
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!!!Wow! You are a walking pep rally for inspiring one to believe! Awesome testimony!!
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.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!”
No, don't worry about it. I think I may have not communicated this well.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!”
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?