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Is Healing For Today?

Posted by LibbyTalks on Friday, May 01, 2009 7:31:08 AM
   I know it is by God's word and born out by my own experience.

   Many people pray for good health and even healing when they are ill. They often ask in faith, believing that God will make them well. Healing comes in time, or all at once. The Lord uses the hands of doctors. Physicians will say they cannot do their job without the power of God. They know that they provide the medicine, but that God supplies the actual healing of the body.
   
   I was scheduled for vascular surgery in my stomach in mid-April. I had been experiencing stomach pains since November of 2008. A ligament was cutting off the flow of a major artery supplying blood flow to the stomach. In early April, I was at the end of my rope, and just trying to make it to my surgery date. I was talking to an old friend, a pastor whose church I had attended in my late teens and early twenties. He had been instrumental in helping me to mature in my faith as a Christian. We were praying together and he began to pray for healing for my stomach. Immediately my pains began to subside for the first time in six months! I was awed --as we continued to pray they left entirely. I have now been pain-free for a month. My surgery was called off because of the total absence of any pain. My surgeon told me he too believed in the power of prayer.

   On the scheduled day of my surgery I went to work and worked my full shift. I am very thankful for this. Some  of the people I have told have asked me to ask this pastor friend of mine pray for them. I am happy to do so, but he has no special power. The healing I experienced had nothing to do with either he or I, but only the resurrection power of God, spurred by the open hearts and the faith that He gifted us with at the time!

   Prayer is always answered. God has the answer for each one of us. It's good to pray for a miracle and not exclude the possibility. He might just have one for you.

Acts 9:34 "And Peter said to him, 'Aeneas, Jesus Christ heals you, arise, and make your bed,' and immediately he arose."

Hebrews 13:8 "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today, yes and forever."



  
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Will Your Faith Protect You In This New Administration?

Posted by LibbyTalks on Monday, January 12, 2009 1:55:35 PM
Will your faith protect you in the new administration? Prayer will help keep you safe and sound, but protect you during the tenure of a president and an administration you don't like? Why not? Prayer adds positivity wherever it is found. It calls on the resources of someone bigger than ourself. It gives us strength beyond our own.

Your faith can get you through hard times that is for sure. And maybe prompt you to pray for President Obama, which will certainly release some positive energy and defeat any fears that you have about the present or future.
 
No matter how well founded fear is, it's a destructive thing and saps your energy for life. If your faith can keep you from fearing...then it does a very good thing. Fearful, hangers-back who will not enter the arena of thought are not what the country needs right now, or the conservative arena.
 
So step on out there in faith. Don't let fear or let anything else hold you back. Get involved where you can, pray where you feel led. Stay active and vibrant and get your family involved as well. Let us not become a bunch of whiners. Let us be full of action, joy, movement and ideas. Let your faith move you to be always on the offensive. We have a country to win back!
 
 
 
 
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Who comes first in your life? God? You? Family? Job?

Posted by LibbyTalks on Sunday, January 11, 2009 1:07:00 PM
My first post was on who comes first Faith or family? And I answered my own question differently than I believe in my heart of hearts. I tried so hard to sound good, I wrote myself right out of the point I wanted to make. People who commented, brought me back to my senses, especially Rick mentioning the story of Abraham and Isaac. Abraham was asked to put his son Isaac on the alter before God and give him as sacrifice and God ends up providing Abraham with a lamb and then proceeds to restore Isaac to Abraham and bless him for the rest of his life.
 
Things didn't work quite this way for me in my life. I had a true Abraham/Isaac experience. I had a baby with a very bad heart. When he was only a few days old he went into heart failure and had to have a heart catheterization immediately. I figuratively put him on the alter before God and prayed that He was in charge, my child was His, He came first and I would accept His decision. Well my son lived through the procedure which they didn't expect considering the complexity of his defects. But I didn't get to keep him long, only 10 and 1/2 months.
 
Then again one could say...in his condition...God gave him to me for almost one year and it was a miracle! That is how I choose to look at it. So even as a very young woman (23 years old) I believed God came first.
 
I haven't changed much. Just long enough to feel the need to caution people in the ministry and others with great zeal -- in their efforts to take care of those around them to put their family right after God and before their jobs!
 
Where do you put yourself? That is up to every individual to decide. I would only say this....be cautious not to be too far down the line. You may compromise your health and then who can you serve or help?
 
 
 
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Which comes first Faith or Family?

Posted by LibbyTalks on Saturday, January 10, 2009 12:00:00 AM
Faith or family? Which does the Christian or religious man or woman put first? This is a dilema for many people. The question can arise in other areas as well: job first or family first? You have to make a living yet, where is your first love?

In the question of family or faith first....the bible taken as your authority exhorts you to put God first, even before yourself. God the Father, in Christianity requires total allegiance to Himself first and then promises He will give you love running over for you and your life: your family in Him.
 
But it's never easy. Pastors have it the hardest it seems. They have so much responsibility to their church and parishioners...where is the time for their family? Along comes the troubled "Preacher's Kid" stereotype, prevalent in many churches.
 
I know of a church in Eden Prairie, City Hill Fellowship. They have taken special care to make sure they devote time to their families. They share the preaching and take some of the pressure off the Pastor. They watch each other's backs so to speak. Delightful children in this church. Not a PK among them. And they have a great Junior High and High School youth program, as well as Sunday School for the little ones. They invest a lot of time in families and children in that church and it shows. They also invest a lot in their women's ministry. Lots of happy women in that church too! What is their secret. Putting God first, but also being very aware of the needs of family.
 
I don't believe it is an either or. I believe they must come together of equal importance. You can't really ignore or cheat your relationship with God or your family and do well at all. God invented families after all!
 
Here is a picture of the family I grew up in. My sister and two brothers. My mom raised us after the divorce. My father was never absentee, however. As he promised, he moved only one suburb away and saw us every weekend and holiday. My father is a wonderful man! So is my mom a terrific woman. She is fighting Alzheimer's now with all of her courage and faith.
 
 
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