My Daily Bread

Mark 2:17 - On hearing this, Jesus said to them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.  I have not come to call on the righteous, but sinners.”

The man introduced yesterday is named Luke.  He has braces on his arms and around his neck, and walks with great difficulty.  He was in a bad accident, and pretty beat up.  The prayed and commanded his leg to grow in inch to match the other, for healing in his wrists, and for his pain to cease.  God answered.  The leg grew, his wrists, became healed, and his pain ceased.  His neck brace is a result of cancer, and the reason Luke only has a couple years left to live.  They prayed over his neck and commanded new muscles to grow.  Luke moved his head around after, and realized the lumps in his neck were gone!  His doctor checked him out later and gave him a clean bill of health, and weeks later Luke got his first job in 17 years.  “Jesus heals the whole person.”

Thoughts: I fully believe accounts like this happen, but I’m always skeptical hearing about them.  God knows no bounds, but people are dramatic liars starved for attention.  When it comes to miracles, I need to know the past building up to the miracle as well as the change in the continuing present.  I will always try to take confessed miracles as true though; if you are not confessing the truth, you are hurting yourself far more than me.  Returning to the wedding, what could ever be better than God’s work?  A wedding celebration is as good a time as any to celebrate our God and His blessings, His miracles.  I hope and pray for God’s blessings on the couple’s selfless marriage. 

Isaiah 58:10 - And if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your light will rise in the darkness, and your light will become like the noonday.

From here on out I’ll refer to the author, Bill Johnson, simply as Johnson.  The story he tells after the Bible verse is that of a couple on their wedding day.  They met while ministering to the poor and needy, and decided to make their wedding day an opportunity to serve.  They registered at Target, and asked only for coats, gloves, and sleeping bags.  Church buses were sent to the city on the wedding day to find the homeless and the needy, and invite them to the wedding.  After their ceremony, the couple went to the reception hall and immediately started feeding.  Johnson says, “The hungry became satisfied.  God was pleased.”  He also says that, “They had created far too great a miracle opportunity for God not to do something extraordinary.”  The story for today ends by introducing a man who only has two or three years left to live..

Thoughts: Ok, so day one isn’t as wham bam, heart wrenching change as I might have expected, but I know learning the heart of someone, and in this case God, takes more than a day.  That being said, good for them? haha I’m sorry, I think it’s a very good thing for them to do, but personally I dream of my wedding day being the start of a fairy tale come true for my wife.  I want to make sure it’s something she’ll remember fondly for the rest of her life without wishing she’d have been a little more selfish on our wedding day, which I don’t think is unreasonable at all.  On the other hand, for me, it is her day.  Seeing her happy will be my hearts desire, and if her heart really wanted to make our day a day of service, then I would happily prepare the feast :) 

To be honest, I am not sure what I want this blog to look like, I just know my soul is begging to get closer to God.  He has been working in my life, calling me home, and the next step for me is to dive into his Word! :)  I will be reading from the book,A Life of Miracles,by Bill Johnson.  It is a “365 day guide to prayer and miracles,” and a tool I believe I can use to ingest God’s word better than on my own.

Please, eat with me!  Ask questions!  Tell me if you think I’m understanding it wrong, or give me another point of view!  I’m asking to be called out.  Seeking God together will make the journey better :) With all that said, here we go!