One of my bible school teacher, Mrs Angelina Eu, would always tell the class, the longest distance on earth is from the head to the heart. I agree fully. It's one thing to know and another to do. We don't need any more proofs to this truth because if we take a serious look into our own hearts, we know it has always been true. Why doesn't knowledge (biblical truths) make us better people? Because it doesn't until we have converted knowledge to be part of our lives so that they become principles that govern our decision making at any realm.
I'm not a saint if you don't already know by now and I don't pretend to be one. I don't share my weaknesses in order to gain any sympathy or to gain any form of understanding or to get any form of support. I do so because it is who I really am inside. I don't try to impress or put up a show for people to think of me other than what I really am.
Recently, I had two encounters with healing that exposed my lack of faith. One took place two sundays ago, when we were in a class learning about healing. We were asked to pray for a sister in Christ who had back pain. After prayer, she said, the pain was gone and she was healed. Inside my heart I said, "really meh" (literally). During the week, I smsed her and asked her about her back and she said it was perfectly fine. The truth is I really had the faith to believe for her healing when we all prayed together BUT... when she said that she was perfectly healed, I had trouble believing. Second incident was when I had a troubling and nagging headache last tuesday from noon to evening time. I didn't pray because I knew how my headache has always been very obstinate about leaving. Finally, after I got home from a wake service, I decided to pray, I sat on my home sofa and uttered a simple prayer to God, "God please take it away". Indeed I experience the healing without realizing it, minutes later.
It's strange how I have the faith to pray and believe but when it actually happened, I question the results. Through these two lessons, God taught me to 'expect answers to prayer' don't just pray. This is what I am going to do, really pray and expect my parents to come to salvation and be set free from the power of sin and death. This is the longest distance I am talking about. What you know and what you actually do with it.
The apostle Paul, great man of God, says that he will boast about his weakness so that the power of Christ may dwell in him, 2 Corinthians 12:9. To a certain extent I am beginning to understand this verse experientially. When I talk about my weakness, I realize how easy it is for me to stray if God is not with me. I sense the empowering presence of God, not a comforting presence but a strengthening presence. The power that empowers me beyond my state of weakness. A power that gives me the strength to overcome and to do what He has asked of me. The power that does not come from me but from Him. A power for me to know that everything I did in His name was done in His power and not because I am so good or 'talented'. It is really not me at all and because of this, I'm learning humility.
Fix our eyes on Jesus not on men because all things done for God was done by His power. All glory to Him.
I'm not a saint if you don't already know by now and I don't pretend to be one. I don't share my weaknesses in order to gain any sympathy or to gain any form of understanding or to get any form of support. I do so because it is who I really am inside. I don't try to impress or put up a show for people to think of me other than what I really am.
Recently, I had two encounters with healing that exposed my lack of faith. One took place two sundays ago, when we were in a class learning about healing. We were asked to pray for a sister in Christ who had back pain. After prayer, she said, the pain was gone and she was healed. Inside my heart I said, "really meh" (literally). During the week, I smsed her and asked her about her back and she said it was perfectly fine. The truth is I really had the faith to believe for her healing when we all prayed together BUT... when she said that she was perfectly healed, I had trouble believing. Second incident was when I had a troubling and nagging headache last tuesday from noon to evening time. I didn't pray because I knew how my headache has always been very obstinate about leaving. Finally, after I got home from a wake service, I decided to pray, I sat on my home sofa and uttered a simple prayer to God, "God please take it away". Indeed I experience the healing without realizing it, minutes later.
It's strange how I have the faith to pray and believe but when it actually happened, I question the results. Through these two lessons, God taught me to 'expect answers to prayer' don't just pray. This is what I am going to do, really pray and expect my parents to come to salvation and be set free from the power of sin and death. This is the longest distance I am talking about. What you know and what you actually do with it.
The apostle Paul, great man of God, says that he will boast about his weakness so that the power of Christ may dwell in him, 2 Corinthians 12:9. To a certain extent I am beginning to understand this verse experientially. When I talk about my weakness, I realize how easy it is for me to stray if God is not with me. I sense the empowering presence of God, not a comforting presence but a strengthening presence. The power that empowers me beyond my state of weakness. A power that gives me the strength to overcome and to do what He has asked of me. The power that does not come from me but from Him. A power for me to know that everything I did in His name was done in His power and not because I am so good or 'talented'. It is really not me at all and because of this, I'm learning humility.
Fix our eyes on Jesus not on men because all things done for God was done by His power. All glory to Him.
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