When the wind blows

wind-blowing

When the winds blow, when the storm comes, what shall I do?

What shall I pray? Am I going to pick a daisy flower and say, “He heals me, heals menot, heals me, heals me not”? 
Shall I open my Bible randomly and try to figure out what would the Lord answer?
Or should I weep bitterly like the king Hezekiah and turn my face to the wall and pray,
“Remember Oh Lord, how I have walked before you faithfully and I have done what is good in your eyes”? 
Or maybe pray hopelessly like Elijah, “Lord I have had enough, take my life”?
Maybe at last I can pray bravely like Daniel’s young friends,
“Lord even if you don’t heal me I will not serve other gods or worship the Image of gold the enemy has set up”.

Then I shift my mind from a self-centered thinking onto Him who is sitting on the throne of the Universe and claim Psalm 31:
But I trust in you, O LORD; I say you are my God. My times are in your hands. If it is possible may this cup be taken from me, yet not as I will but as You will.

Please don’t get me wrong, I am not trying to touch your human emotions, and I’m not trying to tell you a sad story about an unfortunate ill woman. This is a testimony of a soldier who was wounded while he was on duty during a severe attack from the enemy against the church of God and the saints of the most high.

It is a final war between two kingdoms, what are we waiting for? 

Continue Reading

The Christianity of Today

christianity 008Let me try to illustrate just how far afield the present day Christian mentality is from a first century mentality. If you went to Thessalonica, you would find believers who gathered in Jason's home. You might find a few staying home, and you, might even find some who had forsaken the faith and who could' have gone back to worshipping idols in the pagan temples.

 
But you didn't find a dozen interdenominational organi¬zations, three ministerial associations and 144 denominations; seventy-five independent "churches," thirty home-Bible study groups, ten "half-way houses," and three "church-in-the¬-home" organizations. Such a situation simply never existed in the first century.
 
For sure they had a lot of problems but the above were not on the list.
 
The question
 
So here is the question: What shall be our relationship to Christians who are totally immersed in organized religion? The problem almost defies solution. 
 
Our Present Mentality
 
Let me first say that "modern Christian mentality" exerts more influence on the way we do things than all of our doctrines and all of our methods, goals, dreams, visions, and hopes combined.
 
Today there is a mentality that equates a non-profit inter¬denominational organization with the church. A man-made organization compatible with God's very purpose for creation! Unbelievable!
 
Is it possible that the Lord has moved away because of our fragmentations?

Continue Reading