God Says: Deliver an Egg

I determined to listen to God for guidance in all matters, and I promised Him I would obey whatever He told me. There were so many things which needed solutions. One was a feeling of friction between my colleague and myself. She had ten children and often was not well, and could not carry out [...]

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To Forgive is Divine

The concept of “forgiveness” is not a concept I have always fully understood. I could say the words, “I forgive you”, but I have to admit that I didn’t give much thought to what those words meant. I used to use the phrase “I forgive you” interchangeably with the phrase, “It’s alright”, or “It’s ok.” [...]

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Praying with Expectation

It was late at night, and we were on our way back from a prayer service that focused on praying for healing. I know I was feeling energized, both by what I had heard and what I seen in that past hour. The presentation on praying for healing was nothing new to me, but still [...]

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Lament for the Waiting

I’m going to step out on a limb here and assume that I’m not the only one who finds myself waiting on God. I want to invite you to join me in this waiting room, and sing with me a song of lament. Waiting for God to fulfill a promise is not fun. If that [...]

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Chasing the Glory

I’ll keep this short and to the point, because I feel like there’s enough to ponder in the subject itself, without me adding extra words. I wanted to share something I heard in listening prayer that was, I guess, something I already knew, but also something I don’t usually give enough attention. Do you want [...]

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The Sacrament of the Sick

St. James wrote in his epistle: Is any among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord; and the prayer of faith will save the sick man, and the Lord will raise him up; and if [...]

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Write it on the Tablet of My Heart

Here are just a few things I’m trying to keep in my mind, so that they eventually become my “default” way of thinking. I want these to be my first thoughts in any given situation, not the things I eventually arrive at after running out of other options. Until then, “repetition is the mother of [...]

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Goodbye, Allergies

I have lived for a long time with a misunderstanding about allergies. I would not have thought, in the past, to classify allergies as part of the “disease” category – which is to say, I didn’t think of allergies as something from which a person could be healed. I guess I just thought allergies were [...]

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How Did Jesus Do It?

Well, of course Jesus healed the sick instantly, He was God! It might seem like a trivial point that is best left for theologians to bat around, but then again, maybe not. It gets down into the murky waters of Christology, and understanding (as if we ever could) the mystery of how Jesus could be [...]

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It’s a Sign of the Kingdom

When the prophet Isaiah wrote of the coming age of the Messiah, he characterized it in this way: Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf unstopped; then shall the lame man leap like a hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing for joy. (Is. 35:5-6) A [...]

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