Take ~5 minutes to read this 'COUGARS Daily' which contains snippets from A Slice of Infinity. Invite your family and friends to participate in reading with you daily. Then, consider sharing your comments or faith questions at CougarsDaily.blogspot.com
-and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior, for he has looked on the humble estate of his servant.
For behold, from now on all generations will call me blessed; for he who is mighty has done great things for me, and holy is his name. And his mercy is for those who fear him from generation to generation.
He has shown strength with his arm; he has scattered the proud in the thoughts of their hearts;
he has brought down the mighty from their thrones and exalted those of humble estate; he has filled the hungry with good things, and the rich he has sent away empty. He has helped his servant Israel, in remembrance of his mercy, as he spoke to our fathers, to Abraham and to his offspring forever." (Luke 1:47-55)
In fact, there are far worse things than being disrupted by the one who calls us to follow, the once-fragile child who now asks that we put our hands on the plow and not look back, let the dead bury the dead, take up our own crosses, and bring with him good news to the poor. It is far worse to be so at ease that we do not receive the graceful disturbance of a Father who would offer his only Son, and a Son who would go willingly. It is far worse to be so familiar with the story that we fail to see the Mighty One disturbing our world, lifting up the lowly, sending the rich away empty, and filling the hungry with good things.
Chad's Comments:
As many of you know, tomorrow evening we will be having a healing prayer session for my friend Wolfgang's son, Zak. Zak has Sotos Syndrom (intense Scoliosis); apparently, a January growth spurt has caused Zak's back to have a 58% curvature.
Will you pray for my doubt of healing to be removed. I am so 'heady' that my 'natural' mind does not want to allow for my spirit to be fed. Brian, you will even remember us walking out of a healing service when we were teens because we thought it was all 'hocus-pocus' or fake.
Danny is helping me to move forward in faith in the healing power of Jesus. His viewpoint is that God does not want us to be sick. While its seems that God does work through the sick, and our definition of sick may be hard to pinpoint in some cases, I still am coming to the belief that God does not desire sickness to be in us. If I can cross this bridge of 'rationalizing' the reasons God doesn't heal and move into a belief that God truly wants to heal, I believe we will see Zak stand straight tomorrow night.
There is an amazing revival / healing service happening in Lakeland, FL right now. I have now heard of it through three unrelated people. Thus, I am sharing with you. I believe we must not judge the situation based on its 'appearance'. Who am I to say how someone can worship Jesus or what worship for them looks like? Perhaps dancing and beating drums is their greatest expression of worshiping their creator. Regardless of its appearance, creative miracles appear to be happening. So much so that national news seems to be covering some of it and people are going nightly by the thousands from across our country and internationally.
www.freshfire.ca
Please pray that God will rid me of my unbelief.
Bless you all in the name of Jesus.
As a group, I will be challenging you to reach out to a neighbor. To invite someone over to your home whom you have had little to no contact with. This is not an effort to 'evangelize' them on the spot, but simply an effort to begin REAL relationship with them. Be in prayer about whom God would have you invite. More to come.
* Make Space for unbelievers in your life.
* Post your stories of God's intervention on the blog.
* Look for ways to share Awe and Wonder with children - leave suggestions at CougarsDaily.blogspot.com
* Consider joining Life-Devotions (a group of about 100 catholics and protestants sharing their faith through daily devotions and discussion - strong pro Life content)
* The Street Church
* Voice of the Martyrs
-and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior, for he has looked on the humble estate of his servant.
For behold, from now on all generations will call me blessed; for he who is mighty has done great things for me, and holy is his name. And his mercy is for those who fear him from generation to generation.
He has shown strength with his arm; he has scattered the proud in the thoughts of their hearts;
he has brought down the mighty from their thrones and exalted those of humble estate; he has filled the hungry with good things, and the rich he has sent away empty. He has helped his servant Israel, in remembrance of his mercy, as he spoke to our fathers, to Abraham and to his offspring forever." (Luke 1:47-55)
In fact, there are far worse things than being disrupted by the one who calls us to follow, the once-fragile child who now asks that we put our hands on the plow and not look back, let the dead bury the dead, take up our own crosses, and bring with him good news to the poor. It is far worse to be so at ease that we do not receive the graceful disturbance of a Father who would offer his only Son, and a Son who would go willingly. It is far worse to be so familiar with the story that we fail to see the Mighty One disturbing our world, lifting up the lowly, sending the rich away empty, and filling the hungry with good things.
Chad's Comments:
As many of you know, tomorrow evening we will be having a healing prayer session for my friend Wolfgang's son, Zak. Zak has Sotos Syndrom (intense Scoliosis); apparently, a January growth spurt has caused Zak's back to have a 58% curvature.
Will you pray for my doubt of healing to be removed. I am so 'heady' that my 'natural' mind does not want to allow for my spirit to be fed. Brian, you will even remember us walking out of a healing service when we were teens because we thought it was all 'hocus-pocus' or fake.
Danny is helping me to move forward in faith in the healing power of Jesus. His viewpoint is that God does not want us to be sick. While its seems that God does work through the sick, and our definition of sick may be hard to pinpoint in some cases, I still am coming to the belief that God does not desire sickness to be in us. If I can cross this bridge of 'rationalizing' the reasons God doesn't heal and move into a belief that God truly wants to heal, I believe we will see Zak stand straight tomorrow night.
There is an amazing revival / healing service happening in Lakeland, FL right now. I have now heard of it through three unrelated people. Thus, I am sharing with you. I believe we must not judge the situation based on its 'appearance'. Who am I to say how someone can worship Jesus or what worship for them looks like? Perhaps dancing and beating drums is their greatest expression of worshiping their creator. Regardless of its appearance, creative miracles appear to be happening. So much so that national news seems to be covering some of it and people are going nightly by the thousands from across our country and internationally.
www.freshfire.ca
Please pray that God will rid me of my unbelief.
Bless you all in the name of Jesus.
Upcoming Cougars' "Neighbor-Day" weekend:
As a group, I will be challenging you to reach out to a neighbor. To invite someone over to your home whom you have had little to no contact with. This is not an effort to 'evangelize' them on the spot, but simply an effort to begin REAL relationship with them. Be in prayer about whom God would have you invite. More to come.
* Make Space for unbelievers in your life.
* Post your stories of God's intervention on the blog.
* Look for ways to share Awe and Wonder with children - leave suggestions at CougarsDaily.blogspot.com
* Consider joining Life-Devotions (a group of about 100 catholics and protestants sharing their faith through daily devotions and discussion - strong pro Life content)
* The Street Church
* Voice of the Martyrs
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