Psalm 37:23-24, “The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD, And He delights in his way. Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down; For the LORD upholds him with His hand.”
Jeremiah 29:11-14a, “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart. I will be found by you, says the LORD, and I will bring you back from your captivity.”
I put the title, OUR Miracle Worker rather than My Miracle Worker because when God does something for one of His children, part of His plan is for the Glory to go to Himself. All His children thus get to share in glorifying our Heavenly Father!
In July of this year, it will be 8 years since we moved from Arizona to Colorado to be near our adult kids and their family. For a while, at the minimum, a couple of years before we moved, my wife had suffered with something which our family doctor didn’t seem to be able to diagnose and I wasn’t doing so well either. Now understand, he was a very well-liked and thought of doctor in a family practice, but according to other patients, his practice had gotten so big, they often complained of not having enough time with him. Seems like that is a common malady in this day and age.
Anyway, we moved to Colorado, and I had occasion to go to the emergency room of our local hospital and since we just moved and didn’t have a family or primary physician, one was recommended to us. He was a young man who had been practicing in our community just a short time, but was highly recommended. I followed up with him. That was the first apparent miracle. With my follow-up, I was able to ask about Sue getting an appointment and there was no problem, they were glad to see her.
In her very first exam, when she relayed her symptoms to him and told him of the problems in figuring out her condition, he immediately recommended she see the local oncologist, the cancer specialist. This new doctor told my wife that he suspected she had a form of leukemia but it would take the oncologist to determine that for sure and if so, what kind she had.
That, despite appearances, or what we were hearing, was the second miracle! The oncologist told her in fact she DID have leukemia, CML, Chronic Myeloid Leukemia, a form that is comparably rare in adults. It can be treated in most people, but there is usually no hope of remission with this type of cancer. Once a medication is found, they usually have to take it to prolong their lives.
Okay, we trusted God and would deal with it. It was a miracle that right off the bat, the first exam and our new primary doctor suspected what it was. The medication was another story. It was approximately 12,000 dollars, yes, twelve-thousand dollars for a months supply and it was a fairly new medication. Her oncologist wanted to try her on it. He found help due to our financial situation where we didn’t have to pay a penny for it. That was the third miracle!
After her first check-up upon taking the medication, her blood work was exceptional and the doctor continued her on it. Every blood test she has had for the last seven years has been perfect. More than once her doctors have told her she is a walking miracle and a poster-child for this new medication. Seven years; can you say miracle number four!
Her check-up just the other day, the interim doctor who was filling in for her regular oncologist informed her that she had looked over her blood work going back the full seven-plus years, more than once. The reason was, and this doctor was new to my wife, she appeared to be in remission. This was the first time this doctor, according to what she told Sue, that she had ever witnessed remission in this type of Leukemia though she had heard of it rarely! Miracle number five!
My wife, for the time being, no longer has to take that expensive, time-sensitive, medication, though she will still be monitored every so many months. This was an answer to my wife’s prayers. The regimen for this medication is very strict, time-wise and it isn’t always convenient, so this is like regained freedom for her.
Now, to my Brothers and Sisters in Christ; this tells me one thing I have been saying for so long in my teachings; no matter how things and circumstances look, God Almighty, OUR Heavenly Father is always, ALWAYS, in control! When we truly surrender to Him, surrender not just our wills, but our lives and follow Him daily, He is in control of our destinies, of the next steps we take.
Sue and I have always believed for many, many years now, that when we put our lives in God’s hands, He is the One and the ONLY One Who will determine when our work “is finished.” That applies to every one of His children! If God is to receive the Glory, Exaltation and Honor in our lives it has to be on His terms; He has to be the One in control!
When my wife prayed, she wasn’t necessarily praying for a healing or remission, she was praying for a way to alleviate the burden of taking this strictly regimented medication. Our Heavenly Father chose the method to accomplish that and it surprised even the doctors! We give God, our Father ALL the praise and Glory for it is Him Who deserves it all!
It is the same spiritual principle with each and every one of us who claims Christ Jesus as our Redeemer and through Him, God as our Heavenly Father. When we are totally surrendered to Him, our wills AND our lives, it does not matter what the world sees or what circumstances appear to be, the truth of the matter is, that God IS in control and will be as long as we are surrendered to Him. He will decide when to call us home or when to extend our “work-visas” as it were. Understanding and walking in this is what TRUE faith is and this is why faith such as this is just one of the things that PLEASES God Almighty! (Hebrews 11:6).
I’m going to tell you something that might make some of you upset because of the way you have been led to believe, but this circumstance had nothing to do with positive thoughts, thinking or repeating a set of Scriptures over and over. God’s will being accomplished in His children’s lives never does depend on those things. God’s will is accomplished because it is God’s plan and His grace to do so for HIS Glory and nothing else. It is how you DEAL with a circumstance that determines whether you are walking in faith.
Let me ask you this question; can you STILL walk in faith, believing and trusting in God’s perfect will for YOUR life, even if a circumstance doesn’t change? Can you trust and believe in ANY circumstance that God has the perfect plan for YOUR life? If you can answer yes, then THAT is walking in faith, no matter what other religious fad or false teaching is out there saying.
Believe and then KNOW through experience that God is ALWAYS in control in ALL circumstances and live life for Him accordingly until He tells you individually and personally, “It is finished. Well done, My good and faithful servant!”
In closing, most people do not or cannot see the miracles that happen everyday all around us. Sadly, even true Christians. They see too much in the natural and do not recognize God’s hands working in those natural things all around us. It is time the Church, the TRUE Church, opens their spiritual eyes and rubs the sleepiness from them and start to realize that God, our Heavenly Father is working in things, in the natural as well as the spiritual, every day.
Sue and I would like you to join us in giving God all the Praise and all the Glory for being the truly loving Father that He is.
The media and politicians have used models to sow discord and fear rather than stating actual legitimate facts UNTIL local, everyday Doctors, heroes really, stood up and stated, “Wait, something isn’t adding up.” Then and only then did National groups like the CDC come out and admit they were using computer models and their models were way off. That’s when they started resubmitting the actual data and statistics. Even now though, so many months in, we are hearing and seeing how these left-leaning Governors are stripping citizens of their Constitutional rights under the scam of a pandemic medical apocalypse!
Some of the Prophets of old were simple shepherds and farmers and weren’t even considered Prophets (Speakers of God’s Words) until the Lord called them and gave them a mandate. Because they were righteous and obedient to God, as their Father, they obeyed. Most of the time, not without consequences in the natural, I might add.
“A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his master. It is enough for a disciple that he be like his teacher, and a servant like his master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more will they call those of his household! Therefore do not fear them. For there is nothing covered that will not be revealed, and hidden that will not be known. Whatever I tell you in the dark, speak in the light; and what you hear in the ear, preach on the housetops. And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.” – Matthew 10:24-28.
I believe we are going to see more and more things unfold in front of us spiritually. The closer it gets to the time of our Lord and Savior’s return, the more we will see spiritual forces, wicked and righteous forces at work in the lives of those around us. We should not be surprised but stay ever vigilant, watchful and above all, prayerful. The Word tells us that broad is the path to destruction and many are they which go that route, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be praying for each and every one of them.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (19 June 1834 – 31 January 1892) was an English Particular Baptist preacher. Spurgeon remains highly influential among Christians of various denominations, among whom he is known as the “Prince of Preachers.” He was a strong figure in the Reformed Baptist tradition, defending the Church in agreement with the 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith understanding, and opposing the liberal and pragmatic theological tendencies in the Church of his day.
Remember, we are in a daily battle between the carnal flesh, which is the natural, temporary part of our being and the spirit, which is the reborn and reawakened, eternal part of our being. We MUST willingly and voluntarily take up OUR own personal cross daily and determine to follow after Christ, willing, as He was on the Cross, to crucify our fleshly passions. The Holy Spirit abiding in us gives us that ability and power. The world does NOT have the liberty of that power, but those of us in Christ do. As we “practice” this daily, and it is a practice, a determination to strive ahead and pursue holiness, as we practice this, we DO get better and better and become closer and closer to our Lord, our Heavenly Father, through Christ Jesus!
As I stated earlier also, John doesn’t mince words. In his mind there are two avenues in which a person goes, in Him, God Almighty, or under the sway of the wicked one, the devil and his forces! Yet John is only confirming the words of the Savior when He walked along the shores of Galilee and other places with His disciples teaching the true meaning of the word. In that often quoted chapter of Matthew, Jesus said, 
Jesus came to give us the understanding of that last sentence. So we can understand Him who is AND as TRUE, and we are IN Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. So Jesus Christ came to show us and help us to understand that He is true and that we may KNOW Him as being true, and we can abide in Him as true. To KNOW Him, Jesus Christ as TRUE then is to KNOW 
“(The Son of God) of whom we have much to say, and hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing. For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God; and you have come to need milk and not solid food. For everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe. But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.” – Hebrews 5:11-14.
John Charles Ryle (May 10, 1816 – June 10, 1900) was an evangelical Anglican clergyman and first Bishop of Liverpool. He was renowned for his powerful preaching and extensive tracts. John C. Ryle was a big man, physically, intellectually, scripturally and spiritually. The fact is that Ryle, though very definitely a Victorian of the Victorians, seemed to be able to leave behind him the verbosity and sentimentality of many of his contemporaries so that his writings still speak today, not only to the older generations, but to younger Christians as well.
I thought of all those all over the world who are being told by their governments to stay indoors out of fear of a flu virus. Some countries even threatening to shoot those who disobey the stay at home orders. I reflected on the different state governments here in the United States that are stretching the envelope of an authoritative government undermining the Constitution even further than they have tried before and I started to think of some brothers and sisters who expressed concerns over the possibility of martial law and maybe losing their freedoms to move about freely.
However, the Bible tells us in the Scripture I provided above, that 
Whenever the enemy tries to quench the Gospel and the Word of God, whether that enemy is the world or the devil, himself, God Almighty Who is STILL Sovereign and sitting on the Heavenly Throne, turns it back on that enemy and uses those situations so that He, God Almighty, may be Glorified! That is true liberty in action! We see it throughout the Scriptures, Old and New Testament alike!
Now I started something with the Prophet Jeremiah a couple of months ago before all the panic and fear started gripping people and it has amazed me as I have gone through his writings and Ezekiel’s and Psalms, etc., how so many things happening in our Nation today parallel what went on with the rebellious children of Israel when God had to allow judgement on them for turning their backs on Him.
Some say this is a lack of faith, a weakened Church, but I say it takes an immense amount of faith to wait upon the Lord and His direction. Man ALWAYS wants to jump in and do what He thinks the church should do. That is the sign of religion, NOT a spiritual lifestyle based on the leading of the Holy Spirit.
Because of Jesus Christ and the renewed spirit that we have within, we are now able to commune intimately with our Heavenly Father, which is the reason that Jesus came to earth to fulfill His mission of redemption to begin with. He came to show us the Father and the Way, the ONLY way TO the Father! When we accepted Christ Jesus into our lives, by way of His Holy Spirit, Christ Jesus opened the only Way available to us to have access to the presence of our Heavenly Father, our Creator!
There is another advantage that is so often overlooked. Here John is speaking and teaching about the confidence we have in coming before our Heavenly Father with our petitions. Those things we are asking of Him, the things we feel we are in need of, either for ourselves or for others. But we can expand on that by recognizing that when we have eternal life through Christ Jesus, we can commune with the Father and not just when we need something.
We ARE to look out for one another. We ARE to lovingly care for one another on an eternal stage rather than just a temporary one. True Agape, unconditional, Godly love demands that when you see a TRUE Brother or Sister in trouble, 
Now we have to remember, lest some say there is a contradiction, that the Bible does state, 
As long as the Holy Spirit points out or illuminates certain passages to me, I will share them with my Brothers and Sisters in Christ. I sincerely hope that my Brothers and Sisters study them or at the least read them, as the noble Bereans did with the Apostle Paul and Silas’ teaching. Not to find fault, but to verify that what the Scriptures say, in the light with which they are given, line up with the rest of the Word of God! (
The thing that struck me in these verses as I was reading them was that the psalmist was sharing the joy he experienced with his brothers and sisters. Now remember, we are showing the correlations between God’s Nature with His chosen people under the Old Covenant, and God’s Nature with His chosen/adopted people under the New Covenant. In these verses, 4-5, the psalmist is identifying himself with the Lord’s people as his brothers and sisters.
So far, we have pretty much made the parallel of the natural with the children of Israel, to the spiritual of the Lord’s modern-day children. But I want to start sharing some similarities in the natural to the natural of today. In the past, the Nation of Israel was God’s special possession, His chosen people, again, as a Nation.
Now I want you to think seriously about what I am about to point out. In the last decade (at the least), because of the decline and the apparent wantonness of our political leaders this nation has suffered heavily, in blessing, prosperity and even in health. The American people as a whole have been crying out to God to please, please restore us to our previous glory; please dear Lord, “make America great again!”
“type” of modern-day Moses leading the people to a place of prosperity and blessing; AND, it has been nothing short of miraculous what he has been able to accomplish, because, whether he truly realizes it or not, God has used him to accomplish these historic feats. However, there have been fellow Americans who have been jealous of him since the very beginning and of VP Mike Pence because of his Christian testimony. They have tried time and time again to thwart and sabotage the very things they have been trying to accomplish for the American people. There comes a time, when even God’s longsuffering and patience comes to an end and demands justice.
Lord.”
We were a nation of laws and that included immigration laws. We didn’t prejudice ourselves against different nationalities as long as they were willing to come to this Nation and adopt our values and lifestyles. We embraced and were blessed by the different cultures because they weren’t trying to change us from the inside; but rather they were trying to ADD to the uniqueness and diversity of this once great Nation.
However, under the New Covenant of Christ Jesus, we are individually God’s children whether Jew OR Gentile! We prosper and are blessed according to our intimate relationship with God, the Father, THROUGH Jesus Christ as empowered by the Holy Spirit of Christ that has been given to His children as the promise and seal of our redemption. The Holy Spirit does NOT inhabit a nation as in days of old, but rather inhabits the individual who has surrendered voluntarily to the yoke and Cross of Christ Jesus!
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD 
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