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Do You Believe?

March 31, 2011 by Bill Leave a Comment

Given October 2010

Believing is a critical part of the successful Christian life. We’ve all said at one time or another, “I can’t believe it!” But we really CAN believe something if we hear it enough and see evidence of it. If you are saved, you, “..believed in your heart..”, (Romans 10:9), and were saved. Believing and not doubting are mentioned by Jesus frequently, “Jesus said to him, if you can believe, all things are possible to him that believes.” (Mark 9:23). And, “Jesus said to the ruler of the synagogue, “Do not fear, only believe.” (Mark 5:36). But believing for the promises of God in our daily lives is hard and many times we say as the boy’s father said, “I do believe, Lord: help my unbelief.” (Mark 9:24). But you know, we actually believe more than we think we do; consider this:

I believe that God said, “Let there be light, and light was.”
I believe God created the earth in six days.
I believe that Abraham had a son when he was a hundred years old.
I believe the Israelites walked across the Red Sea on dry land.
I believe Noah built an ark when it had never rained because God said to.
I believe Joseph went from a bragging teenager to second in command in Egypt.
I believe teenager David killed a 9’ tall giant while the soldiers trembled in the trenches.
I believe three Hebrew boys stood in a furnace and came out alive with not even the smell of smoke.
I believe Daniel spent a night with hungry lions and came out without a scratch.
I believe Lazarus came to life after being dead four days.
I believe two fishes and five loaves turned into lunch for thousands.
I believe water was turned into expensive wine at a wedding party.
I believe Peter walked out of a locked prison and walked on water.
I believe a man jumped up for the first time in his life at the Gate called Beautiful.
I believe Paul and Silas were freed from prison chains by an earthquake.
I believe Jesus was born of a virgin, died on a cross, and came back to life for me and you.
I believe now that demons tremble and run from the Name of Jesus.

So you see…we DO believe many unbelievable things already. So what’s keeping us from believing our needs will be met today. “For nothing is impossible with God.” (Luke 1:37). And when we really believe something good, we get excited. Are you excited? Do you believe?

Re-Revelation – I Can Do It Myself

March 29, 2011 by Bill 1 Comment

Occasionally, I go back and read some of the posts I did in the past and am encouraged by them again. Since I have a few new readers, I have begun reposting some of the old revelations. I hope you are encouraged and inspired as well.

Given November 22, 2005
My three year-old granddaughter was putting on her coat before leaving and I went to fasten the buttons for her. She pulled away and exclaimed, “No, Pawpaw. I can do it myself!” I was frustrated because I knew she’d have a very difficult time with it but I let her go ahead and try. After a couple of unsuccessful attempts, she said, “Pawpaw, can you help me?”

I realized today that I am just like that with God sometime. He has a plan for me, provided a way for me to be successful at it, and wants to help me do it. But, many times, I say, “No, I’ll do it myself!” Then when I make a mess of things or can’t get it done, I’ll go to Him and ask for His help. When am I, and you too, going to learn to let go of that silly pride and let God do what He wants to do with us? By faith, it’s gonna be soon! I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. Phillipians 4:13

To Be Fixed, You Must Be Broken

March 15, 2011 by Bill 1 Comment

Given July 2002

During prayer this morning, I was reminded of a vision I received in 2002 which I wrote about then. I’d like to expand on that vision today.

Some of us were going to church early on Sunday evenings to pray and I was walking around in the prayer room praying. I was thanking God for my status in life; for my education, training, job, and the things I’d accomplished. I was pretty proud of what I’d done and was thanking God for His part in my life. I was feeling pretty good. God replies, “Yes, you’ve done pretty well for yourself but that’s not exactly the way I would have done it.” God’s response hit me hard and I realized I had spent most of my efforts on education, employment goals, home building, and other tasks that define what the world sees as success. I immeditely dropped to my knees before God and repented saying,”Father, I’m sorry for building my life the way I thought it should be. I now fully surrender to you and ask you to break me and re-make me the way you intended even before I was born.” “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you,before you were born I set you apart; ” (Jeremiah 1:5).

When I asked to be broken before God, in my spirit I saw myself being instantly zapped into a pile of grey/brown dust. God was standing beside the pile with a bottle of oil. He pours the oil onto the pile of dust and begins forming and shaping the dust into His image. That’s the way He wants to do it. “The sacrifice you desire is a broken spirit. You will not reject a broken and repentant heart, O God.” (Psalms 51:17). The vision really made an impact on me and I was reminded of this again this morning. We may feel like we’ve done pretty good for ourselves OR we may have made a mess of our lives. Either way, we need to give ourselves to God, submit to Him or re-submit, and let ourselves be broken down to dust so God can rebuild us and fix us into the image He has for us and has had from the beginning. Do you want to be fixed? Well, you’ve got to allow yourself to be totally dismantled, broken apart, and re-assembled into something brand new.

You Can Be What You Say

March 12, 2011 by Bill Leave a Comment

Given March 2011

“For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.” (Hebrews 4:12). The Word of God. In my church, we’ve been reading God’s Word together since January and the more of the Word we know and have in our spirits, the more effective we’ll be as Christians. You can actually tell how much Word is in the hearts of people by listening to them talk. “The good person out of the good treasure of his heart produces good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure produces evil, for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.” (Luke 6:45). Pay attention to what others say and listen to the words that come out of YOUR mouth.

In Acts 20-24 this week, the apostle Paul had traveled all over his world preaching the Good News of Jesus and faced opposition everywhere he went from the Jewish leaders who said he was preaching heresy. Yet he continued. The Word of God, the story of Jesus, was important to him. It should be important to us as well. There is power in the words of God. “The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit.” (Proverbs18:21). Jesus only spoke the words He heard the Father speak and encouraged His followers, (and us), to do the same. Are we speaking life or death? How can we know what to speak in a tight situation unless the words are already in our hearts? Most of the time, we won’t have time to go look up the answer. This is one of the reasons we are encouraging our church to read their chapters daily.

Have you heard people say, “I’m taking a cold.”, “I’ll never get over this.”, “This problem is going to kill me.” Or “I missed it and may as well give up.”? Those are all defeatist words and need to be changed to words that match God’s Word. We can REMARK about our situation or we can REMAKE it by the words we choose. Select your words carefully and get into your Bible to see what you’re supposed to say. Jesus beat the devil by saying, “IT IS WRITTEN…”, we can too.

Re-Revelation, The Seed

March 4, 2011 by Bill Leave a Comment

Occasionally I go back to read some of my older blog posts and am encouraged by them once again. This morning I woke up with the idea of planting seeds on my mind and when I went back to March 2006 on Revelations From The Road, the first post of that month was about seeds. I think that’s a re-revelation. So here is the post from March 17, 2006: https://roadrevelations.org/?p=71.

Have you planted any seeds lately? If this post has been helpful or encouraging to you, please leave a comment or click “Like” below.

Archives for March 2011

Do You Believe?

Re-Revelation – I Can Do It Myself

To Be Fixed, You Must Be Broken

You Can Be What You Say

Re-Revelation, The Seed

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