WE ACTUALLY HAD A GOOD ACTUAL SUNRISE MEETING. We haven’t been to one
in years, since we left  congregating with all the  guys  at the
Holiness Church, like 13 years ago???
Anyway it was .so early (duh sunrise which begins 4 something  and
maxes out around 6:10 (a and therefore it is currently contrary to be
honest physical sleep needs, but anyway, that sounds really really
stupid  when you meditate on what the Lord did for us…..)
Anyway because it was so early  people started gathering at
4am.. (still really dark, but  these guys have the types of positions
at the farm that they go in later or work less hours, like Mario’s Dad
who was  promoted to a foreman before he left, or the guy who  watches
the gate all night  or day)……………….
And that song  you sent” He’s Alive) had really touched us and  brought
up this awesome rhema word that had to do  with “HE IS ALIVE….” It
was short so the workers could get on the bus on time  but it was
great. So as Frank went round praying for people where they stood, the
men  each stepped forward and  said they wanted to thank  us  for
helping them  with food , medication, an address, whatever. Two said
they were sorry they hadn’t come before but that they had been very
thankful for the food and things that  we give their families thru
their wives of children. One guy thanked us so much for the water.
THEY  seemed happy finally to have  a moment to  be grateful, to step
foreword and  say thank you. And all the little children we see daily
saw their fathers saying thank you and in little voices  were saying
Thank You Yahweh! Thank you Yahweh……………
It was  a special sweet peaceful day altogether.
Then of course you heard about the spider attack that  made me Text
you guys for prayer THIS morning.That was truly a miracle. It hurt SO
BAD and then fFrank uncovered a nest like spot in the boxsprings and
they were tiny  little spiders. But it felt JUST like that  last bite
Received , like  a fiery  wire plunged into your flesh. really bad. WE
prayed right away and got victory no doubt but then I started feeling
numbness and chest pains and I almost  freaked out, and the fire-like
pain was still there. So I texted Pamela. And as soon as I got done
praying again the double minded crap came up and I started thing maybe
its a stroke or heart attack all this mortal fear.  And the Lord
rebuked me. He wasn’t condemning or angry but He literally  said “come
one, you need to remember all you have   made it thru and u need to
use  your faith….” and the fear melted away. And I used my faith and
HAVE NOT HAD TO SEEK OUT A DOCTOR AND FEEL 100 PERCENT GOOD. I did
however   use my  relationship with the Lord and  ask for some
prayer and it worked. and I am so grateful.

Love to you and blessings, He is indeed ALIVE.

sd

The following is a portion of Good News For Mortal Man by James E. Leuschan

Faith a response to God’s revelation.

How are we to understand this? Think of two people just in the process of becoming genuine friends. What happens when one party takes the first risk and share something intimate?
There is an intrinsic law of relationship that says once a person reveals something of their own inner life to you, you’re no longer free to act with indifference. To do so is to reject the relationship.
God is revealed himself to us in Jesus Christ. We are no longer free to pretend we cannot know him. To be indifferent to Jesus Christ is to reject relationship with God.

It seems hard to believe, but God longs for relationship with us. He insist upon just one condition; that relationship must be with him as he really is. We’re not free to conjure up an image of him. We’re not at liberty to plan our own picture of his character, the way he works, or how he thinks about us. All this he already revealed in Jesus Christ. God is bared his heart to us in Jesus. To be indifferent damnedest to reject the heart of God, to despise the very possibility of relationship.

Real faith belongs only here, with God’s own self-disclosure in Christ. Moslems pray to the one God of heaven, yet they have no genuine relationship with God, because they misconstrue Jesus Christ. Believing in monotheism itself is not enough. We can affirm just one true God over all creation and still never contact the living and the true God. Nobody ever relates rightly to God and less from the heart they first acknowledge who He is.

Think again of a friend or idea of having a friend. As everyone knows, real relationship is impossible without trust. Any relationship we have to have some idea of the nature or the character of the other person for it to really work. Even so, with God, relationship is impossible without trust, or faith.

So if we want a relationship with God the creator faith is indispensable. Faith is the one word that best describes the created human being in a personal response of surrender and loving trust to his creator. It means we take him at his word. Since we are incapable on our own of discovering what God is like, this faith rests entirely on the creators disclosure of himself to the creative one. Whatever information God chooses to declare about himself, whatever way he chooses to relate, this must form the entire basis of the relationship.

God has told us who He is and He wants us to believe it. He disclosed himself to us in the person of Jesus. Christ revealed God to humanity. Through him all of God’s fullness is made known to us in a bodily form. Since God’s disclosure of Himself must form the basis of our relationship, faith in Christ becomes indispensable requirement.

So I face is our righteousness. Whatever meets the basic requirement of the ongoing relationship constitutes righteousness. This is by the very definition of the Old Testament word for righteousness. To be righteous is to be in right relationship, I.e. To fulfill the demands of the relationship. And faith meets the demands.

Concerning Abraham. God made himself known to him, he simply took God at his word. Abraham laid hold of God by faith when he believe what

God said to him. That was all got asked. Having done so, He had fulfilled the demands for right relationship, and was counted for him righteousness.

Like Abraham, your faith is your righteousness. You are righteous when you simply believe from the heart what God disclosed to them about himself when he bared his own heart in Jesus Christ. God revealed Himself in Jesus because he intended relationship of man. God made Jesus Lord of heaven and earth so that when I believe in Him I fulfill his only condition for right relationship.

Romans 10:8 But what does it say? “THE WORD IS NEAR YOU, in your mouth and in your heart” — that is, the word of faith which we are preaching,
9 that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved;
10 for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation.
11 For the Scripture says, “WHOEVER BELIEVES IN HIM WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED.”
12 ¶ For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, abounding in riches for all who call on Him;
13 for “WHOEVER WILL CALL ON THE NAME OF THE LORD WILL BE SAVED.”