November 26, 2015 O Give thanks by Steve the son of John

O Give Thanks…

Give thanks unto the LORD always for He is good and His mercy endures forever!

Give thanks to the LORD and proclaim his greatness, and let the whole world know what He has done.

Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good and his love endures forever. Yes, give thanks to the LORD, for His loving-kindness is everlasting.

Give thanks to the LORD our God and King. It is He who is above all things and is worthy of our thanks.

I give God thanks for you and for all good things God has created for you! I proclaim the mercies and blessings of God upon…
(say their names). I give God thanks for the plans He has for your life—good plans with mercy and truth. I acknowledge that God created you and offers you salvation and redemption—yes, I thank God for you today and forever!

May the Lord keep you, give you good gifts, and stand in the way of Satan’s plans and motives to hurt you. As the Lord is grateful for you so also am I. May He prosper you in all your do, give you direction for your life and blessings beyond measure. May the Holy Spirit bring to you all the promises of God of health, healing, wholeness, and favor so you can truthfully give thanks to Him who watches over you and forgives you without reservation.

May all who know the Lord say, “I give thanks unto the Lord!”

Give thanks to the Lord always for He is good and His love over me endures forever!

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Resurrection Bus

(An Inspirational Story from Tracy Evans & Kris Vallotton, 2013)

The story I am about to tell you, neither I nor the other eyewitnesses had any confusion about what we had seen. A dead woman came to life again before our eyes. Frankly, it was one of the scariest things I have ever seen.

I was driving back from South Africa to our clinic in Mozambique (I am a nurse/missionary—ministering to babies/families). About an hour before I reached the Mozambican border, a minibus ahead of me suddenly had a tire blowout. The wheel tore apart from the rim, and I watched with sickening horror as the bus, which had been traveling at 100 kilometers per hour, swerved off the road and flipped over again and again.

The bus continued to spin, and I caught glimpses of people being tossed around inside like rag dolls. What felt like an hour of horror actually took only a few seconds.

Right away, we went to work assessing the damage. The scene was gruesome. We counted eighteen victims, a few of whom were still trapped inside the overturned bus and some were even pinned underneath it.

My first priority was the two women I had seen go air-borne through the windshield. I was shocked to see that the bundles in their arms were babies, and even more shocked that the infants were both still alive and unharmed.

After landing on their heads, the women were flipped onto their backs and sprawled out on the rocks. Somehow one was still alive, but just barely. The other had not survived. Her neck was clearly broken, and her head had twisted almost completely around so that her face was lying on the ground in a large pool of blood. Her temporal skull was indented, her right eye had popped out of its socket hanging by the optic nerve, she had no pulse or respiration—she was dead. I covered her head with a shirt lying nearby.

“Everyone, listen!” I yelled. “Start praying for these people. I want you to pray out loud over and over again, ‘God heal and preserve life here today, in Jesus name.’ Every time I look at you, I want to see your lips moving!”

While tending to a victim twenty or thirty feet from the dead woman, I heard an Afrikaans lady yell to me, “Sister, come back over here and help this lady!”

“She’s already dead,” I yelled back. But she insisted, “Come, she’s breathing again!”

What I saw was nothing less than terrifying. With the shirt still covering her head, the dead woman first sat up, and then rotated her head around to face forward again.

We all began to scream. A few of the helpers took off running, and I heard their cars peeling-out a few seconds later. I was scared witless, yet removed the blooded shirt from her head and jumped back. Though her face was still covered with blood, her eye was miraculously back in its socket and her head was no long misshapen. She coughed up some blood, sat it out, and then began to look around and call out for her baby. She was alive!

As I drove away, I marveled at what I had witnessed—I marvel to this day. I have prayed for many dead to rise to life, and to date it has not happened. The one time I did not pray, a dead woman came back to life.

I was in a medical mode, not supernatural mode that day. Yet, the Lord had mercy on us all and surpassed our wildest expectations, as He so brilliantly does. What a mighty God we serve! (Taken from the book, Outrageous Courage, by Chosen Books)

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Cancer Free

(An Inspirational Story written by Linda Granillo, October 13, 2015)

This is a testimony of God’s healing strength and love. It is written to give God the Glory and Honor due his name for showing Himself strong and using God’s people at the Pasadena Healing Rooms.

Pasadena, California is my hometown. On May 14, 2015 doctors told they had finally found what was wrong with me—why I had been so sick. I had been misdiagnosed for sometime, and unfortunate for me what they finally discovered was Stage Four Uterine Cancer.

The doctors did not want to treat me at all (guess they didn’t see the point) till I mentioned how they misdiagnosed me. I insisted that I needed treatment! After six months with 6 rounds of Chemo-treatments, my cancer levels came down from 1130.76 to 25!

My Oncologist told me that he was “utterly amazed because levels like that don’t happen when they come in at the last stage, and with such high numbers of the cancer gene.” He also stated that, if he could, he would pronounce me “cancer free, but could not.” (He stated that that 25 is a Normal Read for someone with NO cancer.)

The Healing Rooms Ministry personnel have constantly prayed for me since day one and have been a source of inspiration and help to my family and me. I thank God for this ministry, and the unity and humility of His people that ties us all to Him ‘to believe’ in a healing God.

After the very first session of prayer, I knew God had touched me through his people. I know doctors have a job to do, but I also know the God of Miracles wants to show His strength to heal also. Glory to God!

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A Re-Success Story

(An Inspirational story from Prison Fellowship written by Zoe Erler, October 26, 2015)

Years of lies and misdirected ambition finally caught up to Daniel Bull in 2011 when he went to prison. But prison is where he realized his life purpose—inspiring the formerly incarcerated to be entrepreneurs.

“I was making and negotiating deals in the venture capital world for millions of dollars. I was however spending more than I made to keep an image that competed with my clients,” he explains. “I became desperate and began breaking moral laws to close deals.”

He ultimately ended up stealing from several close friends, including his business partner, and, at 28 years of age, found himself in prison, bankrupt, and divorced.

“Prison unplugged me,” he says. “It ripped everything that I hadn’t already destroyed to pieces.”

But it was there, that he found hope—or rather that Hope pursued him.

“In the complete loneliness I finally heard Him. I had peace. It was bizarre. Everything was finally gone and yet I wasn’t dead. I was here and time moved on and that realization that God was walking me through it made me feel valuable—valuable in Christ. I rededicated my life to Him and made a decision to put the energy I once used for myself into giving hope to those I saw everyday within prison.”

Released in 2013, Bull began seeking out the people he had hurt—his friends, his colleagues, and his ex-wife. Over and over, he was granted second chances, including from his ex-wife who forgave him and later agreed to remarry him.

And perhaps equally as remarkably, his business partner not only forgave him, but agreed to help him start Zero Six Eight—a business incubator to inspire and equip former prisoners as entrepreneurs.

“My prison number was 33061068,” Bull explains. “Those last three represent anyone from the third district of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh) … It is a number that tells everyone we are local and understand deeply the culture and secrets of the prison world.”

Businesses that ex-prisoners have started under Zero Six Eight include those in the spheres of medical technology, solar energy, composting, e-commerce, and construction.

One of the most successful efforts launched by Zero Six Eight is WorkPittsburgh, a prefab construction company that currently trains and employs 11 ex-prisoners to build homes for those who need affordable housing. The homes are also provided as a perk for those who have worked for the company for at least two years. This past month, the company was recognized through a Goodwill Power of Work Award.

Today, Bull sees how God has taken his self-centered ambition and transformed it into a vehicle to bless and promote others. Over the next several years, Bull hopes to scale the business model to cities like Auburn, New York, and Philadelphia.

“I would be honored if God grants me the opportunity to pursue this work throughout my life here,” he says.

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October 25, 2015 WWJWMTD by Steve the son of John

Miracles, Healings and Justice (the conclusion)

Why did God let 9-11 happen? I was praying for my friend’s healing, and he died—Why? If God is all-powerful, why doesn’t He take sickness out of this world? If Jesus really did die for me and took away sin and sickness, why is there so much pain and suffering today?

I had a person ask me after 9-11, “Where was God on that day?” My response was, “What were you doing that day?” We often want God to fix all the problems in today’s society, as well as, our personal troubles. We want God to fix them—period. But, we often take no responsibility in the problem or the solution.

Of course, God knew what was about to happen on 9-11, and I am sure He wanted a life-saving solution. But, man in all his pride, arrogance, and unwillingness to have God make the decisions, deters God from ever acting in and responding to evil around us.

Does God allow sickness and evil to happen each and everyday since Christ’s death—you bet! Does God condone sin and evil—absolutely not! Is there an answer to all the sickness and sin in the world—yes! Jesus made a final and definitive way for all of this to be addressed: “He forgave all our sins and healed all our diseases.”

Got sin, yes. Got sickness, yes. Is there a way for deliverance from these ills—only through the acknowledgement of Jesus Christ as Lord.

Evil brought about sin and sickness into this world and only the truths that come from God can remedy this problem. When God gives us the abilities and knowledge to resolve the consequences of sin or the healing of sickness, we ought to take notice. When the answer to these issues is for ‘direct intervention of God’ then we ought to respond to what God wants us to do. We need to be an active participant through faith, wisdom and justice.

We will always have sin and sickness until God creates a new heaven and earth. He will at that time take away all our tears and no longer will there be sickness. Until then, the evil-one will only continue doing his work and creating tragedy and sorrow in the earth. Our fight is with the devil, not God, and how we confront what evil Satan has created is our task on this earth.

I choose to pray (exercise faith, wisdom, and justice) as if everything depends on God, and then work (do everything and anything possible) as if it depends on me. I will show you my faith and love by my works, but my works will not, and never will, produce a faith that makes all things possible.

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October 23, 2015 WWJWMTD by Steve the son of John

Miracles, Healings and Justice (part 3)

We all want justice at some level in our lives each week. Without justice there is no freedom or liberty. God is the author of justice that is pure, honorable, and appropriate. Justice demands mercy but evil has to be rewarded also—Proverbs is very clear about this.

Justice is a two edged sword because is brings goodness and judgment at the same time. For justice to work in one’s life requires wisdom. So let’s define some issues/terms before we discover how to exercise justice in our day-to-day activities.

1. Faith is a precursor for justice. Faith has been over simplified and misinterpreted often within the Body of Christ. Most of us think that faith has to do with believing, trust, hope or positive confession—there are connections to these attributes, but faith is not what these qualities produce. Faith is—“Your response to the will of God, His purposes and action plans, for His Glory alone” Every time you respond positively to something God is doing or wants you to do, He calls you a person of faith. We see this in every Bible verse about faith and countless Biblical stories or illustrations. (See notes below on ‘response’)

2. When we respond to what God wants or is doing—we make a conscious decision to ‘sign-on’ to God’s plan and do what He is asking of us—He then calls us people of faith. Without you exercising faith, that is to say, without responding to God, you cannot please Him. You must decide to act when He speaks to you.

3. Wisdom, either the gift or the attribute, identifies what the will of God is for us in a particular situation (or the confrontation of evil) and defines the steps you must take. Some people think wisdom is the creative aspect of God—this is not the case, but wisdom does bring us to God at various strategic moments and creative things can and then do happen. Proverbs and many other books of the Bible define wisdom as the means to identify evil. When we know what evil is, then we know how to issue a ‘Jesus response’ to the evil that is confronting us. Wisdom helps us in finding, knowing, and responding to the will (requests) of God in a positive and concrete way.

4. Justice is your personal commitment to fixing things gone wrong. That is why wisdom, and therefore justice, must be pure, honorable, kind, gentle, patient and against all evil. Things or situations that are outside of God’s will and require you to take a stance, you must respond with justice. These are the times when God wants to you be like Him when confronting evil, i.e. how to exercise His justice.

Let me tell you a story about justice and how is works in creating healing. When dispelling sickness (which is contrary to God’s perfect will), God wants us to deal with illness by responding by faith, using wisdom and exercising justice.

Remember the story of the unjust judge. Jesus said this is an example of ‘justice gone bad’ and how it is corrected. The woman comes to the judge and wants justice, but the judge does not care. Nevertheless, the judge does not want to be bothered by the woman so he grants her request. Well, this is exactly what God wants from us.

I heard about a friend that was becoming more and more sick. I began to ask God for justice/mercy. I told God it is not right for a person who is a Christian and in the ministry, though he had made poor decisions early in his life, to end up dying a tragic death. (My friend was AIDS/HIV positive and had this condition for years.) God asked me to pray for him. I told God I did not have faith for such a miracle nor have I ever seen anyone healed of AIDS. God would not let me ‘off the hook’, and God impressed upon me to fast and pray for him. After 3 weeks the burden to fast and pray was lifted, so I stopped. I saw that person a few weeks later and God had done an unusual selective healing in his body.

The only attribute that I used was perseverance (this is one of the Fruits of the Spirit). I did not give up till God said it was over. What I did was respond to a request from God—I exercised faith, demanded justice and operated in wisdom knowing that God wanted to remedy this situation/illness.

God was waiting for me to respond to Him (faith), to realize what God’s will was in this situation (this process what God was asking me to use is wisdom), and then to demand justice through exercising a Fruit of the Spirit. (Any one of the nine Fruits of the Spirit would have brought the same result.) This is the wisdom of God and my part was responding with justice through faith.

I reacted to God’s request for my friend, caring for him by seeing God’s will for him, and using determination to see it through—by faith, having wisdom, & initiated justice.

Notes on ‘response’: God is interested in your response—is it honest, pure; what are your reasons and motives; and to what depth are you going to respond to Him? There are people who respond to God out of selfish desires or trying to manipulate God. They are neither honest nor sincere—God knows this from the beginning. The extent of your response (are you all in or holding anything back) and the sincerity of your response (why are you responding and for what motive) are critical. Throughout Scriptures there are stories and illustrations of different people’s character and to what extent they responded to the will of God. God is always asking, “How far will you go?” Self-doubt, confusion, fear, love of sin, desire to put on a show of self-righteousness, not wanting to make a commitment, afraid of what others will say, inability to love, and there are so many other factors that inhibit us from responding to God’s requests, purposes and action plans. The better you respond to what God is asking of you the greater your faith is according to Scripture—are you in or are you holding anything back from God—this is the measure of your faith in action.

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October 21, 2015 WWJWMTD by Steve the son of John

Miracles, Healings and Justice (part 2)

I am convinced that God’s love is so great; He gives miracles, healings and justice to us because of His love. If you are like me, you would like to see more of these ‘acts of love’ in your life. I often wonder why God heals one person and yet another person dies of their illness. I don’t understand; it just doesn’t seem fair to me. We all need God’s help and we need His healing touch often. I want the manifestation of ‘the fruit in believing and trusting Him’ at every level of my life and especially when it comes to sicknesses. Is it God, is it me, or are there concrete reasons for receiving, or not receiving, healing?

This is what we do know:

· Everyone eventually dies of something, and sometimes it is an illness.

· The Bible says Christ’s death was for not only for my sin but also for my healing.

· There are numerous Biblical promises for good health and healing.

· There are and have been recorded examples of God healing people—too many to number and healings have been constant throughout history.

· The Bible states cases where people were healed and others were not healed.

· Also, Jesus says healings and forgiveness go hand-in-hand—they are somehow connected.

· The Old Testament affirms that God brings healing as well as sickness.

I have a good friend, Dave, who is over the International Healing Rooms of Pasadena. He was an educator for years and became involved in healing because he received a healing. He sees healings on a weekly basis from all types of sicknesses and under all types of circumstances. No two healings are the same and there is no ‘magic bullet’ for each person to be healed. He can talk for hours about God’s healings and what people went through to obtained their healing.

However, there are some practical considerations all of us ought to be aware of:

· The Bible talks of ‘Gifts of Healing’. What this means is that certain gifts work for certain healings. (It is the only gift in the Bible that is plural.)

· The more people praying for healing, it seems the more effective is their prayers—there is something significant in unity and numbers for healings.

· People who were healed by Jesus often had others that did outrageous things for them to get healed—do not be afraid of the drama of being healed.

· Thankfulness and gratitude does play a part in healing—God wants us to be gracious.

· Healing is always manifested with some degree of authority or expectation. Only with the use of authority (yours or others) did healing take place in some individual’s lives.

· Not only does prayers of faith and forgiveness bring healing but also people anointing those who are sick with oil and the ‘laying on of hands’ (or touching the person) did the individual become healed.

· Sometimes a person was not present when others prayed for their healing but there was a ‘point of contact,’ something that triggered a person’s healing.

· Just as genes play a roll in whom we are and in our over all health, our family history also plays a roll in our forgiveness and healing. Healings may not just be about you but others in your ‘family tree’.

· Do not give up, God comes to those who ‘wait for Him’ and healings sometime take time.

· Get into the Presence of God (feel it)—where the Presence of God is there is freedom, and often healings begin to appear where His Presence is the greatest.

· There have been people who were praying for others to be healed of a similar sickness they had, and God healed them without them asking for a healing.

· Do not just look for a healing, but look to Jesus Christ. It is because of the person of Christ that healings exists—be in love with Him not the healing.

· Do not concern yourself with having enough trust or faith for a healing. Many people in the Bible came to Christ without faith and were healed. Allow the person or persons pray in faith; you just need to be the recipient.

· “By His Strips you are healed.” Jesus paid for your forgiveness and healing—there is nothing you can do to earn your healing.

· Whatever you do, remember God acts in mysterious ways and who knows under what circumstances God will give you healing—leave all options on the table.

God offers a lot of Biblical stories when it comes to healings. Jesus went about healing all who came to Him. If I were seeking a healing I would be seeking Jesus first. You should not divorce the person of Christ from His acts of love and healing. To me, healing is a personal thing. God wants to heal and we should make it intimate and with feeling when we come to Him for healing. Remember healing can be just as easy as finding forgives Jesus said.

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October 19, 2015 WWJWMTD by Steve the son of John

Miracles, Healings and Justice (part 1)

I have often asked for a miracle, a healing, or for God to grant me justice—I did not always receive them. In fact, I depend mostly on others for their prayers rather than my prayers in receiving those spectacular events in my life. I wish miracles would happen on a regular basis in my day-by-day activities—don’t we all!

However, I must admit that when a spectacular event happens in my life I often did not pray an elaborate pray or think things through, but I just made a desperate statement, which God heard and answered quickly. I just can’t figure God out at times.

Nevertheless, if you like and need miracles in your life, you might want to consider the story in I Kings chapter 4.

In this story a widow woman and her son, living in Sidon outside of Israel proper, are making plans to die. Their food source is gone because of the drought and famine; are without hope, faith, or a confession of trusting God. Yet God sends Elijah to her; not to the religious, faithful, or God’s chosen people within Israel. (It is important to note that Elijah is not sent to anyone in Israel—to none of God’s believing people.) The woman tells Elijah that she is preparing a fire in order to make a small meal for her and her son and then will eat, lie down, and die of starvation.

What makes this story important is not that she had faith—she did not have any. It is not a story of hope or trust—she is not hoping for a miracle nor pronouncing a positive confession. But rather she was willing to show some kindness and share what little food she had with a stranger. She divided the remaining food with Elijah. She did something no one else would do in all Israel—to share, give, and sacrifice with someone she did not know. She offers kindness, nothing more & nothing less.

You know why God sent Elijah to her and not to anyone else who were crying out to God not to die, to have mercy and assistance, because no one in Israel would have shared or given. Everyone else was only looking out for himself or herself. God let them die of starvation. You want a miracle—you must be willing to share, to give, to sacrifice what little you have with someone else. God is asking, “What is your motive?”

Need a miracle? Where is your heart? Why are you seeking the miraculous? What’s the motive: to be seen, to have enough for you and not others, to make yourself important? Do you think you deserve the miracle? Are you seeking a miracle by expressing faith or a positive confession, i.e. are you trying to manipulate God? I can tell you that God looks at your heart and behavior, not what you confess when it comes to miracles. It is time for Christians to become Samaritans—undeserving, unworthy, unselfish—in short, to be humble, not willing to be noticed, and unafraid to experience the unknown. We must be convinced that ‘our rationale and personal status’ will not produce anything God is interested in, nor will it bring miracles into our lives.

I want God to grant me a miracle not because or me nor because I deserve one. It is God’s compassion and wisdom that a miracle may become an option for me—not solely for me but for others that surround me. I want to be obedient and sincere so the Glory of God can be manifested through a miracle. Faith cannot bring this to me. God’s wisdom that executes justice brings the miraculous to me…when I have compassion He has compassion on me.

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October 16, 2015 WWJWMTD by Steve the son of John

Worry vs. Anyhow

Corrie ten Boom said, “Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.” In America our lifestyles, recent technologies and the media drain our ability to be positive. What we thought would help us in having a productive way of living has only gotten worse over time. Today, we worry about everything. Worry takes away our peace and decision making ability. Jesus explained that worry is a sin by stating that ‘worry inhibits one’s ability to work within the present and brings evil’s influence on one’s actions’. Here’s what we often worry about:

· Will I be able to pay my bills?

· What new laws will affect my income?

· I have no time for…

· How do I look?

· Why do I feel like that?

· What will the neighbors or family say?

· My health is not doing well.

· I look old and tired.

· I need a new set of tires on my car.

· My sin—I just can’t get a handle on that.

· What does God want from me today?

· My kids just do not behave.

· The government is corrupt and people are crazy.

· What doesn’t anyone listen to me?

· My reputation will be ruined.

· Is the weather going to be good today?

· What day is it? Is there enough time?

· Why can’t I sleep? Why can’t I eat?

· You say what? I can’t do that!

· I just can’t take it anymore—it is stressing me out!

To worry, to fret, to be anxious, concerned, disturbed, uneasy, to make oneself apprehensive, filled with trepidation, to gnaw at or be perturbed; instead of being calm, at peace or reassured.

If there is any one-thing Christians need is to do in today’s hectic life-styles is ‘to divorce one-self from worry’—just let it go! Every time you feel concerned or anxious, stop yourself. Tell yourself ‘not today’! Today is in God’s hands. He knows all about the situation, and I will be able to do only what I can do. It is God alone who changes things and my hope is in Him.

I like what Australians say when they cannot get something done today, “Anyhow.” What we cannot do today, we will just do it tomorrow. There is ample amount of evil done each day; we do not need to be bothered by it nor carry it into tomorrow.

I have gotten better with each time a thought comes to me to worry about a situation, person or activity, I immediately stop the thought. I merely decide and tell myself, “This is what I can do and what I cannot do.” I will not concern myself with things I have no control over, such as people, events or the future. I guess I just leave all that to God. Anyhow it is not up to me—God asks me to do my best and do the right thing. This is my outlook on life—not to worry in order to have strength today.

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