David's Testimony...

Dear Blog,
remember David, my son, who was given just 4 hrs more to live when he was 10 days old 'cos of multiple organ failure? Well, he would like to share something with you now...23 years later.

   " It started 7 years ago, when I was in 12th std and had just joined Animation classes. I guess it was the long hours of sitting in front of the computer that started the migraine headaches, but it went on for quite sometime, even after I completed the course.
     Days went by... weeks, and months turned into years, and still the headache. Bright light always triggered it off and I couldnt find any healing for it. The pain was getting worse but the ophthalmologist couldn't find anything wrong, so they referred me to a neurologist. The pills he prescribed could have turned me blind as it shouldn't have been recommended for glaucoma - thank God we found out in time and stopped them! I decided to just trust the Lord to heal me.
        On some days (and it may be daily) the pain would be so bad I had to rest for hours with my eyes closed (even in the office) till the pain left. There were days when I would pray, wondering when my healing would come and I was comforted by a passage in the Bible where Daniel prayed to God for a long time, but didn't get any answer. Then Michael, an angel of the Lord,  came to Daniel and told him that he had to fight the Prince of Persia (the ruling spirit of the land) and the persistent prayers of Daniel was the only thing that helped Michael defeat the enemy.
        I held on to that and continued to pray and praise God for my healing that flows from the Throne Room of Grace. Day after day I prayed, believing that I was healed by faith. Until one day, a small still voice told me to start listening to Gospel music and I did. I repeated the songs over and over and I felt such peace; I knew I was healed.
   I realised that I could walk in to sudden bright sunshine and not get a headache. Its been 2 months now. Praise the Lord for healing me."
                                                                                          David M.S.

   Blog, isn't He wonderful? David's life itself is a wonderful account of God's faithfulness....and that's a story for another time.
         

Spirituality and Natural calamities.

Dear Blog,
   A post on FB ( http://www.americaneedsfatima.org/Articles/elephants-attack-in-orissa.html) and the subsequent comments got me thinking.

   The most basic fact we cannot ignore here is : Man's attempts at connecting  with spirits (simply summed up as spirituality) will ultimately have an effect on the Natural realm.We cannot disconnect the two.

   So, what do we do with this fact? .
Lets go back in history a bit first, Blog. To say that God loved Mankind so much He sent His son to die for us, then to turn around and accuse Him of causing deaths through natural calamities, is illogical. Where is the loving God we want to connect with?
So, here is what I have found: Since Jesus came to defeat the work of Darkness, there is a force we have to be aware of which will is not working in our favour, and Jesus is obviously not the force of Darkness.

 Jesus defeated Death through His resurrection - so what, you ask? What has that got to do with us, or better still, how will that help us?
   It cant actually, that fact is completely useless to all human being who are headed for death anyway. UNLESS - yes, unless, we tap into Jesus's sacrifice, and make His victory, our victory. To tap into all that He fought to get for us - healing, peace, prosperity, success, joy...in short, a life in abundance. Blog, have you seen the movie, The Passion? You'll get a glimpse...

So where does that connect to Natural calamities, you ask. Hmm, good question.
See, when you have tapped into all that Jesus fought for you to have, He calls you, the SALT of the earth...salt adds taste, salt brings healing, and salt helps preserve..Yes, I know that many of us who claim to belong to Him are pretty tasteless, and that puts off others...a pretty sad state of affairs. And where we should be praying for and bringing in His healing...well, thats a point of further discussion, Blog.

But - and this is the most exciting part - salt preserves! Wherever, we are, we are a kind of preservative, pockets of safety, our presence creates an umbrella for His grace to come through, a reason for our neighbours to prosper and keep the peace. When we are removed from the picture, the region is exposed, vulnerable to the forces of Darkness...and so we have terrible calamities happening. Darkness had been defeated by the work of the cross, but, he still rules this earth (through Adam),and will continue to do so, till Jesus returns...

So Blog, Jesus does not create calamities...