Monday, January 31, 2011

Monday Monday Monday Monday-----

Here we go again, another week.
God was really good this past weekend. Seth Barber came and spoke at the Saturday night meeting, bringing a word that was much needed. Look for his message latter on this week in the pod cast section of this blog.

This last week was a present for me.
There were several former clients who came by to see me....to sit and talk and catch up on what has been going on in their lives. Good stories......God stories.
Stories of marriages that were saved.
Children who got their fathers back from addiction.
Stories of God speaking and these men following.
Each man who came by was very humble and knew that what had happened to them was because of a power greater than themselves that had restored them to sanity. That power being the Lord Jesus Christ. Notice that I didn't write that the power belonged to, but rather the power was found in a person, Jesus Christ. He is the all in all, the one who can not just move events and circumstances that happen to us daily, but brings to the individual change within. Change of nature. Change of character. Change of heart and spirit. To him alone belongs praise and glory and power and authority.

Luke 1:78-79 - because of the tender mercy of our God by which the rising sun will come to us from heaven to shine on those living in  darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the path of peace.
To me this verse pretty much sums up what happens at Rapha. We point those in addiction to the only one who can truly not just deliver someone from the ravages that addiction brings, but deliver them into a life of peace and right thinking. Deliver them into a relationship with God.  I have seen the power of God change a life. I have seen what God can do when everyone else has given up and deserted a man who is an alcoholic or a drug addict. I have seen the mercy and peace and love of God fall in a room and shatter hearts as hard a stone and as dead as Lazarus. I have heard the cries and sobs of these hearts when they receive this wonderful gift of new life. Cries of gratitude and thankfulness . What an awesome God we serve....and you know what.......
I need him as much as the worse alcoholic or the biggest drug addict...
Praise God! He is still in the saving business.

God on you.....
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