GREENE STREET LETTERS: Wimber On The Kingdom Of God

Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Wimber On The Kingdom Of God

The Kingdom of God is mentioned 126 times in the Gospels. John the baptizer came proclaiming it. Jesus taught on it. After teaching about it, Jesus would then demonstrate it to those who had listened. It is this proclamation of God entering our time and space to destroy the works of Satan, that stirs me. This is the heart of why I do what I do. It is the very essence of the call that rests on every believer. To tell and show that God is who He claims to be, and will do what He claims He will do.

Being a part of recovery community, I have seen this teaching/demonstration done over and over and over. I have seen the hardest of hearts melt under the touch of God. The opening of heart and mind to the simple fact that this God is real and He does desire to have relationship with us. I have seen people healed after hearing the Kingdom message. Healed of everything from a brain tumor to kidney problems. I have seen God bring His power to bear in such a way that a person was detoxed instantly from the effects of the drugs he'd been taking just a few hours before. I have seen a person whose heart was so hard that they cursed God. They wanted nothing to do with God. The had rejected God. But in all this hatred, they didn't realize that God had not rejected them. He came with such tenderness, that it totally caught this man off guard. He was undone completely as the Spirit of God came over him. He wept like a little baby, saying over and over..."Oh God..I'm so sorry, forgive me."

I try to keep the main thing..the main thing.
And the main thing for me is Jesus and the declaration that the Kingdom is being carried out here on earth as it is in heaven.
If that doesn't set you on fire...
Then your wood is wet.
God on you....
mb

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Looking At The World Through Cracked Lens

As ol' Paul wrote in his Corinthian letters.."We see in part and we know in part." Now what piece of this bit of wisdom do we not get? I wish to not run around acting and trying to be some sort of Biblical G00-Ru (I meant to spell it wrong). Or a sage of sages.

I simply want to be able to communicate some of what God has given to me. Why? Do I think what I get is better than what you may have received from Him? Nope. But I do think encouragement comes when we share our daily story of struggle and victory in an effort to encourage each other.

Thanks for letting me share.

Time to soldier on..

mbb

Our Statement of Faith

We believe that God is the eternal king. He is an infinite, unchangeable Spirit, perfect in holiness, wisdom, goodness, justice, power and love. From all eternity He exists as the One Living and True God in three persons of one substance, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit equal in power and glory. we believe that God created mankind in His image, male and female, for relationship with Himself and to govern the earth. Under the temptation of Satan, our original parents fell from grace, bringing sin, sickness and God's judgment of death to the earth. Through the fall, Satan and his demonic hosts gained access to God's good creation. Creation now experiences the consequences and effects of Adam's original sin. Human beings are born into sin, subject to God's judgment of death and captive to Satan's kingdom of darkness. We believe that Jesus, God's Son, was sent to this world, conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of a virgin, Mary, fully God and fully man in one person. He is humanity as God intended us to be. Jesus was anointed as God's Messiah and empowered by the Holy Spirit, ushering in God's kingdom reign on earth, overpowering the reign of Satan by resisting temptation, preaching the good news of salvation, healing the sick, casting out demons and raising the dead. Jesus' atoning death on the cross took God's judgment for sin which we deserved as law-breakers. Jesus' resurrection and ascent back to heaven opened the door for those who received salvation to begin a relationship with God.

Little Nets Into Deep Waters

Fishing nets were designed for one purpose only. To catch fish. Nets are no good if they stay on the boat. Nets serve no purpose if they are never used. I think maybe God sees us this way. We are all created for a purpose (by the way, the creator gets to define what our purpose is). Any other use besides the one we were created for does us no good. But when the creator places His hands upon us, casting us out into those scary, dark places with deep waters, it is then we can see the reality of our purpose. He knew there would be a catch waiting for us. I think I will be the net God has called me to be.

The Twelve Steps

As a community of people in recovery, we affirm that our higher power is Jesus Christ. He did for us what we could not do for ourselves. Just as God told the children of Israel He was going to give them a promised land, He has revealed to us that He desires to give us a "Promised Life." When Israel got to the promised land, God instructed them to go and in a possess it, fight for it and claim it. In recovery, the 12 Steps are the directions given to us on how to fight, possess and claim this promised life.

Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Wimber On The Kingdom Of God

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THE REALITY OF THE NAME OF GOD