The Problem Is ME!

"The problem is me..." 

That was the reason why things aren't happening; I'm the problem. That was the sermon tonight.

It reminded me of something God showed me, the Impenetrable Wall.

I saw it again tonight, as I went scooting under it- the wall was me!

I (the wall) was yelling to me (the runner) "Keep Going! KEEP GOING!!!"

The pastor prayed for me and I kept saying, "I'm going through... I'm going through..."

Later, the pastor said, "I don't know why I'm saying this, but all those... all the things that... It's right there in front of you!"

Good!

Since it was right there in front of me, my wife and I prayed for a woman in a wheelchair; she didn't get up.

My wife didn't get her healing.

My neck is improving though...

Right there in front of me...

Hmm...

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I also like to keep a record...

When God speaks, it is worth writing down, don't you agree?

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But Then, Again... Clarification

So, we're hard on the TV preachers, but we're nice to the Catholics?

Why is it that if a man says he can heal, everybody says, "why doesn't he go to the hospital and heal everybody?"

Why is it, when the church body gets together for communion, God's wrath is kindled?

Catholics are idol worshipers, plain and simple. They need to get saved.

For some reason, people feel we need to show them some special treatment or favoritism, but I don't understand that. Maybe it is because we don't know history...

And, when the term "christian" is used, that somehow applies to Catholics too. We're so screwed up, aren't we?!

I think I'm done using the term "christian".

If someone asks me if I'm a christian, my answer will be "No". Maybe I should say, "no, I'm not catholic..."

Or, "christian? You mean a person that goes to church?"

I am a follower of Jesus. I am a priest and a king. I am a missionary. I am a prophet and an apostle.

But, you can call me "Duane". Just Duane.

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As to healings, I guess I was wrong. There are some under the mentor-ship of JGLM that are reporting clearing out entire hospital wards. That's great!

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God's wrath being kindled during communion... I found some things in my blog posts that answer this.

Unforgiveness, Sickness, Communion, Healing...

I confessed my faults, elders prayed, I found forgiveness for others through communion and Jesus Christ, I was healed of my sickness, and now God wants me to get in His presence...

Repentance, confessing faults, elders praying, forgiving... That's the way it is supposed to go.

But, when they don't go that way, is God pleased?

Communion, Repentance and the Eagle

Communion must have been in vain, or people were taking it unworthily; I'm not a judge, but I saw what God showed me.

Is it that their mouths serve God, but their hearts must still be in spiritual Egypt?

You can't serve God and have Egypt as your ally (the reference to the eagle).

Remember Lot's wife?

God showed me a while ago that He has expectations of us.

The Line, God's Standard

 The LORD said, "I'm using this measuring line to show that my people... don't measure up, and I won't forgive them any more.  - Amos 7:8b

This was the sad part. There was a verse that matched it, but I didn't want to embrace it. Then it came true-

"The blood is on your heads!"

That's Acts 18:6

But when they resisted and blasphemed, he shook out his garments and said to them, "Your blood be on your own heads! I am clean. From now on I will go to the Gentiles."  - Act 18:6 NASB

Yep, there you have it. Paul was talking to the people at the synagogue (church folk?). They resisted. They blasphemed. Now I'm out seeking some lost folks (gentiles?) to introduce them to the Kingdom of God.

Wow...

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Blog Spring Cleaning

I'm doing some spring cleaning around here.

Things may appear and disappear.

If something disappears that you want to stay up, let me know via facebook.

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Miracles

Miracles...

Does God do miracles anymore?

I mean, REAL miracles?

I think the real question is, if God did do a miracle, would we realize it?

Yes, yes, and yes.

To see what God did in order to put a $20 bill in my wallet so I could help out someone in need was just amazing!

I think I was more blessed just to be used of God.

And, I got the $20 back!

Cast your bread upon the waters, for you will find it after many days.  - Ecc 11:1 ESV

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Apology

I did a bad thing.

I blogged and I shouldn't have.

I had an issue(s) with some things that were said and I blogged.

It was stated to me that if I were a man, I would have gone to that person first...

I agree.

I may not have been man enough the first time, but I'll man-up and apology publicly:

I am sorry.

I hope that I have not done any irreparable damage.

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Communion, Repentance, And the Eagle

Friday was very strange.

It was "Good Friday" of which that seemed like a great time to have a church service and communion.

It was before communion that God's wrath was stirred. I didn't quite understand what was going on but I saw myself throwing my communion cup and the juice flying everywhere; then it was if I heard "THE BLOOD IS ON YOUR HEADS!"

That shocked me. I asked God if he wanted me to actually do that....

The pastor's disposition changed to one of brokenness; he then led everyone to pray and to have God search them thoroughly.

Therefore whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner, shall be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord. But a man must examine himself, and in so doing he is to eat of the bread and drink of the cup. For he who eats and drinks, eats and drinks judgment to himself if he does not judge the body rightly.  - 1 Corinthians 11:27-29 NASB

That's serious.

There is another verse:

But when they resisted and blasphemed, he shook out his garments and said to them, "Your blood be on your own heads! I am clean. From now on I will go to the Gentiles."  - Acts 18:6 NASB

That verse shocks me... I'm not going to get into that at this time...

The next thing I saw was an eagle or a man. I could see the eye, then the rest came into view slowly. Around the eye was what appeared to be dark feathers, brown and black. At first it looked like a bird, sort of like an eagle, but as more of the face came into view, it was more man-like.

This could go a few different ways.

The cherubim that Ezekiel described (Ezekiel 1:10, 10:14) had a face likened to an eagle, as did John's description in Revelation 4:7.

The other reference that is interesting is in Ezekiel 17. It has to do with two eagles and Jerusalem. The problem was Jerusalem trying to use Egypt as an ally.  

I'm looking forward to the understanding of all this.

"...and with all thy getting get understanding."  - Proverbs 4:7 KJV

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How Many? And When?

Some Biblical clarity on healing:

The news about Him spread throughout all Syria; and they brought to Him all who were ill, those suffering with various diseases and pains, demoniacs, epileptics, paralytics; and He healed them.  - Matthew 4:24 NASB

All... and they were healed.

When evening came, they brought to Him many who were demon-possessed; and He cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were ill.  - Matthew 8:16 NASB

Healed all.

But Jesus, aware of this, withdrew from there. Many followed Him, and He healed them all,  - Matthew 12:15 NASB

Healed... all.

While the sun was setting, all those who had any who were sick with various diseases brought them to Him; and laying His hands on each one of them, He was healing them. Demons also were coming out of many, shouting, "You are the Son of God!" But rebuking them, He would not allow them to speak, because they knew Him to be the Christ.  - Luke 4:40-41 NASB

All... Jesus was healing them

Jesus came down with them and stood on a level place; and there was a large crowd of His disciples, and a great throng of people from all Judea and Jerusalem and the coastal region of Tyre and Sidon, who had come to hear Him and to be healed of their diseases; and those who were troubled with unclean spirits were being cured. And all the people were trying to touch Him, for power was coming from Him and healing them all.  - Luke 6:17-19 NASB

All the people... healing them all.

All of them were healed, every last one of them. The devils were cast out.

So how does this fit in with the modern mentality?

Today, if a person says he can heal, people immediately say "if that is so, then why don't you go heal everybody in the hospital?"

And a Canaanite woman from that region came out and began to cry out, saying, "Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David; my daughter is cruelly demon-possessed." But He did not answer her a word. And His disciples came and implored Him, saying, "Send her away, because she keeps shouting at us." But He answered and said, "I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel." But she came and began to bow down before Him, saying, "Lord, help me!" And He answered and said, "It is not good to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs." But she said, "Yes, Lord; but even the dogs feed on the crumbs which fall from their masters' table." Then Jesus said to her, "O woman, your faith is great; it shall be done for you as you wish." And her daughter was healed at once.  - Matthew 15:22-28 NASB

Notice, Jesus was sent only; He was only sent to Israel. It is interesting that He healed the woman's daughter anyway. He healed because of "great" faith.

Is there "great faith" in the patients in the hospitals?

If there is, faith in what?

Here's where it ends up, where it all started. Just as soon as Jesus came out of the wilderness, just as soon as He got started, He prophesied that they would mock Him too.

And He said to them, "No doubt you will quote this proverb to Me, 'Physician, heal yourself! Whatever we heard was done at Capernaum, do here in your hometown as well.'" And He said, "Truly I say to you, no prophet is welcome in his hometown.  - Luke 4:23-24 NASB

If You're a healer, heal Yourself... or how about, if you're such a healer, why don't you heal everybody in the hospital?

???

Keep reading:

"But I say to you in truth, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut up for three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land; and yet Elijah was sent to none of them, but only to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow. "And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet; and none of them was cleansed, but only Naaman the Syrian." And all the people in the synagogue were filled with rage as they heard these things;  - Luke 4:25-28 NASB

Jesus used this as the reason or answer to the accusation that would come.

No matter what you you do, the accusers will mock you.

What are you sent to do?

Elijah was sent for a specific purpose; Elisha was sent... Jesus was sent for a specific purpose...

So what were you sent to do?

Are you doing it?

I know what I was sent to do...

Are you ready?!

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But Then, Again...

So, we're hard on the TV preachers, but we're nice to the Catholics?

Why is it that if a man says he can heal, everybody says, "why doesn't he go to the hospital and heal everybody?"

Why is it, when the church body gets together for communion, God's wrath is kindled?

Do idols belong in the temple of God? We are the temple of the living God, as God himself says, "I will live with these people and walk among them. I will be their God, and they will be my people." The Lord also says, "Leave them and stay away! Don't touch anything that isn't clean. Then I will welcome you  - 2 Corinthians 6:16-17 CEV
 
Children, you must stay away from idols.  - 1 John 5:21 CEV

Jesus answered: You will certainly want to tell me this saying, "Doctor, first make yourself well." You will tell me to do the same things here in my own hometown that you heard I did in Capernaum. But you can be sure that no prophets are liked by the people of their own hometown.  - Luke 4:23-24 CEV

Who were those people that heard God's voice and rebelled? Weren't they the same ones that came out of Egypt with Moses? Who were the people that made God angry for forty years? Weren't they the ones that sinned and died in the desert?  - Hebrews 3:16-17 CEV

But most of them did not please God. So they died, and their bodies were scattered all over the desert. What happened to them is a warning to keep us from wanting to do the same evil things.  - 1 Corinthians 10:5-6 CEV

Don't forget what happened to those people that the Lord rescued from Egypt. Some of them did not have faith, and he later destroyed them.  - Jude 1:5 CEV

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Pleasant Surprise...

What a pleasant surprise- RADICAL things happening... 

We need to hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches.

To those who hear...

I've been listening, but I was afraid that I was alone. I guess I'm not.

But,

are we going to do anything with/about it?

But prove yourselves doers of the word, and not merely hearers who delude themselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror; for once he has looked at himself and gone away, he has immediately forgotten what kind of person he was. But one who looks intently at the perfect law, the law of liberty, and abides by it, not having become a forgetful hearer but an effectual doer, this man will be blessed in what he does.  - James 1:22-25 NASB

For if we go on sinning willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a terrifying expectation of judgment and THE FURY OF A FIRE WHICH WILL CONSUME THE ADVERSARIES.  - Hebrews 10:26-27 NASB

Very sobering...

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