WAKE UP WORLD! by Elaine Davenport (Friday, May 18, 2007)
16 May 2007 Leave a Comment
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HANDCUFFED BY UNBELIEF
A lady that I don’t know has cancer. I’ve seen her. Each time that I see her she’s smaller and smaller. It looks like she’s struggling to walk. I found out about the diagnosis from a family member. My family member is a believer in a war without a gun. In other words, she believes in God, but she thinks all this “talk” about healing is a lot of talk and fluff. I’m required by the commandments to honor her so I have to use a humble approach when we talk and my family member is a very dominant opinionated person who likes to get her way. I love her and accept her as she is and I pray a lot.
I KEEP WATCHING THE LADY WITH CANCER FROM A DISTANCE…
My family member will not allow me to say anything to the lady. It’s supposed to be a secret. I want to run across the street and tell her to hold on that by the stripes of Jesus she is healed, mail her an anonymous healing CD, but I can’t. However, I can pray for her and I do. I can give it God and I did. I can stand in the gap and I do. I can turn her name in to corporate prayer and I will.
I URGE YOU…
This is the first time that I haven’t been bold or pushy, trying to throw someone a life raft of hope in God and helping them to build their faith. I’m handcuffed by someone else’s unbelief and society’s protocol of being polite and I don’t like it.
I PLEAD THE BLOOD…
I plead the Blood of Jesus over this woman and this cancer in her body. I draw a blood circle by faith around her in the Name of Jesus..
I WANT TO RUN AND YELL FROM THE ROOFTOPS:
WAKE UP WORLD!
God is faithful!
THE ONLY THING THAT HAS SUSTAINED ME IN THIS CASE IS WHAT I KNOW ABOUT LOVE.
The Message Bible says:
Corinthians 13
The Way of Love
1 If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don’t love, I’m nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate. 2If I speak God’s Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, “Jump,” and it jumps, but I don’t love, I’m nothing. 3-7If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don’t love, I’ve gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I’m bankrupt without love.
Love never gives up.
Love cares more for others than for self.
Love doesn’t want what it doesn’t have.
Love doesn’t strut,
Doesn’t have a swelled head,
Doesn’t force itself on others,
Isn’t always “me first,”
Doesn’t fly off the handle,
Doesn’t keep score of the sins of others,
Doesn’t revel when others grovel,
Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,
Puts up with anything,
Trusts God always,
Always looks for the best,
Never looks back,
But keeps going to the end. 8-10Love never dies. Inspired speech will be over some day; praying in tongues will end; understanding will reach its limit. We know only a portion of the truth, and what we say about God is always incomplete. But when the Complete arrives, our incompletes will be canceled.
11When I was an infant at my mother’s breast, I gurgled and cooed like any infant. When I grew up, I left those infant ways for good.
12We don’t yet see things clearly. We’re squinting in a fog, peering through a mist. But it won’t be long before the weather clears and the sun shines bright! We’ll see it all then, see it all as clearly as God sees us, knowing him directly just as he knows us!
13But for right now, until that completeness, we have three things to do to lead us toward that consummation: Trust steadily in God, hope unswervingly, love extravagantly. And the best of the three is love.
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