#divine appointment

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While Peter was still thinking about the vision, the Spirit said to him, 'Simon, three men are looking for you. So get up and go downstairs. Do not hesitate to go with them, for I have sent them.'

Acts 10:19-20 NIV

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A Pilgrim's Guide to _Unseen Existences_ by Brian Zahnd

Book Report: Unseen Existences: Of Heaven, Earth, and the Divine Mystery in All Things by Brian Zahnd Brian Zahnd’s Unseen Existences: Of Heaven, Earth, and the Divine Mystery in All Things is a timely and deeply contemplative work that calls Christians to recover a robust, imaginative, and spiritually grounded understanding of heaven. Zahnd argues that modern Christianity—particularly in the…

A Pilgrim's Guide to _Unseen Existences_ by Brian Zahnd

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Black Pastor Drops TRUTH BOMBS Defending Trump – “This Is God’s Man for ...

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Slow Down to Show Love

As most know, we live in a 60+ Active Adult Community. That’s the way it’s advertised. And truthfully, most of us are active — playing pickleball, ping pong, Mahjong, working out in the fitness room, going for long walks around our community and even around the Texas Children’s Hospital next door. Yet sometimes we’re so caught up in our hustle that we zoom past neighbors who might be taking…

Slow Down to Show Love

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Not What He Was Looking For

1 There was a man of Benjamin whose name was Kish, the son of Abiel, son of Zeror, son of Becorath, son of Aphiah, a Benjaminite, a man of wealth. 2 And he had a son whose name was Saul, a handsome young man. There was not a man among the people of Israel more handsome than he. From his shoulders upward he was taller than any of the people. 3 Now the donkeys of Kish, Saul’s father, were lost. So…

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A Divine Appointment (2 Kings 8:1-6)

In order to allow the good to completely fill us, we must be totally emptied of everything else.

The prophet Elisha and the Shunammite woman, by Pieter Lastman, 1620 Elisha spoke to the woman whose son he had brought back to life: “You and your household must go away and live wherever you can, because the Lord has called for a famine. It is coming to the land and will last seven years.” So the woman went and did what the man of God asked. She and her household moved away, living in…

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A Divine Appointment (Genesis 29:1-14)

You never quite know what’s around the corner of your life – whether good or bad. Yet, the real issue is trust.

Jacob and Rachel at the well, by Friedrich Wilhelm Müller (Kirchditmold 1801–1889) Then Jacob continued on his journey and came to the land of the eastern peoples. There he saw a well in the open country, with three flocks of sheep lying near it because the flocks were watered from that well. The stone over the mouth of the well was large. When all the flocks were gathered there, the shepherds…

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Divine appointment meets deliverance story

“God will bring people across your path who need someone who understands.  When a divine appointment meets a deliverance story, healing happens.  You may never know the why of your story, but you can experience the how of redemption when you share how God got you through.”- Sharon Jaynes (emphasis author’s)

Sharon Jaynes concludes Chapter 8 of When You Don’t Like Your Story as she relates the truth of Luke’s account of the man born blind to our lives.  God displays His work in our lives as he heals our hurt, binds our brokenness, and miraculously redeems our messiness.  However, we must decide to tell about it.

Therefore, Sharon exhorts:

“Death to life never gets old.  We should never diminish the power of our stories, no matter how dark or disappointing they may be, no matter how boring or uneventful they may seem.  Don’t hide your story in hopes on one will ever hear it.  Tell it.  Show it.  Celebrate God’s work through it.”

Furthermore, when we tell our stories to a hurting person, we come near to them and our words comfort them.  And they do so in a way that empty platitudes and easily-recited Bible verses cannot.  Certainly, God comforts us to make us comfortable.  Above all, though, God comforts us to make us comfort-able.  Able to comfort others.  Consequently, Sharon counsels, keeping our stories to ourselves denies others the comfort that is ours to give.

In conclusion, Sharon stresses, your story reflects something unique and specific about God’s character.  And the way He works in the lives of His people.  Levi Lusko, who lost his five-year-old daughter Lenya to an asthma attack, issues this challenge .  In Through the Eyes of a Lion, he writes:

“You have a unique and powerful voice, and as long as you have breath in your lungs, there is a microphone in your hands.  How you use that platform you have been given is your choice every day.”

Today’s question: Describe when your divine appointment met a deliverance story.  Please share.

Tomorrow’s blog: “Bearing an untold story inside of you”