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[TD="class: yiv5325755741mcnTextContent"][h=2]- MARCH 16 -
NOTHING SHALL BY ANY MEANS HURT YOU![/h][HR][/HR]Years ago, while traveling on a domestic flight in the United States, I was seated next to a woman whose whole body was tense with fear. Concerned, I asked if I could help her in any way. Between sobs, she told me about her fear of flying. I told her, “Don’t worry. I am on board. Nothing will happen to the plane.” I did not say it with pride. I said it knowing that the Lord was on board the plane with me and that I would have a safe journey because He has promised that “nothing shall by any means hurt you”.

Once, when Jesus was in the boat with his disciples, He told them, “Let us cross over to the other side.” (Mark 4:35) Believing that they would cross over to the other side, He fell asleep in the stern. A great storm arose, but it could not rouse Him from His sleep, only the cries of His terrified disciples did. They had forgotten what Jesus had said about them crossing over to the other side. They had also forgotten that with Jesus in the boat with them, there was no possibility of them going down. Nothing could by any means hurt them because Jesus was with them.

Even being thrown into a fiery furnace could not hurt three young Hebrew men because they believed that God would deliver them. They had proclaimed to the heathen King Nebuchadnezzar, “...our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and He will deliver us from your hand, O king.” (Daniel 3:17) And in the midst of their fiery trial, their deliverer not only walked with them in the fire, He also delivered them from all harm. King Nebuchadnezzar even said, “Look! I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire; and they are not hurt, and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God.” (Daniel 3:25).

Beloved, in the midst of your storm or fiery trial, because Jesus is with you, nothing shall by any means hurt you!

Destined To Reign Devotional for 3/16 Pastor J. Prince

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Not to long ago I did not believe that "nothing shall by any means hurt me" Because I was being hurt all the time! I would read these promises in the Bible and wonder why they were even in there? Was it only for those super spiritual people who followed every commandment and had every good intention and followed through with a 100% success rate? It must be since so many were also being hurt.

Then I wondered But what about the innocent ones? The babies and children who were suffering and all those other Christians who suffer? These verses can't be for now and for today I thought.

But then the Holy Spirit taught me as I began to learn to walk with Him that my eyes cannot be on my circumstances or the circumstances of others no matter how plausible the reality was. My walk and my faith must be based on Christ and Him alone.

So, although all human reason said I would fail in life right now, the Holy Spirit showed me through the Bible that if I were to dare to trust in Jesus to get me through and that His finished work is what is gain to me is based on Him and not me or my circumstances I would be able to step out in faith.

I would be able to not fear and lean on Him and not myself or my circumstances or the kindness of others or the weather or the blizzard and snow's weight on my little roof here at home. I am called to see Him regardless of the natural course of things in the day to day of human life.

And He was true to His Word and I have not been hurt since Jesus came into this realm of my life. He is in this realm every day and I see the need to keep hearing and hearing and being reminded of Him every day because every day my mind is assaulted by my surroundings. By the ugliness of the world news and the trials of my loved ones and dearest friends.

In all of those things, we are more than conquerors. But the truth of that cannot be experienced until we walk it out by faith and that is first shown to us in our hearts and minds by the Holy Spirit. We do have authority to trample over the serpents in our lives and the scorpions and the other powers of the enemy. Because of Jesus nothing shall by any means harm us.

If we are not taught this, we will not even try to believe it. I was never taught this so it was news to me when I first was shown such possibilities in the faith.
 
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these are lessons we do not learn easily

recently, I had a bunch of 'answered prayer' days for which I was truly thankful, as in falling on my knees and crying thankful

then, there was one other thing. I had to leave in God's hands

and He answered, not the answer I would have liked, but an impossible for me to face answer I could not deny

we really have to say what Job said in the end

yet, God's mercies are new every morning!

another great thread Joanie
 

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Those are good words. Nothing can hurt you even though you go through trials for a season. They will come but when you walk through them with Christ, your spirit will not be touched even though your body hurts for awhile. You will find that through them you are gaining some new revelation of Christ. Sometimes you even become more gentle when you are broken.

The only way you could be hurt by the difficulties of this life is when the enemy uses it - and, by faith, we know that when we are in Christ, he cannot touch it. Our trial is sanctified to be used to glorify God only - not to harm us in any way. And eventually we discover that all things indeed work for our good and His glory.
 

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Ac 5:9 Then Peter said unto her, How is it that ye have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? behold, the feet of them which have buried thy husband are at the door, and shall carry thee out.

For the cause of Christ
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joaniemarie

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Those are good words. Nothing can hurt you even though you go through trials for a season. They will come but when you walk through them with Christ, your spirit will not be touched even though your body hurts for awhile. You will find that through them you are gaining some new revelation of Christ. Sometimes you even become more gentle when you are broken.

The only way you could be hurt by the difficulties of this life is when the enemy uses it - and, by faith, we know that when we are in Christ, he cannot touch it. Our trial is sanctified to be used to glorify God only - not to harm us in any way. And eventually we discover that all things indeed work for our good and His glory.


Joidevivre., yes dear suffering sister in Jesus., even in knowing your situation and what you are going through. We not only learn from the Bible, we also learn by the circumstances living here on earth exposes us to., and He walks through them with us as He keeps beckoning us all along the way to believe Him anyway in spite of them.

My dearest friend Barbara was shockingly diagnosed with lung cancer a few months ago. She is many times of my day my biggest reality. What she is going through, how she feels and what she struggles with., and my seeing it so closely is another challenge to my eyes and senses as I help care for her and do baths and am intimately aware of her suffering. The changes her body is showing and her breathing has totally changed.

These are real changes and they also match up with the rest of the things I've seen in my life that were impossible to refute in the face of faith in the Word. Yet I must refute them daily as I read the promises He has shown in His Word. What do these promises mean for us? How can we dare hold on to them when our lives are hurting? Did He mean for us to? Yes, I believe with all my heart He means for us to hold on to them and Him in the face of these tribulations.

Psalm 91 is an impossible chapter to hold on to today for many believers. I've read it and thought how can 1,000 fall at my side and 10,000 at my right hand and have it NOT approach me? The only answer is learning how to believe and walk by faith even in the middle of it all.

This learning takes the very personal and private walking in and through this world. And the truths about the 10 fold and the 20 fold and the 50 and 69.9 fold and the 90 fold up to the 100 fold faith and healing. It's a walk taken one step at a time personally for each one of us.

So each one of us is walking it on our own (humanly speaking) and often alone without the human strength of and even encouragement others. Yet we have to walk it because He calls us to walk it. Even if no one follows or agrees.

Psalm 91American Standard Version (ASV)

Security of him who trusts in Jehovah.

91 He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High
[SUP][a][/SUP]Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
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2 [/SUP]I will say of Jehovah, He is my refuge and my fortress;
My God, in whom I trust.
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3 [/SUP]For he will deliver thee from the snare of the fowler,
And from the deadly pestilence.
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4 [/SUP]He will cover thee with his pinions,
And under his wings shalt thou take refuge:
His truth is a shield and a buckler.
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5 [/SUP]Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night,
Nor for the arrow that flieth by day;
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6 [/SUP]For the pestilence that walketh in darkness,
Nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.
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7 [/SUP]A thousand shall fall at thy side,
And ten thousand at thy right hand;
But it shall not come nigh thee.
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8 [/SUP]Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold,
And see the reward of the wicked.
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9 [/SUP][SUP][b][/SUP]For thou, O Jehovah, art my refuge!
Thou hast made the Most High thy habitation;
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10 [/SUP]There shall no evil befall thee,
Neither shall any plague come nigh thy tent.
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11 [/SUP]For he will give his angels charge over thee,
To keep thee in all thy ways.
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12 [/SUP]They shall bear thee up in their hands,
Lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.
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13 [/SUP]Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder:
The young lion and the serpent shalt thou trample under foot.
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14 [/SUP]Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him:
I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.
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15 [/SUP]He shall call upon me, and I will answer him;
I will be with him in trouble:
I will deliver him, and honor him.
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16 [/SUP]With long life will I satisfy him,
And show him my salvation.




So like I pray for my dearest and best friend Barbara, I pray for you Jodevivre. Knowing only some of the suffering and some of the questions you also must be walking out. It overwhelms and intertwines our senses. Sometimes resting is the only way to get through the next few hours. But like you wrote here, they are for a season. Am praying for you sister.
 
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Today I felt very weak and head achy. I read the scripture about Him being our stronghold. And in prayer I saw that it wasn't a matter of me holding on tightly to Him. He showed me that He was holding me very tight in His hands. He had a stronghold on me. And in His hands were such an anointing for the strength I needed for today. He spoke to me "As your days, so shall your strength be". Those words keep resounding in my heart.

Thank you so much for praying.
 

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Today I felt very weak and head achy. I read the scripture about Him being our stronghold. And in prayer I saw that it wasn't a matter of me holding on tightly to Him. He showed me that He was holding me very tight in His hands. He had a stronghold on me. And in His hands were such an anointing for the strength I needed for today. He spoke to me "As your days, so shall your strength be". Those words keep resounding in my heart.

Thank you so much for praying.
****He Blessed Us to be a Blessing...
 

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Today I felt very weak and head achy. I read the scripture about Him being our stronghold. And in prayer I saw that it wasn't a matter of me holding on tightly to Him. He showed me that He was holding me very tight in His hands. He had a stronghold on me. And in His hands were such an anointing for the strength I needed for today. He spoke to me "As your days, so shall your strength be". Those words keep resounding in my heart.

Thank you so much for praying.

It's been very frustrating for me not to be help or able to do something for Barbara. She has become so frightened going through this process that she suffers many panic attacks. 10yrs ago she watched her husband go through this and he died as she cared for him and saw him deteriorate day by day. Her fears are natural and she thinks about her illness every moment because it is with her in her chest. Her eyes won't stay still so they bob side ways so she can't read. (panic does that)

I've noticed as we go out in the car and she is away from the incessant thoughts of the invasion of cancer, her eyes calm down and she is a bit better. She can focus more and begin to share her feelings a little. Barbara is a very in control woman who has always done things so she can finish them. Not a procrastinator like me, she has everything written down and done.

Now she is having to depend on others and that is yet another frustration for her personality. Her beloved pets and her home can't be done the right way but in many ways just barely by some of the health care workers or housekeeper that comes. They are strangers in her home and her life even though she appreciates them it is a major change to life as she has known it.

Her Son's father just died of lung cancer right before she got it 2 months ago while she was unaware of her cancer. So she went to visit another cancer patient in the hospital with her son.

There are more things she goes through that I'm not privy too but I do know the only way to get through is to hear and hear and hear and hear the Word of God. To not let that enemy steal it and cause the fear and dread of what we think is to come scare us to death. So listening to messages on the love of God in Christ. The healing power of Jesus and the implanted Word in the heart is what is needed. Yet the disappointment of why God allowed this in her life overshadows her confidence in Him. She can't yet trust since she believes God has caused this cancer to come on her to teach her a lesson.

This is a teaching both Barbara and I were raised on in the Baptist Church we were members of for years. It's all we were taught; " People get sick and die there is nothing you can do. Sometimes He heals sometimes He doesn't. He caused it for a reason so accept it from Him as a blessing. " NO!!! it is not from Him. Death is not a blessing it's a curse. Jesus came to give life and that more abundantly. satan comes to kill-steal-destroy.

So now that I know this is the truth, I'm daily learning to implement the truth into my mind as totally new material. Yes, it is not welcome to some and yes it is a tricky kind of truth to tell those who have come to see it differently. In many cases it can't be retaught because many believers have their minds made up. In that case I can't intrude so as to make it more difficult for Barbara.

So each day we spend together I wait for the Holy Spirit to make a way where there is no way. And He does in seemingly small ways to my way of thinking but He knows best because my pushing Bible verses at her is not helping. But Barb is home on that chair every day and I'm praying for the miracle of healing for her.

 

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Another truth I'm learning is it's very difficult to understand the depth of what others are going through. It's difficult to know how to relieve them of the fear and pain. We want to DO something but we feel we are powerless.

We need the Holy Spirit to intervene for us on how to pray and have power in our lives from Him and for us and those around us. Paul admonished Timothy to stir up the gift of God.

2 Tim.1:6-7 Therefore I remind you to stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands. For God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power and love and a sound mind.

Fear is a spirit, it's a demon. It's one of the cruelest in the enemies arsenal because it deals with our minds. (our minds that need changing daily) I have been on great vacations surrounded by family and friends (the most secure things on earth at the time) but not able to enjoy any of it because of the crippling fear/terror that seized my gut. Worried about first my health, then marriage and the future then my children and family. I've experienced many losses due to the spirit of fear. Made many wrong turns trying to outsmart or out run fear.

I learned that God does not want His people fearful. No not at all. But we can't just think our way out of fear. Fear is a spirit and it takes a greater Spirit to cast it out. So the Bible says to be reminded to stir up the gift of God.

How to do this? It's not stirring like a cup of coffee and cream and sugar. It's called fanning into flame. The gifts are called kharis or kharisma (sp)? what comes from the Person of the Holy Spirit. We don't stir up the Holy Spirit. That was a major revelation to me. I always thought we had to stir Him up by faith or something. But I found out what we do is fan into flame (by using) the gift that came from Him to us to use at will.

Which gift is the one we can operate on our own at will at any time? It's the speaking in tongues that came at Pentecost. Just like Paul did in Acts with the other disciples Paul laid hands on Timothy then Paul told him to stir up the gift in light of the fear. The gift of healing and other gifts all happen at the will or anointing of the Holy Spirit as He wills and by faith. But the gift of tongues is ours to use at will at any time anywhere..

God gave us the gift of praying tongues as a stewardship to us-for us to use. When we fan into flame this gift (by using it) we then can combat the spirit of fear because God has not given us the spirit of fear but of power (dynamite word) and love and a sound mind. A sound mind won't fear.

I'm just learning this myself and am finding it to be true as fear and confusion have been defeated after many years of a life being controlled and ruined by it. While praying in tongues His love and grace is an overflowing of joy in the Holy Spirit., The joy of the Lord is my stregth.,the healing I needed, the wisdom needed at the time, the power to function.

When I don't know how to pray for my dear friend Barbara and when I don't know what to do or how to comfort her, I am learning to pray more in tongues as a natural part of my every day life. Using this gift has changed my life so praying for others is another extension of learning how to pray more using this gift in all circumstances for all people I come in contact with. It's a gift to be used but we are not forced to use it. He will never force us. He is just like Jesus. He is the Spirit of God.


 
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Thank you Joanie for your boldness in speaking the truth.

Several years ago, I was bedfast, weak in strength and had to pray just to do everyday things. I depended on the Word, such as "sufficient for the day is the evil thereof, and "as my days are, so shall my strength be". I read sermons by Smith Wigglesworth several times a day....and I prayed in the Spirit as much as I was able.

Power would shoot through my body as I prayed.

Today I am out of bed. Yet still struggle with this spinal cord disease. Only He can really help, and heal. And He can and will...Meanwhile I wait with my eyes on Him.

This is why I am so adamant about the gift of tongues. To us believers...it's the most important gift He could give out of His presence within us.

Yet, this gift is the most put down by the mainstream churches. Why?
 

joaniemarie

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Thank you Joanie for your boldness in speaking the truth.

Several years ago, I was bedfast, weak in strength and had to pray just to do everyday things. I depended on the Word, such as "sufficient for the day is the evil thereof, and "as my days are, so shall my strength be". I read sermons by Smith Wigglesworth several times a day....and I prayed in the Spirit as much as I was able.

Power would shoot through my body as I prayed.

Today I am out of bed. Yet still struggle with this spinal cord disease. Only He can really help, and heal. And He can and will...Meanwhile I wait with my eyes on Him.

This is why I am so adamant about the gift of tongues. To us believers...it's the most important gift He could give out of His presence within us.

Yet, this gift is the most put down by the mainstream churches. Why?


Hi Stonesoffire, Thank you for your post!
:D You are right, speaking in tongues is not popular but neither is grace or healing or some other gifts of the Holy Spirit for today. And I believe that is why the church has been so weak., why people are not being healed or strong in the faith and strong in the Spirit.

Let me encourage you (if someone has not already) to keep praying in tongues even more. Also sing in tongues. I didn't know it until recently but praying in tongues builds up our entire "house". I used to think it only edified my spirit but speaking in tongues builds us up in our whole body (house)

I can very much appreciate your situation when you were in bed unable to do things you needed to do. Then when you said just as Joidevrive posted "as my days are so shall my strength be." Having the Word of God implanted in our hearts and minds changes everything.

Please know I'm not seasoned expert and am just learning about these truths and they have been doing exactly what the Bible says; being built "precept upon precept line upon line...." These truths come as we are doing the walking and learning so we are given more truth to walk in and talk about. It is a learning process to walk by faith and not by sight. Many times I've stopped to catch my breath.

I have also experienced the Holy Spirit's power in that overflowing healing and joy of my salvation you posted. He can take something that was set in stone by the world's standards and totally make it go away! And there I sit in the sunlight of the miracle getting on my knees and worshiping Jesus. Thinking I should be on the roof telling everyone but no one would believe.

So the Holy Spirit has other ways to tell about Jesus in our every day life. It's been a process to learn to allow the overflowing to flow and not have to run out and tell someone.,anyone! Climbing the ladder to the top of the house roof wouldn't be considered sane by the neighbors. LOL


When I received the baptism of the Holy Spirit some 32 years after I got saved, faith and learning began to take place in peace and joy and security with no condemnation for when I failed. I've heard it said when we get saved, the Holy Spirit is in us. When we are baptized in the Holy Spirit we are in Him. Rivers of living water flowing over, in and through us. John 7:38-39

There were some at that time after Pentecost who were believers but had not yet received the baptism of the Holy Spirit since they first believed. That was me. I wondered why my prayers were not strong or confident. Why I was always weak unable to stand up in life and always battered down.

Romans 8:26-27 Likewise the Spirit also helps our weaknesses. (infirmities) For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

We can pray in tongues and know He will make those prayers to be as they should be in the will of God. It's a gift we have been given.
:D

Sometimes and often I'm not sure how to pray. So am learning to pray in tongues for all those times.
So it seems I'm praying all the time in tongues and have the joy of the Lord more than ever even more than when I first got saved. It is true, He who believes in Jesus as the Scripture said "from his innermost being shall flow rivers of living water. Jesus described it best.
:D

Will be also praying for your spinal cord to heal. Not sure how He does this but I know He does heal our infirmities.,our illnesses and our weaknesses.




 
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I have not found it easy to express my feelings about what I'm going through since a lot of people would not understand. But I recently read an article by a pastor who had cancer and he put it exactly the way in which I have approached it. The article is by John Piper and to read "Don't waste your cancer", go to Don’t Waste Your Cancer | Desiring God.

From the beginning, I have believed this. I have never lost my peace so I know I have been on the right track. And I am more and more aware of the presence of Christ with me every day. I see how He is using this in front of many people who are watching me and even they are amazed at the hand of God upon me. He is being glorified. Barbara must believe this in order to regain her peace. It is all about never losing your joy in Christ.

Even before I read this article, one day in prayer before I knew this to be cancer, I discerned the Lord asking me if I would go through something with Him that would be difficult for me, but would reveal Him in glorious ways. Of course, I said yes. I know that the Lord prepared this walk for me. I'm changing and He is being revealed. No, it has not been easy for me. One side of my mouth is completely gone and I have a prosthetic in place that I have to learn to talk around and take out for cleaning of inside of my mouth nightly. Radiation for 37 days.

Barbara might be helped if she could wrap her mind around what she must believe to find the peace that eludes her. I could not say it better than this article. One thing the Lord promised me was "compensation". I will know more what that means when this is over. But just to have His presence in a more real way is worth the trip.
 

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I have not found it easy to express my feelings about what I'm going through since a lot of people would not understand. But I recently read an article by a pastor who had cancer and he put it exactly the way in which I have approached it. The article is by John Piper and to read "Don't waste your cancer", go to Don’t Waste Your Cancer | Desiring God.

From the beginning, I have believed this. I have never lost my peace so I know I have been on the right track. And I am more and more aware of the presence of Christ with me every day. I see how He is using this in front of many people who are watching me and even they are amazed at the hand of God upon me. He is being glorified. Barbara must believe this in order to regain her peace. It is all about never losing your joy in Christ.

Even before I read this article, one day in prayer before I knew this to be cancer, I discerned the Lord asking me if I would go through something with Him that would be difficult for me, but would reveal Him in glorious ways. Of course, I said yes. I know that the Lord prepared this walk for me. I'm changing and He is being revealed. No, it has not been easy for me. One side of my mouth is completely gone and I have a prosthetic in place that I have to learn to talk around and take out for cleaning of inside of my mouth nightly. Radiation for 37 days.

Barbara might be helped if she could wrap her mind around what she must believe to find the peace that eludes her. I could not say it better than this article. One thing the Lord promised me was "compensation". I will know more what that means when this is over. But just to have His presence in a more real way is worth the trip.
Thank you for sharing this post Joidevivre and some of the things you are learning and also going through.
Not everyone (including me) can completely understand what you shared but we can weep with you when you weep and rejoice with you when you rejoice.

Trying to figure out the why's of this life and all of ours or other's individual varied and complex situations is not always going to glean an complete answer. I agree with you about always trusting in His love for us and that the joy of the Lord is our strength. That we are never left alone in this and Jesus promises to get us through in spite of the enemy seeking to steal our confidence.

I'm praying in tongues for you as I don't know how I should pray. But He knows all about your deepest and most personal needs and how to comfort you and guide you through. God bless and keep you comforted and dwelling in the secret place of the Most High abiding in the shadow of the Almighty.





 

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Joanie

The only thing I could add is that I know there is an anointing on Wigglesworths sermons for faith. If Barbara would agree, you could read them to her.

God bless you Joi...will be praying for you too.
 
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Nothing shall be any means harm you. Well, we are a spirit being living in a flesh body, the flesh body can definitely be hurt, however the real you, the spirit being, cannot be hurt by anything man nor Satan can do...as long as we keep faith in Jesus.
 

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I have not found it easy to express my feelings about what I'm going through since a lot of people would not understand. But I recently read an article by a pastor who had cancer and he put it exactly the way in which I have approached it. The article is by John Piper and to read "Don't waste your cancer", go to Don’t Waste Your Cancer | Desiring God.

From the beginning, I have believed this. I have never lost my peace so I know I have been on the right track. And I am more and more aware of the presence of Christ with me every day. I see how He is using this in front of many people who are watching me and even they are amazed at the hand of God upon me. He is being glorified. Barbara must believe this in order to regain her peace. It is all about never losing your joy in Christ.

Even before I read this article, one day in prayer before I knew this to be cancer, I discerned the Lord asking me if I would go through something with Him that would be difficult for me, but would reveal Him in glorious ways. Of course, I said yes. I know that the Lord prepared this walk for me. I'm changing and He is being revealed. No, it has not been easy for me. One side of my mouth is completely gone and I have a prosthetic in place that I have to learn to talk around and take out for cleaning of inside of my mouth nightly. Radiation for 37 days.

Barbara might be helped if she could wrap her mind around what she must believe to find the peace that eludes her. I could not say it better than this article. One thing the Lord promised me was "compensation". I will know more what that means when this is over. But just to have His presence in a more real way is worth the trip.


Wonderful article by Piper - very balanced and true! And thank you for your testimony of God continuing to draw you closer. I will keep you in prayer. Both for healing and the peace of God that passes understanding!
 

Angela53510

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"He replied, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.19 I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you. 20 However, do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”" Luke 10:18-20

Once again, JP has pulled a verse out of context. The whole purpose of this passage was to do what? Rejoice that you have power of the enemy? Not at all. Read the next line.

Rejoice that your names are written in heaven! Hallelujah! That is what really matters!
 

joaniemarie

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Joanie

The only thing I could add is that I know there is an anointing on Wigglesworths sermons for faith. If Barbara would agree, you could read them to her.

God bless you Joi...will be praying for you too.

Thank you stonesoffire.
:eek: I meant to tell you when you posted about you reading sermons by Smith Wigglesworth I've heard heard about him and been wanting to get the books about his life too. There are a few others about the life and times of other saints too. Just have not gotten to it yet. Very much agree with you about how messages on the Bible and faith are anointed and faith building. Faith comes by hearing and hearing the Word of God. Men and woman of faith are gifts to the church.

Hearing preaching and teaching on the promises of God as well has been vital to my peace. I can see why his sermons helped you to grow in faith. CDs and DVDs of sermons and teaching are on all the time here at home and in the car. Don't know how to survive without that going into my ears and brain and heart. After a time it becomes a part of my vocabulary. Years ago I couldn't explain many things I believed but today it's sort of soaked in and how I process thoughts on how to survive.


How to stand in the face of life's real tragedies for me is continuing to look up and not to the side or behind or below. When I find myself fearing or reasoning out life I run back to Jesus and His promises.
I'm sure we will never be able to coast on what we learned yesterday.

Noah's Ark didn't have windows for a reason. Although it seems impossible with all those animals in there to not have windows on the sides! But from what I've heard there were only windows of sorts at the top. Which makes for a good word picture.

Barbara has sort of shut down in that area Stonesoffire. She is somewhat comforted and surrounded by unsaved family members who love her too. Who are dealing with life as it is on the surface. Going to doctors appts and helping with hiring help, bringing meals and talking on the phone about cancer. Her daughter is a psychologist. They are doing needful helpful good things but the other part is not open for business sort of speak.

The whole Smith Wigglesworth type of Bible faith is a major foreign aspect to the type of Christianity she and I are used too. So while I'm journeying through in that "Wigglesworth"
:eek: direction, Barb is dealing with cancer in her own way and she is not able to talk about faith right now. She knows I mean well but she can't handle listening to the Bible or Christian music. She listens to MPR.

She has always been healthy and took care of herself always eating and living organically. At age 71 she is like a young woman. Always tan and thin and blonde. I'm not sure of the depth of what she is going through but do know she is very scared. So thank you for praying for her.

Gotta head off to work. Blessings!!


 
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I have been healed a few times(actual healing) I have also suffered through a lot of things when I was not healed...just remember the God of the mountain is still God in the valley. None of us get to order our life, one person has many physical problems while another will seem to have good health right up to the end. Even if you are a Christian it is a scary thing to experience your body falling apart. Growing old is not fun.