NCarolinian

Get your head and spirit wrapped around this and perhaps your behavior will align properly. Hebrews 3:6 "Christ is faithful as the Son over God’s house. And we are his house , if indeed we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope in which we glory." The sanctuary is the building that believers in Christ meet in on Sundays and any additional day deemed appropriate for corporate worship, prayer and service. The physical body of the individual believer in Christ is God's House.  Our confidence and hope in which we glory is that firstly, right now, we are seated together with Him in heavenly places and can call on the power in His Name for the pulling down of strongholds in our lives. Secondly, when Christ returns for His believers (Rapture), every "house" or body will be perfected or glorified as well as the corporate Church. This notification that we are God's House; that we carry His presence everywhere we go; that we represent His Kingdom ...

From the story of Jonah in Scripture we find out that Jonah was a Hebrew - a follower of Yahweh or Almighty Creator God. Before Jonah's story unfolded and God spoke to him about Nineveh, God knew the beginning, middle and end of this adventure. Jonah did not have any foreknowledge of his coming days and so he and we are dealt a lesson in Trusting in God's Faithfulness.  In Jonah's experience - there were the lessons of (1) should've obeyed the Lord from the word "Go" and (2)  who are you to be angry at me for being a God of Second Chances? However, God's Faithfulness keeps resurfacing throughout the story, touching many different elements to the account. God was faithful to sending His own Word to the city of Nineveh. God was faithful to the sailors alongside Jonah who begged for mercy as they threw Jonah overboard and received calm waters from the Lord in return. God was faithful to Jonah in that he spared his life from drowning and gave him a seco...

I tell you what - lately prayer for myself and others has been a challenging thing. If God does not answer in the positive and soon, doubt is waiting to take over. There are a list of items I believe I am praying God's will over. I pray the Scripture back to The Lord and remind Him, myself and the individuals that need prayer of His promises. And I know His ways are higher than ours. I am aware His timing is not necessarily our schedule. But the natural remedy to some of my requests are not going to wait around for long. I saw a question on Twitter that was re-asked by Christine Caine. The original question was posed by Chris Hodges and was - "If God answered all your prayers, would it change the world or just change you?" I would hope and pray the answered prayer would change both me and the world. I would earnestly desire that the answer would so influence me that I would move to witness to the world about my awesome God. Christine added an antidote tha...