New Methods For Old Things

AMAZING......

Preparing For Reign

Some of us have been praying for rain....we especially have because our tree farm so desperately needs it.  We've prayed for God to send the rain....we prepared the fields to receive it and He sent it.  It's so nice to see some of these brown needles being replaced with green.  

Stick with me...I have a point....   

This made me think- How often do we stand in church on Sunday praying...no, BEGGING God to send down His rain on us?  No, not the wet stuff but the REIGN....the REIGN of His power over our life?  We pray and pray and pray for it but then we grumble because it doesn't come.  

Well, what have you been doing to "prepare your field" to receive it?  THINK ABOUT IT!

Jesus Never Stops Stopping

     

     As Jesus and his disciples were leaving Jericho, a large crowd followed him.  Two blind men were sitting by the roadside, and when they heard that Jesus was going by, they shouted, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us!”  The crowd rebuked them and told them to be quiet, but they shouted all the louder, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us!”

     Jesus stopped and called them. “What do you want me to do for you?” he asked.  “Lord,” they answered, “we want our sight.”  Jesus had compassion on them and touched their eyes. Immediately they received their sight and followed him.  - Matthew 20: 29-34

     Jesus was passing their way and they knew and had faith that He could help them.  How many times has He passed by our way and we knew that He could help us yet we were too stubborn and prideful to cry out to Him?

     Each time the blind men would cry out, the crowd would try to hush them up.  They just kept crying louder and louder.  Why, then, when we are crying out to the Lord, we give up so easily in our efforts to seek Him just because someone or something tells us to hush?... get over it?... stop depending on God?  Buck up and do it ourselves?

     Jesus didn’t give up on the blind men and no matter what man may try today, if Jesus wants to do something, no one and nothing can stop Him.  The only “Stopping” He did that day was to stop and heal those men.

     Jesus had compassion on them and touched their eyes. Immediately they received their sight and followed him.  -Matthew 20:34

     Stop following those who would have you to hush and start following the One who stops for you when you cry out for Him!

Thank God He never stops stopping for me!...and you!!