Well, it’s been a while since I’ve written on here. Life has not exactly been dull around here. My partner has his second grandchild on the way and we’re resuming bible study this week at my house. If you have read some of the earlier works on this site, it does not give you a good picture of where I’m at spiritually now. I would not even be able to give you a full update now. I can just say this, “JESUS IS LORD!” and “HE IS GOOD!”
The Lord has really quickened me to get back to writing this thing. (I mean, how many gay, Spirit-filled Christians are blogging? For that matter, how many of us even exist?) Even now, I should be writing a bible study out on faith for tomorrow night. I may get into some of that. Faith is important, because without it you cannot please God (Heb. 11:6). However, I’m not sure that faith is particularly what God wanted me to write about. Tonight, the Lord has given me a challenge: “What would you say?” This has lead me to ponder, given the powerful voice the internet provides, what would I say to any reader, gay, straight, or Christian that reads this? If I had something of value to say, what would it be?
Firstly, to the gay person in particular I would say, “Don’t listen to the lie that you can’t know God and be gay.” I mean, its just not true. God has been doing some amazing things around here lately. In one of our prayer meetings we held recently (about three weeks ago), we prayed for a man by stand in. That means my father-in-law stood in for him as if he was this man and we layed our hands on him. I don’t even remember being told where the cancer was, but I do remember seeing this thing–possibly a spirit–leave this man’s body. We just got the report this week–this man, who was terminal, has been completely healed by Jesus. PRAISE THE LORD! I mean, if God has such a problem with me and my partner, why does he do stuff like that through us? Why does he even show up?
I would also like to tell anyone who comes by, “Jesus is real. He will change your life forever if you’ll just let Him.” The above case is a good example. The young man who was healed of cancer had actually asked the lady who first told me and my family about him, “Why does God want me to die? What have I done that is so horrible?” You see, that was a lie, because the scripture says that it is God’s will that none perish. Also, the scripture plainly says Jesus paid for diseases as well as our sins. How COULD it be God’s will that he die, especially one so young with so few plans fulfilled? No, Jesus has given this young person a new lease on life.
Its interesting to me that people will believe in a Jesus who forgives sins, but they stand in doubt of his willingness to heal the body. The most profound thing is we then wonder why members of the occult and servants of darkness stand mocking as we talk about this AMAZING Jesus, who as far as they can tell has not shown up in 2,000 years. Understand me, I am in now way demeaning Jesus, but only our failure to pray until heaven invades earth and men are enraptured at the glance of the true lover of their souls–Jesus, the Son of God.
I tell you the truth, if Jesus is unwilling or unable to heal the body, I stand in doubt of his willingness or ability to forgive sins. If you study Jesus’ ministry, you find that healing and forgiveness were paralleled. For instance, lets take the story of the paralytic in Mark 2: 1-12. Jesus actually says, “But that ye may know that the Son of Man has authority on the earth to forgive sins…” and then tells the man to get up and walk, which he does. Why did Jesus heal him? SO THAT THEY WOULD KNOW HE HAD THE RIGHT TO FORGIVE SINS. Jesus has never changed (Heb. 13:8).
This particularly may apply in this young man’s case. While I have not had the opportunity to talk with him, from what I know about his background, it seems to me he may not know the Lord. However, how many of you reading this thing he won’t be WAY more receptive to Jesus now that He has healed his body? No, this is an example of why we NEED miracles in the body of Christ today. How will the occultists believe us when we say that Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life and that He really is risen from the dead, if they never see any sign that His power is real or His power is greater? How can we truly defend ourselves against the wisdom of this age, the opinions of the unredeemed but well-educated, or the arrogance of unconverted governments? To all those who might think the spiritual gifts are useless or unnecessary today: you might want to think again. I am not trying to be arrogant or stir strife, but make a valid point.
It occurs to me that in the Book of Acts, massive events of evangelism followed displays of God’s raw power coupled with the uncompromised preaching of His Word. For instance, on the day the church was born, 3,000 people were brought into the body of Christ because a group of people had an encounter with the Holy Spirit and began acting quite strangely for people in theirs or anyone’s day–speaking in tongues, probably drunk in the Spirit, followed by Peter preaching and giving an invitation to them (Acts 2). Following that, in Acts 3-4, Peter and John heal a man at the temple and preach to the multitude. Out of this demonstartion of power, about 5,000 people are saved (Heb. 4: 4). Going on, great joy fills an entire city as Jesus is preached by Phillip the deacon and people are delivered from the power of demonic spirits (Acts 8:7). Also, in Ephesus, the power of God and Lordship of Jesus was demonstrated with such effectiveness that people who practiced magic brought together their occult materials and burned them, the price being about 50,000 pieces of silver (Acts 19:11-20). That is definitely a good day.
Returning to the young man who I mentioned was healing earlier, after I got off the phone with the woman who gave me the report, his friend, I heard the Lord say to me, “That is the power of the gospel.” What I have mentioned and what I have sighted from Acts as well as Jesus’ life, all point to the reality of the life Jesus modeled and the Kingdom he preached. How often have we relegated Jesus’ teachings to mere morality and made irrelevant the gospel through being politically correct? God is not politically correct. He thinks He is the Most High and no one else is. And since God thinks that, that is how it is.
I realize there may be some reading this who are not Christians or who are far from God. Perhaps you are dealing with yourself being gay and you have issues with God because of it. Well, I am as a gay as they come and I have written this and experienced personally the Creator of the Universe manifesting in my life. Regardless of where you are, even if you are a Christian who has perhaps forgotten it, I would like to tell you after writing all of this, Jesus can change your life. He will, if you invite him too. If you have never been born again, also calld “saved,” it is time. Let’s go to the Word.
To be saved, you must first recognize your need for God. Do you need him? If you are far away from God, are you willing to admit that to yourself and Him. You cannot walk with someone you are not in agreement with (Amos 3:3). Part of coming to God is coming into agreement with him, and the first part of that is recognizing when you are out of His will.
Secondly, the scripture declares that Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life and no one comes to God except by Him (John 14:6). Jesus promises, though, that whosoever believes on Him will be saved (John 3:16). So, what you should do is place your trust in Jesus and give him your life. Do that now. Turn your life over to Him and make him Lord, because if you believe He is raised from the dead and confess Him as your Lord, the scripture promises you salvation (Romans 10:9).
Finally, join a church that believes in the Power of God, teaches the Bible, and be baptized.
If you are in need of healing, read the the scriptures I mentioned along with Isaiah 53:4-5, Matthew 8:17, 1 Peter 2:24, John 14:13-14, John 15:7, John 16:23-24,26, and virtually anywhere in the gospels. Just begin to pray and believe that God has heard you. Stay in that state until it manifests.
To anyone reading this, God bless you, and may you prosper in Christ.
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