7.02.10_Child like faith...

 Praise the LORD!!!

    The other day I was reading some comments at one of my sites and a Christian singer related an event that occurred at one of her events. After the event, while talking with some of her fans, a little girl came up to her and told her of something that had happened during her show. It appears that during a song about the healing powers of our LORD this little girl had been healed. She'd come to the show having difficulties with her leg. Well, while this song was being sung, this little girl was touched by the HOLY SPIRIT and completely healed. She had to tell the singer and thanked her for doing her part to bring JESUS' message and healing to her. Isn't this awesome.

    Oh so wondrous to have such child-like faith! To simply take GOD's WORD as it is written and not try to break it down and make it into something different. This girls simply believed that what was said was the truth, accepted it as such and received a miracle because of her simple, child-like faith!!! We see this same type of belief in third world nations at revivals, camp meeting or healing outreaches. Many people, though not knowing a whole lot about the Bible, theology or even doctrine walk away from these gathering with lives miraculously changed. Healing from diseases, sickness or infirmities, with lives completely turned around and  giving GOD all the glory. Miracle upon miracle. Yet here among the adults of the 'civilized' world, these results are seldom seen.

    Why, one may ask? The answer is so simple. We have had our heads filled with all sorts of religion, the practices of man. We can see the forest because of the trees in one sense. We're to busy learning all the latest means of practicing our religion, becoming more knowledgeable about all the ins and outs of it, to simply accept it as it is written. Though there are many groups out there that experience the 'signs and wonders' that went along with the apostles during the first centuries of the church and at several other times during history, for the most part these aren't seen by most!

    This is something that is really missing from the bulk of our churches! We tend too often to center our focus on breaking down all that the Bible says and applying it to our lives, that we simply fail to just accept it as it is stated. JESUS tells us that we must be as a little child to enter the KINGDOM of GOD(Matt. 10:14,15) and we must accepted it, as one!. This is what HE meant by this. We're not to break down and evaluate every detail of the Bible. We're to take it WORD for WORD, just as it is written. Not study it, break it down into that which we think it means, but to take it as it is written. How many times in the Bible, do we read "for it is written?" It isn't said 'yes, the prophet said that, but he meant this!' It is said "FOR IT IS WRITTEN." Could GOD of been much plainer about what HE meant. I think not!

    With the times that are currently upon us, it doesn't take much to realize we're nearing(or are in) the 'end times,' that the church needs to come back to it's original glory. Where miraculous signs and wonders are taking place everywhere that the GOSPEL is preached. Everywhere, where two or more Christians are gathered together in agreement over a need. It is time that religion disappeared and simple, child-like faith became the common practice. Sure we're going to have many that can't accept things for their face value or have to continue with those ways that they've been raised and taught. We'll also have those that simply refuse to accept humbling themselves, because they've this or that degree. All I can say to these is, "that I'm sorry you refuse to accept CHRIST as HE truly is and will have to stand before HIM to be judged, just as I will and our futures lie totally in HIS hands!!!"

   Another freelanced devotional and I'm led as with most not to have extra reading to go with it. These are those that are for all our attentions to be upon them alone. They're also intended for our greater growth, much in the way of verses where JESUS' stated "verily, verily"!

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GOD bless and good day,

Rev. Marshall Barth

Vine of CHRIST Ministries

Vine Ministerial Network International