Comments on: renewed hope

By: riri

riri — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:09:53 +0000

The situation that I am going through right now at my job seemed endless, but with this and I am reminded that there is light at the end of the tunnel. This also, goes for my health issues that I have encountered.

By: riri

riri — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:06:31 +0000

Wow! I didn’t get to read this on Saturday, but I am reading it now…I needed this last week and the week before, etc. but I still need it today. Thanks.

By: leolance

leolance — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 03:17:35 +0000

I’ve been suffering from a seizure for almost 10 years now, and this medical condition causes a lot of fears, anxiety, and hopelessness in me. These passages and your testimonies will truly help me in lifting up my faith and believes that healing can also happened in me. For the meantime, I must focus on the good things tnat god had given to me and my family.

By: cteema

cteema — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 04:59:26 +0000

thanks so much for sharing! I am learning the same lesson as well and this was an encouragement because I too need to implement some discipline into my life to make positive changes. I hear Jesus in this passage not only asking “do you want to be made well?” But also, “Get up!”– we need to immediately get up and walk and change.I’ll be praying for you and I hope you can pray for me as well as I try to rid this laziness by walking in the Spirit of power. Eph. 3:20

By: yapdates

yapdates — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 23:07:42 +0000

Christians are essentially people of the second chance, or second-chance-people. Hope is essentially demonstrated via the courage to try again. Before we can take a second chance, we need to become people of the second chance, which is trusting in Christ.

The problem surrounding much confusion over healing is that people tend to be overly focused on the *healing* and forget about the Healer. We too can forget that if we trust God, we need to trust Him to do his will regardless of whether He heals or not heal.

conrade

By: learning2serv

learning2serv — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 23:00:51 +0000

“Would you like to get well?” What a probing question, indeed. I have a severe case of osteoarthritis requiring bilateral hip replacement, but I have to lose weight first. It’s a daunting task, but it can be done. But, “do I want to get well?”

I’m in my early 40s so this is challenging. I try not to let me condition keep me down – I go to school and have started a company – but nagging me, in the back of my mind is this question, quietly asking, “would you like to get well?”

There’s a few reasons to put “not get well”, but if I’m honest with myself, the main reasons are laziness and fear. The bottom line is that by bearing down and working hard, I’ll gain (hopefully) a few more “good years”. It’s just not as easy as it sounds (there are other complications, like my wife’s condition).

But these are excuses, and I’d like your prayers to overcome this laziness and that I remember to grab hold of the fact that “God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, love, and of a sound mind”.

-l2s

By: elena prayer of hope

elena prayer of hope — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 18:25:50 +0000

Praise God for that testimony….wow, God is good.
And all praise glory, and honor go to him.
It just reminds me from his word, that his ways, are not ours, who would think that a spider bite would cause that….But again, all things are possible, with God….

Thank you for the testimony of the man who was healed, from the spider bite.

Glory to God……

By: bethanyF

bethanyF — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 15:32:35 +0000

I sometimes feel paralyzed by my own fears and imagination. I pray that God will use these issues to his Good will. I pray that I may help others and be who He wants me to be. I love reading Psalm 139. It is one of my favorite Psalms.