Mountain Moving


God is up to something...I don't know what. I just know that he is not allowing me to sit back and let cancer kill my aunt without a fight. I was well prepared to do that. She has said she is ready to go. She is more concerned for the people she'd leave behind. I was ready to accept that. I am completely at peace with where she will be headed when she leaves here. Jesus has prepared a mansion for her beyond belief I am sure!

But when I went to God in scripture the night I first learned about this circumstance and was unsure of how to pray for her, I opened up to the gospels...Any gospel was fine. Where I opened to was John 14:11 which says this:

Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the miracles themselves. I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Son may bring glory to the Father. You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.

OK, that's one scripture...big deal. Next I had an e-mail from Francis Frangipane ministries. I like Francis, but he speaks in a lot of apocalyptic language which tends to give me a rash so I often skip these e-mails. I decided to read this one as I didn't feel the usual apprehension. This message was about not having a passive spirit - especially in the middle of a war.

The next morning I woke early and was chatting with God about it all and was asking what I should pray for Aunt Helen...How should I word my prayer for her? I got "Mark 11" in my head. So I looked it up. It contains, first of all the story that Lee Jones used in his message that asked "are you willing to let Jesus use your ass?" (IE - use you to do his work). It also includes this:

"Have faith in God," Jesus answered". I tell you the truth, if anyone says to this mountain, 'Go, throw yourself into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him. Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours."

Not to mention that a healing prayer conference I have been trying to attend but that I keep missing will be taking place in June 5 miles from where my Aunt is staying.

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I don't know what God has in mind...I know what I want it all to mean. But I have learned not to try and figure out what He's thinking. I'm on a 'need-to-know' basis. I just do what my Father is doing. And right now He is asking me not to be passive and to believe I can move mountains in His name.






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