a better hope

The following was sent to me quite some time ago. I don't know the book in question, but I believe the quotation is true. There is so much that is hidden from our mortal eyes yet visible in the spiritual. I believe that, just as God has a plan for each of us, the devil (counterfeiter that he is) also has a plan. It's up to us which plan we follow. Though we each have a God-created plan for our lives, not all will attain it. What separated those who did and didn't attain God's plan? I believe it comes down to obedience. We see David burst onto the stage and kill Goliath and wonder in amazement, but what we didn't see was how he grew in knowledge and faith while tending sheep. God will never give someone something big without first testing them with something small. David was tested. He was faithful. His obedience made him a man after God's own heart. This is something we can all have!  From the book from the English deliverance ministry: “It is clear from the scr...

Going to church means different things to different people. Nothing wrong with that. I always felt going to church was a sort of sacred thing. I went to a lot of them over the years and then stopped because I had some rather upsetting things happen in my life which affected my faith. I was a young man. That sort of thing wouldn't happen today. I think of Job and how even his wife, who was surely the closest person to him, left him in his hour of need and told him to curse God and die. What did Job do? Here was a man smitten of God. No doubt about it. God slayed him. Job defended God to his wife and rebuked her attitude. Job was slayed by God and Job defended God. Why? Because he feared Him? Perhaps. I think Job knew God like few men do. Job definitely loved God. But he also understood God could give and take away in equal measure.  Job's friends came to "comfort" him but, instead, sat in silence with him for a while and then started tearing him apart. They didn't ...