Check it out here!

ps. Yes, I know todd has some personal problems right now, but the teaching is very very good. I hope you’ll be blessed by listening to it.

Consider this thought:

This is important know! People will think God has failed them when they were promised this “victorious kingdom life” heralded to them and then they do not get it. In the pursuit to be relevant many teachers in the church have done the reverse and made themselves extremely irrelevant. If a teacher’s goal was to help people live a better life by being more connected to the true source of life, Jesus Christ, then they have self-defeated themselves from the start. It is self-defeating to preach ignorantly or wrongly saying parts of God’s kingdom have come in full when they have not. At this point a person will think a particular part of God’s kingdom has come in full (physical healing, full family reconciling etc…) and pray believing God will help them. When God does not answer their prayer, then they will believe God failed them. This can cause great harm to a person’s faith.

To see More: http://www.osheadavis.com/content/view/120/1/

I have posted this full article at my site:
http://www.osheadavis.com/content/view/120/1/

Othter parts have come in part such as healing and yet other parts have come in at all such as the new creation of everything.

I will post a more detail expliantion of this on might sight today, Lord willing.

Sincerely Yours: Oshea Davis (www.osheadavis.com)

One of the other reasons is because a lot of ‘ordinary’ christians in church have got the 1cor12 gift of healing, but never use it/ train it/develope it.

The verse from luke:(http://www.biblija.net/biblija.cgi?Bible=Bible&m=luke+18%3A1-8&id32=1&pos=0&set=3&l=en)

By the way, many dutchies here! You know, you ain’t much if you ain’t …

Blessings from Holland!

Leon

Vicky,

Do u watch the ‘Harry Potter’ movies? Or read the books? I tried reading the books, but the pacing seems to get slower and slower. So I’m just gonna follow the series with the movies.

The last one (Order of the Phoenix) was cool because it reminded me of that scripture, “Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away” (2 Tim. 3.5). Of course this only works if you view ‘HP’ as an allegory. Plug in the elements.

I think a huge contributing factor to not seeing the in-breaking of the Kingdom is unbelief. Especially rampant in the industrialized nations. “Jesus marveled at their unbelief. And could not do many miracles there.”

Yet, we have to keep in mind as well His sovereign purpose to use “evil” for good. (Like Joseph going to the pit. Daniel in the lion’s den. Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in the fire. And hello! Jesus on the cross!)

I believe that the kingdom can be realized in the community of believers to a degree much greater than we have seen previously. Talk about Paul and Silas worshiping God in prison! And I believe that we can greatly influence the world and expand the kingdom. We are commanded to do so. (The ten servants with varying talents deposited to their care.) Yet at the same time, until the Prince of Peace – Jesus Himself returns – we watch for His coming, our “blessed hope.”

Blessings to you, Vicky! It is exciting to see the kingdom advancing strong in Great Britain. May that fire spread throughout the world!

Praise Jesus!

I love the “action!” shot. Your dad’s hat is great too! Where’s yours? )

That’s so exciting that the conference went so well. I’m praying that the same happens next week at one I’ll be helping with in Michigan.

You like to ask tough questions! This is obviously another huge can o’ worms, but here’s a couple of my thoughts.

I think it’s interesting that the Bible never talks about someone who needed healing and came to Jesus and wasn’t healed. This seems to be in line with thinking that it must always be God’s will to heal us. However, I know of cases where the bright young kid with cancer dies… even though many people are praying for a miraculous recovery. This is hard… to go through as well as hard to understand.

I know people who see miraculous healings regularly for those they pray for but who also don’t always receive immediate healing for their own injuries or sickness. I think it may be going to far to say that if we don’t receive healing immediately (or even at all) that there must be something we’re not doing right.

On the other hand, I think we can learn and grow and become more effective in almost any area of ministry, and this includes praying for healing. I know of people who see healing miracles regularly in their ministry, and they got to this point by making a serious study of the life of Jesus, and trying to understand and emulate the way He lived His life. Dr. Roger Sapp comes to mind as a really great guy who is one the the most Christ-like people I’ve met, and I know he began to see significantly more healings in his ministry after spending a couple of years of intentional study of the life of Christ.

As to the more general question of God’s kingdom come to earth… that’s another good one. I believe God gave dominion over the earth to man, and this is probably the main reason that so many things here are so messed up. There are lots of examples of where things would be better on earth if we took hold of the dominion we’ve been given instead of sitting back and wondering how God could let things get to be so bad.

So, since we’ve been given dominion, let’s go change the world that God gave us! We should be praying “Your kingdom come,” but let’s *do* something about it too while we’re at it! )