So,last time we looked at the expected years of life here on earth. We are “promised” to live from birth to age seventy (or 80), according to the Scriptures. However, many people, for one reason or another, don’t make it that long. Why not? Well, one needs to look at all the circumstances that are presented or that we are confronted with. While it is true that the “promise” is in effect, that enemy of…
Continuing in the theme of “Healing”, whether Divine or natural, an important issue comes forth. Previously, in “Praying For Healing“, I mentioned the “Job manifesto”. Those are my words and I would like to explain what I meant. Job was an interesting character and many things are (wrongly) attributed to him in an effort to justify circumstances that the person who uses them just doesn’t understand. Job has become a readily accessible “scapegoat”, used…
Every so often I run into people who, because of some (usually many) traumatic experiences in their lives, search the Scriptures in an effort to determine just what has happened that has caused these things. Invariably, they compile a group of verses that would justify in their minds that, for one reason or another, God has “caused” these things to happen to them – - –
