How to Transform YOUR Community
What can God do with little old ladies who pray? More then you could imagine.
I remember watching movies like this one in the late ‘90s and the early 2000s and being inspired by Gods eagerness to move in the hearts and lives of people who “might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn, and I [God] would heal them.” And in some translations is says “…heal their land”.
This Video is the first in a series of videos that demonstrates the power of God to transform any community. Yes even yours’. God is the same Yesterday Today and Forever. The reason that you and i are in a world where sin and suffering is permitted is because choice is required for Love to be real. That freedom to reject God, comes with the risk of saying “no” to Love and “yes” to selfishness. That potential to misuse freedom is the price of an environment where love is possible. But it means that when Love is chosen that it is real. Not forced. Not the result of computerized programing but freely chosen. This matters because God is the God of love and relationships. Because God loves you and wants a relationship with you. As you can see in the first story within this video, God can redeem any situation and work it out for the good of those who Love God and serve His purposes. Nothing is too difficult for God.
God hides Himself in the peripheral, so that He is heard but not understood, unless you deliberately tune in. So that He is seen but not perceived unless you turn your face towards Him. This preserves the standard required for us humans to CHOOSE God freely. This is the environment that Love can exist within. For without choice it is not Love.
Matthew 13:15
“‘You will be ever hearing but never understanding;
you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.
15 For this people’s heart has become calloused;
they hardly hear with their ears,
and they have closed their eyes.
Otherwise they might see with their eyes,
hear with their ears,
understand with their hearts
and turn, and I would heal them.’
If God stuck His face, bigger then the universe, through the clouds, who could deny Him? Who would dare to? If God removed choice from the equation it would reduce the equation to HOW we would choose to love Him and no longer IF we would choose to love Him. And the richness of the love is what makes the relationship so so sweet.
Matthew 13:16-23 [Jesus continues]
16” But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear. 17 For truly I tell you, many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it.
18 “Listen then to what the parable of the sower means: 19 When anyone hears the message about the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in their heart. This is the seed sown along the path. 20 The seed falling on rocky ground refers to someone who hears the word and at once receives it with joy. 21 But since they have no root, they last only a short time. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, they quickly fall away. 22 The seed falling among the thorns refers to someone who hears the word, but the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word, making it unfruitful. 23 But the seed falling on good soil refers to someone who hears the word and understands it. This is the one who produces a crop, yielding a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown.”
The soil refers to the state of your heart. Can it receive the seeds/words of truth, or is it too hard and un-receptive? Do not miss out, step in to your God given Purpose and enjoy the richness and joy of a God-enriched life. Your potential in God is greater then anything anyone could build for themselves. Think of the headstone of Ozymandias.
Percy Bysshe Shelley “Ozymandias” 1792 – 1822
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
‘My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
So, I wont say more on this here in this post because the purpose of this post is the video. But if you would like to hear more about the God I am talking about please DM me or comment in the space below. Follow and subscribe.
God Bless.
