Quicken is an old english term which means enliven or to make alive, to make whole, complete. When I was a child I would occasionally get a splinter underneath a fingernail. My mother asked if it went into the quick. Interesting, the quick is the living tissue. If you get a splinter under your fingernail and it gets into the quick, you'll know it immediately!
Romans 8:11 is one of my favorite passages of scriptures regarding healing: "But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwells in you."
To those of us who know the abiding presence of that Spirit, the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead--that is, the Spirit that quickened the dead body of Jesus; that made the dead body of Jesus alive--we ought to experience the quickening of that Spirit in our own mortal body, our own physical, death-doomed body!
This promise belongs to every born-again Spirit-filled Christian. The abiding presence of his Spirit is working in us constantly and continuously quickening our mortal bodies so that every disease germ and every virous that comes in contact with our bodies dies instantly. He is at work in us quickening our bodies: mending every injury, curing every infirmity, and healing every illness.
I will trust in his abiding presence and the quickening of his Spirit!
Friday, July 17, 2009
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Ready for the Storm
God never promised to make things easy for us, nor to give us a life without hardships. It is the trying of our faith that strengthens us.
Jesus told the crowds in Matthew 7:24-27, "Therefore whosoever hears these sayings of mine and does them, I will liken him to a wise man which built his house upon a rock: and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock. And every one that hears these sayings of mine and doesn't do them shall be likened to a foolish man which built his house upon the sand: and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it."
It is interesting to note that 'the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon both houses.' The storm came to both houses, both the wise and the foolish. Some religious people would have us believe that the storms of life come because we are doing something wrong; others would have us believe that the storms come because we are doing something right. Jesus, however, indicated that the storms of life come . . . to everyone.
Our focus then is to be ready for the storm before it comes!
Jesus told the crowds in Matthew 7:24-27, "Therefore whosoever hears these sayings of mine and does them, I will liken him to a wise man which built his house upon a rock: and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock. And every one that hears these sayings of mine and doesn't do them shall be likened to a foolish man which built his house upon the sand: and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it."
It is interesting to note that 'the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon both houses.' The storm came to both houses, both the wise and the foolish. Some religious people would have us believe that the storms of life come because we are doing something wrong; others would have us believe that the storms come because we are doing something right. Jesus, however, indicated that the storms of life come . . . to everyone.
Our focus then is to be ready for the storm before it comes!
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