Tag Archives: faith

Ask & You Shall Receive #2:
Prayer Defined

By | 1 Sep 2013

Boiled down to it’s most basic concept, prayer is simply a conversation between a follower of the Lord Jesus Christ and the One True God. Access to Father God is only through Jesus’ blood and His finished work of the Cross. How do we know this? Because Jesus Himself said: Jesus said to him, “I am the way,… Read More »

Ask & You Shall Receive #1:
Introduction to Prayer

By | 1 Sep 2013

For quite awhile now, God has been leading me to teach on prayer here at Miscellaneous Ramblings, so I’m now going to do precisely that. In this series, I hope to impart to you the principles and precepts found in the Scriptures I’ve learned and experienced so you, too, can apply them to what hopefully will become —… Read More »

By His Stripes We Are Healed #6:
Be a Doer of the Word

By | 1 Sep 2013

One of the things I’ve seen repeatedly in other believers is that they wait until a major crisis occurs before going to God’s Word and claiming His promises to deal with it. In other words, when they or their loved ones get seriously ill or the husband or wife in a two-income family suddenly lose one or both… Read More »

The Real Story of Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

By | 14 Apr 2013

Last Saturday night, using free tickets a friend of my wife gave us, we attended the production of an abridged version of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Joseph & The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at Prescott High School in Prescott, AZ. It was the first time for me to see the play; I’d of course heard of it, but had never… Read More »

By His Stripes We Are Healed #5:
Faith For Healing

By | 9 Feb 2013

Many are the times when I’ve heard objections raised against the doctrine of divine healing that go something along the lines of the following: Brother/Sister So-and-so believed God for healing and it didn’t work. He/she stayed sick for months/died/whatever. -OR- My aunt got prayed for by (insert any famous healing evangelist’s name here) and she still died of… Read More »

By His Stripes We Are Healed #3:
Saved From Sickness

By | 19 Dec 2012

Many Christ-followers miss a key principle when exploring the New Testament concerning divine healing. Fascinatingly, it’s the Greek word for “saved” itself. …if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be . For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with… Read More »