god sometimes is at work in deeper ways than we ever would realize and you know we could talk a
long time about the death of our son and it was an instantaneous car accident that was 13 years ago
he left a wife and two baby girls but i can honestly say as hard and as life-shattering
life-altering as that was and god tore the pages of the story that i had been written out of my
book and wrote a news story out of that has come the healing of my son jonathan who was a prodigal
who had heard from his brother and had been talking with his brother and opened with him and
his brother christopher went to heaven two days before it said to him jonathan what's it gonna
take what's it gonna take to bring you back to the lord what's it gonna take for you to to get right
with god and when jonathan heard that news on the spot now you talk about healing and miraculous
healing you know is the healing of a body the greatest miracle or is the healing of a soul
yes a life-giving soul and jonathan was truly born again in that moment and has walked with jesus
since and i also think about the apostle paul when he spoke about his affliction
and he called out to the lord three times and the lord said my grace is sufficient for you
my strength is made perfect in your weakness so in the apostle paul's life an affliction and we
don't know what it was was it physical or was it a somebody in his life that was you know a
thorn in his flesh we don't know but god allowed suffering in his life in order that through his
weakness the power of god would be on display and he can use and we have many friends who
have been healed and we have other friends who have not and the ones that have not as they've
come to christ surrendered their lives and their journey to him and the story that god is writing
it's his story and he is the good shepherd he does lead us in paths of righteousness for his namesake
and it's often unexpected but he tells us that it's full of glory yes that the end will be
glorious and um i i'm grateful i'm heartbroken i would take christopher back in a minute and
i have a son in heaven and i have a son on earth who is serving jesus yeah and i love that who told
us that a healing in this natural body is better than a healed heart right who told us that you
know and when he says i am jehovah rosa of course that we've talked about that's who he
is whether your circumstances in in our natural is to have gabriel back to have christopher back
the righteous lived by faith and i think the currency of heaven is you stand in those times
of everything against you every circumstance against you all these stories and you stand
and you say but my god is jehovah amen that is where that's where we get all the brownie points
whatever you want to call it all of that's all i have to give to god when i get there
is the times that we stood in faith calling out who he was in in the in the dire circum these are
dire circumstances that happen and everyone goes through it everyone has a dire circumstance at one
time or another you will face it and and to stand and declare god in the midst of he is my provider
he's my joy he's he's my every breath he's my satisfaction he's my peace he's my rock i can be
stable you know what what when when god declared himself as jehovah prophet it's funny because i
was reading that um the israelites had come out of egypt and they were in the valley of shore or
the desert of sure and they were thirsty and so they've been there for three days and they start
murmuring and complaining and they find this river called mara and they name it mara called
bitter bitter and so let's just go here for a moment so god tells moses take that piece of
wood throw it in the water and he heals the water and they partake so here's god healing the water
and it's not bitter anymore so i think sometimes our hearts turn bitter
and god says i am jehovah rapha yeah i can heal that i can heal your heart yeah i can heal you
know sometimes we do just exactly though like the water became bitter naomi situation she lost her
husband she lost her two sons and she decided that she would change her name yeah to match her pain
yeah so she said don't call me pleasant anymore call me mara call me bitter this is the thing that
i've learned in all these situations that that i walk through is if you're not careful you'll want
to identify with your pain instead of continuing to identify with your healer your identity has to
stay inside your healer because otherwise you will become the victim of pain and situations and grief
you'll become the the mom that lost her child and you'll become the one that was crippled you'll you
none of that is my identity but you have to fight not to change your name to match your pain you
know that's not my identity those things happened but they have no right to who i am because i'm his
and when i'm his i can't be bitter right because there's no bitterness allowed in him he's rafa
he's going to heal all that bitter as long as i stay in him i can stay healed i can't tell you
how many times people have said to me how can you still believe and my answer's the same how
can you not yeah yeah how can i not still believe yeah what other choice is there than to believe
i have to believe he's rafa he didn't stop being rafa because i had a bad situation
right yeah he became rafa more to me in my bad situation yeah
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