Rusty, you are worse than the people that come knocking on the front door, ...when backed in to the corner with the truth, ...you change the subject.
And thank you for validating my point, you say the Lord told you, did you tell WHO the Lord gave you the cure, ...or did all the glory go to Rusty like in your post, ...all I'm reading here is, ...me, me, me, I, I, I, ME, MYSELF, and I.
I'm ashamed to say this, but since you ask I'll give you an example, in December they found a hole in my eyeball and the retina was detaching, the ONLY solution was an experimental procedure that they couldn't give any assurance that the results, if it even worked, would last more than a few years before I would lose my eye, and if it did they guaranteed I would have cataracts in less than five years. I wrestled with this for four days, resisting having the operation and spending the few years I have left in and out of a hospital, but at the same time was being comforted by the Holy Spirit with Rom 8:28, on the day of the operation I went to the hospital, still resisting in my will, but saying, Father, not my will be done, but let Your will be done in this situation, into You Hands I place my body, ...I checked in, was given a bed and was being prepped for surgery when, ...come to find out they had two patients scheduled for the same operating room at the same time with the same doctor and would I mind giving up my place, ...and out the door I went!
Four months passed with me thinking I had dodged a bullet with the operation, but had resigned myself to the fact I would lose my eye in a few years, ...at the same time my boss kept hounding me to go to another ophthalmologist to get a second opinion, finally, between he and my wife hounding me I scheduled an appointment with an ophthalmologist at a different hospital, ...to make a long story short, that was in June, as I was walking to the hospital I asked this simple question to my Heavenly Father, "Father, if I go blind how will I be able to read Your Word and talk with you and hear from You?"
This ophthalmologist couldn't find a hole! The next day we went to the hospital where they found the hole and recorded it on their machine back in January, he examined me again on their machine, no hole, he said he had never heard of a hole in the eyeball closing, only growing larger until the eye had to be removed, as he sat there stupifyed I told hm I was a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ and He had healed me, the miracle circulated rapidly through his medical field and I was asked to be examined by other ophthalmologists, my latest exam was last Wednesday and the hole has filled 90% and the retina is miraculously reattaching, PRAISE THE LORD!!!
EVERY ophthalmologist has asked me what I thought and I have responded with MY Lord Jesus has healed me!!!
So there ya go Rusty, you asked, Divine intervention without me doing anything but obeying, I could give you lots more examples just like this in the last 22 years and others instances where I haven't been healed, I'm on so many meds that if I stop taking them I'd be dead in a week, when I ask Father why He would heal me some of the times and why He won't in others this is the response I get, "What greater love can a man show than to give up his life for his friends," John 15:13 my/our ministry to the Tahitian people has been to show them the love of Christ, so it hasn't been in vain, ...I'm just a tiny speck in God's plan of Salvation.
This is my last post here, I refuse to play school yard spitting contests with you, if you or anyone else want to know more, show up at the Bema Seat of Christ and we will both see what rewards My Lord with bestow on me.
The just live by faith!
Gene
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