At the forefront of my mind are the words:
James 5:15 - And the prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.
and
Mark 11:23-24 - For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, 'Be removed and be cast into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says. Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them.
And while I never doubt that, I must say that until today, I never really gave much time or attention to faith healing.
Now I'm not talking about our brothers or sisters who make a living, supposedly healing people, I'm talking about asking and receiving.
Last night, I went to bed with my throat looking 99% like this:
During my prayer before bed, I actually did something I have never done before. After I was done doing all of my normal praying, I made a special request. I said, "Father, I never pray for myself, nor do I think that I'm worthy of Your ear, but I have a special request. If You really don't need for me to be sick, please lift this sickness from me. If You do need for me to be sick, then Your will be done."
I woke up this morning, and after being awake for about a half hour, I realized that my throat wasn't dry and scratchy anymore, so I went and got the flashlight and looked in the mirror and my throat pretty much looked just like this picture:
I love Him so much I could bust!
All the Glory to God!
As we all know, "The Sabbath day" goes back to Genesis 2:2 - And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. This said that "He rested" on the 7th day. If I understand God's Words and don't read into them, this becomes a model for us. But allow me to continue.
Here, I believe Jesus gives us some valuable insight into the Sabbath, Mark 2:27-28 - And He said to them, "The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath. Therefore the Son of Man is also Lord of the Sabbath." If I read these verses and don't read into them, that says that "The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath". If the Sabbath was truly made for us and we truly were not made for the Sabbath, then the Sabbath day is NOT a day of worship AT ALL.
In my forthcoming book, I cover this topic and suffice it to say, "If God is indeed our Heavenly Father, don't you think that your Father would want to hear from you MORE THAN one day per week? Don't you think that your Father would want to spend a lot more time with you than for just one hour while you're in some building with a bunch of people? If you truly love your Father, you'd want to spend a lot more time with Him. Therefore, don't be concerned with, "which is the Sabbath?", because that's the day God created for you, so that you could rest. Be more concerned about how much time you spend with your Father, who we should be worshiping every day!" I go into a bit more detail in the book...
This is the way that The Holy Spirit has revealed this to me...
I hope that someone finds this useful...
I've been following this for about a week, it's gaining some momentum...
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=1035054
Here's a snip:
Christian groups are rising up as a team to oppose a new Comedy Central program that denigrates Jesus.
The main character of the animated project is Jesus, who lives in New York and is intent on breaking ties with his "powerful but apathetic father."
Need I say more?
If you want to know what's going on in the sick minds of these people, take a look here: http://www.jesusradicals.com/
While you're there, you can read about how they're trying to stop a local college from playing the US National Anthem. Yeah, apparently it, "glorifies war and violence"...
The division within Christianity is almost WORSE than the division among the rest of the world...
Jesus must be crying... 
