CAN or WILL? More than once, Kasi and/or I have received messages saying, "You need to stop saying that God CAN heal your son Titus, and start saying God WILL heal your son." As though my wording is holding God back, and my faith is not strong enough to say WILL.
This is where theology that is not grounded in TRUTH can be harmful. I always INTENTIONALLY say that, "God CAN heal our son." Just because God CAN, doesn't necessarily mean He WILL here on earth! (Now, I do believe He WILL in eternity.)
The Apostle Paul prayed for God to remove a "thorn of the flesh". However, as far as we know from Scripture, God chose not to remove it. Did Paul lack faith? Did he get his wording wrong in the prayer? Nope! God was using it in Paul's life.
FAITH is not using the right wording to manipulate God to do what you want Him to. Faith is trusting that God CAN, but even if God is choosing not to - He has a WILL that is bigger and better than our "hopes that He WILL". FAITH is the ability to TRUST God even when you don't understand, even when it doesn't make sense, and even when He is not doing what you want Him to. Because, He has a WILL that is far more glorious that our WILL.
May His WILL be done...
Buddha lived, died, stayed dead.
Muhammad lived, died, stayed dead.
Joseph Smith lived, died, stayed dead.
Jesus lived, died, rose from the dead.
No, all religions are not the same!
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Hard to imagine how easy it is for me to return to bad habits. Every moment must remind myself of humility and gratefulness.
“For pride is the spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love or contentment , or even common sense.”-C.S.Lewis
"I don't know if the kids were hurt or not, but there was a lot of them. There is no penalty for that. Again I'm not a medical doctor but there were a lot of kids that got hurt and came back today. That's not the integrity of the game in my opinion." - Sam Pittman