"Behold, I am Creating New Heavens and a New Earth,
So Wonderful that No One will Even Think about the Old Ones Anymore.
Be Glad; Rejoice Forever in what I will Create." (Isaiah 65:17,18)
Praise God!!!
I’m convinced we’ll see it.
I believe it will come in the midst of great suffering, however.
It seems that only then will a significant percentage of folks in America let go of the ‘good life’ enough to truly SEEK GOD WHOLEHEARTEDLY.
As God's people take Him at His Word, and boldly confess their faith and ask Him publicly for healings and miracles, God hears their prayers and grants their requests, as former missionaries Edgar and Darlene Coombs testify:
"In August of 1978 a miracle occurred in our Foursquare church in Penonome, Panama. One of the Sunday School boys died on the operating table at one of our local hospitals. His grandmother had taken him there for the removal of a cast from a broken hand.
When the doctor saw the hand would remain deformed, he ordered an operation. A second anesthetic was ordered when the first one failed. Suddenly, the attending doctor and nurses realized the child had died from the overdose. The medic went into the waiting room to inform the grandmother of her loss.
Trembling, she stood to her feet and felt she should pray, but she felt ashamed to pray in front of the people crowding the waiting room. Finally, she just fell to her knees and threw up her hands and cried to God to resotre the child's life. She also asked God to heal his deformed hand.
Just then, the medic returned to tell her that her boy was alive again! She rushed up to him and begged him not to operate on the hand. The doctor then came out and told her to take the boy home because the operation wouldn't be necessary! The boy had been completely healed!
Edgar and Darlene Coombs
Former Missionaries to Panama
Father, give us the courage to boldly proclaim our faith and to reach out to others and pray for them in every situation. Help us to swallow our pride and to put aside doubts and fear . . .
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'Blessing, and Honor, and Glory, and Power, be unto Him that Sitteth upon the Throne, and unto the Lamb Forever and Ever.' (Rev.5:13)