Do Great Wonders
Saturday, June 21, 2025
Here, Now, For Us, For You?
Healing With Fire,
Powerful Fire
Consuming the Chaff.
Psalm 136:3-4
O give thanks to the Lord of lords, for his steadfast love endures forever; who alone does great wonders, for his steadfast love endures forever.
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Acts of the Apostles 8:6-8
The crowds with one accord listened eagerly to what was said by Philip, hearing and seeing the signs that he did, for unclean spirits, crying with loud shrieks, came out of many who were possessed; and many others who were paralyzed or lame were cured. So there was great joy in that city.
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Words of Grace for Today –
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The greatest wonder of all is that God actually loves us sinful humans!
Accounts of preachers bringing hearts and minds to realize God is not only to be feared but to be loved, in return for God’s steadfast, unending love for us all.
Accounts of illnesses being cured, illnesses that no one thought could be cured.
Accounts of God’s love enduring through people’s darkest times.
Accounts of people responding to God’s Wonders with great joy, spreading like wildfire – the only smoke being from the incense burned in ceremonies of thanks.
Account of …
Well they are account of God curing other people.
How about you! Will God cure you?
Will God ever get around to curing you of a disease that destroys people around you, a disease that is hidden in plain view, a disease that no one thinks can be cured, for you play it to your advantage while it consumes life around you?
Will God?
Yes, God will, whenever we allow God to turn our hearts and minds inside out. Whenever we surrender our lives to be as God created us to be: loving sacrifices, conduits of God’s love for all people. Whenever …
Whenever the Holy Spirit enters our lives and we do not refuse all that the Holy Spirit has to offer.
Whenever.
And then there will be great joy. In the city. In the deserts. In the bush. In the mountains. On the lakes and oceans. There will be great joy across the face of the earth.
Whenever, though, can take more than a lifetime,
which is sad,
no an occasion for joy at all.