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From Kidney Failure to Victory

2008-08-31T20:11:00.000-07:00

I believe we all hit a point in our lives when we look around and ask ourselves what we really believe in, and if we believe in it because it's what we're told to, or because something inside us tells us that it's the truth despite what all others around us say. I had one of those experiences a couple weeks ago while I was in the hospital with "Acute Renal Failure"... medical jargon for "your kidneys just stopped working for some reason"... it's a lot shorter their way. Anyway, I was in the hospital for five days, with the nurses waking me every four hours for vitals, and every twelve to draw blood, and they still had no idea why my kidneys had failed. It was truly an experience out of that Footsteps story you see. When I was awake, I was in pain and when I was in my drug-induced sleep I was having nightmares. All the while, I was asking myself where God was through all of this, where was his peace that goes beyond all understanding? I felt afraid and alone. At some point a still soft voice inside me asked if my faith in God was dependent on how I felt, or if I was willing to believe in Him despite my circumstances. I chose to believe. I can thankfully say that my kidneys are healed! I would even dare say they were miraculously healed, because the doctors still don't know what caused the failure, or why they got better. I've been given a second chance, and I'm going to do my best to be all that God has called me to be!

Powerful message from Kenneth Scott!

2008-08-30T12:30:00.000-07:00

The term “Porter” is used because it is not a commonly used term, I wanted to give a brief explanation of its meaning and definition. The dictionary has several definitions of the word “Porter.” One of them, however, describes the biblical definition. It is someone that is a doorkeeper, or someone who guards a door or gate.
The following scriptures collaborate the dictionary’s definition of a porter:
1 Chronicles 9:18 Until then they had been gatekeepers for the camps of the children of Levi at the King’s Gate on the east.
2 Chronicles 9:22 All those chosen as gatekeepers were two hundred and twelve. They were recorded by their genealogy, in their villages. David and Samuel the seer had appointed them to their trusted office.
2 Chronicles 8:14 And, according to the order of David his father, he appointed the divisions of the priests for their service, the Levites for their duties (to praise and serve before the Priests) as the duty of each day required, and the gatekeepers by their divisions at each gate; for so David the man of God had commanded.
2 Chronicles 23:4-5 This is what you shall do: One-third of you entering on the Sabbath, of the priests and Levites, shall be keeping watch over the doors; 5 one-third shall be at the king’s house; and one-third at the Gate of the Foundation. All the people shall be in the courts of the house of the LORD.
2 Chronicles 35:15b Also the gatekeepers were at each gate; they did not have to leave their position, because their brethren the Levites prepared portions for them.
Ezra 2:42 The sons of the gatekeepers: the sons of Shallum, the sons of Ater, the sons of Talmon, the sons of Akkub, the sons of Hatita, and the sons of Shobai, one hundred and thirty-nine in all.
Nehemiah 7:1 Then it was, when the wall was built and I had hung the doors, when the gatekeepers, the singers, and the Levites had been appointed,….
2 Kings 7:10 So they went and called to the gatekeepers of the city, and told them, saying, “We went to the Syrian camp, and surprisingly no one was there, not a human sound-only horses and donkeys tied, and the tents intact.”
1 Chronicles 9:21 Zechariah the son of Meshelemiah was keeper of the door of the tabernacle of meeting.
Mark 13:34 It is like a man going to a far country, who left his house and gave authority to his servants, and to each his work, and commanded the doorkeeper to watch.
John 10:3 To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice; and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.
Biblically, porters were responsible for guarding or protecting the doors or gates to the city, temple, or the king’s palace. Spiritually speaking, when we become born-again, we also receive the duty and responsibility of being porters. We do this through our weapons of prayer. In Matthew 6:10, in what we know of as “the Lord’s Prayer,” God gives us a commission to pray for His will to be done on the earth. Demons and demonic spirits are working continually and diligently to keep the will of God out of the earth realm and bring as much chaos and destruction as they can. But when we are willing to pray the authority of God’s Word, we push back the gates of hell, and open the doors of heaven and allow God’s will to be done in the earth realm instead.
The responsibility of what we allow in our home, city, church, nation and so on, depends upon us (as Porters). We have the authority and responsibility (through the power of the Word of God) to guard and protect.
God’s will is done in the heavens without opposition, hindrance or failure. However, His will can only be done in the earth realm when we (as porters) utilize the weapon of His Word, and pray for His will in the earth.
And he set the “porters” at the gates of the house of the LORD, that none which was unclean in any thing should enter in…….…2 Chronicles 23:19

Man raised from dead in ER

2008-08-30T12:01:00.000-07:00

More miracles happen in the United States than most people know. The reason you don't hear about them here is because ours is a country of logic. If it doesn't make logical sense, it must be a fluke, or coincidence, or anomoly, but the last thing it could possibly be is a miracle. What happened in the Emergency Department at Cedar Park Regional Medical Center was just that, a miracle! We had a man come in by EMS "CPR in progress" a few months ago. His family had arrived not long after he did, and was shortly thereafter praying for him with our chaplain in one of our consultation rooms. Little did they know, that at that moment he was already being pronounced dead by the Emergency Physician. One of my co-workers and I were intent on not letting this happen on our watch, and I was especially reluctant to let him go because our church has been learning from a healing church to take authority over these things. No sooner had the doctor pronounced him dead, and gone to tell the family that he didn't make it, then his heart miraculously started beating again! One of the nurses that was working on him confirmed this with me, that they had not restarted his heart, but it had in fact started beating again on it's own! The doctor dismissed it as an anomoly saying, "Sometimes these things happen." The hand of God intervened in that man's life, and it was all thanks to the prayers of His people!

La Quinta in Dallas

2008-05-29T13:52:00.000-07:00

This is the motel we stayed at while at a Jesus Culture conference in Dallas. It was pretty nice for the price, and was right next door to Denny's! We actually had the opportunity to pray for a man that was working the front desk in the building shown here, who was suffering from asthma. He had asked if we would pray for him, knowing that we were in town at a healing conference. Of course we were more than excited to do so for him! It was about midnight, and we were exhausted, but all too excited to see what God had in store for this guy! We laid our hands on his chest, and declared the Lord's healing come into his lungs and bring restoration. There was no trumpet sounds, or bright lights or gnats flying out of our mouths like in Green Mile, but when we were done he said he felt a tingling in his chest. Of course at this point we're all excited! We asked him to do something that would normally exacerbate his asthma, and the guy started doing jumping jacks on the spot! Now this guy was super skeptical when we started. He had been to church before, but had never seen anyone really healed, and we got the impression he really just thought it couldn't hurt, but wasn't expecting much. By the time we were done, we've got this guy doing jumping jacks in the middle of the La Quinta Inn where he works! God is good, and he's definitely unpredictable!