faith

To touch Him 1:  Mark  6: theunfetteredpreacher 

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To touch Him, to touch the heart of God.  (That is my desire).  That is the place of Power, the place of answered prayer.  

That is when we begin;  To see, to know, to consider and to understand, that the Lord is alive,” that it is He, that is God, that it is  He, who is the Creator and Ruler of all. (Isaiah 41:20)  

That God, the Lord, our Lord, is not dead.  

The Gospel,  is not  just meaningless childrens stories, or fables, not empty promises, repeated over and over, just stories, not to be taken seriously. 

Whether it’s a great fish, (able to swallow a man), a talking donkey, or a talking snake, (who would lead us astray).  (All true…).

Samsons,  superhuman strength, or the impossible translation, of Phillip, from here to there.   

It all, happened, just as the book says. 

The Power and Promise of Salvation, of Healing, of our not suffering want, of our not being in need,  of our God, supplying all our needs, according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus.  

The promise that He is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask, think or even imagine. 

All this is true, and all real.  All is possible.  All is available.    To any and all who learn to Touch Him.  

That lack of knowledge, (of how to touch Him),  is the reason His Church is Powerless and dieing. 

As Jesus walked among man, He would choose, who He would touch, heal and make whole.  

The lame man at the pool of Bethesda, or the man blind from birth, out of all those in need, he chose these two, the 7,000 he taught, healed, told the disciples to feed, because they had been with Him three days, with nothing to eat. ALL HIS CHOICE.

Why, did he just choose a few to make whole, when it seems there were multitudes? 

We have no clue, other than to teach those with Him, about sin and God’s love and grace.  He chose who He would touch.

In the time of Moses, the people said, “You talk to the Lord, and tell us what He wants.”  

In the New Testament we are told “to come boldly to the throne of Grace, to find Mercy and Grace in your time of need.”

It is a different time now, The Lord wants us to come to Him ourselves.   Jesus is now the intermediary, between God and man.

As we read the Word, we find in Mark: as people learned of Him,  (Jesus), their behavior changed.

The woman with the issue of blood, pressed through the crowd, touched the hem of His garment and was instantly healed.

Jesus told her, that her faith had made her whole. (Mark 5).

In Mark 6, we find Him going to His home town, they were amazed at His mighty works.  While He said, He could do no mighty works, just heal a few sick.

Because of their unbelief.  Later:

Mark 6:53-56  (KJV)

“And when they had passed over, they came into the land of Gennesaret, and drew to the shore.

And when they were come out of the ship, straightway they knew him,

And ran through that whole region round about, and began to carry about in beds those that were sick, where they heard he was.

And whithersoever he entered, into villages, or cities, or country, they laid the sick in the streets, and besought him that they might touch if it were but the border of his garment: and as many as touched him were made whole.”

“As many as touched him were made whole.”

The people from His home town were Amazed, and He could only heal a few sick folks, because of their unbelief. 

He chooses, who He heels.  His choice, His decision His will.   

 

Unless those in need learn to touch Him.

“As many as touched him where made whole.” 

 Saints we need learn to touch Him.   

Are we in need?  Do we truly  believe? 

Look for next post… let us learn how to touch Him, instead of waiting for Him.  If we can learn to touch Him, He meets our needs

We Fish By faith: shared from:  http://billhitchcock.blogspot.com/  

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An interesting look at Faith:

We Fish By faith

It all boils down to this. You fish on faith and nothing else. You can have the right gear, fresh bait, ideal weather conditions, a great boat and electronics and decades of experience, but none of these things will guarantee you fish in the box. But you still go out and fish anyway because you fish on faith.

The evangelist said, “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen” (Hebrews 11:1).

Your faith is the ground floor in which you stand and build towards your intended goal. What you have faith in and the degree of that faith will determine how you think and act. And here is the catch (pardon the pun). How you act will actually guide you in the direction of what you have faith for.

You head out in the morning, many of you while it is still dark. You push off, power up and look over the bow. Some may see a flash of green and a flash of red from the channel markers as you head towards the ICW. Others have nothing more than twinkling stars and a faint difference in the shades of black that separate the sky from water in the still dark morning.

It is dark, very dark. But you head out in faith with the promise of a catch.

It is easy to see why so many fishermen believe in God for they understand through experience what faith is. They know the spiritual significance of, “While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen” (2 Corinthians 4:18) and believe and have faith in God and the day!
We hope for what will be as if it already is. That is faith and true conviction.

“For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it” (Romans 8:24-25).
A fisherman’s life is built on the substance of faith, the foundation of what currently is not. It is hope in the day and faith in the good Lord to provide. Fishermen are just like Abraham, “Who against hope believed in hope” of the promise to come. Against all odds and often common sense, we hope in the day.

Your catch is the promise to come that you have faith and hope in. It is the motivation within you that gets you up and out the door each morning. A warm bed can’t hold you and bad weather can’t stop you for your faith in the day won’t allow you to do anything but to work towards the promise to come. And although you will face many a trial and tribulation and stare defeat in the face, you will come home with a catch. Why? Because your faith and hope will not deny you.

Jesus Christ is the promise to come. It is He in who we have an unshakable faith in. It is the Holy Spirit within us that has quickened our spirit and motivated us to continue on in this life. And we have hope and faith in the His promise, “And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life” (1 John 2:25).

This promise of life comes loaded with its share of trials and tribulations too! But Jesus told us it would. He said, “In the world ye shall have tribulation”. But we have peace because although we will face problems we will not be defeated!

“These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world” (John 16:33).

We head out each day in hope and faith of the promise of a catch. We live our life in the hope and faith of the promise of Jesus Christ to come. We are fisherman. We fish by faith and we walk through life by faith and not by sight.