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Beginning With The Conclusion

Posted in Belief, tagged on June 23, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Is this your son, who ye say was born blind? how then doth he now see? His parents answered … We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind: But by what means he now seeth, we know not … These words spake his parents, because … the Jews had agreed already, that if any man did confess that he was Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue. – John 9:19-22

Jesus healed a man born blind and the crowd couldn’t believe it, or benefit from it, for one simple reason — they had already concluded they would not accept Jesus as the Christ.

Whether in religion, science, or business if you begin, having already decided the conclusion, you will never succeed.

God is not afraid of truth — neither are his people, they will follow Him where ever He leads. As the original Martin Luther wrote in 1529-1531

Let goods and kindred go;
this mortal life also;
the body they may kill;
God’s truth abideth still;
his kingdom is forever.

Sound Bite: Truth is not always politically correct.

– fritz@langgang.com
1 – A Mighty Fortress Is Our God by Martin Luther

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George Washington Faith

Posted in Belief, Conversion, Explanations, Faith, Testimony, tagged on June 19, 2011| Leave a Comment »

George Washington

I believe in George Washington. That is, I believe he was a real person, our first president, and did many good and heroic things. I even heard of someone who had the actual hatchet George Washington used to chop down the cherry tree — it had been through three new handles and two new heads but they said it was the real thing!

But I never knew George Washington — only what I was told.

I used to have “George Washington Faith” in Christ.

I considered myself a Christian. I believed God existed, that Jesus died on a cross and walked out of the tomb, and would some day judge the world. I prayed, tried not to do bad things, sometimes went to church and owned a Bible but I never had met God, personally — didn’t even know I could. I lived for myself and as I saw fit, and had an excuse for everything.

Then came the day, around two in the morning as I recall, when I saw I needed more — that God expected more. He wanted me so I gave him “me” and discovered what the Bible really meant about being a believer!

Any demon can believe facts,

Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble. – James 2:19

Faith is more — it’s knowing the person.

— fritz@langgang.com

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Use Your Imagination!

Posted in Belief, God, Imagination, tagged , on May 28, 2011| Leave a Comment »

[W]e look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. – 2nd Corinthians 4:18

How does God expect us to see something that can’t be seen? We do it all the time when we read a book, talk to friends, hear a lecture, even when daydreaming – how do you think we do that? We use our imagination!

Visualizing in the mind and heart what is desired (or feared) but not seen, is a gift of God. Though it has been abused and misused it can be brought back into captivity to Christ (2nd Corinthians 10:4-6) and used for its intended purpose – to enable us to anticipate, endure, and prepare for what time and space prevents us from seeing right now. Because it is imagined doesn’t mean it is false, it can be more true than what we think we see!

Begin using godly imagination to “see” what God says is all around us – his care, his kingdom, his promises. You could start here:

[Y]e are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,

To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,

And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel. – Hebrews 12:21-24

Visualize the throne, see the city, see the church and the people and the angels, and Jesus. Imagine yourself there – what would you say, what would you do? Start using your imagination to see what God says is there – it will be more accurate than the façade this world is offering.

– fritz@langgang.com

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