Musings with PWC

  The Biblical modus operandi of signs, miracles, and healings: # 1:  See I am God!   Listen!  Repent! Psalms 106:8-12 (NLT)  Even so, he saved them— to defend the honor of his name and to demonstrate his mighty power. He commanded the Red Sea to dry up. He led Israel across the sea as if it were a desert. So he rescued them from their enemies and redeemed them from their foes. Then the water returned and covered their enemies; not one of them survived. Then his people believed his promises. Then they sang his praise. God shows up of His own accord! God manifests His power and authority…THEN his people believed his promise. They did not believe before!   It was a sign that revealed God!   It was not before the miracle but it was AFTER the miracle they believed. God sovereignly chose to do the miracle which then caused them believe.   # 2:  Through God’s anointed person(s) 1 Corinthians 12:9-10 (NLT) The same Spirit giv...

  On Spiritual advancement and attainment: 1.   All spiritual advancement requires a higher degree of submission to the will and ways of God.  Think of Christ in the garden:  “Not my will but thine be done.”   Hebrews 10:7 (NLT) 7 Then I said, ‘Look, I have come to do your will, O God—as is written about me in the Scriptures.’ ” 2.  The higher or deeper the level of spiritual attainment the greater the manifestation of the fruit of the Spirit. Galatians 5:22-23 (NLT)  “ But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,  gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against these things! ” 3.  These advancements and attainments on your spiritual journey bring you closer and closer into union with Christ.  Objectively you are in complete union with Christ. Colossians 2:10 (NLT)  “So you also are complete through your union with Christ, who is the head over...