EXCITING LIES OR BORING TRUTH...

by El Nahtan DaSeer

Unless someone is performing magic tricks and doing something exciting we fail to believe in GOD and in them, or the ones that GOD has sent. Today we refuse to recognize truth without the miracles in real time. We want everything to be must see TV. And that spirit has been in the land for a long time. Fortunately or unfortunately so many people are in need of miracles that desperation has given way to at least believing in what we see--what the person at least does, even if we are not sure at first glance of who they are.

MUST SEE TV....

Jesus told the people in John chapter 4 that they won't believe unless they see something happening that was amazing something exciting something that would fascinate them; something that others can't do or that they can't do themselves. Verse 50 describes the people that need help believe sometimes more than the ones that can give the help. The account of the dying royal officials son in John 4:46-54 is the power of GOD's WORD to perform where he send it and to accomplish what he sent it to do. It is the demonstration of the word that didn't return unto Him void. And if it doesn't return unto him void then it fulfilled designed purpose and appointed time. IT GOES WHERE HE SENDS AND ACOMPLISHES WHAT HE INTENDS...at the very hour HE intends.

So while the high ranking official was rejoicing over the saving of his son. The LORD was now dealing with the people's minds that cared more about excitement than truth. Like a child that wants to see a magic show or must see reality shows that play to the peoples emotions and cater to the lust for the amazing or the impossible.  JESUS was trying to teach the people that belief starts with hearing the word of GOD and not seeing wonderful acts and exciting episodes that fascinate the mind and play into the false fantasy's of life, increasing ones imagination also increases their propensity for lies or untruths. For we live by every word that proceedeth from the mouth of GOD.
John 4:46-54 ..hearing with you heart and believing in your mind before seeing with your eyes. Faith comes not by sight...

AT WHAT TIME DID HE GET BETTER (at what time did you get better?)

As soon as JESUS said he (you) would and you believed in other words he got better YESTERDAY...the better you, began in your past and has worked it's way into your future. Sometimes you need that 'yesterday' blessing. Enjoying today what GOD had already prepared for us yesterday. Some blessings are not on the way to you, you are on the way to them. Times when others become so excited about what GOD HAS DONE FOR YOU that they come running to tell you before you have seen it for yourself. In fact, it's been waiting on you since yesterday; some will go and find the blessing at home, waiting since you left looking for it. Our todays, our future blessings based on GOD's past word. When yesterday has spoken into your today. JUST BECAUSE IT'S IS A OLD PROMISE DOESN'T MEANT THAT IT CAN'T BE A NEW MANIFESTATION...IT CAN BE THE FORMER AND THE LATTER RAIN. GOD only needs a womb of belief to put a seed of promise in to conceive a manifested truth. When you really want something accomplished in you life then you really need to improve you ability to hear GOD and do whatever he say's like Mary told them at the wedding feast when HE turned the water into a vintage Chablis.

When things seem like they are going ill and it is almost over. The situations is close to the grave and you are trying anything out of desperation, even willing to try JESUS. You are willing for GOD to have the final word. You would travel any distance and seek out whoever you think has the answer, you don't care about title, rank, you only care about cure. Knowing that GOD did it before you would ask or think so it would be ready when you need it the most, not knowing yet that you needed HIM the most. LORD, I need it now----it's been ready since yesterday about the same hour I spoke it.

TWO BELIEVES

The believe in verse 43 obviously does not have the same meaning as the 'believe' in verse 54.  The conjunctive adverb 'then' tells us what happen at this point, an  act has occurred here and it uses the word 'believe' again that is different from the use in verse 43 to express the relationship with the giver of the miracle and the ones or family that is receiving the miracle. The' believe' in verse 43 means to believe that he has been given the special power to perform miracles, no different than a witch doctor or a Egyptian priest. So  in  a Father's desperation he only came for the man that works miracles and really didn't fully grasp in whose presence he was really in. He cared mores about the power in his hand than the person whose hand possessed the power. But then the miracle opened up his heart and his family, the bible records that he and his family 'believed'---this time not just in the miracle and the power of the man that willed it, but in the miracle being done by someone that was more than a person that had the power to heal, he believed in the Messiah, JESUS as the SON OF GOD. So then a true encounter goes beyond what He has done to who He is. NOT ONLY AFTER THE  MIRACLE  BUT THE MIRACLE MAKER

I remember getting myself into a trouble that I almost got me carried away from here, unaware of the danger I was in until I heard a shout from heaven. SATAN! I know that sounds strange but I don't care what people think. when I tell you what I did next it ought to tell you if something really happened. I fell down on the concrete and wept until cars were stopping to see what was going on---I wasn't weeping because I was afraid, though I should have been, not because I was confused---I WAS WEEPING BECAUSE I HEARD THE VOICE OF GOD---YALL I TELL YOU I COULDN'T CATCH MY BREATHE....IN HIS VOICE WAS A INDESCRIBIBLE LOVE

Spiritual Desperation

Going the last mile for your child...a father going for help is a powerful demonstration of desperation. Anyone with children especially if they have been hurt or sick, there's is no where we wouldn't go an nothing we wouldn't do. But how about your spiritual baby that has been sick for  a long time? Would you let that child that GOD has impregnated you with die or would you seek the one that can cure anything; would you call on GOD even if you didn't fully understand who he was. You at least knew what he was capable of. Sometimes GOD has to wait for us to get physically desperate to speak  not just to our physical but also to our spiritual condition. Extreme despair makes one go after what is needed aggressively. Some of us have been too passive about our relationship and the influence GOD wants us to have. Some of us have needed spiritual 911 for a long time. This time a bandage want do...the wound has gotten so bad that it's leaking profusely.  GOD told Israel when they have left you for dead I am the only one that rescued you and made you desirable.