April 4, 2005

   Greetings in the name of  our

Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

I praise the Lord for giving us

the prophecies that down through

time have validated the faith of the

saints. 

2Pe 1:18 And this voice which came

from heaven we heard, when we

were with him in the holy mount.

2Pe 1:19 We have also a more sure

word of prophecy; whereunto ye do

well that ye take heed, as unto a light

that shineth in a dark place, until the

day dawn, and the day star arise in

your hearts:

   Now here is Peter who, having been

in the mount at transfiguration and having

been with Jesus and having talked with

him, still points out that more sure

word of prophecy that proves that Jesus

was the Christ and that God is true.

Peter said that they had not followed

cunningly devised fables, and these the scriptures

of the Old Testament prove indeed that

Jesus is no fable.  Look what Jesus

said:

Joh 5:39Search the Scriptures; for in

them ye think ye have eternal1 life: and

they are they which testify of me.

   And indeed they do.  Imagine men

writing down the events of Jesus' life

centuries before they happened.  I love the

passages in Zechariah:

Zec 13:5 But he shall say, am no prophet, am

a husbandman; for man taught me to keep cattle

from my youth.

Zec 13:6 And one shall say unto him, What are

these wounds in thine hands? Then he shall

answer, Those with which I was wounded in

the house of my friends.

    David also writes:

Psa 22:1 ...My God, my God, why hast thou

forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping

me, and from the words of my roaring?

Psa 22:14 I am poured out like water, and all

my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax;

it is melted in the midst of my bowels.

Psa 22:18 They part my garments among them, and

cast lots upon my vesture.

   And of course Isaiah:

Isa 9:6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given:

and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his

name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The mighty

God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

Isa 9:7 Of the increase of his government and peace

there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon

his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment

and with justice from henceforth even forever. The zeal

of the LORD of hosts will perform this.

   And there are many more.  The point being of course

that we are blessed that we need not some elaborate

festival or some large order of religion to believe

and trust in our God.  We need not the cunningly devised

fables.  For we have our proof in these and many other

prophecies of how God moved on the holy men of

old and that they spoke by the Spirit of things that

had not as yet transpired.

   Having then this proof and the experience of the

Holy Ghost which being obtained by faith is also witness

to the unbeliever, let us have no lack of faith or doubt in

the very real God.  Let us come to Him and claim His

promises with that reassurance of His ability.  Let's

claim our healing, our deliverance, and our victory

for ourselves and our loved ones.  It only requires

our belief in a sure thing.