THE WATERFALL OF GRACE

PROVERBS 4:20-22 NKJ  20 My son, give attention to my words; Incline your ear to my sayings. 21 Do not let them depart from your eyes; Keep them in the midst of your heart; 22 For they are life to those who find them, And health to all their flesh. Giving attention to God's Word is not as easy as it once was. Today we have a multitude of distractions. Busyness seems to be a disease shared by everyone. We all have more than we can do. Yet . . . God doesn't change. His Word doesn't change. It still says the same thing it did a thousand years ago -- and it will still say the same thing a thousand years from now. "Give attention to my words...." We are confronted with a choice. What is most important? To what shall we give our limited time? God, or....? God makes promises no one else does -- or can. He created, so He knows how things work. Life. Life in its fullness. Life as God intended it to be. And health. Isn't that what everyone would like? T

Numbers 21:9 So Moses made a bronze serpent, and put it on a pole; and so it was, if a serpent had bitten anyone, when he looked at the bronze serpent, he lived.  I know that God is my healer. But why is this sickness and pain still in my body?” If you have been looking at your sickness and pain all this while, stop looking at yourself and start looking at Jesus. Did He or did He not take upon Himself your sickness and pain?  God’s Word declares, “Surely our sicknesses he hath borne, and our pains—he hath carried them…” Isaiah 53:4,  Since Jesus has already taken your sickness and pain at the cross, then He cannot “untake” them. Even if you find it hard to believe that Jesus has paid for your healing, especially when the pain is unbearable, the truth is that it is still paid for. It is a finished work! God is not saying that your sickness does not exist, nor is He asking you to pretend that it is not there. He is asking you to look away from the sickness, painful as it may

2 Timothy 1:1-5 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, in keeping with the promise of life that is in Christ Jesus, to Timothy, my dear son: Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. I thank God, whom I serve, as my ancestors did, with a clear conscience, as night and day I constantly remember you in my prayers. Recalling your tears, I long to see you, so that I may be filled with joy. I am reminded of your sincere faith, which first lived in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice and, I am persuaded, now lives in you also. When Paul celebrates his young mentee's genuine faith, he calls attention to the influence of two women, Timothy's grandmother Lois and Timothy's mother, Eunice. To my knowledge, their names are mentioned nowhere else in scripture. What caught my attention in this passage was this one sentence - "I am reminded of your sincere faith, which first lived in your grandmother Lois and in your mo