Daily Manna from Heaven

We serve a God of miracles and wonders. Miracles like “Dead Raisings” happen even today.

Is it a medical mystery or a miracle?

A South Florida man pronounced dead from a massive heart attack and then brought back to life. His doctor says the man was raised from the dead by a simple prayer. Seven’s Louis Aguirre has the story.

Dr. Chauncey Crandall isn’t your usual doctor. The world-renowned cardiologist is a man of medicine and science, but he’s also a man of faith.

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You Are An Overcomer

By: Joel Osteen

God created you to be an overcomer! Sometimes, it’s easy to get down and discouraged when things aren’t going the way you planned. If you go around thinking, “It’s never going to work out” or “It’s never going to get better”, you limit what God can do. But if, when you face difficulties, you dig your heels in—knowing that God is bigger than your problems—your faith will open the door for God to turn your negative situation around!

Isaiah 54:17 says that, “No weapon formed against you will prosper. This is your heritage as children of the Lord.” Notice you have a heritage. You have rights and privileges because you belong to Christ. As long as you keep God first place in your life, you have a hedge of protection around you, a hedge of favor, and a hedge of mercy. When difficulties come, because you are His child and honor Him, those difficulties won’t prosper in your life. When it’s all said and done, God will take what the enemy meant for evil and turn it around for your good.

Declare over yourself, by faith, that you will overcome every obstacle. Declare that every dream and desire God placed in your heart will come to pass. Declare that you have the favor of God and that whatever you set your hand to will prosper.

As you speak those words of faith, the Lord will work on your behalf and you will live as an overcomer all the days of your life!

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“May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.” -Romans 15:13

On Saturday, the 12th of November,” writes a friend of Guidelines, “I was so depressed that I wanted to kill myself. This is not the first time, either. No matter what, I can never stop feeling this way.” She then told what triggered this depression. She explained, “There was a misunderstanding this morning between my sister and me and I took it personally.”

Another letter tells of a woman who is struggling to cope with a teenager, an alcoholic father, and a husband who abuses drugs and alcohol, and then she said, “My problem is that I have lost my hope.” Then she asked, “Do you know what I mean?”

A third letter focused on a common theme. The person who wrote said, “I’ve been going to church for over eight years, and like the children of Israel I’ve backslidden to a point where I didn’t think I could ever receive grace in God’s eyes again. My sins were so great… that I often felt like suicide was the only way. I cried out to God for mercy and my cries fell on deaf ears. I’ve often wondered how I could sink so low…”

In the New Testament you find three phrases which all describe the nature of God and our relationship to Him. The writer of Hebrews refers to God as the “God of peace,” a phrase Paul used four times in his letters. Paul also used the phrase “The God of all comfort” when he wrote to the Corinthians. But in his letter to friends in the church at Rome, Paul called God “the God of hope.” He said, “May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit” (Romans 15:13).

Now, hold on to that thought for a moment as you ponder the words of an old Scottish preacher who said that the real profanity of men is not in the “swear words” they sometimes use, though he added, “Such words are certainly wrong and foolish. The most profane word man can use,” he said, “is the word hopeless. When we say any situation is hopeless,” he added, “we are slamming the door in the face of God.”

Question: Do you know the God of hope, the one Paul was talking about when he wrote to the church at Rome? Or is the God you know an angry God who determines to beat the daylights out of all of us who mess up our lives, often violating our conscience, and stomping under feet what we know is right, unable to control our passions or the circumstances of life?

Strangely enough, the God that we often picture in our minds is not the God of the Bible. He’s the god of our childhood misconceptions, the One whose true image has been distorted by the ideas of the world and—let’s face it—the blurring of the image of God as Satan strives to keep you from making contact with Him. Of course, the devil (and there is a very real one) prefers to keep you from remembering that God is the God of all hope, that He is the God of comfort, and the God of peace.

Paul’s prayer for the Romans was that the God of hope would fill their hearts with joy and peace through the power of God, the Holy Spirit. That’s the secret of hope in a hopeless situation. Where there is God there is hope, and where there is life, there is God. Never forget it.

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Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. Mark 11:24

Shortly after Dallas Seminary was founded in 1924, the world began slipping into a financial crisis which became known as The Great Depression. Money was scarce, and it became evident that if God didn’t do something big, and soon, the creditors of the fledgling school were going to foreclose and take the property. And what do you do when there is a financial need? Some would write letters of financial appeal. Some would call their donors and hit the panic button. But not the leadership of this school, which placed strong emphasis on the authority of the Word. They prayed. Nothing more? No, but they didn’t just pray. They really prayed.

Gathering in the office of the president, Dr. Lewis Sperry Chafer, they asked God to undertake. Present in that prayer meeting was a man who had memorized most of the New Testament while he was still a teenager, Harry Ironside, a kind of no-nonsense, get-straight-to-the-point sort of person. His prayers were no different. “Lord,” he began, pausing somewhat like a locomotive when it emits the first great whoosh of steam, ready to start moving in great momentum. Continuing he said, “we know that the cattle on a thousand hills are Thine. Please sell some of them and send the money.”

They were still praying when a lanky cowboy, weathered from the outdoors, with callused hands, and wearing cowboy boots, walked into the business office of the school and announced, “I just sold two carloads of cattle…. I’ve been trying to make a business deal but it fell through, and I feel compelled to give the money to the seminary. I don’t know if you need it or not, but here is the check!”

The young woman, knowing that a prayer meeting was going on at that very moment in the office of the president, took the check and gently knocked on the door where the group prayed. Dr. Chafer took the check and immediately noticed that the amount of the check was exactly the amount which they needed—neither more nor less. “Harry,” he said, “God sold the cattle!”

Long ago, the Psalmist recorded the words of the Creator, who said, “For all the animals of field and forest are mine! The cattle on a thousand hills! And all the birds upon the mountains!” (Psalm 50:10, Living Bible).

Question: If God owns the cattle on a thousand hills, how do we, like the men who prayed in the office of Dr. Chafer, get God to send a few our way? Five guidelines—all from Scripture—answer that question:

Guideline #1: Pray specifically. Take time to go back to Matthew 6 and study the passage we call “The Lord’s Prayer.” Then study the prayers of Jesus and what He asked for. He prayed for specifics. If you need the hindquarter of beef, then ask the Lord specifically for that. If you need $50,000, ask God for a specific amount.

Guideline #2: Pray persistently. Even Jesus in Gethsemane prayed the same thing three times. Then, when the Spirit of God witnesses with your heart that God has heard you, thank Him in advance for your answer.

Guideline #3: Pray biblically. Knowing that God has given you many promises in His Word, and gently reminding Him of what He has promised, brings a connection between you and God’s goodness.

Guideline #4: Pray in faith. James says anyone who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven and tossed by the wind. That person gets nothing from the Father. (See James 1:6).

Guideline #5: Pray earnestly. James says, “The down-to-business prayer of a man who has been justified brings great gain” (James 5:16, personal translation).

A closing thought: When you ask God for one of the cattle on the hills, better fire up the barbecue or start looking for a buyer.

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