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Smiles & Victory at Every Turn!No Sad StoriesTo Tell
2007-02-23
This is not original. "No sad stories to tell" is a statement that a man has been making for years. He is someone you can really look up to in God. There are no sad stories to tell in God. There is only positive, forward moving, progressive, loving stories to tell.
The prophet Balam was asked to curse the children of Israel. Balam knew that the only way to be cursed was to turn away from God. In God, in Jesus, there is no curse. There is only light. "and in Him is no darkness at all." but outside of God is darkness.
Hard times come to all but the Christian is assured that Jesus "will never leave thee nor forsake thee." Look at every saint throughout history. Every true believer has had the presence of God with them everywhere they went. Noah faced the flood just as everyone else did but God gave him an ark and preserved him. Abraham roamed the countryside fighting to keep kin alive and safe but God kept him everywhere he went and brought His promise of a son to pass. Only positive stories in God. Isaac married and carried on the lineage of Abraham facing the same jealous people but God kept him. Jacob had to run away from home but God increased his substance and crowned him the Prince of God "Israel." Did any of these men have easy lives? No but they all had positive lives. They all had good lives. Joseph, the beloved son of Jacob was made a slave. When he made a stand for God, one would think, he would be promoted. Not so, he went down to the dungeon and was made a prisoner. This same Joseph became the ruler of the known world under Pharaoh in Egypt. God had a good story to bring about in Joseph.
Good stories, positive stories, victorious stories. Did they all appear as good? What about the children of Israel who were led captive into Babylon? Three young men refused to bow and worship the image the king had erected. The king, furious in his wrath, commanded that they be thrown into a furnace that was seven times hotter than it was ever known to be. My home oven can get up to 400 to 500 degrees, so seven times that would be 3500 degrees. Steel melts at 2750° F. I would assume the furnace was hot enough to melt steel. My dad worked at a steel mill and I had heard stories over the years of a man who fell into one of those pots of molten steel and just disintegrated. The Bible says it slew the men that threw them in. These men were seen to be standing up, walking around and low and behold Someone was with them. That Someone is Jesus. There are no sad stories in God. Difficult, impossible times make for supernatural miracle times in God. The Hebrew men were promoted and rightly so. How's that old saying go, "you don't mess with mother nature." No, you don't mess with God and His people. God controls the natural and the supernatural.
Marching onward to victory, the people of Israel marched silently around the walled city of Jericho and the walls of that city supernaturally came down. Facing a battle, facing an enemy in a fortified position and they just walked around. I spent a few years in the army. It is taught that you never attack an enemy position unless you outnumber them 3 to 1. All these men did was march around but at the end they blew the trumpets and the walls came tumbling down. The enemy was positioned IN that wall, so, with that wall, fell the enemy also. The strongholds of the devil fall down at the foolish things God commands His people to do. If God wants you to dance in the church, you dance and watch the walls of the enemy fall down. If God wants you to jump up and down and the only thing you can think of is how silly you will look, just remember how silly the Israelites looked as they silently marched around those walls. Positive, powerful, wall destroying stories.
The stories can go on and on. There are no sad stories in God. People with cancer being cured. Blind men seeing, deaf men hearing, lame men walking, people's lives being turned around in a moment of prayer.
In World War I in the days of darkness, it was shared for the allies, Marshal Ferdinand Foch (later the combined armies commander) was pushed back to Paris by the seemingly invisible Germans. Nothing could seemingly be done to stop them. It was at this point in history that Foch sent this immortal telegram, "My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack." And our battle cry as Christians in the midst of constant enemy attack should be, "the situation is excellent, I shall attack!"
God Bless!
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