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Originally Posted by ManOfWord
This is GREAT Bro.!!!! Thanks!!!
I believe that this is not just AN important lesson to learn as we walk with God, I believe it is the MOST important lesson to learn.
I heard a wise man say, "Don't trust any man of God who doesn't walk with a "limp." If they're not "limping" they've never wrestled with God. EVERYONE needs to wrestle with God at some time in their life. I've had a couple of matches. He always wins, but He lets me score a couple of points before I get "pinned" with the message He is trying to get through to me.
When going through the process of brokenness, the question to ask is not "Why are You doing this, God?" it is, "What are You wanting to show me, Lord?"
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This is so uncanny. My sister in law was just telling me yesterday
that my brother is having a lot of trouble with his hip. I said he may
be fixing to get his "limp". I mentioned how my grandmother who was
the first of our family to obey the Apostolic message. In later years
she developed a limp which continued as long as she lived. My mother
and father both developed the same in their latter years. From time to
time I have trouble with my right hip and it will cause me to "limp" for
a while. I have thought about Jacob. Jacob received his blessing when
he wrestled with the angel of the Lord until daybreak. But he was left
with a 'limp" for life. But with it came a new identity. No longer Jacob,
deceiver/cheat but a new name (identity)Israel (Prince with God). What's
a limp if you have found favor with Almighty God.
I may have mentioned this before but I saw a film several years ago
about the story of Joseph. The end of the story showed this old man
with white hair, LIMPING, leaning on a staff, face lined with age, eyes
squinting as he came up out of the valley to meet his son, Joseph, for
the first time since he found out from Joseph's step-brothers that he
was still alive. Old Jacob is leading the children of Israel as they come
up to where Joseph is waiting with his two little sons, Ephraim and
Manassah. That scene is etched in my mind.That long line of Jacob's
children (The children of Israel)coming out. He brought them out that
He might bring them in. God brought them out of the wilderness that He
might take them to the Promised Land. (Judah was only one of his sons.
He had eleven more).
Many have been as Christ's disciples were! Blessed, broken and
given out. Representing the Bread of Life. Jesus Body broken in many
pieces to be given out to the hungry. His Blood given for the thristy
souls of mankind.
Blessings,
Falla39