A Prophet is Rarely Recognized in His Own Family

Written by Laurel Aiyana


Spiritual gifts are still looked upon by far too many inrepparttar world with some reservation, more so in Western civilization. Such isrepparttar 126774 case in my family. Raised Catholic, my parents believed inrepparttar 126775 Augustinian theory of cessation ofrepparttar 126776 gifts afterrepparttar 126777 days of Jesus and his apostles shortly after his death. At age 36, I was born again, and departed from Catholicism for empowered Evangelicals. As with Jesus, whose own brothers, at first anyway, thought He was a nut. My own family treated me like an outcast, regularly mock me, and don’t value my spiritual gifting.

Spiritual gifts are blessings from God to be used to bless others as an instrument ofrepparttar 126778 Lord. My gifting is more in healing and intercessory work, but in working within these gifts,repparttar 126779 Lord will give me prophecy to share with people. I pray for increased spiritual gifts as a regular part of my prayers.

Gradually, as members of my family have come torepparttar 126780 Lord, these people have come to embrace me for who I am. Jesus’ brother James was thought to berepparttar 126781 author ofrepparttar 126782 book of James inrepparttar 126783 bible. One saved member does infectrepparttar 126784 rest ofrepparttar 126785 body. I keep prayer that it further infects my own family, but some ofrepparttar 126786 hearts have been difficult to penetrate. They won’t outrun my prayers though. God can penetraterepparttar 126787 hardest hearts. He got through to me, and my hide was pretty thick.

What Are Angels?

Written by Judi Singleton


"We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings and acts."

- Henry Ward Beecher

I have read many articles on angels and there are as many conflicting

beliefs about them as there are religions and people. I don't know

anymore than you do about angels only that contacting them for their

help really works. We are never alone. I have never seen an angel that

I know of but I have called them inrepparttar dark night of my soul and

miracles have happened in my life. The Bible tells us that angels were created when we were. The

difference seems to be that angels unlike us humans always are in

contact withrepparttar 126773 Higher Power and they therefore embody perfect faith, unconditional love, and grace. They have seen Higher Power and know him

personally. Do they evovle as we do? We are told in all spiritual literature that they are a messenger from

the Higher Power. They are allowed if we ask to impart a message

directly from God to us. Now why do we need a messenger? I do not have

the answers to this butrepparttar 126774 Bible tells us that none of those who

contacted Higher Power could look upon him. So perhapsrepparttar 126775 angels are

there so we can see Higher Power through their eyes. Angels are a very popular subject these days. We are in a time of

change on this earth plane. Many things are happening that make us all

afraid I think that is whyrepparttar 126776 angels have made themselves known to

more people. Perhaps people are calling on them more they have always

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