GOD Morning! April 13 Boot Camp Day 37 / Coconut Curry Chicken

GOD Morning!  April 13 

Boot Camp Day 37

Coconut Curry Chicken

Luke 5:17-26, 36-39 AMP

¹⁷ One day as He was teaching, there were Pharisees and teachers of the Law sitting there who had come from every village of Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem. And the power of the Lord was present with Him to heal. 

Is the power of the Lord present with me to heal? Am I in tune with the Healer? Or am I distracted?

¹⁸ Some men came carrying on a stretcher a man who was paralyzed, and they tried to bring him in and lay him down in front of Jesus. ¹⁹ But finding no way to bring him in because of the crowd, they went up on the roof [and removed some tiles to make an opening] and lowered him through the tiles with his stretcher, into the middle of the crowd, in front of Jesus. ²⁰ When Jesus saw their [active] faith [springing from confidence in Him], He said, “Man, your sins are forgiven.” ²¹ The scribes and the Pharisees began to consider and question [the implications of what He had said], saying, “Who is this man who speaks blasphemies [by claiming the rights and prerogatives of God]? Who can forgive sins [that is, remove guilt, nullify sin’s penalty, and assign righteousness] except God alone?” ²² But Jesus, knowing their [hostile] thoughts, answered them, “Why are you questioning [these things] in your hearts? ²³ Which is easier, to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven you,’ or to say, ‘Get up and walk’? ²⁴ But, in order that you may know that the Son of Man (the Messiah) has authority and power on earth to forgive sins”—He said to the paralyzed man, “I say to you, get up, pick up your stretcher and go home.” 

²⁵ He immediately stood up before them, picked up his stretcher, and went home glorifying and praising God. ²⁶ They were all astonished, and they began glorifying God; and they were filled with [reverential] fear and kept saying, “We have seen wonderful and incredible things today!”

Sometimes we have to blindly obey God. How did the man know that he was healed!  By getting up and picking up his stretcher. How cool is that!

Can you think of a situation in your life in which you blindly trusted God and took a step of action?

I was delivered of panic attacks, anxiety and depression in 2008. Afterwards, there were days that I felt everything was rushing back. Some mornings, I didn’t want to get up. The giant boulder was definitely right there sitting on my chest. I just believed God that I was totally healed. I got up and did life anyway. I had blind faith. And I am still totally healed after 8 years.

Hey! I just remembered! Yesterday was my Deliverance birthday! April 12, 2008 was when I was totally delivered. Praise God!

³⁶ He also told them a parable: “No one tears a piece of cloth from a new garment and puts it on an old one; otherwise he will both tear the new, and the piece from the new will not match the old. ³⁷ And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the new [fermenting] wine will [expand and] burst the skins and it will be spilled out, and the skins will be ruined. ³⁸ But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins. ³⁹ And no one, after drinking old wine, wishes for new; for he says, ‘The old is fine.’”

“No one, after drinking old wine, wishes for new; for he says, “The old is fine.”

Well yeah! How can you compare, when you have never tasted the new wine?

I remember the first time that I tasted coconut curry chicken. We were somewhere in California. OMGoodness, my taste buds were rejoicing! I had never experienced such delightful flavors mixed together!

I could have said, no thanks, I prefer a nice, juicy hamburger.  I wouldn’t have known what I know now. That I definitely prefer coconut curry chicken any day of the week.

For years, I was stuck drinking old wine. I would pray and feel God's presence every day, but I refused to move forward into total healing. I was okay with a life of fear and sadness, with little smatterings of God's presence. I really believed that was all there was for me in this life. I longed for heaven. I even asked God to please let me die and go there. I sank deeper and deeper into the pit of depression. Then one day, I became desperate enough to start seeking God like never before. He heard my desperate cries and completely delivered me. I am a brand new vessel now. His Holy Ghost wine fills me to overflowing every day! 

"Dear Jesus, I have told my testimony soooo many times, but please reach one more person today through me. Please lift her up! Please help her to get up! Get up and walk right out of the darkness into the light of Your Love! You are my Healer, Dear Jesus. How I love You! AMEN."