2010-02-17T14:47:22-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com http://www.gospel.com/feeds/topics/healing http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/the-painful-road-to-greater-results-6024 2010-02-17T14:47:22-05:00 Before the fruit, comes the pruning. I imagine if a vine could talk, he'd say to the pruner, "You're killing me, man!" And the gardener would say, "I know it hurts, but I'm actually removing things you don't really need so you can explode with greater fruit." That may be exactly what's happening in your life right now. It doesn't feel good, but it is good. God is lovingly removing things you think you need. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/flying-high-falling-flat-5997 2010-01-05T09:26:41-05:00 Every time God does something good in your life, the devil is there with some cheap shot he wants to use to rob you of the joy of what God has done. Don't fall for it. It's like you've just won the Super Bowl, you're walking off the field, and your defeated opponent says, "I'll make you pay for this." And he gives you a bloody nose. Yes, he hurt you a little, but he can't change the outcome. You still won, and nothing he can do can change the victory. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/hope-in-five-words-5984 2009-12-17T09:17:07-05:00 When Jesus starts moving, He's on a rescue mission. In fact, the name God told Mary and Joseph to give Him that first Christmas, Jesus, literally means "Jehovah rescues." Every time we say "Jesus," we're saying why He came - to rescue. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/how-to-banish-the-darkness-5949 2009-10-29T09:29:49-05:00 When it's the darkest, when it's the hardest to praise Him, that is when you need to praise Him the most, because praise is that blinding light from heaven that dispels the darkness and banishes your enemy. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/beauty-from-brokenness-5948 2009-10-28T09:59:58-05:00 They can see through your wounds the amazing beauty of a joy and a hope that only a Savior like Jesus can give. If you'll turn away from your despair, and maybe bitterness, anger, and self-pity, and give your brokenness to Him, He can do that miracle for you. The songwriter was right when he said, "All I had to offer Him was brokenness and strife. But He made something beautiful of my life." http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/one-unloseable-hope-5944 2009-10-22T10:07:52-05:00 That unloseable relationship with God comes only one way, because we're away from the God we need so much; away by our choice, not His. We've repeatedly chosen our way instead of His way and we've built an eternal wall between us and God. A wall that God Himself acted to tear down by sending His only Son, Jesus Christ, to pay for all our sins when He died on the cross. http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%209:1-7&version=NIV 2009-10-01T22:44:55-05:00 Jesus refutes the idea that physical handicaps are caused by sin. He suggests instead that many of the challenges we face, physical and spiritual, are there in order that God can use us to demonstrate His power and love. http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%209:1-7&version=NIV 2009-09-27T20:16:45-05:00 What's more valuable--physical healing, or spiritual healing? That's the question Jesus poses in this interesting story of the healing of a paralytic man. http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%205:7-9&version=NIV 2009-09-25T11:50:33-05:00 Jesus heals an invalid just by commanding him to get up and walk. The man had been trying to get to the healing pool but was continually pushed aside by others. http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%205:17-26&version=NIV 2009-09-25T09:04:02-05:00 In this passage Jesus heals a paralytic in front of a large crowd. The paralytic was lowered into the room where Jesus was teaching through the ceiling. His faith impressed Jesus.