I am so excited to share the following account with you because I know that this truth has the potential to change your life forever. The reason for my excitement is because what I'm about to share is not a theory that I think will work for you, but is in fact something that I have experienced for myself.
I am learning more and more about the potential available in "Private Worship". You will notice that I'm not someone who feels the need to post something just for the sake of posting. I'm not on any kind of schedule. I only post something when I learn new benefits available through "Private Worship". Personally, I am a little wary when there appears to be some need to post every little thing that happens or every little thought that dances through someone's mind. But, that might just be me.
That being said, here is what I have learned. One morning earlier this week symptoms suddenly began to come on me which I have become all too familiar with over the years. From time to time, for no reason that I know of, my vision will begin to be impaired. My field of vision becomes very limited and a good portion of my line of sight is blurred. Once this begins, I know that it is only a matter of time before I am experiencing intense pain in my head. In the past, I have come against the symptoms and told them to leave me, but almost always I have ended up with the severe headache, anyway.
The enemy loves to build on those kind of prior experiences. It is his desire to convince us that there is something seriously wrong with us by building a case in our minds with real life experience as our evidence. As we sit there right in the middle of an attack the devil will remind us of how we have had these same symptoms for years and how they are not going away but, instead, they are getting worse. Whether or not they are actually getting worse is not the point, the point is that to reinforce his case he wants you to believe they are getting worse.
As I sat in my chair at my desk, the headache began. Understand, these headaches aren't like regular headaches. I guess they might be in the category of being considered a migraine. I hesitate to get into "labels" because people can get all hung up on thinking they have to have a name for something in order to get rid of it and that is not the case. I honestly don't know what it is that attacks my head this way. I know what the devil wants me to believe. The devil wants me to believe that the same thing that attacked my older brother when he was a child is the same thing attacking me. He had a brain tumor at age 2 which ended in his death. Now, I can either live in fear of something like that trying to attack me, or I can do what is necessary to stay alive and fulfill my call.
So, what did I do? I walked into our family room and sat down on the couch and put something over my eyes to block the light because of the pain and I started to worship the Lord. I was not thanking Him for healing me, per say, I was just worshipping the Lord. All I said was, "I worship you Jesus". I know that sounds too simple, but that is exactly what I did. All the while this movie is playing in my mind of this thing progressing to something much worse. I usually take aspirin the moment my vision becomes impaired because I know what is coming. This time, I did not. This time I went another route. To my own surprise, I never took any aspirin. I am not opposed to medicine. Take whatever you need to take. But, ask yourself this, if at some time there is no medicine that will correct whatever is wrong with you will you have enough faith in something other than the medicine to heal you? That is the question that came up inside of me. So, I continued to sit and worship Jesus. Then, the most amazing thing happened. Suddenly, the pain just simply left. You have to understand, this kind of pain would usually last for quite a while and generally I would just try to sleep it off. Not this time, suddenly, I took the cover off my eyes and the pain was gone. Glory to God. Simply worshipping the Lord has brought me to the place that right in the midst of an attack I can raise my hands and worship Him and the pain will disappear. That is some very good news.
I am so excited by this new discovery. I know that there is unlimited potential available to us in "Private Worship". We just need to tap into it for ourselves.
~ Blessings
1 comment:
Awesome. You're such a blessing Mark. I just went through all your posts on private worship and you sorta explained what's been happening to me for a while. I do spend a few minutes in private worship but some months ago I stayed longer than I would usually in private worship. It seemed quite dry at the beginning then after a while it began to get better, my words flowed easily and It just seemed like I had really "reached" God. I use the word "reach" because spiritual things are a little hard to explain. After a while I stopped and proceeded to go to the bath and I most definitely wasn't expecting what happened next. As I touched the door post the Holy Ghost enveloped me and drew me back to the place of worship. I wept, worshiped, sang, it was one of the most awesome times I've ever had with God. The days have come and gone and the memory of that day keeps coming back to me. At first I wasn't sure if I was supposed to spend time in private worship and expect His visitation but now I understand through your teachings it's God telling me to spend time in private worship and I can have a repeat of that experience over and over. Again I want to thank you for being such a blessing to me. I came across your teachings on Pastor Dave's site and I've been immensely blessed. May God richly bless you.
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