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  • The need for burning conviction in the goodness of God

    Without a conviction of God’s goodness, it’s not possible to develop the clear focus and the strength of faith to pursue the breakthroughs that the earth itself aches for. 

    How we see Him defines how we think and how we live. The way we understand Him is the way we will re-present Him. 

    When I talk about the goodness of God and His greatness displayed in Jesus, I don’t forget that He was also the one who chased the moneychangers out of the temple with a whip. This, too, is love, as Jesus hates whatever misrepresents the Father! The religious leaders of His day used their position for personal gain instead of in service of the people. In the same way, it is a misrepresentation of the Father to say He permits sickness to discipline us. This is not true any more than it is to say He uses sin to discipline His children. For sickness is to my body what sin is to my soul. It’s time for those moneychangers to get chased out of the temple. (more…)