Asking Great Things of a Great God

From this morning's devotional:

Nothing exceeds Thy power,
Nothing is too great for Thee to do,
Nothing too good for Thee to give.
Infinite is Thy might, boundless Thy love,
limitless Thy grace, glorious Thy saving name.
Let angels sing for sinners repenting, prodigals restored,
backsliders reclaimed, Satan's captives released,
blind eyes opened, broken hearts bound up, the
despondent cheered, the self-righteous stripped,
the formalist driven from a refuge of lies,
the ignorant enlightened, the saints built up in their holy faith.

I ask great things of a great God.

- from "The Great God", Valley of Vision

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Fighting faith-healing fraud

Dr. Russell Moore talks about why there's a market for faith healers:

I fear that it's more than just P.T. Barnum's famous old maxim about the gullibility of the American public. I fear that there's something missing in our churches that drives even some of our people to charlatans. Might there be less of a demand for these travelling health-and-wealth revivalists if our churches spent more time on our knees in prayer for sick and hurting people?

Of course, all our churches have prayer lists of the sick, and many of them go over these lists line-by-line at Wednesday night prayer meeting. But when's the last time you saw a church follow the command of the Holy Spirit as to what to do for the sick in James 5:13-15? When's the last time you saw a suffering Christian call the pastors of his church to anoint him with oil and to pray for healing?

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