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Classic from 2010

Burning Bush Devotional

10 April 2017

Still
Powerful

Then Peter said, “Silver and gold I do not have, but what I do have I give
you: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk.” - Acts 3:6
NKJV.

And this she did for many days. But Paul, greatly annoyed, turned and said
to the spirit, “I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her.”
And he came out that very hour. - Acts 16:18 NKJV.

In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you are gathered together,
along with my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, deliver such a
one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that his spirit may be saved in
the day of the Lord Jesus. - 1 Corinthians 5:4-5 NKJV.

An armed robber in Frisco, Texas encountered a force more
powerful than his 9mm Glock handgun. What was that force? Marian Chadwick
simply pointed her finger at the would be robber, and the robber turned around,
and left the store. Actually, the pointing of the finger was not the power that
turned the man around. No, it was the words uttered by Marian, “In the Name of Jesus, you get out of my store. I bind
you by the power of the Holy Spirit.” To
Marian and another person that was present at the time, the robber appeared to
be “stunned”; and he
then turned, and walked out of Marian's crafts boutique, Extravagant Necessities. This same man is believed to have
successfully committed armed robberies in four Dallas suburbs, and has not yet
been apprehended.

As people of faith, as Bible believers, we believe that
the miracles of the Bible are literally true. As we know, the miracles were
necessary to authenticate the acts of Jesus and His apostles. However, living
in this world some 2,000 years later we are hesitant to believe that the
miracles that happen around us are actually miracles. We are much more likely to
attribute the miraculous to being a coincidence, or a lucky break. Or, in the
case of someone whose X-rays or MRI has changed suddenly from showing a
malignancy to revealing nothing of significance, we almost automatically think
this was simply a mistake by the Doctor or operator of the equipment.

It is rare for it to actually be reported in the news
media an undeniable act of God, a miracle, as occurred in the boutique shop of
Marion Chadwick. I wonder though how many people actually paused to read the
story, or if they were watching the news on television if they even listened to
the words. How many people who heard the story or read the story even stopped
to think that this is a great miracle of God that has occurred?

Even though it has been 2,000 years since Jesus walked
upon this earth - God is still God. Not only is God still God, but the Name of
Jesus is still powerful. "Most
assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do
also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father. And
whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified
in the Son. If you ask anything in My name, I will do it (John 14:12-14)."

The following comment was posted at the
Burning Bush website about three months after this devotional was written:

Thanks Ed for this
article, I was reading through your articles and this one hit me. I believe
that miracles happen from God to those who believe, some people call it luck I
call it God's favor or mercy or miracle. I am raised in a Christian family, and in my life I have seen miracles happen,
the recent one that happened to me was on 9th April when I was in jail locked
up abroad awaiting deportation from the Netherlands because my residence permit
was 3months expired and I had no means of renewing it, I had two options to
stay illegal or go back to Kenya my home, my family back in Kenya are depending
on me, so going back to Kenya empty handed was the worst tragedy that would hit
me and my family, I asked my mother to pray for me that I had no residency.

The police picked me up and I stayed in jail for 2 days in a dark room, where I
could not know if it was night or day, I was so scared, of the dark room, police
around me, and being deported empty handed. I was allowed to make one call
only, so I called a Belgian lady I met online on an aupair website, then we met
once in February - she has a little daughter she wanted me to take care of, I
called her and told her that am being deported and I will communicate with her
when am in Kenya since am unreachable. Before she said anything the police
snatched the phone from me and that was it.

I cried, but to who?? No one would hear me, I had no phone, no shoes, no
comunication, I could only cry to God, my creator, I cried to God in jail these
were my words upon realizing that my fate was sealed and that I was just
waiting for the plane, I was transfered to a hight detention centre together
with hardcore criminals.

I said to God from deep my spirit “I am a human, I have done my best, coming to
Holland was first a miracle and since I got to see and to have knowlegde, I
have always believed that YOU GOD is real and is existing, if You really do
exist, Don’t let me be deported for the sake of my poor family, if You are God I
have always trusted and Mighty as I have all my life believed, then save me, I
don't know how but if You are real I know You can!!'' I was filled with anger
at the same time at God, i asked Him haven't i suffered enough?? Doesn't He
see?? Isn't He merciful and Faithfull?? I said to myself, I will never talk
about God if He did not deliver me, because I would change my belief that there
is no God, and never worship Him, I was bitter at God and desperate at the same
time, deep inside i felt some comfort in the midst of the uncertainities. That
was my prayer.

On Friday 9th April at 9pm the officers came to tell me that the Belgian
Government have accepted me in Belgium without a visa based on the contract
that the lady presented to them that she is hiring me as an au pair, she made a
thousand calls between international police and government and emails trying
hard to get me out, I did not know all these was going on in just one day!! The
lady I met only once, she pushed herself for a stranger, ''GOD SENT HER TO
RESCUE ME'' She drove 4hrs for a stranger in prison.

This is my belief, God is real, so real that I cannot explain, I could not
believe I was walking out of that tightly secured prison at Schiphol Airport. Not
only did I walk free, I had a job and a 1year residence permit for European
Union, a place to stay, everything changed upside down, from a jobless illegal
homeless lady.

Surely God is faithful.

Miracles happen from God to those who believe.

God bless you Ed

Your daughter in Christ, Faith Okoth.

Copyright © 2009 - 2017. Ed
Wrather. The Burning Bush website has been online since January 31, 1998. On
June 8, 1998 the email version of the Burning Bush Devotional was first sent. Ed
Wrather began writing devotionals in the early 1990s. The distribution of those
first devotionals was primarily through the Burning Bush Newsletter sent to
prison facilities throughout the United States and Canada.

Visit the
Burning Bush websites:

www.theburningbush.net

www.theburningbush.org

The Burning Bush websites are celebrating
18 years online since January 31, 1998. Since June 8, 1998 the Burning Bush
Devotional has been spreading the truth of God's Word to more than 14,000
subscribers across the world.

The Addictions Kit - Biblical Help for Addictions by Ed Wrather is now
available for download from Amazon. The Addictions Kit provides practical Biblical steps to defeat
your addiction that actually work.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00VIYLNLM

The New Pastor's Training Manual is available for download on Amazon. Here is the link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00PJ8UTGS If you prefer a paper copy of the book you can order it from
the Burning Bush website at http://bit.ly/1uXDBnk

Books now available at the Burning Bush website:

New Pastor's
Training Manual

Biblical Help
for Overcoming Substance Abuse

Biblical Help
for Overcoming Sexual Addictions In Times of
Trouble - Devotionals to Encourage and Strengthen You (Also available for
download on Amazon.)

You can leave comments/feedback
about the devotionals at www.theburningbush.net.

There is a translation tool on
theburningbush.net website in the top right hand corner of all of the pages.

Check out the Scripture Index being constructed for the
Devotionals at the Burning Bush website. The Links are in about the middle of
the home page. Topics for each devotional are now being added to the Index.

Please continue to pray for
healing for Pastor Shane Hall, Michelle Abetz, Wesley Lewis, Brad, Damon D.
& wife, Beverly (Jeanie’s sister), Lexi McCalip, Gary Kirk, and Jeanie.

Please pray for an end to the
racial hatred in the USA and that it will be replaced with peace and love. Many
prayer needs are posted at the Burning Bush website on the Prayer Request page.
You can also post your prayer requests there (Of course, I am always in need of prayer - please pray for me. My
prayer focus is now that God will give me opportunities to preach. As the
apostle Paul says, “…woe is me if I do not preach the gospel!”).

You can contact Ed Wrather at
theburningbushdevotional@gmail.com View LinkedIn profile with
endorsements at http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=92988105

If you enjoy the devotional
please recommend it to your friends. They may subscribe by sending a blank
email to burningbushdevo-join@welovegod.org

There is a complete devotional
archive at the old Burning Bush website. Here is the URL: http://www.theburningbush.org/DevotionalArchive.html.

You can help support this
ministry by using this link: www.paypal.me/EdWrather

Devotion vs Devotional: We do our
devotions, we read devotionals.

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Posted by: theburningbushdevotional <theburningbushdevotional@...>

Classic from 2010

Burning Bush Devotional

10 April 2017

Still
Powerful

Then Peter said, “Silver and gold I do not have, but what I do have I give
you: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk.” - Acts 3:6
NKJV.

And this she did for many days. But Paul, greatly annoyed, turned and said
to the spirit, “I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her.”
And he came out that very hour. - Acts 16:18 NKJV.

In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you are gathered together,
along with my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, deliver such a
one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that his spirit may be saved in
the day of the Lord Jesus. - 1 Corinthians 5:4-5 NKJV.

An armed robber in Frisco, Texas encountered a force more
powerful than his 9mm Glock handgun. What was that force? Marian Chadwick
simply pointed her finger at the would be robber, and the robber turned around,
and left the store. Actually, the pointing of the finger was not the power that
turned the man around. No, it was the words uttered by Marian, “In the Name of Jesus, you get out of my store. I bind
you by the power of the Holy Spirit.” To
Marian and another person that was present at the time, the robber appeared to
be “stunned”; and he
then turned, and walked out of Marian's crafts boutique, Extravagant Necessities. This same man is believed to have
successfully committed armed robberies in four Dallas suburbs, and has not yet
been apprehended.

As people of faith, as Bible believers, we believe that
the miracles of the Bible are literally true. As we know, the miracles were
necessary to authenticate the acts of Jesus and His apostles. However, living
in this world some 2,000 years later we are hesitant to believe that the
miracles that happen around us are actually miracles. We are much more likely to
attribute the miraculous to being a coincidence, or a lucky break. Or, in the
case of someone whose X-rays or MRI has changed suddenly from showing a
malignancy to revealing nothing of significance, we almost automatically think
this was simply a mistake by the Doctor or operator of the equipment.

It is rare for it to actually be reported in the news
media an undeniable act of God, a miracle, as occurred in the boutique shop of
Marion Chadwick. I wonder though how many people actually paused to read the
story, or if they were watching the news on television if they even listened to
the words. How many people who heard the story or read the story even stopped
to think that this is a great miracle of God that has occurred?

Even though it has been 2,000 years since Jesus walked
upon this earth - God is still God. Not only is God still God, but the Name of
Jesus is still powerful. "Most
assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do
also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father. And
whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified
in the Son. If you ask anything in My name, I will do it (John 14:12-14)."

The following comment was posted at the
Burning Bush website about three months after this devotional was written:

Thanks Ed for this
article, I was reading through your articles and this one hit me. I believe
that miracles happen from God to those who believe, some people call it luck I
call it God's favor or mercy or miracle. I am raised in a Christian family, and in my life I have seen miracles happen,
the recent one that happened to me was on 9th April when I was in jail locked
up abroad awaiting deportation from the Netherlands because my residence permit
was 3months expired and I had no means of renewing it, I had two options to
stay illegal or go back to Kenya my home, my family back in Kenya are depending
on me, so going back to Kenya empty handed was the worst tragedy that would hit
me and my family, I asked my mother to pray for me that I had no residency.

The police picked me up and I stayed in jail for 2 days in a dark room, where I
could not know if it was night or day, I was so scared, of the dark room, police
around me, and being deported empty handed. I was allowed to make one call
only, so I called a Belgian lady I met online on an aupair website, then we met
once in February - she has a little daughter she wanted me to take care of, I
called her and told her that am being deported and I will communicate with her
when am in Kenya since am unreachable. Before she said anything the police
snatched the phone from me and that was it.

I cried, but to who?? No one would hear me, I had no phone, no shoes, no
comunication, I could only cry to God, my creator, I cried to God in jail these
were my words upon realizing that my fate was sealed and that I was just
waiting for the plane, I was transfered to a hight detention centre together
with hardcore criminals.

I said to God from deep my spirit “I am a human, I have done my best, coming to
Holland was first a miracle and since I got to see and to have knowlegde, I
have always believed that YOU GOD is real and is existing, if You really do
exist, Don’t let me be deported for the sake of my poor family, if You are God I
have always trusted and Mighty as I have all my life believed, then save me, I
don't know how but if You are real I know You can!!'' I was filled with anger
at the same time at God, i asked Him haven't i suffered enough?? Doesn't He
see?? Isn't He merciful and Faithfull?? I said to myself, I will never talk
about God if He did not deliver me, because I would change my belief that there
is no God, and never worship Him, I was bitter at God and desperate at the same
time, deep inside i felt some comfort in the midst of the uncertainities. That
was my prayer.

On Friday 9th April at 9pm the officers came to tell me that the Belgian
Government have accepted me in Belgium without a visa based on the contract
that the lady presented to them that she is hiring me as an au pair, she made a
thousand calls between international police and government and emails trying
hard to get me out, I did not know all these was going on in just one day!! The
lady I met only once, she pushed herself for a stranger, ''GOD SENT HER TO
RESCUE ME'' She drove 4hrs for a stranger in prison.

This is my belief, God is real, so real that I cannot explain, I could not
believe I was walking out of that tightly secured prison at Schiphol Airport. Not
only did I walk free, I had a job and a 1year residence permit for European
Union, a place to stay, everything changed upside down, from a jobless illegal
homeless lady.

Surely God is faithful.

Miracles happen from God to those who believe.

God bless you Ed

Your daughter in Christ, Faith Okoth.

Copyright © 2009 - 2017. Ed
Wrather. The Burning Bush website has been online since January 31, 1998. On
June 8, 1998 the email version of the Burning Bush Devotional was first sent. Ed
Wrather began writing devotionals in the early 1990s. The distribution of those
first devotionals was primarily through the Burning Bush Newsletter sent to
prison facilities throughout the United States and Canada.

Visit the
Burning Bush websites:

http://www.theburningbush.net

http://www.theburningbush.org

The Burning Bush websites are celebrating
18 years online since January 31, 1998. Since June 8, 1998 the Burning Bush
Devotional has been spreading the truth of God's Word to more than 14,000
subscribers across the world.

The Addictions Kit - Biblical Help for Addictions by Ed Wrather is now
available for download from Amazon. The Addictions Kit provides practical Biblical steps to defeat
your addiction that actually work.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00VIYLNLM

The New Pastor's Training Manual is available for download on Amazon. Here is the link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00PJ8UTGS If you prefer a paper copy of the book you can order it from
the Burning Bush website at http://bit.ly/1uXDBnk

Books now available at the Burning Bush website:

New Pastor's
Training Manual

Biblical Help
for Overcoming Substance Abuse

Biblical Help
for Overcoming Sexual Addictions In Times of
Trouble - Devotionals to Encourage and Strengthen You (Also available for
download on Amazon.)

You can leave comments/feedback
about the devotionals at http://www.theburningbush.net.

There is a translation tool on
theburningbush.net website in the top right hand corner of all of the pages.

Check out the Scripture Index being constructed for the
Devotionals at the Burning Bush website. The Links are in about the middle of
the home page. Topics for each devotional are now being added to the Index.

Please continue to pray for
healing for Pastor Shane Hall, Michelle Abetz, Wesley Lewis, Brad, Damon D.
& wife, Beverly (Jeanie’s sister), Lexi McCalip, Gary Kirk, and Jeanie.

Please pray for an end to the
racial hatred in the USA and that it will be replaced with peace and love. Many
prayer needs are posted at the Burning Bush website on the Prayer Request page.
You can also post your prayer requests there (Of course, I am always in need of prayer - please pray for me. My
prayer focus is now that God will give me opportunities to preach. As the
apostle Paul says, “…woe is me if I do not preach the gospel!”).

You can contact Ed Wrather at
theburningbushdevotional@gmail.com View LinkedIn profile with
endorsements at http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=92988105

If you enjoy the devotional
please recommend it to your friends. They may subscribe by sending a blank
email to burningbushdevo-join@welovegod.org

There is a complete devotional
archive at the old Burning Bush website. Here is the URL: http://www.theburningbush.org/DevotionalArchive.html.

You can help support this
ministry by using this link: http://www.paypal.me/EdWrather

Devotion vs Devotional: We do our
devotions, we read devotionals.

You can unsubscribe to the burningbushdevo devotional group by
sending a blank email to burningbushdevo-leave@welovegod.org and then respond
to the confirmation email.

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constraints the devotional is only being sent now in html format) by sending a
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