Adrian Warnock has been interviewing a lot of people recently (including John Lanferman, Rob Rufus, Tom Shaw and Terry Virgo and I thought it would be fun to turn the tables and interview Adrian and his wife Andrée. Here are the questions I asked them (in approximately the order I asked them).
Tell me about your family
What does Andrée think of your blogging?
How involved are you in a local church?
Are you full time as a bloggeryou certainly seem to be by your prolific output
I have a problem with the teaching that God does nothing except in response to mens prayers. How did he great the universe
Nevertheless he does respond to faith initiatives
Jesus seems to be totally controlled by his fathers initiative
Other times it looks like he is being directed by the faith impulses of mortal men (e.g. Jairus)
Then the woman touched his garment and he focused on her
1. Be honest with God that you dont have the faith to heal those in wheelchairs
The doesnt mean it is not the will of God.
Jesus says, all things are possible to them that believe
Often we need to learn how weak and needy we are before God will help us. It is not that we are strong and just need a little help, but we have no strength
2. By exercising the Spirit of Faith
Story of a blind woman he prayed for. Not healed, but he did try!
Peter sank, but at least he got out of the boat!
He started exercising his faith, and later on his shadow was healing people
Story of a blind baby who was healed a short time afterwards
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The book of Joshua is an account of God bringing his people into their inheritance.
He takes them across the Jordan, into some big battles
At the half way mark, chapter 13, the page is turned and there is a new phase
For the first half there is a new leader and a real togetherness
10:29 then Joshua and all Israel with him moved on
Same kind of language in v.31, v.34, v.36, v.38, v.43, 11:7, 12:7
13:1 begins the new phase when Joshua is well advanced in years
Joshua is old and there are still large tracts of land to take
He gives them a new plan: the land and the people are distributed
They all receive their allotmenttheir area to conquer
If Israel was to hold on to all the land that had been won during their together exploits, there needs to be a dividing up and putting things in place.
This second phase of Joshua is pivotal to any ministry in the church
Otherwise we run a risk of HQ ism, leading to frustration
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