Sunday, February 15, 2009

God be praised for our teachers

Every once in a while I have to praise the great Christian teachers out there and up there! Am presently reading a collection of works by Simpson, Gordon, and Murray. I sooo love Andrew Murray. His works are up at sermonindex -- thanks to the many noble unsung guys who read the books and turn them into audio files -- and available for download. But since I was kinda incapacitated and stuck in bed yesterday I picked up the book and read. So great for building one's faith!

Thanks also to great teachers such as Emily Dotson, Lester Sumrall, Andrew Wommack. God bless them all.


There are some great places on the internet where you can download some great sermons.
Andrew Wommack's website,
Derek Prince's website
Internet Archive
sermonaudio
In The School of Prayer
Keith Gerner's website, Audio Christian
http://www.nathan.co.za/
and sermonindex


Plus there are these podcasts and videos online:

Sid Roth has archives of his shows from 2003 up at www.sidroth.org

http://www.godcast1000.com/
http://www.podcastdirectory.com/genre/religious/
http://www.godsipod.com/
http://cpodcast.net/

Remember, there is nothing in the Bible that says we should pray to God to give us more faith. We can ask him to help our unbelief and he may drop the gift of faith into our hearts for a specific situation but really have to grow our faith. We are told that faith comes by hearing the word of God. Sermons are created to build faith. We hear the word of the lord, we speak the word of the lord and that's how faith comes.
-C

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thank you for these wonderful links Carole! I will be sure to check a few of them out...

I love your closing thoughts. It is funny how we create false understandings of the Word... such as "God give us more faith". We need to be diligent to really understand what the scripture says rather than fabricate ideas, as so often happens.

Another one is, "God works in mysterious ways". I hate it when I hear people say that. It is so not true. There is nothing mysterious or secretive in His ways, as He has given us His Word which when prayed about, studied and searched, will clearly reveal His way.

Hope you are feeling more rested friend...

Carole McDonnell said...

Yeah, that "God works in mysterious ways" thing bugs me too. BEcause it's flip, it's a platitude, and it's often used to talk about sorrows and not about the strange joyous things.

Besides, God isn't that mysterious to his children. Shall the Lord do anything and not tell his prophets? And would that all the Lord's people were prophets! We are to learn his ways, of course and we shouldn't be "asleep" but we should be as people who walk in the light...but....he doesn't go around trying to be mysterious.

Didn't sleep alas. Was up all night. Fight with husband about mother-in-law. Same old argument. Trying to have a forgiving heart. Hey ::smile:: I can tell myself that I would probably be further on the road to healing if I were more forgiving of this age-old family issue. But when anyone else tells me....aaargh! -C

Anonymous said...

Family issues are the worst, and the hardest to get over.

Is your husband white? I remember getting that impression from something you said previously...
oh, and you don't have to answer that if you don't want to ;)

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