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I KNOW GOD IS NOT DEAD

4/18/2014

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 A couple of weeks ago my husband, Ed, and I went to see the movie "God Is Not Dead".  We liked the movie very much and if you have a chance to go see it I would encourage you to do so.  

I have been a Christian all of my life.  Both of my parents were Christian.  I was raised in a Christian home and have gone to church just about every Sunday that I can remember.  Even with my lifetime exposure to Christianity I reached a point in my life where I truly wondered if God was for real.  I asked myself if He really existed and if Jesus really was resurrected from the dead.   It is not something that I have just merely accepted as fact because I was raised in a Christian home.   I have wondered, questioned, struggled, examined the Bible, examined history, examined my personal experiences and I have come to the conclusion that indeed God is alive.  

I know this to be true because nothing else makes sense.   People saw Jesus die on the cross. People saw him buried.  People saw the tomb sealed with a huge rock.  People saw a guard placed at the tomb so no one would steal his body and still Jesus rose from the grave.  Not only did people "say" He rose from the grave but there were eyewitnesses who saw Jesus after He was resurrected.  I think the biggest fact that has convinced me that Jesus truly is the Son of God is how being a Christian affected the disciples and early Christians after Jesus went to heaven.  Any believers of Jesus were truly persecuted and most of them suffered horrible deaths because of their belief.  Now I know for a fact that there is NO WAY that I would allow myself to be persecuted for something that I doubted or wondered about.  I certainly would not allow my self to be put to death unless I knew what I was standing up for what was absolutely and beyond any doubt TRUE.  The disciples and early Christian, being ordinary human beings, would also not suffer to the point of death for something that they doubted or questioned.  They knew with all their hearts and with no doubt whatsoever that Jesus was the Son of God and that He had been raised from the dead.  

The other thing that has convinced me that God exists is the beauty of nature.  Every time I see a majestic mountain, a babbling brook, powerful ocean waves, a new pristine snow fall, tall majestic trees, a beautiful sunrise or sunset.....I know beyond a doubt that God exists.  This morning I woke up at 6 a.m. and the minute my eyes opened I saw a beautiful blue sky streaked with all colors of pink.  It was gorgeous!!! I do not normally jump out of bed at 6 a.m.  I am more the type of person who wants to pull the covers over my head for a few more minutes of sleep.  But, this morning, when I saw that gorgeous sky, my heart and enthusiasm for the day immediately soared.  There was no way I could lay in that bed! I had to jump out of bed and I went outside so I could see as much as I could of that beautiful sunrise.  I thought to myself, "God made this".  "This is a gift from a loving and creative God".  I truly belief that all of nature points our hearts to God.

I also believe that God is not dead because of personal experiences throughout my life that cannot be explained as "coincidences".  I believe, that in these experiences, God has intervened in my life because of prayer, His guidance in my life and because of my personal relationship with Him.  These experiences are too many to write about but I would be happy to share them with you if you would like to know more.

In closing I would like to say that I LOVE EASTER! It is one of my favorite times of year because it offers so much hope for this life and my eternal life in heaven with God.  God is not dead.  He truly lives and is involved with our lives here on earth.  If you have any doubt about God's existence I challenge you to examine the facts for yourselves and pray and ask God to reveal Himself to you.  Please feel free to call me or email me if you have any questions.  I wish you all a Happy Easter and a joyous spring!!






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Nothing But The Very Best!!!

4/1/2014

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This morning I was reading in my Bible about the very first miracle that Jesus performed on earth.  He was a guest at a wedding in Cana in Galilee and at this wedding they run out of wine.  He turns six stone jars, filled with water, holding twenty to thirty gallons each, into wine.  

Now I have read this story many times but it never occurred to me before how LARGE those stone jars were.  Each stone jar held twenty to thirty gallons of water!!!  I realized how much this was because water is a precious commodity here in Colorado.  We have a large water dispenser in our kitchen that we use for our drinking water.  The dispenser holds a 5 gallon jug of water and when the jug is empty you have to switch the empty one out for a full one.  For me, 5 gallons of water is heavy to move around so when I read in the Bible about the stone water jars holding 20 to 30 gallons of water all I could say to myself is "Wow! Those were HUGE jars!".  

In realizing how huge these stone water jars were I immediately thought...."Leave it to God to perform a miracle in no small way".   The Bible says that there were 6 stone water jugs and Jesus turned the water in these jugs into wine for the wedding.  Six stone water jugs, each holding 30 gallons, is 180 gallons of water turned into wine! That is a lot of wine! And...the Bible says that it was choice wine, not the cheap stuff, but the very best!!! I thought to myself, "Of course it would be choice wine! Nothing but the best!!!"  When Jesus intervenes in our lives, He gives us nothing but the very best.  Reading this gave me joy, peace, hope and gratitude. I am so thankful that I have a personal relationship with God who I can trust, who I know will only give me His best and who intervenes in our lives to draw us to Him.  

I also thought of my life as being a vessel.  Sometimes it is filled with just plain old ordinary water and Jesus wants to fill my life with nothing but choice wine.  He wants to fill me up with Himself!!! In filling me with Himself he does not want to fill me with only 5 gallons but with 180 gallons!!! You get the idea...I am not really talking about wine here or actual gallons,  I am talking about Jesus filling my life with Himself to the point of overflowing....where Jesus shines, not me.  

I also thought of the families and young adults who will come to live at the Soaring Wings property here in Colorado.  I expect that they will come to us with broken lives.... broken, empty vessels if you will.  They will need love, acceptance and time in order to heal so their vessels can be filled.  We will do our best to love them, accept them and give them time but ultimately it will be Jesus who will need to intervene in their lives and bring them to Himself in order for their lives to be filled with the very best that Jesus has for them.  I know that Jesus, who turned the 6 stone water jars into the choicest wine, can also turn broken, empty lives into lives filled with joy, peace and hope.   My prayer is that Soaring Wings Ministries will be an instrument in bringing people to Jesus so that He can fill them up with the very best and this very best is HIMSELF!

His servant, 
Anita Rennells

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    Anita Rennells is writer of this blog.  She, along with her husband Ed, founded Soaring Wings Ministries to serve the homeless.  The purpose of the blog is to tell the story of Soaring Wings Ministries and to give glory to God. 

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