Ever-Flowing Stream Of Grace

I know of Christians who have faced tremendous trials for years and they found this promises of God to be very true. While attending a pastor’s conference in Birmingham, Alabama I learned of Ron Cox, an Assembly of God Pastor. He pastors a church which believes in healing and has seen God’s supernatural healing powers.

For 24 years he ministered to his wife who had a very debilitating illness, the name of it I do not remember. She finally had to be put in a home were she could receive 24 hour a day care. I had the privilege of speaking with his secretary, June Creel. Through those twenty-four years June watched her pastor come into the church and just spend hours on his knees, praying and listening to Christian music that proclaimed praises to God. Eevery day the Lord was faithful to pour His Holy Spirit into Pastor Ron’s heart. He would arise renewed, refreshed, and he did not faint from his calling.

His circumstance could not keep him down and he pastors a very successful church that is getting the Word of God out. People are hungry for prayer and praise and hungry to hear the Word of God proclaimed and taught. This is a sign of the Holy Spirit working among the Body of Christ. (Ephesians 6:17; 2 Kings 22; 2 Chronicles 17-6-9; Ezra 8)

Those who know this renewing of God trust in Him and they express a life of true faith. They are able to contend with their spiritual foes, able to gain victory over their sins, able to discharge right duties to them who have proven themselves faithful in trials and endurance in their callings. They find God giving new and better appointments.

Transitional Sentence: These Christians “…soar on wings like eagles.” There have been many wonderful dramatic writings and teachings on this passage of Scripture. Albert Barnes has one picture that is worthy of consideration as well.

The picture is simply derived from the fact that the eagle rises on the most vigorous and powerful wings of any bird. It is my understanding that it ascends apparently further toward the sun than any other bird. This figure of writing, therefore, denotes strength and vigor of purpose; The writer is denoting an elevation that is high above this world; representing communion with God and nearness to His heart.

Bonnie and I were taken out to eat by an elderly couple in their eighties. This pastor is a Spirit filled Baptist who had a great visitation of the Holy Spirit upon his heart after being bedridden from an accident. He had shared with me in the past of this mighty move of God on his life and how the Lord just gave him revelation after revelation from the written Word of God.

This happened at a very low time of his life, but God met with him and I have observed his life long enough to know that he has fellowship with the Lord. His life radiates a trust, a strengthening as he walks in his calling. Please note I said as he walks in his calling, not what he tells God he should be doing or what people in the church tell him he should be doing.

Transitional Sentence: Christians who have close communion with God “…will walk and not be faint.” “Faint” (yaep) is a verb meaning exhausted, fatigued or just plain tired out. The application is not that exhaustion or fatigue will come to us, but in those times of exhaustion and fatigue, when a child of God calls upon the Lord, He will give a supernatural strengthening that enables his faithful child to complete the task.