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Iron, That Floats—even Swims.
Contributed by Howard Strickland on Sep 8, 2021 (message contributor)
Summary: Again ax-heads don't float. Or do they? Maybe it’s time to pray a ridiculous prayer! The Bible say’s, “The iron did swim!” This ranks as one of my favorite miracles in the scripture for a couple reasons. First, this isn't a life or death situation. It's just a borrowed ax head.
7 Throughout the coming ages we will be the visible display of the infinite riches of His grace and kindness, which was showered upon us in Jesus Christ. 8 For by grace you have been saved by faith. Nothing you did could ever earn this salvation, for it was the love gift from God that brought us to Christ! 9 So no one will ever be able to boast, for salvation is never a reward for good works or human striving.
Again, I want you to hear this scripture once more from, The Passion Translation:
Ephesians 2:10TPT We have become His poetry, a re-created people that will fulfill the destiny He has given each of us, for we are joined to Jesus, the Anointed One. Even before we were born, God planned in advance our destiny and the good works we would do to fulfill it!
This word planned or prepared means, God goes ahead of us…
In Paul’s day and time, a servant planned or prepared, ahead of a King. (The servant planned and even walked the route) However, with God—The King goes before His servants!
Think about it—We are His workmanship, we are His poetry. Re-created, filled with His destiny!
Tapping into our natural weirdness is one key to divergent thinking. Another key is divergent spirituality.
Have you read the Bible lately? Lots of wild and wacky stuff! At face value, God says and does lots of things that seem awfully weird.
He tells Ezekiel to cook his meals over dung for 390 days. God uses a dumb donkey to speak to Balaam. Got tells Hosea to marry a prostitute. And what about speaking in tongues on the day of Pentecost that was downright strange.
However this strange phenomenon (tongues as of fire), brought thousands to salvation.
Can I tell you normality is overrated.
GK Chesterton once said, “How much happier you would be, how much more of you there would be, if the hammer of a higher God could smash your cosmos.”
Q&A: Got any Ax heads that need to swim? Need a miracle?
Mark 9:23TM Jesus said, “If? There are no ‘ifs’ among believers. Anything can happen.”
Jesus said, Anything can happen; All things are possible if you believe.
Benediction.
