STRM Newsletter 30 May 2015 – Why are there no healings?

by | May 31, 2015 | Blog

A lady wrote to me a couple of weeks ago with a very pertinent question. June asked, “So, long intro to why is no one being healed? Jesus said that greater things than he did would WE do. He raised the dead, for crying out loud…so what is wrong with us? Wouldn’t a good Father tell us what we’re doing “wrong” if that’s the case?” This question has troubled many who believe the Scriptures are the inerrant word of YHWH, including myself. Y’HoWShUA said we would do greater miracles than He did, so why are there no miraculous healings today? Some people try and make the case that if we are not seeing healings in our assemblies, we are not truly members of the body of Messiah because our prayers are not being answered. If this assertion is correct, then Paul is not a member of the body, YHWH did not take away the “thorn in his side” even after Paul asked three times. Using this logic you could also argue that Y’HoWShUA is not in the body of Messiah as YHWH did not answer His prayer in the garden of Gethsemane to take the cup from Him. Obviously this is nonsense. The real answer is that YHWH always answers our prayers, sometime He says No! In today’s message “Why are there no healings?” we explain the real reason why there are no healings today. In the message we explore who was empowered to do healings and what purpose these miracles filled in the ministry of the early church. We also explore the risk associated with performing miracles, especially...

STRM Newsletter 24 May 2015 – His Wife Has Made Herself Ready

by | May 26, 2015 | Blog

I hope you enjoyed a wonderful celebration of the Feast of Weeks, the Day of Pentecost! There is a scripture in Revelation chapter 19 which states, “Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to Him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready” (Rev 19:7). Who is the wife of the Lamb? And how does she make herself ready? Most people would automatically state that the church, the body of Messiah, is His wife. But in chapter 21:2 we’re told, “And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband” (Rev 21:2). Is the bride of Messiah the assembly of the saints or is it the New Jerusalem? What is New Jerusalem? Walls 1,500 miles long, wide and high, it is like no physical structure man could ever conceive. At 1,500 miles high this is 6 times higher than the International Space Station and 300 times higher than Mount Everest. The walls are made of gold. If each wall was just one standard house brick wide and the entire structure was totally hollow we would need almost 50 trillion tons of gold to build it! There is also an apparent contradiction between Revelation chapter 3 and chapter 21. In chapter 3 Y’HoWShUA tells us that we will be pillars in the temple of The Mighty One. Yet in chapter 21 we are told that there is no temple in the New Jerusalem. If the scripture cannot be broken, how do we reconcile these two statements? How...