A recent study of the word took me to a passage in the bible that I realized is most often overlooked. When the verses above it are quoted, there does not seem too much significance given to this one, which appears to be quite sad because there is so much promise in it. Let’s take a look, everyone knows
Mark 16: 15-16: He said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
We have read and heard these verses many times, but how many times have we focused on the next verses?
Mark 16: 17-18: And these signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues; they will pick up snakes with their hands; and when they drink deadly poison, it will not hurt them at all; they will place their hands on sick people, and they will get well.
Wow! Now that is a really amazing promise! We need to notice that Jesus says that these signs will accompany “those who believe”…..he is not talking about those who are preaching the good news….he says that these signs….casting out demons, speaking in tongues, healing the sick …all these signs WILL accompany those who believe in the gospel!
We are believers in the gospel….are we accompanied by these signs in our lives? The Apostle Paul says in 1 Corinthians 12: 28: And in the church God has appointed first of all apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then workers of miracles, also those having gifts of healing, those able to help others, those with gifts of administration, and those speaking in different kinds of tongues.
Speaking in tongues appears to be at the bottom of the ladder, but how many of us have even this sign? We are obviously not believing the way Jesus called us to believe, if we were, then we would be fulfilling his words! Personally, I know that I have not reached there, I am sure there are many who share this concern. We need to press forward in the Lord and immerse ourselves in His word. Faith comes from hearing and hearing from the word of God….the more of the word we listen to…the more our faith increases and grows to the level that Jesus called us to be in.
Let us pray to the Lord to grant us to grow in our faith and reach that level of belief where those signs will truly follow our walk with God!
It’s really cold here so I’m putting up the recipe for some nice warm soup.
Sweet Corn Chicken Soup
Ingredients:
Chicken frame and bones – 1 kg
Chicken breast – 100gms
Water – 2 Liters
Sweet Corn Kernels – 1 Can
Soy Sauce – ¼ cup
Salt – as required
Pepper – as required
Egg white - 1
Corn flour – ½ cup
Cold water to mix corn flour – ½ cup
Instructions:
1.In a cooking pot, add salt, water and boil the water, add the chicken frame, bones and breast to the water.
2.Allow this to simmer for 30 minutes, then check if the breast meat is cooked. Take out the frame, bones and breast from the simmering water, which has now become stock.
3.Shred the breast meat and keep aside. Add the corn kernels to the simmering stock and increase the flame to allow it to boil for 10 minutes.
4.Add soy sauce, bring down the flame to simmer heat. Beat the egg white in a bowl.
5.Now pour in the beaten egg white while dispersing it with a fork in the soup.
6.Check for salt and add more if required, add some pepper as well for seasoning and allow the soup to boil for 10 minutes, then reduce to simmer.
7.Now mix the corn flour in cold water and pour into the soup. Stir well and increase the flame to allow the soup to boil.
8.The soup will thicken as it boils, turn off the flame when it has reached the desired consistency. If the soup does not thicken as much as you like, then mix some more corn flour in cold water and add to the soup. Allow it to boil further and also check if more salt is needed.
9.When the soup is thick enough, turn off the flame and serve hot.
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