The Super Natural Life – prayers for strength, words of wisdom, daily bible reading

Often when we pray for healing we add the caveat, “If it is your will.” Click here to listen to our conversation about Jesus healing a leper: It seems he’s always willing… So ask boldly…

Click here to listen to our conversation “We Keep Only What We Give Away”

Click here to listen to our conversation “The Oil that Fixes Everything.” 

Are you SAD? Seasonal Effective Disorder is a real problem for many of us. In winter when the days are short and sunlight is blocked by clouds and the cold keeps us indoors, we may not get enough light and to produce the vitamin D we need. A lack of vitamin D can lead to illness and also to depression and a feeling a gloom. Jesus is the Light of Life! When we don’t get enough vitamin D we can supplement that with “vitamin G” – the goodness of God!

Click here to listen to our conversation “Walking in the Light.” 

When all else fails… and all else will fail… we go to Jesus for help. When our family is fractured, our marriage strained, our children in a desperate way, we can come and ask Jesus for a miracle. And like the father in the story in John 4, once we ask we may have to ask again and persist. And then, once Jesus answers we have to take him at his word and BELIEVE, and go on our day KNOWING the matter is finished, even BEFORE we see the evidence.

Click here to listen to our conversation “Praying for our Children!” 

Hungry?

Click here to listen to our conversation, “Really, Really Good Food.”

John the Baptist was having a bad day. This followers were bailing on him and running off to follow his cousin, Jesus. The religious leaders were accusing him of causing strife in the nation. And there was a brewing tension with Herod that would lead to his arrest and death. But in in the midst of this, he responds with grace. He says of Jesus, “He must increase and I must decrease.” He knew his role – to make Jesus’ famous. That’s our role too, to serve Jesus’ purpose and those around us! It’s the surprising path to Joy.

Click here to listen to our conversation “Making famous.”

The core problems in our lives deliver really bad news: You and I are screwed up to the point that we need more than just a major fix, we need a complete “do-over.” In Jesus’ conversation with Nicodemus recording in John 3 we too are forced to face the challenge… “You must be born again…” In spite of our best religious efforts – and Nicodemus was a professional “do-gooder” – we can’t rely on self-help or self-discipline; instead we need a deeper solution, at the level of our spiritual DNA. We need a “mulligan” for life!

Click here to listen to our conversation “Life Mulligan.”

Jesus replied, “I tell you the truth, unless you are born again, you cannot see the Kingdom of God.”

“What do you mean?” exclaimed Nicodemus. “How can an old man go back into his mother’s womb and be born again?”

Jesus replied, “I assure you, no one can enter the Kingdom of God without being born of water and the Spirit. Humans can reproduce only human life, but the Holy Spirit gives birth to spiritual life. So don’t be surprised when I say, ‘You must be born again.’ John 3:3-7.

Jesus charged into the Temple in Jerusalem and chased out those who were swindling worshipers for their own benefit. Jesus’ zeal for God’s house meant that he would do anything to clean things up. We are all now God’s temple and the parallel here highlights our need for Jesus to charge into our lives and chase out anything that compromises our freedom to worship and relate to God and others in our life. Lord, clean house!

Click here to listen to our conversation “House Cleaning.”

“It was nearly time for the Jewish Passover celebration, so Jesus went to Jerusalem. In the Temple area he saw merchants selling cattle, sheep, and doves for sacrifices; he also saw dealers at tables exchanging foreign money. Jesus made a whip from some ropes and chased them all out of the Temple. He drove out the sheep and cattle, scattered the money changers’ coins over the floor, and turned over their tables. Then, going over to the people who sold doves, he told them, “Get these things out of here. Stop turning my Father’s house into a marketplace!”

Then his disciples remembered this prophecy from the Scriptures: ‘Passion for God’s house will consume me.’” John 2:13-17.