A Bird Falling to the Ground:

Posted: April 29th, 2009 | Author: Joseph | Filed under: Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
A Bird Falling to the Ground:
Matthew 10:29, Not even a sparrow, worth only a penny, can fall to the ground without your Father knowing it.
Matthew 6:26, Look at the birds in the sky:  They do not sow or reap, or gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them.  Aren’t you more valuable than they are?

Last Tuesday morning, Brandon and I were praying in the chapel together when all of a sudden we heard this large thud. A red-bellied woodpecker had flown right smack into our large chapel windows.  The impact was so hard that he left feathers stuck to the window before he fell to the ground.
We stopped praying and looked over the edge of the window and saw the woodpecker laying on the ground in front of the window.  His wings were outstretched and he wasn’t moving at all (except I could see his eyes blinking every now and then.)  Brandon and I decided to pray for this bird -one of God’s little creatures. We didn’t want to see him die this way.
We called out to our Lord to bring healing to this little woodpecker in his moment of need.  We prayed for 15 minutes or so.  You may be saying to yourself, “Why pray for a simple bird?  There are so much more important things to pray for.”  Yes, you are right there are more important things to lift up to our Father but we felt called to lift this little bird up to the Lord.

As we prayed I looked for progress in his healing.  I didn’t observe any.  We were now emotionally invested in this prayer and we called out to the Lord to please raise this bird up and heal him.

He did move slightly a couple of times, but as we watched life seemed to drain from the bird until there was no more blinking and I could only see shallow breathing.  It was now time for us to leave the chapel and go pray with a dear friend that was having surgery that morning.
As we left we walked to where the woodpecker was laying and spoke to him softly.  He tried to pick up his head only to have it flop over his body and then he closed his eyes.

We left the bird, both bothered by the fact that the woodpecker seemed to be dead.   After returning from our hospital visit I made a beeline to where the woodpecker had been laying.  He was gone!  I looked around the chapel but there was no sign of him anywhere.  My faith increased as I called Brandon to tell him the good news.  We were both excited about the prospects that the Lord had healed our woodpecker.

Wednesday morning Brandon sited our red-bellied woodpecker in a tree near his house.  Thursday morning I spotted him perched in the pecan tree next to the Chapel.  Sunday before services I saw him again.  This little woodpecker has lifted my faith in our Father.  Our Lord does care about a little bird enough to heal him and He cares so much more about you and I.  Every time I see this woodpecker it’s a reminder of the love of God and how God still does heal and how His kingdom can and will invade ours lives to heal us and draw us closer to Him each and every day.
Next time you see a bird thank the Lord for his faithfulness to you and those you love.

A fellow sojourner in Jesus,

Joseph

Faith like Potatoes: Angus Buchan

Posted: April 19th, 2009 | Author: Sandy | Filed under: Uncategorized | No Comments »

“The condition for a miracle is difficulty, however the condition for a great miracle is not difficulty, but impossibility.”

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