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Living in the Protective Presence of God

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Those who trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion, which cannot be shaken but endures forever. As the mountains surround Jerusalem so the Lord surrounds his people both now and forever. Psalm 125:1, 2 (Two things you can always see in Santiago: the Andes Mountains and Smog)             I spent many of my childhood years in Santiago, Chile, one of the cities with the highest level of air pollution in the world. This is because it sits in a valley surrounded with mountains so that all of the smog emitted by autos and factories cannot escape but remains building up in a city of over six million inhabitants. We, however, can be surrounded by God as the mountains around Santiago so that not smog, but the presence and goodness of God can be what we inhale and exhale daily in our lungs.             During World War I and II the German's never occupied neutral Switzerland because that nations is made up of mountains. These mountains made that nation unconquerable for invadin

Five Simple Steps to Healing the Sick

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(Woman healed of pain in her neck and head) " Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those who have leprosy, drive out demons. Freely you have received; freely give" (Matt. 10:8).             Praying for healing should be a common practice for followers of Jesus that when carried out in a loving and consistent manner can bring about not just physical healing, but new found faith in Christ. My brother Aaron was once asked to come up with a quick teaching to train a group of teenagers in Brazil to pray for the sick while doing evangelism. He developed the following five steps that was the basic teaching which launched young people to see countless healings ranging from headaches being gone to blind people seeing (12 in 2015) and paralyzed people walking. Praying for healing is not difficult and when done consistently can bring about amazing results. Here are five steps to follow if you want to heal the sick: 1) When appropriate, place hands on area(s) of sic